FMB MIXTAPE 233 | JAMES SHINRA
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FMB MIXTAPE 233 | JAMES SHINRA (320 DOWNLOAD)
This week on the FMB Mixtape Series, we welcome the DJ & Producer, James Shinra, back to Feel My Bicep. He released his ‘Signs’ EP on FMB back in 2019 & has since had a string of releases on Analogical Force, Craigie Knowes and We’re Going Deep. As always, we first caught up to find out a bit about the mix & what he’s been up to lately…
Last year I released an acid house EP on We’re Going Deep, which was great fun to make. Later in the year I released a few things myself. I put out a few short releases called Meteorites in which I explore a few different styles – for example, number 2 was more dubby than my usual stuff, number 4 was ambient. Out most recently is a more banging electro track called Poppin as part of a new project called Shinra Electro Company. I played some great live gigs at the end of last year too, in Spain and France. I’ve also been DJing a bit – for a long time I just played live, but it’s fun to mix it up and play a wider variety of music than just my own productions.
I put it together in Ableton at my studio at home.
The first 45 minutes are kind of the stuff I like to DJ – a mixture of electro, techno, acid, breaks. Some melodies in there and some harder edged stuff. Some older tracks, some brand new. I had to include a few things – something from Cameo Blush, Client_03 and Datassette (I just love everything they do), something from Scuba’s Digital Underground album (on heavy rotation recently), and something from pq (check out the EP called ‘Proprioception’, it’s wild). For the last 15 minutes I thought I’d just go off into the deep end and throw in a couple of favourite Aphex tracks and one of my more frenetic tracks to close it off.
Up next…
I’m making some more Shinra Electro Company tracks which I’ll put out every so often. I’m also extremely excited to be playing a live set at Houghton Festival this summer. I’ve heard such great things about it so when I got the invitation I was absolutely buzzing for days. Can’t wait!
Tracklist:
1. Cameo Blush – In Cadence
2. Datassette – Partita for Unattended Computer
3. Lazer Sword feat. Machinedrum – CHSEN
4. Client_03 – Unity Candidate
5. James Shinra – Poppin
6. Struction – Kreen
7. The Exaltics – The New Beginning
8. Len Faki – Yantra (Planetary Assault Systems Remix)
9. Aux 88 – Alias
10. Manao – Automata
11. Scuba – Nowat
12. Ctrls – NP Soup
13. Stenny – Onda
14. AFX – oberheim blacet1b
15. The Tuss – Synthacon 9
16. pq – Derby Road
17. James Shinra – Ghost in the Machine
