ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 343 - Combat Recordings - 10 Years
”Ten Years of Combat” 19 track Compilation is out 10th Nov – Pre-Order on Bandcamp https://combatrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-of-combat
Discipline, aggression and depth. Combat started 10 years ago to this week. A pile of tracks had built up waiting for release and it felt like the right thing to do. So in autumn 2004 ScanOne and I found somehow ourselves in a soundproof chamber 37 floors above Soho, watching the “Every 7th Bullet” get cut to 12? at Alchemy Studios.
Roll on a decade later of gigs, radio shows, releases, podcasts and random adventures, I’ve been invited by Boothie to do a 100% label mix for Electronic Explorations. It was an interesting experience putting this together, revisiting old tracks and mashing them with forthcoming ones from a variety of new and established producers, nodding at influences from electro / techno / acid / oldskool hardcore / jungle / bashment / pre-2005 dubstep along the way, shaping their elements of aggression, depth and tension through the discipline the Combat’s soundsystem ethos. Am especially proud of the Ontal track “Discipline”, which captures exactly what the label’s vibe is about.
I rarely ever mix tracks only from one label, it goes against my DJ ethos which is to use whatever stuff is good, from anywhere. But I guess there’s enough variety to pick within the label’s history that the mix stays interesting. The scary thing is, at 47 tracks long we’re nowhere near halfway through all the music that’s been put out. These ones caught the eye at the time – I could have picked a totally different bunch of tunes, the mix would have taken a different form but still recognisably Combat. Enjoy.
Tracklist
ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 343 - Combat - 10 Years _______________________________________________ 01. Stormfield - Collapsing System Intro 02. Scorn - Gravel Bed (original) 03. Monster X - Immured 04. Scorn - Gravel Bed (Bracket 2step mix forthcoming) 05. Anodyne - Empire of Dust (original) 06. Stormfield - Collapsing System (Nonima mix) 07. Machine Code - vessel 08. Cursor Miner - Undecidable (forthcoming) 09. Nonima – Monolith 10. Scorn - Super Mantis (Threnody mix) 11. Scanone - FBI smash 12. Point B - Underneath the end (Synapse mix) 13. Scanone - Kik it (wee DJs mix) 14. Point B - Suicide Beauty Spot (Boris Noiz mix) 15. Marco Donnarumma - Hypochrysos (Create Her "Full Contact" mix) 16. Scorn - Super Mantis (Blackmass mix) 17. Cursor Miner - Fungus Gnat fighting 18. Ekaros - Atoms 19. Point B - Minerals 20. Stormfield - Dissensus (original) 21. Scorn - Gravel Bed (Subeena mix) 22. Scanone - Dark Horse 23. Point B - Misspent Youth 24. Cursor Miner - Grimewatch 25. Machine Code - Audio Assault 26. Cursor Miner - Carnivore (original) 27. Scanone - Dubwise 28. Nonima - Nekmit (forthcoming) 29. Scanone - Dark Dub 30. Milanese - Return to iacon city 31. Scanone - Kick It (Blackmass Plastics + wee DJs mix) 32. Ontal - Discipline 33. Scorn - Gravel Bed (Boris Noiz mix forthcoming) 34. Anodyne - Empire of Light (Subjex mix) 35. Machine Code - Coal Mine 36. Scorn - Gravel Bed (Zan Lyons mix) 37. Point B - Headland (Dead Fader mix) 38. King Cannibal - Doomsday Dancehall 39. King Cannibal - Badman Near Dark (original) 40. Cursor Miner - Everybody Want Power 41. Ingen & Boris Noiz - Root and Stem (Fausten mix) 42. Cursor Miner - Superluminary 43. Ingen & Boris Noiz - Spikes 44. Anodyne - Witch Fight 45. Point B - Pareidolia 46. Anodyne - Empire of Glass (Plaid acid mix) 47. Anodyne - No Gods Come Here