Nice guestmix on Crookers.net from Vancouver DJ Neoteric. Great fun to start off the week, and it’s the first time I’ve ever heard Parlez Vous Francais? by Art Vs Science in a mix, since falling in love with it a year ago.
Download it here.
Last night we attended the DeadFish Family and Friends party at Public Life. Mowgli told us that the parties started off with he and his friends rewarding themselves after a lot of hard work on the label, and they do have much to celebrate. The next one is a Mowgli-birthday extravagaza in April. Can you go wrong with a rave in a toilet?
This week’s tracks are ones that have been much talked about by DJs and bloggers alike. I am still loving everything Classixx do so I’ve picked an oldie from 2008, and am intrigued by the mysterious Polargeist productions (on the excellent Bang Gang label). See what you think.
Groove Armada – History (from the excellent album Black Light)
Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish
Classixx – Dial 1 (Radio Edit)
Polargeist – Use Me
Les Gillettes – Pompeii (Original mix)
Jamaica – I think I like U 2
Here they are wrapped up in a zip: WoodyIII.
I can’t get this track out of my head. Bottin and Rodion, Galli (Give It Up). It’s no wonder, as it’s graced the mixtapes of the entire cast of my musical influencers in February and March. It has all the ingredients of an italo-disco stormer, piano chords, soft vocals and wobbly, dreamy synths.
It was made by Guglielmo Bottin, a Venetian producer whose discography dates back to a self-produced EP in 1999, before working on over 20 compilations with Irma Records in Italy, and more recently USA label Italians Do It Better. There’s an art cross-over too as he’s a sound artist, aurally furnishing the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2005. His latest compilation album Discoursive Diversions comes to Nang Records later this year.
The good news is, Galli is out a week on Monday on Eskimo Recordings, also home to Aeroplane, and Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas. The latter can be found on Friday night at Corsica Studios for their album launch if you want to sample the party vibe from this label.
You can also download Bottin’s Disco For the Family, a half-hour vinyl mix for you to get your teeth into.
Busy P’s remix of Hey Today’s Talk To Me is coming out on Turbo Recordings on 6th April. I’ll let Pedro describe this in his own words:
“A few weeks ago, we were touring Australia for Parklife TIGA was closing our stage every night, in front of 10,000 kids ready to rumble with him, to get wrestled to the ground.
And, as usual, he throws out his secret weapon, “TALK TO ME”. The crowd explodes. That’s when I ran onstage screaming, “T-Dawg, what’s that sound????”
The only reply I got was a big, creepy grin… Merci!
One late night, on the narrow streets of Melbourne, TIGA and I went out for a little boogie with the Bang Gang squad. Our Aussie friends know how to look after us. We spent the night at Sorry Grandma!, the hottest club in town, drinking Rave Juice and trying to understand drunk Aussies’ sub-English accents.
I knew it was the perfect time to ask TIGA about that insane track he was playing. Ask a drunk man something and you’ll get everything you need. Everything.
“HEY TODAY!” he said. “Wait, the German guys responsible for “If I Was Wonderwoman” a few years ago?” I replied.
“Can I have another Rave Juice, P?” he replied to my reply. Nice.
Anyway, I now knew it was some Germans who did that Herbie Hancock-meets-LFO track!
I never gave up. We were back from OZ, me in Paris, TIGA in Montreal, iChatting like we often do. And that little “Transfarts” window pops up on my screen!
“TALK TO ME” became the highlight of my DJ set, the moment where you see stars in the eyes of the crowd’s head. Not only it is my favorite track of 2010, I even had the chance to remix it!
What the hell can you do with such a monster tune? Make something harder? Impossible. Make something better? Not possible. Make something faster? The opposite of possible. Make something stronger? The train has pulled out of Possibility Town. I wanted something deeper, more mental, bringing two worlds together, Detroit and Rotterdam.
Here is HEY TODAY!’s new single “TALK TO ME.” Have fun with it.
P”
This is under wraps at the moment but is the third track on this video from Busy’s blog.
Resident Advisor published their RA.157 podcast by Reboot on Monday, which Reboot describes as “a nice range of the stuff I play and love to listen to at the moment. Something like a brief summary of a club set I would play these days.”
It’s certainly worth checking him out. In an interview with RA last month he described his productions as “complex rhythm architecture” from the Rhein-Main-House scene:
“If we’re talking about this Rhein-Main-House thing, we’re basically talking about a super-stripped-down house track, yeah? Without the filter-pianos or whatever, it’s like just this basic rhythm. Like a deep bassline, but funky and groovy, and this is riding down for six or seven minutes without anything happening really. So it’s up to the DJ to bring in some a cappellas or whatever, tools to make it interesting…”
Although Reboot has been in the business for a long time now, he was never someone whose tracks or sets I actively tried to catch or someone who I accidentally stumbled across in clubs. Last year that all changed at the Get Physical party in Miami. This is when I stumbled across Reboot and his track Ronson – may be it was just the party memories but it became one of my favourites of 2009.
Reboot has an album coming up on Cadenza and is currently touring Europe, Mexico and Canada before heading over to Miami for the Winter Music Conference, and then Ibiza for the 2010 summer season.
As well as the RA podcast you can also find his December 2009 Essential Mix for Radio 1 and his November 2009 Triple J Mixup below.
If this isn’t usually your sort of thing why not check out Riva Starr’s mix of Reboot’s excellent Enjoy Music (released on Defected in January) to ease you in…
RA.157 podcast: Reboot & February 2010 interview
Essential Mix – Reboot – 12th December 2009
Reboot (Cadenza) – Triple J Mixup – 28th November 2009
Ronson – Reboot
I’d heard the songs but hadn’t seen the absolutely brilliant videos from Golden Bug aka Paris-born Antoine Harispuru. They’re inspired by Victor the robot, who lived in Antoine’s mother’s toy shop, and bought Antoine his first drum machine.
My attention has been repeatedly directed back to the DFA records camp recently. Their rosta is a veritable galaxy, sparkling with the likes of The Juan Maclean, Holy Ghost! Hercules and Love Affair and Shit Robot. Formed as Death From Above in 2001 by Jonathan Galkin, Tim Goldsworthy (Mo’Wax co-founder) and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, they champion records from beyond Manhattan, but unmistakeably influenced by their Lower East Side party roots.
Both the Jac the Disco and The C90s March mixes start with new boy Michoacan, with the Clap Rules remix of In The Dark of the Night, which more than performs its role as set-starter, with shouty lyrics layered over the sythy bassline. If you, like me, hear the original later, it seems like a slightly tipsy version of the remix, and the huge helping of slap-bass funk conjures images of gold jump suits and enormous hair. It soon becomes easy to recognise this as a characteristic of the DFA sound; DFA disco classics begin to come out of the woodwork wherever you are, and you realise they’ve been there all along.
Out next week is The Crystal Ark’s The City Never Sleeps, and my personal favourite is Ray Mang – Bulletproof, which was released on 25 January, and features Lady Miss Kier of Dee-Lite fame.
They’ve kindly offered a radiomixes section of their site, with a selection of mixtapes going all the way back to 2005, and you can stream their own remixes on your very own radio player here here.
We love Fridays. Especially this Friday, as we’re attending a very special birthday party. Ed Banger’s 7th birthday in fact. Pedro writes that he’s been burning exclusive new tracks for tonight’s set, and with Fake Blood and Riton joining the boys from Paris, we are truly spoilt.
This week we were lucky enough to catch Late of the Pier at their in-store appearance at Pure Groove. Erol Alkan popped in and played some records too, celebrating the release of the double A-side Blueberry/Best In the Class on his label Phantasy. Mine’s customised:
Here are some great records that have brought much enjoyment in the morning sun this week:
Florence and The Machine – Dog Days Are Over (Breakage Remix)
Kid Sister – Daydreaming (Jakwob Remix)
Miike Snow – Silvia (Hugg & Pepp Remix)
James Curd – Can You Get It
Crookers – Big Club Fat Ass
Christian Sol – Planck
Tiga – What You Need (Chromeo Remix)
Here they are in this week’s tasty zipper: Woody II.
The album for next week is, of course, Crookers, Tons of Friends. Hugely hyped with download giveaways and a launch party at Fire tomorrow night, it’s a bumper 20 track-pack, including the beautiful Remedy (feat. Miike Snow).
While we await word of the next Hoxton-sized taster of Lincoln’s Engine Shed we thought it would be fitting to celebrate the work of resident Tom Staar.
Since we first saw him take to The Macbeth decks last year, his tracks have been getting air time from all the choice electro stars and not just because Moda’s label bosses have access to some of the most influential radio desks in the country.
The Tom Staar and Console EPs were just warm ups to the Disney’s Space Mountain sampling, bassier, dance floor smashing Heavy Artillery EP (due for March 2010 release on Moda) which houses Two Tone Simms, Cannon and Sling Shot .
Remixes of We Have Band, Basement Jaxx, Cassette Jam and Yello have already been completed and can be found on his MySpace page, and if what we’ve read is true productions with Doorly are being cooked up now…
Be it an introduction or a reminder – get your ears around Two Tone Simms on SoundCloud. School night raving just wouldn’t be the same without him!
Moda’s eye for talent doesn’t stop there either with singer Ben Duffy from the label’s hit band Fenech-Soler appearing on Paper Romance; Groove Armada’s excellent recent single from their new album Black Light (which was released on Monday).
So, to tie this up neatly, here is Tom Staar’s remix of Fenech-Soler’s Lies, and you can find Groove Armada’s Paper Romance (Classixx mix) on Woody’s Round Up posted last Friday.