Mixes we’ve made using music we’ve written ourselves:
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Night After Day After Night
Tracklist:
- Lambfruits
- Tickhill Toilets
- Fungle Mungle
- Chunderbox
- Late Night Recorder Session
- Cloppy
- Light Night
- Cretan Music Night
- Plomb
We made part of this in 2019 and early 2020, before the Covid pandemic hit, often taking inspiration from gigs we’d been to, then worked separately on a few things during the lockdowns. We met again in 2022 a few times to put the mix together.
It’s named after the way we usually end up making music: working Friday night, into Saturday and then late into Saturday night (with usually only a quick break or two for food!) It’s also the name of a record mentioned in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ which the girls in the record shop are listening to. Alex describes it as being, “moaned by two horrible yarbleless like eunuchs whose names I forget”.
All the material is our own, except from a small section we sampled from the album ’Speakers’ by Kevin Eldon, and consists heavily of field recordings we made from various places around the world over the last 4 years as well as some tapes recorded in around 1999 that Jungle Jim found in a box in late 2019.
FAQ
Q: My God, how long does this go on for?
A: 57 and a half minutes.
Q: And when do the drums come in?
A: After about 53 minutes.
Q: Why did you do this?
A: It kind of just fell out involuntarily.
Q: Who are all these disembodied voices?
A: If you know one of us then you’re most likely one of them.
Q: What’s that?
A: It’s for egg and spoon races.
Q: I wonder if I taste like a lambfruit?
A: You do. Delicious. Yum yum.
Q: Do you have a sizing chart?
A: We recommend all customers order extra medium for the best fit.
Q: This is making me feel unsettled/nauseous/afraid. Is this normal?
A: We found this to be a perfectly normal response in our test subjects. Try to remain calm. Any unpleasant feelings will eventually pass.
For more information, please re-read.
© 2022 Beffrey & Jungle
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Chicken Rapture
Tracklist:
- Breathed
- Cavtat
- Jingemmel
- Ghost Locks
- Gwrandwch
- Citadel
- 9th Penguin
- BoyGirlRobot
- Blue Rose
Our second mix made from entirely self-composed material. Pretty much everything at 105 BPM with varying degrees of light and shade, from the divine to the monstrous.
The title came from the idea we had about placing speakers in the trees in Jungle’s garden and playing heavenly trumpet sounds through them. The plan being to convince the neighbours in the immediate vicinity that The Rapture had come.
In this case though, it’s The Rapture but with chickens, all ascending to meet their God, One-Eyed Jeff.
Little is actually known about One-Eyed Jeff. The only thing we do know about him is the small amount of information we can glean from an unattributable quote:
“If it hadn’t been for One-Eyed Jeff,
I’d be married, I wouldn’t be deaf.”
Anon
The exact circumstances of this situation remain unknown. All we know is that there was going to be a marriage, One-Eyed Jeff stopped it somehow, and the bride or groom was rendered deaf as a result of his intervention.
© 2018 Beffrey & Jungle
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Overdub of Awful
Tracklist:
- Tablet Jam
- Heavy of Stomach (feat. Spunky D)
- Bye Bye, Aeroplane
- System Restore
- Glitch
- 1nce a Belieber
- 275_132kV
- Curse These Metal Hands
- Azure Window
- Face the Spill
Our first mix made from completely original material. Well, almost! There are 3 or 4 samples we’ve lifted from elsewhere, but the rest of the work is material we’ve created or recorded ourselves.
It was created over a 6 month period between 2016 and 2017. We first recorded 8 channels of various synths, samplers and drones, then wrote each of the 10 tunes (some together, some individually) and overdubbed them.
© 2017 Beffrey & Jungle
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Mixes we’ve made using other people’s music:
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Adventures on the Wheels of Chenille
Tracklist:
- David Holmes – The Story Of The Ink
- Jazzy Grooves – Huh
- Z-Trip – Further Explorations Into The Black Hole
- Mr Scruff – Bass Baby
- Mr Scruff with Quantic – Donkey Ride
- Cut Chemist – The Garden
- DJ Shadow – Number Song (Cut Chemist remix)
- House of Pain – Jump Around
- Blondie – Rapture
- Queen – Another One Bites The Dust
- Rob Base & DJ E Z Rock – It Takes Two
- Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band – Apache
- Ultramagnetic MCs – Poppa Large (acapella)
- Chic – Good Times
- Beffrey & Jungle – The Story of Beffrey & Jungle
- DJ Nu-Mark & Pomo – Lola
- Adam Buxton – Help The Police
- Kinny ft TM Juke – Petrified Dazed (Andy H remix)
- Dillon Francis & Diplo ft. Maluca – Que Que
- Run DMC – My Adidas (acapella)
- Trowa – Boochie Boochie Bango (Original mix)
- JFB feat. Mr Dero – Rock Your Goldfish
- JFB – Social Know How
- Wax Tailor feat. ASM – Say Yes (acapella)
- Kormac – Scratch Marchin’
- Mestizo & Mike Gao – Pick Up 52s
- Chinese Man – Artichaut
- Jurassic 5 – Swing Set
- DJ Disse – Break On Through
- Quantic – The 5th Exotic
Old school meets new school in Beffrey and Jungle’s latest genre-spanning dance mix.
Featuring some classic hip hop, groovy electro-swing, wobbly dubstep and moombahton as well as Beffrey and Jungle’s own mashup tribute to Grandmaster Flash.
An eclectic adventure, perfect for a sunny day.
Released 2012
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Strictly No Dancing
Tracklist:
- Beffrey & Jungle – Untitled Intro
- William Basinski – Vivian & Ondine
- Black Dog – Wait Behind This Line
- Easy Access Orchestra – The Hypnotist
- Lemon Jelly – Experiment Number 6
- William Basinski – Disintegtration Loops 3
- The Long Lost – Past Perfect
- Philip Jeck – Residue
- Jungle Jim & Small Scale Experimental Machine – Day After Night After Day
- Dan Arborise – Feet In The Sea, Head In The Stars
- 9 Lazy 9 – Pound Stretcher
- Funki Porcini – The Big Sea
- Aphex Twin – Untitled (SAW II – CD1 Track1) (Four Tet Remix)
- Aphex Twin – Untitled (SAW II – CD1 Track5)
- Robert Henke – Indigo_Transform
- Jeff Mills – Life Cycle
- Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Recorded in two sittings; one very recently and one about a year ago.
A mostly relaxing mix with occasional sinister and dark overtones.
Features two specially recorded monologues: one written by Jungle Jim about a dream he’d had, and the other is of unknown origin, although we suspect credit for this goes to Mr. Big Daddy Stu, Bangor, circa 1998.
Also featuring some live recordings from San Francisco Airport, a monologue about democracy by E.M. Forster, lots of outdoor sounds and various characters from BBC3’s Bellamy’s People.
Released 2011
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Chocolate Hostage
Tracklist:
- Brian Eno – Slow Water
- TM Juke feat Alice Russell & Jim Oxborough – Knee Deep
- Quantic – Infinite Regression
- Freddie Cruger feat Linn – Pretty Little Thing
- Fink – Good Day For Hippos
- Natural Self feat Abdominal – Breathe Deep
- Bonobo feat Bajka – Nightlite
- Clifford Gilberto – Soulbath
- DJ Vadim – Aural Prostitution (DJ Cam Remix)
- London Funk Allstars – Chicago
- Amon Tobin – Four Ton Mantis (Bonobo Mix)
- Dirty Diggers feat Nostalgia 77 – So Grown Up
- Boards Of Canada – Aquarius
- DJ Cam – Free Your Turntable and Your Scratch Will Follow
- Quantic – Me Chocolatina
- Wax Tailor – Que Sera
- Funky Fresh Few – Clean Up
- Fingathing – Big Kid
- Clifford Gilberto – Restless
- Lovage – Stroker Ace
The result of two weekends spent mainly laughing at poo. An 84 BPM Hip hop mix, featuring ‘Unemployed Welshmen’ from Blue Jam by Chris Morris, Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows discussing poo euphemisms and scratching aplenty.
We had a live webcam broadcast on the 2nd session during which, while we were having some computer problems, we were texted some sound advice from my mate Heavy Chris to ‘turn it off and on again’. We did and it worked! Cheers Chris!
Released 2009
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Thunderlounge
Tracklist:
- Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi
- Si Begg – Thermostat
- Coburn – We Interupt This Program
- Spank Rock – Bump (Switch Remix)
- Banco De Gaia – Kincajou (Speedy J Mix)
- CJ Bolland – Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand Van Helden’s Drum & Bass Mix)
- Zero dB – Bongos, Bleeps And Basslines (Dibaba Remix)
- Mr Scruff – Kalimba
- Dave Cortez – Happy Soul With A Hook
- Amon Tobin & Kid Koala – Untitled
- Beffrey & Jungle – Fat Brit
- The Orb – Toxygene (Way Out West Begbie Mix)
- Plump DJs – Beat Myself Up (Plump DJs Night Mix)
- Plastikman – Spastik (Dubfire Rework)
- Mr Scruff – Whiplash
Electro / Breaks / Techno mix, recorded earlier in the year. Our first foray into consistent 130BPM territory.
Listen out for our Britney Spears vs Mr Oizo remix: Fat Brit!
Released 2009
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Yoghurt Weaver
Tracklist:
- The Orb – Majestic (Millwall Mix)
- Biosphere – As The Sun Kissed The Horizon
- Biosphere – Poa Alpina
- Biosphere – Heatleak
- Biosphere – Dissolving Clouds
- Philip Glass – Akhnaten Prelude
- Biosphere – The Things I Tell You
- Brian Eno – Discrete Music
- Unknown
- Biosphere – Times When I Know You’ll Be Sad
- Unknown
- Biosphere – Hyperborea
- Unknown
- Biosphere – Translation
- Holst – Venus
- The Orb – A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld: Live Mix Mk 10
- Unknown
- Blockhead – Triptych Pt 1
- Blockhead – Triptych Pt 2
- Blockhead – Triptych Pt 3
- Amorphous Androgynous – The Lovers
- Brian Eno – Music For Airports 1/1
- Unknown
- Biosphere – Le Grand Dóme
In places, this is probably the most twisted, unpleasant mix we’ve done. The original mix was done by Jungle Jim and then overdubbed by the both of us in one session.
A lot of the spoken stuff that’s featured on this mix was originally recorded for a dark comedy / sketch show we wrote called Shy Talk (much in the style of Blue Jam by Chris Morris) back in 1998. It never got used in the end as the radio station we were going to appear on (Storm FM, a local student radio station for Bangor, North Wales) never actually got a licence. We still have all the original material though. We actually have the finished shows too and will probably upload them at some point.
We’ve also started working on a video for this mix. It’s quite an ambitious project though, so it’s doubtful there’ll be anything finished until 2009. **EDIT** Yeah, this never actually got finished!
Released 2008
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Planefinch Sensation
Tracklist:
- Biosphere – Warmed By The Drift
- Christina Kubisch – Oase 2000
- The Irresistible Force – Playing Around With Sound
- Skalpel – Sculpture
- Ray Brook – How to Doo
- The Herbaliser – Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Cinematic Orchestra – Work It! (Man With The Movie Camera)
- Mr Scruff – Ambiosound
- Coldcut – Fat Bloke
- Nostalgia 77 – Seven Nation Army
- Ernest Ranglin – Surfin’
- Karminsky Experience – Summer Song
- Sergio Mendez & Brazil ’66 – Chove Chuva
- Aim – Walking Home Through The Park
- David Shrigley & Sanjeev Kohli – What There Is
- DJ Kentaro – Tasogare Highway High (Bass Wanna Be A Singer)
- Wagon Christ – Excerpt from Studio Session
- Oneself – Trying To Speak
- Biosphere – Sherbrooke
- The Herbaliser – Unsungsong
The most recent mix and back to the old style of tune choice here. No computer beatmatching on this one either, just pretty much one tune after another.
The planefinch is a distant relative of the traingull, by the way!
Released 2007
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Best Breakfast in Chorlton
Tracklist:
- Amon Tobin – Horsefish
- Blockhead – Insomniac Olympics
- DJ Vadim – English Breakfast
- Cannibal Holocaust Original Theme
- Biosphere – Modifie
- Bob Marley – I Shot the Sheriff
- Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner (Acapella)
- A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick it?
- DJ Shadow – Bring Madlib Up
- Nightmares on Wax – The Sweetest
- Mr Scruff – Ug
- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
- Nightmares on Wax – Pudpots
- Ty – Don’t Watch That
- Nightmares on Wax – 70s 80s
- Freddie Cruger feat. Linn – Pushing On
- Dynamic Syncopation – Veteran’s Leg
- DJ Nu-Mark – Melody
- Aim – The Omen
- Van Morrison – Baby Please Don’t Go
- Nina Simone – I Put a Spell on You
‘Best Breakfast in Chorlton’ is actually the claim made on the board of Revise Bar in Chorlton, Manchester. And how right they are too! There’s a food area there called Tom’s Kitchen which serves a mighty array of culinary delights, all cooked and served personally by Tom himself.
We went there on the Saturday after spending all of the Friday night before getting the mix together. As soon as we walked in and sat down, we heard ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ by Bob Marley playing. Jim proposed that ‘Tom’s Diner’ by Suzanne Vega would fit quite nicely over it. One marvellous breakfast later (honestly, you really need to try one!), we headed back to give it a try. Lo and behold, it sounded great! We thought it quite apt that we were in Tom’s Kitchen when the idea came about and so decided to call the mix ‘Best Breakfast in Chorlton’.
We’d like to dedicate the Suzanne Vega mix to Tom the Head Chef – his food’s sorted me out on many an occasion now!. This is the second entirely computer sequenced and beatmatched mix, but has more of a live mixed feel than Prawn of the Dead.
Released 2007
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Prawn of the Dead
Tracklist:
- Exhuma – Mama Loi, Papa Loi
- David Shrigley – Rock Festival
- Blockhead – Carnivores Unite
- London Funk All Stars – Flesh Eating Disco Zombie vs. The Bionic Hookers from Mars
- Mr Scruff – Limbic Funk
- Wagon Christ – Sopping Shitty
- Blackalicious – Lyrics Fathom (instrumental)
- Wu Tang Clan – Da Mystery of Chessboxin (acapella)
- Keep in Time – Roy’s Theme
- RX – Imagine
- DJ Shadow – Hardcore Instrumental Hip Hop
- Lyrics Born – Send Them (instrumental)
- Treva Whateva – Bouncin Bomb
- Pest – Heard Yer Bird Moved In
- Blockhead – Art Of Walking
- Wagon Christ – The Funnies
- Nirobi & Barakas – Partridge
- Cabbageboy – Rhythm & Blues Angus Steakhouse
- Amon Tobin – Verbal
- Mastif & Core – Undead
- Spor Insecticide
- Unknown Error – Exit
- Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine – Down with the Sickness
Inspired by several George A Romero zombie movies, a bit of Kevin Smith and ‘Tony the Prawn’, this is the most ambitious mix to date. Live mixing has been abandoned here and the whole thing is sequenced entirely on the computer.
Released 2007
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Transpennine Express
Tracklist:
- Biosphere – Shenzhou
- Funki Porcini – Hyde Park
- Animals on Wheels – Never In Or Never Out
- Nostalgia 77 – The Hunger
- Funki Porcini – The Great Drive By
- Fink ft. Tina Grace – Hush Now
- Flanger – Galak
- Skalpel – Hyperbole
- DJ Food – The Sky At Night
- DJ Food – Freedom (Fila Brazillia Mix)
- Bonobo – Flutter
- Bonobo – Terrapin
The last mix to be recorded live before the move to entirely computer-based sequencing. Recorded using 2 Technics 1210s, Ableton Live and 2 Technics SLDZ 1200s.
Named after a military-like operation involving an all round trip from Manchester to Sheffield (to watch Derren Brown), then to Leeds (to see The Herbaliser and pick the gear up) then back to Manchester again to record the mix. Gear was dismantled, shifted around, set up, tunes picked out and the whole thing recorded in less than 12 hours!
There is also a preponderance of train noise on the tape!
Released 2006
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Tears Before Cowboy Time
Tracklist:
- The Herbaliser – Intro
- Irresistible Force – Nepalese Bliss (Jimpster Mix)
- Amon Tobin – Melody Infringement
- Mr Scruff – Shanty Town
- Mr Scruff – Fish
- The KLF – America No More (Just The Pipe Band)
- The Herbaliser – Moon Sequence
- Nightmares On Wax – Ease Jimi
- The Herbaliser – Missing Suitcase (remix)
- Nitin Sawhney – Homelands
- Beffrey & Jungle – Symphony In Fucked Off Major
- Avia – All My Jazz
- Irresistible Force – Fish Dances (Frederic Galliano mix)
- Up, Bustle and Out – !Aqui No Ma!
- Funki Porcini – Theme From Sugar Daddy
- The Herbaliser – Goldrush
- The Herbaliser – Mr Chombee Has The Flaw
- Beffrey & Jungle – Symphony In Fucked Off Major
- Lamb – B line (Herbaliser remix)
- The Herbaliser – Sensual Woman
This mix was recorded live and probably took the longest time to prepare for (around 2 months!) We had 5 live inputs: turntables, mic, tape deck and 2 computers (one running Acid and the other Sound Forge) with the entire thing ‘sequenced’ on a bit of A4 paper! It took about 15 takes to get it right too!
On the final take though, around 15 minutes from the end, we had a kitchen fire. Our flatmate ran into the room crying that the kitchen was covered in flames. We went downstairs, put the still flaming grill pan out of the door and ran back to the room to carry on. If you listen carefully, there’s a good 5 minutes where nothing happens and it’s just the tune playing (which is quite rare!).
Other than this, the mix went very well: samples were on time (pretty much!) and it felt a shame to have to risk doing it again. The fire happened just before 10 to 10 (Cowboy Time!), hence the name ‘Tears Before Cowboy Time’!
Released 1999
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Return of the Revenge of the Son of the Traingull
Tracklist:
- DJ Food – The Crow
- Neotropic – Nana
- The Herbaliser – Mrs Chombee Takes The Plunge (DJ Food Mix)
- Coldcut – The Tale Of Miss Virginia Epitome
- Funki Porcini – River of Smack
- Funki Porcini – Groover
- Funki Porcini – B Monkey
- Coldcut – Eine Kleine Hedmusik
- David Holmes – Don’t Die Just Yet – Delakota Remix
- Coldcut – Onamission
- Fila Brazillia – A Zed & 2 L’s (Coldcut Retouch)
- Nightmares on Wax – Rise
- Nightmares on Wax – Dreddoverboard
- DJ Food – Freedom
- The Wiseguys – Poontang
- Trolley Dollies – Space Cake (DJ Harvey Mix)
So called because of the sheer amount of trains and seagulls that feature on the tape! Recorded originally as a live, one off mix using vinyl, tape decks and triggering samples on a computer. Not strictly the first mix we produced (as the one before this, ‘Legato Fenugreek’ is yet to be found – UPDATE… we recently found it – check it out below), but the earliest one we have a digital copy of.
Released 1999
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Legato Fenugreek
Tracklist:
- Coldcut – Nominal Aphasia
- Coldcut – Panopticon (Irresistible Force Mix)
- Chocolate Weasel – The Non-Sensical Ramblings of a Lunatic Mind?
- Sonorous Star – Indian Motorcycles
- Squarepusher – Curve 1
- Future Sound of London – Far Out Son of Lung & The Ramblings of a Madman
- Squarepusher – Parallelogram Bin
- Groove Armada – At The River
- Funki Porcini – Long Road
- Deadstock – Octarine
- Funki Porcini – The Afterlife
- The Bird – Tranquility Bass
- Nightmares on Wax – Pipes of Honour
- 9 Lazy 9 – Take Nine
- Up, Bustle & Out – An Unmarked Grave
- Chocolate Weasel – A Blue Furry Plughole
- Wagon Christ – Fly Swat
This mix was made before the mass production of CD writers, back in the days of the TDK C90 (thus the 2-half format!) A massive thanks goes to Klakka here for having the only copy left in existence! Beffrey hasn’t a clue what happened to his copy and Jungle lost his when he had his minidisc nicked!
Released 1998