Seven And A Half Hours Of The Flightpath Estate At AW61

Yesterday saw the latest installment in the continuing adventures of our album, Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 1. Every step along the way has been a leap into the unknown and it has exceeded our expectations at every stage, from David Holmes saying 'yes' to Justin Robertson sending us the first piece of music to the rest of the tracks coming in to Andy Bell at the eleventh hour sending us his cover of Smokebelch to Rusty's beautiful artwork to the first run of 500 copies selling out in a day to Lauren Laverne playing some of the tracks on 6 Music and making it compilation of the week to the actual physical records arriving to it appearing on Piccadilly Records website a couple of weeks ago... on and on it's gone, jaw dropping at every turn. Last week when I went to see ACR at Soup I called in at Piccadilly Records and was massively excited to see our album in the racks. Then, entering the venue, the man in front of me had a copy in his carrier bag. Yesterday, another amazing moment- Piccadilly Records gave us a full window display. 

I've been buying records from this shop in three different city centre locations, since the late 80s. They are my first choice of shop for new music. To see thirty six copies of our album in the window was a fairly mind blowing experience. Me, Dan and Martin from The Flightpath Estate and Matt from The Golden Lion all attended- and here we are (left to right, Dan, me, Martin, Matt. Yes, Matt is bringing the average age down a bit). Twenty copies of the album went to Piccadilly but I believe they've all gone now. Ten went to Vinyl Exchange over the road (another shop I've been buying records from for decades). 

With this long running Sunday mix series I usually try to come in at around thirty to forty minutes, occasionally going up to an hour. Today's mix comfortably tops any and every Sunday mix for running time, seven and a half hours of tracks and songs played by us at The Golden Lion at AW61 at the start of April. We played from Saturday afternoon to evening, kicking off at about 2pm with Baz, taking an hour each (my set ended with the AW61 auction and raffle, the first time I've DJed to support an auction of Andrew Weatherall's belongings which included a mug, some cufflinks and his stash tin). At about 7pm we began to play back to back, three tracks each and then two each, rotating on and off. It was brilliant fun, a wonderful experience. The sets weren't recorded but we've done our best to re- create them since. It's not entirely as was played- there are a few things missing that are currently unreleased and which can't be distributed more widely just yet (including one that's missing that may well be one of the tracks for what will hopefully be Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2 but I'll say no more about that at the moment). Also, in my three I played David Holmes' remix of Sylvia by Lisa Moorish. I hadn't been paying enough attention to notice that Mark had played it earlier so to avoid repetition I've taken that out and replaced it with David's remix of X- Press 2 (which I had in my bag and was planning on playing later but didn't). Some of our memories are a little sketchy in places but it's fairly close to what we played between 2pm and 9.30pm on Saturday 6th April at The Golden Lion in Todmorden before Sean Johnston and Duncan Gray took over and lifted the roof tiles.

The entire seven and a half hour set is at Mixcloud here. I have an mp3 of it which is a whopping 1GB file and too big to host at my usual file hosting service. I've uploaded into WeTransfer and it will be live for a week from today if you want to download it. I haven't managed to recreate the auction and raffle- that really was a 'you had to be there' thing. It took place between me playing A Mountain Of One's Star (GLOK Starlight Dub) and David Holmes' Emotionally Clear and you'll just have to use your imagination or your memory, but it looked like this...

The Flightpath Estate Live At AW61 

Barry

• Two Lone Swordsmen - The Crescents
• Barry Woolnough - Great Father Spirit In The Sky
• Manfred Mann - Just For Me
• Angel Corpus Christi - Dream Baby Dream
• Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song) (86 Version)
• The Prophets - Was Alive
• Minami Deutsch - Sunrise, Sunset
• Trash Kit - Every Second
• Tav Falco Panther Burns - Master Of Chaos
• White Williams - Route To Palm
• Noema - One (Kalabrese Re-Jam)
• Johnny Waleen - Mystery Train
• M&M Hardway Bros - Acid Edit
• Andy Bell - Smokebelch II

Martin

• Andrew Waite- Smokebelch (Final Fanfare Mix)
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Love Letter
• Joshua Idehen - Learn To Swim Pt 2
• Lee Perry - Future Of My Music
• groundsound - Trod
• Alev & Jas - A World Beyond
• Kreidler - Mount Mason
• Golden Bug ft The Liminanas - L'effet
• Mildlife - Chorus
• Two Lone Swordsmen - Get Out Of My Kingdom (unreleased demo) 
• Sorcerers - Yasuke In Roppongi
• Phil Kieran - Atlantic
• Leo Hellden & Rocket Mike - Strange
• Ashley Casselle - Wannabee (Andrew Weatherall unreleased remix)

Adam

• Coyote - Western Revolution
• Durutti Column - Bordeaux Sequence
• Psychederek - Test Card Girl
• Four Tet - Loved
• Rick Cuevas - The Birds
• Biosphere - En- Trance
• Underworld - 8 Ball
• Wixel plays Sonic Youth - Expressway To Yr Skull (Long Champs Bonus Beats)
• This Mortal Coil - Edit To The Siren
• Bjork - One Day
• James Holden - Common Land
• A Mountain Of One - Star (GLOK Starlight Dub)
• David Holmes and Raven Violet - Emotionally Clear

Dan

• Fragile X - Initial Conditions (0.506)
• Sabres Of Paradise - Duke of Earlsfield (LFO Mix)
• Toy - Dead & Gone (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
• Bedford Falls Players - Cosmosapien Revisited (The Long Champs Remix)
• Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s - Curtains Twitch On Peaks
• Jah Division - Heart And Soul Dub
• Adrian Roman - Thoughts Against Death
• MOY - Sunrise (live)
• Deutsche Wertarbeit - Auf Engelsflugein
• Golden Age - Lives Of Angels 
• Jah Division - Division Dub

Mark

• 100 Poems - Joyness Magnificent (We'll Find The Light Together)
• Zeb The Spy From Cairo - Alladin Dub
• Coyote (Featuring Rolo McGinty) - Marijuana
• 10:40 - The Engineer
• International Observer - Saturday Night In Camden Town
• Against All Logic - Cityfade
• Lisa Moorish - Sylvia (David Holmes Dub)
• Rude Audio - Swamp Ting (Unmastered/Unreleased - out in the next few months)
• Bedford Falls Players - Agent Cooper Coffee Dreams
• Supereal - Body Medusa (The Leftfield Dub Mix)
• Franz Ferdinand - Stand On The Horizon (Rude Audio's Massive Re-edit)
• Music For Swinging Mothers - Everyday
• David Bowie- Ashes to Ashes (speed garage bootleg)
• In Dada - Uptown (Crooked Man's Dubtown Mix)

Martin

• Domenic Cappello - Mushroom Waltz
• The Light Brigade - Human : Remains
• Andrew Weatherall - Liar With Wings (Mat Carter & Ian Weatherall Unreleased Remix)

Adam

• C.A.R. - Anzu
• Orbital, David Holmes and Mike Garry: Tonight In Belfast
• X-Press 2 ft. Kele Okoreke: Phasing You Out (David Holmes Remix)

Dan

• Psychederek - Tongue Tied (Moodymanc's Listen To Me Remix)
• Adrian Roman - I Think It’s Not You 
• Alter Ego - Beat the Bush (Ewan Pearson Slow Nrg Remix Edit)

Martin

• Man Power - Maybe Even Never
• Yuksek ft. Luedji Luna - Santas Almas Benditas (Red Axes Remix)
• Wah Together - I'm A Swimmer (Friends In Town Remix)

Dan

• Rude Audio - Running Wild
• Llewelyn - These Days (Don't Make Me Wait)
• Glok - That Time Of Night (Hardway Bros Meet Monkton Uptown Dub)

Martin

• New Order - Vanishing Point (Rich Lane Cotton Dub)
• Jain - Makeba (T-Bone Edit)

Mark

• Bedford Falls Players - Beautiful Chaos (Dub Mix)