Hiya. I uploaded a heap of my mixes from 2026 over at Soundcloud. 13 hours and 13 minutes worth of (AD FREE) blends, mixes, and fixes, all music and artists proudly supported – purchased – via Bandcamp. Selected, mixed, edited, titled, uploaded and shared.
Thanks for spreading the word, love, sound.
–Fly
If you dig it you can tip ear: https://www.patreon.com/cw/stevefly
Category: DJ mix
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Soundcloud Update
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We Bad Meaning Good
https://www.patreon.com/stevefly/posts/we-bad-meaning-165302887
We Bad Meaning Good WBMG
I know, this is shady, dark, moody, bad, but this is the beat of the cluba’ dub sub bass, what no authority can imitate. These are bass bin workouts, with a hit hat, a break, what I like to play to make the shake. I dunno, moods I’m feelin’
All Love,
–SPlaylist
The Charlatans – Then
Hijinx – Strutter
Unknown – Untitled (a2)
Delian Sound – Off Grid
Hijinx – Mumble
Delian Sound – Radics
Unkey, Mono Code – Black Dream
Delian Sound – Technique
Adonis – We’re Rocking Down The House
Rene Pilgrim – A Place Called Acid
The Cinematic Orchestra – Wait For Now
The Charlatans – The Only One I KnowDig it. All supported via Bandcamp.
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Bumble Fleece (Mix)
On Genre And Prestige
As a self confessed ‘ecelectic’ DJ for a while, then with an unwanted pigeon hole I’d brush off such a slot, such a category, like water off a Ducks back. I play all sorts. I like ALL SORTS of music. Ha. What does that mean in 2026? Eh, now with all the fancy AI and studio this and that, productions, billionaires, Spotify deals. What a fucking racket. Turn your shit down!
So, by way of introduction, these tunes are a representative of a new interest in an old hobby, an older like for those left-field, abstract jazzy breaks, the wired and funky. Wat a drummer would go for, and that bass. Oh yeah. Now, I gotta’ fess up, back in the day, to take such excursions into abstract experimental breaks could get you booted off the set. As a drummer I leaned into the weirder breakbeat breakbeats. Here, finally, some new music at tempo that tickle my fancy and I hope yours too. Frenetic Upbeats. Heavy comedic bass. Let’s go. Artists and tracks supported at Bandcamp, purchased and very grateful for. Cheers.
–DJ Fly Agaric 23.[01] Plug – You’re Better Than That
[02] 7th Pyramid – Sunken
[03] Plug – Who’s In The House?[04] Subtle Audio – Senses
[05] Dgohn – Orchids
[06] Paradox – Drum Line
[07] Plug – Check This Out
[08] Earl Grey – French Exit
[09] Dgohn – 7 Years Of More
[10] Plug – King Ring
[11] G-Jones / E-Prom – 1000 Cuts
[12] Plug – Mr. Nod’s Tune
[13] 7th Pyramid – Coming Out
[14] Plug – Sound & Safe (Sets The Local birds Off–Fy)
https://www.patreon.com/stevefly/posts/bumble-fleece-165688745
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Ambidexless – A Blend
it’s a pleasure to introduce a new mix-blend selection of mostly beatless music AKA Ambient, fished out from Bandcamp, this sounds are soundtrack like, mellow, spaced and paced by design. A step to the left and back from the recent bass heavy booming breakbeats that might send the neighbours into a tizzy if played too loud, too late, too often. These are chill out and kick back atmospheres, a varied palette of moods and evocative incentives for your ears to pick up on.
This mix got me to thinking so I’ll share some thoughts about heat, and the term hot-house, Sauna and Greenhouse. Just riffin’, Saunas for human beings, Greenhouses generally for plants, (humans are a bit like plants), then there’s the Greenhouse Effect…a bit like a Sauna effect but for the earth’s atmosphere, and the delicate climate balance, earth’s thermostat control system. Complex.
One distinguishing feature shared by Saunas and Greenhouses, I guess, is that they’re usually under human control, the trained expert who know the limitations, sweet spots and comfort zones. The Global ‘Greenhouse’ effect has no such all powerful thermostat dial, to be controlled by man. So music for saunas is music for the heating up of the planet and cooling off of human beings, to chill out may also mean to warm up in a Sauna, or if you’re a plant, in a greenhouse, a controlled environment.
The sharp contrast and flip between hot and cold seems like a powerful force across scale, materials and technology. Geology, thermodynamics and data hardware depend upon stable temperature parameters. Like wearing six hoodies and thermal underpants in a sauna, or swimming with no wet suit in the North Sea after eating ten choc’ ice’s, these sharp contrasts are testing human capacity to adequately house and feed everyone. I conclude, burn less fossil fuels, utilise the natural abundance of untapped energy in wind, water, solar and novel natural carbon capture technologies. I’m drifting…
Perhaps, i muse, the exercise of imagining contrary environments of the tepid to warm to glowing to hot to boiling to freezing to cold to chilled to breezy and around. Melting and freezing, melting and freezing. Perhaps Dali’s melting clocks, captured and frozen in time, via painting, or memories of times on the beach, or in a sunny warm summer meadow, blended with memories of building snowmen or making snowballs or crunch through snow as you walked. The smell of summer perfumes and aromas both rural and urban, and the ozone of ice, coldness and damp. I dunno, just riffin’ here.
Enjoy the music.
https://www.patreon.com/stevefly/posts/ambidexless-mix-160519960
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DJ Flai vs udio – Tax Breaks In dub
A selection of AI generated tunes, some with lyrics, mixed, blended, curated and produced by Steve Fly. All original music, on a Tax Wealth Not Work tip.
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dj mantis
Lyrics by Fly
Give me a D.J!
Give me an M
Give me an A
Give me an N
Give me an T
Give me an I
Give me an S
MANTIS! Yeah....
It's the return of the Mantis,
From out of your dreams,
Scratching and cutting up the beats, so it seems...
This is no D.M.T. trip, (oh no)
This is deep scratch and fly lyrics straight off the lip. (trippa trip trip trippa trip trick-nology.
Flip it Mantis...
Pray. Who's ready to eat? -
BETWEEN THE GROOVE
ON THE CUTS…
Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.
It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?
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dj flai mix of original deep scratch music
After nearly two decades under development, Deep Scratch is here/over there. The interplay of audio and text and image as I first envisioned it in the early 2000s. The audio side of this equation has been lacking due to various reasons, including limited access to instruments, equipment and recording facilities. New generative a.i., tools (Udio) have allowed me to produce music to precisely fit the narrative I have constructed in the novel Deep Scratch. A collaborative, self-replicating magical code that generates audio from text. This year, Udio made science fiction into fact.
After constructing over 160 separate pieces of music, I mixed the Deep Scratch tunes together into 4 separate mixes, or audio chapters. Over 3 hours of original music that only exists here, a kind of science “sonic” fiction. Cuts selected from the Deep Scratch Universe, that reflect the sounds, styles and arrangements of classic DJ mixtapes and beat tapes from the mid to late 1990’s, and early naughties.
(A third book in the Deep Scratch Universe will be released sometime during late summer 2024, further contextualizing and organizing the multimedia multiverses.)
Thanks to everybody at my patreon page, who has stuck with me over the last 6-7 years as I’ve been going on and on about this Deep Scratch Universe, without truly launching any Deep Scratch Audio. Now, the soundtrack to the novel is established via a new series of DJ mixes (all add free).flai mix chapter one
FLAI MIX CHAPTER TWO
FLAI MIX CHAPTER THREE
FLAI MIX CHAPTER FOURThe fourth chapter features raps, of which I’m conscious sound nothing like my own voice, and/or rap cadence or delivery. These are my own words, taken from my book of collected poems (to be published) spanning 2004 – 2024. As a fan of hip hop, rap and hip hop DJ styles and productions, mixtapes and live eclectic DJ sets, I’d like to give a shout out to all the artists, MCs and producers, that some of these tracks sound like (to my ear). That’s besides the thousands of artists and musicians who came before, those who innovated, originated and recorded the music: blues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel, rock and roll, folk, bluegrass, film music, classical music, vocal harmony music, world music, from the 20s through to the 2020s. All the music within the data sets or set (?) that the generative AI has been trained on.
Support your local independent musicians and music venues whenever possible. Respect your artistic ancestors and their struggles and sacrifices made to bring original art into the world. Try to keep in mind that generative A.I. does not sample the music in the conventional sense of that concept, although the process is a kind of sampling, these sounds are made from granulated probability functions, if I understand the process correctly. I hope the turntablist, scratch and juggle and cut-up approach of the eclectic DJ adds a new context to the use of generative AI, a part of the evolution of the art of the DJ and their place in between producer artist and audience. Perhaps better defined as curator, or boss of their own label or catalog of recordings, to be mixed and remixed, blended or released as an album or single. Also consider that all my music using collaborative AI did not use any artist names. Any likeness to artists living or dead is purely probabilistic coincidance.
In no particular order, thanks to: Sample Hooligans: Coldcut and the original 90s Ninja Tune artists, DJs and turntable journeymen. To Mo-Wax records, and the Psychonauts, and their DJ sets and productions. To the Bristol massive, purple penguin records, Massive Attack Soundsystem, Portishead, DJ Andy Smith (the only turntable artist included in a successful UK band), Melankolic records, Cup Of Tea records, and all that dub infused instrumental jazz tinged hip hop, Grand Central records in Manchester, Dorado records and artists, Warp records and artists, Aphex Twin, Square Pusher, Big Dada records, Acid Jazz records, Jazzman records, BBE records, 4th And Broadway Records, Two Lone Swordsmen, Sabres Of Paradise, Black Dog, Future Sounds Of London, DJ Krush music, DJ Shadow music, Invisible Scratch Pickle mix tapes, The Beat Junkies, Lauryn Hill, The X-ecutioners, Ohm records, Amoeba Record shop, Soulsides Crew, The Pharcyde, 3rd Eye Foundation, Hieroglyphics Crew, Del The Funky Homosapien, MF Doom, Wu Tang, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Bill Laswell Productions, Spectre, Lord Finesse, Rakim, Pharoah Monch, LEX records, Kool Keith, Public Enemy, Mr. Liff, Future Primitive Sound, DJ Z-Trip, The Nomadic Massive, We Funk, Funkmaster Flex MixTapes, The Roots Crew, Black Thought, El-P, Company Flow, Saul Williams, New Flesh, Juice Aleem, Rodney P, Scratch Pervert DJs, Jazz Fudge Records, DJ Vadim, Part 2, Invisible Spies, Channel One, Lee Scratch Perry, Ultimate Dilemma, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Roots Manuva, Courtney Pine, Talkin’ Jazz, Charlie Dark, UNKLE, Steve Task and Bear, Stump Juice Wolverhampton, The Steering Wheel Birmingham, Fabric, Cargo, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, DJ Spooky, J Swinscoe, Rockers Hi-Fi, Different Drummer records, Tempest Records, The Plastic Factory records, Swordfish Records, Eddie Otchere, Source Distribution, J Saul Kane, DJ Moneyshot, DJ Yoda, The Jazz Stage Glastonbury, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Funki Porcini. And those I missed out.
For nearly 3 decades I’ve supported all of the above artists by way of buying their records, tickets to shows and speaking highly of them, turning on other DJs and audiences to their music. This does not necessarily give me any more of a license to use generative a.i., with a clear conscience, but…I’ve paid dues and can trace my evolution toward this moment via my 2 decade Deep Scratch experiment.The next step in the on-going process is to plan for some traditional analogue music recording sessions with musicians and vocalists and videographers, to take back control from the generative AI, bringing it back to the human community of creative beings. Easier said than done, and requiring resources and planning and work. This process hammers home the point that AI can be used to bring human beings together, not divide.
—Steve Fly
Amsterdam.https://deepscratch.net
https://www.patreon.com/stevefly
