Amazing Beats

S.A. Fred is fast becoming a quarterly resident on the show. Always centred around I.D.M this mix takes many twists and turns though broken beat, techno and weirdly a little DnB. This is the perfect electronica antidote to a stressful day. Listen again here.

Solipsism is Craig Murphy, an Experimental Musician and Recording Artist from Glasgow in Scotland. His cross-genre style incorporates elements of Ambient, Techno, IDM, Electro and Experimental Music. This is the second time he has provided us with a set and was recorded live at the Black Sparrow in Glasgow. The music used are all his own productions. Listen again here.

MJ Fitz has been a firm favourite of both the show and you guys, in the past he has done very well in our chart also. His take on a progressive tech house style always has a keen eye on melody whilst maintaining a dark and deep sense of mood. Essentially proper club music. Recently he has started another project under the guise of Man Solo that is more dubbed electronica in nature. This mix is 30 minutes of his own productions but also includes tracks from People Get Real, Scuba and the wonderful Caribou. Listen again here.

It was a long time coming but we finally got a hold of Bristol’s Stumbleine for a well deserved outing on the show. We’ve been enamored by Stumbleine’s glitchy electronica meets downtempo garage vibe since we first wrapped our ears around ‘Bloom’ last year. The chilled out beats and cut-up vocal samples had us gushing all sorts of over-the-top adjectives both on air and online in an attempt to describe how much we love it. You will too.

Stuart Kilbride returns to the guest mix. He has been making music under various names since the early 1990’s. He’s had releases on labels such as Avex Records, Millenium Records, Ambient Soho, 2Kool Records, Worm Interface and Alien Intelligence Records. Under the guise of Red Sky Lullaby he creates epic yet down tempo ambient, dub, and melodic chill out always with a keen eye on engaging and interesting broken beat. Red Sky Lullaby is also a collaborative project between Stuart (Instruments and Production) and various talented vocalists. Listen again to this stunning 30 minute mix again.

Iron Blue, self described as Deep/Dub/Psychetropic/Jackin’ and label boss of Full Tone Recordings makes his first appearance on the amazing guest mix. I think this 30 mins can be best described as a subtle blend of styles ranging from a post new order feel mixed with an early Kitsune sound and an additional sprinkle of the tiefschwarz, all slowed down to create a really hypnotic groove. All tracks are self produced and includes Fantasy Rainbow/Channel 4/Lincoln Meadow/Emerald City/Orange Sunshine and Elliptic Soul. Listen again here.

JStudio was the first contributor of the Amazing Beats guest mix in 2011 so we thought we would get him back in to close the year. This is a 30 minute mix of all his own material and is a subtle blend of melodic electronica, funked up house music with a twist of acid influence. Great structure in design and mixed to perfection. Listen again here.

For his third outing as part of the guest mix S.A. Fred returns with another sublime journey through I.D.M. The mix starts with subtle electronic melody and almost sinister. Live jazz influenced percussion half way through blends into an almost erratic broken beat direction and then back into the chilled arena to finish. For fans of AWESOME electronica. Listen again.

The guest mix goes International again and this time Zagreb Croatia. Mixed by Peter Ryan this is an out and out journey through all the best in deep house. Sonically brilliant in electronic melody and always with an imaginative eye on beat patterns this is a fine show case of a man who in recent months has dominated the Amazing Beats chart. Listen again here.

Electromagnetic Impulses has been a big player in the last year of Amazing Beats consistently laying down all styles of DnB. Recently the label EML Recordings has provided us with new talent in the liquid sub genre and we are happy to finally show case the labels direction. Listen again here.

Vinyl Related Records label boss Kristian Smith otherwise known as Digital Justice, Dark Emotion and Just Another Alias has taken to the guest mix to showcase some of his really early material. This 30 minute mix has a real sense of broken beat mixed with d&b with a jungle influence. Classic Drum & Bass tracks from 1997-2008 when he was known as DVP. The mix is concluded with the new release track Damn That. Listen again here.

In 2011 the pairing of Simon Lister and Peter Wilson have continued to play some of the finest parties in the UK as residents of the mighty Wax-On and recently played Hide Out festival (Croatia) and Global Gathering. Their label Join Our Club records is going from strength to strength with some very intelligent tracks crossing the boundaries of disco, house and techno. Listen again here to their 30 min mix showcasing the labels release. Also keep your eyes peeled as People Get Real are set to Rock the WHP 2011

London based Producer/ DJ Dan Price returns to the Amazing Guest Mix with a show case of all his own productions in the Tech House spectrum to highlight the upcoming party at Pacha. Listen again here.

In recognition of the recent remix competition winner Sequel, we are showcasing a mix they did for us back in 2010. This was one of the first amazing guest mixes we ever put out and it still sounds as fresh now as it did then. Absorb Vs Sequel lay down the Guest mix in their destinctive ‘No Step’ style. Listen again here.

Solipsism’s Live Set recorded at Tronic in the 13th Note Club, Glasgow, on the 29th of July 2011. This is a melodic journey of ups and downs through techno. Dreamy low points of melody then into pulsating looped techy beats. Imagine that repeated over and over and over. Brilliant. Listen again here.

Label boss Dave Nicholson lays down a 30 minute mix of artists on the City West Records roster. It’s a really nice, dark and low slung tech driven house which subtly blends into a cloudy industrial techno sound reminiscent of the early 90’s Detroit sound and more recently the output from a lot of German based artists. If your familiar with the dj / producer Marcel Dettmann and the out put of Ostgun Ton then you will absolutely love this. Artists include NAM Soundsytem, Miss N and Daavneeq himself. Listen again.

Planet Raiders are an electronic producer duo from Hampshire, England. Their love of early electo, P-Funk, chip music and 80′s computer games really show in their electro funk sound and they can be found on the Jag label. This 30 min mix however is out and out Electro Filth. Enjoy.

Hot on the heels of his first outing as part of the guest mix S.A. Fred returns with another sublime journey through I.D.M. The mix starts with subtle broken beat, is very moody in the electronic melody and almost sinister. Live jazz influenced percussion half way through blends into an almost laid back liquid drum and bass feel to finish. For fans of AWESOME electronica. Listen again here.

To coincide with new releases from the Hungarian we decided to give his guest mix another spin. For this guest mix he floats in and out of an underground, funky to progressive House sound with a distinctive Tech House feel. Quba also strategically places tracks from his own back catalogue to give the mix that depth which is so evident in his own production. Listen again here.

Liquitex takes to the turntables once again representing the Jag collective. This is a journey through glitchy ambient soundscapes to a stripped back and chilled techno sound. Lovers of the output from Warp/ XL/ Wall Of Sound and even TruThoughts will love this 30 minute mix. Listen again here.

Label boss Dave Nicholson lays down a 30 minute mix of artists on the City West Records roster. It’s a really nice, dark and low slung tech driven house which subtly blends into a cloudy industrial techno sound reminiscent of the early 90’s Detroit sound and more recently the output from a lot of German based artists. If your familiar with the dj / producer Marcel Dettmann and the out put of Ostgun Ton then you will absolutely love this. Artists include NAM Soundsytem, Miss N and Daavneeq himself. Listen again here.

S.A.Fred is an Electronic music producer, composer & sound designer, currently based in Germany. He is heavily focused on ambient moods, cinematic textures and sound collage experimentation. Influenced by the synth pioneers of the 70’s and 80’s, with a strong foot stood in contemporary Dance music and IDM. Listen again to his fantastic guest mix here.

A 30 minute snapshot of the wonderful Social Studies that I mixed up for the Amazing Guest Mix. This duo are Rap at their core with crisp and insightful rhymes over left field electronica and traditional 2 step beats. Find more by searching out Daddy Tank Records. Listen again to the mix here.

Stuart Kilbride has been making music under various names since the early 1990’s. He’s had releases on labels such as Avex Records, Millenium Records, Ambient Soho, 2Kool Records, Worm Interface and Alien Intelligence Records. Under the guise of Red Sky Lullaby he creates epic yet down tempo ambient, dub, and melodic chill out always with a keen eye on engaging and interesting broken beat. Red Sky Lullaby is also a collaborative project between Stuart (Instruments and Production) and various talented vocalists. Listen again to this stunning 30 minute mix again here.

Mark returns to the turntable for Amazing Beats with a house set, perfect summer vibes as it draws to a conclusion with a brilliant track from Sierra Hurrt. Mark is from West Berkshire and is a mature student at Newbury college studying interactive digital media and production. Mark started making music about 10 years ago and spent his youth as a vocalist, Mc and DJing on pirate radio stations. Get down with the sunshine again here.

Listen again to this 30 minute mix of everything from deep to a more minimal house sound. Paul always has a keen eye on melody in his production and mixes and expect a slice of trance influence in the breakdowns and vocal elements. The mix includes tracks from Allma Minimal / Faux Disco Club / Distronaut / Twin Motion / Tom Franks / Zero Page / Snowave and Sierra Hurtt. Listen again here.

DJ Tom Patrick serves up a 30 minute guest mix within the ever widening genre of Dubstep. Expect filthy electronic hook, wobbly bass lines and general face melting pace and attitude. There is also a subtle shift in D&B towards the end. The Mix includes both his own production material and some selected tracks from the amazingtunes.com back catalogue. Listen again here.

Robert DB hailing from Hungary delivers Tech House that will penetrate your brain, in a good way. This 30 minute mix is a showcase of his own material, it’s a looped, progressive and really dark take on the harder spectrum of house music. Robert DB loves to do weird and wonderful things with the drops in his tracks so don’t be surprised, if you are surprised. Listen again here.

Liquitex takes to the turntables representing the Jag collective this is a journey through glitchy ambient soundscapes to a stripped back and chilled techno sound. Lovers of the output from Warp/ XL/ Wall Of Sound and even TruThoughts will love this 30 minute mix. Listen again here.

JStudio was the first contributor of the Amazing Beats guest mix in 2010 so we thought we would get him back in to kick off 2011. This is a 30 minute mix of all his own material and is a subtle blend of melodic electronica, funked up house music with a twist of acid influence. Great structure in design and mixed to perfection. Listen again here.

S.A.Fred is an Electronic music producer, composer & sound designer, heavily focused on ambient moods, cinematic textures and sound collage experimentation. Influenced by the synth pioneers of the 70′s and 80′s, with a strong foot stood in contemporary Dance music and IDM. Listen again to his fantastic guest mix here.

Hailing from Bucharest Quba is one of the finest producers of Deep melodic House music on amazingtunes.com.

For this guest mix he floats in and out of an underground, funky to progressive House sound with a distinctive Tech House feel. Quba also strategically places tracks from his own back catalogue to give the mix that depth which is so evident in his own production. Listen again here.

Stuart Kilbride has been making music under various names since the early 1990’s. He’s had releases on labels such as Avex Records, Millenium Records, Ambient Soho, 2Kool Records, Worm Interface and Alien Intelligence Records. Under the guise of Red Sky Lullaby he creates epic yet down tempo ambient, dub, and melodic chill out always with a keen eye on engaging and interesting broken beat. Red Sky Lullaby is also a collaborative project between Stuart (Instruments and Production) and various talented vocalists. Listen again to this stunning 30 minute mix again here.

Dan Price is a Producer/DJ from London. He makes quality driving Tech House. His tracks deliver a big room sound whilst his use of vocal elements and his soulful influence all blend for a top notch series of releases. Via the guest mix Dan highlights his tracks as a promotional tool for 2010. Dan has dominated Amazing Beats track of the week section. Find out why. Listen again here.

Mark takes to the guest mix this time to highlight some of the great new additions to amazingtunes.com from the House Genre. In particular Tech House although expect some deep electronica, Tribal beats and some minimal melodies. With tracks from Dan Price / Allma Minimal / Remy Cameron / Quba and PNFA. Listen again here. Enjoy

Jag isn’t actually an artist, but a collection of artists, or an independent record label if you want to start pigeon-holing us. The idea was to bring together all the artists that we know and believe in, and give their music a great chance to be listened to and appreciated by as many people as possible. We provide whimsical acoustic to synthy post rock via techno, electronica and other styles and genres in between. The progression from each track to the next pointed to the diversity of the styles on the Jag roster.

Liquitex take the reigns of the guest mix. Listen again here.

The last survivor of the Empire of a Trillion Suns. He was hidden on earth in 1983. As the first test subject of the Nano Sound Bomb his life was spent in a laboratory undergoing years of testing and enhancements before undergoing The Trials of Quantum Sound. 10 years later, on the highest peak of Fore Tudaflaw mountain, He was struck by lightning 3 times and realized the world was trying to tell him something. He rose from the ashes obtaining this new quantum musical power. Reminiscence has since been traveling through Time and Space performing these uplifting sentiment sounds.

Remy makes all variations of House music. Listen again to part 1 here and part 2 here.

Mark is a second year mature student at Newbury college studying Interactive Digital Media & Production. He started making music about 10 years ago but his music past goes way back. He was signed up for Evita when he was 9 years old but moved away from vocals as he got older. In his teenage years he Mc’d on pirate radio in south London , going on to DJ in the pirate radio scene.

30 Minutes of the best in Deep House and Tech House listen again here.

Absorb Vs Sequel lay down the Guest mix in their destinctive ‘No Step’ style. Listen again here.

What is no-step? No-step fuses together anything with bass, breaks, beats, guitars, and vocals, borrowing tempos from grime and 2step, taking bass cues from dub and dubstep, and churning out a sound designed to infiltrate clubs as well as headphones. Absorb Vs Sequel arrived at their nostep sound via their individual and collective influences. For Absorb, this is mainly grime, electro/house and dubstep, whilst for Sequel, the guitar features more prominently alongside drum & bass and triphop.

Amazing Beats presenter, Mark Ryan takes to the turntables for a 30 minute mix showing off all the very best in Tech House that amazingtunes.com has to offer. What is Tech House? Well in its simplist form, tracks that use the typical sounds of Techno but produced in the design of a typical House track. Listen again here.

JStudio is one of amazingtunes.com biggest artists. He produces House music of the Electronic persuation and started out as a DJ in the height of the rave era. He played styles from hardcore to italian techno. In more recent years he has got into the house music scene playing live sets and developing an interest in music production. His main influences are house, tech house and techno. JStudio has been a recent project and produces house, techno and other electronic music tracks. The future is unknown but he’s looking forward to it. Listen again here.