Birdy Nam Nam – Call It Anything (Exclusive Beatport Mix)
Here’s an exclusive 45 minute long mixtape exclusive for Beatport by Birdy Nam Nam called “Call It Anything.” This mixtape features some of their tracks as well as a slew of others.
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Tracklist::
01. Para One – Lean On Me (Hrdvsion Remix) [Marble] – 0:00
02. 5kinAndBone5 – Matrixxfuck [Discobelle] – 2:53
03. Boston Bun – Closer [Ed Banger] – 4:05
04. Noob – Powder (Para One & Teki Latex RMX) [Form] – 4:52
05. SCNTST – Not Sure [BNR] – 7:56
06. Birdy Nam Nam – BIg City KNight [Savoir Faire] – 9:29
07. Hrdvsion – Right and Tight (SKIT) [Gigolo] – 9:29
08. Jam City – Arpjam [Night Slugs] – 9:41
09. Girl Unit – Ensemble [Night Slugs] – 12:01
10. Borussia – Weary Dawn [CDR] – 13:48
11. Addison Groove – Manic Miner [Monkeytown] – 19:03
12. Matthias Zimmermann – Bastian (Nicolas Malinowsky Remix) [Sound Pellegrino] – 20:41
13. Aero Manyelo – Niniwa [Sound Pellegrino] – 23:13
14. FaltyDL – Straight & Arrow (Four Tet Remix) [Ninja Tune] – 25:29
15. MPIA3 – Mountain Of Ash [R&S] -28:32
16. Blawan – Bohla [R&S] -32:28
17. Blawan – Lavender [R&S] – 36:25
18. Myd – Same Old Brand New You (feat. Bostun Bun) [Marble] – 38:11
OWSLA Was Curating More Than Just Dubstep
This mix landing on OWSLA’s own SoundCloud rather than Birdy Nam Nam’s is a good reminder of how much curatorial weight Skrillex’s label carried beyond his own bass-heavy catalog, OWSLA was actively championing leftfield electronic acts like the French turntablist quartet Birdy Nam Nam too, not just dubstep and trap producers. That range says a lot about the label’s actual taste, even if its mainstream reputation was built almost entirely on heavier bass music.
The tracklist itself pulls from a genuinely deep, UK-leaning bass and club music underground, labels like Night Slugs, R&S, and Ninja Tune were putting out some of the most technically adventurous club music of the era, and having Birdy Nam Nam mix that material alongside their own turntablism-rooted productions shows a level of crate-digging most exclusive Beatport mixes from bigger festival headliners never bothered with. It’s a genuinely deep cut of a mix, more suited to serious electronic music heads than a casual festival crowd.
Birdy Nam Nam themselves are also worth a second look here, the French four-piece built their reputation on live turntablism, actually scratching and mixing on decks in real time rather than just producing in the studio, which made them a genuinely unusual act to see aligned with an American bass-music label like OWSLA. That turntablist pedigree is exactly what gives a mix like this its unusually technical, crate-digger sensibility compared to most other exclusive DJ mixes floating around the scene at the time.
