“I could not bring myself to play with a USB – I would get physically ill or something,” remarks Marcelle von Hoof, in conversation with Chal Ravens in The Wire 436. The Dutch record collector and producer has been DJing for a living for almost 20 years, these days almost always using three turntables and specially made dubplates of any music that hasn't been released on vinyl.

This home-recorded Wire mix is no exception. “I have used three turntables and one reel-to-reel machine and, as always, I play records on top of each other,” explains DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess via email. “For some tracks only tiny fragments were used. Most of the tracks are new or recent, but I have also used a few favourite older artists who are close to my heart (Mark E Smith, Muslimgauze, Au Pairs, Zoviet France, Nurse With Wound) from my 20,000 record collection. I always like to do this for online mixes, though when I play on stage I mainly play newish records.”

Tracklist, “in order of appearance, but not necessarily disappearance”:

PIL “Careering (Peel Session)” (DJ Marcelle edit)
Zoviet France “Vlaag”
Pinnel “Quarry” (Weardale)
Assel “Sprechhund”
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess ”Artritis II”
African Head Charge “Disciplined And Dignified”
Mama Bär “Hund Katze Whisper Violence”
Pavel Milyakov “202”
Jan St Werner & Mark E Smith “VS Canceled”
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess “Everything Not Yet (Too Long Dub)”
Mark E Smith “Totally Wired (A cappella)”
DJ Diaki “But Show Diaki 4”
Rully Shabara “Faring”
Jenzi “Sparbeats”
Lolina “Good Or Bad”
Salem Tradition “Kabaré (Alma Negra Rework)”
Ernst Thoma “Modern Tracks No 7”
Stine Janvin “Like Last Night”
Ana Roxanne “It's A Rainy Day On The Cosmic Shore”
Gaia Tones “Yang: Wonkadonk”
Group Tanbour Chagos “Charli-Mandarin”
Dale Cornish “Nag”
Nurse With Wound “The Church Of Esoteric Practices”
Metal Preyers “14 Skull Head Stompeed”
Muslimgauze “Rouge Amin Fraction”
Yayaya “Le Hanga”
Henning Christiansen “Schafe Statt Geigen Op 186”
Au Pairs “Headache (For Michelle) (Remix)”
Brian Case “Ubu”
Ka Baird “Spiritus Operis”
Robert Ashley & Cynthia Liddell “Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon”
Native Instrument “Thud”
Lori Goldston “Sisters (An Interpretive Scansion Of The Call To Prayer)”

DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess is interviewed in The Wire 436. Subscribers can read the full interview via the online archive.