Adelaide-born and Melbourne-based boy DJ Agent 86 was brought to our attention with his superb mix for EQ Recordings' Balance presents Electric series last year. One of Australia's, finest DJs, he's played a huge range of styles over the years, getting placed in national DJ championships like DMC and ITF several times, and working his way up his local scene to end up supporting world-famous acts like Soul II Soul, James Brown, Booka Shade, DJ Shadow and Jeff Mills at various festivals and club events.
These days he plays an irresistible mix of disco both nu and old, old skool electro, funk from across the decades, hip-hop, house and techno - all scratched and programmed to effortless perfection. This recent mixes brings together his funkiest sounds, and will hopefully give you strength in these dark, cold winter days!
Sum up this podcast in 10 words...
A mix that represents where I’m at in 2008/2009.
What’s your personal favourite track on it?
Impossible!! I love them all! Tho’ if I had to choose it’d be a toss-up between the Pink Floyd & Crazy P tracks.
What’s the special ingredient in this mix?
Music for music-lovers, not music for name-droppers.
What’s the best gig you’ve played recently?
Reminisce in Adelaide, South Australia – a party celebrating 20 years of house music. Suffice to say, there were some real gems to be heard!!
What have you got coming up?
Good Vibrations Festival (February 15th) featuring Fatboy Slim, The Presets, Q-Tip, Sam Sparro, Deadmau5, The Pharcyde, Roni Size, Stanton Warriors …and me!! (Plus tons of other great acts, of course…)
Future Music Festival (March 8th) featuring Basement Jaxx, NERD, Paul Oakenfold, Tocadisco, CSS, Steve Agnello, Mr Oizo, Lifelike …and me (again)!! (Plus tons upon tons of others…)
New Zealand Tour, February 20th – 25th.
…plus some music releases on my own little digi-label, “Lightspeed Recordings” (thru www.junodownload.co.uk )
And finally, do you have a special message for our readers?
Thanks to everyone for your continued support – hopefully I’ll see some of you in Europe & England sometime this year. Get in touch with me at myspace.com/djagent86 Cheers!
Tracklisting:
Vyle - Possible [Floor Bangers]
Woolfy Vs Projections - Warehouse [Rong Music]
Q-Tip - Move [Universal Motown]
Paper Plane Project - Welcome To Brazil [Cardboard City]
DJ Agent 86 - Rock The House [Bomb Hip-Hop]
Steve Ford - Stick Back [CD-R]
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall" (DJ Agent 86 Remix) [CD-R]
DJ Agent 86 - Enter The Night [CD-R]
Drrrtyhaze - Superhigh (Ilya Santana Mix) [Tirk Records]
Toby Tobias ft Kathy Diamond - The Feeling [Rekids]
DJ Agent 86 - Wavestate [CD-R]
Crazy P - In & Out [2020 Vision]
J-Boogie - Inferno [OM Records]
Seductive Souls - Dazz (Patchworks Remix) [Lounge Records]
Downtown Party Network - Days Like These [Eskimo]
Doug Willis - Two Tons Of Doug [Z Records]
LSB - Locomotion [Eskimo]
Mutant Disco - Jack's Back [Mutant Disco]
Debtonate - Party Packer [Funk Weapons]
Faze Action - Stratus Energy [Faze Action]
Silver City - Pendulo (Pete Herbert Remix) [Deep Freeze]