Dylan had a Jamaican American friend come do vocals for this track and I could hear him doing takes through the wall. “CTHULHU,” the Jamaican American said in a drawn out low heavily ominous tone that was thug as fuck. Then he said, “Like that? Was that good? Is that how you want it?” in a melodious inquiring voice like a highly congenial airline stewardess. I was in the next room silently cracking up. Today “Cthulhu” by ill.Gates is released and it is straight fire. Filthy like a motherfucker. Rising from the deep! Get it here → soundcloud.com/ill-gates
“When love is not madness, it is not love.”
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
TRACKS → CASCADANight Nurse (Acapella) BIL BLESSWalked Outta Hell KENDRICK LAMAR FEAT. ZACARILOVE. LOGIC FEAT. BIG SEANAlright RICH HOMIE QUANType of Way LOGIC FEAT. BLACK THOUGHT, CHUCK D, BIG LENBO & NO IDAmerica KR$CHNForever, She Said MODIGSHeart of the Brave CHOPSTICK DUBPLATE FEAT. BARRY BROWNFar East CHOPSTICK DUBPLATE FEAT. CHESHIRE CATBounty Hunter (Rahmanee Remix) DISCLOSURE & RYAN HEMSWORTHF For U (Huglife Edit) BURIALIndoors LUSINEBy This Sound ASAYou Don’t Have To Be Sorry JOHN WICK OSTLed Spirals
It is always sunrise somewhere, nothing ever dies at once, rain is always falling, waves are always crashing. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn, on water, on earth, on hills, in gardens, in cities, everywhere, always, as the world turns. The grand show is eternal.
TRACKS LAPSLEY. Station BON IVER. Skinny Love S.C. & T.S.S. Mean Old World NASTYNASTY. Apologies RIHANNA. Stay (Branchez Bootleg) BEYONCÉ. All Night ANTHONY B. Where To Turn FRANCIS & THE LIGHTS. Like a Dream ZED’S DEAD. Where Did That Go HOIST. Wine GRIZ. For The Love (Naderi Remix) BIG WILD. When I Get There JOAKIM KARUD. Boost BOB & MARCIA. Learning Things About You SAM COOKE. Somebody’s Gonna Miss Me H.W. Show Me Love (Big Wild Remix) GRIMES. Butterfly BOOPS FEAT. C.C. Police Officer (Jacky Murda Refix) TOP CAT. Badder Than Them (Jacky Murda Reboot) GRIZ. Better Than I’ve Ever Been SAM COOKE. If I Had A Hammer MØ. Final Song CHERUB. Doses & Mimosas AMIR OBÉ. Wish You Well POST MALONE. White Iverson RECONDITE. Felicity DUB FX. Love Me Or Not J.C. FEAT. W.N. The Harder They Come ROB VIKTUM. 4-17-1975 O.T. GENASIS. CoCo FETTY WAP. Trap Queen N.G. FEAT. S.D. & A.C. Money Haffi Mek FLUME FEAT. T-SHIRT. On Top WINSTRONG. Joy of Life NICKY JAM. El Perdón NAPPY ROOTS. Good Day S.Q. The Purge [R.C.] (20syl Remix) MONONOME. Never Leave I.G. & S.J. Flying (HNGVR + Mudra Remix) RL GRIME, WHAT SO NOT, SKRILLEX. Waiting S.J. & T.K. FEAT. F.W. Funny Guy (Kognitif Remix) GRIMES. Kill V. Maim F.M. FEAT. SWAE LEE. Unforgettable S.M. & L’ENTOURLOOP. Dreader Than Dread SANTIGOLD. All I Got POPCAAN. Give Thanks C.D. FEAT. CHESHIRE CAT. I’m Sure
ROSTAM BATMANGLIJDoc’s Song (End) BROKEN.An End of the Beginning NEW BASEMENT TAPESWhen I Get My Hands on You LOW ROARI’ll Keep Coming LOW ROARNobody Loves Me Like You MADE IN HEIGHTSSkylark Interbang CHAOS CHAOSDo You Feel It CLAMS CASINOCry For Me [Unreleased] FEVERKINDance With Knives DIMOND SAINTS FEAT. YAARROHSStay CLAMS CASINOBack to You (Instrumental) SAM COOKE & THE SOUL STIRRERSThe Last Mile of the Way PHYLLIS DILLONDon’t Stay Away MAX COOPERArc WILLOW BEATSAlchemy CHVRCHESEmpty Threat (Big Wild Remix) WIZ KHALIFABlack and Yellow WHAT SO NOTHigh You Are (Branchez Remix) FAT JOE FEAT. ASHANTIWhat’s Luv NORA EN PUREYou Are My Pride CHOPSTICK DUBPLATE FEAT. B LEVYAnswer Like A Soldier! SBTRKTWildfire MAJOR LAZER FEAT. WILD BELLEBe Together SIZZLA FEAT. V SThe Formula (Liquid Stranger Remix) CHRIS MARTINPaper Loving ILEMENTSCan’t Be Me ANDREILIENSpun (ill.GATES + Plurthlings Remix) PROKOMake It Work SYLVAN ESSOPlay it Right MITCHGive Me a Call ANTHONY B FEAT. KONSHENSBeat Dem Bad (Freedom Fighter) ILL.GATES & MIMOSA FEAT. BLOCKBOIINitro TROYBOI7th Sense TROYBOIRemember SKRILLEX & DIPLO FEAT. KAIMind MATT HAROLDDisruption NIGHTMARES ON WAX195lbs ONRAMechanical HENRY KRINKLEStay DENNIS ALCAPONESpanish Amigo ELLIPHANT FEAT. MØOne More ZELLA DAYCompass (Louis The Child Remix) NO DOUBTSettle Down (Baauer Remix) LOS GHOSTSGo Low WHAT SO NOTGet Busy Y’All TANYA STEPHENSWelcome to the Rebelution BOB & MARCIALearning Things About You MENTOReach Out SAMO SOUND BOYSave Wait Time EMBRZSlow Down MACHINEDRUM FEAT. DAWN RICHARDNot Above That DJ ZINC FEAT. MS DYNAMITEWile Out SIZZLAChampion Sound (Dov1 Remix) JOSÉ GONZÁLEZStep Out (Remix V4) THE PIXIESDig For Fire YELLERKINTools (Louis the Child Remix) DIE ANTWOORDWhere’s My Fukn Cup Cake
You always hurt the one you love/ The one you shouldn’t hurt at all/ You always take the sweetest rose/ And crush it till the petals fall/ You always break the kindest heart/ With a hasty word you can’t recall/ So if I broke your heart last night/ It’s because I love you most of all
TRACKS THE MILLS BROTHERSYou Always Hurt The One You Love MADE IN HEIGHTSMurakami KING KRULEEasy Easy BLUE HAWAIISierra Lift SWEATER BEATSFeel Me (Falcons Remix) XXYYXXNorthern Lights NICOLAS JAARI Got A Woman REGINA SPEKTORFidelity (Morgan Page Remix) THE CLASHStraight To Hell (Moby feat. Heather Nova Rework) GRIMESHuman Once Again (Four Tet Remix) ELECTRIC MANTISFlips And Flops Drips And Drops RIHANNAStay (Branchez Bootleg) COLLIE BUDDZYoung Girl CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERSTease Me CHOPSTICK DUBPLATE FEAT. MR. WILLIAMZWanted BEARSONPink Medicine SAM COOKEI’ll Come Running Back To You ILL.GATES FEAT. THE CLASS OF 808Is You Is BANX+RANX FEAT. KONSHENSAnyweh MITCH BRADY FEAT. LIONSOUNDEclectic Endeavour SPIDERHOUNDDrift BAAUER & RL GRIMEInfinite Daps YAN ZOMBIEI Don’t Wanna Be Numb Anymore AVALANCHE CITYDon’t Fall Asleep
It’s not so much who you love, what matters is that you love. Every day and in every way, make an effort to love. Be more lovable and more loving. Remember that all the darkness in the world can’t put out the light of a single candle. Spread your light and spread your love. This is how every one of us can help to heal our world.
TRACKS CascadaNight Nurse (Acapella) ExtOutput Nadia RoseSkwod Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob & Krizz KalikoDysfunctional Sia feat. Sean PaulCheap Thrills Major Lazer feat. Nyla & Fuse ODGLight It Up (Remix) Djemba DjembaStahp Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci ManeBlack Beatles ProJect Aspect & Kruza KidThank The Music Fort Minor feat. Styles Of BeyondRemember The Name Space Jesus feat. Clay Parnell & Rory Sweet Boy DolanHmu PixiesWhere Is My Mind (MT Eden Remix) Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat. MØLean On (CRNKN Remix) What So Not feat. KLPDeath Drive Sak Noel feat. Sean PaulTrumpets Sam Binga & ReddersLEF DEM Dubmatix & YellamLet The Good Time Roll J Forever feat. FarrukoHasta Que Se Seque El Malecon (Remix) Big WildAftergold Lane 8 feat. BPSI Got What You Need (Every Night) MØFinal Song
“People think a soulmate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants, but it isn’t true. A true soulmate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soulmate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. Soulmates reveal another layer of yourself to you. Their purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego, show you your obstacles and addictions. Soulmates make you transform. They break your heart open so new light can get in.” EG
TL ChantsYou Had Me Banx & Ranx feat. Mello GSlatta Dem ModigsMutant Superheroes RAC feat. Katie HerzigWe Belong (Odesza Remix) Dre SkullLoudspeaker Riddim GrimesKill V. Maim Skarra MucciMy Sound Nina SimoneYoung, Gifted And Black (Bob & Marcia Version) BaauerBoog Buraka Som SistemaCandonga Major Lazer feat. Ding DongBadman Bumaye (BoomEranG Remix) Sui ZhenTake It All Back JettaTake It Easy (Matstubs Remix) Cian Finn feat. Max RomeoThis Applies (Chopstick Dubplate Remix) Derrick MorganTougher Than Though (Rudie In Court) Adele feat. NaledgeFirst Love (Remot Remix) Shiba SanOkay KonshensFashion Attack DJ Zinc feat. Ms DynamiteWile Out Flume feat. StalleyIntro Ghislain Poirier feat. Ambitieux & DJ NetikLadies & Gentlemen BamboolooHoods (Dub) Yan ZombieThe Loneliness (We’ve Been Expecting You) What So NotGet Busy Y’All (Original Mix) John HoltStick By Me (And I’ll Stick By You) Irma ThomasShe’ll Never Be Your Wife HoistWine GRiZFor The Love (Naderi Remix)
Not one of us is all good or all bad, this is something we don’t always like to admit or recognize. No one person or group of persons is entirely praiseworthy or entirely at fault. We are responsible for ourselves, but we are also responsible for each other. Competition and altruism are not mutually exclusive. Neither are failure and success, hatred and love, darkness and light, wrong and right, ending and beginning, myself and you. Each of us fails as individuals when the human race fails to love itself completely. We really are in this together, whether we like it or not. Everything is a choice between fear and love, and death is coming. Fear or love, my friends, at every moment, you must decide. Death is coming, so choose love.
TL Bil BlessPassing Reunion Bil BlessSpooked (Good Love) HabstraktListen Banx & Ranx feat. Mello GSlatta Dem Sean PaulGimme the Light (Banx & Ranx Remix) Mr WilliamzMiss Brown (Benny Page Remix) TroyBoi7th Sense ModigsMutant Superheroes RAC feat. Katie HerzigWe Belong (Odesza Remix) Arcade FireWindowsill Allie GoertzDance Bitch Interprete DesconocidoPista 2 SizzlaBlessed (Andreilien Remix) Dre SkullLoudspeaker Riddim Producer SnafuSolid Muse GrimesKill V. Maim Skarra MucciMy Sound MapeiDon’t Wait (Smalltown DJs Edit) Nina SimoneYoung, Gifted And Black (Bob & Marcia Version) Marvin GayeSexual Healing (Hot 8 Brass Band Cover) BaauerBoog Buraka Som SistemaCandonga Buju BantonTil Shiloh Clams CasinoCry For Me KR$CHNIf You Leave Me Now OK GoIf I Had A Mountain
The midnight stars above Hawaii are second to nothing. In the midst of darkness, light persists. The sound of the midnight ocean, the black slow crash of waves can break the heart. It’s not the strongest or the fittest that survive, it’s those that can best manage to change. Life is beautiful and love is everything. All of nature is music.
TRACKS
Quarry – Please Don’t Go
Mount Kimbie – Maybes
Wolf Colony – Beauty
Twin Shadow – I Don’t Care
Apashe feat. Zitaa – Tank Girls
Dre Island – What is Mine is Mine
Solarex & Oorora – Clockwork
Unknown Artist – Rocker’s Vox
Enur feat. VK & Natasja – Calabria (Remix)
Idiot Boyz – Rockcock
Twin Shadow – Flatliners
Alt-J – Intro
Bassline Rock – Half A Bread Riddim
Buju Banton – ‘Till I’m Laid To Rest
Ryan Hemsworth & Lucas – From Grace
Alt-J – Breezeblocks
Sean Paul – Like Glue
Grimes – Venus Fly
Sizzla feat. ED – Champion Sound (DP Remix)
Wildpuppet – Sarabande
Champs – Down (Alone on the Avenue)
Mento – Reach Out
Odesza – Rely
Jay Z – Roc Boys (Matoma Remix)
SBTRKT – Go Bang
Thriftworks – The Thief
Luke Sital-Singh. Still / Lions Head. Firecracker / Camel Power Club. Ourson / TUFT. Spools / Young Rising Sons. High / BURAKA SOM SISTEMA. Hangover (BaBaBa) (Swick Remix) / TroyBoi & DJ CRAZE. Baby Gurl / SBTRKT feat. Ezra Koenig. New Dorp. New York. / Brandon Cueto. Every Puzzle Has An Answer / KRSCHN. If You Leave Me Now / Caius. Things Gonna Be Okay / Blackbird Blackbird. Visionary / Shlohmo & Jeremih. Let It Go / Inner Circle & Daniel Bambaata Marley. Free It Up / ill.Gates. More Tea (Sonia Calico Remix) / What So Not & Dillon Francis feat. Dawn Golden. Arrows / The Shins. New Slang (Huglife Remix) / Arcade Fire. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) / The Cure. Catch / Clint Eastwood & General Saint. Stop That Train
Dylan gained special access to a fantastic archive of 20 year old DAT recordings from remote villages in China on condition that he promote Chinese tea culture. The track came out beautifully and there’s some real heavy hitters on the remix tip. Dylan also scored rare high grade tea for promotional giveaways.
Dylan thinks I don’t like his music since I seldom include his songs in my dj sets. Of course I love Dylan and I love his music, but he doesn’t get handicap points just because we’re married. I’m still impartially discerning and ruthlessly selective with all my music choices. “More Tea” makes the cut and the remixes are lush.
The title track from Sad Dance Songs, A Rick and Morty concept album by Allie Goertz. The album contains five tracks with references and samples from the show. With this project, Goertz sought to match the “beauty, darkness, and lunacy” of Rick and Morty. Sad Dance Songs features synth-heavy dance tracks accompanied by ethereal melancholy vocals. It goes without saying that I love this.
An adventurous and electrifying synthesis of the sexy eclectic sets I played at the Rhythmic Seeds Music Conference held at the beautiful and secluded Paradise One Resort during the final days of November, and next at Subsonic Music Festival held at Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort three hours outside of Sydney on a splendid sun-drenched weekend. Please share and enjoy. May my sounds and selections bring delight, Night Nurse gonna make everything all right.
Tracks. Hayden Calnin – Comatose Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing (Kygo Remix) Buraka Som Sistema – Van Damme Grimes – REALiTi (Demo) Yellerkin – Tools (Louis The Child Remix) Coleman Hell – 2 Heads Freedom Fry – Shaky Ground (Hey Na Na Na) Kaosa – So Far So Good Buraka Som Sistema – Hangover (BaBaBa) (Voxels Remix) Skarra Mucci Feat. Delroy Wilson – Movie Star TroyBoi – Medusa Dayz TroyBoi – Remember JumoDaddy – Black Horse (NGHTMRE Remix) Major Lazer Feat. Wild Belle – Be Together Flosstradamus & TroyBoi – SOUNDCLASH Salva Feat. Scottie B & Astronomar – 3rd World Chaos Chaos – Do You Feel It P Money & Gappy Ranks – Baddest (Sharps Remix) Rusko – My Style Randy Valentine – Lock Me Up Beenie Man – Survivor Major Lazer Feat. Sean Paul – Come on to Me Bob Marley – Sun is Shining (Acapella) Shiba San – Okay Ext – Output Stylo G – Call Me A Marley (Deejay Theory Remix) Mista Savona Feat. Sizzla – Set It Off Chopstick Dubplate Feat. Dennis Brown – Conversation (Have You Ever) TroyBoi – Automatic Skrillex – Dirty Vibe (Jack Beats Rework) Modigs – Soulmate
Strength comes from learning to control your emotions, which is not the same as ignoring what you feel or pretending your feelings aren’t real. If an emotion can’t change conditions or improve the situation, the emotion isn’t useful. Your emotions in fact are often destructive, but you have the right to feel what you feel. No one said you can’t ever cry. It’s okay to be angry, upset or discouraged, but it’s not okay to quit, because in life it doesn’t matter what happens to you, or who is to blame for all the problems, setbacks and mistakes. What matters is what you do with what happens, what matters is how you deal with what you’ve been dealt, what matters is not what you feel, but how you handle yourself.
Tracks.
Felix Laband – Miss Teardrop
TOKiMONSTA – Steal My Attention
Speech Debelle – Spinnin’
Kaf Malbar – Met Sa O
Artem Zlobin – Soul
Modigs – Epsilon
What So Not – Get Busy Y’all
A-Trak, Kimbra, Mark Foster – Warrior (What So Not Remix)
Le1f – Wut (5kinAndBone5)
Buraka Som Sistema Feat. Blaya & Roses Gabor – Up All Night
Skrillex & Diplo Feat. Bunji Garlin – Jungle Bae
Mapei – Don’t Wait (Smalltown DJs Edit)
KR$CHN – If You Leave Me Now
Trolley Snatcha – Shake It
Munchi Feat. Mr. Lexx – Shottas (Crookers Remix)
Modigs – Makeup For A Monster
Chaos Chaos – Do You Feel It?
Generationals – You Got Me
A special selections DJ set comprised of music chosen from the second half of the almost 500 ill.Gates fan suggested tracks. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit their favourite songs.
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XXYYXX – TIED2U
XXYYXX Feat. Steffaloo – Love Isn’t Made
Thriftworks Feat. Mythicalifornian – Seismic Turf
Corporate – Ice
Soundsnobz – The Originalz
Medium Troy – Run
Klingande – Jubel
Barnt – Chappell
TI Feat. Young Thug – About The Money (Owen Bones Bootleg)
[The Princess Bride – Blunders]
Opiuo – Snorkle (Posij Remix)
Zebra Katz Feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx – Ima Read
George Wompington – Psychosis
XXYYXX Feat. Anneka – Overdone
Rogue State – Champion Bubbler (Soccastep Remix)
People Under The Stairs – Acid Raindrops
[Prefuse 73 – Illiterate Interlude]
Faul & Wad Ad vs Pnau – Changes
XXYYXX – Breeze
Bukez Finezt – Under Control
Dom – Jesus (VACATIONER Remix)
[Dr. Strangelove – Wish We Had One]
Ki Theory – Open Wound (ODESZA Remix)
Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot
Eliminate – Ace
[Tiwony – Intro Two]
Grimes – Know The Way
Flume Feat. George Maple – Bring You Down
Wayward – Only Flaw
Volor Flex – Spellbound
Theophilus London – Grey x Sage (Sabali Remix)
The Bush Chemists Feat. King General – Wicked Them Wicked
Dubmatix – Champion Sound
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing
NastyNasty – Apologies
The Cars – My Best Friend’s Girl
Francis and The Lights – Like a Dream
Schlachthofbronx – Apizaco
The Bush Chemists Feat. King General – Original Dub
Cocoa Tea – I’m The Roughest (Mykol Orthodox Remix)
Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths – Learning Things About You
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Loetech & DZ – Issues
Odesza Feat. Monsoonsiren – Memories That You Call
Clean Bandit – Dust Clears
Nightmares On Wax – Be, I Do
Pablo Nouvelle Feat. Fiona Daniel – Invading My Mind
Ghetto Sexuual – Capoeria (Stratus)
Dillon Francis & Kill The Noise – Dill The Noise
Shaggy – I Can’t Fight This Feeling
Bungalo Dub – Babilón XXI
Tanya Stephens – Welcome to the Rebelution
Producer Snafu – No One Shall Be Loved
Freddy Todd – Festivities
Kamandi and Polo – [Track 6]
Blue Scholars – Big Bank Hank
Anthony B – Rise Up (Intro)
I Love Makonnen – Club Goin’ Up on a Tuesday (Dj Snake Remix)
A set by Nicolas Jaar for the label Clown and Sunset and one of my favourite mixes. Perfect at 5AM for falling wakefully asleep to, for loneliness, and a heart’s silent breaking. Music for slow scans of sunrise horizons gazing through glass listening through headphones riding trains alone, for daydreaming, for solitude, for lovemaking, and for pure listening. Beautiful work.
Tracks.
Anthony B – Come Free My Mind
Chopstick Dubplate – Gundelero Riddim (3rd Mix)
Lorn – I Wonder
Alborosie – I Wanna Go Home
Tarrus Riley – She’s Royal
Flume Feat. Isabella Manfredi – The Greatest View
Secret Mommy – I Can’t Get Down
Nightmare on Wax – 195lbs
Damien Marley Feat. Eve – Where is the Love
Junior Boys – In the Morning (Alex Smoke Remix)
Dirtsman – Hot this Year
Chopstick Dubplate Feat. Utah Green, Hi Kee & Stikki – Believe
Vybz Kartel – Marie (Jacky’s Carnival Bashmenton)
Diplo Feat. Gent & Jawns – Butters Theme
Hopscotch – Red Sea (Jantsen & Dirt Monkey Remix)
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters – Don’t Fence Me In
Billy Blacklight – Serendipity
Dread I – Love is You
Ta-ku – Higher (Flume Remix)
What So Not – Breathe
Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers to Cross
King Krule – Easy Easy (20syl Remix)
Sugarpill – Verderbo (Rock and Rose)
Polish Ambassador Feat. Ayla Nereo – Conversations Between
Natalee Storm – I Ain’t Missing You
Bangers R Mashed – Feel Alright
Crooked Colours – Come Down
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