DJ Fred McGriff - Calmer Than You Are

[Fred McGriff]

 

Good morning yall. Last night I dusted off the old turntables and made this hour long vinyl mix. Good for when you're up way too early on saturday morning and you're having a coffee and want a slow transition into being fully awake and maybe you're hungover and maybe the sun isn't up yet and you have sleeping family in the house and you're easing into the day the way you'd kinda just lovingly slip a pinky into someone's butt for the first time. Alternatively, maybe you are in the hospital and you have a pain drip and you feel like giving it an extra 5 or 6 clicks and then you fire this bad boy up and you just sit there, body and mind humming in numbness with this mix. Either way. Please enjoy.

 

-Frad

 

Tracklist:

 

andy stott - submission
orb - blue room excerpt 606
infinity window - skull theft
simon and garfunkel - so long frank lloyd wright
marvin gaye - inner city blues
bee mask - fallen tree thursday and the half-crushed arc of the sky taking tea in the pastoral index

bee mask - causes and cures
bola-whoblo
jan jelinkek - traffic echoes
aphex twin - untitled
holy other - (w)here
beck - runners dial zero

 

 

[Atop]

[Guest zaphod]

you surprised me with the simon and garfunkel->marvin gaye transition. figured you'd do a seamless drum thing since they both basically have the same bongo(?) pattern. like the choice of aphex track, unexpected. a mellow but slightly off kilter mix. i like it.

[Uniret]

Calmer then you are...

[takeshi]

DJ FRAD!!!

[Guest Ron Manager]

I'm Ron Manager and I approve of this DJ mix.

 

[Fred McGriff]

many cheers for listening and i'm glad you guys enjoyed

 

you surprised me with the simon and garfunkel->marvin gaye transition. figured you'd do a seamless drum thing since they both basically have the same bongo(?) pattern. like the choice of aphex track, unexpected. a mellow but slightly off kilter mix. i like it.

 

haha very cool that you picked up on the s&g __> gaye mix... i was desperately trying to beatmatch but i'm really out of practice so had to bail out and work the faders instead to salvage.

[Fred McGriff]

updated this. I had recorded 2 minutes of a bad take before the actual mix starts, so i went in and removed that.

[jules]

listening now, really really nice. thanks for posting it.

 

my first exposure to andy stott actually. liking it a lot.

[Fred McGriff]

nice jules, i reckon this would be good for an east coast monday morning, glad you like... wouldn't say that it's the most representative andy stott song but still lusher than shit

[dr lopez]

i enjoyed this

[jules]

slightly off topic but where is a good place to start with andy stott? i liked that opening track

[Fred McGriff]

that's the opening track to the "we stay together" ep so just start there and play it out along with the "passed me by" ep.

[Guest Frankie5fingers]

i dont normally post 'round these parts, but i just had to say DAYUM! this is amazing Fred.

[Fred McGriff]

yay

[jules]

cool thanks

[Fred McGriff]

well you must tell me what you think once you've fully digested, jules

edit: i mean with andy stott

[jules]

very interesting. not sure i have really heard anything quite like this before. wasn't expecting to be so groovy. really liking it at this point. thanks for turning me on to this dude, he is definitely doing his own thing.

 

bad wires is cranking in my office right now.

[Fred McGriff]

yay

[jules]

yea. i immediately picked up passed me by too.

[baph]

Frad thx

Is lush

 

This mix is just what I needed today because I was uncalm as all hell

[Fred McGriff]

I'm very sorry to hear that but I'm glad that this mix could be of assistance brother baph.

[Fred McGriff]

okay yall just gonna bump this one last time for our monday morningers about to wake up out there. perfect time to hear this yall. peace out.

[chim]

This is super lush! Great picks.