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DRVR: A browseable interface for the Andrew Weatherall music library

Listen to hundreds of hours of mixes (with tracklists) from “The Guv’nor” Andrew Weatherall.
File under: Internet is Beautiful, DRVR is a new creation from The Flightpath Estate, “an ever larger niche of Andrew Weatherall obsessiveness on facebook.” Released a few days ago on the fourth anniversary of Weatherall’s passing, the site expands on The Flightpath Estate’s previous project Weatherdrive, a Google Drive folder featuring 900+ hours of Andrew Weatherall mixes, interviews, compilations, live recordings, radio broadcasts, videos, and charts, with an easily browseable interface to explore all the archival content from the Weatherdrive with additional descriptions, category / genre tags, links, and tracklists.
For the uninitiated, Andrew Weatherall was a British producer, musician, remixer, DJ, and label owner known worldwide for his impeccable taste and fearless approach to music. He’s most known for bringing acid house into the mainstream with his groundbreaking production on Primal Scream’s breakthrough Screamadelica, but his work and influence reaches far beyond acid house and into trip-hop, dub, indie dance, techno, pop, and more. His remix credits include Björk, My Bloody Valentine, Saint Etienne, New Order, Spiritualized, Ricardo Villalobos, Fuck Buttons, Jagwar Ma. He was also one of the best DJ’s to ever do it, and DRVR’s archive opens a direct pathway into his genre-bending selections.

Explore the DRVR archive: https://www.flightpathestate.com/drvr/#/start
Weatherall spoke of the eternal appeal of DJing and sharing music in a 2016 Guardian interview: “It’s quite vampyric, DJing. You’re never going to have that feeling of hearing that record for the first time again, but if you look into the eyes of someone who’s hearing it for the first time, it’s a nice vicarious feeling. But it’s not selfish. I think I’ve never lost that thing I had when I was 12 years old and inviting my mates round to my house. They’d all be copping off with girls and I’m going, ‘No, check out this B-side.’”
Below, we’ve picked out a few favorite new discoveries gleaned from the archives.
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees – I Can See
From Some Songs Of Hope, a tape made for Cymon Eckel (1988).
Jaziacs – Magic Flute
From Back To Basics / Cut The Crap (1995)
Felix Kubin – Antarktis Slow Rock
From Tokyo Scene – Rotters Golf Club Archive Hour Vol 9 (2016)
Karl Hector & The Malcouns – “Kingdom Of D’MT”
From Gods Waiting Room CD#2 compilation with David Holmes (2017)
Big Youth – Lightning Flash (Weak Heart Drop)
From Dazed & Confused Mixtape (2000)