Chris Wood from the goodie-packed Word the Cat blog recently dropped us a line about the splendid new mix he's concocted. It brought to mind Hanuman's and El Kano's playlists (two of our fave DJs here at Spannered) — a slew of moods from the grime and dubstep worlds, liberally sprinkled with flavas stretching from bassline house, bumpy ragga and old skool to 8-bit dub, Nepali lok pop, frosty minimalism and chiptune breakcore; he's even managed to slide in a few words of hillwalking wisdom from the late, great Alfred Wainwright. Chris has kindly let us host the mix here in Spannered's radio archive. He asked it we'd link listeners up to the 8bitcollective site — 'the first completely open chiptune-related media repository and file sharing community'. The electronicMESS track is available there for use under a Creative Commons License, along with a stack of other great 8-bit jams. Go check it. Tracklisting: BBC Field Recording - The Skuas Caspa vs Art of Noise - Moments in Love (White) Squeezer f/ Nature - Yote Ni Yale Yale (WTC Screw) Matt Shadetek - Warm Heart Turns Cold (mp3) Joker - J. V. Anderson (Earwax) Doc Scott & Rufige Kru - VIP Drumz (Metalheadz) 6Blocc - Babylon (Tribe Steppaz) Terror Danjah & Durrty Goodz - Reloadz (Aftershock?) Zomby - Spliff Dub (Mr Figz remix) Dub Melitia - Screwface Slugs (Heatseeker) Dexplicit vs Cassie - Juicy Fruit / Long Way to Go (WTC Refix) Elephant Man - Dirt Bed (Remix) (Lokal Stage Show Riddim) Bishnu Majhi - Driver Dai Bishnu Majhi - Driver Dai (WTC Refix) Alfred Wainwright - Helm Crag guided walk Gatekeeper - Let Go (Punch Drunk) Peverelist - Roll With the Punches (Punch Drunk) Shackleton - In the Next World (Clandestine Cultivations) Appleblim - Vansam (Skull Disco) Sleeparchive - Hospital 01 (Sleeparchive) Quarta330 - Sunset Dub (Hyperdub) Dubmood - Pressure Drop (Jahtari) ElectronicMESS - Beautiful Girls (mp3)