We know it’s not summer anymore – but we wanted to remind everyone what a great summer it was.

Tom Middleton takes us round Bestival to his tracks – “Sense is Real” and “Starq”

Big thanks to Matt “Smivadee” Smith for editing the video…

Massive thanks to everyone who ‘felt like putting their hands up in the air’ (and in the T for tune shape too) in the Club tent last Sunday at the Big Chill Festival – Eastnor Castle.

I landed on Saturday to catch the likes of Emiliana Torrini, Alice Russell on the Castle Stage, over to Krafty Kuts causing mash up mayhem and finally Orbital raving it up on the main stage.

On the Sunday I played a two hour set of end of night anthems and classic One More Tunes with an old friend, the legendary old school promoter/DJ/MC Ribbz (aka Sean Hill) working the crowd on the Mic.* see note 1

Yet again I had the challenge of following a stand up comedy session featuring Russell Howard, Dylan Moran and Noel Fielding! When I got to the tent it was packed, mostly with people sitting down on rugs and mini deck chairs having picnics..lol!

But didn’t take long for myself and Sean to get the place jumping.
Here are the biggest One More Tunes from the set.

The Prodigy ‘Out Of Space’ (Drum & Bass version)
Calvin Harris ‘Ready For The Weekend’ (High Contrast Version)
Dizzy Rascal ‘Bonkers’ (Doorly dubstep version)
Blur ‘Song 2’ (Tom Middleton Whoomp mash up)
Orbital ‘Halcyon’ (Tom Middleton remodel)
Groove Armada ‘Superstylin’ (Krafty Kuts Breakbeat-Dubstep mash up)
Talking Heads ‘Once In A Lifetime’
The Police ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’
The Stone Roses ‘Fools Gold’
Franz Ferdinand/The Scissor Sisters ‘Take Me Out’ (Daft Punk/Tom Middleton mash up)

’m back on the road this weekend headlining at the Beautiful Days Festitval in Ottery St Mary, Devon. Further One More Tunes and Old School anthems galore…full report next week.

Note 1*A bunch of us hardcore Cornish ravers including myself and Richard D James, used to take a bus to Plymouth to hear Sean spin alongside US DJ’s like Joey Beltram and Moby playing the craziest R&S hoover techno and acid, and most notably, Sean also hosted one of The Aphex Twin’s earliest live performances, he and I both worked at Mighty Force Records which was our local source for the freshest imported dance music. Without Richard D James teaching me studio production, Sean making me dance all night and Mighty Force releasing my first records I probably wouldn’t be writing this!

Big thanks! Tom

Maxcast can announce another Artist – renowned DJ & producer Tom Middleton!

To the untrained eye Tom Middleton is just another DJ. Beard, box of records, bounces behind the decks. You seen one, you’ve seen them all, right? Wrong. You see Tom isn’t just a DJ. He’s a scientist; a meticulous technician with a thirst for all musical forms from breakbeat to baroque.

Achievements are in abundance where Tom is concerned… He helped Aphex Twin secure his first record deal and founded labels such as Evolution, Universal Language, Heard and E3. He’s flirted with chart success with the 2002 club smash ‘Take Me With You’, hosted his own show on Kiss FM, been resident at Ibiza’s most super of superclubs Manumission and tutored the winning DJ Ryan Shaw in ITV’s cult DJ challenge The Joy Of Decks.

As a DJ he’s performed in almost every corner of the globe to crowds as large as 150,000. With his trademark widescreen musical repertoire, he’s spent years championing styles long before they were the norm, helping Ulrich Schnauss develop his career and hosting Hot Chip and Mylo’s festival debut appearances. From ambient to drum & bass, techno to rock n’ roll, his attention to detail allows him to find connections between the most disparate forms of music.

No, Tom is no ordinary DJ. He’s a true scientist, a self-proclaimed research freak who spends his life consuming information in the pursuit of authenticity, clarity and truth. Not just on music, but all his passions. From his love for innovative, simplistic design – he’s currently designing bespoke luxury villas in Italy and a domestic product to help mothers with newborn children – to his flare for fine food and wine. He even considered becoming a chef at point. Fortunately he didn’t, or dance music would be lacking one of its most unique, ardent, inventive ambassadors.

Welcome Tom!

Maxcast Team

Hey Pepsimaxcasters… It’s been a blinding few weeks indeed. We have had some truly brilliant gigs – Leeds on Monday was mental… we had the Sheffield Wednesday firm in and it went off!!

And the The London Forum last Thurs was totally insane!! It was packed, the crowd knew every single word to every song and  everyone was jumping about and going crazy- at one point I thought the balcony was going to come down! We then went on and partied till the small hours in Camden… I didn’t feel to clever in the morning though!

I also wanna say a big thank you to the Pepsi Max comp winners for coming down and saying  hello – top geezers! Anyway just thought you’d like a sneak peek at one of our soundchecks. This is me doing “The Drugs Don’t Work” by The Verve – one of my favourite bands. Liam, Andy and I like to take it in turns to choose a song to cover to keep sounchecks fun! Enjoy… TC.

Fade’s Tour Diaries™….. part.3 in an intermittent series…

(or musings from across the globe.)

The Adelaide Shuffle

Not only does water run away down plug-holes the other way in the southern Hemisphere, but their dance moves have a distinct funk of their own. The Adelaide-Shuffle (modified from the erstwhile Melbourne-shuffle) is a spectacle to behold. Kind of like the Running Man, mixed-up with what we used to call the X-man in 1990, then sped-up and stripped of any recognisable “dancing” characteristics and replaced with the unsexy frenetic stomp of a wooden-legged man dealing with too-high a treadmill setting. People seem to bust this local move out at any given moment all over the club, for a burst of about 30 seconds of cardio intensity like a mating-ritual for ephedrine-drunk robots. It’s bad enough when the boys do it (and let’s face it, what dance move isn’t?) but some girls get involved too. It’s a wonder any pro-creation gets achieved at all in Southern Australia. This won’t be seen in a club near you soon. [*sauce got some footage tho…]

E-Cup Bolt-ons

The best self-description of a pair enhanced-breasts I’ve ever heard. Brisbanites don’t mince their words. They also party harder than anywhere else we’ve been this year. And look good while doing it. All year-round sunshine does wonders for keeping-up your beach-bod credentials and yet manage to never take yourself (or indeed anything) too seriously. The Monastery, Brisbane, we salute you. You bring the party.

The Return from Oz

22 hours in the air is just wrong. But coming down for one hour break to visit the toilets in Singapore airport is the most unexpected dose of luxury, your long-haul economy traveller can experience. [*pic attached] They are plusher than any of the hotels we’ve stayed in on this tour. They are nicer than my own bathroom at home. They are nicer than my whole flat tbh. Like when u go into a really flash restaurant loo and wished you lived there. (we all do that….right?). There is even an attendant guy actually cleaning- all the time- instead of offering you Chupa Chups and a £5 squirt of Hugo Boss. My parting tip to anyone flying-out East is to save your ablutions for Singapore airport.. and don’t do any home-improvements before you’ve taken notes there.