Now this is the real shit…
Personal Golf Instructions is probably the mix that made me take up DJing, so these boys have a lot to answer for. Up until the point that I heard this mix I thought DJing was all about playing crap trance, and whanging half of Columbia’s National Product up your nose, but this mixtape showed me it was possible to do something different, taking a big batch of genres and odd samples stir ’em all up and come out with something, and not only manage to make it work but to make it sound utterly awesome. For that, I’m forever grateful to The Nextmen.
Brad and Dom show some serious skills covering the bases from hip-hop, via the dancehall , electropop , reggae, disco, funk, soul and some drum and bass all tied together with a series of samples lifted from what sounds like old Arnold Palmer golf instructional record. For a good few years this was only available on CD, and was a bugger to get hold of, leading to it costing a small fortune, but now, thanks to the internerd, it’s available to all. Despite being released in ’04 this has barely aged a jot and is still a ‘go-to’ mix for me for warming a houseparty up …
Official tracklisting
1. The Grip
2.The Stance
3. The Woods
4. The Irons
5. Chipping And Putting
‘As far as I can work it out’ tracklisting as there doesn’t seem to be one anywhere on the internet (apologies for the gaps, guesstimates and the outright wrong)
1. ? vs The Nextmen feat Ty / Get Over It(acapella)
2. The Mexican / Yoghurt Mudflap
3. Randy Maverick / Pure Love (Nextmen Remix)
4. ? vs Root Manuva & Ty / Do You Want More (revox) (acapella)
5. DJ Revolution / Uh-Huh feat Method Man vs Rodney P / Riddim Killa (acapella)
6. Quantic, Greyboy & Sharon Jones / Go To Be A Love (Paul Nice Remix)
7. Black Eyed Peas / Weekends
8. Tweet / Boogie 2nite vs The Nextmen feat J Live / 31st February (acapella)
9. The Nextmen / Silent Weapon (feat Cutty Ranks)
10. Kelis / Milkshake
11. ? vs Big Daddy Kane / How U Get A Record Deal?
12. The Jackson 5 / It’s Great To Be Here (Kenny Dope Remix)
13. Tyler James / Why Do I Do
14. ? x Jill Scott / I Am Music (feat Common)
15. Max Segley / Happy vs Amy Winehouse / Stronger Than Me (acapella)
16. KC & The Sunshine Band / I Get Lifted
17. The Source & Candi Stanton / You Got The Love
18. Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam / Let The Beat Hit ‘Em
19. INXS / Need You Tonight
20. The Roots / The Seed 2.0 (feat Cody)
21. Pressure Drop & Sugarhill Gang / 8th Wonder
22. Positive Force / We Got The Funk
23. Treacherous Three / ?
24. Dead Prez / Hip-Hop vs Jay-Z / Dirt Off My Shoulder
25. Busta Rhymes / Break Ya Neck
26. Jungle Brothers / True Blue (Aphrodite Remix) vs Tweet / Oops (feat Missy Elliot) (acapella)
27. Ganja Kru / Super Sharp Shooter vs Jay-Z / H to the Izzo (acapella)
28. Nightmares on Wax / Night’s Interlude vs Erykah Badu / On & On (acapella)
29. Karime Kendra / 90% Of Me Is You
Golf Samples throughout from Arnold Palmer / Personal Golf Instructions (from Driver thru Putter)
Sherlock Ohms's Blog 
July 31st, 2011 at 2:41 am
Thanks for looking into this. I became interested in track 3 which is in fact:
Al Reed 99 44/100 pure love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHpVcNPdvr0
July 31st, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Cheers for that, and you’re right … in a way.
The track in the mix is definitely Randy Maverick / Pure Love, as I’ve got it on the Nextmen’s Selected Mixes (That’s What Friends Are For) album.
But you’re quite right in that it samples the tune you posted, which I’ve never heard before so cheers for posting as it’s fantastic!
August 1st, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Acknowledged by the boys themselves!
http://twitter.com/#!/thenextmen/status/98117232068005888
“@sherlockohmsdj Not a bad go at the track list mate. That should fill in the gaps for some people…”
August 31st, 2013 at 4:20 am
reminderz
September 25th, 2020 at 11:18 pm
Top mix and the ONLY tracklist on the interweb Mr Tait. Hope you and the fam are good. If you come back to the shire let me know!