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DD0617 Dusk Dubs - Paydro Barr

[ Paydro Barr ]

Podcast: Dusk Dubs
Artist: Paydro Barr
Title: DD0617
Style: House, Techno, Hardcore, Broken Beat
Time: 79 Minutes
Date: 2020-01-26

Dusk Dubs returns with another incredible journey through sounds. As always, our guest provides us with music that has a special place in their memories and in their souls. Music that moves them, that invokes images of sunrises, sunsets, good times and good people. We then play each record, in full, giving it breathing space and allowing it to shine.

This week we welcome back Paydro Barr for another superb mixtape.

"Allow me to reintroduce myself!.............DJ Paydro, aka Mr Two Tunes, Dad, Vinyl Junkie and Record Collector, some time ago now the good people at Dusk Dubs asked me to supply them with a selection of music for their collection of selections, I was honoured to oblige and got on to sending them the selection, the selection was too long for the recommended time allowed so I had to halve the selection, so here I am back again with the selection that didn’t quite make the first cut. 

These are some adventures into dance music and electronica that have shaped me and made me the person I am today, you can catch me every Tuesday on Itch FM doing my Breaks & Soul Show, every last Monday of the Month on Itch FM doing the Hip Hop Back In The Day Show and also every second and last Sunday of each month on Life FM where I play Classic & Upfront Jungle/D&B."  [[ Paydro ]]

You can find the Paydro HERE:
itch.fm/radio-show/hip-hop-bac...back-in-the-day

Tracklisting

1 ) Abstract Truth - We Had A Thing

My cousin DJ Maddex introduced me to this track and I instantly fell in love with it, what’s more is that this is not even the original version of the song, this remix really makes the track work and has resulted in me never playing the original version.

2 )Soul Fuzio - I got rhythm (Kenny Dope Mix)

Another song I instantly fell in love with, the legendary Kenny Dope Gonzalez goes to work on this track and the end result is sheer bliss & perfection, real feel good factor music, house/dance music at its very very best.

3 ) AG Thomas - The 1 2 (The Reelsoul Mix)

Once again this tune is one of those tunes that from the beat starts you start to move straight away and then after a couple of bars they give you what I like to call the Indication Melody just to show you where the tune is going to take you then the bass comes in and you’re off, this is the embodiment of Soulful House Music.

4 ) Teresa Jenee - Remember (Yoruba Soul Mix)

This tune I actually came across by accident one night while I was looking for something on you tube, so I kept listening then went online and ordered it, this was one of those 2 or 3am must have spur of the moment purchases, very simple tune but oh so effective.

5 ) Any Winehouse - In My Bed (Bugz in the Attic Mix)

This song right here is classic example of when a remix sounds as though it should have been the original version of the song, I’m not the biggest Amy Winehouse (R.I.P) fan but this remix brings the absolute best out of her vocals and remains one of my all time favourite remixes of any of her songs.

6 ) Nicolette - Dove Song

Wowzers, going all the way back with this one nineteen ninety and the mighty Shut Up & Dance came with What was at that particular time one of the most future forward futuristic sounding beat which was really ahead of its time and also reminds me of a little place we used to go to in Watford, little pub come club in the middle of the roundabout, it’s now A Toby Carvery.

7 ) Tronik House - Up Tempo (Original Mix)

Another 90’s Classic, 1991 to be precise my fondest memory of this tune is DJ Hype playing this at Holloway Road’s Rocket and cutting n scratching over the top of this tune within an inch of its life, excellent, those were the the days.

8 ) Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is

Think I first heard Colin Dale play this one on the radio way back, he had it in a mix, I straight wore the tape out with all the rewinds, took me a while to track the tune down and finally got it from Music Power in Harringey.

9 ) The Black Dog - Virtual

Stone cold classic from 1989 and again another track I first played on the radio and again it was another one where I didn’t know what it was called and I had to describe it to the guy in the record shop, props to him for knowing what tune it was by me saying there’s a sample in it that says “The Monsters & demons beckoning to me” this track is 10 mins of lovely ambient breakbeat electronica.

10) Breach - Jack

Ha, there had to be one tune in my selection that started off on the underground but eventually made its way into the national chats, took me a hot minute to find this one and for a moment you couldn’t get it anywhere, I kept a close ear to the ground and finally got a copy from Discogs for a reasonable price, job done!

11) Ryuici Sakamoto - Riot in Lagos

What a blinder if a track, released in 1983 so ahead of its time and stands the test of time, I don’t know one B Boy who didn’t love to Break & Pop to this tune, Big Big Tune, I first heard this by way of an older cousin and will remain as one of those tunes that you’ll never forget when you first heard it or where you were.

12 ) Jon Hopkins Ft Purity Ring - Breathe this Air

This one’s a bit of a wildcard for me, I was watching a TV Show House of Lies and this track was featured at the end of an episode so I reached for my trusty Shazam (as you do) and then set about the task of trying to procure a copy on vinyl...I managed to find a LTD Edition hand stamped copy from a one off live performance the did somewhere in the US 23rd August 2013 of which there is a lone copy left on the cogs for quite a bit more than I paid for mine!

13 ) Lil Louis & The World - Saved My Life

Had to conclude this selection with a nice classic happy track from the legend that is Lil Louis I remember working in Tower Records Piccadilly Circus when the album came out and playing it for the first time, the whole album bangs, I love all the tracks on this album and dedicate this whole selection to our good friend Robert (Bob The Oracle) Farmer who also liked this album and was one of the dopest music collectors I’ve ever known (R.I.P)