Y’all know we love our house music on this site, so when Bopstar dropped us a link to the latest FACT Magazine mix on Twitter, we were all over it. The 55th installment of the mix series (which has already brought through some heavyweight pressure from many of the big names on the underground music scene) features Detroit young lion Kyle Hall doing his thing on a Detroit house tip.

The 18 year old producer first entered our universe while we were digging through the fine Mood & Grooves record catalogue in late 2008 and we happened across their latest release, Kyle’s The Water Is Fine EP. Listening through the EP, our ears pricked at the absolute monster 9 minute A-side wonder that is “Create Your Own Existence”, pulled it out and then literally span it on our radio stream until an inch of its life (it might still be on there come to think of it).

Having surrounded himself in his tutoring with the likes of Detroit cats Rick Wilhite, Mike Huckaby and Omar-S (the latter having recently produced a mixtape comprised solely of Kyle Hall productions), he’s in good company, and is definitely one to watch in the Motor City’s  underground house new guard.

You can read FACT’s full length interview with Kyle on the their site but in the meanwhile get the mix from the link below and put it on spin. Tracklist looks good, don’t it?

Kyle Hall FACT Mix 55 – June 2009

Ratio – Centralized (Substance Rework) [Central]
Stephen Brown – Sustain [Affected Music]
Duplex – Vivid Array [Frantic Flowers]
Mr.V – Circle Track [Sole Channel]
Brown Study – Cereal Numbing [Unknown]
Murr – Watching You [Public Transit]
Omar-S – Strider’s World [FXHE]
Filsonik – LuvHolik [Unknown]
Mike Clark – Natalie Lacosta [White Label]
Omar-S – Oasis #11 [FXHE]
Ibex – Bok Choy [Planet E]
DJ Rhythm – Rhythms Groove [Unknown]
Kai Alce – M-7 [Mahogani Music]
3chairs – Misty City [Three Chairs]
Lazy Fat People – Pixel Girl [PlanetE]
The Rurals – Sorry [Peng]
Kyle Hall – I <3 Dr. Girlfriend [Wild Oats]
Andres – A3 Untitled (from Andres II) [White label

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As an aside, if you love that Detroit sound and live in London town,  you might be interested to know that Mr Alex “Omar-S” Smith will be DJing at Corsica Studios in Elephant and Castle this coming Friday night for Bleep. Full details can be found here.

The man like Flying Lotus pulled out another essential Brainfeeder podcast late last night which I caught and rebroadcast on our Twitter. After giving it a second listen this morning on the commute (it had me getting in at double time, which was useful, cos I was 20 minutes late!), thought it might be worth highlighting here, as this one really is just plain ridiculous. One of our favourite DJs Simbad is on mixing duties and this 71 minute mix has everything you could ever need: Burial-esque dubstep, deep house, banging future music, all interwoven with clever movie and news samples. No tracklist unfortunately (Simbad actually posted a tracklist up this afternoon on his myspace) but when he ramps the whole thing up around the 35 minute mark, it really does take it to whole nutha level. Heavily recommended as its a banger.

Simbad Supercosmic Revolution Vol.1 Mixtape – June 2009

Mount Kimbie – Maybes
Pangaea – Router
Klic – Karaoke
Giant Rain – Mind
Untold – Dante
Tritone – Meditate Cartwheel
Steve Lawler – Kalimba (Shed Mix)
Kubo – Mad Decent
Zomby – Strange Fruit
Mark Pritchard feat. Om Mas – Wind It Up
Stereotyp vs Al Haca – Boss it
Harrison Blakoldman - Graduation
Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane
Marsmobil – Patience
Map.Ache – Clouds Over Clowns
MXM – Move Me
Unknown – Bonus Beat
Efdemin – Acid Bells (Martyn Dark Mix)
Bugz in the Attic – Booty la la (Landslide Dubplate)
Floating Points – JW Beat
Shed – Ithaw
Geo – The Chain
IG Culture – Solution

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Check the Brainfeeder site out if you haven’t already, cos its worth it. The Take podcast, which is more on a beats tip and dropped a while ago, is also a worthy addition to you iTunes folder.

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A little Friday afternoon mixtape treat.

Yes, yes, that’s right, one of our favourite music producers (whether it be hip hop or house) drops a new mixtape to promote his forthcoming album “Sonic Smash” on High Water Music. 32 classic Spinna remixes and productions on a hip hop tip. We’ve been bouncing this in the office all morning and its sounding nice. Why can’t all hip hop sound like this? Still one of the best in the game. Anyways you can cop the link to the mix below (its a z-share, gotta save our bandwidth a bit at the minute).

Make sure you check the new album out when it drops later this month on June 30th. With confirmed guests Phonte of Little Brother, Elzhi of Slum Village, Jigmastas, Fresh Daily, it looks like it could be a heavyweight and another great release for the High Water Music label. They’ve already leaked one track from the album, “Summer Madness”, an awesome Spinna flip of the Kool & The Gang classic. As a little extra, I’ve added both the original and instrumental mixes of said track in there for posterity.

DJ Spinna Presents “The Recall” Mixtape

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With just over six weeks to go before our Summer Shakedown boat party featuring our motley crew of soulful selectors and very special guest Greg Wilson (Tirk) , we thought we’d bring you a little guest mixtape from one of the main protagonists, Steve KIW, who will will be warming up for Mr Wilson on the main deck. Here,digging into his deep vinyl archives, he’s brought us a little exclusive discoboogiecallitwhatyouwant mix giving you an insight into some of the sounds you’ll likely hear on the boat on that (hopefully) sunny Saturday afternoon in July.

Steve, who has been DJing for more than half of his life (meaning he’s only just done less DJ mileage than Sir Jimmy Saville), is a stickler for dusty old vinyl and lugging three records bags about, rather than using the convenience of modern technology and digital formats. Before fleeing London for the fairer climes and more sedate life of the Brighton seaside, the KIW spent his formative years as a resident at the infamous ‘Babushka’ parties in Blackfriars (strangely the departure point for our own boat party) and the ‘Fallen Angels’ parties at Hanover Grand. He also spent many a night (well, often afternoons) putting on his own events such as ‘Your Mum’ (quaint) and ‘Keeping It Wheel’ (hence the KIW moniker). Obviously the KIW stuck and after a handful of failed retirements, Steve can now be found doing intimate gigs by the sea as part of the Go Bang collective.He also holds down a couple of other residencies in Brighton(‘The Freestyle Sessions’ at The Fishbowl twice a month and ‘More Freestyle Sessions’ at Brighton Rocks to name but two) and as a founding member ofthe legendary Balearic Assassins Of LOVE, Steve can occasionally be found playing balearic weirdness in a cave.

The Summer Shakedown mix was put together in Steve’s stately record room where Abba sits next to ABC, Prefab Sprout next to Public Enemy, Yellow Magic Orchestra sit next to Yes (yeah, its all alphabetised) and where there are more than 600 12″s by artists whose name begins with the letter ‘B’.

He’s always churning out musical mixes (puts me to shame really), so if you like what you hear and want to grab more, nip over to his Facebook group entitled ‘KIW: Keeping It Wheel’ here.

Steve KIW Mixtape – June 2009

Inner Life – No Way
Fonda Rae – Tuch Me (Special Mix For Breakdancing)
Jazzy Dee – Get On Up
Wildlife Productions – Disco Fever
Red Rack Em Presents Hot Coins – Favourite Effects
Gwen Guthrie – Peanut Butter
Sheila E – A Love Bizarre
Status IV – You Ain’t Really Down (Jazzanova Remix)
Yaz – Situation (Kervorkian Dub)
Rockers Revenge – Walking On Sunshine (Acapella)
Status IV – You Ain’t Really Down (Acapella)
Serious Intention – Serious
Unique – I Got What You Need
First Choice – Dr Love (Acapella)

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You can bag tickets for the boat party with us, Steve KIW, Cigarettes and Sunshine and Greg Wilson via Ticketweb.co.uk and via Skiddle.com

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Just in time for our party tomorrow night, the man like Dominic Stanton AKA DOMU drops another mixtape. Check it…

Latest Domu Mixtape – April 2009

Oriol – LW – Kindred Spirits
Chris Barker – Space Helmet – CDR
Dujin Douglas – Zuid – CDR
Blackjoy – Apollo Funk – CDR
L’aroye – Love Dub – Treble O
Clyde – Roll Of The Beats – Atjazz Remix – CDR
Yameen – Light Of Love MDCL Mix – Ropeadope
Souled – Sweet Nothings – Fresh Minute Music
Seiji – Ravin A – CDR
EL-B – Express – Tempa Klic – Kerone – CDR

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He’s doing the late set tomorrow. You just know its going to be heavy!

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