Le Boom will play their biggest Dublin headline show at District 8 on November 9th this year.
With the venue due to close at the end of the year, Le Boom (and myself as their manager DOI) were keen to do something special for their show so support on the night is due to come from art-pop act AE Mak and dance stalwarts Mix & Fairbanks. It’ll be a late show.
Tickets go on sale this Friday on Eventbrite at 10am so set your alarms. Further event details can be found here.
Posted on August 8th, 2018
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Posted on April 23rd, 2018
Disco, Funk and House DJs and producers Gary and Rob or Mix & Fairbanks who released Back To Kingston on Orange Tree Edits this year.
See all the guest selections of 2017 so far.
Addison Groove’s ‘Changa’ is a track that I’ve been playing out a lot over the past year. The track samples Soul Makossa ‘Manu Dibangu’. We were also working on an edit of this track until we heard this, and it was scrapped. – Rob
Produced by Daft Punk, Overnight is one of those infectious tunes that I can’t seem to grow tired of. The little keyboard hook at the end of each phrase, the muted guitars in the chorus, the silky vocals, give me a pint by the pool please. -Gary
Any of the Orange Tree Edits releases could have made this list but I picked this one for its warmth and its groove, and for that time I played it and the crowd made a low orgasmic “ugh” when the chords came in. Goosebumps. -Gary
A latecomer to 2017, ‘United Booty’ by Dj Clouds is a Baltimore Club Banger featuring samples of Dj Dove’s ‘Illusions’. If you’re into choppy keys, ghetto breaks and unexpected acid licks don’t swipe left. -Rob
Soul Reductions ‘Got 2 be Loved’ gained huge support this year including Kornel Kovak’s who featured it in his Boiler Room set in Melbourne. The track was released on Take Away Records and samples Leon Ware’s ‘Got to be Loved’ and is reminiscent of the French House era. Great track, great sample, great label, God bless!
– Rob
My song of the year. I’m luckily friends with the two lads, so I heard this track in different stages of it’s growth. I remember the first time, Peter showed me “something he was working on” in our mates kitchen in the early hours. I was kitchen floored. -Gary
This edit of Gwen McCrae’s ‘Damn Right It’s Good’ makes me pull all sorts of shapes. I’ll let you interpret the lyrics yourself, but I think this is one for the girls. -Gary
‘Question’ by KH aka Kieran Hebden, the man formally known as Four Tet is a track where very little happens and it’s still fantastic. I don’t think there’s been a set I haven’t played this in since it’s released. -Rob
I choose King Krule’s ‘The OOZ’ as my album of the year. I choose Czech One as video of the year. The piano and sax bits in this tune could melt ya. -Gary
Marco Passarani, better known as one half of Tiger & Woods released his first solo EP ‘FingerPrints Vol.1’ on Numbers earlier this year. The lead track ‘Wonky Wonky Wonky’ is only what I can describe as a cosmic journey. This track all the boxes for me and I would go as far as saying it’s my track of the year. – Rob
See all the guest selections of 2017 so far.
Posted on December 15th, 2017
Wyvern Lingo’s ‘I Love You Sadie’ is the Wicklow trio’s best track thus far, a slinky slice of R&B pop that digs into earworm territory and works harmonies into a buoyant song about celebrating the masculine in the feminine and vice versa.
Now Kildare mixmaster extraordinaires Mix & Fairbanks have taken the song’s vocals and given them a muted tropical dub-pop lift.
The song is all all streaming platforms tomorrow.
Posted on September 21st, 2017
Here we go.
Two of my favourite Irish acts combine on this remix of Ships‘ ‘None Of It Real’, the most recent version of which featured on the Nialler9 highly-recommended debut album Precession.
Kildare duo Mix & Fairbanks have been knocking it out of the park of late on the remix front and last week Skream played their Orange Tree Edits release at Creamfields so the music is getting out there.
For this remix, M&F have added space and length to the original creating a space-disco odyssey with an acid dancefloor shade.
Catch both acts at Electric Picnic this weekend. Ships play Body & Soul main stage on Sunday (11pm) and Mix & Fairbanks play Casa Bacardi on Friday (4pm). EP Stage times.
Posted on August 29th, 2017
I’ve covered Orange Tree’s first two releases here earlier this year but the success of the just-released third 12″ in the series from the Dublin label is worth noting because a) it’s currently top of the Juno chart in all genres and b) it has two grade A dancefloor bangers that people are really responding to.
First up, it’s Kildare duo and Nialler9 favourites Mix & Fairbanks who have turned up the heat to a considerable level with an Afro blasting slice of carnivale rhythms that nearly loses the run of itself in the build until those horns bring us back into focus. Mix & Fairbanks are having some year and every release whether edit, remix or original is a blast.
Meanwhile, OTE mastermind Jimmy Rouge puts in another fine fine effort that shows he’s not one for relying on the outside talent. His ‘Litmus Groove’ has more of an obvious Afro flavour but it’s absorbing and weighted beautifully for dancefloor explorations.
I’ve been playing both of these songs out in recent months whether at Lumo or a Nialler9 DJ set and they both slay. It’s a vinyl only release so pick it up before it’s too late.
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Posted on July 25th, 2017
The Newbridge, Kildare duo of Rob Smyth and Gary O’Reilly aka Mix & Fairbanks are following up their first collection of DJ edits, their whopper original debut and their extended Le Boom remix with another collection of Made & Played edits that they’ve been playing out of late in their DJ sets.
Check out the edits of Womack And Womack, Logg and Karriem.
Catch the at Life Festival this weekend and Bare In The Woods next month.
Posted on May 22nd, 2017
I’m a big fan of 12″ extended remixes – the kind that were prevalent in the eighties and that most of the great pop songs of the era have. Think of extended versions made for the dancefloor of Madonna’s ‘Into The Groove’, Inner City’s ‘Good Life’ or Womack & Womack ‘Teardrops’.
Kildare duo Mix & Fairbanks know the value of a good club edit (and a great debut single) and so too, it seems, do Le Boom. The electro-pop pairing of Christy Leech and Aimee Mallon turned heads with their brilliant debut single ‘What We Do’ and now with summer 2017 approaching M&F have given that tune the extended 10-minute remix treatment before more new material arrives later this year. Catch Le Boom at the Nialler9 Music Cork show on Thursday (comment below for a guaranteed entry wristband) and on May 25th at Bello Bar in Dublin for Nialler9 and Hoembeat’s Future Proof with Ailbhe Reddy and Soulé.
Mix & Fairbanks meanwhile play Vinyl Love for Repeal this Sunday as well as BARE in the Woods and Life Festival.
There’s also a radio edit of the remix too:
Catch Le Boom live festivals this summer including: Forbidden Fruit Festival, Body & Soul, Sea Sessions, Townlands Carnival, Truck Festival (UK), Sunflower Fest, Castlepalooza and Indiependence
Digital release: Wednesday 17th May.
Posted on May 9th, 2017
As I wrote recently, my hometown of Newbridge, Kildare has clearly punched above its regional weight in the music stakes in recent times.
Now, taking its name from the phone area code, 045 Recordings is a group of the new generation of artists from the town who are presenting music together. The first release is an EP out today and it’s already caught ears with Mix & Fairbanks’ Daft Punk meets Todd Terje ‘Girls’ and Phare’s deep roller ‘Night-Time’. Here’s the EP in full featuring ‘Searching’, a slow cosmic disco track from Cinema, ‘The Levy’, a hypnotic electronic instrumental from Adultrock and ‘Little And Often’, a dancefloor house track from new talent Conor C.
045 Recordings are taking over upstairs room at Lumo Club in Tengu tomorrow night too.
Buy the EP on Bandcamp.
Listen on Spotify.
Posted on April 21st, 2017
Mix & Fairbanks are two young Kildare producers and DJs Rob Smyth and Gary O’Reilly who in a short time have been nailing electronic disco productions in a live setting, via DJ edits, remixes and mixes.
Well, wait til you hear their first original track…
Along with other Newbridge, Kildare crew, they feature on the 045 Recordings EP to be released on Friday and launched at Lumo with sets from M&F, Phare, Conor C and Cinema, while Adultrock’s Gavin Elsted will be downstairs with the other two Lumo DJs, myself and Simon Roche.
‘Girls’ the Mix & Fairbanks song from the EP is an absolute dancefloor stomper, a synth-rush tune that melds the bouncing pinging synth of ‘Inspector Norse’ with a Daft Punk style vocoder robot vocal. I can’t stop playing it and I’m going to be playing it all summer long. Come hear it live at Lumo this Saturday and check back Friday for the full EP stream.
Pre-order the EP on Bandcamp.
Hear Phare’s track from the 045 compilation.
EP Tracklist
1. Searching – Cinema
2. Little & Often – Conor C
3. Nighttime – Phare
4. The Levy – Adultrock
5. Girls – Mix & Fairbanks
Posted on April 18th, 2017
Ruairi Lynch aka Bantum’s Move album is nominated for a Choice Music Prize this week and to mark the occasion, here are two top-quality remixes from Irish artists Mix & Fairbanks and Phare (both from Newbridge, Kildare).
M&F’s version of ‘Move’ takes the original’s metallic percussive loop and reworks it as a funky dancefloor stomper. Phare’s version of ‘Take It’ ups the hypnotic swerving rhhythm with snatches of the original’s voices
Both tunes are a free download on Bandcamp.
Previously:Mix & Fairbanks’ soulful house & disco edits EP will start your weekend
Previously: Phare – ‘up’
Previously: Album of the week: Bantum – Move
Mix & Fairbanks, alongside Adultrock, Cinema, Phare, and Conor C will be starting a label under the name of ‘045 Recordings’ with a few releases already planned for the year.
Posted on March 7th, 2017
The Newbridge, Kildare duo of Rob Smyth and Gary O’Reilly aka Mix & Fairbanks have been playing and making some of the best edits and remixes around of late and their latest free download EP, offers further proof of their abilities.
Premiered via Four Four, Made & Played features three soulful disco and house dancefloor edits of Kenix, Sharon Redd and Angie Stone.
Newbridge has been the hometown for a lot of music people of late starting with the likes of Super Extra Bonus Party, Mmoths, DJ Deece (playing the upcoming Boiler Room) and eh, me.
The town will be formalising its credentials in the form of a new record label, 045 Recordings featuring the newest crop of artists from the area in including Adultrock, Cinema, Phare, and Conor C.
Check out Mix & Fairbanks excellent Nialler9 Linn Drumm mix:
Posted on March 3rd, 2017
Foals’ Edwin Congreave are coming to Dublin for a DJ set at Opium Rooms on Paddy’s Day, March 17th courtesy of Bedlam and Abstract. The band’s Edwin Congreave will be in town to play a set. Congreave is one half of Deep Shit with Friendly Fires’ Jack Savidge. Check out two mixes – one disco mix from Edwin and a Deep Shit one from BBC6 a few years back.
Also lined up for the event are DJ sets from myself Nialler9 along with Ciara Brady, Marcus O’Laoire and Mix & Fairbanks. It’ll be an all-evening affair from 6pm.
Tickets are €10 from Resident Advisor.
Facebook event.
Share the event and comment “Foals DJ set @ Opium” and tag four friends to be in with a chance of winning guestlist + a 50 euro bar tab 👌
Posted on February 7th, 2017
Mix & Fairbanks have been knocking it out of the park in Ireland lately, from their DJ sets all over (they played our Lumo night last month and are in the Sugar Club tonight) to their DJ sets (check their Linndrum special).
They’re still young in the game but they have the smarts and skills too.
Their latest release is this edit of Indeep’s classic ‘Last Nite A DJ Saved My Life’, a retooled edit for the clubs.
Another sweeet mix:
Posted on August 12th, 2016
Each mix in the Nialler9 Mix Series features feature a theme and will be put together by some of my favourite DJs local or international.
It wasn’t intentional but the first two artists in the Nialler9 Mix Series are from my hometown of Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Something in the water for sure. Following on from DJ Deece’s Warmup Mix, Newbridge disco edits DJs and producers Gary O’Reilly and Rob Smyth aka Mix & Fairbanks delivered a stonking mix and is all themed around the ’80s Drum machine – the Linndrum.
“After the death of Prince, Facebook was flooded with people sharing their favourite songs and memories. One article that stood out to us was about how Prince revolutionised the use of the LinnDrum, a drum machine from 1982. We chose the LinnDrum as the theme for this mix, and picked some of our favourite tracks where it features. Most of the songs have been edited or remixed, some more than others, although we tried to stay true to the originals.”
You can catch Mix & Fairbanks this weekend at BARE in the woods and then at Body & Soul’s Absolut stage (along with Lumo), at Dublin City Block Party and Longitude. Dates.
Follow Mix & Fairbanks on Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud.
Mtume – Juicy Fruit
Mr. Mister – Broken Wings
Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tschak
Bananarama – Cruel Summer
Queen – Radio Ga-Ga
Prince – 1999
Ryan Paris – Dolce Vita
Miami Sound Machine – Dr. Beat
Eddie Murphy – Boogie In Your Butt
Roy Ayers – In The Dark
Patrick Cowley – Get A Little
Bobby O – How To Pick Up Girls
Prince – When Doves Cry
Sheila E – The Glamorous Life
Janet Jackson – Control
Peter Brown – They Only Come Out At Night
Expose – Come Go With Me
Inner City – Good Life
Madonna – Burning Up
The League Unlimited Orchestra – Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Starting Something
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Together in Electric Dreams
Posted on June 9th, 2016
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