Dj Noël - Classic House Archive

Funky house mix, originally laid down as a demo for Hell Bar. At the time, I may have told Selina it was produced especially for her birthday. 68’23” - 78.3 MB - MP3 file - 160kpsdj sneak - funky rhythm - border patrol refixxa studio - sos - skylark vocalrasmus faber - divided/united - dubmichael grey - the weekend - originalbobby blanco - 3am - originalarea f - akumbe - bobby blancoooh yeah yeah - sax tripa guy called gerald - voodoo ray - hoxton whores remixscape feat d’empress - be my friend - michael grey remixerik prydz & steve angello - woz not woz - vers 1beautiful liaisons - yeah yeahmutiny - holdin’ on - eric prydz mix

Not a sitar in sight. This mix is a selection of vocal lounge house tracks from around the time I was playing Buddah Bar on Frith Street in Soho. Lisa had been after a CD featuring Fade for a while, so that’s what we open with... Buddah Bar Sessions - deep house for Lisa 1 solu music feat kimblee - fade 2 mj cole - sincere - naked music mig's petalpusher 3 soldiers fo twilight - believe - extended 4 lisa shaw - always - lovetronic vocal 5 petalpusher - surrender 6 little louie vega & arnold jarvis - life goes on 7 cerrone - the only one - jamie lewis club mix 8 cerrone feat jocelyn brown - hooked on you - jamie lewis club mix 9 jon culter feat vanessa freeman - focus (lifted up) 10 m.o.d. - notion ep: dance avec moi - main 11 violence (bootleg) - let the music play 12 kaskade - it's you, it's me 13 ian pooley - piha 109.1 MB AAC file 192 kbps

After Fabian’s bday party at Buddah, I started playing there every Saturday in summer 2004. The owners wanted me to play lounge beach house which became quite dull for me. Anyway, the bar manager, a top bloke called Tom, promoted a lot of club nights so I did him this demo of more banging upfront house stompers.mix for tom @ buddah bar > 2/4/04black shadow feat krs 1 can you stand the funklaurent wolf feat sonu dee about thatbeautiful liaisons yeah yeahbini & martini feat su’su bobien say yes beginerz remix 5* clowns give it updel gado coffee beatsbobby blanco shelltoeeric prydz slammin’powers that be planet rockmoog ii swing can’t get away full intention remixgus gus david darren emerson remixunderworld 7 days offel b get her102.7MB AAC file 192kbps - 74 mins

Naresh was a founding partner of Karmarama, a creative agency I helped appoint for Emap radio. Naresh is a big music fan and I still see him every year back stage at Glastonbury. He’s into rock more than dance and over a lunch he once told me he didn’t really know much about house music... so, as a thank you for the lunch, I promised to burn him a few CDs. I picked a few mixes from the vault, but laid down this blend of 90s anthems especially. naresh’s retrospective of house > march 04 1. tori amos - professional widow - armand van helden star trunk funkin’ mix (‘96) 2. sex-o-sonique - thought it was you - original (’97) 3. jonny corporate - sunday shouting (2000) 4. frankie knuckles - tears - full intention remix (‘89) 5. pete heller’s big love (’99) 6. cj bollard - sugar is sweeter - armand van helden remix (’96) 7. reel to reel - go on move - original (’94) 8. bassheads - is there anybody out there? (’92) 9. d’lacy - h

So, Paul and I were inseparable best buddies for through ‘99-’01, so when his lovely partner, Fabian, asked me to dj at his 30th, it was a pleasure. We spent a few nights in Soho in January looking for the perfect venue and decided upon what used to Buddah Bar on Frith Street. The party invite was a 30 minute CD, for which I spent a whole afternoon burning 100 discs. The attached mix is that invite, introduced by Fabian, who recorded his voice over in the Kiss 100 studios.Of course, the night itself (6 March) rocked. I took my old sound system down and we turned the quiet bar into a sweat box. After the party, the owners of the bar made me their Saturday night dj. I kept it up through the summer for the cash, but they wanted me to play more mellow lounge house music, so it got a bit boring. Enjoy the mix.Fabian’s birthday invite.Tweet - boogie remixsoul II soul - back to life bootlegsoulsearcher - feelin’ love part onemichelle weeks - the light morera re-editdr kucho - stings track???grant nelson feat mica

Uploading these old mixes, I’ve noticed that I always manage to knock out something special every February. Maybe it’s because I’ve fully recovered from the Christmas hangover. Perhaps it’s the Miami WMC on the horizon, so there’s a wad of inspiring new tunes out... Most probably it’s because it’s Selina’s birthday, which I often forget and so have to deliver a decent mix for her - even if it’s late.80 minutes of funky house tracks from feb ’04, with a few bootlegs and classics from the back of the box for good measure. Pure party fodder. The ‘all over my face’ track was co-produced by a good friend and former work colleague, Jon Shaw, who is sadly no longer with us. I still play the tune out as it’s a great warm-up track, and think of him every time, Lovely, lovely fellow.79’39” - 110.3 MB - AAC file - 192kbps01 kaskade feat joslyn it’s you, it’s me original 02 movearo & alan h all over my face version 203 full intention forever bootleg vocal04 the disciples of phunk too far gone original05 4 star

This mix is part of a trio of sessions I laid down for a trip to Ibiza in 2003. Selina & Matt, Ben & Lara, Lisa, Malcolm and myself took a villa up in the hills and had a fantastic break. I sorted out a wad of minidiscs for lazy poolside days.From memory, and from reviewing my limited notes, this mix was actually two separate sessions. I initially recorded something in May which I guess I wasn’t very happy with - it may have been one of my late night pissed-up adventures - but liking the first few tracks (particularly the blend into Groove Armada’s My Friend) I decided to pick up the mix from half way through, adding tracks 6 > 13 in August. Both the Aug and May sections lacked any meticulous planning. I just grabbed recent tunes that went with the laid-back mood to get some deep house faves into a mix for the holiday. It works on the whole but I’m sure the last few tracks (esp that Marvin Gaye booty) were probably just filler to use up the minidisc.Enjoy!deep house & balearic beats – mixed may &a

Daytime poolside vibes mixed for our trip to Ibiza, 03, with Malcolm, Selina, Matt F, Lisa, Lara, Ben and a few friends of Matt F.Sunshine pop, disco, hip hop and few summer house classics. Easy going party vibes for beer o’clock: mid afternoon with hangover clearing, time to gear up for the night ahead...Now also a favourite of Rachel’s.Daytime Poolside Classicsmixed 13 aug 03justin timberlake - rock ur body oakenfold mixgrace jones - pull up to bumper remixpointer sisters - automaticultra nate - new kind medicineshakatak - down on streetraw silk - do it to musicde la soul - roller skating jame named saturdayelectribe 101 - inside out remixalison limerick - where love lives cut to the bone morales mixmoloko sing it backTodd Terry - keep on jumpinKelis - young fresh new timo mass remixbrand new heavies - sometimes masters at work remix88MB standard mp3 file (not chaptered) 160kbps

Another daytime poolside session for our trip to Ibiza 2003. This time it’s all house tunes, but stacked with girly floorfillers and bootlegs (hence the title).Private Eye is a bootleg of Hall & Oats’ I can’t go for that; the Coloursound tune is lost gem here in it’s original form; G Club’s Guitarra G oozes Ibiza sunshine; and with Balearic faves by A Man Called Adam and Smokebelch towards the end of the mix, you definitely know which island you’re on. Enjoy.Laydeez Choice, bootlegs and daytime beatsmixed 13 aug 2003private eye - no can doclass a - street lifedisciples of funk - too far gonecome on sting me – byron bootydlsp - horney ep – summer hornshighrise - time after timecoloursound - fly with memood ii swing - can’t get away from youg club - guitarra ga man called adam - barefoot in the bootysmokebelch 03 bootyricherd x & kelis - finest dreamsrichie havens/groove armada – back to my roots114.9MB standard mp3 file 192kbps

Another one of those sessions mixed with the decks on the floor in the hallway because we were still doing up the flat. Jill had just left the Kentish Town Massive and moved in with Nick, so it was a little house warming gift for them. I remember it blearing out at a BBQ they had that summer. update april 03 | jill’s house warmer > mixed 13/4/03 jay-j feat latrice barnett - keep on rising x-press 2/nelly - lazy/hot in here bootleg with acapella (noël’s) bobby blanco - shelltoe ya underwear - seamus haji kid creme - together jamiroqui little l joey negro club mix ben watt / lone cat - holding on ?? - shout young mc - know how flaunt it djs booty narcotic thrust - safe from harm ?? - critacise booty gus gus - david ?? - the beat goes on 108.1 MB AAC file 192 kbps (but from a 128 kbps source file)

Funky house favourites from early ’03. Produced for my bestest buddy, Selina, on her 30th birthday. There’s something about Sel that makes me want to pull out all the stops for her. This time I had to pull out the decks - Matt & I had just moved house and the building work we had done meant it was too dusty for playing vinyl.I set up my decks on the floor in the hallway and pulled out some girly tunes I thought she’d like.Her birthday was a great night clubbing in Brixton. We returned to her & Matty F’s flat (I seem to remember seven of us paying a dodgy cab double fare to squeeze us in??) and danced round their living room to this mix. Happy days.79’57” - 110.9 MB - AAC file - 192kbpsfab for feat robert owens last night a dj (blew my mind) - original the monsterz u.r.d.o.one - originalernest saint laurent in the sky - joey negro red sky club editkurtis mantronix pres chamonix 77 stringsbarbara tucker beautiful people - 2002 remixwhite label - so much love (to give)del gado coffee beats - origin

Another definitive update mix, full of Bethnal Green summer vibes. I was so pleased with this pair of mixes (check out 19.2 too - slightly tougher), that I ended up burning about 50 copies for friends.This was also a labour of love. The two mixes were put together over a couple of months, grabbing snatches of time here and there. Each track was edited on minidisc, shortened so I could get more on the CDs. This gave me the opportunity to perfect each mix and use the best take. The process of refining, purposefully without computers, meant this project took fucking forever to complete.It was quite a few months before I did another mix. Partly because moving house left me without decks for a while, but mainly I felt I couldn’t match this one.After this point, I produced far fewer update mixes, and they are cataloged by dates instead of numbers.> download CD cover79’22” - 110.1MB - AAC file - 192kbpsproject: update > summer 2001 > 19.1mixed 8/9/01>5/10/01a:xus you make me feel like (peace & love & h

Part 2 of update 19.1. Slightly tougher/more tech-y.> dload CD insert cover72’58” - 101MB - AAC file - 192 kpbpsproject: update > summer 2001 > 19.2 mixed 13/10/01>2/11/01jakatta american dream ski oakenfull mixguarana ay camela le fabrique du sons remixnegrocan aquela esquina grant nelson club mixbbt god’s child ep: oh yeahinner city good love joey negro z mix2 phat ladies ep vol 2: double whammylove rush same ol thing sandy rivera’s deep vision dubdj ionic feat. sabrynaah pope south beach theme richard grey vocal mixraven maize the real life fatboy slim remixraven maize the real life original mixmutiny the virus king unique snakecharmer mixdirty vegas days go by full vocal mixg club presents banda sonora guitarra g g club originalper qx out tonightdj pheonix ep: voicesel b’s get her anfield mixu2 beautiful day quincey & sonnace mix

I mixed this for Billy when I couldn’t make it to his wedding. It’s collection of early 90s tunes that we played and heard out lots when we were at uni. With a few acapellas thrown in to segue the tracks, this is mixed for the living room / car, rather than the dance floor.1 - arrested development - people everyday2 - beats international - dub be good to me - norman’s excursion on the version3 - opus III - it’s a fine day - acapella 4 - sueno latino - sueno latino5 - boy george - generations of love6 - the grid - crystal clear7 - mk - always8 - u2 - lemon - morales bard yard club9 - east side beat - ride like the wind - acapella10 - inner city - good life - cj macintosh revist11 - alison limerick - where love lives - frankie knuckles classic12 - james taylor quartet - love the life13 - nightcrawlers - push the feeling - mk dub of doom100.4 MB AAC file 192 kbps

Summer 2001. Matt, Mikey and Paul were sharing a house in Stoke Newington. The knocked-through lounge / kitchen / conservatory and outside yard made it an excellent party house. And being not-too-far from Finsbury Park made it an excellent venue for post-Pride shenanigans.As with all these parties, I’d rock up with my mini disc and wire together a few stereos. Here’s a mix I knocked up for the 2001 event. We open with a few funky faves before moving to a few more banging post-trance thumpers, ending with the classic Hold That Sucker Down.mardi gras mix > summer 2001true gold groove no.1smokin' jojakatta american dreamgrace jones slave to the rhythm house bootlegjazzin the waystatic avenger happy peopleel b get hertrisco muzakbasstoy runningserious danger deepertall paul rock da house fergie remixtouch mefaithless hold that sucker down builds like a skyscraper mix51.8MB AAC file 128kbps - 62 mins

I’m uploading this on a very cold February Saturday - I’ve been playing it to bring a little sunshine through my speakers and thought I should share it with you.This mix is a collection of vocal house anthems from the 90s. I made it for a summer party at “The Gay Church” (aka Kat and Chris’ apartment in a converted vicarage). The mixing isn’t much to be proud of - from memory, I’d already spent the afternoon prior to the party laying down a couple of mixes for that evening, and threw this together while I was getting ready to leave the house, just randomly grabbing old sunny tracks I had not played for a while.I guess it’s no surprise the the original track list has gone astray. I recognise most of the tunes anyway. Lots of happy sing-a-long stompers, some already classics at the time.For more Noël sessions visit www.noelc.com/tunes. 1. Nuyorican Soul - It’s Alright, I Feel It 2. ?? - So Inspired - promo 3. Brand New Heavies - Close To You - Masters At Work Remix 4. Moloko - Sing It Back - Boris Dlugosch Mix

I may have already mentioned what a great flat Andie and I shared in Bethnal Green. With a large living space it was perfect for big parties, and we had a few. Best of the best were our New Year’s Eve extravaganzas. ‘2001: A Spaced Odyssey’ was the biggest headline event I can remember. Andie’s room was earth, floodlit in green, mine was Mars in red, the hallway was a docking station and the main room was space. Everyone dressed up: gay space cowboys, a whole crew of Star Trek ensigns, monsters, aliens, the lot. Clearing up the day after we filled a box with toy ray guns.As with all the best parties, it was a joint effort. Ted designed the invite artwork, Paul, Andrew and Cuneyt dressed the venue after raiding the Paperchase post-xmas sale, I was lights and music. When hosting at home I don’t enjoy DJing through the evening so used to pre-mix the music. This mix kicked in at midnight after Big Ben’s chimes. We start with a few commercial dance favourites from the time, before going into a wad of funky disco h

Chrissie is an old mate from my days at Kiss 100. Back in November 2000, she was particularly fond of a tune by Kojak that I’d blagged from one of the programming guys, so I built a mix around it for her birthday. The session is filled out with various commercial party anthems and other big tunes from 2000. Most of these tracks also appear in the 2001 Spaced Odyssey mix for the following month’s NYE party, which is probably why I have not uploaded this before now, but this mix came first and no doubt inspired that soundtrack. It appears I never noted the original tracklist for this mix, but all of the tracks were easy to recognise apart from No 4... I can picture the sleeve but it’s one I passed on to the charity shop long ago.Enjoy! Update 16.2 - Chrissie’s Bday1. daft punk - one more time - original2. club fiesta - la fiesta - knee deep club fiesta mix3. sade - by your side - ben watt remix4. ?? - so lonely - original mix (subliminal records)5. braxe & falke - intro (running)6. kojak - you can’t stop i

This mix was laid down one hot summer afternoon for the first BBQ round at The Gay Church (Kat & Chris’ flat). They called it a BBQ, but it kind of started after dark and not much food was eaten... Summer of 2000 was a scorcher. So many parties too. The mix is very similar to the set I played at a party in West London for one of Jane’s friends. I turned up just expecting to play for half an hour but rocked the joint for several hours. Happy Days. summer bbq at church union city - harmony d’influence - waiting - remix tom jones - sex bomb - dub mix daddy's favourite - i feel good things for you barry white - trouble with me moloko - time is now - remix sonique - feel so good - can 7 remix joe roberts - happiness bini & martine - happiness mocha - higher cherie amor - i don't want nobody don’t even know if i should call you baby mr devil nu breed - born this way spacedust - l

Here’s a favourite for dancing around Paul’s living room. Many of the tracks here also remind me of Cuneyt, who stayed with Andie and I for a while when he split up with his ex. One Saturday evening we got trashed and danced away wearing a pair of headphones each. The tracklist is a chunky selection of disco and filtered house anthems which I much overplayed at the time. Daddy’s Favourite is always a crowd pleaser, and the Phunkie Souls track should be one of my Desert Island selections. ‘For real’ by Bushbaby is beautifully lush. Excuse the pop tracks, it’s probably a result of working at Kiss at the time. project:update > update 12.1 > november 99 1 triple x - feel the same 2 daddy’s favourite - i feel good things for you - original mix 3 sunkids feat. chance - rescue me - bibi & martini ‘999’ funk mix 4 madison avenue - don’t call me baby - original 12” mix 5 michael moog - that sound - full intention remix 6 supakings -