[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Here's is a mix of Chicago House records mostly made between 1984 and 1989. Somewhere down the line, House music has lost the balls it displayed in these Trax and we love how raw and messed up these guys made their records sound with so few tools, so this is an homage to the pioneers of that era. Special thanks to Gherky Perks with whom we did a first version of this mix.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Welcome to outer space! This is the first instalment of a trip through the galaxies. You'll encounter some of our favourite space related tracks, usually of the "disco" kind. We recommend you watch and dance to this hour in a darkened room without any distractions.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Remember when rap was just rap, and not hip hop? Just a guy with mic talking the song? Everyone had to have a 'rap' record, as you will be able to tell from this mix, and even though some of them are amazing, maybe not everyone should have made one. Fortunately we edited all the interesting bits together for your enjoyment. This mix contains no singing whatsoever, only 'rapping'.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This is a collection of sad and beautiful songs, the kind that will make you even more sad. It's the mixtape you want to give to the person who will eventually break your heart but will keep the tape. Visually, it's less frantic than the other hours, and even though the discontinued and long expired polaroid film is a bit hazy, that actually really works with the songs.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]If you're not familiar with library music, it's basically instrumental records that were (and still are) sold to provide television- and filmmakers with appropriate soundbeds for their images. A lot of it (read most of it) can be boring, but fortunately many the old records were played and recorded by some of the best session musicians during their downtime, so there are some incredible gems to be found. Library records have since become very sought after by producers and we were lucky enough to have found a big lot of them, about 10 years ago. Instead of animating the sleeves, we have filmed our librarian here at RSWX while she goes about her working day.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]We couldn't fit everything into one hour so here is the Rest Of the Best Of...
This tour took us all over the world, we played 130 UTC shows in 32 countries over a period of 2 years and it was also the starting point for RSWX. We made these animations especially for the live show and while some of them were made the day before the gig, sometimes it took us weeks to get an animation right. Using DVD's and DVJ players instead of CD's and CDJ players, we were manipulating the images you saw on the screen and the music at the same time.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]As the title suggests, this is a mix of some of the nicest and oddest coverversions we have found over the years. We had a huge selection to choose from but you can only fit so many into an hour, so we might have to make the sequel at some point. It is likely that you will know all the songs but not yet in this guise, and in case you don't know them, we have included the sleeves of the originals as well in this amazing stop motion animation film.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Some of our favorite intros (420 to be exact) are in this mix we did for BBC Radio 1 a while ago, and it is actually a good introduction to the rest of Radio Soulwax, as a lot of tracks that are featured in this hour will come back later in shows to follow. The animated sleeves illustrate the mix and give it a whole new dimension!
Subject: 2011.07-10 - RADIO SOULWAX 
Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:20 am
