DJ Pain – Remembering Tomorrow

I’m very happy to welcome back DJ Pain to the Rhythm Incursions airwaves, in association with our good friends at Mondayjazz.

Regular listeners should be no stranger to Pain, who I believe holds the dubious title of most featured guest mixer by the way and is responsible for such mix gems as ‘Road To Oblivion’ and ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’. You can check all his past offerings here and ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ here (for some reason it’s not in our archive).

I hooked up with him a few months back when he came through town on a tour of Europe, and in between catching up and talking about life he mentioned a new mix he’d finished last year and which he wanted to get out. It was a no brainer for us, and we managed to also get the guys at Mondayjazz involved after they mentioned they were big fans as well.

So ladies and gentlemen here is the latest DJ Pain mix, Remembering Tomorrow a 70 mins psych rock trip assembled as only the man can with a plethora of spoken samples that weave a story as fascinating as the music. And before anyone asks there is no tracklist.

The show is available to download, and stream, here and on the Mondayjazz site. Remember the best way to get the latest shows is to subscribe to our RSS or iTunes feeds or our newsletter.

For more on Pain check his website and stay tuned for another mix from him in the near future. In the meantime enjoy this musical roadtrip. Much love to Pain for hooking us up and to Mondayjazz for arranging the artwork courtesy of Grape Frogg.

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DJ Pain – The Odd Side of The Sun

Now this one somehow would have slipped right by us, if it wasn’t for DJ Pain sending me an email on an unrelated note and mentioning that he’d sent a new mix to Trick a while back and hadn’t heard from him yet. Considering Pain is by far one of our favourite DJs, and a de-facto Rhythm-Incursions extended family member following his previous contributions to the show, it soon became clear that somehow, someway the email had fallen foul of a spam filter or something else. Lucky then that we picked up on it because this one is another unmissable mix.

The Odd Side of The Sun is DJ Pain’s tribute of sorts to the producer Odd Nosdam. I’ll let the man explain in a bit more detail:

The mix features all beats by producer Odd Nosdam throughout his career with the Mush and Anticon labels minus the Clouddead output that I didn’t want to focus on for the mix. I went through all of his beats that I had and wanted to do something that stayed close to his original work, yet at the same time throw my own twist on it. There’s almost 40 tracks mixed together in about 51 minutes. The mix is a little A.D.D on steroids, but I think it’s a good point for people to learn and hopefully enjoy Odd Nosdam’s tracks as much as I do… Elektro4 did the artwork.

The result is an instantly listenable and addictive instrumental ride into the work of Odd Nosdam, a great way to enjoy his music if you’re a fan and a perfect introduction if you’re not familiar with his output (which was the case for me as I only knew a few of his beats). The whole thing is wrapped up in the kind of tight package that you’d expect from DJ Pain.

It’s a pleasure to have Pain grace the Rhythm Incursions airwaves once more. So sit back, strap on your headphones or ready your speakers and crank it up to 11. No tracklist on this one, but the mix is 320kpbs goodness.

For more on DJ Pain make sure you check his myspace. And for Odd Nosdam look here.

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DJ Pain is back: exclusive new mix to download!

Its with a strange sense of pride that I’ve watched DJ Pain establish himself as one of the finest purveyors of mixes out there, not least I guess because I kinda had the pleasure of boosting his reach over on my own blog when I hosted his “The Day The Earth Stood Still” mix. Word clearly spread quick on that one, as within 6 months it was soaring well past the 10,000 downloads mark and getting chatted about all over the damn place. A year later, Pain delivered his second work for our ears, Road To Oblivion, and once again it proved this guy can deliver the goods and then some.

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DJ Pain – Road To Oblivion

Now, DJ Pain is someone who contacted me some time back when he had a mix he wanted us to hear. I checked it, liked where it was going and sent back a hearty email of encouragement telling him he was onto good things. Next time Pain got in touch, it was to send over his now near-legendary “Day The Earth Stood Still” mix, which was so on-point for Rhythm Incursions it almost read like a summary of everything we’d loved over the previous 12 months and more. I liked the mix so much I offered to host it for download – and now, some 7000 downloads later, Pain is back with another mix for you ears. Needless to say you can imagine my delight when he offered it to us first. As with his previous mix, the quality of selection here is insane, and once more it blends drama and dialogue with some of the choicest beats of recent times.

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