Notting Hill Carnival was an unexpected sparkling delight of a weekend, and one that seems far away from the darkness and showers creeping over us as September draws in. Two people who soundtracked our weekend, and who bring Carnival to West London all year round are Dan Savidge and Chris Gau, collectively known as The Jinks.
Releasing on MN2S and Defected, and more recently their own Defected imprint Jinks Inc (whose first signing was legendary Byron Stingily), they’ve been friends for a million years and making records together for five.
This mix is described by Dan as “a collection of tracks that we don’t get to play out when we DJ, but really love, and wanted to put on one mixtape.” It’s been on my stereo for the whole week for gems like Fries and Bridges‘s vocals, Dixie Yure‘s sax, and DJ Gregory‘s piped afro-beats and tribal chants. Of course, it goes without saying that my absolute favourite on there is The Jinks’ own What Happened To Us.
Their latest release is an 8-track remix sampler Jinks Inc Remixed including Jose Carretas and N’Dinga Gaba providing takes on Jinks tracks, and catch them playing out at their monthly residency at Cherry Jam in Bayswater. For loads more in the way of classic house and high jinks subscribe to their podcast here.
The Jinks – Beatpool Under The Stairs Vol. 1
Tracklist
We Just Won’t Stop - James Curd
By Defection - Dixie Yure
Forever This – Fries and Bridges
Animal (Fake Blood Remix) - Miike Snow
Canoa - DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto
What Happened To Us (Dub) - The Jinks feat Carla Prather
Definition - Loco Dice
Funk Worm - Stimming
Accapella - The Warriors
Will’s Disco Track
See You Dancing - Junior Jack
The Tea (Reel People Remix) - Chocolat
Zombie Disco Squad are responsible for the latest in the fantastic series of Deadfish podcasts, after we’d only just recovered from the banging Monkey Safari and Yolanda Be Cool offerings in August. The podcast celebrates another collaboration between ZDS and the DeadFish Audio label – DeadFish have just released the latest ZDS EP feat Spoek We Should Bang Tonight, including Mowgli and Solo on the remix package.
Mowgli says: “Lucas and Nat have been my first and best english friends since I moved to London 3 years ago. They helped me a lot when I didnt know anybody and couldnt speak a word of english – even tho they’d say my english its still pretty bad ”
It’s nice to see the family-and-friends vibe that we love from DeadFish is stronger than ever, and it certainly works for me as a huuuuuge Zombie Disco Squad fan. The podcast is characteristically jovial yet tribal, with a lighthearted mash-up of the single to start, and amazingly rounded off with the classic Fast Eddie – Can You Dance.
Well can you?
ZDS (Zombie Disco Squad) – Deadfish podcast 09/10
Tracklist
01. We Should Bang my Noze (Blend)
02. Alfred Heinrichs- I Dont Know-Sascha Braemer Remix
03. Loopus Amadeus- no mejor
04. Salvatore Freda and Volta – Wild Beach
05. Gabriel Rocha -Black Jungle
06. Enzo Siffredi – Mexico
07. Justin Martin & Ardalan – Mr. Spock
08.Pierre Deutschmann -Aint Theoratical -Jean Philips & Mat Holtmann Remix
09.D-Blaster- Nothing 2Say
10.Round Table Knights – Calypso – ZDS vs Miman remix
11.Fast Eddie -Can You Dance
Bobmo‘s releasing his new EP Bring It on the mighty Insititubes (on Beatport now, everywhere else 14 September) and we’ve been enjoying his September mix all weekend. Including old-school greats such as Orange Lemon Dreams of Santa Anna, (which reminds me of my mother because it samples 70s The Mexican by Babe Ruth, even though this version was released in 1988 and produced by Todd Terry) and our sexy-time friends Soul Clap.
We’ve been keeping an eye on Bobmo for a while, both as one half of High Powered Boys with equally knock-kneed fellow French yout’ Surkin, and on his own productions, which apparently started when he discovered the combination of Napster, his own rapping, and his home Playstation back while he was still at school. And that wasn’t eons ago – Hugues Rey is still only 17 and living in Bordeaux.
In 2007 it all came together to make Let’s Go Bobmo! which was played out by everyone who was anyone – Busy P, Diplo and Justice to name but a few. He toured, remixed, re-released, got thrown out of Berlin nightclubs, and cemented himself as the poster boy for quintessential French electro.
The key to his success? He’s just so talented. He knows everything, he draws on influences from hip hop, disco, electro, rock, makes records that seem fresh despite numerous samples and references, and his mixing is smooth beyond belief. See what we mean with his September mix.
BOBMO September 2010 mixtape by Bobmo Tracklist
1. Pluton & Humanoids – World Invaders
2. Legowelt – Lovestory
3. Orange Lemon – Dreams of Santa Anna
4. Soul Clap – Kissing Game
5. Brian Harris – Chemistry
6. Bernard Badie feat. Dajae – Train
7. dj Spen – Gabryelle
8. Justin Martin – Robot Romance
9. Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen – Untitled
10. Fast Eddie – Acid Thunder
11. Frankie Knuckles – Your Love (Dusty Kid edit)
12. Space Dimension Controller – Love Quadrant
13. Jimmy Edgar – New Touch
14. Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation
He’s offering the Douster Remix of My House from the EP for free download here.
Emily and I like to pepper our office Outlook calendars with clubbing plans so that we don’t feel too all-work-and-no-play. Consequently both Outlook calendars popped up with a little message this morning reminding us both to ‘Kill Em All.’ Now I work at Tate Gallery and Emily works for the government, so I’d say that was a pretty serious threat to national security.
Fabric tonight has a killer line-up and everyone’s involved. Just look at that flyer – they could barely fit all the names on! So we’ll see you at the front. Try and pop into Queen of Hoxton too for That Mixmag Thing #5 as these free parties go from strength to strength (kudos on the dressing-up box last time) and ooooh, they’ve got Matt Tolfrey playing upstairs while Mighty Mouse and The Magician spin those disco decks downstairs.
Bang Gang‘s latest podcast is up and running and the tracklist looks FIERCE. Heavyweights including Bobmo, Eskimo Twins, and The Krays.
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