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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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There’s nothing like a little drop of escapism to jog one out of work mode and into playtime. Tonight we’re doing the triple – heading over to The Book Club for Hold Still (Tim Filthy Dukes), then Counter Culture to see Stopmakingme, Punks Jump Up, Lee Mortimer and Justin Robertson, and over at Village Underground Kitsune have invited Rory Phillips, Jamaica, Classixx, Is Tropical and The Twelves to their party at Village Underground. If you don’t have tickets to this beware – they’ve only got limited numbers on the door. Down South Caribou and Four Tet are playing at the Coronet and Ramadanman is at Corsica Studios.

Tomorrow it’s The C90s Shine A Light single launch at the Lock Tavern, 20:20 Soundsystem are at Fabric, Doldrums brings Joy Orbison to Plan B, and Bugged Out/Greco Roman at XOYO sees Drop The Lime take to the decks.

Here are a few little treats from the digital world this week, notably some boogie funk from Kraak & Smaak. Yes, it’s true, listen for yourselves:
Kraak and Smaak – Dynamite (Kraak & Smaak’s Boogie Funk Version) – the new Dynamite EP is out exclusively on Beatport from 22 November, elsewhere 6 December.
Clock Opera – Once And For All (Little Loud Remix) The Hundred in the Hands – Commotion (Tiger & Woods Remix)
RAF – Self Control (Bottin Edit)
Mumdance – So Squalid Instrumental
Joe and Will Ask – Clive Onion
Selebrities – When I Look at You
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Some very nice little releases next week: Tony Senghore‘s new EP Score is out Monday 22nd, as is Stopmakingme’s Wrapped in Plastic on Kill Em All.

Also well worth a listen: Eskimo Twins on the remix of Everything Everything. Two names we always like to hear, and when you mix them together you get:
Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome (Eskimo Twins Remix) by Eskimo Twins

Disque Oh!

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We’re pretty excited about the Kitsune Maison party at Village Underground a week on Friday; not only is it my birthday, but Rory Phillips, Classixx and The Twelves are going to be in the same room, and because last time we attended the one at Heaven it was simply ridiculous. This is of course to celebrate the release of the Kitsune Maison Compilation 10, The Fireworks Issue, and on the tracklisting is Disque Oh! by Vaults favourites BeatauCue.  BeatauCue are playing at the Kitsune Club Night at Social Club in Paris with Digitalism this Friday, so they’ve put together the first of their new monthly mix series in honour of the mighty fox. With the excellent Pleasurekraft to start off you can’t go far wrong.

BeatauCue Monthly Mix #1 – The Kitsune Issue

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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There’s a little disco-exchange programme going on this weekend between Britain and our oh-so-chic Belgian neighbours. We’ve leant Brussels one of our crown jewels, Monsieur Rory Phillips, to play alongside Mustang at Libertine Supersport at the K-Nal club, and they’ve sent over a case of two of their finest exports, Aeroplane and Villa, playing at Together at the Coronet. Moda and Aeroplane are hosting rooms one and two respectively; resulting in two lineups guaranteed to move your derrière.

In other news, Stag & Dagger take over Shoreditch for another year of art and music, and Fabric is hosting the Crosstown Rebels. Jamie Jones and Damien Lazarus until the sun is well and truly up at 8am. Last but not least, there’s a free Ed Banger party at Life in Old Street tomorrow to celebrate the launch of the Mickey Moonlight Love Pattern EP.

The prize for busiest DJ this week goes to Louis Brodinski. The first EP from The Krays (Brodinski and Yuksek), Ready When You Are (feat. Ebony Bones) was released this week on the shiny new Abracada label (my label to watch this Summer), and the wait is finally over for the release of Arnold Classics on Sinden’s Grizzly label. Brodinski’s playing tonight with our good friends Eskimo Twins at Wax:On at the Mint Club in Leeds.

I haven’t included tracks, as this week it’s all about mixes mixes mixes….
The standard of these is so high I didn’t want you to miss any of them.
Mustang Mixture May 10 (CosyMozzy)
Aeroplane Chart Mix May 2010
Bang Gang podcast 22: Magic Mingle Mansion Mix
Boy 8-Bit Essential Mix
Wax:On Podcast 023: Eskimo Twins – Assorted Nuts and Bolts
Jaymo and Andy George mix for Moda

Do You Wanna Funk?

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Don’t you just hate it when you’re going about the minutae of daily life and suddenly a track comes on the pod that makes you gasp and look around for someone to grab, and there’s no-one to share it? Well I might have frightened some members of the public this weekend in a well-known supermarket chain by gesticulating wildly before running from the shop to get home to my stereo.

It all started a long time ago, with a film called Trading Places. Vagabond and petty thief Billy Ray Valentine is plucked from the streets and installed in silver-spoon banker Winthorpe’s sick crib, and of course, the first thing he does is have a huge party. Drinks are spilled, it all gets a bit rowdy, and eventually tops come off to some funky disco sounds. Since disco fever came over us again I’ve been secretly hoping to hear this party soundtrack somewhere, and imagine my delight when the man to end my long wait is none other than Mr. Rory Phillips.

The track is Do You Wanna Funk, by legendary disco production partnership Patrick Cowley (also making an occasional appearance in Rory’s sets with Megatron Man) and Sylvester (responsible for You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)). Absolute distilled disco. You can hear it 1hr and 17minutes into this mix from Rory’s podcast. However, by no means should you fast forward the rest of the mix, as it is an unadulterated pleasure from start to finish – including favourites from James Curd and Prince.

Rory Phillips – Recorded Live in Athens, 19-03-2010

I recommend downloading ALL the mixes you can get your hands on by Rory Phillips. Go to ALL his gigs, buy ALL his records. You’ll find yourself going about your business with a silly grin on your face.

Here’s Rory playing Do You Wanna Funk alongside Erol Alkan at the LCD Soundsystem Afterparty at Plan B in Brixton this weekend. Double hand clap!

Do you wanna funk?

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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 Bears Raf Daddy and 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

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There are just too many fantastic candidates for Track For The Day out there at the moment, I find I want to write something about every song that comes my way. 2010 is already proving itself to be one of those bumper years of creativity where monumental and long-awaited projects come to fruition.These are tracks that were recent runners-up, and have been giving me a lot of enjoyment in the headphones ever since.

New Young Pony Club – Chaos (Rory Phillips Remix)
Idiotproof – Gorilla (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)
MSTRKRFT – Heartbreaker, feat John Legend (Wolfgang Gartner Remix)
Groove Armada – Paper Romance (Classixx Remix)
Gorillaz – Stylo (Alex Metric remix)
Jamie Anderson – Vietjam

Or get them all in one tasty zipped-up nugget here.

Out on Monday:

The album that’s been doing it for me this week is the excellent Tourist History from Two Door Cinema Club, on Kitsuné from 1st March. I can happily listen to the whole thing two or three times in a row. Here’s my favourite track (although there are so many greats to choose from this changes day-to-day), What You Know.