Long ago, in a time before CDJ’s, DJ Controllers, Final Scratch and Serato, DJ Wool (half of The Glass and beatmaker for our recent Spoek collaboration) put together a bedroom apartment mix on a stupidly hot summer day in 2002, recorded from vinyl, using an MPC1000 for samples and a Digitech fx unit onto an Adat.

The tracks are a mixed bag of music that at the time were called “new school breaks” (though now, using the term ‘new school’ for something released in 2002 feels a bit strange) andd early 90′s hardcore/pre drumnbass.

Loaded with white label cuts, you can hear some DJ Phantasy, R&S Records, Ills, 2 Bad Mice, DJ ICEE, Squarepusher, Marine Parade, Krafty Kuts, Stanton Warriors, as well as lots of forgotten, misplaced or now-warped-beyond-recognition records. In addition, NYC Early Graffiti Writer Phase provides an intro that makes you feel like right at home in another era of dance music. Grab it below!

2002 Vinyl New & Old School Breaks Mix by djwool

The Glass – Four Four Letter (Black Van remix) (direct link)

Four Four Letter + Remixes out Oct 8 Beatport Oct 24 iTunes by theglass

Tracklist for the mix is located after the jump.

The Glass ‘Four Four Letter’ (Black Van Remix)
Renaissance Man ‘Babbadabba’
Mr. Ho ‘Bumps’
HeavyFeet ‘For The Pain’
Crookers feat. Roisin Murphy ‘Royal T’ (House of House Remix)
DJ Nibc ‘Hold On’ (Ian Pooley Remix)
Groove Armada ‘Look Me In The Eye Sister’ (Morten Sorensen Remix)
Populette ‘Populus’

Our fellow Awesome Agency homie DJ Wool (from The Glass) with the latest release on his own label We Collect Enemies, “The Dark Snuggler” comes packed with a techy and club banging feeling that will leave you yearning for more. The EP will drop exclusively on Beatport June 28th with remixes from German wonder Lars Moston, Swedish brooding tech outfit Boeoes Kaelstigen and new project Jetlag (collaboration between Andy Rourke from The Smiths and DJ Ole).

Anyone who wants a free Scion A/V: Plant Music Sampler CD can e-mail the guys at plant@plantmusic.com with a mailing address and they’ll mail out one.

DJ Wool – Watch This (direct link)

The Glass – Four Four Letter (direct link)

BONUS: Video teaser for the release.

To celebrate the launch of the label and their inaugural release of the Das Shadow (AKA co-owner of the label, Andrew Philpott) single “Slew” we’re happy to be able to give away 10 sweet looking t-shirts to the Discobelle readers and it’s easy, just comment on this post and the 10 first commenters will receive the t-shirt.

Here’s a little package with the dub mix and the DJ Wool remix of “Slew”.

Das Shadow – Slew (blog package) (Sendspace)

Glen Brady AKA DJ Wool (also 1/2 of The Glass + Plant Music and fellow Awesome Agency member) is a solid guy and a great dj so when we got wind of this upcoming project of his, we were very excited. Glen is starting up a new label called We Collect Enemies together with some folks he knows in the music industry, well it’s not just anyone but Andrew Phillpott (Depeche Mode writer/producer and Daryl Bamonte (Depeche Mode, The Cure). They’re putting together what looks set to be some interesting releases including Phillpott’s and Brady’s own material under the monikers Das Shadow and DJ Wool aswell as other artists such as first signing Broad Bean Band. We have a video teaser of the first single on the label, “Slew” from Das Shadow will be released on March 8th and comes backed with remixes from Wool himself, Jaimie Fanatic and more. We also have a DJ Wool mix that includes lots of upcoming material from the label.

Tracklist for the mix after the jump.

Compact Space – Push Push – Das Shadow’s In The Bush Remix
Utku Dalmaz – Don’t Get Lost – Ahmet Sendil Remix
DJ Wool feat Cerebral Vortex – Magic Carpet – Acapella – Snippet
Bingo Players – Blurr
DJ Wool – Watch This – Snippet
Daliano – Baaz in de Club – Kid Kaio & Lucky Charmes Remix
Saeed Younan – Backroom Honey
In Flagranti – Ex Ex Ex – DJ Wool Remix
Passion Pit – Little Secret – Jaymo and Andy George Remix
Greg Delon – Cesar – Koletzki & Meindl Mix
Wolfgang Gartner – Latin Fever
Rejected – Let’s Go Juno – Harvard Bass Chords Edit
Festival in Saturn – John Shelvin
Derlikt Freddie – Boys & Girls – DJ Wool Remix
DJ Wool – The Dark Snuggler – Snippet
Das Shadow – Slew – Jaimie Fanatic’s Amsterdam Mix
Smalltown Romeo – Boom Ha – DJ Wool Dub & Remix
Das Shadow – The Bunk – Snippet

This was in the mail this weekend but unfortunately there was little to no time for blog posts.

Plant Music bosses in The Glass comes through with a superbly done minimal/tech house remix from up and coming Brazilian producer Komka of their latest single track “Superhero”. The Glass are just finishing their album and are doing US dates in March and April dates along with NYC friends Stretch Armstrong and Eli Escobar to help support the Plant Music Scion compilation which will be released late March. All the boys will also head over to Europe in April.

The Glass – Superhero (Komka Remix) (YSI)

The Glass – Superhero (Komka Remix) (zShare)

The Glass have been on fire lately and our favorite NYC duo doesn’t disappoint with their subtle electropop rendition of the track “Seventeen” from funky L.A dancepop outfit Casxio.

Casxio – Seventeen (The Glass remix) (zShare)