A Year In The Life

Here's something for you to dance over whilst enjoying the left over turkey.

2010 - my Annus Horribilus. Few highs and unbelieveable lows. So me being me, what better way than to tell the story of my year, than via a good old fashioned full-length mix/album.

The sequel to this year's Physics Disco mix, this is my beloved mash-step, covering my breakup, muggings, burglaries, a day at the seaside, my first (amazing) dubstep event, wrong thoughts that could get me in trouble, and general boozing.

This is the only place where you'll find Daniel Beddingfield sitting alongside my beloved Magnetic Man, Charlie Chaplin talking (!) over my beloved Skream, Sir Cliff Richard becoming cool and relevant again, and yes - Celine Dion over a booming dubstep sawtooth bass line. This is the sound of me moving on.

Happy New Year everyone, let's see what 2011 brings the world of Colatron....



A Year In the Life

1 - Left By The Tracks

BBC Radio 4 (sample)
Library Tapes - Pieces of Us Were Left On The Tracks
Bob Moog - Synthesizer Theory (Intro to the Studio)
Mulholland Drive (movie dialogue) [2001]
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (sample)
Jeff Pearce - Angels of the Ocean Calm
Burial - Untitled (sample)
The Voice of Vrilon (sample)
Lifeforce (movie dialogue) [1985]
Walter from carknocker.com - The Lonely Caboose
Zeitgeist (movie dialogue) [2007]
War Games (movie dialogue) [1983]

2 - If You're Not In Tokyo

Magnetic Man - Flying Into Tokyo
Daniel Beddingfield - If You're Not the One
Tokyo! (movie dialogue) [2008]
Magnetic Man - Anthemic (sample)

3 - Meanwhile In London

Caspa - Lon-Don City
Ganja White Night - Purple Star
Zero 7 - Destiny
Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise
Caspa - David Rodigan Intro

4 - Dressed To Fight

Boy Crisis - Dressed to Digress (Nero Remix)
Elton John - Saturday Night
Fight Club (movie dialogue) [1999]

5 - Stand Up Foes

Borgore - Foes (16bit Fuck Hoes Remix)
Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For

6 - Scary

Caspa - The Terminator
Lily Allen - The Fear (The Count Saves Lily Allen From The FearRemix)
The Terminator (movie dialogue) [1984]
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (movie dialogue) [1985]
Lily Allen - The Fear
Ganja White Knight - Peace By Fear (sample)
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around

7 - Two Sides To Every Story

Easy Star All*Stars - Any Colour You Like (Kalbata Remix)
Christina Aguilera - What A Girl Wants
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around
Skream - Meta-Lick
Bob Moog - Syntehsizer Theory (Keyboard Control)
Easy Star All*Stars - Step It Pon the Rastaman Scene

8 - Burnham On Sea

Mark Sheridan - I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside
Barletta - Panther (Zed's Dead Remix)
Billie Holiday - Summertime
Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday

9 - Run Rabbit Run

Caspa - Riot Powder Intro
Skream - Arola
UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
The Great Dictator (movie dialogue) [1940]

10 - Trouble Sleeping

Faithless - Insomnia
Magnetic Man - Box of Ghosts
Magnetic Man - MAD
Morcheeba - Sleep

11 - Deadmu5e

Deadmau5 - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
Muse - Plug In Baby
There Will Be Blood (movie dialogue) [2007]
Blade Runner (movie dialogue) [1982]

12 - As Life Goes On

Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes (High Rankin remix)
Chew Lip - Slick

13 - The Sympathetic Tale of Andy Smart

Skream - Rollin
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
High Rankin - The Tale of Clarence Baskerville

14 - Act Like You Care

Bill Withers (sample)
Synkro - Lost Love
Nero - Act Like You Know
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Heart
Bob Moog - Synthesizer Theory (Subaudio Oscillator Control)

15 - My Steppin Will Go On

Trolley Snatcha - Scattah
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

16 - I Need People

Harry Chapin (sample)
Magnetic Man - I Need Air
Empire of the Sun - We Are The People

17 - End of Year

Library Tapes - Distans
The Wild Angels (movie dialogue) [1966]
Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Still Return
Burial - Untitled (sample)
Walter from carknocker.com - The Lonely Caboose
Alan Black (sample)
All About Eve (movie dialogue) [1950]
Bob Moog - Synthesizer Theory (Conclusion)
Englebert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz


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Big thanks as always to The Reborn Identity for supplying approx 40% of the material used in this, to DJ UMB and FLeCK for the inspiration, to Alan for leaving me odd voicemails (it's difficult) and everyone else who inspires and helps me. And to you know who for a great musical year.

See you in 2011
Andy

You Could Bleed Happy

So, almost a year ago to the day I made an instrumental mash which featured on my Tenebrism concept album mix thingy, "We Could Be Happy (But Something Happened That Day)". It was made as a plea to someone, and as an apology for me not understanding for once - it was my first mash I ever really made that reflected my inner thoughts, frustrations and feelings. As such, it's always been quite hard to listen to without being reminded of that day and kicking myself for that one mistake made, ever since.

So in an anniversal attempt to reclaim the mash and make it listenable to me again (though no less poignant), whip out the DJ Shadow backing, whip in Leona Lewis, and it becomes so much less painful (assuming of course, you like your soaring vocal pop and heart-melting music boxes, with overtones of jazz).

You Could Bleed Happy

Snow Patrol - You Could Be Happy
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches

Someone's Missing

A more uptempo (!) number from me this time, and one inspired by my good friend The Reborn Identity, here's a tale we can all identify with

Someone's Missing
Trentemøller - Miss You
Imogen Heap - Headlock
Vangelis - Rachael's Song

On Cloud Eight

Having had a break from making mashes, I'm back with this little slab of piano melancholia - didn't quite work out as I'd expected, but I like it all the same

On Cloud Eight

Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
Nuyorican Soul feat. La India - Runaway
Colatron - additional synth

Chillax. Come Down.... (new compilation feat. Colatron)

Brand new compilation now online, courtesy of the good chaps over at Sound Unsound, this time with a distinctly chilled out vibe. And yep, I'm on it too.



The metaphor of my love life, I once flew so very close to the Sun, got burnt and came crashing down to Earth hard.

Icarus

Flex Blur - Fly Me Above The Sea
Chew Lip - Slick
excerpts from Jim Henson's "The Story-Teller"

Preview over at
Icarus (on SoundCloud)

And download the whole double album from
Chillax. Come Down... (on mARKYbOY's Blogspot)

Huge props to the very talented Flex Blur for the permission to use his elegant track. Check him out and support him at
Flex Blur - website
Flex Blur - SoundCloud

Merci mon ami.

We Are Endless Dreams

One day, I'll log back in to Spotify...

We Are Endless Dreams
Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
M83 - Highway of Endless Dreams



Nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be, eh?

Mellow Cola and His Infinite Sadness

Throwaway made-in-5 mash, based upon feeling a bit lonely on a lazy, long Bank Holiday Monday

Mellow Cola and His Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Commodores - Sail On

Sunday Whispers

Taken from The Physics Disco mix I put out earlier this year, here's the heartbreaking semi-autobiographical story of a guy who's lost his will to enjoy the Dance. Those in the know KNOW exactly what this mash is about. But if you don't, just enjoy George getting dark and brooding.

Sunday Whispers

Ripple - Sunday Morning (dub)
George Michael - Careless Whisper
elements from Cloverfield



And a HUGE thank you to my good friend The Reborn Identity for putting the most dazzling visuals together for this track. Georgie holograms, Deckard getting drunk as he knows his fate in love, and Beth...oh sweet beautiful Beth, waking up in bed before delivering the killer blow. This stuff really happened. I've seen things....

Steppin' Out On The Town

Remember I promised you something a bit more upbeat and uptempo? Here you go...

Steppin' Out On The Town

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Stevie Wonder - Uptight
Benga & Coki - Night



Back to downtempo normality soon!

Feeling Destiny

Bluesy-acoustica with a hint of the mysterious, featuring the magnificent purveyors of chill, Zero 7

Feeling Destiny

Zero 7 - Destiny
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Akira Yamaoka - Lost Carol