Mix: The Real Mikaél - UK Garage Classics Vol. 2

Happy new year everyone. Hope you all had a good festive period. I spent a lot of my festive period perusing Discogs and stocking up on a variety of UK Garage anthems. I have mixed a follow up to my Selection of Old School Garage Mix which is available to stream and download below.

The Real Mikaél - UK Garage Classics Vol 2 by therealmikael

Tracklist:
Santos - Camels (DJ Zinc remix)
Dru Hill - How Deep is Your Love (Groove Chronicles remix)
Blaque Ivory - I Do (Phururistix remix)
Sia - I Drink to Get Drunk (Dub)
Beatfreaks - Destiny
So Solid Crew - Oh No (DJ Oxide instrumental)
The Streets - Lets Push Things Forward (Zed Bias remix)
All Saints - Booty Call (Club Asylum Skank Vocal)
MJ Cole - Sincere (Dub)

If you enjoyed this mix please check out my previous offering, MJ Cole's year 2000 essential mix and Zed Bias recently recorded an epic 45 minute classic garage mix which can be found over on my friend and fellow UKG fanatic General Jimmy's blog.

Mix: TRM's Selection of Old School Garage Mix

Not so long I made a post bringing back MJ Cole’s seminal essential mix back from the vault to share with readers of the blog, for those who may have missed it first time round or wanted like me to revisit it for reasons of nostalgia. Well I am back with on a (much shorter) UK Garage tip. This time it comes in the shape of a short 30 minute mix that I recorded at home using 100% vinyl mainly bought from Discogs during my spring UKG revival. The mix can be streamed or downloaded below using the Soundcloud widget. Tracklist is below. Enjoy.

The Real Mikaél - A Selection of Old School Garage Mix by therealmikael

Tracklist:
Cleptomaniacs - All I Do (Bump & Flex Mix)
Blowfelt - Lickle Roller
Beatfreaks - Speaker Box
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself (Big $hot Mix)
Rip Groove - Double 99
Love Station - Teardrops (Classic Mix)
Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me

From the Vault: MJ Cole Essential Mix [12/03/2000]

After a weekend listening to quite a lot of old UK Garage and 2/step including the seminal album 'Sincere' by the man MJ Cole, I rediscovered this BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix that is almost 11 years old to the day.

Listening to Jamie XX's 6mix for Rob Da Bank gave me the impetus to upload and reshare the MJ Cole ESM, as Jamie in his mix plays a couple of old garage tunes in beween his own productions to highlight the similarities between them and to show how his production style has been influenced by UK Garage of old.

UK Garage has played an important part in shaping a lot of the good music that has been surfacing over the past few years, my favourite remix of the last 12 months being a prime example (The XX - Crystalised (Dark Sky remix)). Listening to this also highlights the quality that UKG had to reach a commercial audience, when compared with the trash that comes from David Guetta, Basshunter and now The Black Eyed Peas, tracks like Sincere, Crazy Love and even Daneil Bedingfield's 'Gotta Get Thru This' have so much more longievity and dare I say class. Anyway enjoy the mix, hopefully it will bring back some memories and allow you to relate to the sounds that it has influenced.

MJ Cole- Essential Mix (12/03/2000)
Download Link! or Stream below.

(TRM From The Vault) Mj Cole - Essential Mix [12/03/2000] by Therealmikael on Mixcloud

Tracklist for the tune spotters is available from HERE.

[18/10/11 Note: I recently recorded a short garage mix of my own which some of you may be interested in, it can be found on the blog or by clicking THIS LINK.]