Apologies for the lack of mixes over the last couple of months. For January I've dug out something I found again recently while moving house and thought it would be good to relive some of those tracks from a few years ago. This mix was recorded sometime in the middle of 2002 and comes complete with a few little stutters from when the old computer wasn't quite powerful enough to deal with the beats...
Iz & Diz - Mouth
Brett Johnson - Jiffy Pop
68 Beats - Free Your Mind (Moulton Studios Dub)
Jay J & Chris Lum - Funky Stuff
Brett Johnson - You + Me = We
Phil Weeks - Hypnose
Derrick L Carter - Where You At?
Chris Lum - Tool Beats
Constipated Monkeys - Cro-Magnon (What About Our Love)
The Beginerz - Reckless Girl (Kidstuff Monkhousin Mix)
Mekkah - I Got You (Harder Dub)
Long Weekend - Light Lunch
DJ Joio - My Crazy Girl Mery
Barrio Brothers - Editz 4 Daze
1. Tim Scott - That's Nice (Blue City)
2. Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (Tiefschwarz Mix) (Strictly Rhythm)
3. Nick Holder ft Zaki - Swimming (Dub) (NRK)
4. Virtual Funk - Keep On Rollin' (Strakes & Dafeet Mix) (Kolour)
5. Ian Pooley - All Nite (New Mix) (Pooled)
6. Rhythm Plate ft. Astral T - Inside Me (Hudd Traxx)
7. DJ Spen - Sexy Dancer (Thommy & Spen Body Moves Mix) (Code Red)
8. Kerri Chandler - The Eye Tatoo (Max Trax)
9. Skwerl - All Woman (K2's Deepah 1ne Dub) (Defected)
10. Formidable Force - Zip Jumper (Bon Johnson Mix) (Eight Tracks)
11. Kinky Movement - Say what (Drop)
12. Chris Harris & Dominic Martin - Jazzmag (Lost My Dog)
13. Black Sheep - Strobelight Honey (Morales Def Mix)
Recorded live at Stylus in Manchester, Sat 8th September 2007, as warm up for Justin Long...
1. Nathan Coles & Dave Coker - Sweat Bomb (Lost My Dog)
2. Late Night Society - Back In Town (Toka Remix) (Phobic)
3. Dominic Martin - Touch Of Soul (Unsigned)
4. Pete Dafeet - Lungs (Fred Everything Remix) (Lost My Dog)
5. YSE - Bounce Back (Lost My Dog)
6. Kinky Movement - Move (So Sound)
7. Couch Crackers - Brake Fluid (Peaches)
8. Bob Sinclar - The Ghetto (Yellow)
9. Bob Sinclar - The Ghetto (Ian Pooley Remix) (Yellow)
10. Troydon - City Slummin (Johnny Fiasco Mix) (Greenskeepers)
11. Dirty Kicks - Bang the Lights (Hudd Traxx)
12. Chris Harris & Dom Martin - Get Involved (Chris' Mix) (Nordic Trax)
01. The Diogenes Club - Jaunt (Urbantorque Digital)
02. Inland Knights - Pass It On
plus Nathan Coles & Dave Coker - Sweat Bomb Acapella (Lost My Dog)
03. Seva K - Zero Gravity (Pete Dafeet Mix) (Deepology Digital)
04. Dirty Kicks - Bang The Lights (Hudd Traxx)
05. Nathan Coles & Dave Coker - Sweat Bomb (Lost My Dog)
06. The Jinks ft Zodiac - Like Music (J-Fonk Dub) (Mn2S)
plus Da Mongoloids - Spark Da Meth (Strictly Rhythm)
07. Jevne - Souljammin (DJ Freestyle Remix) (Kolour)
08. Chuck Daniels - Get On Down (Phobic)
09. Digital Villains - Busted Speaker (Joey Youngman's Buy A Vowel Mix) (Jackin Tracks)
10. Bob Sinclar - The Ghetto (Yellow)
11. Ladybug Mecca - Dogg Starr (Hodges Junction Re-Rub) (Om)
12. Style of Eye - Hydrophonic (Tiny Sticks)
13. Pete Dafeet - Lungs (Lost My Dog)
1. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own (Alix Alvarez Sole Channel Mix) (Island)
2. Rithma - Pepper Tree (Andy Touchfingers 'Touch Of London' Mix) (Artizan)
3. Dominic Martin - Touch Of Soul (Unsigned)
4. The Sound Diggers - ??? (DJ Freestyle's Mind Bomb Remix) (Tastie)
5. Inland Knights - Bust This (Raise)
6. Pete Dafeet - Lungs (Fred Everything's 'Frederico Todos' Remix) (Lost My Dog)
7. Vernon & Dacosta ft Apple Rochez - As Darkness Falls (Giom Remix) (Amenti)
8. Coles & Coker - Sweat Bomb (Strakes & Dafeet Remix) (Lost My Dog)
9. Late Night Society - Back In Town (Toka Mix) (Phobic)
10. Troydon - City Slummin (Johnny Fiasco's Byrds Word Remix) (Greenskeepers)
11. Duckbeats - Don't You Want Some More? (Odori)
12. Pete Dafeet - Lost City Rhythm (Unsigned)
13. Duckbeats - Hip & Posthamous (Odori)
14. Mastiksoul - House Died On Me "Not Really" (4Kenzo)
15. UBU - Ride The Snake (Magik J Remix) (Shaboom)
16. Pete Dafeet - Lungs (Fred Everything Acapella) (Lost My Dog)
New mix for June 2007, quite wide ranging taking in the deep house of Pete Dafeet, through to the more jacking Miles Maeda and stacy Kidd, through to more techy and acidy stuff from Coles & Coker and Burnski, and with a couple of all time classics thrown in from Hardrive and Kerri Chandler. Enjoy!!
1. Jazzy Eyewear - Cruise Control (So Sound)
2. Burnski - Sensation (2020 Vision)
Coles & Coker - Sweat Bomb (Acapella) (Lost My Dog)
3. Miles Maeda - My World (Bump Music)
4. Groove Federation - Scrubs (Greenhouse)
5. Pete Dafeet - Whiteman (Robsoul)
6. Ben Dean - Twelvethirysomething (Pete Dafeet's Drunken Dub) (Lost MY Dog)
7. Eddie Leader - Got No Work (Robsoul Ltd)
8. Nacho Marco - Sugar (Freerange)
YSE - Bounce Back (Acapella) (Lost My Dog)
9. Stacy Kidd ft XL - The Movement (Defected)
10. Hardrive - Deep Inside (Strictly Rhythm)
11. Jay West - It's Everywhere (Flavor)
12. Johnny Fiasco - Blister (4 Kenzo Ltd)
13. Pille & Lushi - Plunkfunk (East More Beef)
14. Coles & Coker - Sweat Bomb (Lost My Dog)
15. Kerri Chandler - So Let The Wind Come (King Street)
Podcast Summary
DJ mixes from Strakes of Lost My Dog Records and Kahua Music
Owner of Lost My Dog Records (with Pete Dafeet & Nags Modhwadia) and the Kahua Music record shop in Middlesbrough (with Dan Sudron), Strakes has been involved in dance music for 10 years starting out as a DJ and promoting events.
Lost My Dog was established in early 2005 and has quickly established itself as, in the words of iDJ Magazine, “one of the most impressive deep house labels to emerge in the UK recently� with accolades raining in from all manner of leading worldwide DJs including Groove Armada, Nic Fanciulli, Jimpster, Phil Weeks and Inland Knights. The Kahua Music record shop, based in Middlesbrough, UK and online at www.kahuamusic.com opened in July 2005 and specialises in deep and tech house.
As a DJ Strakes has played all over the UK alongside the likes of Norman Jay, Farley “Jackmaster� Funk, Diz, Greenskeepers and Rob Mello at nights including Stylus, Clubclass, CityFly and at the legendary Bomb nightclub in Nottingham. He has also won the coveted ‘Raw Talent' competition in iDJ magazine, with a glowing review stating, “Strakes' mix covers everything from Chi-town bleepery to Midlands deepery, and from big vocals to West Coast laziness...move over deep house b**tards, there's a new kid in town�. He has also won the MYNC Project hosted ‘Red Room Sessions' DJ competition. Strakes has also moved into production; remixing artists including Jay Tripwire and Nathan Coles & Dave Coker.
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