Cynic The Clown

22/11/2022

Change of pace for this month's Soundcloud mix. This one's a largely beatless blend of folk, jazz, ambient, drone, torch songs and other forms of uneasy listening. It's called "A Fistful Of Expiry Dates" and the theme is 'thanks a bunch, 2022'. Tracklist below, link in comments, feedback very much welcomed. x

30/10/2022

Took a couple of months off making mixes for Soundcloud to recuperate, but am back just in time for Halloween. This one's a mixture of hip-hop, dancehall, industrial, metal and post-punk sounds - 14% spoopy, 84% just downright haunted, 2% regrets. Cover and tracklist below, link in comments, feedback welcomed. Enjoy!

11/06/2022

Continuing my current streak of one new DJ mix per month, here's June's mix. This one's called "Bringing An Escalator To A Ladder Match". No big concepts behind this one, just wall-to-wall stompers from the industrial/dancehall/techno nexus. Moods include heavy adrenaline and light hubris. Tempo approx 116 bpm. Tracklist in image, link in comments, enjoy. x

13/05/2022

New DJ mix. This one's called "The Space You Didn't Realise You Had Until It Was Gone". The theme is a space programme tarnished by mixed signals and miscommunication as they try to take flight. Genres are house, techno, breaks and garage, so it's probably the closest to a straightforward dance mix I've done in a long time. Tracklist and selected song lyrics below, link in comments. Feedback welcomed.

02/04/2022

To celebrate my DJing triumph this week, I just released another new mix. This one's called "Dry Ice, Wet Fire, Mudnado". Theme of this one is 'pop music for aspiring storm chasers'. Goth rock, electro soul, dancehall and some leisurely paced techno make up the palette. Best listened to whilst wearing sunglasses and a scarf. Tempo is approx 107 bpm. Tracklist below, link further down, feedback encouraged.

01/04/2022

Entered my first ever DJ competition last month, and only managed to bleedin' win it.

My mix "Umpteen Stalactites" got selected by The DJ Mixtape as one of the winners of their monthly mix competition for March. I am pleased with this outcome, even if the photo I hastily submitted makes it look like I exclusively gig at the top or bottom of the earth's axis.

29/03/2022

Welcome. This Page is for all my DJ stuff. I mix a wide range of styles together in the hope that people think "Wait, maybe they were all the same genre all along." Industrial, hip-hop, dub, dancehall, techno, avant rock, IDM, etc. - if it's rough-edged yet shiny, it's in.

Any mixes that I upload to Soundcloud/Mixcloud will be shared here, and any DJ streams I do via my RuffledBricks channel on Twitch will be advertised here. If you would like to book me for a gig, drop the page a DM.

In the meantime, if you haven't already caught up with my back catalogue of genre-ignoring mixes, check 'em out here:

https://soundcloud.com/centaclowns

Wrong theorist, mistake curator, genre abolitionist and DJ. Occasional soundtracker of spoken word stuff. Also does randomised DJ challenges and speedruns video games as RuffledBricks: https://www.t

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