Off the back of Trample The Dust Down and No Hard Borders we’re up for the third installment of Jimmy Monsta Funk’s year in records with Damn You Space Colonists. In a series that has thus far pushed us across the spectrum of house and techno releases from 2017, part 3 of 4 draws together plates of similar vibrations, regardless of how a record store would file them, for an even wider run of the gamut.
The ever stunning Alice Coltrane is up first backed by Roger Robinson on Jahtari and Coldcut x On-U Sound before Oldtoy properly sets us up for some Max Berlin. Those opening cuts should tell you enough about the 29 deep track list comprising of this mix and how perfectly it’s been curated. Pye Corner Audio, Hannah Peel The XX and The Portico Quartet blend in with Four Tet, Actress, Carl Craig and Keith Worthy.
Not a lot of cats I know can play records like this; take the time to appreciate what’s going on with two turntables and a stack of wax.
Stoked to be presenting a new series of mixes from Jimmy Monsta Funk. In what seems to be an annual occurrence (check Mo Last Year and You Asked For It for 2015 and 2016 respectively) JMF has handed down his 2017 wrap-up split across four mixes. This is the year in records – a selection of tracks that are all releases, re-releases or reissues from 2017 blended, selected and mixed together live on two turntables.
The titles for the mixes are all based on the nonsense world events of the year – Elon Musk going to Mars and sending a Douglas Adams charged Tesla on space recon, the possibility of a hard border in Ireland due to Brexit, the hands moving on the Doomsday Clock and the continuation of a cycle started by Thatcher and her ‘Big bang’. There’s message in the medium.
Damn You Space Colonists
Alice Coltrane – Hari Narayan (Luaka Bop)
Roger Robinson – Corridors (Jahtari)
Coldcut x On-U Sound – Vitals Feat Roots Manuva (Ahead Of Our Time)
Oldtoy – Soul Signals (FuFu Records)
Max Berlin – Elle Et Moi (Mania Reprise)
Funkadelic – Cosmic Slop (Moodymann Mix) (Westbound Records)
John Legend and The Roots – Hard Times (G.O.O.D. Music)
Pye Corner Audio – Untitled (Ecstatic)
Joe Garrasco & M.M. – Action (Instrumental Version) (Dark Entries)
Keith Worthy – The Soul Clap (Illusion Recordings)
Carl Craig – Versus (Planet E)
Carl Craig – Sandstorms (Planet E)
Hannah Peel – Achrid Orange Dwarf (My Own Pleasure)
THOOL – Honesty (Deek Records)
The XX – On Hold (Young Turks)
Rising Sun – Lament (Just Another Beat)
Rone – Lou (Infine)
The Black Soul Mass Choir Featuring Anyda Hillward – And She Parted The Red Sea (Joaquin Joe Claussell’s Sacred Rhythm Music And Cosmic Arts Versions) (Sacred Rhythm Music)
Tourist Kid – Under Armour Suite (Good Company Records)
Actress – x22rme (Ninja Tune)
Portico Quartet – Rushing (Gondwana Records)
Four Tet – Planet (Text Records)
Clebert – Shiva (Trimurti)
Wilderz – Everything (Skryptrom Records)
Dopplereffekt – Cellular Automata (Leisure System)
Plant43 – Grid Connection (Shipwrec)
DJ Assault – Diamond Mine (Thug Records)
Kassem Mosse – RM241216 (R.A.N.D. Muzik)
Jeff Mills – Planet X (Axis)