Kid Kameleon has made over 100 mixes in the last decade. Some are long complex affairs, others are fast one-offs just to have something to listen to in the car. Below are some of them. Others are on the way.

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Extremely Small and Precise Sounds 1 & 2 (2010)

A 2 part of a mix that explores the melding of techno, ambient and dubstep that’s going on in 2010. All very minimal sounds. The first part got a bit more banging (relatively speaking) than I had expected, and has a pair of super amazing and complex Al Tourettes tracks that are amazingly hypnotic. The 2nd part of the mix explores the same sounds and has a lot of Appleblim on it, who was pretty much the inspiration for these mixes, especially the song Vansan, which for some reason didn’t make it on to this. This is the truly chill one.

Part 1: Post and Tracklist Direct Download Part 2: Post and Tracklist Direct Download

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Stop Asking Me What Genre This Is (2010)

All this stuff is inspired by Shortstuff, and by extension his companions (Brackles, Untold, Desto, etc). What he’s been making in 2009 and beyond really is something new, and so many folks have jumped on the band wagon (with magnificent results). I just got tired of trying to explain it to people in words. Hence the title. The first part went to the Frite Nite blog / label, the second to the Steak House blog / label.

Part 1: Post [Down ATM] Direct Download Part 2: Post and Tracklist Direct Download

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Interesting Sounds (2010)

I threw this together in an evening just because I was so excited about Indigo and Synkro. Some of the sounds themselves are small and precise but the magnetism and flow is totally unbelievable and liquid and powerful. Sounds very like the DnB I was listening to in 2002.

Tracklist and Download at Soundcloud

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Made in Glitch Podcast #12 (2010)

A bunch of stuff that isn’t dubstep put together for the MIG site out of Japan, thanks to Matt B’s invitation. Kind of like a snapshot of where instrumental hip hop is at this moment, even if you want to call it Wonky or Skweee or whatever. Paul White/Bullion, Dodpop records, Illum Sphere, Take, Low Limit, etc.

Post and Tracklist here. Direct Download here.

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Sodium Vapor Mix (2010)

All over the place with this one. Can’t stand it when things get too locked into one genre, and I felt that some of my clubier/dancier sounds were being neglected. Fortunately Ryan / Comma came along right at the right time and was like “Be as weird as you want with it.” The result was a bunch of the stuff that I had at 130 bpm.

Post and Tracklist here. Direct Download here.

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Tasty Cyanide Podcast (2010)

Mad EP likes the harder end of the spectrum, so this was a good opportunity to throw everything I had at him. Really inspired mostly by the stuff the Millie and Andrea and Hate / Bloom series put out by Aardvarck, which really takes it there. Then some of the harder wonky stuff snuck in at the end.

Tracklist here. Direct Download here.

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Absolutely Shocking and Even More Shocking (2004)

This was the pair of mixes that kind of launched me on the internet, sort of. I was asked to do a mix by Kid606 for his great Shockout sub-label of Tigerbeat6 that was focused on rough dancehall riddims played under fierce lyrics he’d grabbed in JA. I used at least one track from every release up till that point, but then kind of let my imagination run wild, since that seemed to be very much encouraged. Lots of weird dancehall riddims, hardcore and ‘ardcore, and even some pop in there. It got noticed by Simon Reynolds, back when he was basically the only music blogger anyone cared about. I still think they stand up today.

The second post on this blog has the tracklist. Absolutely Shocking is here. Even More Shocking is here.

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Rips, Tears and Jagged Edges (2009)

Modyfier has had so many great musicians on her blog talking about what they do and how they do it. I was highly honored to be able to make something for her. It was a move back for me to experimentation of the Shockout Mixes and the Mashers without Borders mix, trying to stack different things up on top of each other, but this time with post-dilla beats. Art work is by Ms. Modyfier herself.

My thoughts on the mix and process, and the tracklist here. Mix below.

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Must Love Loops (2007)

Oh Jason Forrest, I love you so. From letting me crash on your floor in Berlin to releasing my homage to Baltimore Club Music. Bmore has now become this sort of gloss thing, a particular beat and style that can be applied to anything. But in 2003/2004 it was this crazy thing that Diplo was dropping on the world. Most of the stuff on here is people finding out about the sound and doing their own remixes. It moves fast! My man Inkcore did the artwork. Killer.

The whole thing, including the arwork and the tracklist, is available here.

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Mashers Without Borders (2005)

This was done for Mashit.com … Mashit the label had been around for a couple years, but I think this was right when DJ C was getting the blog going. This one is probably the slickest things I’ve ever done, and most of it’s pretty chill (it can get uppity in patches though). To me this is THE sound of the mid ’00s

Full post and tracklist here. Direct download here.

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The End of Dub (2006)

Did this one for http://straightup.com.au … I forget how they found me but I wanted to follow along the Masher Without Borders theme for them and go deeper into that sound … specifically in this case I was trying to incorporate every type of music where Dub was an influence, but wasn’t actually true Dub. With a few other things in there as well. Quite proud of it still.

Thoughts and Tracklist are here. Direct download is here.

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Dubcast (2006) and Synth Tax (2008)

These are two different mixes I did for XLR8R magazine at the beginning of the Podcast series (I don’t think I’d be able to get on now, not being a producer ). The first coincided with the release of the big article on Dubstep I wrote. The second was a little more eclectic to sort of fit the mood of my column at the time.

Dubcast tracklist here. Download here. Synth Tax words here. Download here. Podcast subscribe here.

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Aim High and Aim Low (2007)

The extension from the Dubcast, two mixes for Mashit (Aim High) and Spannered (Aim Low), the same guys who later hosted Extremely Small and Precise Sounds. This was the sort of pure dubstep at the time. The 2nd, but not the 3rd, wave had gotten into it, and (believe it or not), folks like Rustie, Clouds, and Ramadanman all hadn’t put out too much stuff then. These I think were unique in having their track sequence made up on the fly. Inkore did the art again.

A post on both mixes is here. Aim High download here. Aim Low download here.

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1st Mix Tape (2000)

Yup, the very first one. Well, that was good enough to give away. Recorded straight to this very cassette on my brother’s tape deck (which is still my only tape deck). Rescued and ripped to mp3 a decade later. Straight Jungle and DnB, but I’d like to think that even within that my eclectic side was showing within the genre: ragga, smooth, tear outs, complex weirdness, etc. The template for all that was to come.

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Dumstep Breakdown!!!!! (2002)

In 01/02/03 I used to try and make a mix a month, but after a while I got off by a month. And I think I really started buying records in all sorts of different genres, matching my listening tastes. The result of getting it all out was this 5 volume set, 1) Drum and Bass 2) 2 Step 3) Breaks 4) Downtempo 5) Everything all mashed together. The 5th volume may be the closest I ever got to achieving the eclectic sound I’ve always aimed for.

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Cut With Care 1 and 2 (2002)

Sort of my 3rd pair of demos, after the tape and Profoundly Affected. The first one holds up incredibly well, I’m really proud of the artists on it, those tracks could have been written in the summer of 2010 as far as I’m concerned. The second one I always forget about and then like it when I go back, hip-hop/dnb/breaks. Still psyched that I got Little Fluffy Clouds in there.

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Proufoundly Affected (2001)

2nd true mix. Made on a hot summer day in 2001 while my best friend made out with his girlfriend a foot from the decks. Starts off with Ming and FS as a sort of tribute to New York, to where I’d just moved and was getting so much of my musical inspiration from. Classic mix of hip-hop and and jungle … I think Body Rock came out that day or the day before.

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