DJ Sets

Philth Tangent – live set from Sun and Bass

Tuesday night at Sun and Bass and I messaged Phil Tangent to ask if he wanted to get some food together. His reply: “Can’t mate – just found out I’m playing first set tonight. Fancy going b2b?”

Ambra Night is my favourite club in the whole world. Of course I wanted to play the set! 

So it turns out that our first set as Philth Tangent happened at Sun and Bass. What a way to kick things off. But when we got to Ambra Night it was already starting to rain, and the sound engineers were taping plastic sheets to the table above the decks! It was pretty mad playing at the beginning of a storm. They actually had to close the stage 15 minutes after we finished. The engineers were covering the decks with the sheets as much as possible, which is pretty confusing when you’re playing b2b on 3 decks. At one point the engineer had to wipe the rainwater off one of the decks – but it was still playing. Have a listen and see if you can spot it.

I’ve wanted to play at Ambra Night for years, and we were both really happy it was at Bailey’s night. Big thanks to all of you guys who danced in torrential rain to watch our debut Philth Tangent set – the first of many!

2015 End of Year Mix

My pick of 2015’s finest DnB. Read the full feature on UKF.

Philth 2015 End of Year Mix

January
SpectraSoul ft Terri Walker – Light In The Dark (Etherwood remix)
Artificial Intelligence ft Steo – Forgotten Truths
Alix Perez – Forsaken (Calibre remix)
Need For Mirrors – Sacred Heart
CoLateral – Toe Tagger
Beta 2 – The Edge
Skeptical – Imperial
Gridlok ft Codebreaker – The Call
Maztek – Tokiwa
Stealth and Xtrah – Everytime

February
Rene Lavice ft Ivy Mairi – The Calling
Ivy Lab – Twenty Questions
SpectraSoul – Always
Need For Mirrors – Verve
Frankee – Snarl
Ivy Lab – Forex
Signs – Modulate
Audio – Foodchain
Current Value – Escalate
Bredren – Infamous VIP

March
Mark System – Pursuit
Amoss – Skittles
DLR ft Ant TC1 – The Grip
Impish – Friday
Seba – Too Much Too Soon (Blu Mar Ten remix)
Olski – Look
Mark System – Don’t You Remember
DRS ft LSB and Tyler Daly – The View
Fre4knc – Chain of Command
DLR and Break – Human Error

April
Noisia, Hybris and Mefjus – Clusterfunk
Zombie Cats and Mefjus – Must Eat
Mefjus ft Zoe Klinck – Blame You (Ivy Lab remix)
Fade – Quarantine
Bredren and Philth – Ghost Palace
Noisia, Hybris and Mefjus – Reptilians
Xtrah – Operator
Survival and Silent Witness – Trust No One
Break, Need For Mirrors and HLZ – Atlas Shrugged
Emperor – SMPL

May
L33 – Scream
Philth – Cosmos
Friction and Prolix – Dark Moves
Command Strange ft AI and Jamakabi – Dismiss
Philth and Agman Gora – Incantation
Calibre – Concrete
Calibre – Strumpet
Pennygiles – Without Worry
LSB – Mist Of You
Goodfield – Paradox
Philth and Bredren – The Hunted

June
Jubei – Congo
Nymfo – Brain Feeder
Posij – Spin
Philth – Genocide
Nausika – Dominion
Nitri and Level 2 ft Hannah Eve – Don’t Think
Gerra and Stone – Tender Touch
Halogenix – Beyond The Bounds
Alibi – Silhouette
Riya ft Break – I Don’t Need

July
Arkaik – My Love
Jam Thieves – Alcatraz
Konichi – Those Days
Lenzman ft DRS – Just Can’t Take (dBridge remix)
Need For Mirrors – Self Portrait
Ed:it – Dub Light
Enei and Kasra – Greed
Borderline – Checkers
Nucleus and Paradox – Blade 9
Lenzman ft Martyna Baker – Paper Faces (Ivy Lab remix)

August
Dawn Wall – Kythera
Riya ft Collette Warren and Emperor – Piece Of Me
Anile – Stay With Me
GLXY – Want U
S.P.Y and Total Science – Double Trouble
Dawn Wall and AI – Between The Sheets
Hyroglifics – Astraya
A Sides and Makoto – Resistance
Soul Intent – Funk Lick
Riya ft Philth – Fall Apart

September
Mefjus, Inside:Info and The Upbeats – Liebniz
Gamma – Warthog
Cern – Tiamat VIP
Mindmapper and Silvahfonk – Absolution
SCAR – Caged
Zero T – Gift Horse
Klute – Westernized
Zero T – Macushla
SCAR and Artificial Intelligence – Free Fall
Noisia and The Upbeats – Dead Limit

October
Aggressor Bunx – Gravity
Misanthrop – Collapse
Signal and Hyqxyz – Dusk
Break and Xtrah – Regulate
Quadrant and Iris – Scattershot
Quadrant, Kid Hops and Iris – Angular
Mortem – Proximity
Alix Perez – Recall and Reflect
SAAL – Signs (Blu Mar Ten remix)
Martyn Nytram – To The Caves

November
DBR UK ft Amanda Seal – Say What You Want (Cern remix)
Annix – Forever
Artificial Intelligence – Rizon
Artificial Intelligence ft Dawn Wall – Fallen
Philth and Agman Gora – Cordyceps
Xtrah and Noisia – Gravitas
Icicle and Safire – Suction Cup
Optiv and BTK – Antimatter
Aggressor Bunx – Burn
L33 – Badman

December
Ed Rush and Optical – The Host
Doctrine – Deckard
Disprove – Tip Slip
Signal – Indirect
Xtrah and Mefjus – Fever
Enei and Mefjus – Dead Space
Datr3ndz – Dead Rising
Philth – Fire
LSB – About Tonight
Dawn Wall – Lose Face
Facing Jinx ft Alexis Louca – Now You’re Gone (Break remix)
HLZ – Roads
Philth and Collette Warren – Water

Guest show on Kool London – 16/07/15

Last week I was invited to play a guest show on the legendary Kool London. I’ve been listening to Kool for 20 years so it was an honour to talk about my music and mix live on the airwaves. I want to say a huge thanks to Chef for bringing me on as his special guest.

The show is now up on Mixcloud. Listen back to hear some of my forthcoming music on Peer Pressure Records, Flexout, AutomAte Spearhead Records and Dispatch Recordings.

This is also the first set where you can hear my forthcoming collabs with Collette Warren, Riya, Fats & DRS, and Agman Gora. Tonnes of new music!

Dispatch Recordings label mix

I was asked to record this month’s Dispatch Recordings label mix… I rammed it full of as many tracks as I could squeeze into an hour, mostly fresh music but a few classics as well. The rolling Dispatch sound.

End of Year Mix 2014

It’s that time of year. Time to look back and reflect. 2014 has been a great year for our music. So many great albums, top quality music from all areas of the scene.

I can’t believe a year has gone so quickly! This time last year I found it hard to choose my favourites – when I went through my CD wallet today it was harder than ever to pick 5 tunes per month. Sometimes you get 6, 7, 8…. It shows what a good year it’s been for Drum & Bass. I’m very excited for 2015!

January
Ivy Lab – Missing Persons
Mako, DLR, Villem, Ant TC1 – Hungry for Atmosphere
>> Response – Surveillance
Philth – Your Love
Dose and Disphonia – Stateside
Philth – The Game (Tech VIP)
Quadrant and Iris – Depth Sounder

February
Philth and Wreckless – Daywalker
EastColors – Toys
Ivy Lab – Baby Grey
Total Science and Grimm – Another Time
Arp XP and Maurs – Keep Your Head Up High
Seba – Life Is

March
Level 2 – Montara
Skeptical and Collette Warren – Desire
Skeptical and Collette Warren – Always Been Mine
Break and DLR – New Design
SCAR – Burnside
Nickbee – I Say You

April
Emperor and Mefjus – Disrupted
DLR, Nymfo, Needs for Mirrors, HLZ – Totem
Emperor and Mefjus – Void Main Void
Hyroglifics – Torus
Need for Mirrors and HLZ – Mother of Pearl
Wreckless – Street Lights

May
Klute ft KLOSE – My Black and White (Calibre remix)
Ivy Lab and Hydro ft Frank Carter III and Lucy Annika – Make It Clear
Calibre ft DRS – Letting Go
Dub Phizix and Skeptical – Deeper Love
Hyroglifics – Soundboy (MTWN remix)
Bredren – Mechanica

June
Hazard – Time Tripping
S.P.Y – Riding the Void
Nymfo – Worms
Philth and P.Fine – Tired
Maztek – Sinestesia
Xtrah – No Good

July
HLZ – Blue Sand
>> Ulterior Motive – M.I.R
Dabs – Objection VIP
Optiv, BTK and Black Sun Empire – Heartshaped
>> Noisia – Stamp Out
Noisia – Shaking Hands
Audio – Stampede
Neve ft Zubee – All Spark (Philth remix)

August
Break – Groove With It
DBR UK – Paranoia
Philth – Murderation
Wreckless – Dreaming
Ulterior Motive – Tape Pack
Philth, Mystic State, Retraflex and Ryps ft Hannah Eve – Reflections
>> Nymfo – Coming Through

September
Blu Mar Ten – Remembered Her Wrong (Anile remix)
Total Science ft Grimm – So Addicted
Gerra and Stone – Too Deep
Cern – Tiamat
>> Noel – 3 Steps
Mako – Moonlight (Break remix)

October
Foreign Concept – When You’re Alone
S.P.Y and Total Science – Double Trouble
Definate – Reminiscence
Quadrant, Kid Hops and Iris – Microsleep
Klax – Blackball
Ulterior Motive – INTA National

November
Dom and Roland – Hear My Call (Nocturnal remix)
Jubei ft dBridge – These Things VIP
Boston ft Solis – Go With Me
Audio -Gotham
>> Survival – Dub Soldier (Outlook VIP)
Xtrah and DLR – Direct Approach
Audio – Break It

December
Billain – Macula
Break – Temptations
Subtension – AK47
Spectrasoul – Ben
Philth and Collette Warren – Back In Time
Phil Tangent – Rinjani
Philth and Collette Warren – Don’t Let Go

30 minutes of Philth – November

The next instalment in my series, and it’s a nasty one. Featuring lots of forthcoming tunes and of course a sprinkling of classics. The mix features some exclusive first listens to some of my forthcoming music. The Cosmos EP will be released on Dispatch Recordings early 2015, and The Elements will be on Peer Pressure in hopefully March.

This mix was first featured by The Deep End Collective, you can check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/deependcollective

1) Facing Jinx – Facade [Peer Pressure]
2) Jubei ft dBridge – These Things VIP
3) Bredren – LRC
4) Scar – So Suddenly
5) Concept Vision + Segment – Deserted
6) Bassment – Integral [Peer Pressure dub]
7) Quadrant + Iris – Genesis Wave
8) Ed Rush & Optical – Wormhole
9) Philth – Fire [Peer Pressure dub]
10) Ed Rush + Optical – Medicine (Matrix remix)
11) Noel – Puzzle
12) Eastcolors – Murderer (Audio + Meth remix)
13) Audio – Break It
14) Xtrah + DLR – Direct Approach
15) Icicle – Late Hours VIP
16) Bredren + Philth – Ghost Palace [Blendits dub]
17) Ed Rush + Optical – Kerbcrawler
18) SPY – Riding the Void
19) Nymfo – Worms
20) Realtime – Derpetroid [Peer Pressure dub]
21) Ulterior Motive – The Rattler
22) Quadrant, Kid Hops + Iris – Microsleep
23) Philth + Bredren – The Hunted [Dispatch Recordings dub]
24) Ulterior Motive – INTA National
25) Trace – Sonar
26) Audio – Gotham
27) Philth – Souzou VIP [Dispatch Recordings dub]