This week on Back Home we are hosting Martin Woods from England. He is the man behind Sun in shining blog spot, a blog on chill music and also the member of Chillbase portal team, a portal on chill community. Here is what he has to say about himself:

I first started collecting vinyl in 1979 mainly 2-Tone but also artists like Bob Marley, Burning Spear, The Clash & The Jam. I progressed on to Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode, Electro-Funk, Acid House, Balearic, New Beat but I was also listening to some Psychadelic Rock, Darkwave & Shoegaze. Ozric Tentacles made a big impact in the late 80’s and when I started getting bored of house in the early 90’s their off-shoot Eat Static and acts like Banco De Gaia, FSOL, Transglobal Underground, Revolutionary Dub Warriors, Dreadzone & Zion Train injected a new interest. I played a few parties fusing this with Progressive House from labels like Guerilla. I brought my first decks in the late 90’s and at this period was playing anything from Bluebeat, Funk, Lounge & Nu-Jazz to Jazzy Drum & Bass so beat-matching wasn’t really an option.

I started the Facebook group “Sun Is Shining” initially as a reggae group named after the classic Bob Marley & the Wailers tune. At this point there were another two similar groups and I merged forces with Mark Schofield and we expanded to include other genres we liked. Really aimed at people who liked compilations such as Café Del Mar, Buddah Beats, Ambient Dub, Late Night Tales, Pay It All Back etc. Soon after Peter Ardon approached me on Myspace suggesting that I might like his Orchid-Star project. He was right and I started to drift back into the psychedelic side once more. After a while I started a “Sun Is Shining” blog and began to interview artists and post mixes and around the same time discovered that Whirl-Y-Gig (a London global dance event) was still going strong after many years. I started to re-attend and interviewed Monkey Pilot who dj’s a marathon 8 hr set each month. This Halloween I’m making my London debut playing a chill out set at this event.

Woodzie – Whirl-Y-Gig dj set

Track list:

1. Re-United – Sun Is Shining (Out Of Sight Mix)
2. Cinemad In Chaos – Taste This Seed
3. The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Leftside Wobble Edit)
4. Tripswitch – Shamanic Tea (Mannaseh Re-mix)
5. Perpetual Loop – Release
6. Perpetual Loop – Simulated Neurons
7. Makyo – Clairty (Soft Prana Mix)
8. Bardo State – Seneca (Pathaan’s Dirty Dancer mix)
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Sun Is Shining

Enjoy

Master Margherita dj set from Samsara festival 2009.

Precursor, lover of new auditory formulas, this enlightened musician edits his sonic metamorphosis solo and tickles the substance considered as the seat of intellectual faculties. His ingenious dubnbass improvisations send us to those unexplored parts of the brain. Royal, magnificient, Master Margherita overflows with intelligent creativity and excels in the production of concrete abstraction. Obstinated,hard worker, this speculator of electronic sinuosities could relate to an action painter,totally invested in a daring artistic elaboration,revelatory of new dream spaces.

http://www.myspace.com/mastermargheritamusic

Track list:

01. Master Margherita – La Sublime
02. Ishq – Fluid Earth
03. Pete Namlook – Russian Spring Part VI
04. The Shamen – Rio Negro
05. Monolake – Indigo
06. Loscil – Motoc
07. Antonio Testa – Xibalba
08. David Hykes – Multiplying Voices at the Heart of the Body of sound
09. Atrium Carceri – Comunication
10. Gaudi/Testa – Prologue, Helictite Labyrinth
11. Sgnl Fltr – Undra
12. Krill Minima – Wie die Wolken zieht auch der Tag vorbei
13. Murcof – Una
14. Tilman Ehrhorn – Jet
15. Phil Ranelin – Time Running Out (Telefon Tel Aviv Rmx)
16. Ultraplex – Lovefield 5
17. Monolake – White II
18. ???????
19. Colourform – Diving into Sun
20. Master Margherita – For Aldo

Download

Mix by Aquarius from Manaproject 2012.

http://www.myspace.com/djaquriustheenlighter
http://www.myspace.com/manacorporation2012

Track list:

1) ocelot – echoes of silence

2) Yudhisthira – next destination

3) encephalopaticys – master

4) ital – brahman

5) nagual sound experiment – chimera

6) chilled c´quence & tajmahal – in your dream

7) fuzzion – sound surface

8)  bio tonic – peacefull perception

9) jadis – passage du lalung la

10) synsun – eldar

11) ajja – pearcushion

12) atriohm – furia

13) atriohm – tengri

14) ocelot – farewell lulaby

15) ocelot – fishy hooky

16) organismic – on the air

17) slackbaba – tsenstak

18) flooting grooves – freaking in (full version)

19) sphingida – machaon

20) vataff project – flute

21) solar fields – detection (far and extendet)

22) outro from zeitgeist the movie