Well worth the wait, Raynulds returns to Awkward Movements Sessions in better form than ever. Digging deeper in to his box with tracks that start off dubbed out on the left than come back around with some house drops blended with techno tunes and ending on a few bangers.

Recorded live with decks, 100% wax and proper vibes across the whole hour.

Two hours of audio goodness for the Awkward Movements rotation, including a belated peek at the Planet Mu juke compilation Bangs & Works Vol. 2 - The Best Of Chicago Footwork, new stuff from Frak, Ugandan Methods and Ital, a couple of Hispanic things, a Porter Ricks repress, and a whole load more besides...

As ever, www.awkwardmovements.com for more...

Back again for Awkward Movements Sessions, resident photographer and drum n bass selector Timmy K steps in for a 90 minute mix. Off the back of the response from his last Sessions, Tim's pulled together tracks that are a primer of his collection from the last few years, joints that never leave his playout list and tracks that are essential headphone listening when his on his way to take more shots. We've been informed that both Goldie and Bjork drops towards the end are pure self-indulgence, though both fit quite nicely into a seamless set of quality tunes.

Big ups to the man!

For my latest mix for Awkward Movements, I decided to throw caution to the wind and bring a techno-based mix with a few surprises along the way.

Although much of what I hear from the music press, bloggers and other DJs seems to be about keeping to one style, I have always been about trying to join disparate elements into a flowing set; it’s very much my belief that the range of tracks out there right now could lead to a real renaissance in dance music akin to what I experienced during 1991.

During this year I saw DJs as diverse as amongst others Sasha, Fabio and Grooverider, Dave Angel, Mickey Finn, Slipmatt, Frankie Knuckles and Jumpin’ Jack Frost. What was clear was that pretty much anything goes, so you would hear Italian House, Belgian Techno and banging London breaks all in the same setting, this would create the same highs and lows you get from a symphony, a double album or a film soundtrack.

This mix features tracks that are listed online as ‘Minimal’ (including Rodriguez Jr.), ‘Deep House’ (including tracks by Ferrer & Hommen and Okain), ‘Electro-house’ (such as The Art Department track), ‘UK Funky’ (such as Seiji and Boddika & Joy Orbison), ‘Electro’ (in the form of Morphology), ‘Drum & Bass’ (from Marcus Intelex) and of course the genre that forms a majority of my record collection, ‘Techno’.

On top of the artists mentioned above, I include new music from Mark Flash (straight from the wonderful UR affiliated distribution company www.submerge.com), Omar S & Ob Ignitt, Marcel Fengler and Kevin Gorman. There’s some classic techno from G-Man and Tralopscinor (both re-released in the last 12 months) and a cracking UR track by Dark Energy from 1994, some old school drum & bass from Photek and Subject 13, a brilliant old school remix from 1992 of Inner City (remixed by Kevin Saunderson himself and definitely influenced by his trips to the Midlands to work with Nexus 21 / Altern-8) and a track from the aforementioned year of 1991 from Confusion Club (an R&S white label that absolutely tore up dancefloors across the country and I still clearly remember hanging around after a night at the Eclipse club to buy my copy in Bangin Tunes in Coventry).

To top it all off, I’ve done a sly tribute to John Peel and dropped the Quintus Project at 45rpm rather than 33 (try that trick digital DJs without a bunch of plug-ins or some expensive studio software), after all rules are there to be broken.

I hope you enjoy the mix and even if you don’t try and open up your ears to music across the board, it will help with both your DJing and more importantly your production (which could lead me to buy your track, if it ever gets pressed on vinyl).

Peace out

JMF

Paris A.M. aka Tom Lee is one of the main heads holding it down for the London scene, bringing his impeccably diverse music tastes to a wider audience by balancing a variety of projects. Now that there's a notable absence on Resonance.fm with him finshing up Sine Of The Times, we needed to get him next for a mix.

"The mix is mainly made up of tunes from this year that I didn't get chance to play during my time on Sine Of The Times (http://www.sineofthetimes.net), with a few classics thrown in for good measure. For more mixes and any productions check out http://soundcloud.com/paris-a-m"