James Zabiela's music tracks

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1. ‘Smoky Eyes (Dave Robertson remix)’ by Oliver Moldan and Norman Z

Good opening record. It’s not too banging, good groove and sets the scene – and nice beats in the intro.

2. ‘Wake Up (Slick Rick remix)’ by False Prophet

False Prophet is one of the aliases of Will Brunner. Not many great breakbeat tracks around these days, but he always delivers and I think it might have an illegal sample of an old Slick Rick song.

3. ‘Aktin’ by Microtrauma

It’s in a 3/4 time signature, so not many people play it because it’s a bit of a hard one to get out of. It starts off with just the drums but at the end there’s this great rhythm.

4. ‘Impact (The Earth Is Burning) (James Zabiela remix)’ by Orbital

It’s an old track; they’re doing a remix album right now and they asked me to choose one. I picked an obscure one because I thought everybody else would be picking big ones like ‘Belfast’ and ‘Chime’.

5. ‘Planet Earth’ by Wally Lopez

This one’s quite funny. It’s a full-on techno record, but it’s just got loads of bits of Flash Gordon in it – not the theme tune, but dialogue. You’ll know it when you hear it.

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