Always Working

Yes it's another mix in time for Chrimbo. Always Working is a 2 hour mix of different styles, lots of tunes I love but don't usually get the chance to play, some slower, some chilled, some not.

Track Listing

01 On My Way - Cocoon
02 Come To Me (jStar remix) - The Black Seeds
03 Morning Wonder - The Earlies
04 For What It's Worth - Shantel & Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
05 My Sweet Darling - Seth Kallen ft. Melody Gardot
06 Don't Let Them Push You Around - Belleruche
07 Whisper UP ft. Betty Steels - The Nextmen
08 Dirty Girl ft Ian Britt - IkoN
09 The Itch (acoustic version) - Belleruche
10 Rockets ft. Johnny Tarr - The Nextmen
11 Soda Pop Confusion - variety Lab ft. Kidsaredead
12 In The River - Fab Samperi
13 Mysterious Beautiful - Bushy
14 Burn ft. Lindsay West - The Nextmen
15 Spunky Love Fun - The Mexican
16 Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
17 We Play The Music ft. D - Ed Solo & Skool of THought
18 Love - The Bas Lexter Ensemble
19 Sweet Memory - Melody Gardot
20 Dream Machine (Downtempo Mix) - Mark Farina ft. Sean Hayes
21 Young Hearts Run Free - Nancy Wallace
22 Le Quiz - Minimatic
23 I Can't Go For THat - The Bird & The Bee
24 Sitting On The Shelf Wothout Sheeley - Catriona Irving
25 I LOve Them *O's - Eamon
26 Beneath the Burnside (Bmd's 4x4 Quick Rework) - Teddy Presburg
27 Walk So Lonely - St. Germain
28 Waiting - Parov Stellar remix - Mauracher
29 56% Proof - Belleruche
30 Lottery Winners on Acid - The Crimea

As usual this mix is available as separate tracks, all ready-tagged for gapless play in iTunes, or in one big fat lump.

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RicoLove

Here's my new mix for Chrimbo 2010. A full 3 hours of 44 delicious tunes for your delectation, I've been meaning to do this for a while - it's all about LOVE. It's girly and it's cheesy and I love it.

A mixture of Soul, Disco, Funk, House, Rock'n'Roll and Swing with a few cheeky edits from Amnesty Drug Bin thrown in for good measure. If you don't like love-songs you will hate this mix. If, like me, you love 'em then this is the mix for you.

As usual it's all ready tagged for gapless play in iTunes in full 320 mp3s and can be burnt to a CD for the car. If you know me and you want an AIFF version let me know.

I'm running a COMPETITION with this mix. I will DJ for 1 night for free for the person who can name the most of these tunes - 1 point each for the name of the tune, the name of the mix and the name of the artist. There's 44 tunes, so a maximum of 132 points - if anyone gets that I'll also eat my hat and can-can naked down Whitehall with a bowl of fruit on my head. Contact me at Rico at RicoSound.com by 31st January 2011. Please do give it a go - I reckon it will be quite a low score that wins. If you are one of the 10 people to get a CD copy then you get a 10 point start.

I'll re-post it here on the 1st February with all the names in the tags and a full track listing.

Sorry Pip and Jim if you see this - you're barred.


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Jinty's Mix

This is a monster mix. Clocking in at a full seven hours and thirteen minutes and containing 109 tracks, it's an epic party's worth of top quality tunage. I did it for one of my very best friend's 40th birthday parties back in June this year.

Jinty's Party kicked off a summer of total and absolute madness for me, yet it has remained one of the top highlights. The mix stayed on loop in the end and went round nearly 4 times! You got to give it up for Jinty and his not wife Timi, they know how to put a proper party on.

Jints does a truly amazing Freddy Mercury impression and the Queen tracks in the middle were timed to come up at midnight where the man himself did a very special guest appearance. Priceless.

This mix contains parts of other mixes available here, notably A Cup of Double De-Edit Breaky Disco Funk and BirthdayCD 2001. In a new departure for me it was mainly mixed using Traktor, so maybe I'm finally becoming a slight DJ after all. There's a few of the old crafty computer edits thrown in for good measure too.

There are a few Re-Edits from the RicoSound stable included here and these can all be downloaded individually from RicoSoundMusic.com or you can click the Re-Edit track names in the listing below to download them too.

I spent a pleasurable day with Jinty going through hundreds of tunes and we selected about 180 or so. Just over a third fell by the wayside. The rest are listed below. I could do this for your party too, or just come along and DJ - send me a message.

Track listing:

Section 1

001 - Peaches - A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts/Droop Capone/Krafty Kuts
002 - Voodoo Celebration - Hardway Brothers
003 - KRS One Attacks - KRS One
004 - Get Down - NAS
005 - Mic Manipulator - Edan
006 - Roll Over Baby - A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts/Ashley Slater/Krafty Kuts
007 - Can I Kick It - A Tribe Called Quest
008 - Foxy Lady - Rob Tex
009 - Ecstacy When You Lay Down Next To Me - Barry White
010 - Hot Dog - A. Skillz Vs Beat Vandals
011 - Happy - Unknown Bootleg
012 - It's A Booty - Krafty Skillz
013 - A Roller Skating Jam Named ''Saturdays'' - De La Soul
014 - House Party - Fred Wesley
015 - B-Boy Stance - Freestylers
016 - Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
017 - The Hit Song (Featuring Abdominal) - DJ Format
018 - Beat Don't Stop - A. Skillz Vs Beat Vandals
019 - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - Unknown Bootleg
020 - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - Indeep

Section 2

021 - California Love - Tupac
022 - 2 Turntables & A Microphone - Beck
023 - Rapture - Blondie (slight edit)
024 - Good Times - Chic
025 - Starlight - Escort
026 - Rock The Spot - A. Skills Vs Nick Thayer
027 - Africano - Timmy Thomas
028 - Love Thang - First Choice
029 - Shack Up (Touche From the Wiseguys Bonus Chops) - Banbarra
030 - Somebody Else's Beastie - Beastie Boys Vs Jocelyn Brown
031 - Black Water Gold - Sunshine Band
032 - Heart Of Glass - Blondie (slight edit)
033 - Super Holla Tricka (Beastie Boys vs. Gwen Stefani vs. A. Skillz & Krafty Kutz) - Tripp
034 - Lover's Holiday - Change
035 - Apache - Incredible Bongo Band
036 - Don't Leave Me This Way (full length mix) - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes

Section 3

037 - Hip Hop Horay - Naughty By Nature
038 - Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
039 - What's That Sound - Sam Sever And The Raiders Of The Lost Art
040 - Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob Remix) - Bomb The Bass Feat. Justin Warfield
041 - Body Moovin' - Beastie Boys
042 - Story Time - Featurecast
043 - Check Out Ya Mind - Sygaire & Defcon
044 - Everyman - The Captain
045 - I'm Your Sex Machine - Sono Rhizmo
046 - Get Up (Let's Get Down) - Featurecast
047 - Walk Like A Man - Aldo Vanucci & Featurecast
048 - Walk Like A Man (Fdel remix) - Aldo Vanucci & Featurecast
049 - Cold Rock A Party - Beat Vandals
050 - Peanut Butter & U-Tern edit - Gwen Guthrie
051 - Sunshine - A. Skillz Vs Beat Vandals
052 - Take A Ride - Featurecast
053 - Go With My Flow - Featurecast
054 - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose - DJ Ayers
055 - Footstompin' - KW Griff
056 - My House - Sono Rhizmo
057 - Gimme Gimmee - Sono Rhizmo
058 - One More - Featurecast

Section 4

059 - Love Sensation - Loleatta Holloway
060 - Vertigo - Dan Hartman
061 - Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman
062 - We Will Rock You - The Captain
063 - Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
064 - Devil Dust - Amnesty Drug Bin
065 - 1999 - A. Skillz Vs Nick Thayer
066 - Freak Out (slight edit) - Chic
067 - You Can't Always Get What You Want (2 Many DJs mix) - The Rolling Stones
068 - Back In Pink - Amnesty Drug Bin
069 - Every One's A Winner (slight edit) - Hot Chocolate
070 - Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal
071 - Blame It On The Boogie - Michael Jackson
072 - Unknown tune - Rascal
073 - Gimmee The Breaks - A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts/Curtis Blow/Krafty Kuts
074 - For Your Love - Chilly
075 - Insight (A. Skillz remix) - Fort Knox Five
076 - Let No Man Put Assunder - First Choice
077 - Unknown tune - Eminem Vs. the Soundbluntz
078 - Shake Your Body Down To The Ground - Michael Jackson
079 - Carwash - Chic
080 - Feeling Kinda Insane - A. Skillz Vs Beat Vandals
081 - Dodge City Rockers - Fort Knox Five

Section 5

082 - Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing
083 - Contact - Edwin Starr
084 - Disco Inferno - The Trammps
085 - Where Love Lives - Alison Limerick
086 - Right Here Right Now (Carrison vs Scorpio) - Fatboy Slim
087 - Found Love - Double D
088 - Your Love - Original Bootleg
089 - Going Back To My Roots - Ritchie Havens
090 - One For Me - Amnesty Drug Bin
091 - French Kiss - Lil' Louis
092 - Promised Land - Joe Smooth
093 - The Law of Octaves (Pako & Frederik Remix) - Audiophobe

Section 6

094 - Not Forgotten (Hard Hands remix) - Leftfield
095 - Chicago - Groove Armada
096 - Is There Anybody Out There (Extended - slight edit) - Bassheads
097 - I See You Baby - Groove Armada
098 - Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
099 - Hey Girl, Hey Boy - Chemical Brothers
100 - But I Feel Good - Groove Armada
101 - Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx
102 - Superstylin' - Groove Armada
103 - Hardtrance Acperience - Hardfloor
104 - Cowgirl - Underworld
105 - Rez - Underworld
106 - Blue Monday (Hardfloor remix) - New Order
107 - Get A Life - Freestylers
108 - Ooh La La (Phones Re-Edit) - Goldfrapp
109 - Always (Cloaked remix) - Leaf

Phew!

It comes in six lumps, all with a clean start and ready tagged for gapless play in iTunes. It's also done at 224K instead of 320 so that it will all burn neatly on to 1 mp3 CD for the car. You cannot say fairer than that. We know how to look after you at Ricosound. It's a big old download at 729MB and it comes in six parts, so you'll have to be patient. When you've downloaded all the parts whack them in a playlist and off you go. To download click the links below and remember to...

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Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6

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A cup of Double De-Edit Breaky Disco Funk

This is a mighty new mix, so hot of the presses it's still smoking. It's a kind of pre-release version as I've been getting a lot of requests to post it. Sometime soon a slightly smoother sounding version with a new intro will be posted here.

Track Listing

01 - Story Time - Featurecast
02 - Check Out Ya Mind - Sygaire & Defcon
03 - Everyman - The Captain
04 - I'm Your Sex Machine - Sono Rhizmo
05 - Get Up (Let's Get Down) - Featurecast
06 - Walk Like A Man - Aldo Vanucci & Featurecast
07 - Walk Like A Man (Fdel remix) - Aldo Vanucci & Featurecast
08 - Cold Rock A Party - Beat Vandals
09 - Peanut Butter & U-Tern edit - Gwen Guthrie
10 - Sunshine - A. Skillz Vs Beat Vandals
11 - Take A Ride - Featurecast
12 - Go With My Flow - Featurecast
13 - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose - DJ Ayers
14 - Footstompin' - KW Griff
15 - My House - Sono Rhizmo
16 - Gimme Gimmee - Sono Rhizmo
17 - One More - Featurecast

It's all just in the one lovely lump for now, remember...

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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

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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

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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


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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

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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

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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...

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