Drive Time Duel…

If you tuned into last week’s show you’ll know that a driving theme was imposed on us after I spent the best part of an hour sitting in a tunnel on the A12 with nothing but a hectic Diplo CD for company when I could have been relaxing in the Resonance office with a nice cuppa gearing up for another seamless change over.

Later in the show Mr Trick did his best to once again domesticate another piece of celestial brilliance by describing some cosmic disco as perfect driving music, I refer you to the time I played one of Gary Bartz’ more spiritually charged moments from his Ntu Troop days which Trick deemed “perfect Sunday morning music” but as much as I doubt Bartz ever intended his afro-centric opus to compliment a Sunday in the suburbs reading the supplements, I’m sure in this case anyone who’s been out on the open road with some Chris Rea blaring can relate. I jest of course as I jumped at the chance to knock up a quick mix of my favourite driving music and was on the blower to Tricky Towers moments later urging him to do the same.

I’ve probably committed a mix tape no-no by starting fast and winding it down but I felt it reflected my driving habits, pulling out in a cloud of dust only to end up in typical London traffic barely a couple of miles from my front door. Adversely, Trick knocked up a smoother night time drive theme so you can pick between the hot and sweaty selection of my hammond fueled hell or Trick’s twilight disco delights depending on your mood.

Wrongtom “Leslie’s Drive -Thru Nightmare”
1. Steve Miller Band “Living In The USA”
2. Amon Duul II “Archangel Thunderbird”
3. Colosseum “Rope Ladder To The Moon”
4. Gang Starr “The Planet”
5. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity “Season of the Witch”

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Trick writes…
For my mix, I had one simple objective: to give a few examples of the kind of music I love driving to the station with. To give you some idea, my route basically involves driving along the Thames from the west, going past most of London’s most amazing monuments (Battersea Power Station, the various beautifully-lit bridges, MI5 and the Eye on my left as I cross the river etc etc) whilst the streetlights strobe above me. As Tom’s mix attests, driving during daytime in London is a gridlock affair for the most part: an exercise in stress where you’re lucky to break 10mph for more than 100 yards. At 9pm though, the roads are more clear and you can soak up just what a fine city it is we live in. So, this mix reflects that; those quiet road night time drive moments we all have once in a while where a city seems oddly serene.

As a mix, this wasn’t about taking my usual line of intricate mix moments and whatnot; it was quite the opposite, letting tracks play out for as long as possible, knowing that you just want to get right into them as you drive along. The Mogg & Naudascher tracks are a real revelation for me, for two reasons: first, I didn’t clock that the Mogg in question was former Psychonaut Paul Mogg. Second, I’d slept on this stuff first time around, so good on DFA for reissuing the lot.

Hope you enjoy the mix.

Mr Trick “Metro Night Time Drive Mix”
1. Paperclip People – Clear and Present
2. Mogg & Naudascher – Moon Unit Pt.2
3. Mogg & Naudascher – Moon Unit Pt.1
4. Lindstrom – Grand Ideas

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