I don't normally post my mixes on the front page of the site, but this is something a bit special. Over the past few years I've been a resident DJ at the Big Chill Bar's Fluidnation night. Fluidnation is run by DJ, producer and all round champion Ben Mynott (ex-fragile state) with the remit of playing "just beautiful music" and has been one of the strongest supporters of Digitonal over the years. This mix is a collection of my favourite tracks over the period of the residency, sequenced, mixed and mashed. Hope you enjoy it.

Andy.Digitonal

Digitonal presents...
Fluidnation Classics

Length: 59:43 minutes (94.41 M
Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 220Kbps (VBR)
http://postbocks.com/uploads/digitonal_presents_fluidnation_classics

The Orb: Little Fluffy Clouds (excerpt)
Ulrich Schnauss: Between Us and Them
Gift of Gab: Rhyme like a Nut
Boards of Canada: Sixtyniner
Populous: Ent the Dexo
Infinite Scale: Pirkel
Blackalicious: Rhymes for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
+One: Helix
Plaid: Rakimou (excerpt)
Kaom: All of your Mindz
John Tejada: Genetical Love
Populous: My Winter Vacation
Boards of Canada: Aquarius (Peel Session)
Push Button Objects: Non-exis (keyed in by Gescom)
Harmonic 33: Moompah
The Pharcyde: Passing me by (acapella)
Jon Hopkins: Wire
Beastie Boys: Sure Shot (acapella)
Quannum: Bombonyall (acapella)
Plaid: Shakbu
El-P: Stepfather Factory (acapella)
Somatic: No.9 (First Rate scratch mix)
Yimino: Nes [sidd]
Arovane: Cry Osaka Cry
Digitonal: A Lighter Touch
Antipop Consortium: What am I? (acapella)
Mrs Jynx: Dusty
LJ Kruzer: Ter4
WB Yeats: The song of Wandering Aengus

http://www.digitonal.com
Thanks to Ben Mynott, John Heery and Mr Tom

Our very good mates and frequent collaborators Posthuman have released a stunning 4 track EP of their trademark electronica-tinged techno on the legendary B12 imprint. We have contributed a remix of the track Karman Vortices for the digital release, channelling a different kind of sound than we're normally associated with and delving into our minimal, acidic roots.

Have a listen to the tracks on Last.fm and you can order the digital now from Bleep.com

Hello, just when we thought it had all gone quiet, there are a couple of small things to mention.

Firstly is a new track on an excellent compilation on Fluid Audio records entitled "Hope". It's a charity compilation for Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America and we're very happy to give them unreleased track "We Three", alongside cuts from Halogen, Iambic and many other top notch electronica artists. Although We Three has appeared in various live recordings, this is the first proper studio version of the track and we hope you'll like it.

Hope is out now.

Secondly, Andy has been tempted out for one last quick laptop gig, supporting our long time collaborators and friends 65daysofstatic at a brand new Clash Music night at The Social, W1.

Full details here and in the live section and tickets are a fiver.

tata for now.

My heartfelt apologies for missing out on the Sounds from the Other City festival last weekend. An unavoidable personal situation meant that I had to pull out at last minute. Once again, we fail to play the North-West! I hear it was an amazing day and I'm gutted to have been forced to miss it.

Particular apologies to K-Beard who has been trying to book us for years now. I hope that we'll have another opportunity in the future.

On that note, and since I've had a few emails asking about our live schedule for the Summer - Digitonal is effectively on hold for the moment whilst I become a father (!!!) and do some writing. Things have been tough for us lately with the general slump in everything musical, and we're feeling a definite need to regroup, rethink and get on with our real lives for a change.

I hope this isn't the end of the road (and strongly suspect that it isn't!), but for now, that's it for Digitonal. We may be making some older material available again soon, including, hopefully, The Shining rescore soundtrack, and there are a couple of remixes I've done recently which will surface, including a cracking one for Alice Russell (which sadly looks like it's being left out of their competition). I will try and make it available soon, label permitting.

Thanks to everybody as always for their support and messages and we'll stay in touch.

Andy.:

Silver Poetry has been released and is available at the following sites:

Listen and download from iTunes
Juno Download (320mp3/Wav)
e-Music (subscription based)

Save Your Light for Darker Days is also available on iTunes again.