The Mystery Mixes: Every month we post a phenomenal mix of overlooked music and throw down the gauntlet: can you spot it?

Eddie C February 2010

Eddie C listens to records and occasionally makes some in his log cabin in the heart of the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Raised on the goodness that came from the 80s and 90s in Southern Ontario, he made his vinyl debut on Jiscomusic last March and subsequent releases on Wolf Music, Flashback, Sleazy Beats, Home Taping and 7 Inches of Love, 2010 is shaping up nicely for the self-proclaimed ski bum

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Blackjoy January 2010

Blackjoy, aka Jerome Caron is the Frenchman who can (and does). Alongside 'band' cohorts François Faure, Thomas Naïm and Guillaume Farley, he's responsible for some of the best music to comne out of the Republique Ancienne, including the classic Moustache in 2005. Jerome began his career working at Yellow Productions also going on to work at Versatile before striking out on his own. We like him.

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Ray Mang December 2009

Ray Mang is the dastardly alter ego of Raj Gupta, ace engineer, producer and DJ behind a slew of brilliant productions dating back over the past 12 years including the Low Life classic It's Not So Fantastic. He's a busy chap with tracks due out on DFA, Mangled and Needwant shortly. He's also been known to work with the Glimmers, the Idjuts and the Krankies. We salute him.

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Faze Action November 2009

Faze Action is the brainchild of brother Simon and Robin Lee. Their early releases came out via now-defunct Nuphonic, including the UK house classic In The Trees, since which they have set up their own label and have recently released the Stratus Energy album on their own FA imprint. They have also been known to tour with a live band.

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Jamie Paton October 2009

Originally from Stoke or Dundee or somewhere else, Jamie Paton ran Zombie Disco in the wastes of south London for several years before giving it all up to become a failed pop star. He formed Cage & Aviary with Nigel from Bermondsey and they have subsequently released songs on Dissident, DFA and their own label Walls Have Ears. Jamie is also a designer (he did this website, fact fans).

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Jason Boardman Sept 2009

Jason Boardman is one half of Aficionado, a former resident at Yellow many moons ago and has just started his own boutique label, Homophono, to release esoteric music that tickles his futtocks. He is a long-standing DJ on the Manchester circuit who, along with many of his Mancunians peers, struggles with any piece of DJ equipment that requires electricity. It's steam all the way in Manchester.

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Diesel August 2009

One of yer traditional common or garden soulboys, Diesel broke into DJing through the acid house explosion that hit the Heathrow area with a force greater than a jumbo jet. He is one third of X-Press 2, one fifth of the Ballistic Brothers and ALL Diesel. Alongside his more traditional house manouevres he's also a noted collector of all things interesting and strange. This is his 2nd mix for us.

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Gatto Fritto July 2009

Ben Williams lives above a scrapyard and is influenced by Aldershot Town, Andy Sojka, Ashra, Austin Bascom and Aleister Crowley. Under the name Gatto Fritto he has released three singles for Dissident and now runs his own label Fritto Morto (Invisible College has just been re-released). He was once a binman. He was so slow he was called One Bin Ben.

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Emperor Machine June 2009

The Emperor Machine is Andy Meecham erstwhile member of dance music legends Bizarre Inc., and one-half of dub disco aficionados Chicken Lips. The Emperor Machine is Andy’s most passionate project that sees his fetishism for analogue synthesisers and radiophonic noise spilling out of his studio and into the world. His new album is imminent.

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Luke Solomon May 2009

Luke comes the small seaside fishing town of Weston Super Mare, once home to John Cleese and Jill Dando. He moved to London, started releasing records and ran the long-running Space with Kenny Hawkes. He also set up Classic Record with Derrick Carter and still runs Music For Freaks. He released his debut album The Difference Engine on Rekids last year.

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