BirthdayCD 2001

This is a CD compilation I made in 2001 as a party invitation. It's a mixed bag of tunes genre-wise but quite a lot of hip-hoppy stuff. I still like it today. It's the usual edit not mix, but by now you should expect no different. I went to town on some of the edits in this mix doing stuff a dj just couldn't do - check out the I Monster tunes and the lead into the KLF.

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Track Listing

1. California - Tupac
2. 2 Turntables & A Microphone - Beck
3. Stand Up - Jurassic 5
4. Jump Around - Everlast
5. Music - Madonna
6. Get A Move On - Mr Scruff
7. Burn Hollywood Burn - Leftfield
8. Like That - Run DMC vs Jason Nevins
9. Nite Klub - The Specials
10. Daydream - I Monster
11. Daydream remix - I Monster
12. Los Tres Amigos - Mucho Muchacho
13. Hip Hop Horay - Naughty By Nature
14. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
15. What's That Sound - Sam Sever & The Raiders Of The Lost Art
16. Bug Powder Dust - Justin Warfield
17. Body Movin' - Beastie Boys
18. How Soon Is Love - KLF
19. I'm In The Mood For Love - Lord Tanamo

To get this compilation as one amorphous blob...

Play it LOUD and Dance

To get this mix conveniently separated into tracks and tagged for gapless play in iTunes...

Play it LOUD and burn a copy for a friend

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FairyLove Peace CD

This is a compilation which I put together to celebrate the concept of Peace for my dearly beloved friends at FairyLove.com. I could bang on for hours about these guys, about the love they spread and the happiness they bring into every life they touch, but I'm not gonna do that here. Check out their site and even better, get yourself down to an event they're at (any major festival over the summer) and rock up and say hello. You'll get a welcome you won't forget.

RicoSound hope to be hooking up with FairyLove at some of the season's bigger festivals and supplying the tunes to make the experience all the more memorable - watch this space (and the MySpace blog) for news.

As is usual with my compilations it's a giant edit and not a mix, but who cares as the results are the same.

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Track Listing

1. Son Of A Preacher Man - Unknown a capella
2. Everybody Loves The Sunshine - Roy Ayers
3. Lying Peacefully - Pepe Deluxe
4. Take Some Time Out For Love - The Salsoul Orchestra
5. Love, Peace & Happiness - The Chambers Brothers
6. L-O-V-E-U - Brass Construction
7. Where Love Lives - Alison Limerick
8. Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim
9. Found Love - Double D
10. Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
11. Brea 4 Love - Raze
12. Good Times - Chic
13. Love Action - Human League
14. Wonderful World, Beautiful People - Jimmy Cliff
15. Glad It's All Over - Captain Sensible

To get this fine RicoSound product as one big globule...

Play it LOUD and Dance

To get this compilation in seperate tracks, conveiniently tagged for gapless play in iTunes...

Play it LOUD from the CD you burn

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Disco Lovin'

This is a mix of some of the very finest disco tunes ever known. That's not just a bit of hyperbole, it's a fact and I can prove it in a laboratory. I loved putting this together and everyone I've given it to so far can't stop playing it. I'm not sure if I'll ever do a better one than this, although I do have two more disco compilations in the pipeline, so watch this space. This is the sibling mix to Disco Party, also available here.

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Track Listing

1. You Got My Love - Sharon Redd
2. Love Thang - First Choice
3. I Want Your Love - Chic
4. Was That All It Was - Jean Carn
5. Best Of My Love - The Emotions
6. High On Your Love - Debbie Jacobs
7. Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
8. Love Sensation - Lolleata Holloway
9. Vertigo/Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman
10. Love Train - The O'Jays
11. How High? - Cangac & The Salsoul Orchestra
12. Just As Love As I Got You - Love Committee
13. Standing And Waiting On Love - The Salsoul Orchestra
14. You're The First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White


To get this mix as one giant blob...

Play it LOUD and Dance

To get this mix a separate tunes tagged for gapless play in iTunes (great for burning a CD for the car)...

Play it LOUD and fit a sub-woofer

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Funk It Baby

This is a compilation of Funk tunes with no particular theme in mind - just great tunes. It's just a giant splice up rather than a mix, but it's still 70 minutes of uninterrupted Funk heaven.

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Track Listing

1. In The Bottle - Brother To Brother

2. 90% of Me Is You - Gwen McCrae

3. Harlem Clavinette - Bobby Womack

4. If You Want Me To Stay - Sly & The Family Stone

5. I Want To Take You Higher - Sly & The Family Stone

6. Funky Like A Train - The Equals

7. L-O-V-E-U - Brass Construction

8. Who Is She And What Is She To You - Gladys Knight & The Pips

9. Don't Knock My Love - Wilson Pickett

10. Theme from S.W.A.T. - Rhythm Heritage

11. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Rose Royce

12. Light Me Up - Sun

13. Yum Yum Gimme Some - Fatback Band

14. We Got The Funk - Positive Force

15. Think (about it) - Lynn Colins

16. Standing In The Safety Zone - Bobby Womack

17. One Pair Of Pants - L V Johnson

18. Ruffell Foot - Ohio Players

19. Grab A Handful - Art Jerry Miller

This mix in one giant lump...

Play it LOUD and Dance

This mix split and tagged for gapless playback in iTunes (great for burning a CD for the car)...

Play it LOUD and open the windows

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Balearic-ish

This mix owes an enormous debt of gratitude to two people, without whom I'd never have grown to love these tunes so much. Steve Proctor and Sean Johnston are both DJs of the very highest caliber and I'm saying a big thank-you to both of them right here.

There's got to be countless former patrons of Steve's club from '89 and '90 who will recognise the great majority of these tunes and it's a testament to Steve that they still sound so good today. It seems funny to look back so lovingly at being packed into a tiny basement fitness centre with no bar or air-con and everyone totally dripping through with sweat - happy full days. It was the closest I ever came to having a religion - weekly observance was a must.

It's Balearic-ish as a few of the tunes clearly don't fit with being called Balearic (at least not in my reckoning of the term), but I still think they're cool and grooving tunes and they fit in nicely with rest. There's four, can you spot them all? It's a giant edit rather than a dj mix - that's how I roll.

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Track Listing

1. Voodoo Celebration - Hardway Brothers
2. Autumn Love - Future 4
3. Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
4. What's Your Name - Horses Without Heads
5. The Hustle - Van McCoy
6. No Can Dub - Rico
7. Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate
8. Dance Wiv Me - Dizzie Rascal
9. For Your Love - Chilly
10. Your Love - Original Bootleg
11. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Figures On A Beach
12. Going Back To My Roots  - Richie Havens
13. No Memory - Scarlet Fantastic

14. Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns

If you want one big long mix then...

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Disco Party

This is a disco compilation, one of a pair, from December 2008. Party is the key word here - it's full of classics that everyone should know - if they don't then play it to them LOUD and make them dance, use a cattle prod if necessary. As usual it's edited, not mixed, as I'm no dj. Look out for it's sibling mix Disco Lovin' comming soon.

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Track Listing

1. Planet Of Love - Le Pamplemouse
2. Rapture - Blondie
3. Good Times - Chic
4. Starlight - Escort
5. You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair
6. Car Wash - Rose Royce
7. At Midnight - T Connection
8. Turn The Music Up - Players Association
9. Let No Man Put Asunder - First Choice
10. Le Freak - Chic
11. Can you Feel The Force - Real Thing
12. Contact - Edwin Starr
13. Disco Inferno - The Trammps

If you want one big long mix then...

Play it LOUD and Dance

Or if you want the tunes split up and tagged for gapless play in iTunes - best for burning a CD for the car, for instance, then ...

Play it LOUD and pay attention to the road

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