Words and Mix by Chris Devlin
So I ran into a guy I know from Baltimore while on tour in Amsterdam. Matt Walter is his name, and he was there vacationing with his wife. We both really like music and have shared some tunes in the past, so we got to talking about music pretty quickly, and before we knew it, we were drunk and high in some bar and decided that we would make some crazy ass mixtape called 24…and pretty soon we decided it would have Jack Bauer on the cover…and that it would be the soundtrack to TERROR, or something…
Anyway, the mix didn’t really go down that way, but what did happen was that Matt sent me a bunch of really great songs and I mixed and edited them with some of my own.
The result is this Needle Exchange mix (an actual exchange). It’s pretty heavy on the ’80s but nothing too mainstream (check the liner notes below). I also put in a few newish tracks and a couple of my recent vinyl purchases. I sent a few sections through my dual cassette deck and did some fairly fruitless, but really labor intensive, recording and re-recording and editing. It sure was fun though, and i think I ended up with some good punky/hippie disco snippets after all.
It’s nice sometimes to take a minute and realize that all this weird shit happens, and that mixes and music end up getting made, pretty much due to fun had while traveling for ‘work’.
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 018:
Intro
Act – Ping Pong
The Angelic Choir – I’ll Be Waiting
Wire – I Am The Fly
Walls (Fun In The Oven) – Crass
HONGKONGDRAGON – 4 Square Pincture
Royal Family and The Poor – Art on 45
The Stains – Waste of Time
Lizzy Marie Descloux – Fire
Liz Brady – Palladium
Stoop Rap – Double Trouble
Teen Machine – Teen Machine Rap (HONGKONGDRAGON edit feat. Arp The 2600 king)
Devlin & Ghostdad – Petite Dub feat. Sylvia Gordon (Devlin dual casette short edit)
Brigitte Bardot – Contact
Lex – 14 Days (devlin trampy grandma edit)
Pylon – Danger
The Clash – Overpowered by Funk (Inst.)
The Upsetters – Three in One
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Chris Devlin is one-half of Devlin & Darko, the DJ/production duo best known for their work with Spank Rock and the Fully Fitted crew. The following bonus track is his freshly-cut remix for Hypernova. Their Narnack debut, Through the Chaos, dropped last month.
6 Responses to “NEEDLE EXCHANGE 018: An Exclusive Mix By … Devlin & Darko”
This mix is like unto a perfect piece of meat, a rare powlonia in full bloom, or an ever expanding popover in my brain! I am overpowered by the FUNK!!! Thank you gods of SPRING, sg J
Sweet stache!
strange brew.
Gddamnit Devlin, cant you do anything like lackluster just once in a while? really. You’re setting impossible standards for others and its just really not fair.
What is hong kong D
on February 18th, 2011 at 6:01 pm #
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on March 29th, 2011 at 12:45 am #
[...] Win. Rather than pull a long-buried session from one of their overloaded hard drives, XXXchange, Chris Devlin and Ghostdad delivered a dustup between unreleased exclusives, swift snippets of psych, GZA, Panda [...]