A little remix of an old Beenie Man tune for you listening pleasure, given a bit of a bass-lift by the Knob Jockeys.

Listen and download here: http://bln.kr/4D6/

Last night I settled down with a cup of tea and my new copy of DJ Magazine, and then proceeded to spit said tea all over the magazine as I caught sight of our ugly mugs staring back at us!

Our mix has been selected as October’s Pick n Mix winner!

If you haven’t already, go grab the mix now!

Individual track versions will be available next week…

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Our set at Carry On after Rennie Pilgrem last Friday was broadcast live on Radio Glitch, and the good folks there have put the set up for your listening pleasure. The set ends a bit abruptly as the club lights were turned up, but Glitch have done a great job of the sound.

Follow this link for a stream and a downloadable version.

On our quest for new tunes, ideas and inspiration we’re always listening to what other DJs are playing. Over the past year or so there have been a few mixes that have really stood out. Here’s the best (in no order of importance):

The Black Ghosts Mixtape
This mix kinda opened our eyes to how house had moved on recently. Having become disenchanted with the breaks scene, these tunes proved that electronic music could still excite us.

Jack Beats Fabric NYE mix
This was the first time we discovered Jack Beats, and it was love at first listen Grimy, fat and fun!

Fake Blood’s essential mix
A great collection of most of Fake Blood’s excellent remixes to date. And a great ‘chill-out’ second hour.

Aquasky June Mix
We’ve loved Aquasky for many years, and this mix proves they’re still in the game with these fresh tunes.

We Make It Good: Sinden
This mix dates is getting on a bit now, but it still sounds fresh – featuring (as then) future classics such as Township Funk and Hardcore Girls.

Toddla T & Mr Versatile: Ghettoblaster
In a word: genius. The Sheffield boy mixes up everything from R&B and bassline to drum ‘n’ bass, accompanied by the very funny Mr Versatile.

Hope you enjoy these. What are your favourites?

I’m writing this post from my newly installed Wordpress app on my iPhone. It’s really simple, allowing you to create new posts and pages as well as moderate your comments.

If you’re running Wordpress and have an iPhone, check it out – it’s free to download!

As there are three of us in Knob Jockeys, we’ve thought often about ways to make sharing our library of tunes easier between ourselves. For a while, having the one external hard drive with everything crammed on seemed to work, but more and more we’d spend our practice sessions munging bits and bobs we’d been working on into the main library, and more often that not, sticking stuff in temp and scratch and limbo folders all over the place, never to be found again. Also, a Firewire device chaining incident meant we lost a quarter of our data a couple of years back, which brought home even more the fragility of everything being in one place.

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We’re really pleased to be playing at Beatherder Festival 2009 on the Stumblefunk stage.

Beatherder is an intimate festival taking place in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire on July 3rd-5th.

Other acts already confirmed include: The Whip, Filthy Dukes, The Young Punx, Meat Katie, Utah Saints, Beardyman, Dub Pistols, 808-State and many more!

If you can’t wait until then, you can still check out and download our set from Beatherder 2007.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, we have a Twitter account – follow us! We’ll be tweeting about our own mixes, mashups and gig alerts as well as stuff about DJing and Ableton Live.

Happy New Year! So, late last year, we said we’d start uploading some individual tracks to the site, as well as our mixes. So, here are two to get us started. First up is a tune from a rare drum ‘n’ bass set we played last year, ‘Jump‘ by TC, enhanced no end by the Kriss Kross Kids. Second is a mashup of a Baobinga remix of a fairly new, wicked Stanton Warriors tune ‘Blaze‘, given a nice old-skool kick by The Prodigy.

Give them a listen, and let us know what you think!