Category: Drawers

The final Drawers mix I ever made, this one has a theme that you can probably identify within a single listen. There’s a ton of mashups. A bunch of Klute (still my favorite DNB producer). But somehow none of that is involved in my favorite track, which is “The Volume” by Shy Child, a criminally under-appreciated group from the aughts who called it quits too soon. I will pump my fist for this track to this day.

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Tracklist:

01) Matthew Garrison & Bill Hicks – Intro
02) Squarepusher – Untitled
03) Ah Salmonellha – Take On Your Ways
04) Pailhead – Man Should Surrender
05) Klute – Song Seller
06) KRS One, Last Emporer, Zack de la Rocha – CIA (Criminals In Action)
07) DJ Shadow – Seein Thangs (Feat. David Banner)
08) K – Still Moving
09) Cylob – Cut The Midrange Drop The Bass
10) Balkan Beat Box – Digital Monkey
11) Datassette – Synthesize
12) Wagon Christ – Rendleshack
13) A Thorn For Every Heart – Dead Man’s Party
14) The Tuss – Last Rushup 10
15) Salmonella Dub – Ramblings From The Anatoki (Jagwah Remix)
16) Senor Coconut – Beat It (DJ Enne Latino Bass and Breaks Mix)
17) Shy Child – The Volume
18) Amit – Village Folk
19) Concord Dawn – Broken Eyes
20) The Sea Vine And Rio Cake – Vibration Corners
21) Nosferatu – People Are Strange
22) I Heart Klutor Rockers – Get Ready 2 Hang Up These Dreamz
23) Amsterdam Klezmer Band – Harmandalidub
24) Klute – We Control The Vertical
25) Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Reprise By Boards Of Canada)

This one is all over the place in the way that I often hope things will turn out. The cadence of Chris Rock’s bit in the intro seems to align with the rhythm of Cut Chemist’s beat. AFX blends into Killing Joke and then into Boards of Canada. The beautiful alternate version of the Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation” eerily slips into classic era Autechre (the 1990s). Teebee-remixed Photek into Ceephax. Autechre returns within a mashup of a Chingy instrumental that itself borrows a line from Jaco Pastorius’ famous “Portrait of Tracy.” Throw Goblin and some strange Japanese drum n bass in the middle and this is what you get. 2006 was quite a year.

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Tracklist:

01) Cut Chemist feat. Chris Rock – A Peak In Time
02) AFX – Fenix Funk 5
03) Killing Joke – Slipstream
04) Boards of Canada – Left Side Drive
05) We – 3/10 of the population
06) Goblin – Opera Magnifica
07) OOO – Kichigai Arukedo
08) Societysuckers – Zettai Remix
09) Pixies – Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
10) Autechre – Second Peng
11) Photek – Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Teebee remix)
12) Ceephax – Hardcore Wick
13) Furillo – The Final Countdown
14) Black Uhuru – Party In Session
15) Solvent – Steve Strange
16) Squarepusher – The Modern Bass Guitar
17) Autengy – Daelin Me Back
18) Trans Am – Carboforce

Having decided to release under a new name, I thought one would be better than two, so Drawers became the alias for everything in the neighborhood of 170-ish DNB style, and DJ Chase The Devil would be the name for 130-ish electro style stuff. This is the first ‘Drawers’ mix I did, with much of it coming together during a trip with friends to West Virginia. I tend to wake up early in the morning, regardless of how late I was up the night before, and so during the trip when everyone else was still asleep I would slip on my headphones for several mornings and go to work on this. The title is a reference to my plan to have it ready for release by New Year’s Day 2006 and not anything to do with ammunition or firearms.

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Tracklist:

01 scen – disasemble
02 jeru the damaja – me or the papes (dillinja remix)
03 z-trip – breakfast club (feat. murs and supernatural)
04 afx – cilonen
05 ddamage – pressure
06 embrace – money
07 lbh krew – and the light became day
08 kaada – volkswagen
09 die!!die!!color!!! – lsd
10 shy child – summer
11 beck – broken drum (boards of canada remix)
12 knifehandchop – goin back to scarborough
13 kick the can crew – 337
14 thievery corporation – amerimacka (feat. notch)
15 plaid – marry
16 dragon ash – canvas (riow arai mix)
17 8bit betty – reading rainbow
18 chimerical child – wellenreiter
19 d’arcangelo – diagram 9
20 the new deal – a little while longer
21 black uhuru – solidarity