Tomas Jirku blends a distinctive mixture of dubwise and deep moods in this set, a promotional mix in support of his recent “Clear Cut” EP with Ruoho Ruotsi.
Extrapolating from my sets at last year’s Snowdown and Tall Tree events, this mix pulls together favourites from my plastic disc collection.
With selections from Caro, Metro Area, Thomas Brinkmann, Michael Mayer, Dexter, The Mole, Osborne, 3 Chairs, Akufen, Mat Jonson, Neil Young (you heard that right), and so many more to fill this 2 hour mix.
Just house, techno, and electro. None of that other, fancy, new stuff.
The seventh exclusive mix in our Deeply Rooted Mixtape Series comes from Canadian Tomas Jirku, out of British Colombia, Canada. When Tomas – - who was Featured back in May by Max The Fax – - is not busy fishing for lunkers in the lakes of the Deep North, the Canadian producer is busy in the lab putting together some really Innovative Techno music, which has been his trademark sound since he first appeared on net-label NoType in 1999.
Born in the Czech Republic, Jirku fled Eastern Europe with his family while it was still under Communist control, growing up in Canada while studying fine art and design, bombing walls and listening to electronic music – - which today he creates, and creates damn well. In fact, the tunes he makes are so well respected that the man was invited to play in this years Mutek Festival in Montreal – - check out his set at this years Mutek festival Here, on his Soundcloud.
We are super excited to share Jirku’s wicked Deep North exclusive with you, the avid readers of our blog. We also welcome Tomas’ fans, who may be visiting the site for the first time. Thank you for supporting great music and motivating us to continually seek out generous artists like Tomas who are willing to put together something extra special for people who like great electronic music. Enough talking, lets unleash Tomas’ version of deep.
Canadian DJ and Producer, Tomas Jirku, releases the album ‘I Am a Wild Party’ on Nice & Nasty and to coincide with this Tomas, like Katsuhiko before him has comiled a DJ mix of the new album trax and all his remixes for Nice & Nasty.
Nice & Nasty’s Wild Party features original music from Tomas and remxies for Mick Chillage, Marco Bernardi, Celtec Twinz, Teknik and more. The album of original music goes on sale Monday 28th March via all discerning online stores, such as beatport.com, iTunes.com, whatpeopleplay.com and many more.
If you are a DJ/Writer etc and would like a Promo copy please email desy Balmer. If you are a club/Promoter interested in Tomas Jirku or any Nice & Nasty artists please get in touch direct. Tomas wil be in Europe this summer.
This recording, exclusive to Plasmodium, pushes my “Illectrodub” album material – originally suited for headphones – closer to the realm of the dancefloor. Also remixed are early demo tracks from Rob Warren (with whom I record as “St. Helens”). The mix then winds down through a few tunes from which inspiration has been drawn, albeit not overtly.
…was the first album from Rivers of Recordings, compiling demo tracks from the main players (Rob Warren, Intellijel, Soundwarp and myself). Originally only available as a limited edition CD with hand-made packaging, now’s your chance to grab it while I’m feeling generous.
…was a mix originally performed for the 2008 Mid-Forms (New Forms) Festival and then re-recorded for the Art of Beatz podcast, this mix combines some tracks that were released on Rivers of Recordings and others that haven’t yet been so lucky.
title : “The Future of 227″ Compu-Mix (aka“RIVERCAST014” from ye olde podcast)
artists : Jarl & Fotmeijer, DMX Krew, DMX Krew, DMX Krew, Rundfunk, Stefan Tretau, Sensorama, Former Selv, Duplex, Sun Electric, Future Beat Alliance, Carl Craig, Rei Loci, Strand, Balil
mixed : by Tomas Jirku
Here’s a mix from Trancer whichdelves into the deep dark corners of German techno few dare explore. It was previously available on the Rivers of Recordings podcast, The Rivercast, back when the podcast existed! Trancer is an alias of our Saskatchewanian friend Jon Vaughn, whom has many Myspaces and such:
