Roaming fast and slow 6 is a St Leonards postcard to Nu Skool Breakz. Heavily indebted to Adam Freeland’s roiling bass-heavy Coastal Breaks mixes that, for Roam, resonate powerfully with St Leonards’ litoral location, itself not far from Freeland’s original Marine Parade record label headquarters in Brighton. This is Roam returning to their roots, where the djing and record buying began, at a tempo Freeland once claimed was the most natural for dancing. (The longer limbed feel slower is the move.) The mix opens with a phenomenal but almost un-mixable track by Bargecharge, co-produced by local legend Keith Tenniswood, released on Tipper’s pivotal Fuel label, progressing through a cross-section of nu-skool classics and culminating with Ed Chamberlain’s more recent take on the genre. Like #4, this mix features a homage to another classic mix; iykyk.
Tracklist
Bargecharge – Hold the Bunker
Waveform – Drifter (Original Mix)
Tsunami One – Dawn Of The Standing Wave
Blake – Doctors, Dentists & Architects
General Midi – Daft Funk
ILS – Tectonics
Mike & Charlie – I Get Live (Headbanger Boogie Mix)
Twenty Twelve – Ecstatic
Player One – Into the Darkness
Kasha & Shara Nelson – U
Bassbin Twins – ESW (Evil Nine Edit)
Freestylers – Punks
Tipper – Tug Of War
BLIM, Rennie Pilgrem – Eskimo (Yellow Snow Mix)
Frisky – I like the way (Plump Djs dub)
Ed Chamberlain – Somefind
The elusive ROAM has been blending tracks for decades. 100bpm is suiting his current pace of life. Other bpms are available.