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I’m really enjoying the fact that people have started emailling me of late looking to have their mixes rammed up the arsehole of Soundtracksforthem, all for some quick and tasty ear baked ingestion. So here’s another one.  Wait until the unsettling echo of the Original Nutta vocal re-fix settles down in the back of your ear here. Anyway, its by a dude called Taliesin, and really he a roll some bass up so fat he just blow-yER-MIND, you understand me? He’ll explain all the rest himself after the jump.

If anyone else wants to get in on this lark, then shout us through the obvious and I’ll host it and we can do the twenty questions walk out to the smoking section of Soundtracksforthem.

New Bassbinshitmix by Taliesin

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Who is Taliesin?

Taliesin was the bard to three Celtic British kings in the 6th century. He is also a 20 year old DJ whos getting set for worldwide take over with a peculiar penchant for bass and religious sermon records from the American South.

What were the first records that really made you go, “WOW” ?

Growing up in the napster era (I remember literally typing “techno” into the search prompt) a lot of individual tracks really blew me away. Anthony Rother- Red Light District, Roni Size- Brown Paper Bag, Venetian Snares- Ghetto Body Buddy and Fuck Off. My first copy of Blackboard Jungle Dub- which is so dirty and scratched.

Describe the sound of a Taliesin Set.

I really pride myself on addressing the narrative of the night. Is this a closing set, am I in a museum, an art gallery, some college house’s unfinished basement? When I find the crowd and I am falling in love, my sets are like Willy Wonka’s boat ride. “There’s no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going. There’s no knowing where we’re rowing, or which way the river’s flowing.” And then were there.

Where are you from originally ? Where are you based now ?

I was born in Olympia, Wa. Moved around the three US coasts, then ended up in Seattle. Now I’m going to school just outside of NYC.

How/when did you first begin playing music ?

My family couldn’t afford to get me lessons, but in second grade we rented a violin. I can’t believe the patience everyone in our house must have had for a second grader teaching himself how to play the violin. I never did learn.

Which current artists/records do you really love ?

The new Erykah Badu is the best major label work I’ve heard in ages. People I’m checking for are: Cardopusher, Starkey, Mathhead, Shadetek, Cauto, BD-1982, and Baby Kites and Nokea.

What, for you, is the most important thing about music ?

How adaptable it is. From funeral durges, to 4′ 33″

What’s the most memorable DJ set you’ve ever played ?

At school I throw a monthly called The Remedy with a visualist, Nes.Avi, our last show in the spring of ‘07 was just mental. We had Orson from Germany playing dubstep to a bunch of kids who had never heard an entire set of it, one of the bassbins blew during sound check, and still it was just the most mental feel good and wake up with your whole body aching dance party ever.

What’s the best night in your home town right now?

In NYC we’ve got Dubwar, T&B and SuryaDub. But what is really taking the cake are the Dutty Artz Tropical Parties. The DA crew is dropping the eurocentricity and building a sound that is deeply rooted in New York Cities diversity.