At the end of last year, London promoters Colony, who’d run a neat line in excellent nights around the capital across the preceding five years, opted to call it a day. A sad development, though more positively the organisers CB and Tengui stated in their final email out that they felt they’d "genuinely said what we wanted to say", via parties with Plex, BleeD and, last September, a Colony vs. The Quietus night featuring several artists of brain-scrambling hue.
With their final party having taken place in early December, they’ve now sent out one last transmission to the world – a colossal, two-and-a-half hour mix from Tengui and CB taking in influences, some of the sorts of varied music you’d expect to have heard at a Colony night, including a fair scattering of jungle and hardcore (though we’re warned that there’s "no house/techno in sight") and a few curveballs along the way. "We wish you a smooth and pleasant journey into the conjoined, ever-mutating abyss(es) of the past, the present and the future as we duly doff our hats and take a bow," say they. You can listen to it and download it below, and see below the embed for tracklist.
Chris & Cosey – City Of Spirits [Conspiracy International]
Aphex Twin – Untitled [Warp]
Global Communication – 9 39 [Dedicated]
TVO – Solo Rehearsal / The Outer Church, 25/26-10-13 [Broken20]
ASC & Sam KDC – No Safety Zone [Auxiliary]
Valanx – Those Who Will Be Held Responsible [SonuoS]
Cabaret Voltaire – Baader Meinhof [Mute]
Ilpo Vaisanen – Jaettu [Mego]
Skirt – Six Hours [Horizontal Ground]
Xela – Ut Nos Vivicaret [Type]
Hive Mind – Ux I [Submit]
Delta Funktionen – Erosion [Ann Aimee]
Claudio PRC – Clear Depths [Prologue]
Mick Finesse – Mettle Debris (Tengui Rmx) [Broken20]
Valanx – Follow The Oath [Diametric]
The Future Sound Of London – Little Brother [Virgin]
Aidan Baker – Lost In The Rat Maze [ConSouling Sounds]
Consequence – Snakes & Skulls [Exit]
TVO – The Grey King (Brenin Llwyd version) [Broken20]
Prothese – Couteau [Art & Strategy]
Richard Skelton – River Song [Type]
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel – Firework Of Echoes [Sweat Lodge Guru]
Yellow Swans – Sovereign [Type]
Wax Doctor – New Direction [Reinforced]
Nebula II – Atheama [J4M]
Manix – Hardcore Junglism [Reinforced]
D-Force – Original Bad Boy [Slammin’ Vinyl]
Sacred – Kall Da Kops (Rmx 2) [Pursuit]
DJ Buz – Slave [No U-Turn]
On Remand – Controllin’ (Tango Rmx) [Underworld Vinyl]
Sub Sequence – Everyday [Too’z Up]
On Remand – Controllin’ (Rmx) [Kickin]
Omni Trio – Renegade Snares (Foul Play Rmx) [Moving Shadow]
Johnny Jungle – Johnny ’94 (Origin Unknown Rmx) [Suburban Base]
Corruption – Untitled [no label]
On Remand – Assault ’94 [Underworld Vinyl]
Hyper-On Experience – Lords Of The Null Lines (Foul Play Rmx) [Moving Shadow]
On Remand – Black Steel [Crack House Productions]
DJ Crystl – Warp Drive [Dee Jay Recordings]
FBD Project – The Core [Bang-In-Tunes]
Bizzy B & Equinox – Merda Style 2004 [Planet Mu]
