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Hottest day of the summer.  Here is a little something to beat the heat.  Actually, it’ll probably make you sweat more…so listen to it indoors.

Actually, it would be perfect on a run or the bike.  Or at 1am doing visual design.

1. The xx - Intro
2. Ursula Rucker featuring King Britt - Untitled Flow
3. Ulrich Schnauss - …Passing By
4. Aphex Twin - Xtal
5. Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Fake Blood Remix)
6. La Roux - Bulletproof (Larry Tee & Alexander Technique Blogula Remix)
7. Bart B More - Finally featuring Oliver Twizt (Original Mix)
8. Bingo Players vs. Chocolate Puma - Disco Electrique (Vocal Mix)
9. Who Da Funk - Shiny Disco Balls featuring Jessica Eve (Original Mix)
10. Sir James - Special (Bingo Players Remix)
11. T.T.L. - Kamera (BuzzBoyzz Auto Focus Mix)
12. Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (DF’s Attention Vocal Mix)
13. Dennis Ferrer - Sinfonia Della Notte (Original Mix)
14. Kaskade - Everything (Big Room Mix)

Some of my recent mixes have pushed a little more progressive…even trancey…and the wife wasn’t feelin’ it. So I was inspired by this lovely spring weather to put together an organic house mix that the wife can get behind. It gets a little more deep and minimal in the middle…but I tried to resist the temptation to take it progressive. For me, this set has a ton of tracks that are tough not to like…house music fan or not. Enjoy!

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1. Ananda Project featuring Gaelle Addison - Cascades of Colour (Wamdue Black Mix) [King Street Sounds]
2. Miguel Migs - The Night [Naked Music]
3. Straight Radiohed - DJ WHO vs. Radiohead [White]
4. Hardrive/Masters at Work - Deep Inside [UMM]
5. Lovetronic - You are Love (Si Brad’s Payback Vocal) [Naked Music]
6. Andy Caldwell featuring Omega - I Can’t Wait [OM]
7. Miguel Migs - Surrender [Naked Music]
8. Bart B More - Finally featuring Oliver Twist (Original Mix) [Tiger]
9. Andreas Heiszenberger - Perfect Moment [Brut!]
10. Hardrive 2000/Masters at Work featuring Lynae - Never Forget (When You Touch Me) [Strictly Rhythm]
11. Naked Music NYC - If I Fall (Miguel Mig’s Deluxe Soul Dub) [OM]
12. Blue Six - Pure (Original) [Naked Music]
13. Kaskade - Sweet Love [OM}
14. Naked Music NYC - It's Love (Wamdue Dream Dub) [OM]
15. Aphex Twin - Xtal [Apollo]

I’ve been listening to my Back to Mine vol 3 Mix and one night decided that I should take it in another direction…probably because I was doing visual design…and I prefer my visual design soundtrack to be decidedly more aggressive.

So here is the extended and reworked version of that mix.  It’s kind of all over the place but its 2 hours of good times…to me anyways.  Hope you dig it.

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1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V - Pink Floyd
2. Idioteque - Radiohead
3. Butterfly - Talvin Singh
4. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
5. Hey Hey (DF’s Attention Vocal Mix) - Dennis Ferren
6. Baba O’Riley (Original Mix) - The Cube Guys
7. Jason Nivens vs. Eric B and Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
8. I Remember - Kaskade & Deadmau5
9. The Phoenix (River and Rain) - God Within
10. Promised Land (Club Mix) - Joe Smooth
11. Needin’ U (Original Mistake Mix) - David Morales feat. The Face
12. The Freaks Come Out (Sharp’s Freaks at Trade Mix) - Cevin Fisher
13. Bucci Bag - Andrea Doria
14. Energy Flash (Original Mix) - Joey Beltram
15. Dish & Tell - House of Venus
16. The Age of Love (Watch Out for the Stella Club Mix) - Age of Love
17. Quadrophonia (Original Mix) - Quadrophonia
18. Bladerunner / ‘Til We Meet Again (Brothers in Rhythm Perkapella) - Inner City / Remake
19. Children (Dream Version) - Robert Miles
20. Get Up (Diplo Remix) - Bingo Players
21. Machuka (MikiWAR Bootleg Break) - Lil Jon featuring Mr. Catra & Mulher File
22. Rhythm - DJ WHO featuring Tanisha
23. Da Gonzo (Breaks Mix) - The Gonzo
24. Unfinished Symphony (Sasha & John Digweed Mix) - Hybrid

This one is 53 minutes of eclectic earphone bliss.  It’s a little all over the place…but it works for me.  The funny thing about this one is the virtual lack of beats compared to my other mixes.  Not a single hip hop or house track to be found.  For full effect, crank it up through a set of headphones.

Rock it.

Download Back to Mine Mark Maloney Vol 3: Headphone-ism

Tracklisting

1. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
2. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V
3. Radiohead - Idioteque
4. Talvin Singh - Butterfly
5. Waldeck - Defenceless (Thievery Corporation Mix)
6. Giant Leap Feat. Maxi Jazz - My Culture
7. Doves - Caught by the River
8. The Cure - A Forest
9. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
10. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (XXXChange Remix)

As you may know, I prefer my music mixed. To me, it adds to the experience. It’s like a musical prix fixe, if you will. I’ve done a couple of mixes so far, but decided to get a little more ambitious with this one.

Download all 4 sets as a zip archive.

The idea behind this one was to build four different hour long mixes that would correspond to what I’d want to hear during different stages of an evening.

01 bar: old school beer drinkin’ jams

1. Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know The Ledge) [MCA]
2. Ice-T - New Jack Hustler (Nino’s Theme) [Sire]
3. Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off [Cold Chillin']
4. Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock - Joy and Pain [BMG]
5. Salt ‘N’ Pepa - Push It [Polygram]
6. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader [MCA]
7. Big Daddy Kane - Raw [Warner Bros]
8. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (The Coldcut Remix) [Fourth & Broadway]
9. PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss [Gee Street]
10. EPMD - Strictly Business [Fresh]
11. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina [Elektra]
12. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours [Mercury]
13. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton [Ruthless/Priority]
14. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out [Def Jam]
15. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It [Def Jam]
16. Gang Starr - Who’s Gonna Take The Weight [Cool Tempo]
17. Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow [Rush Associated]
18. Lake Trout - Sounds from Below [SNS]

02 dancefloor: breaks into blissed out house

1. Sia - Breathe Me [Caroline/Astralwerks]
2. Future Sound of London - Papau New Guinea [Jumpin' & Pumpin']
3. DJ WHO - Shitty Samples on Acid [Defective]
4. DJ Big Red - Weed on Friday [Baltimore Breakbeat]
5. DJ WHO - In D’Faze (Street Knowledge Mix) [Shaken Not Stirred]
6. Armand Van Helden featuring Team Facelift - Shake That Ass (Original Mix) [Southern Fried]
7. Major Lazer featuring VYBZ Kartel - Pod de floor [Downtown]
8. Kaskade - Sweet Love [Om]
9. Miguel Mix - Days of Color [Naked Music]
10. Kaskade - Everything (Big Room Mix) [Om]
11. Deep Dish - Say Hello (Extended Mix) [Deep Dish]
12. Armand Van Helden featuring Roland Clark - Flowerz [FFRR]
13. Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Bay City Beat Mix) [Art of Mix]
14. Jungle Brothers - I’ll House You [Warner Black]

03 afterhours: dirty, sexy, and deep. time to get down.

1. Kings of Tomorrow - Rain [Defected]
2. Kerry Chandler - Back To The Raw [Deeply Rooted House]
3. Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up! (Album Mix) [Twisted America]
4. Liberty City - Some Lovin’ (Murk Mix) [Murk]
5. Coral Way Chiefs - Release Myself [Murk]
6. Liberty City - If You Really Love Someone (Original Mix) [Murk]
7. The Fog - Been a Long Time (Original Club Mix) [Downtown]
8. Boris Dlugosch - Keep Pushin’ (Murk Monster Mix) [Manifesto]
9. Pete Moss - R U Serious [Worship]
10. Boris Dlugosch - Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah’s Bad Boy Mix) [Realtime]
11. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix) [Virgin America]
12. The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.- It’s Gonna Be a Lovely Day (Dub House Mix) [BMG Victor]
13. Hardrive - Deep Inside (Original Mix) [UMM]
14. Funky Green Dogs - Reach for Me (Murk Mix) [Murk]
15. Miguel Migs - Petalpushing [NRK]
16. Steve Winwood - The Finer Things [Island]

04 chill: a melange of eclectic downtempo tracks for comtemplating just about anything.

1. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey [ESL]
2. Depeche Mode - Useless (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session) [Reprise/Mute]
3. Vanessa Daou - Two to Tango [MCA]
4. Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel [Virgin]
5. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine [Capitol]
6. Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps [Virgin]
7. The KLF - Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard [TVT]
8. Lamb - Gabriel [Koch]
9. Depeche Mode - Leave in Silence [Reprise/Mute]
10. Pink Floyd - Mother [Capitol]
11. Dave Matthews Band - Christmas Song [Bama Rags]

Enjoy!

For the second volume in my little personal Back to Mine collection, I dug into my buddy Steve’s ipod and put together a “Back to My Mom’s” mix circa 1990.  This mix is a testimony to a time in my life when I didn’t know much about myself or my place in the world — but I knew that I loved beats and that its more fun to dance while partying than to sit just around.

The mix starts out with some of my favorite hip-hop tracks from that era and then moves quickly into a bunch of “Mayfield tracks” (aka stuff that we would have rocked in Tony Pegas’ basement back in the day).  Killer EBM and industrial dance stuff with some legendary electronic tracks thrown in.  The set ends with a couple of alternative classics that, although not necessarily dance tracks, seemed to always find their way on to the proverbial decks.  It’s a little slice of P.T. Flagg’s.

Enjoy!

Download Back to Mine Mark Maloney Vol 2: Back to My Mom’s Circa 1990

Tracklisting

1. Cypress Hill - Ain’t Goin Out Like That
2. Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours
3. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
4. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel (Remix)
5. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel (L.P. Mix)
6. Microchip League - New York (Dance Floor Cut)
7. Front 242 - Headhunter, Vol 1
8. Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
9. Meat Beat Manifesto - God O.D.
10. Ministry - Everyday is Halloween (Album Version)
11. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
12. Bollock Brothers - Harley David Son of a Bitch
13. Public Image Limited - The Body
14. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

I’ve been a big fan of the “Back to Mine” series since its inception.  Essentially, it asks famous DJs or electronic music producers to put together a mixed compilation of tracks that you’d hear at their house after a night out rather than during the night out itself.

So, I decided to put one together myself.  Just for fun.  And to express myself a little.  These are some of my favorite tunes hopefully put together in a way that makes a little sense.  Enjoy!

Download Back to Mine: Mark Maloney Volume 1 (80MB)

Tracklisting

1. Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
2. Dave Pike - Sandunga
3. Miguel Migs - Days of Color
4. Armand Van Helden featuring Roland Clark - Flowerz
5. Follow Me (Club Mix) - Aly-Us
6. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
7. Warehouse - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
8. Neon - John Mayer
9. The Sulphur Man - Doves
10. Shaolin Satellite - Thievery Corporation
11. Seek Up - Dave Matthews Band
12. Personal Jesus (Acoustic) - Depeche Mode

This was originally posted as a note my Facebook…inspired by a meme brought to my attention by Al Yukna.  It was alot of fun…and thought that it deserved archiving here as well.

I’m putting them in order of “when I first discovered them” because “life context” is important.

01) Michael Jackson - Thriller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album)
The coolest thing that a third grader had ever heard. It was ubiquitous.

02) Prince - Purple Rain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_rain
Manuel Sampedro’s sister took him and I to see it at the Strand Theater in Dundalk…and we were only eleven (that shit was rated R). I was physically moved (pun intended) by Apollonia…and Prince’s music. Later, I discovered how truly remarkable a musician he is.

03) Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensed_To_Ill
Eighth grade - the combination of beats, the three different voices, and the sexual innuendo were enough to keep that tape in my knock-off Walkman at all times.

04) Follow the Leader - Eric B. and Rakim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_the_Leader_(Eric_B._and_Rakim_album)
Freshman year. Ryan Heidel. Learning to wrestle. Black Russell hoodie. Sup. THIS is hip-hop.

05) The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_Kiss_Me_Kiss_Me
Summer before Sophomore Year. PT Flaggs. Tony Pegas. Black and white-clad lunacy ensures.

06) Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_For_The_Masses
The “Thriller” of its genre. They sold out the frickin’ Rose Bowl and put out a live double album.

07) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(album)
Got to Calvert Hall. Toned down the black cladness…but still brought the two-step. They didn’t have Pink Floyd in my house growing up. Learned to play guitar in order to play “Wish You Were Here”. Thank fucking God for that song. I still play my guitar virtually every day.

08) Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Two_Things
This would be number one. Without it, I wouldn’t have given a fuck about the internet. Could you imagine me if I would have stayed in graduate school? Oh no. I owe this album everything. I named my frickin’ first born after it. That shit is devotion, man.

09) Sasha + John Digweed - Northern Exposure Vol 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Exposure_2
This album was an escape when I was miserable in graduate school. I would come home, go up in the spare room in Canton, crank this, and dance in my chair while designing and building websites on the side. This album literally made my engagement happen. And we even saw Digweed in Ibiza. Insane.

10) Thievery Corporation - Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_from_the_Thievery_Hi-Fi
Mike B spinning “The Blue One” and “The Red One” provided the soundtrack to my life in the years after college. Adam, Leon, Chip. Music was a part of everything that we did. And it was pretty cool when I walked into Gr8 for the “I’m still in grad school…but I’m looking to get out” interview, this album was playing. It was either fate…or I was seduced by the devil.

11) Cafe Del Mar - Volumen Cinco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_del_mar#Volume_5_.28cinco.29
Bought it at a record shop in Ibiza on the recommendation of the dood in the shop. Perfect record for what it is and represents. Madonna named it her favorite album of ‘98. Nik and I share the love for this album. It’s “ours” if you will.

12) Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuyorican_Soul
The world’s best house producers collaborate with the world’s best jazz and latin musicians to create the magnus opus of house music. I am still a firm believer in latin and deep house. That shit is spiritual. Body and Soul in Central Park. That actually happened.

13) John Mayer - Inside Wants Out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Wants_Out
Acoustic guitar has been a constant in my life since “Wish You Were Here”. This dood breathes new life into the instrument. Dave Matthews’ playing gave me a similar reaction…”what the fuck is he playing? i gotta learn that!”

14) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_Life
Didn’t discover the whole album until I really understood music. It may be one of the best pieces ever written (and performed). Truly a work of musical genius.

15) Doves - The Last Broadcast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Broadcast_(album)
Hadn’t gotten excited about a new band in a long, long time when I heard this. It blew me away. Three doods did this? Sulfur Man, literally, could be my favorite song of all times. That is not a lie.

Hope the descriptions weren’t too self-indulgent…but I really enjoyed doing this.

I’ve been friends with some pretty talented musicians and DJs for years.  So when I heard that perhaps the most well known of all of them has stopped spinning vinyl and moved on to mp3s, I realized that the technical barrier of entry had been officially pulled away.  So, in my eternal search for other ways to express myself…I decided to put a little mix together.

This mix pulls from a broad range of music that I’m into…but its all dance-oriented…simply because that’s what I like to listen to when I’m designing.  So, without further adieu…here is my first attempt at the whole DJ thing.  It’s not perfect…but whatddayagonnado?

http://www.baboonfarm.com/audio/not_so_essential_maloney_120708.zip

Here is the tracklisting:

Sia - Breathe Me (Album Mix)
Papau New Guinea - Future Sound of London
Steppin Out - Kaskade
Mohammed is Jesus (Deep Dish Daddy Cool Mix) - Deep Dish
Barbarella (Deep Dish Armagheddon Breakdown Mix) - Sven Vath
Cowgirl - Underworld
Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix) - Sneaker Pimps
Little Fluffy Clouds (Danny Tenaglia Detour Mix) - The Orb
Elements (The Chant) - Danny Tenaglia
Plastic Dreams (Original Long Version) - Jaydee
Fired Up! (Album Mix) - Funky Green Dogs
Some Lovin’ (Murk Mix) - Liberty City
Release Myself - Coral Way Chiefs
Together (Original Dub Version) - Interceptor
I’m a Bitch (House Nation Mix) - Olga
Beyond This World - Jungle Brothers
The Magic Number - De La Soul
Chicago - Groove Armada
I See You Baby - Groove Armada