Beat Electric Guest Mix
Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by baggy in Mixes we didn't make
This week’s guest mix comes courtesy of San Fran’s Black Shag & BT Magnum who run one of our favourite Underground Disco & Boogie blogs in Beat Electric.
Specialising in Boogie, Rare Disco, Laser Soul and Proto House the guys have been posting insightful and informative articles on some of the rarer black orientated dance music from the last 30-odd years. Another great feature of this blog is their attention to detail in the equipment they use when recording their selections. Utilising the trusty Technics 1200 MKII with an Origin Live OL1 (Rega RB-250) tonearm with internal rewire and structural upgrade, Eichmann copper bullets, fitted with a Grado DJ 200i cartridge all running through a Clearaudio Micro Basic Phono Stage. Nice.
Their Cosmic Disco ‘Ride My Spaceship’ mix is indicative of the guys DJ sets over latter part of last year in addition to some of the tracks posted on their blog.
Head over to their site and go educate yourselves. Anyone who posts Katie Kissoon’s – You’re The One (You’re My Number One) is O.K in our book. 
In the meantime, kick back and enjoy another excellent guest mix…
Ride My Spaceship
- STARVUE -Body Fusion
- MASTER JAY & MICHAEL DEE – T.S.O.B (Instrumental)
- JIVE RHYTHM TRAX – 102bpm
- EURO FUNK – Dynomite
- ARMENTA & MAJIK – I Wanna Be With You
- YOUNG & CO.- I’m Too Cool
- HEAVEN 17 – Let Me Go
- SINNAMON – Thanks To You
- WANDA – I Must Be Dreaming
- HI TENSION – Hi Tension
- Q – The Voice of Q (Instrumental)
- NITRO DELUXE – Let’s Get Brutal
- SATELLITE – U Can Ride My Spaceship
- FEVER – The Fever Rock
- RENE & ANGELA – Wall To Wall
- 202 MACHINE – Do Your Thing
- FUNKAPOLITAN – Run Run Run
- OMNI – Body Groove
- HARLEQUIN 4’s – Set It Off
- KAJAGOOGOO – Hang on Now (Extended Version)
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stu
20. Jun, 2008
this mix looks splendid. i shall download it post haste.
rackitdj
22. Jun, 2008
jesus this is one of the best mixes that i have ever heard.
Nitro deluxe lets get brutal mega.
thanks lads.
matt
Mike
22. Jun, 2008
Absolutely outstanding mix and amazingly good blog.
professor Eddy
23. Jun, 2008
Always cool, the mixes from the Beat Electric guys! Very nice tracks. Isn’t Wanda related to Narada Michael Walden? I remember ‘Don’t you want my loving’ from her as well. Great track.
BT Magnum
23. Jun, 2008
Yes, I believe Wanda Walden is Narada Michael’s sister in law but I am not entirely sure. She had a couple of excellent tracks. “Don’t You Want My Loving” (which was written and produced by Narada) has a sweet Chic-esque backing track. Thanks for the positive feedback everyone, it is very much appreciated!
Black Shag
24. Jun, 2008
Thanks for having us, we had a lot of fun putting the mix together, I’m just sorry it took us so long to get around to it. As karmic retribution I sacrificed the fader on my Rane in the process of it’s creation and must now scour ebay for another.
Baggy
25. Jun, 2008
Massive amount of downloads on this mix guys.
Be keeping posted to Beat Electric blog for more great posts.
Thanks again fellas!
stu
26. Jun, 2008
As I said this mix looks great – and I listened to it on the thigh pod this morning coming to work and its absolutely great, not just great. I nearly got out of the car and got down at some traffic lights.
I especially love the westwood style explosions on one of the tracks (dynamite).
Jade
26. Jun, 2008
Thanks for this one guys; its ace
Black Shag
26. Jun, 2008
Funny you should mention Westwood Stu, I remember him using a loop from the first track on the mix, Starvue, as his main intro a talk over instrumental. With obligatory explosions and reverbed out gangster speak of course.
Subsequently I have based most of my adult life on Westwood’s teachings.