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Sorry we didn’t bring you a Halloween special last week folks, but Emily and I travelled up to Manchester for a double-header at The Warehouse Project, and frankly with Jamie Jones, Jamie XX, Jesse Rose, Julio Bashmore, Four Tet, Hessle Audio, Homework, Oliver $ and Seth Troxler on the decks, nothing in London could come close.

We’re heading out of town again this week, down to the South Coast for the Dirtybird All-Nighter at Audio in Brighton tonight, with the lovely Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin and Eats Everything. However, if you’re in London they’re doing the whole thing over again at Fabric tomorrow, and tonight you can content yourselves with WildKats at Basing House, and Jesse Rose at The Nest. There’s a lot on this weekend elsewhere too, with the legends that are Puente & Rosch playing at Basing House for Dented Melons, The Juan Maclean album launch party at Queen of Hoxton, and Catz n Dogz gracing the decks at Corsica Studios. We can’t attend any of this crazy fun (until post 1.30 anyway) because Vaults are back on the decks all night at The Hospital club, and you can come and see us for free by emailing your guest list names to minnie@onefromthevaults.co.uk. We’re on the top floor so there should be a pretty good view of the fireworks alongside some dark and dirty tunes.

Oh and if you’re still raring to go on Sunday (and I’ve seen the crowd at these Sunday parties, a very low percentage of them have been to bed) Creche has a stellar line-up once more, with Laura Jones and Waifs & Strays at Queen of Hoxton.

Here are some of this week’s freebies to help you get ready for the weekend.
Lana Del Ray – Blue Jeans (Penguin Prison Remix)
Duran Duran – Girls On Film (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)
Canyons – See Blind Through (DJ Harvey Remix)
Mighty Mouse – Ice Beer (Bootleg Version)
Till von Sein – Sassomon
Kele – Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus Cover)

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Phonica is 8! And to celebrate tomorrow they’re commandeering our favourite car park, Great Suffolk Street, with a lineup that defies belief; Heidi, Soul Clap, Matt Tolfrey, Joy Orbison, Waifs & Strays, Benoit & Sergio live, and not to forget the mighty Visionquest. Obviously we’ll be the ones down the front screaming like idiots. If that hasn’t broken you there’s an after-party at Cable until 1pm on Sunday hosted by Jaded.

If you want a little pre-Phonica-birthday warm up there’s loads going on tonight too – keep it car-park with Lola Showcase at Hearn Street, featuring Dan Ghenacia and Seuil, or pop South to Corsica Studios for 2020 Vision’s Crazy P album launch party, or head to Hidden in Vauxhall for Found: Launch with Justin Martin.

The sun is upon us at last, so perfect timing to head to Peckham tonight for the closing party of Bold Tendencies on the roof of the multiplex car park, with the obligatory Bussey Building after party, with Horse Meat Disco and the Off Modern crew.

Here are some tracks for the pod during those jaded early-morning walks home.
Electric Jones – Tribute to Todd Edwards
New Navy – Tapioca (from the Uluwatu EP released 17 October on Future Classic)
Embassy – WasThat All It Was (Ajello Remix)
Landslide – Dig Deeper (WAFA Remix)
Boz Scaggs – Lowdown (Greg Wilson edit)
The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love? (A-Trak Dub aka Dub for Mehdi)
Monarchy – You Don’t Want To Dance With Me (Feat. Britt Love) [Moonlight Matters Remix]

Sonar roundup

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I’m not a fan of retrospectives: it’s not very inclusive to harp on about a brilliant night/festival/set for too long, unless there’s some sort of constructive end to it. Go and see so-and-so here, etc.

BUT festivals like Sonar and Miami WMC are tastemakers and fixers for the rest of the year’s musical delights, and a precursor for the Summer’s selection in Ibiza, so I thought I’d let you know what tracks we heard out and about in Barcelona. Plus, it allows me to re-live it a little bit, so indulge me.

Particular highlights were the RA by Day party on Thursday, poolside on the roof of Hotel Diagonal, which started chilled in the sun, was moved up a level to fun old skool hip-hop and disco by Space Dimenson Controller, then brought to a sundown sweat-fest frenzy by Claude VonStroke. So many new tracks and highlights which we managed to ask him about later, but he warned us we’d have quite a wait, in particular for the release of Justin Martin and Ardalan’s epic follow-up to Mr Spock; LEZGO. I found a very small taster here – only 21 seconds but thank you to ‘Rainingcaps‘ and his dancing-while-filming brother.

A few other greats which you can get hold of now are Claude’s Take a Trip mix of Chilly Gonzales - I Am Europe, and J Phlip‘s new track with Claude under his Grizzl moniker for his vinyl imprint Krush Groov, BkupGrl, and of course my favourite, (another one I’ve been waiting patiently for) J Phlip’s OMG Remix of Russ Yallop‘s Rock Me, which is a bootleg and sadly not due for release (I think)… but you can hear it 12 minutes into this mix from March this year:
Claude VonStroke – March 2011 Tour Mix by Rainbow Venues

J.PHLIP & THE GRIZZL – BKUPGRL CLIP by j.phlip


Fun fun fun was the Jackmode party on Thursday night in a tennis club high in the hills overlooking the city (complete with a slide and see-saw) and it was nice to see Oliver $ drop his own Doin’ Ya Thang to a crowd very happy to try to sing/shout along.
Oliver $_Doin´ Ya Thang by oliverdollar

Zombie Disco Squad played some old skool classics including a great that we heard again dotted around parties in the week; the MK Dub of Jodeci’s Freek N’ You, from 1995.
Download: Jodeci – Freek N’ You (MK Dub)

All the beautiful people were at Ghoa Beach Club for the Hot Natured party all day on Friday. Dancing bodies filled the pool while we danced on ledges to the stealthy bass of Thugfucker’s Disco Gnome (Tale of Us Remix). Download here.

A-Trak at Sonar Night on Friday was ridiculous. His hands were moving so fast on the decks he looked like a smartly-dressed robot. He gave us a little taster of his new ‘mystery’ track Big Bad Wolf, which when it comes out on Fool’s Gold is going to be immense.

Great sets include Cosmin TRG followed by Tiger & Woods at Sonar Day on Saturday, and the legendary Rico Passerini has kindly uploaded the Cosmin set to Soundcloud for your delight:
Cosmin TRG Live @ Sonar Festival, Sonar Dôme, Barcelona – 2011 by R_co

We rounded the week off in fitting style with the Sunday parties, and a massive thanks to Culprit vs Leftroom for good sunny times on the roof at Hotel Catalonia in the day, then Get Physical for putting on a beach party at Mac Arena Mar through to 3am. Just enough time to pack and get to the airport for a Monday morning flight home (those crazy enough to go to work on Monday). So for now, we put Sonar to bed for another year, and content ourselves with hastily booking some flights to Ibiza, stalking producers until we get our grubby mitts on the tunes we heard, and re-living some of the joy at 5 Years of Leftroom (with Room 2 hosted by Hot Natured) at Fabric on 2 July. See you there.

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A huge huge thank you to the Ed Banger crew for giving us a slice of winter wonderland at The Warehouse Project last week. We’ve included two Carte Blanche tracks this week as Mehdi and Riton absolutely blew the roof off, and I’ve very much enjoyed watching their sets come together this year and distill into something completely reactive. We’re heading North again tonight for another monumental Warehouse lineup: Simian Mobile Disco, Holy Ghost!, Aeroplane and Tensnake to name but a few.

Down in London town tonight FACT magazine host Joy Orbison and Ramadanman at XOYO, and tomorrow XOYO is also the venue de jour for Bugged Out and Durr’s Christmas party, with Rory Phillips, Aeroplane, Holy Ghost! and Tanlines. The Dirtybird and Get Physical crews are heading to me ol’ fave Fabric tomorrow, so not only are Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, Julio Bashmore and Catz n’ Dogz playing in room one, but in room two M.A.N.D.Y are live alongside Heidi. Over at Queen of Hoxton Orlando Boom sees Jac The Disco, Blamma Blamma! Mighty Mouse and Joakim shake it up real nice, the ultra cool Off Modern moves from their usual First Thursdays slot to tomorrow at Corsica Studios, with Dels and Egyptian Hip Hop, and Public House sorts out you easties at Drop East with Dana Ruh. Sunday it’s down the hill to The Lock Tavern for Round Table Knights and Duke Dumont playing our favourite Sunday knees-up, Blogger’s Delight.

More Thursday parties too as this week Night Slugs bring Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990 to East Village and Counter Culture host Esper Magazine with Homework and Worthy. Counter Culture closes on 1 January so you really should get yourselves down there before then – it’s got that real house party vibe that we love.

Here are some tracks that will help you flick the bird at winter:

Monkey Safari – Stoned
Etienne De Crécy – No Brain (Munk Remix)
Villa – Beats of Love (The C90s Remix)
Moneypenny – Destroy (Midnight Conspiracy Remix)
Kink & Neville Watson – Metropole
Carte Blanche – Politrix As Usual
Carte Blanche & Kid Sister – Do! Do! Do! (Laidback Luke Remix)
Or all together: Woody 34.zip

Out to buy this week is Black Strobe’s Me & Madonna on Kitsune, complete with remixes from Tape to Tape and The Twelves. Worth an early Christmas present.

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I must remember not to go to work on Monday…I must remember not to go to work on Monday….
Ha ha, who am I kidding – come Monday afternoon I’ll still be in the corner of a filthy London car park rave somewhere.

Soooo, the low-down for this week is as follows (and apologies – there are hundreds of events this weekend so we just couldn’t list them all): tonight Art Department play at Egg for Blow, BigInJapan sees Prince Pac (Jac the Disco) at The Book Club, and Hidden Cat plays Superfilth at 93 Feet East. If you want to sweat it out in a basement, Tim Sweeney and Tim Goldsworthy play at Plastic People for Warm, who also host a day-to-night party on Sunday with Jamie Jones at the Horse and Groom. Spanning Friday and Saturday is the L.E.D. Festival in Victoria Park (Dalston Superstore pon de afterparty), and Saturday and Sunday join the Cla’am locals (if you dare) for South West Four, both of which have an abundance of afterparties all over the place, including the lovely James Zabiela playing at Plan B in Brixton.

Dollop are hosting the Scrutton Street Warehouse closing party on Saturday night, which has had to move to CAMP after Hackney Council issued a notice preventing events there. Even the closing party? So support them down at CAMP as they have Ivan Smagghe, Thomas Von Party and Matt Walsh providing the entertainment.

Of course Sunday and Monday bring with them the Notting Hill Carnival, with Mad Decent Soundsystem playing a pivotal role once again, and in the evening it’s back into the car parks for Eastern Electrics, with room two hosted by Dirtybird. Justin Martin and Claude VonStroke on the decks at my favourite Union Street car park means a marathon dance session.

Your tracks for today include some carnival vibes from Congorock and Hervé’s Voodoo Chilli, but also a little bit of love from Poka and Cicada. Enjoy.
Matthew Dear – Little People (Black City)
Bonobo – Eyesdown (Warrior One Remix)
Congorock – Babylon (Fare Soldi Babbylorso Remix)
Cicada – Your Love (DCUP remix)
LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (Prince Language Remix)
Cassius – Sound of Violence (Poka Emotive Dub)
Voodoo Chilli – Dance So Sexy

All zipped up: Woody XXII

Thanks Justin

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Happy days! The sun is still shining and here to stay all week and dirtybird hero, Justin Martin, has done the latest mix for FACT.

FACT mix 160: Justin Martin

  1. Sascha Braemer And Nicone – Nur Mal Kurz (Philip Bader Remix) (Renaissance Man Edit)
  2. Zev – Forget The World Feat. Beckford [Wolf + Lamb]
  3. Super Flu – Nickletoe & Yours, Opa [Monaberry]
  4. Pezzner – Let’s Talk [Physical Graffiti]
  5. Jamtech Foundation – Too Fast (Femme En Foumure Remix) [Discobelle]
  6. Unknown- Unknown (J Phlip Remix) – Unknown
  7. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo (Mike Monday Hse Mngo Remix) (Justin Martin Special Edit)
  8. Claude Vonstroke – Vocal Chords (Tim Green Remix) [Dirtybird]
  9. Galen & Justin Martin – Dust Devil [Dirtybird]
  10. Kicks Like A Mule – Funky4 (Martin Brothers Donkey Punch Remix) [Fools Gold]
  11. J Phlip & Claude Vonstroke – California (Julio Bashmore Remix) [Dirtybird]
  12. Robbie Hardkiss – Get Up (Zev Remix) [Hallucination Limited]
  13. Nicolas Jaar – Time For Us [Wolf + Lamb]

Hakazou!

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This weekend was supposed to host a German musical invasion across the capital with Made to Play talent Oliver $, Get Physical’s M.A.N.D.Y. and Harry Klein girls Ana & Julietta playing at The Legion, Fabric and Cosmo Bar. However, the ongoing saga of volcanic ash lingering in the UK skies prevented many DJs leaving their home town forcing, perhaps healthily in some respects, promoters to look elsewhere and make the most of homegrown talent still residing in their respective nations. Fortunately, the power of the internet and digital music means that we can still get our fix from abroad, and for the purpose of this post, a taste of the generous array of electronic exports pouring out of Germany.

Today marks the release of Hickup Theme from new up and coming producers / DJs Hickup (or HCKP) on the ‘Future’ chapter of the Five years of Dirty Bird compilation. Dirty Bird is certainly a label known for supporting the brilliant artists coming out of Germany, and more specifically the sounds ruling the Berlin clubbing scene.

Hickup are a duo from North Germany who like their music ‘electronic and ethnic’ and Hickup Theme represents just that. Its core make-up comprises of tribal beats and ethnic melodies. They refer to it as an ‘energentic tribe dance’, and it fits perfectly with the Dirty Bird mentality and other tracks within the release. Hickup Theme has been available as single download since the end of March, but to take it away as part of the compilation, you’ll need to get yourself over to Beatport. The full tracklist looks fantastic including new and old tracks from the likes of Claude Von Stroke, Justin Martin, Style of Eye, Tim Green, Sascha Braemer and The Martin Brothers and it came out today!

Hickup also saw Hickup Theme enter in Thomas Schumacher’s RA chart this month and second track Hakazou! has been gaining support from not only Heidi on her Radio 1 show, but also Jesse Rose, who apparently dropped it recently at Panorama Bar with great success.

Hickup – Hickup Theme by HICKUP

They don’t stop at great production either, Hickup are playing in Hamburg, Kiel and Hannover over the next few months (including an evening in June with the UK’s Zombie Disco Squad at the Luna Club, Kiel) and you can find more from HCKP on their Soundcloud page. The boys are currently working on new mixes to further showcase their DJing talent.

So whilst we await some new mixes from Hickup, we’ve found a mix from the main man himself. A man responsible for the signing of so many incredibly influential tracks over the past 5 years of Dirty Bird. Enjoy:
Claude Von Stroke – Dance Under the Blue Moon – 17th April 2010

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It’s friiidaaay and I’ve put together some tracks which sum up my musical mood this week. It’s a bit of a mash up of chilled, fun and filth, and sometimes even hands in the air, so hopefully something for the whole weekend. We’re off to The Coronet Theatre tonight to catch Hervé, Kissy Sell Out, Mowgli and The Bloody Beetroots for the new Together Club series. So, in tribute to that, I’ve also included The Squatters demo single On Fire from San City High…

If you’re in London too don’t forget the mighty Villalobos tearing up Fabric tomorrow, and Sunday brings Simian Mobile Disco to The Lock Tavern’s Small Disco. Lots on, so get involved and have a good weekend!

Divisive (Carl Craig Remix) – We Have Band
Get Low (Original Mix) – Justin Martin
Running Backwards (Original Mix) – Beltek
Try to Understand – DJ T.
Yearning (Original Mix) – Black Van
L’amour Et La Violence (Floating Points Mix: sample) – Sebastien Tellier
On Fire – The Squatters

Straight-A Students

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A cheeky grin, one hand on hip, one hand in the air; the little man looks like he’s ready to party.

He is, in fact a Gouden Kabouter, Amsterdam dance music’s answer to the Brits. This counjures up images of Jarvis Cocker bum-waggling Michael Jackson in 1996, and other memorable moments of showbiz excess, but amongst the absurdity there are catagories that carry real weight, and they are an important indication of the direction in which the European dance community is heading. The Golden Gnomes are to be awarded on Tuesday 2nd March, and up for both Best Dressed DJs and Best DJ Duo, are Amsterdam’s Homework.

Hi Tom and Zip, thanks very much for speaking to us. I believe you started playing together in Amsterdam in 2007, is that right? Can you set the scene a little for our readers – how did Homework come to be?
We met in 2007, that is correct. We were both working at a well known record store in Amsterdam, called Concerto. It took a while before we realised we were both into dj’ing. Actually it was through a mutual love for a mix album by Boris Dlugosch that we found that out and decided to DJ at a party. After that we never played separately again and things just… well, sort of took off very gradually.

We were asked to organise a club night, which we dubbed ‘Hommeles’, which is an old Dutch word for ‘trouble’. Later we co-produced a night called TAFKAF with The Heykids (kings of the Dutch underground scene) and Meneer de Beer. That night focused on a new sound from artists such as Justin Martin, Duke Dumont and Renaissance Man, who were all our guests. It was a great platform to develop and broaden our musical tastes and it taught us that you always have to look forward. So we’re always looking for new innovations.

I hear you’re up for Best Dressed at the Gouden Kabouters (and Best DJ Duo, a pretty serious one), very nice!
Since our very first gig we’ve always been dressed in white shirts and black ties. We don’t want to whine or anything, but it can be pretty damn hot wearing outfits all the time. But you have to suffer to be fashionable. That might just be the reason we’re nominated. (Of course the best thing would be to DJ without anything on, but we tried that once and people just didn’t get it. We were ahead of the hype on that one. A bit too innovative…)

I see you’ve got some of the DeadFish Audio crew on your mixtape. What record labels are Homework fans of?
Deadfish is an amazing label! Together with Sound Pellegrino, Made To Play and Dirtybird. Those labels are bringing something new and extremely fresh to house music (and dance music in general, for that matter). The artists on and around those labels, such as Mowgli, Round Table Knights, Zombie Disco Squad, Renaissance Man, Tim Green and Harvard Bass, really inspire us. Especially on a production level, because they’re pushing the boundaries of what is possible. It’s surprising what these dudes come up with sometimes. We would love to collaborate with all of these artists.

But there are lots of other interesting producers around. We’re into a very wide range of styles. The most important thing is that a record intrigues us. Then it doesn’t really matter if it’s Balkan dubstep or the sound of a washing machine playing a flute.

And your new track Fissa Tune – is it being released?
Fissa Tune is very dear to us because it was born out of our love for the music of the Round Table Knights and all those peeps. We’re not sure if it will be released. We send it to the ‘high rollers’ and got really good reactions. It would be great if somebody would release it.

What can we expect from you in 2010?
Recently we’ve been busy with our new party BOYCOTT, which we organise together with Guerilla Speakerz. There have been two nights so far, but both were sold out. BOYCOTT is a raw and underground night and is all about partying, hard. Guests include lots of locals and for the next edition we’ve got NT89 coming over.

There are a lot of new tracks coming up, and some remixes for Quinten 909, Rubix and The Century, and we hope these will reach your speakers asap!

Vote for Homework in the Gouden Kabouters here.
Download Only The Penitent Man Will Pass mixtape here.