niles

niles

I am Niles. I like Bollywood versions of Disco tracks, Disco versions of Bollywood tracks and 80's Pop B-Sides. Myself and Simon provide audio commentary on the months music and events via the 'Makin Music' Radio Show and I can often be found cluttering up the dj booth with THP or Baggy at a venue near you. I also bombard the internet with news of my meals via http://twitter.com/cosmicniles

Mixes from me

  • Niles & Baggy – La Tana del Diavolo

    No ‘Friday 13′ this week as some intrepid Hard Drive digging and a marathon upload session means we can bring you the whole, unedited set from El Diablo’s 3 Floor shindig that myself and Simon played at last year.
    We were in the basement playing a collection of Afrobeat, Soundtrack business, Balearic B-sides, Jazz Funk and [...]

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  • Cosmic Disco’s Friday 13 : Episode One

    This is Episode One in a series of mixes which, time allowing, will be coming to you every week.
    Quite simple, Friday mix with 13 tracks.
    Tracklist for Episode One, mixed by yours truly, is below.
    Enjoy.

    Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues (Zev Remix)
    Kate Simko – Dulce
    Soul Clap – Conscious
    Rednail plus One – I Think of You (Another [...]

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  • Niles – U Aint Really House

    80 Minutes of House and Techno.
    Proper Mixmag yeah.
    Perfect for those awkward ‘what do we play whilst we’re eating Christmas Lunch’ moments.
    Feliz Navidad x
    Niles – U Ain’t Really House

    Seth Troxler – Love Never Sleeps (Gadi Mizrahi Remix) (No Label)
    Jody ‘Fingers’ Finch – Jack Your Big Booty (Let’s Get Puppies 2009)
    Alex Gopher – Belmondo (Go 4 Music [...]

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  • Niles – El Diablo’s Mix

    Good day to you Cosmonauts.
    I’ve recently put together a little mix of Italo and Eurodisco for our very good friends at El Diablo’s Social Club which is currently up on their blog for your aural consumption.
    Point your browser here
    There are tracks from Cat Gang, Klapto, Digital Emotion and plenty of other poppers inspired top’s off [...]

  • Niles & Baggy – Proto One

    This weeks mix is a collection of 80’s soul, boogie and club tracks.
    Simon and myself are both massive fans of this style of music and have talked about putting a collection of these tunes together for ages but one of us always seems to pick a new track up and the mix gets delayed but [...]

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  • Cosmic Disco Live at Glastonbury

    Audacity’s failure is your gain as my inability to chop up our recording from Glastonbury means you get all 6 hours of our Thursday set from the Guardian Lounge.
    The set was an epic triumph with tears (a child fell over), cheers (when they opened the tent to let in the people who were getting rained [...]

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  • Niles – Three Days on the Mountain

    Back in March of last year I did a mix of mellow, acoustic, west-coast flavoured rock.
    Since then I’ve been buying more and more of that kind of music and every time I sit down to do a mix I inevitably go out and buy a great album the week after that makes me want to [...]

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  • Niles – Slow Motion Technology

    Me on mixing duties again this week but this one is about as far away from last week’s as you are ever likely to get.
    A 70 minute plus collection of slowed down techno, pitched up downtempo and ethnic sounds. There’s some re-edits, a couple of disco-y numbers in there and some Afrobeat.
    Take it Slowwwwwwwwwwww
    Niles – [...]

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  • Niles – Stop:Reject

    An uptempo ‘party’ mix for you this week.
    Featuring tracks from all the kids’ favourite genres of the moment there’s some Nu-Disco, some Italo, some Fidget/Wonk (really, I don’t make these genres up), some Disco, some Electro, some Acid and some Techno. There’s even a few cosmic disco re-edits.
    The tracklist is in order in which the [...]

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  • Niles – Frites Mit Alles

    To celebrate this weekend’s gig at Chips I’ve done a mix that get’s well above 90 bpm and involves, whisper it, mixing.
    There are also a large number of 4/4 beats, electronic noises and all bar one of the tracks are from this millenia. So as not to scare Simon too much I’ve also included a [...]

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  • Niles – Costa Caleta

    Hola! Sun-kissed holiday influenced vibes on this months mix from myself.
    With tracks from Spain, Peru, Italy and Australia this is a downtempo mixed bag of a mix which goes beautifully with a back garden, deck chair and glass of something cold and tasty.
    Simon’s away to Portugal this week so expect more summery goodness on his [...]

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  • Niles – Italo Minidisco

    Prior to the Bank Holiday I got a call from the parents asking me to, and I quote, ‘clear my shit out of the loft’. A quick trip down the M66 and a shed loads of cd’s and minidiscs later I started to review the contents.
    I found quite a few of the old Casa Musica [...]

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  • Discotheque Service

    British Summer Time has officially begun. And whilst the weather may not be playing it’s part I’m already thinking about drinks in the sun, barbeques and lying by the beach.
    This months mix is a collection of balearic beach bombs, sunkissed slo-mo spacers and cosmic chuggers.
    Enjoy.
    Niles – Discotheque Service

    Bo Hansson – Time and Space
    Steve Tibbetts – [...]

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  • I Wanna Rock You

    When digging through crates of records these days there is one type of album that I take a flyer on no matter what.
    The 70’s rock album is a fascinating thing, pompous, over-produced and with needless guitar solo’s it’s often scoffed at and ignored but if you dig a little deeper most of these ‘Dad’s Driving [...]

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  • Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

    Perhaps a strange choice for a Cosmic Disco post but EPCOT is for my money the most ‘Cosmic’ place you are likely to visit in your life.
    EPCOT was originally planned by Walt Disney (the man as opposed to the corporate machine) as a “model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test [...]

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  • Niles – JNY02.08v1

    Attention fellow Cosmonauts. This is the first in a new series of monthly ‘new music’ mixes from myself.
    The first mix in the series brings together the best in old and new disco-not-disco, house, italo and electro. It’s perhaps a slightly more different mix to those that you may be used to through the site but [...]

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  • Niles & Baggy LIVE at The Cornerhouse Pt.2

    Here’s part 2 of 2. (9.30pm-11pm)
    After the laid back vibes on part 1, as it gets a bit later we step things up a touch.
    Don’t forget to hit up the LIVE STREAM at 2200hrs (GMT) on Monday 8th October for more radio goodness as Niles and Baggy return to the Unity studios for more ‘Makin [...]

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  • Niles & Baggy LIVE at The Cornerhouse Pt.1

    As promised we replace the next 2 weeks ‘Makin Music’ shows with a live recording taken from Niles and Baggy’s guest DJ slot at Manchester’s Cornerhouse Bar. (Saturday 22nd September 2007)
    This 3hr set features something for everybody, starting off on a mellow Balearock vibe, taking things up with some Latin and Jazz Funk, effortlessly going [...]

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  • Niles live at El Diablos Social Club 2005

    Back in 2005 I was asked to play for El Diablo’s down at Centro on a Sunday night.
    Naturally I was thrilled and as a result we had the guys down to the Casa Musica 2nd Birthday later that month.
    A recent archaeological dig has turned up the whole set from the night so here in it’s [...]

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  • Niles – Studio Mix February 2006

    Niles’ mix tape for February 2006

    Carlos Hernandez – Roller Giggle [2004 : Basenotic]
    How and Why? – Cruisin’ [2004 : Rong Music]
    West Phillips – (I’m Just A) Sucker For A Pretty Face [1983 : Quality Sounds of America]
    Samson & Delilah – I Can Feel Your Love Slippin Away (Instrumental) [1984 : Saturn]
    Ray Mang – Tel’s Bells [...]

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