Mark Hawkins

This week we’re going a bit harder than usual - a mix inspired by the kind of stuff I was playing in the mid to late 90s at outdoor parties, so it’s a bit of a nostalgia trip… There area few newer pieces in there also, such as the Electric Kettle track, and I’m also warming you up for Scott Robinson’s forthcoming live showcase, in preparation for our gig at the WMF in Berlin on 26th of February, with two trax from his Debut release on Cluster which really hailed the arrival of the third wave of UK techno..

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Subhead was a big big influence on my early work - Ctrl Alt Delete definitely has a bit of Subheads 11 and 18 in there. I first discovered them in 1996, and straight away they sounded original and unique, like the real embodiment the much touted techno ethic of sounding like “nothing you ever heard before” whilst enduring a real punk rock aesthetic. They were the first producers that I ever met who’s attitude, instead of holding back all but what they considered the very best of their material, was “put it all out - even if you don’t like it, someone else will!” - Not that you could really tell that by listening to their stuff. Often the reason why you might at first think a track is a dud was because you just didn’t get it!

On their sound all I’m going to say here, is “Very broad”: I have a mix of 37 trax here to show you how broad that sound really is, so the written word is no competition to that..

Personally, Subhead came crashing into my life round about 2002/2003 through mutual gigs in London, and then later, further afield in Germany - Phil & Jason were always the life and soul of any party, whether it be larging it in a freezing cold disused factory in the Elbe valley near Dresden, Gatecrashing the Tresor closing party (There were now 10 members of Subhead apparently, or so the doormen were informed as we gained free entry - and Subhead wasn’t even booked to play - Jase soon planned a Sub(head)terranian assault on the Tresor bunker - “I’m gonna steam the decks!”), Friedrichshain bar crawls with Jason after missing his flight back to the UK, to chilling at the pub in Vicky park with Phil.

Their numbers also included as resident studio monkey a certain Jamie Lidell who collaborated on the early releases. Side projects were also hatched including 2CB, Fix, X-Tras, Dot Com, and Jason’s House of Fix project which produced one of Tresor’s quirkiest releases ever.

Jason is still producing and performing around the world.
Phil sadly passed away in December 2007 - This mix is for you mate, I never did get to say goodbye to you properly - hope we’ll meet up on the other side..

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Mark Hawkins - Subheadless Mix

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2 live recordings for a new year - one recorded in the studio, and one recorded Live @ Rote Fabrik in Zurich 11.12.09 - The quality was pretty bad on the Zurich recording, I cleaned it up as best I could but there is still a lot of noise there - These sets are pretty raw, as I’m still becoming accustomed to the Hardware/Ableton configuration - I do like the roughness of some of the live jamming, just some of the transitions seem a little too rough, I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing - I’ll leave that to you to decide..

Links:

http://mh.fun-in-the-murky.com/audio/SFS_09_Mark_Hawkins_Live_Studio_29_12_09.mp3

Spain In The Arse - MH Edit by Mark Hawkins

My first lesson in Soundforge Circa 2000 - Field recording originally made at “The End Of The World Party”, Costa Brava, Spain.

A subverted DJ mix from one of the Babble DJs on the Smokescreen/BWPT soundsystem - This unfortunate DJ had been picked out for ridicule by the boys, poor sod, as JE:5’s Live rig was plugged into channel 3.

A pair of headphones were plugged into the live set mixer and the realisation had dawned that the level on channel 3 could be sneaked up while the dj’s back was turned and DJ WOT became master of ceremonies. poking fun at the cheese of the house music an anyone else unfortunate to fall onto the dancefloor during his watch.

The following autumn I used the recording to experiment with Soundforge at Stayfree in Leicester and basically taught myself how to manipulate audio. And this was long before I ever heard the Noodles stuff or Cassetteboy!

A new ### DJ mix for you for christmas, something to relax to on a sunday..

Link:
http://mh.fun-in-the-murky.com/audio/SFS_08_hash_hash_hash_mix_02.mp3

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Saskia Slegers AKA Miss Djax gave me my first real big break into the music biz, and her Techno Label ‘Djax Up Beats” based in Eindhoven, Holland, has definitely been a big influence on the music I make myself over the years - So here’s 30 trax from various Djax Up records that I own that definitely showcase the very different sounds the Label has showcased over the years. And, in case you didn’t know, and particuarly for people from English speaking countries, the Dutch pronunciation of the letter “J” is like the English “Y” - So Djax is pronounced as the English speaker would pronounce “Jacks”- so it’s not “Dee Jacks” as many people here would assume. Anyway, hope you enjoy the mix.

Download: http://mh.fun-in-the-murky.com/audio/SFS_07_Mark_Hawkins_Djax_Mix.mp3

Tracklist is below.. for more info on Djax_Up-Beats, check the website here: http://djax.nl/
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Vadz (From Taganrog, Russia) has a new e.p. on his net-label which has quite in interesting story behind it:

Once upon a time i was working on a radiostation and we had a task to record some speeches for Emergency Department. So, an actor from the local theater was invited and all the instructions were spoken over the microphone. One record was about what to do if an incident on the Volgodonsk Nuclear Power Plant (aka Rostov Atomic Power Plant) happens. The text was scary and actual (Volgodonsk is about 260 km from Taganrog) and, of course, i decided to use it. That’s how the Nuclear Volgodonsk trilogy appeared.

so, check it out:

http://russian-techno.com/wp/archives/rtsw11.html

Esther gives it some in st petersburg, nice one!

This week we continue on the same thread as we left off last week, bit later on in the evening with yet more encouragement from our Lithuanian friend Shopka..

And in addition to that, the first person to email in a correct, completed Tracklisting wins a Mark Hawkins goody-bag which will include Vinyl & a DVD-R filled with archive sets and exclusive unreleased trax.

Entries to be sent to: info@crime-productions.com

Download link:
http://mh.fun-in-the-murky.com/audio/SFS_06_Hawkins_Shopkamix_2.mp3

Sorry for the delay with this weeks SFS, had a lot on with the live gig in Zurich next friday!
Our friend Shopka came to stay, seeing that there wasn’t much worth going out to on that particular Saturday night, we stayed home with a bottle of Vodka & I made this mix during the course of the evening…..

http://mh.fun-in-the-murky.com/audio/SFS_05_Hawkins_Shopkamix_28_11_09.mp3

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