It’s everyone’s favourite time of the week, the weekend! Once again we have a bumper package of mixes to warm you up for it, see it to it’s peak and then sooth those weary minds after it’s all done with. This week we feature some Trip Hop from Paul Cheeba, Deep House from Ellie Cocks, Metha lines up some Tech Funk, Jason Laidback gives us a dose of Bass music, Jungle vibes from Gold Dubs, a triple helping of Breaks from Headset Heroes, Retropolis and Blacklist, Disco / Nu Disco from Kraak & Smaak and to round things off some Tech House from Simon Shackleton. Lets crack on with things..

Morcheeba’s very own, Paul Cheeba, eases you into the weekend with this sensual and heady mix of Trip Hop. It’s a spell binding tracklist featuring some of the best female singers in the genre laying down there vocals over some steazy beats. Uplifting in a gentle way with several spine tingling moments. Just gorgeous! Find the tracklist HERE.

LondonHouseCloud have invited, Ellie Cocks in for a guestmix. A lady who burst onto the scene in 2012 with a reputation of bringing a unique blend of rhythmic and energetic Deep and Tech House to dancefloors of London. Ellie provides us with an hour of music that fits the aforementioned description perfectly. This one will get ya glancing at your dancing shoes!

After featuring in last weeks mix collection, Metha is back again and this time he’s dropping a mix for the mighty LOT49 podcast. It kicks off with a Techno influenced sound and rises up into some pretty fierce Tech Funk. There’s plenty of new stuff on show here including a few exclusives and an exclusive first play of his new track ‘ Shark ‘. Yreane rounds off the podcast on a Breaks tip also with an exclusive from, Mechanical Pressure who have just signed to the legendary label. Quality music all round! Get the tracklists for both mixes HERE.

The ever excellent, Armory Podcast returns to the ward and this time they’ve brought a self confessed ‘ bass music reprobate ‘ along with them, Jason Laidback. Many will know Jason from the Finger Lickin’ days as one half of, Slyde and this 45 minute mix still has hints of the bump n bounce from the those days but now the emphasis is more focused towards the Bass music sound. It’s also packed with many pre-releases on Jason’s new label, Nightprowl. The party will be well underway once this gets a spin!

It’s a return for Birmingham producer / dj, Gold Dubs to his Revamped mix series. Here he brings together an hours worth of classic Reggae riddims that have been given a Jungle makeover. There’s much skanking out to be done here with some cracking music on show so come on, don’t be shy, lets do this! Get the tracklist HERE.

The first of our three Breaks mixes comes from London duo, Headset Heroes. Normally found on Sunday night on NSB Radio banging out the hottest current Breaks tracks they have, now found themselves popping into the guestmix slot for Lady Waks radio show. Expect things to kick off from the start with this mix which features three new tracks from the guys themselves. Get on this! Tracklist HERE.

Our blogging brothers in arms, Funk n Filth, currently have UK based Retropolis supplying them with a series of barn storming Breakbeat mixes. This one featured is part 2 of 4 and my god it’s huge! 30 minutes of music that’ll get those bass faces going and a mix to really stoke up the party atmosphere! Get the first 2 mixes HERE and get the tracklist HERE.

Bringing in the baton for the Breaks mixes is American producer / dj, Blacklist. This dude has been found on the ward several times now and with this latest mix for, Broken Grooves radio show it’s clear to see why. Full throttle Breaks action from the get go here and throughout this mix. All killer no filler!

Particularly in music, when you keep searching you find gold and that’s what we have with this mix from Dutch duo, Kraak & Smaak. This is for when those legs are starting to feel the hefty pace of partying and you need to ease the tempo down. With traditional sounds from Funk, Soul, Jazz and Disco, they get combined with the more modern sounds of Deep House and Nu-Disco. All in all it’s a coming together of crisp, smooth and groove laden music! Tracklist HERE.

When the party hits a lull and you’re looking for that shimmer of inspiration to see you through the sunrise look no further than this mix by, Simon Shackleton. It’s Simon’s first studio mix for some time which has given him the chance to hone in on the perfect tracks for that perfect sunrise set. It’s a mix to restart the soul with a plethora of warming, emotive Tech House and Techno tracks. This’ll see you through those unsteady moments and back into the light. Simply gorgeous! Get the download HERE.

Once again we hope there’s something here for you to help ignite your weekend in whatever way possible. Until the next time, rave safe ladies and gents!

Welcome to show #51 of the Juicebox show with myself, Fifties. Kicking things off we have some deeper, progressive, chunky tech sounds building nicely to some breaks for the first hour. Half way through we switch things up a notch with Kent’s SD Outfit on the guest mix with an energy filled, genre defying beauty! Friend of the show and raving buddy, this is up there with the Juicebox favourites….

Put your hands up! Is exactly what you do when Maars drops a freebie..Who wants it? Me! Me! Me! Well your in luck, the Pompey lad turned honorary Aussie has been guilt stricken for not supplying you with free hip hop / reggae party starters.

With that said he’s supplied us with some heat for the weekend. His classic Maars sound with a sprinkling of Whooliganz on top! Give him a virtual spud on your way out, this ones a banger!

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Funk Ferret keeps his promise to supplying pure heat from down under, every funkin Friday! This week our furry friend has bashed out an extremely funky edit of D Train’s You’re The One For Me. This is what he had to say for himself:

“This started as a sampling exercise to see what I could do with a few different 80s sample packs I had. Along with bashing out a few jams on Native Instruments Massive”

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Get your ears round this arsenal of free stuff. Captin Flatcap make multi-genre, instrumental EDM. Creating marvelous mash-ups as well as being a  3 piece live band and Chris Rotherham on DJ duty, expect (in their own words) – ‘Electro-Swing / Ska-step / Filth-folk / Ghetto-funk and Squelchedelic!’ Supplying us with constant, quality giveaways, they have also had releases on Rocstar Records. An ear for only the finest of samples … this is one impressive back catalogue to sink your teeth into!

One of our favourite mash-up masters, blessing you with a remix of the classic Ol’ Dirty Bastard Got your Money track. Being the professional as always, this remix contains samples from: Bob James, The O’Jays, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, The Honey Drippers & Dennis Coffey.

When you download it you also get:

(Rhythm Scholar Deep Down And CLEAN Remix)[CLEAN]
(Rhythm Scholar Deep Down And DIRTY Remix)[Explicit]
(Rhythm Scholar Dead Presidents Dubmix)[CLEAN]
(Rhythm Scholar Cold Hard Cashtrumental)

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From twisted, industrial, trap sounds to contorted vocals and euphoric moments, the Scratch Perverts have been well known for their ability to stay at the forefront of the modern electronica scene. 4th in their series of mixtapes, it really showcases the Fabric residents unique ear … for tunes and track selectors.

Tracklist:

Bee Mask ‘ Vaporware’
Shinichi Atobe ‘ Butterfly Effect ‘
NHK ‘ CH 1 ‘
Joey Anderson ‘ Under Water ‘
Tetsu Inoue ‘ Tom & Tone ‘
Levon Vincent ‘ G Small Whole-Numbered Ratios ‘
Even Tuell ‘ Untitled 1 ‘
Aybee ‘ The Sky Is Ours ‘
Clark ‘ Strength Through Fragility ‘
Dorian Concept ‘ The Sky Opposite ‘
Insanlar ‘ KIme Ne ‘ Villalobos MIx 1
Scratch Perverts Tapping buttons Freestyle
Ben Frost ‘ Invisibles ‘
Ariel Kalma ‘ Chase Me Now ‘
Paul Corley ‘ Narrow ‘
Objekt ‘ Ganzfeld ‘
Yoshihiro Hanno ‘ S.E.Q ‘
Atom ‘ Coloursoul ‘
Fennesz ‘ Before I Leave ‘

Still holding the focus on Budapest, this time it’s one of the native homie of MustBeat, Hanzee who’s next in the series – delivering you nothing but filthy pure bass-funk and glitch-hop! Completing the package, you’ll find a re-interpretation of the title track, HaleLuisa by DJ Andy Taylor, who has just recently dropped his critically acclaimed release on Smoove’s Wack Records. Expect floating downbeat deepnes by the Glasgow based producer on this one!

Hanzee – HaleLuisa EP

01. HaleLuisa

02. American Dream

03. Jive Step

04. HaleLuisa (DJ Andy Taylor remix)

Grab from Juno here:

http://www.junodownload.com/products/hanzee-haleluisa-ep/2751291-02/

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B-side Call’s upon the power of his funk collection, his rich, Pantene kept barnet, electric fingers and a crafty beard.

The outcome is a perfect dance floor wrecker! Free download included.

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Featurecast is a crafty sod, he puts out mix-tapes left right and centre, crammed with delicious remixes and edits Joe Public never see! It’s ok, his back catalogue of bangers is more impressive than most and we thank you for that.

Luckily he’s gone all soft with the current heat outside. First featured on his Blam mix-tape and dropped in our Shin Dig Weekender podcast. Here is a certified dance floor filler.

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