They re-heated their own catalogue and slipped in unreleased bits: Caravan Palace pushed the needle from swing to house for a full hour
The band built a continuous 21-track mix out of its own songs — and reworked most of them.
Caravan Palace have released ‘Dusty House Mix’ — an hour-long continuous mix assembled from their own catalogue, but mostly in new versions.
The band said so in a post of its own.
The mix came out on 20 June 2025 on Le Plan Recordings under exclusive licence from Lone Diggers, runs one hour and sixteen seconds and holds 21 entries.
What exactly was reworked
Where the needle moved
The tracklist shows it at once: ‘City Cook’, ‘Raccoons’, ‘Black Betty’, ‘Supersonics’ and ‘Spirits’ appear in Shiny Mob versions, ‘Moonshine’ in a Bakermat reading, ‘Fool’ in an Almara mix, ‘Rock It For Me’ in a 2012 remix. Next to them stand untouched staples: ‘Lone Digger’, ‘Clash’ in its VIP version, ‘Chiyoda’, ‘Mighty’, ‘Mirrors’.
The mix artwork was drawn by NIARK1.
“We’ve put together a tasty new mix from our catalogue, but with a twist! Most of the tracks have been re-spiced and re-heated to bring you a whole hour of new-ish music, laced with an extra dash of house flavour. It’s a whistle-stop tour through the Caravan Palace universe — energetic, playful, and connecting the dots between past and present.”
The band sums it up themselves, without big words.
“No big statement — just an hour of having fun with the music, to make you smile, move, and maybe discover something you’d missed (or forgotten). And yes, we couldn’t resist sneaking in a few unreleased bits here and there… Voilà!”
The mix was put out as a single hour-long track, with no breaks between the entries.
The tracklist shows it at once: ‘City Cook’ and ‘Supersonics’ in Shiny Mob versions, ‘Moonshine’ read by Bakermat, ‘Fool’ in an Almara mix, ‘Rock It For Me’ in a 2012 remix. Beside them stand their own load-bearing pieces — ‘Lone Digger’, ‘Black Betty’, ‘Clash’ in a VIP version.
There is also something that existed nowhere before: the band admits it could not resist sneaking a few unreleased bits into the mix. The artwork is by NIARK1.
The band appeared in 2008 with an idea that sounded like a joke at the time: take gypsy jazz and 1930s swing and lay them over a club beat. The joke turned out to be a genre.
The band stresses there is no big statement here: it is simply an hour of having fun with their own music, to make you smile, move, and maybe discover something you had missed.
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