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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:

The Great Escape Take-Away Selection

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This was my first time at The Great Escape and it seems I picked a good one. Now in its 5th year The Great Escape hosts over 300 new artists across a collection of venues in Brighton; pubs, clubs, buses, court yards, beaches…

I kicked off with a taster of Egyptian Hip Hop. The young Manchester boys donned fitting North African attire, strummed deep into their instruments and moved the room with their explosive live show. A very nice welcome to Brighton.

I finally got to see MAY68 live. Self-confessed cow bell addicts with an unwavering ability to move even an uneducated crowd, they should play big club venues and even bigger sound systems (sign them up now Warehouse Project!). Judy Wainwright’s captivating vocals along with her interaction with guitarist Jonny Sture fuels support for ‘ones to watch’ lists being much more than just a PR dream. MAY68 are a pleasure to watch.

Egyptian Hip Hop – Rad Pitt
Egyptian Hip Hop – Wild Human Child (Radiant Dragon Mix)
MAY68 – The Duke Is Dead (Alex Egyptian HipHop mix)
MAY68 – My Ways (Acid Washed Remix)

Getting from place to place in time for your ideal line-up bears far too great a resemblance to the frustrations felt at The Camden Crawl, but then it’s all about accidental finds. So, taking me away from the beach simply by sound were Poland’s Kamp!, a three-man set up tastefully experimenting with their own brand of electronica. Leaving me out on the street through sheer popularity was Gold Panda, whose live show was described as ”a master-class in multi-tasking – samplers, keyboards and drum machines” by Sean Adams of Drowned In Sound. It sounded great – shame we couldn’t see it!

Delphic

Gold Panda – Quitters Raga

Huge performances from Everything Everything and Delphic on the Friday night blew my mind. Everything Everything were my first taste of credible indie with three men harmonising, almost like choristers, whilst still keeping some grit. And for Delphic: take a spectacular backdrop (Sankeys’ lights at 45 degrees, or for those of a more artistic disposition think Dan Flavin) and then throw in stadium-worthy vocals from James Cook and no one can deny these boys are on a rapid ascent to super-stardom. Keeping the essence of their former years with beautiful, melodic, spine-tingling instrumentals, they just can’t get better at the moment.

Everything Everything – My Keys Your Boyfriend (Delphic Remix)
Delphic – This Moment / Sanctuary

Getting to everyone on Saturday proved tough. With only an endless stream of hearsay to go on, Wild Palms, Esben and the Witch and Lonelady were all first time viewings for me. Wild Palms are an excellent live band, with singer Lou Hill holding attention with the concentrated stare of a troubled soul and a voice that could challenge Brandon Flowers. Esben and the Witch were a sight to behold. They were as enchanting as their name suggests, with chilling, yet beautiful music. Earmarked by The Big Pink as an “organic Portishead” and performing in a pub on the pier that really has seen better days, they pulled a curious crowd and left with an army of converted followers.

Wild Palms – Over Time (sniTch Remix)
Esben and the Witch – About This Peninsula
Esben and the Witch – Marching Song

Thank you, Great Escape!
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MAY68: ‘Relentlessly tight rhythms, infectious melodies and a shit load of cowbells…’

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MAY68 are from Manchester. They are on this year’s ‘ones to watch’ lists. They’re finishing up a UK tour and have just bagged air time on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 show. Their ideal festival slot would be sunset on the Park stage at Glastonbury and when they aren’t gigging, remixing or DJing themselves you can find them partying at at Manchester nights Now Wave, Contort Yourself and Sex with Robots.

So, if all this sounds like your cup of tea, read on as Jonny from the band has spoken to us about their amazing UK tour dates including the opening FAC251, Manchester’s latest attack on the UK music scene and what’s in store for MAY68…

In the immortal words of Cilla Black, who are you and where do you come from?
We are… Camille  (Drums / Vox)  from  Paris, Jude (Vocals) from Sheffield, Owen (Bass) from Runcorn, Matt (Keys / Percussion) from Frodsham and Jonny (Guitar / Keys) from Bradford.

Just scrolling through your website gives you a feel of the excitement and hype surrounding the band. Recently, there have been gigs with The Whip, Delphic, We Have Band, The Sunshine Underground, and at one of our favourite nights in London – Kill Em All, as well as Manchester’s famous In the City Music Conference. Have you got any highlights from that impressive list of shows?
It’s been a fast paced few months, we’ve had a great year playing live all over the UK with loads of great bands, the ones that stick out in our minds have got to be our gigs with The Juan Maclean at The Deaf Institute, The Drums at Night and Day for this year’s In The City, and playing at King Tut’s in Glasgow on the recent tour. In all our (small) touring experience no one’s been quite as welcoming and fun as the Glaswegians, we were first on but they still tore the place apart. That’s definitely been the pinnacle of the year.

Amongst those gigs was one of the opening gigs for Number One Charles Street, now known as Fac251, which was famed for being the home and head quarters of the Manchester’s iconic Factory Records. Can you tell us how you think Fac251 holds up as a live music venue? And a bit about what must have been quite a special date in your calendar?
Fac251 seems to have torn everyone into two camps. There’s people who are still mad for it and people who seem to really detest its very existence. We found our experience at Factory to be a good one. We we’re treated very, very well, other promoters could learn a thing or two from them (VIP treatment all night…)! We played in between Lonelady and The Whip both of which were fantastic, there was a real buzz in the crowd, the line up was perfect for an opening party and got everyone in the mood. The venue itself is great for live bands, it had a lot of money spent on it but they seem to have put it into the right things, it looks great and the sound is amazing. They’ve not sterilised the soul out of it which could have easily been done.

It was a special date for us and we were honoured to be asked to play at the opening weekend, but in terms of talking about Factory’s legacy and its supposed return, it’s not and never will be the Hacienda. The city is far more cosmopolitan now, it’s been diluted, where once there was only the Hacienda to experience new music there are now hundreds of venues and thus a whole lot of crap doing the rounds. It’s going to take something more than a new club opening to put Manchester back on the musical map. (Luckily there’s a shed load of great bands around to do that!)


On a theme here, there’s bound to be intrigue surrounding what is being hailed as the next Manchester music boom, and MAY68 are likely to be caught up in the speculation. Do you think this boom exists or is it just a coincidence?
There’s definitely a boom now but its more a case of people waking up and taking notice of what’s going on in Manchester. Its kind of like Manchester has been harbouring these bands for the last year and now its setting them loose on the rest of the world and it’s only now with a few big breakthrough acts such as Delphic and Hurts that people are looking to see what’s going on. There are some great bands around at the moment and we are definitely caught up in the speculation of the next Manchester explosion, I reckon people are starting to get quite excited about how the bands develop and breakthrough in the public eye. There’s a lot of potential but people need to give it a chance.

How’s everyone feeling about getting on to so many ‘ones to watch’ lists?
We’re enjoying the attention! It’s all based on work we’ve been doing last year which is great because we think that personally we’ve developed a lot as a band the new material should continue to make some waves. I guess the pressure is hoping that people feel that the hype is justified…

If you could give everyone one track to listen to now which sums up what MAY68 are all about – which one would it be?
It would have to be our debut single My Ways out on Hit Club and Silver Music Machine (shameless plug) but we chose that to be our debut for that very reason. It sums up completely what we’re about at the moment. If you want a listen you can stream it at our Soundcloud or Myspace. If you like what you hear and fancy a copy it’s out on the 15th of March and is available at Puregroove / iTunes / Beatport.

Finally, can you sum up what 2010 holds for the band?
Well we’ve recorded singles 2 & 3 already. We keep demoing new tracks for the album and lending our hand to remixing tracks by our friends. We’ve got a whole lot of musical output up our sleeves that we’re itching to put out for everyone, then we’ll be carrying on with our live adventure across the UK and hopefully further afield before the years out! Keep watching we’ve got a lot more in waiting!

You can still catch MAY68 in both Manchester and London - we have it on good authority from the band that “you can expect relentlessly tight rhythms, infectious melodies and a shit load of cowbells, all the makings of an explosive party!” So go and check them out:

27th Feb @ Proud Gallery, Camden with French Horn Rebellion
10th March @ Deaf Institute, Manchester with Errors
13th March @ 93 Feet East, Shoreditch, with Ezra Bang & Larry Tee
27th March @ Retro Bar Manchester SINGLE LAUNCH PARTY!

My Ways is available to buy from 15th March on Hit Club (limited 7” pre-order here) and Silver Music Machine (digital – itunes link here)

Grab your download of The Duke is Dead (Demo) here and the MAY68 February mixtape here.

What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow?

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With a remix back catalogue that looks like the who’s who of 2009 (Memory Tapes, The XX, Delphic, Phoenix, Lake Heartbeat), What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? are preparing for big things in 2010. After the recent release of their first EP, Love of Luxury, Swedish band Montauk are up next with a What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? rework of their debut single dropping on their own label, Brilliantine, in the not too distant future… There’s also word of a new live show set to hit state-side this summer.

So, with all this in the pipeline, one half of What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? spoke to us about music, the new record label, Toronto, live shows, Hot Chip, Tronik Youth and the future… As if that wasn’t enough, at the end of the interview there’s even an exclusive free download of their first single Love of Luxury for you, from them, to check out what they are all about for yourselves!

Who are What Kind of Breeze do you Blow? and how did you get into music/production?
Well, there’s two of us. We’d both been working on little personal projects of our own for years – one of us purely electronic, and the other purely acoustic, and we realized that we’d never really been able to actually finish anything ever. So, together, we brought in what we felt was really important and compelling about music and found out that we felt exactly the same. At the time we were living in the same small New England city, but we’re transitioning to Toronto now and beginning to involve more people, so things will be changing a lot over the next several months.

What’s in the name?
It’s really wondrous! I’m not sure we ever really intended it to be the name of anything, but it was a phrase that’s really fun to say, particularly outside when you’re having a lot of fun, and it just worked it’s way into our consciousness enough for it to be the first thing in mind when we were looking to make our project official. I love it now because it’s so unmistakably ours, though I always have to take a deep breath and maybe roll my eyes a little whenever I meet anyone in person and they ask what the name of my band is. Still getting used to it.

You mentioned you had a label Brilliantine which I believe launched late 2009. Can you tell us a bit about it and what’s in store for the future of Brilliantine?
Brilliantine was formed with Faisal Jehan of Ohh! Crapp.. and Nightmagnets as a vehicle for us to make known a lot of the great music we encounter, which I guess is pretty standard as far as new labels go. As we work long distance, though, and it’s just the two of us, we really rely more on the strength of the music we love and the clarity of our identities coming through in everything we do.

Ideally, there’s no set pattern to the music that would show up on a Brilliantine release, but it will never be something we don’t absolutely love enough to put many, many hearts next to in an email or a blog post. We’ve also got loads of amazing friends who do amazing remixes, and now we’ve got a vehicle to get them to loads of people. Incidentally, it made a lot of sense to get the label started by releasing the first What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? single, as it was sort of raring to go out of the gate and needed a home.

We’ve got the Montauk single coming up next month which is just an amazing track which in a perfect world should just take over everything this summer (we’ll see) and we’ve worked hard putting together a really compelling remix pack to go with it. Coming in the next few months we have the debut single from a lo-fi pop sleeper from Boston called Sweet Track, a pack of What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? remixes and a second single, and a complete and utter pop smash from someone a lot of people know…

You’ve remixed some of our favourite artists of 2009 from all over the world, including 2 of the UK’s most sought-after new bands; The XX and Delphic. How does What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? go about choosing the tracks to work their magic on? Are they just all your favourites?
They are. We just try to take what it is we love about a track and make it bigger, and experiment with ideas we’re working into the tracks we make for ourselves.

As well as remixing some hot new acts from the UK, you’ve also been remixed yourselves by London’s Tronik Youth on your own track Love of Luxury. So, we wondered, what does What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? make of the UK music scene right now? Are you fans of the DJs and producers coming out of it?
Being from North America, we tend to think of things as either From Here or From There, so a lot of the great acts we love and work with exist in this very liberated, varied scene that crosses country borders from Sweden to the UK to Belgium – though there really is a strong core right now in the UK with Tronik Youth and The C90s and Alex Egan’s Astronomer project… I feel like all centred around a love of much of the same things.

Can you tell us a little bit about the music scene in Toronto and any exciting new talent over there?
Well, only one of us is currently there, and it’s only been a few months, so like any scene there’s a period of acclimation. What I’ve seen so far has been very encouraging, though, and there are a number of venues (Wrongbar, for example) that can put on a consistent schedule of compelling shows. I’m really excited about Parallels - I think they’re going to get very big, very fast.

What are What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? hoping for in 2010? Anyone you’d love to work with? What can we get excited about?
Everything. We want everything. We’ve got a couple new singles in varying stages of completion, an album nearly half done that’s evolving to a really interesting, unexpected place and we’re working hard to put together a live show that we can be really happy with by this summer. Maybe some Brilliantine shows outside of North America sometime later in the year, and a series of DJ nights in Toronto is in the works as well.

We’ve got remixes on the next couple of Brilliantine releases, a very, very loud edit of the next Hot Chip single, a remix for Tronik Youth and a few surprises as well.

Finally, who is on your ‘ones to watch’ list for 2010?
Well, Montauk, honestly. Holiday is a huge track, and there’s a lot more where that came from. I’m also very, very excited for the Ted & Francis album, and it’s inexplicable how they’re flying so far below the radar still.

It seems we’re at the next stage of really good, timely acts finally crystallizing their remixes/shows/culture into albums – it happened in 2006 with bands like Justice and Digitalism and Simian Mobile Disco, and it’s happening this year with Aeroplane, and Holy Ghost! and Ted & Francis. It’s going to be an exciting year.

Thanks What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? for taking the time to talk to us and especially for this download of their single Love of Luxury:

Love of Luxury (Original mix)
Love of Luxury – Tronik Youth penthouse mix

If you haven’t heard it yet, you can pick up the remix package for free here too which includes all the artists mentioned:
What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? The Remixes

Everything Everything Remixed

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Delphic have released another download package today – most notable on there is a gorgeous remix of Everything Everything’s My Keys, Your Boyfriend.

Everything Everything are Mike, Jonathan, Jeremy and Alex who formed the band as students at Salford University. They played the BBC introducing stages at Reading and Leeds festivals last year. My Keys, Your Boyfriend was Zane Lowe’s hottest record in the world today back in August 2009. The band recently signed to Geffen Records and released their debut single Suffragette Suffragette in November 2008 (on Salvia).

Everything Everything’s debut album is due for release in August this year.

Everything Everything – My Keys, Your Boyfriend.

Forthcoming live dates:
22 March 2010 20:00 KOKO w/WILD BEASTS, LONDON
14 May 2010 20:00 GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL w/DELPHIC, BRIGHTON
15 May 2010 20:00 WULFRUN HALL w/DELPHIC, WOLVERHAMPTON
17 May 2010 20:00 LEEDS MET UNIVERSITY w/DELPHIC, LEEDS
18 May 2010 20:00 ELECTRIC BALLROOM w/DELPHIC, LONDON
19 May 2010 20:00 SOUNDCITY O2 ACADEMY w/DELPHIC, LIVERPOOL
21 May 2010 20:00 RITZ w/DELPHIC, MANCHESTER
10 June 2010 20:00 THETFORD FOREST, SUFFOLK
11 June 2010 20:00 BEDGEBURY PINETUM, KENT
18 June 2010 20:00 WESTONBIRT ARBORETUM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
19 June 2010 20:00 SHERWOOD PINES FOREST, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
25 June 2010 20:00 DALBY FOREST NORTH, YORKSHIRE
26 June 2010 20:00 CANNOCK CHASE FOREST, STAFFORDSHIRE