
I’m filled with gratitude to Rayna from Modyfier for finally inspiring me/kicking my ass into gear to get together a real damn proper mix in the style that I think I’ve done most of my best work (The Shocking Mixes, End of Dub, and Mashers without Borders). That is, really taking time, weeks or months, to put together something, getting different tracks from different scenes and even different decades to layer over each other, going back and correcting errors, and trying to think abstractly about the connections between scenes, styles, and tracks and then put that into some sort of musical expression.
The result is “Rips, Tears, and Jagged Edges”, and I wrote up a whole description and track list for the Modyfier blog. So I won’t go on, I’ll just say please head over there, read, download, enjoy, and send me thoughts if you care to!



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Another cracking exploratory mix from the Kameleon!
Always good to hear a fresh mix from you, feels like I’m keeping an ear to the ground much more with a mix that does away with genre or certain sound strictures. As a Londoner with no end of potential sources for raw material it’s great to hear it put together in such a relaxed and varied way. There are strictures around here people seem unaware that they can, and should fer chrissakes, shuck off more often.
I’m intrigued about your sense of loss or fractured drift from the d&b scene which gives this mix its title – it certainly doesn’t listen through like a lament. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with dropping the turntable altogether, taking another step away from wax culture but fondly looking back? Embracing Ableton sounds like a biggy. I’m no expert in its machinations but I imagine there will be less of the audible transitions between pieces, or at least they will have a new power of their own which must be a draw. But the off-beat pushed into place is a great reveal, evidence of the human and the on-the-fly, the two signatures just faintly apart somehow serves as a recording in itself almost of a separate space, there’s a rich feeling of context it gives. I don’t wanna sound like an old analogue jerk – I’m sure the human and serendipitous reaches elsewhere and further with Ableton. It’ll be interesting to hear what changes there are.
So thanks, and keep up the good work!
Slim