Recent Summer Happens

Blog blog blog, slack slack slack, blah blah blah.
So I've been reeeeeeaaaally busy, just got back from a quick 5 day get away in Bude, Cornwall with my folks and I was at Big Chill festival just before that.

I've been working loads recently with Joanna Weston, we've now expanded to a four piece band (Robin Smith on Bass and Gazz Roberts on Kajon).

We've played at the likes of the Cuban Bar in Camden:


The Bedford Arms in Balham:


Guilfest!


and a few others here and there, check out Jo's gigs on the myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/joannaweston

Right so yeah Big Chill was pretty flippin' good, here's a picture of me and my brother getting down!


we enjoyed the likes of Bonobo, Mount Kimbie, Bullion, Caribou, Easy Star All Stars, The Black Seeds and of course Mr. Scruff. Off to Bestival on Monday!



Been doing the DJing a fair bit recently too, been playing a lot of this new Electro Swing stuff, I've just done an hour long mix which i'll post the track list for shortly.

Still working on my own tunes but not having as much time to do so at the moment. Thinking of starting a little electronic live thing with my brother Tom. We've recently done a tune together entitled "sumbarine" which can be found here:
Chris & Tom Rotherham - Sumbarine

Enjoy!

Have an awesome rest of the summer!

Uni's Over!

Has it really been three years already? I'm now currently waiting for my results, got about a month or so to go. But I'm still keeping myself busy! Other than working on my own few little tunes I'm currently practicing for acoustic sets with Joanna Weston, the idea that she's going to build a full band before the end of the year. We've got a few gigs coming up this summer including Guilfest (on the Saturday night), check Jo's myspace for details.

We played a couple of 45 minute sets in a nice little Italian Restaurant in Cobham last night called the Lo Stivale, which I thoroughly recommend, It was fairly tasty indeed! We also played at Fahrenheit in Guildford last week too, here's a couple of photos:

I guess that's about all to report other than that I'm carrying on my trend of doing a monthly mix. Here's one for June. House and Electro!

Chris Rotherham - House Mix - June 2010
Track List:
Otto's Journey - Mylo
Gum m iband - Dana & Siriusmo
See the Light (Calvin Harris Remix) - The Hours
Proper Education - Eric Prydz vs. Pink Floyd
Knockout/Rene - Eric Prydz
Kids (Soulwax Remix) - MGMT
Ready for the floor - LA Riots vs. Villians Remix) - Hot Chip
Bonafied Lovin (Yuksek Remix) - Chromeo
Californication (Kontrastt Remix) - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Deadmau5 Remix) - Daft Punk
Take a look around (Hammer Ft. Dolle Remix) - Limp Bizkit
Thriller (Filthy Rich's Corpse Shell Remix) - Allstars vs. MJ
Feel Good inc. (Freeform Five Remix) - Gorrilaz

Facemelt mix

Here's a mix for the month of May, containing lots of wonky experimental music, in the forms of ambient, dub step and hip hop. Hope you enjoy

Chris Rotherham - Facemelt Mix - May 2010
Track List:
Children's Song - Chick Corea
Earth's Children - Amoncontact
Baiafro - The Gaslamp killer
Awake - Keaver & Brause
Young Heartache -Bullion
Polkadot Blues - Hudson Mohawk
Clock Catcher - Flying Lotus
I Want You - Flako & Dirg Gerner
Flourgreen Glag - Tom Trago
One At A Time (Funked Up) - The Clonious
The Sound - Danny Breaks & Adlib
Do I Move You - Nagual Sound Experiment
D It - Joker
Sketch On Glass - Mount Kimbie
I Wanna Be Your STD - Jimmy Edgar
The Bells Sketch - James Blake
Air & Lack Therof - James Blake
Phase II - Nosaj Thing

How is it May already!

Well, it's been a long long while since I've done any sort of blogging, and much has been happening! I've only got a week left of University... ever! What will the future bring?

For my final end of year project for Uni I made an EP entitled 'Forbidden Pools'. I've started a Bandcamp page, and It's available for listening and downloading there. I've spent a hell of a long time making this thing. It features some drumming by my good friend Tobias Gale, and has some lovely artwork which Max Lowry designed for me, big up yourselves boys!

So, what's going on in the near future? Well i'm sure I'll be continueing to produce track, but I've got a new project on the go, playing lead guitar for Joanna Weston, who is a truly talented young lady. Do go and check out her choons!

The majority of the old links are still down, I'll probably put the best ones up on Bandcamp, or soundcloud.

Right, well I better get back to the old coursework! make sure you check out the EP on bandcamp.

February Mix

Stuck a mix together this morning, hope you've got time to give it a listen. My lack of blog maintenance has left the majority of past links dead, lame. I suppose that's a job to do as soon as I can.

Anyway hope you like this funky housey mix, bit of light dubstep in there too, enjoy.

Chris Rotherham - February 2010 Mix
Track List:
Dust - Recloose
Get A Move On - Mr. Scruff
Slide - Mark De Clive-Lowe
Rikki - Mylo
Bad Breed - Nagual Sound Experiment
Celine (New Era Sounds Remix) - Al Cool and The Stranger Wines
The Reeling (Calvin Harris Remix) - Passion Pit
We Are Your Friends - Justice Vs Simian
The Rain - Calvin Harris
Fix Your Accent - Fake Blood
Synthetic Symphony (Deadmau5 Remix) - BlendBrank
Booty La La - Bugz In The Attic

Happy new year!

Had a pretty good christmas, pretty standard. Had a couple of uni deadlines recently, one being a mix of our uni group composition entitled 'Red People', featuring flute playing from myself and drum bashing from Tobias Gale, the mix I did is below. Also was working on a festive christmas tune, and a bit of a wonky one, It too is below, enjoy them!

FloorPlay - Red People (Chris Rotherham Mix)
Chris Rotherham - Claus's Clap

Happy freekin' Jahmas

So, it's been a while, been hard working at uni (sort of), and have a few xmas presents for you!
Here's a remix of an old tune my mate Toby Toast (Tobias Gale) did, aswell as his original.

Toby Toast - Orchestra (Chris Rotherham Remix)
Toby Toast - Orchestra

And here's a mix I've chucked together

Chris Rotherham - December/Xmas mix
Track List:
Banana Bread - Silver Glassade
Hint - Plucker
Dimlite - Generic Lo
Bonobo - Ketto
Caribou - Lord Leopard
Bullion - Get Familiar
D'Angelo - Smooth
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
Toby Toast - Orchestra (Chris Rotherham Remix)
Toby Toast - Roundabout
Mr. Scruff - Hold On
Dorian Concept - Tropical Hands

It's also come to my attention that my files that are older than a few months have been taken off the Zshare server, laaaaaame. If anyone knows a good free server to put a fair few files on please let me know. ta

Happy holiday people!