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There’s nothing like the fear of never being able to leave your house again as it’s piled high with drifts of snow to make you rush out and have a dance while you still can. As ever, London has superbly risen to the occasion and offered a few goodies to stagger to after the office Christmas party.

Tonight Stopmakingme, Pete Herbert and Prince Pac play at The Book Club for the Big In Japan Christmas party, Retro/Grade join Villa and Acid Girls for Scandalism at Stokey’s The Nest, Motor City Drum Ensemble play at Plastic People, and Tim Sheridan plays one of my all-time favouritely-titled nights VeryVeryWrongIndeed at Lightbox in Vauxhall. Dollop host XOYO with LuckyPDF and Dollop DJs, and Eskimo Twins are joining David E Sugar free at 93 Feet East.

Tomorrow promises no sleep for the wicked as Jackmode present round two of their Pelski nights at Counter Culture, with the big boys Jesse Rose, Zombie Disco Squad, Oliver $ and Jet Project. Mr Rose was spotted grooving in the crowd to Round Table Knights last time we attended so it’ll be interesting to see how he enjoys making us move. There’s another legendary 2020 Vision party with Tensnake, Lindstrom and Crazy P, and Soul Clap are rocking Hearn Street Car Park with their Yoyoyo 90s Jam Rave E-Dition. If you’re up North (even if you’re not it’s only 2 hours on the pendolino from Euston) Wolf + Lamb have their Christmas party at Sankeys, with Gadi Mizrahi and the lovely Nicolas Jaar. Way down South My Heroes Killed Cowboys in Cornwall hosts Filthy Dukes and Stopmakingme.

Enough to dance those icicles away I’d say.

Here are some tracks to help with that:
Heartik – Wax Works (Mowgli Remix)
Prince Club – La Charma pt. 2 (Prince Club Sub-Marine Mix)
OMD – Sister Marie Says (Stopmakingme Remix)
Lykke Li – Get Some (Beck Remix) [Lykke Li remixed by Beck? Yes please]
Davide Squillace – The Other Side of the Bed
Yeasayer – Madder Red (Munk Remix)
Feed Me – Jolie [Feed Me are the latest signing to Deadmau5's Mau5trap label. Expect the Feed Me's Big Adventure EP in January]

Well Stop Making Me Then!

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It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Stopmakingme. He has the rare ability to be able to turn a dancefloor into a screaming mass while still being able to cause goosebumps with his out-of-club mixtapes. His influences are vast and diverse, and it comes through in his mixing and productions. The world agrees with us, and he’s very quickly climbed to the top of his game: as resident of Fabric, running Kill Em All with the Filthy Dukes, and most recently he’s just started as Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound label resident DJ, playing their club nights and presenting their radio shows.

Most importantly, his Wrapped in Plastic EP comes out 22 November on Kill Em All records, and you can download two tracks below. We caught up with him to talk origins…

Obviously indie music and the Soulwax, DFA, post-punk stuff has all been a big influence on you, but was it always that way? Was that a parental thing? What phases did you get through to arrive here?
Well, I became obsessed with Michael Jackson and Prince when I was very young. Then I guess The Prodigy were the first band I really loved – I went to see them play in Bournemouth with my dad when I was eleven. As a teenager, metal and rock music (but none of the wanky stuff!) was everything to me and I still love it now, Queens Of The Stone Age and The Smashing Pumpkins remain my favourite bands. I would record Mary Anne Hobbs’ Rock Show every week on my minidisc player and it was from there I discovered her Breezeblock programme. A pivotal moment came when I found an old episode with The Chemical Brothers talking about all their influences and it opened my eyes to the way in which club music is affected by everything. The proceeding few years were unbelievably exciting as I tried to listen to as much stuff as possible from all over the place. So yes, by the time I was 18 I was a full blown indie boy who loved Felix Da Housecat and Death In Vegas as much as The Strokes and New Order.

What’s your guilty pleasure?
I don’t feel guilt about liking anything but I guess some would call Wow by Kylie a guilty pleasure. What a record, though!

What was your golden era for clubbing? I think for me it was 2006 when we were going to Trash on a Monday at The End, it always felt like an adventure…
Living in Bournemouth, we envied Trash and Our Disco so much! (as well as Fabric and Bugged Out). I was just a bit too young. I also would love to have experienced the height of The Paradise Garage, Music Box and The Hacienda. Living now isn’t so bad, though!

When you interviewed Erol Alkan he mentioned curveball tracks, and that’s something in a set that I particularly love – like Busy P dropping the Glee theme tune. Do you have one?
The best ‘curveballs’ are ones that still fit into the overall feel of a night, I love that idea of ‘club music’ which doesn’t come from the usual places. When Doves Cry and Once In A Lifetime always find a way into my sets and I don’t think I’ll ever tire of either.

In the same kind of vein, do you have a golden track or mix that you always return to for your own listening?
Tiga’s DJ Kicks is great, Erol’s One Louder CD from 2003 and the Trash sets on his podcast, Nation Of Shopkeepers by Filthy Dukes, Cut Copy and Ewan Pearson Fabric CDs, In Flagranti’s mix for BlahBlahBlah, Ladytron’s Softcore Jukebox compilation, Justice recorded live at Our Disco, the first DFA boxset… Basically anything that has an eye on more than the standard 4/4 house routine.

My favourite club track is Geht’s Noch by Roman Flugel. I could listen to that loop all day.

One of my favourite things about you is that you and Tim (Filthy Dukes) are so enthusiastic about other people’s records, which is completely infectious on a dancefloor. Who is your ultimate ultimate musical hero?
That’s the best bit about DJing: sharing music you love with other people. Musical heroes? There are too many. Josh Homme, Kevin Shields, Bowie, Beck, Kim Deal, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk…

Before Kill Em All it was Sixty Million Postcards and we used to buy records from you at Pure Groove, so it’s obvious it’s most definitely in the blood. Was there ever a plan b? If you weren’t working in the music industry what would you be doing?
I have no idea. I studied English and Film at university so I’d probably be an unemployed publisher by now.

This is your first EP but you’ve been remixing and working on tracks for a while I think. How did Wrapped In Plastic come to be? Was it through many incarnations or a studio epiphany?
I feel quite a few things have come together, coupled with the fact that I now have access to some amazing analogue equipment. I also learned to relax! When I first started making dance music I was trying to make noisier club tracks that I thought would sell on Beatport, simply because I didn’t know what I was doing or where to start. It was a good moment when I realized I could (and should) make odder stuff that was influenced by more than one corner of my record collection.

K and Big V?
Two of my best friends (and not a drug reference)

So you’ve got Deadstock 33s on the remix package, a current favourite? Justin Roberson was great playing with you guys at The Lock the other week.
It’s a total honour to have Justin do a remix for me, he’s a legend in our world. His Deadstock stuff made me totally rethink what I wanted to be playing as a DJ. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s nice how there is lots of big club music emerging which doesn’t directly come from the standard dance world. I think the next year will be really exciting.

So I’m always hearing that you’re finishing tracks or in the studio at the moment, is an album coming, or more EPs, remixes etc?
Definitely two more EPs already lined up, some music with Mr.Robertson we’ve been working on together plus loads of remixes. There’s also a brand new project I’ve just started work on which sounds totally different.

I think it was a past interview I read with you that drew my attention to the excellent Jac The Disco, so thanks! Who are your ones to watch for 2011?
Remute, The Deadstock 33s, Punks Jump Up, Ajello, Retro/Grade, Gesaffelstein, the continuing genius of In Flagranti, the return of Chicken Lips, the new Filthy Dukes stuff, Matt Walsh, Rory Phillips, The C90s….
Bands: the new Death In Vegas record, Outer Limits Recordings, Factory Floor, Selebrities, 2:54…

Stopmakingme – Discuss (192kpbs)
Stopmakingme – Hot Pepper Sauce (192kpbs)

Buy the Wrapped In Plastic EP in its full 320 glory from Monday, and catch Stopmakingme playing at Counter Culture this Friday with Justin Robertson and Punks Jump Up.

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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:

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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)
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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.

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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)
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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

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Do you ever feel like the weekends are actually reality, and the working week is just like a bad dream in between? Except the weekends have a slightly hazy, dream-like quality to them. Where did this week go?

It’s Friday already, and we’re galavanting off to Shoreditch to see our chums Stopmakingme and Jac The Disco play at East Village tonight alongside Matt Walsh. Yay! Tomorrow there’s a tonne of stuff going on; Slutty Fringe are hosting Filthy Dukes and Silver Columns at 93 Feet East, Village Underground is the venue for the much-anticipated 2020 Soundsystem 2020 Vision party, curly-haired vixen Hannah Holland is playing with Off Modern‘s Nasty McQuaid at Apocalypso at Queen of Hoxton, and Flying Lotus is playing for Brainfeeder at my favourite car park, Hearn Street.

Stopmakingme’s latest mix for Phantasy reminds us of how great he is:
Stopmakingme Mix for Phantasy Sound, August 2010

There were so many great tracks this week I found it hard to filter, but here are my top seven, with the view to keeping it a little varied in terms of tone and subgenre.
Eli Escobar – Love Thing Part 2 (DJ Mehdi Club Edit)
Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)
Cassette Jam – Speed of Light (Filthy Dukes Dub)
Goldfrapp – Believer (Little Loud Remix) Little Loud is certainly one to watch – check his remixes of Health and Yeasayer.
Retro Grade – Pulsar
Simian Mobile Disco – Nerve Salad
Chilly Gonzales – I Am Europe (Djedjotronic Remix)
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BONUS: Luke Million – Arnold
Luke Million is Luke Godson, better known as the keyboardist from The Swiss. Arnie on a workout tip.

Give The Man some of your money this week for Tape to Tape‘s latest; the stunningly beautiful Pure and Easy EP on Relish Recordings. Including a remix from Black Strobe. Consistently excellent.

Kill em all, let God sort it out…

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We had a major clubbing conflict this weekend when our attendance at Lovebox prevented a visit to our local the Lock Tavern to see our favourites the Filthy Dukes alongside master of the cowbell Rory Phillips. Free Summer party, going on without us!

We were sad, but the Kill Em All crew have healed the hurt with their first radio show, featuring Filthy Dukes and Stopmakingme. Catch them this weekend at Secret Garden Party and next weekend at Field Day, and for a warm up mix listen to episode 1 of the radio show on Mixcloud.

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We’re in Berlin this week, so we’re missing out on the flurry of Bank Holiday weekend activity in the UK. We’ll report back from Bergheim instead, where we’re seeing Radioslave, Luke Solomon and Spencer Parker for Rekids Nacht tonight.

We’re relying on you to represent in our absence, so here are a few of your options:

Off Modern‘s last big blow-out before the summer is on Friday at Corsica Studios, featuring My Panda Shall Fly, The Boogaloo Crew and Zarcorp (Late of Pier). Off Modern are curating the entire weekend, also providing a free party at The Rest is Noise in Brixton on Sunday.

On a hot weekend it’s definitely worth a road trip to the seaside to see Filthy Dukes at the beautiful Kraken Wakes (from the people that brought you the Lock Tavern) in Portsmouth tomorrow, or, if you tend to gravitate towards the nearest car park for a Bank Holiday rave, look no futher than Bugged Out’s Mad Decent Soundsystem at Union Street with Diplo and Drop The Lime, or Mulletover, celebrating 10 years of Mobilee in Hearn Street, featuring Berlin’s own Anja Schneider.

Release-wise, we’re excited about Poni Hoax’s We Are The Bankers on Abracada on Monday. Watch out for the excellent Tropicomix by Mustang.

Here are some of the tracks making a stir this week. In particular, the Alex Metric re-edit of the Beastie Boys Sabotage – which was a frequent feature of his live sets and has been made available after huge demand from fans and bloggers everywhere. Power to the people!

Fox The Fox – Precious Little Diamond (Shep Pettibone Remix)

Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Aeroplane Remix)

Carte Blanche feat. Kid Sister – Do! Do! Do! (from A-trak’s Dirty South Dance 2 Mixtape – download it free here)

The Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light (Siriusmo Vocal Remix)

Foals – This Orient (Astronomer Dub)

Jose Gonzales – Crosses (The Boogaloo Crew Bootleg)

Beastie Boys – Sabotage (Alex Metric Re-Edit)

Or download them all at once: WoodyXI