Monthly Archives: September 2010

Leftside Wobble

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While we were at the Warehouse Project this weekend our southern compatriots weren’t left entirely on the sidelines as they moved to the smooth grooves of Leftside Wobble at the Book Club for Big In Japan.

Leftside Wobble seems to be something of an online phenomenon, releasing disco edits mainly for free (although also releasing on Disco Deviance, AutoDiscoteque and Kojak Giant Sounds), earning himself 100,000 downloads and being followed by everyone on Soundcloud. He’s actually been playing for 20 years as Jonathan Moore, including a stint at Paul Oakenfold’s legendary Project Club at Ziggy’s in South London, so I’d say he was in a pretty good position to provide a commentary on Acid House for us.

The title of this mixtape is Acid Soul, and is described by the man himself as “music that’s deep and raw yet still oozes funk and soul.” Capturing the spirit of Chicago House and mixing it with his own edits and more contemporary takes from the likes of Hard Ton and Hercules and Love Affair. Very nice indeed.

Acid Soul part 4 by Leftside Wobble
Tracklist
Hunee – Took My Love
Donnacha Costello – It’s What We Do – Kink & Neville Watson Rework
Eddie C – Tell Me
Stefano E Bene feat Hard Ton – Why Your Love (Katzbatz remix)
Franc Spangler – Forever And A Day
Shiny Objekts – Set It Off
Session Victim – We Want To Thank All Our Friends
Hot Toddy feat Jennifer Rhonwen – Down To Love (Shiny Objekts remix)
Presence feat Shara Nelson – Sense Of Danger (The Popular People’s Front Dangerous dub)
Marvin Gaye – Ego Tripping Out (Valique edit)
Hard Ton – Flawless (Snuff Crew Remix)
A+O – Take Me
Arthur Russell – Wax The Van (Yam Who? rework)
Idris Muhammad – Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (Leftside Wobble Edit)
Aki Bergen – Shine feat. Astral T (Kink Remix)
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
Steve Winwood – Time Is Running Out (ashley beedle edit)
Omar – Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz remix)

Blamma Blamma!

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Ever since Stevie Nicks’ 80s Edge of Seventeen was made into the epic and beautiful crescendo of Beyond 17 we’ve been keeping a beady eye on Blamma Blamma! and did a little listening and reading. Blamma Blamma! members Martin and Nick started making music in 2007, and built up their own tracks alongside remixes of, among others, We Have Band and Maximo Park, before Martin sadly died of cancer in 2009. Nick decided earlier this year that it was important not to let everything they’d made go to waste, so he brought back Blamma Blamma! “As a testament to my good friend.”

Beyond 17 was released in memory of Martin on Cage & Aviary‘s Label The Walls Have Ears, created a storm in the blog world, and Blamma Blamma! was reborn. Nick’s been busy with remixes for Crookers and Two Door Cinema Club and new material is on route in the next few months. I was very excited to see a mixtape, and it doesn’t disappoint.

Blamma Blamma! Strong Motion Mixtape (September 2010)

Tracklist
1. Midnight Juggernauts – ‘Induco’
2. Azari & III – ‘Indigo’
3. Shit Robot – ‘Simple Things’ (Todd Terje Version)
4. Sect – ‘Thieve Scrilla’
5. Lex Loofah – ‘Freaky Deaky’ (More Bounce To The Ounce Mix)
6. Mystery Jets – ‘Dreaming Of Another World’ (Prins Thomas Mix)
7. Riva Starr – ‘Splendido’ (Dub)
8. Pleasurekraft – Tarantula
9. Kid Gloves – ‘Brand New Dance’
10. Booka Shade – ‘Bad Love’ (Cassius Mix)
11. Lil’ Mo’ Ying Yang – ‘Reach’ (A Little More Mix)
12. Hot Chip – ‘Hand Me Down’ (Wild Geese Mix)
13. Blamma! Blamma! (feat Rival Jousters) – ‘Clarity’
14. Blamma! Blamma! – ‘Beyond 17′

Hold Me Back

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After a Summer frequenting the LDN – IBZ flight path to host for their weekly Moda residency at San Antonio’s Eden, Jaymo and Andy George have returned with a huge track of their own. Hold Me Back features Roll Deep’s J2K and encompasses all the elements that, if you listen to their diverse Radio One show, you will have come to expect from these boys; huge electro bass, techy little bleeps and a grimy J2K vocal.

Hold Me Back dropped today on their very own Moda Music with remixes from BeatauCue, Subskrpt and Thomas Gandey (aka Caged Baby) and is available to buy here. We’ve got the Thomas Gandey mix to give away, so why not give it a spin:

Hold Me Back (Thomas Gandey remix) - Jaymo & Andy George featuring J2K

Woody’s Roundup

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A huge thank you to everyone who came down to Public Life last night for our evening with our friends at Brilliantine, and to The C90s, who had us up on the ledges where we belong. Much fun!

So here we are about to start the first proper Autumnal-feeling weekend, and this can only mean one thing: THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT!!!!! Yes, it’s that time of year, and we’re off to Manchester, and tonight in charge of the decks we have Joris Voorn, Steve Lawler and Adam Beyer, Jamie Jones, Wolf + Lamb, Joy Orbison and Krysko.

Back within the M25 there are car parks and lofts to choose from. Tomorrow Adam Beyer invites Chris Leibing and other guests from his DRUMCODE label to Ewer Street car park, and the Electric Minds crew are throwing another secret venue loft party featuring Marcus Worgull and Christopher Rau. I hear good rumblings about these parties and they’ve got a few coming up, including the next on 30 October, so try to get yourselves down to one or two. Tonight Big in Japan take over The Book Club with Leftside Wobble and Jac The Disco‘s Prince Pac. Always a nice vibe and a fun venue for after work dancing.

In anticipation of our journey into the underbelly of Manchester’s arches for another weekend spent in a car park, I’m going a little dark with our tracks this week.
Dem Slackers – Swagger (Clouds Remix)
Djedjotronic – Bit This Thin (Jesse Rose Remix)
Flying Lotus – ….and The World Laughs With You (Feat. Thom Yorke)
Azari & III – Indigo
Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix)
40 Thieves feat Qzen – Don’t Turn It Off (Brennan Green Remix)
Hervé – Together (Edit)
Download them all in a zip file: Woody XXV

Packback EP

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Sometimes it gets hard writing a blog. You go through weeks where too many amazing tracks and mixes pop up and you can’t listen or write fast enough, then weeks where inspiration is thin on the ground. This week I’ve been lucky; there’s been a few little treats that I just can’t get out of my head, and one of them is Packback by Screendeath. Then I discover that the Packback EP is forthcoming on Southern Fried (4 October), that there are remixes from my favourite NT89 and Clouds (the first signing to Fake Blood‘s new label Blood Music: watch out for Liquid, out now), and that the B-side Citral is pretty catchy too.

Ryan Thompson is one of those sickeningly-young producers who, while the rest of us seem to have been sleeping, has already managed to clock up a few years of remixes and productions. He’s 19 and hails from Donghadee in Northern Ireland, and while his remixes of Monarchy and We Have Band have been doing the circuits on the blogosphere he’s also found time to produce his own tracks, such as the brilliant If It Isn’t and Vitamin Friend for Dead Beats and Tommie Sunshine‘s Brooklyn Fire.

Here are some of his remixing skills in action:
Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (Screendeath Remix)
We Have Band – Divisive (Screendeath Remix)

The EP is already exclusively on Beatport and you can hear both Packback and Citral on his latest promo mix:
Screendeath – Promo Mix September 2010
Tracklist
01. Tong & Spoon – Muchness
02. Melé – Kanopa Riddim
03. Foamo – Here Comes
04. Detboi – I Am
05. Canblaster – Jetpack
06. NT89 – Persian
07. Screendeath – Packback
08. Screendeath – Citral

Woody’s Roundup

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Well, it’s all been going down on the clubbing front this week, and it isn’t even the weekend yet. So XOYO, the much-hyped new two-room Shoreditch club, wasn’t ready in time to open on Wednesday, to much embarrassment mainly due to the short notice of it all, but they’re moving the opening to the HUGE Bugged Out! night this Saturday to launch the Friendly Fires Suck My Deck compilation, with Simian Mobile Disco, L-Vis 1990 and our friends Eskimo Twins. Also tomorrow night Community at Plan B brings Floating Points and Moodymann to Brixton. RA tickets are all sold out though so act fast if you want to head South this weekend.

We like midweek clubbing. It makes us feel like we’ve cheated The Man a bit, and by the time the weekend comes round we can do it all again. We’ve got a little party we’d like you all to come to next Thursday 23rd at Public Life – hosted by our excellent friends at Brilliantine. The atmosphere in Public Life is just electric – maybe something about clubbing in an old public toilet just brings out the dancer in us all? Providing the soundtrack is Monatuk, What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow?, and The C90s.

Here’s something to whet your appetite: The C90s – September Chart Mix

And here’s a few little offerings to bring you some sunshine this weekend.
Hannulelauri – Super Monkey (Headman Rework)
Chilly Gonzales – You Can Dance
Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (Only Children Club Edit) – Thanks to Too Many Sebastians for disco on a Friday!
Gold Panda – Same Dream China
Frivolous – River’s Fate
Chris Rea – On The Beach (Todd Terje Balearic Edit)
2020 Soundsystem – Ocean (Ray Mang Edit)
Zipped: Woody XXIV

Phlip It & Reverse It…

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“J. Phlip is one of those rare gifted DJs who I love to listen to…”, says Claude Vonstroke. J.Phlip is Jessica Phillipe from Illinois, in fact from a town just 2 hours south of the City of House to be precise. She’s an official member of the dirtybird crew and is currently Claude Vonstroke’s right-hand woman, warming up for him at a string of big name events with her genre-bending sets. In short, J.Phlip started out on a $100 roughed-up set of old belt drives, secured a residency in San Fran., signed to dirtybird, then caught the Berlin bug in Spring 2010 and is supposedly now in Europe.

Collaborations and remix opportunities with the dirtybird family truly show off her production. Most notable is the bass-heavy 2009 hit California; a collaboration with the main man himself. To get a bit more familiar with her style, there’s also her original dirtybird release Rumble Rumble from 2008, or more recently, Droppin Bomz On Your Momz from May this year. She has strayed away from dirtybird at times and Beatport can show you a number of other releases for labels such as Airdrop, Full Flavour and Nightlight Music.

The J. Phlip SoundCloud page houses at least half a dozen great mixes for promo, Proton and Buzzin Fly. What really inspired this post is a vinyl-only mix called The Other Side; highly sentimental, it’s her last vinyl-only mix, recorded in 2006 when she was still in college. There’s a little bit of everything spread across the hour and it still sounds so fresh:

J.PHLIP – THE OTHER SIDE (all vinyl promo mix from 2006) by j.phlip

Here’s a more recent one ticking must-haves off a list of huge tracks from this year, whilst brandishing that oh-so distinctive dirtybird sound stamp:

Tick, Tick, Tick… Boom! Mix

Tracklist
01. Inkwell – Kneesocks
02. Frivolous – Rivers Fate
03. Italoboyz – Dandy Short Mix
04. Luetzenkirchen – Prolly Relaxedd
05. Kink – Elevator
06. Sascha Braemer – Plugged
07. John Tejada – Liquid Mirror
08. Mark Henning – Chav Land
09. SIS – Barbarossa
10. Deadboy – U Cheated
11. The Martin Brothers – Duckface
12. Marc Houle – Salamandarin
13. Justin Martin – Get Low
14. J.Phlip – Dropping Bombz On Yer Momz
15. Julio Bashmore – Square One
16. Jonny MegaByte – 1970
17. The Bulgarian – Midnight Light (Kink Ghetto Mix)
18. DJ Slugo – Wouldn’t You Like To Be A Hoe
19. John Tejada – Torque
20. Claude VonStroke & Bootsy Collins – The Greasy Beat (J.Phlip Remix)
21. Deadboy – Brock Lee Riddim
22. Deepchild – Death Panel My Ass Ms Palin
23. SECT – Searching For Santos
24. Nicolas Jaar – Time For Us

Made To Play’s Birthday Raves

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Sometimes, when I’ve got too much time on my hands, I sit and I try and work out which label is really my favourite – Get Physical, dirtybird, Wolf + Lamb… Most of the time, I can argue any of them up to the top spot. However, the one that takes the title more often than not is Made To Play; consistently brilliant and an asset to the industry, always delivering the skills of a delicious line-up of DJ talent.

For me, the appeal is based largely on trust. Each release and signing is carefully handpicked by label boss Jesse Rose for its style and quality. If you have built a relationship with Made To Play, you have also created one with Jesse Rose’s impeccable taste in music, and it is as reliable as it is exciting.

I’m sure many of you feel the same way, which is why we should all join in the celebrations next month. Made To Play have announced they will mark their 5th Anniversary this year by releasing a brand new double CD complete with a 48 page colour booklet on 25th October.  CD 1 will have fresh material from all of the Made To Play crew and CD 2 will be a mix of the best of Made To Play’s last 5 years.

On top of that they will also be on a European tour throughout October. London is lucky enough to have Jesse Rose, Zombie Disco Squad, Renaissance Man, Idiotproof and Oliver $ in town on Friday 15th October (venue TBC), so save the date, and we will be making every attempt to hitchhike to Panorama Bar for this party: Saturday 9th October, Midnight Saturday – Sunday night. Black Rose – Live / Jesse Rose / Heidi / Riva Starr / Round Table Knights / Zombie Disco Squad / Renaissance Man / Oliver $ / Payme.

Here are a couple of new tracks we’ve had on repeat over the last week from the Made to Play camp. First is the Jesse Rose remix of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs on Play It Down.

PID003 – Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden (Jesse Rose Remix) by Made to Play

Second, a new track called Behind The Fence from those crazy Dutch guys, Homework, who we interviewed back in March. It’s coming out as part of their new Trumpet Express EP on Made To Play.

MTP033 – Homework – Behind The Fence by Made to Play

Full details of the 5 years of Made To Play European tour dates can be found here.