Monthly Archives: October 2010

Woody’s Roundup

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As darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand, creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize your neighbourhood.

Tonight 29th October
Delphic play at The Warehouse Project London at Ewer Street Car Park with Filthy Dukes, Retro/Grade and  Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team (their new mix wins a prize for the most original title: Post Time-Travel Nosebleed. Hear it here).

The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand years, and grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom…

Tomorrow 30th October
Mulletover have their fancy dress party at a secret warehouse location. They’ve got Steve Bug, Seth Troxler and Ewan Pearson, but it’s sold out, so beware. There is an after party though on actual Halloween from 6am- 11am at Hidden in Vauxhall.
Neon Noise Project have taken over Hearn Street Car Park with Digitalism and Jac The Disco and Late of The Pier Djs. Another spooktacular lineup, another sell-out, but you can get tickets on the door if you get down there early.
Winterwell festival’s putting on a Victorian Villains party with our friends The Jinks at Village Underground.
If you’re in South London get yourselves down to The Rest Is Noise for the third Wholemeal + Spacetime: TRICK OR BEAT, with Addison Groove, Peverelist, Brackles and Esselle.
For you Westies: Black Rabbit’s 4th Birthday sees Severino, Buckwacka! and Tape to Tape at Mason’s Arms in Harrow Road.
Love Fever are hosting one of their secret Dalston Warehouse Parties, and Electric Minds are having one of their loft parties, with James Priestley and Giles Smith. Special vibes at both of these parties.

Sunday 31st October
The Lock Tavern will never let us down. This week Bok Bok is playing for FACT mag and it’s freeeeeee.

And though you fight to stay alive your body starts to shiver, for no mere mortal can resist, the evil of the thriller.

Gesaffelstein – Variations. Another outstanding release from Turbo. Go Tiga. (This version is very low quality. Buy it louder on 9 November)
Kisses – Kisses (Stopmakingme Remix)
Chemise – She Can’t Love You (Tronik Youth Lovedit)
Lorenz Rhode feat. Snax – Something Hot (Savage Skulls Remix)
Gold Panda – You (Cassettes Won’t Listen Remix)
Boys Noize – Sweet Light (Boris Dlugosch Remix)

Out this week on Beatport is DeadFish Remixed, including the excellent Round Table Knights remix of Solo‘s Joga Bola. Rave piano at its best.

So go forth this weekend and frighten.

Retro/Grade

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Not long after supporting Groove Armada on their recent tour, Retro/Grade are in town again. Tomorrow they join headliners Delphic as well as Filthy Dukes, Sound Pellegrino, resident Krysko and Mumdance on the bill for the Warehouse Project’s first attack on The Big Smoke.

Retro/Grade are Serge Santiago and Tom Neville combining their vast experience in the music game. The blend of the downright dirty electro you hear in Pulsar to the italo-disco ringing through in Escape Sequence partnered with the linear laser sequence of two guys crossing the contours of the globe, and only the symmetry of their Mac Books and cheeky nodding heads on show, makes a night with them a memorising spectacle to remember.

Last year their track Moda won support from many a big player on the clubbing scene, with their new single Escape Sequence dropping just the other week on Deconstruction Records and a series of gigs lined up, including December’s Goldfrapp tour, there’s a lot more in the pipeline yet…

Escape Sequence by Retro/Grade

Retro/Grade sets come at you hard and fast and certainly aren’t for those unaccustomed to sensory overload. If you’re keen, you can grab your free copy of 2009’s Moda here and we’ll see you down the front at Ewer Street tomorrow.

Here’s a sneak preview of what’s in store:

Matt Walsh at XOYO for Bugged Out

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And the good news is… Matt Walsh has made his set from Bugged Out’s birthday at XOYO last weekend available for download. It was clearly a well thought-out set, meticulously crafted with incredible build; from sounds that wouldn’t have seemed out of place in eighties Manchester, trippy at times, it naturally progresses through to some fresh acid-disco with a healthy dash of funk. Matt then accelerates into the third hour, plunging us into a crescendo of cutting edge tech and electro; hugely synonymous with Bugged Out. At times, perhaps somewhat appropriately for the headliner that night, I was also reminded of my student days in London through the odd sentimental nod to the late, great Trash.

For those who are unfamiliar with Matt Walsh, here’s a brief intro. He’s a resident of the mighty Bugged Out and was hand-picked by Tiga to release on his label Turbo Recordings. Matt releases under his own name and also Clouded Vision, where he collaborates with his studio-partner Steve Cook. Clouded Vision then became the name of their record label too. Both solo and with others, Matt has also released on Kitsune, Wax:On, Seinan Recordings and Southern Fried.

So settle in for 3 hours of fantastic records including talent-to-watch like People Get Real, The Love Supreme, Remote, Darabi, Remain, Passarella Death Squad and Gesaffelstein; some of which are ludicrously hot off the press:
Matt Walsh – Live @ Bugged Out Birthday, London, Oct 2010 by mattwalsh

Music Royalty

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Has anyone else noticed that a lot of artistes seem to be taking up the ‘Prince’ moniker nowadays?

Foals – Blue Blood (Prince Club Remix) (Prince Club are a Canadian duo formerly known as MadKids and signed to Discobelle. Ones to watch this winter)
Prince Language – Yo Son (Edit De Prince Language)
The Finger Prince – Trident
Pantha Du Prince – Bohemian Forest
Matias Aguayo – Menta Latte (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
A-Trak feat. CyHi Da Prynce – Ray Ban Vision

Prince – Erotic City

And who could blame them.

Woody’s Roundup

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This weekend is another one of those where we’d like to be in three different cities, and three different clubs at once, but instead we’re settling for a three day party, which will probably spill over into Monday and make pre-Halloween zombies of us all. Worth it? YES.

So it all starts tonight with On the One at Concrete with Night Flight (Jac The Disco) and Capita!, whilst over the road Made to Play are at XOYO to celebrate 5 years of the label, with Jesse Rose, Zombie Disco Squad and Idiotproof. If you’re South, Trouble Vision at Corsica sees DJ Zinc, SBTRKT and MJ Cole take to the decks.

Tomorrow The Book Club pits Mumdance against Hold Still for a soundclash, and later on Stopmakingme joins the mighty Erol Alkan and Matt Walsh for Bugged Out’s birthday at XOYO. We Fear Silence brings Theo Parrish to Cable, and Tim Goldsworthy plays for Lostbahnhof at Life. Koko has yet another epic line-up with Mr. Scruff for Ninja Tune XX.

Then Sunday our local Lock Tavern is hosting Kill Em All, with Boy 8-Bit, Justin Robertson and Filthy Dukes. New Stoke Newington venue The Nest sees the launch of Potty Mouth Disco’s Sunday Sessions with Ali Renault. These Sunday parties are free, so swap your roast dinner for a sweaty rave-up, that’s what we say.

Single for the week is The C90s Shine A Light, out today on Relish, and a fitting follow-up to the fantastic 10:01. Whoop!

A-Trak – Ray Ban Vision (feat. CyHi Da Prynce)
Siriusmo – Wow (Modeselektor Edit)
Doorly – Sausage Party Surely everyone’s favourite kind of party???
Escort – Cocaine Blues
Consistent – Ain’t No Bump
Innerpartysystem – And Together (Midnight Conspiracy Remix)
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (Renaissance Man Bootcut)
Download: Woody XIX

Bonus: Erol Alkan live ‘Ganban’ DJ mix just released on his website.

Come Get Felt Up: Book Club Birthweek

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Fetish Circus Life Drawing from Tuesday 19 October

We like birthdays. So, it seems, does The Book Club. They’ve gone one step further and are having ‘birthweek’ events all this week. We’re doing a double-header; Saturday night for Mumdance vs Hold Still (Tim Filthy Duke) and resident DJs for a 3 record soundclash downstairs, which gets dark and evil compared to the relative relaxation of the ping pong and cocktails above ground, then on Sunday music production workshops with Toby Tobias and Om Unit.

There was so much that we quite fancied this week we couldn’t fit it all into a Woody’s Roundup:
Events
Tonight Thursday 21st October: Come Get Felt Up. Craft materials are given out for a creative competition based on the Mexican Day of the Dead. Prizes, cake, DJs and dead celebs.
Friday 22 October: We Can Talk Goes Kitsch. Rum, Rockabilly and Surf Noir with The Bikini Beach Band and resident DJs.
Saturday 23 October: Birthweek Brawl soundclash with Mumdance.
Sunday 24 October: Beats Sunday Roast. Music production sessions.

Afternoon Delight

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The Aeroplane October mix is here, and characteristically nostalgically exotic with dreamy vocals and spanish guitars. Starting with the beautiful Shakedown Street by Sleazy McQueen, part of a 6-track sampler released on 5 October from his own re-edit label Whiskey Disco. A perfect antidote to a cold day.

Aeroplane – October Mix 2010
1. Sleazy McQueen – Shakedown Street ( Tres Gueros Edit )
2.Fritz Kalkbrenner – Facing The Sun
3.Martians – Bonitos
4.Crimea X – Varvara
5.Peter Gordon – Still You
6.Aeroplane – Without Lies ( Breakbot Remix )
7.The Supermen Lovers – Take a Chance ( Clap Rules Remix )
8.Trap Avoid – Elevator
9.Bubble Club – Morning Star
10. Digitalism – Blitz ( Villa Remix )

While The Leaves Fall

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It’s been a tough couple of weeks and we all deserve a pint and a pat on the back. Don’t we? Relax, put your feet up, wear patterned knitwear, smoke a pipe, grow a beard and sip the amber nectar with the likes of Marbeya Sound, Hot Toddy, The Glimmers and Villa, all arranged perfectly by our favourites The C90s. It’ll warm those cockles like a winter cuddle.

The C90s October Chart Mix

Tracklist
Villa – Beats of Love (The C90s Remix)
Hot Toddy – Magnetic
Craig Bratley – Birdshell (6th Borough Project Shell Toe mix)
Rocco Raimundo – Rocco’s Jamjet
Stevie Wonder – Do I Do (U-Tern Edit)
Neighbour – Man Juice
Midnight Savari – Rimshots
Yelle – La Musique (Lorenz Rhode)
Marbeya Sound – Blind Cause (The Love Supreme remix)
Bot’Ox – Blue Steel (Still Going Remix)
Martin Brodin & Dumb Dan – Blood Stud
The Glimmers – Soul Train
J.R.Seaton – Azklementyne (Brassica Mix) Headman Edit
Peter & Gordon – Still You

We’re Feelin’ It

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I heart Black Van. The love affair started when their track Yearning tugged at my heart strings at the beginning of this year. They are respected producers Kris Menace and KoweSix. More recently, they have got to me with their remix of Four Four Letter by The Glass which carries their distinctive disco style and our seal of approval, you can check it out over on their MySpace page or just under the hour mark on their latest mix below. We also have it on good authority that the stunning instrumental track that precedes it is their next 12″, Moments of Excellence, coming up on Permanent Vacation next month.

For now though, we have this nifty little mix available for download; a slice of warming disco for a crisp autumn day.

Black Van – Feelin’ It Mix