Time for a new volume of the AB series. This one comes from someone we discovered through his mixcloud recently.
Justin Dobson aka Baron Saturday (a moniker taken from a track from The Pretty Things’ 1968 album “S.F. Sorrow“) dishes out excellently weaved mixes on a regular basis, chocked full of psych and funk all tied together with samples and lashings of ping pong delay. Here’s what he had to say about how he got into the line of quality mixes and djing in general.
Hey Justin, we’ve had your “A Bird Watcher’s Guide To Acid Folk…” and “Brown Acid Sunshine” mixes on repeat since they came out, and now you’ve delivered another classic for the Amen Brother series. Give us a little insight into how you approach each mix.
What I try and do with my mixes is tell a story or a journey, i like using odd samples and spoken word and the mix usually starts from there. It’s more for the kitchen than the club and more to broaden the horizons of the listener………….my mind was blown when i first heard James Last do Silver Machine (I’m a sucker of odd covers)
And how did you get into this DJing lark?
My first real love is psychedelic and garage rock music though discovered dance music and DJing late on …..despite this I have always loved a good beat. Musical journey started with drumming playing anything from acid jazz, funk thrash metal and indie. sold drums bought guitar….went to Ibiza, sold guitars and bought decks……sold decks bought drums again played stoner rock for a while as disgruntled with dance music in general. discovered that most of my record collection had become hip in DJing circles and edits of psych becoming fashionable, and popular….(Wizards Sleeve, Gaz Cobain etc.) went back to decks.
First and foremost, I am a collector of records who likes to play them to other people. I DJ mostly at psych mod and garage nights, though have had complaints of being too funky………….
Playing Psych, Prog Krautrock and Mod can get a bit ‘chin stroking’ at times and a great set can be easily lost in finding obscurities that nobody dances to…….. getting people up is the first rule….get their notice and admiration then you have the license to blow their minds, and carte blanche to play that obscure track.
Who are you core influences?
Bringing my record collection in to DJing has mainly been influenced by other DJs who I would also consider collectors of music, and especially that of the psychedelic genre. Guys such as David Holmes, Erol Alkan, Richard Norris and their Wizards Sleeve project, Gaz Cobain, Andy Votel, Dom Thomas, Cherry Stones and the like, Finders Keepers Records, Spacemen 3, Sonic Boom, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bowie, Led Zep, Sabbath, Slayer and Oliver Postgate.
Justin, who describes his sound as “Psychedelic Folky Fuzz Funk” also dabbles in edits, check them out here
AMEN BROTHER VOL.9 – BARON SATURDAY
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1. Introduction by Tiny Clanger
2. The Monkees – Porpoise Song
3. The Freak Scene – Million Grains Of Sand
4. James Last – Silver Machine
5. The Kinks – Creeping Jean
6. The Bonniwell Music Machine – Mother Nature Father Earth
7. Aphrodites Child – Magic Mirror
8. Captain Beefheart – Party Of Special Things To Do
9. Muddy Waters – Herbert Harpers Free Press News
10. Strawberry Alarm Clock – Nightmares Of Percussion
11. The Bag – Red Purple And Blue
12. The Byrds – Fido
13. Colloseum – The Kettle
14. Neoton – Nora
15. The Mickey Finn – Garden Of My Mind
16. Orange Peel – I Got No Time
17. Cozy Powell – ….And Then There Was Skin
18. Obscure Ivresse – Stop
19. Serge Gainsbourg – Cargo Culte
