Colder Than Steel - Vol 1 and 2 (2009)

Some special all-80s electro mix-action from Magic Waves in 2009 here, featuring Miami and Los Angeles jams aplenty. My tribute to some of the most influential vintage records I discovered in my teenage years and the soundtrack playing in my head to many an aerosol adventure at the time! The opening 15 mins of Vol 1 were also the soundtrack to the youtube clip above which collects together some of the more visually influential things that the London concrete jungle had to offer me growing up... get ready to rock and shock!

Colder Than Steel Vol 1: http://hott.mx/1kUQdEO

Colder Than Steel Vol 2: http://hott.mx/1kUiA66

Vol 1 tracklisting:

01. Maggotron Crushing Crew - Miami Bass Express
02. AQ & DJ Larche - And My Beat Goes On
03. Matrix - It's Time To Rock
04. Arabian Prince - It Ain't Tough
05. Dynamix II - Bass Generator
06. B.O.S.E. - Rock The World
07. Freestyle - It's Automatic
08. Egyptian Lover - Girls
09. Jamie Jupitor - Computer Power
10. X-Men - It's More Fun To Sample
11. Planet Detroit - Invasion From The Planet Detroit
12. Radio Crew - Breaking And Entering
13. MC Cool Rock & MC Chaszy Chess - Boot The Booty
14. World Class Wreckin Cru - House Calls
15. Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt
16. Professor X - Professor X (Saga)
17. Freestyle - The Party Has Begun

Vol 2 tracklisting:

01. Facade - The Groove (Drive To Hollywood Version)
02. Unknown DJ - Let's Jam
03. Chris 'The Glove' Taylor & Dave Storrs - Reckless (Instrumental)
04. Freestyle - Don't Stop The Rock
05. King Sporty - Fall Out
06. World Class Wreckin Cru - Juice
07. NWA - Panic Zone
08. Sleeze Boyz - Dance Till You Drop
09. Egyptian Lover - Dance (Long Drum Version)
10. Unknown DJ - Breakdown (Dance Your Ass Off)
11. B.O.S.E. - Subway
12. Unknown DJ - Basstronic
13. X-Men - X-Men
14. Egyptian Lover - You're So Fine
15. Sleeze Boyz - Z-O-I-D-S
16. Maggotron Crushing Crew - Miami's Rocking Baby (Miami Jams)
17. Noel Williams & The Extra Funk Factory - Air Freshener
18. Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music
19. Pretty Tony - Jam The Box

Live At Cosmo Bar (13-10-07)

Another set from a month later at Cosmo Bar in Brighton, this time with a musical selection that has its feet rooted firmly in the UK tradition - but of course with some inevitable extra added Italian action thrown in...

Link: http://hott.mx/1gMuW1U

Tracklisting:

01. BLANCMANGE - Blind Vision
02. SHOCK - R.E.R.B.
03. NIGHT MOVES - Transdance (NYC Mix)
04. HUMAN LEAGUE - Hard Times (Instrumental)
05. YAZOO - Situation (Dub Version)
06. HUMAN LEAGUE - Love Action (Instrumental)
07. BOBBY DAVENPORT - Time (Has Come Today)
08. SECESSION - Touch (Part 4)
09. CHILLY - For Your Love
10. AMIN PECK - Anxiety (Outro Dub)

Live At Cosmo Bar (15-09-07)

While running the radio station we started putting on some very small Magic Waves parties in Brighton, underneath the Cosmopolitan Hotel in a venue near the seafront appropriately named Cosmo Bar. While it was mainly friends and a few bemused locals in the crowd we had a raucous time of it as always and in hindsight it was clearly the humble beginnings of much bigger things to come. Here's a cassette I recorded live there in September 2007.

Side A: http://hott.mx/1bQSVY0

Side B: http://hott.mx/1cc3Tu7

Italo Visions Mix (2006)

One thing you quickly realise when starting up a radio station is that you can never have enough DJ mixes to broadcast! While we were very lucky in having some incredible mix donations for Magic Waves from our friends and allies I had to go into "mix machine mode" for the next few years and got on with cranking out as many as I physically could. 'Italo Visions' was one from the end of 2006 that seems to capture that moment well to me, the excitement of the time and the magic feeling in the air...

Link: http://hott.mx/1kSgzY6

Tracklisting:

01. K.I.D. - Hupendi Muziki Wangu?!
02. SHIRLEY LITES - Heat You Up (Melt You Down) (Melt Down Mix)
03. AMNESIE - Turas (Instrumental)
04. EDDY TRAUBA & M.M. GRECO - Maccaroni Radio (Instrumental)
05. MR MASTER - A Dog In The Night (Casco Instrumental Edit)
06. INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM - Dancing Therapy
07. ATELIER FOLIE - Fashion (Dub Version)
08. MARZIO DANCE - you Can Do It (Instrumental)
09. GARY'S GANG - Runaway
10. N.O.I.A. - True Love (Sexual Version)
11. CRUISIN' GANG - Chinatown
12. ONE-TWO-THREE - Runaway (Instrumental)
13. PATRICK COWLEY - Thank God For Music
14. CARIOCAS - Batida
15. CAMARO'S GANG - Fuerza Major (Remix)

MAGIC WAVES RADIO STREAM (14-05-06)

Magic Waves went on air for the first time on 1st May 2006, a labour of love broadcast from a flat perched above Brighton station, and spent the next three years operating 24-7 in the spirit of classic pirate radio in the recently dawning internet age as a stream on our own website (after which we moved over to Intergalactic FM and became a radio show instead). Here's a recording from two weeks into transmission, resplendent with homemade jingles and a musical balance that was the sign of much to come...

Link: http://hott.mx/1frLxr1

Live At Brighton Festival Fringe (2004)

Recorded live at a party we threw at The Jazz Place in Brighton as part of the city's Festival Fringe a decade ago in 2004. This was also the first time that the name Cyber Dance appeared in print on a flyer, as the work to get the label launched was well underway at this point. However at this time the label that was operational and fully up-and-running was Human Shield (run by Peter Mangalore and future Cyber Dance cohorts Ali Renault and Tommy Walker 3), and the party was held under that name with the line-up featuring old friends Multiplex who had a couple of releases out with them by then, and Autogull who would master the first Cyber Dance release shortly afterwards. 

Link: http://hott.mx/1iIce8R

Tracklisting: 

01. DEE-LITE - Wild Times (Mayday Mix)
02. DJ FUTURE SHOCK - The Third Wave
03. ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK - Dance Boy Dance
04. HIGH ENERGY - High Energy
05. PATRICK COWLEY - Megatron Man
06. SEDUCTION - Devotion

Fantasy Mix (2001)

This one came hot on the heels of the last post, and it was my first mixtape in an Italo-Hi-NRG-electro style, although it's just one side of a D60 cassette. Again it's slightly on the raw side, and full of classic tape hiss - but the feeling is all there and it was clearly a significant step in the evolution of all things Magic Waves and Cyber Dance. And as with the last post it's interesting to note how many of these tracks still get spun at our parties today... But this was our first time with Koto, Kano, Jago and co, and the first time is always something special!

Link: Fantasy Mix

Tracklisting:

01. JAGO - I'm Going To Go
02. KANO - Another Life (Instrumental)
03. ONE-TWO-THREE - Runaway (Instrumental)
04. PATRICK COWLEY - Thank God For Music
05. KOTO - Visitors
06. NEWCLEUS - Teknology
07. MR FINGERS - Stars