Come and see us play tonight at Vogue Fabrics in Dalston for Booby Hatch. You can’t really go wrong with a rave in a converted shop can you? I mean, we DJ in behind the counter, it’s pretty special.
£3 before 11, £5 after
Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 7XB
I’m playing a little bit of house, some 90s specials and a heavy dose of electro.
Expect to hear:
I loved Lovebox last year, the atmosphere is truly a box (well, Victoria Park) full of love, the sun was shining (somewhat painfully, as we attended the sunday straight from Claude VonStroke‘s epic set at Fabric) and people smiled, made best friends, and sang to New Young Pony Club, Cut Copy and Chromeo, one after the other on the same stage. No running around, no missing things, just great great music and arms in the air. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
The lineup for 2011 has just been announced, including a UK festival rarity from Snoop Dogg (with Warren G in attendance), and the best way to show you is probably in pictorial form, so see below for Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17th July. Check out the Ed Banger Arena on the Friday, Busy P and So Me will be teaming up for Busy Pictionary (I remember hearing about this on the Australian appearances last year – So Me makes live art on stage while Busy’s on the decks), and SebastiAn (watch out for his new album Total, due to hit in May) Cassius and Carte Blanche will be playing as part of Ed Banger’s first festival appearance. Whoop!
Tickets here.
I’ve been meaning to write about Riotous Rockers for a while, and there’s no time like the present as they’ve just released their December mixtape. Iain Bogg and Peter Case always combine elements of happy disco with just enough electro punch to turn a dancefloor into a dirty-yet-smily little sweat-pit. Catch them at ASBO every second Saturday of the month at our local The Lock Tavern.
Featuring beauts like Erol Alkan‘s rework of MGMT’s Congratulations, which most people agree is how that track would have sounded if it was made in heaven, and is so beautifully smooth it really deserves a post all to itself. It’s out now though (23 November) so hunt it down and play it a LOT. Also worth a mention is Serge Santiago‘s remix of Etienne De Crecy‘s No Brain (I highly recommend the Munk remix too). Actually, I could probably gush about every track on this list; Les Enfants, Commotion, Synchronize (Jarvis Cocker’s voice at it’s absolute best – purring like a kitten)… hear them all in one hour thanks to Riotous Rockers: it’s the perfect start to a post-Warehouse-Project week.
Riotous Rockers December Promo Mix
Tracklisting:
1.Holdin (Maurice Fulton Instrumental) – Nicole Willis (Bubbletease Communications)
2.Congratulations (Erol Alkan Remix) – MGMT (Columbia)
3.Les Enfants – Cassius (Ed Banger)
4.Take Em Up (Marcus Marr Remix) – Shit Robot (DFA)
5.I Can’t Wait (Rob Mello Remix) – Russ Yallop (Crosstown Rebels)
6.Commotion (Tiger and Woods Remix) The Hundred in the Hands (Warp)
7.Synchronize – Discodeine featuring Jarvis Cocker (DFA)
8.Siula Grande (Pete Herbert Remix) – Bonar Bradbury (Needwant)
9.Creature (Faze Action Instrumental Remix) – Andy Butler, Kim Ann Foxman (Mr. International)
10.One to Pray To (Beg to Differ Remix) – Maximillian Skiba (Under The Shade)
11.City to City – Kink & Neville Watson (Snuff Crew)
12.Take Me Down (Back to 1987 Dave Glimmer Remix) – Hermanos Inglesos (CDR)
13.Its The Music (Alden Tyrell Remix) – Murphy Jax (Clone Jack for Daze)
14.Smint (Inflagranti Remix) – StopMakingMe (CDR)
15.Transexual Bass – Hannah Holland (Batty Bass)
16.Work It Out – The 2 Bears (Southern Fried)
17.Blame The Midget – Matthew Johnson (Ambushed)
18.East Village – Christian Smith (100% Pure)
19.Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (C2 Remix 1) – Tiga (Turbo)
20. No Brain (Serge Santiago Remix) – Etienne De Crecy (Dim Mak)
21. Into The Night (Prince Language Remix) – Azari and III (Turbo)
Warehouse, oh Warehouse, how I love thee… We were quite disappointed after our first ever visit to Manchester Piccadilly’s arches to find that despite being at the front all night we’d not made any of the photographs on The Warehouse Project website. Then we spotted the little beauty above. That’s commitment.
Essential Mix 2009-11-27: Busy P and DJ Mehdi live at The Warehouse Project
And as for the Ed Banger crew, did I mention that I love Busy P? It still gives me goosebumps when I hear the Essential Mix from The Warehouse Project last year, with Busy P and DJ Mehdi‘s sets recorded live (complete with screams from me throughout). So tomorrow night we wouldn’t be anywhere else than Chibuku Shake Shake at the Warehouse with Vitalic, Busy P, Carte Blanche (Medhi and Riton), Boombass (Cassius), Brodinski and Matt Walsh.
Lots of great electro tracks and remixes this week, so here’s a few of our favourites:
Aeroplane – Without Lies (Breakbot Remix)
Gorillaz – Doncamatic (Joker Remix)
Daft Punk – Derezzed (Breakdown Remix)
The Subs vs Les Petits Pilous – My Body
Thom Yorke – Nude (Justin Martin Remix)
Boys Noize – Nerve (Hey Today Remix)
Kelis – Bossy (Crookers Remix)
OR. Woody 33. ZIP
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.
Tomorrow there’s another flyer struggling to fit all their guests’ names on: Chew The Fat!‘s 13th birthday at Cable. Just look at them all – Surkin, Yolanda Be Cool, Tony Senghore, Foamo… Festival-wise, Offset in Hainault Park sees two days of debauchery, including Trailer Trash’s mucky little Miami Beach Party spanning Saturday and Sunday with Ali Love, Stopmakingme, Rory Phillips and Riotous Rockers.
We’ll all sleep when we’re dead, yeah?
Wolf Gang – The King And All Of His Men (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)
Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar (Oliver $ Edit)
Zombie Disco Squad – Hobo
Filthy Dukes – Nonsense In The Dark (C90s Remix)
Cajmere – Percolator (Claude Vonstroke Remix)
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – The Bike Song (feat. Kyle Falconer and Spank Rock)
Cassius – I ♥ U So (beautiful and epic – I’m excited about the new Rawkers EP on Ed Banger)
Download Woody XXIII Zip.
Riotous Rockers are playing both Fabric and Offset so here’s their latest mix to get you in the mood.
Riotous Rockers – Fabriclive gets an ASBO mix
We’re off to the sunny white isle this weekend, and it deserves a round-up in the attempt to convince you to get your little selves on a plane to join us. Tonight we’re heading to Pacha to witness the fitness from Club 75 representatives Cassius, DJ Mehdi, A-Trak, and Jesse Rose. Sunday is, of course, We Love….at Space, with Steve Lawler, Hot Chip and The Juan Maclean, then on Monday we’re joining the depravity at DC10 for Circo Loco with Jamie Jones.
However, London’s due for a Balearic-level heat-wave too this weekend, so let us not forget our homeland completely. It’s all about dirty Dalston fun (our favourite kind) tonight as Stopmakingme plays for BACK to BACK at Moustache Bar on Stoke Newington Road, and our Trouble Vision pals Oli D.A.B & Robin play at Dirty Dalston at The Alibi. A two-party-in-one-night Friday is a great way to start a weekend.
On Saturday you could go to Shameless Disco with Ray Mang at 333, fun fun fun at Public House at The Workshop, Dennis Ferrer at Ministry of Sound, or support the cause at Fabric, with Jamie Jones, Holy Ghost! and The Revenge for the marathon ON, open until 2pm Sunday 11th.
I’m going to keep the tunes dirty today, as we kinda feel that way. Woody XVII.zip
Cirez D – On Off (Sebastien Leger Remix)
Siriusmo – Einmal In Der Woche Schreien
Missing Linx – A Short History Of…
Clyde Brown – Your Wish Is My Command (CAASINO Mix)
Mr Oizo & Gaspard Augé – Rubber
Human Life – In It Together (Acid Girls Remix)
Green Velvet – It’s Time 2 Jack
Recently I had to take what should have been an incredibly tedious train from London to Edinburgh. Five hours of staring out of the window at the East coast of England, up through the ‘real’ North and into the Scottish capital. Yet it flew by, thanks to a man named Neil Barber; better known as Nelski.
Nelski has been around on the underground scene for some time now as one half of production duo Rhythm Code, who released tracks on labels such as Size, Baroque, Cubism and Killawatt. I picked up his April mix after catching his latest release Body Pop on Heidi’s Radio 1 show.
Better late than never, this mix is fantastic. Nelski’s used his time wisely here, with favourites from Woody’s Roundup like 1999, Hey Hey, Beachball and the lovely Two Dots scattered tastefully across a jumping 2 ½ hour mix of House and Tech. There are countless hidden gems in here. Nelski, can you please hit us with a tracklist!?
At One With Nelski Mix – April 2010
Body Pop was released on 1st May by Rising Music. If you’ve had a taste of the original it will come as no surprise to you, with that piano and those vocals, that official remixes are available from the mighty Radio Slave and man of the moment Made to Play boss, Jesse Rose.
NELSKI ‘BODY POP’ [JESSE ROSE REMIX] by risingmusic
As if that wasn’t enough Nelski for now, we got in touch with him and he dug out this little mash-up of Adam Freeland & Brett Johnson: We Want Your Gypsy Blue. You can download it from his SoundCloud page here.
Tonight London’s party scene is nothing short of colossal, and as is often the way, we wish we were omnipresent. The focus is on the South London renaissance, with Together at the Coronet showcasing Cassius, In Flagranti and Kavinsky, Disco System at Brixton Jamm featuring DFA beauties Mock & Toof and Ray Mang, and the opening of the new Peckham Palais, providing a 1000-capacity home for the art-meets-music community of the area, spearheaded by LuckyPDF and the Off Modern crew. DFA have a finger in this pie too, with their man Ben Rymer joining 1-of-The 2
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a host of live acts. Tomorrow we remain South, at Brixton’s Plan B for the official LCD Soundsystem Afterparty, presented by Durr and featuring our favourites Disco 3000 and the king of uplifting disco Rory Phillips. There’s a flurry of LCD Soundsystem activity before the new album This Is Happening is released on 17 May, and as frontman James Murphy is co-founder of DFA, he’s proving their ability to soundtrack a monumental party.
However, one mustn’t overlook Fabric, who celebrate the launch of Duke Dumont‘s latest contribution to the Fabric Live CD collection, by inviting the Duke, Jesse Rose and newest resident Solo (congratulations are in order) to Farringdon.
Phew! Here’s some party tunes to get you going: Woody VII
Gorillaz – Superfast Jellyfish (Evil Nine Remix)
Sascha Braemer – Go Loco
Yolanda Be Cool feat DCUP – We No Speak Americano
Sinden and SBRKT – Midnight Marauder (on Sinden’s new Grizzly label)
Yelle – Je Veux Te Voir (Club-Club Mix)
The Swiss – Bubble Bath (Glimmers Plastic Edit)
White Lies – Farewell To The Fairground (Rory Phillips White Horse Mix)
Bonus: Jac the Disco‘s excellent April mix ahead of tonight’s set at Brixton Jamm. A shining example of the chime-adorned disco funk we’ve come to expect from them.
Jac The Disco – April Mix 2010 by Jac The Disco