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Woody’s Roundup

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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]

Bring It

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Bobmo‘s releasing his new EP Bring It on the mighty Insititubes (on Beatport now, everywhere else 14 September) and we’ve been enjoying his September mix all weekend. Including old-school greats such as Orange Lemon Dreams of Santa Anna, (which reminds me of my mother because it samples 70s The Mexican by Babe Ruth, even though this version was released in 1988 and produced by Todd Terry) and our sexy-time friends Soul Clap.

We’ve been keeping an eye on Bobmo for a while, both as one half of High Powered Boys with equally knock-kneed fellow French yout’ Surkin, and on his own productions, which apparently started when he discovered the combination of Napster, his own rapping, and his home Playstation back while he was still at school. And that wasn’t eons ago – Hugues Rey is still only 17 and living in Bordeaux.

In 2007 it all came together to make Let’s Go Bobmo! which was played out by everyone who was anyone – Busy P, Diplo and Justice to name but a few. He toured, remixed, re-released, got thrown out of Berlin nightclubs, and cemented himself as the poster boy for quintessential French electro.

The key to his success? He’s just so talented. He knows everything, he draws on influences from hip hop, disco, electro, rock, makes records that seem fresh despite numerous samples and references, and his mixing is smooth beyond belief. See what we mean with his September mix.

BOBMO September 2010 mixtape by Bobmo
Tracklist
1. Pluton & Humanoids – World Invaders
2. Legowelt – Lovestory
3. Orange Lemon – Dreams of Santa Anna
4. Soul Clap – Kissing Game
5. Brian Harris – Chemistry
6. Bernard Badie feat. Dajae – Train
7. dj Spen – Gabryelle
8. Justin Martin – Robot Romance
9. Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen – Untitled
10. Fast Eddie – Acid Thunder
11. Frankie Knuckles – Your Love (Dusty Kid edit)
12. Space Dimension Controller – Love Quadrant
13. Jimmy Edgar – New Touch
14. Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation

He’s offering the Douster Remix of My House from the EP for free download here.

Woody’s Roundup

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These bones are tired bones, but that’s nothing getting back on it won’t fix. Tonight Corsica Studios hosts the fifth Ekstravaganza party down in Elephant & Castle with Ivan Smagghe and Prins Thomas, and tomorrow the Get Physical crew bring their own brand of dark and dirty to Fabric, with M.A.N.D.Y on the decks. However, this week’s winner is… Soul Clap presents the T Bar Closing Party at Scrutton Street Warehouse tomorrow. The lineup is sent from heaven, in the shape of Soul Clap bringing the efunk, Nicolas Jaar and Floating Points. Did someone say party?

In other news, the Warehouse Project lineups for 2010 have been announced. It’s hard to put into words the excitement that comes from running to Euston after work, working ourselves up into a giggling mess on the 2 hour train journey, alighting in that wonderful city and following the surge of clubbers under the railway arches into the biggest undercover car park club you’ve ever been to. Book tickets here before they all sell out.

Here’s a few of the songs that have been feeding our stereos of late: Woody XVIII
Soul Clap – Extravaganza
Ladyhawke – Paris is Burning (Cut Copy remix)
Junior Boys – Teach Me How To Fight
Crystal Castles – Vietnam (Midnight Conspiracy Remix)
Matthew Dear – Soil to Seed
Green Velvet – Shake & Pop feat. Kid Sister
Diskokaine – Hall of Shame (Sidechains Remix)

The Count and Sinden‘s Mega Mega Mega album is released on Domino Records 23 August, and this track After Dark featuring Mystery Jets has been on repeat this week. A nice little dancing video for a Friday afternoon.

SECTsy

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Soul Clap, oh Soul Clap. They’ve been rocking our world ever since we started paying attention to the beautiful echoes filtering over the pond from the Wolf + Lamb “music community” in New York. Charles Levine and Eli Goldstein have been playing together since 2001, editing classics of varying tempos to “change the way people dance,” and releasing their own brand of genre-defying, beats-infused sexy house on Airdrop since 2008. It was their edit of Stevie Wonder‘s Love Light In Flight that caught the eye of Zev Eisenberg (Wolf), and after the pair attended one of the legendary Wolf + Lamb parties at the Marcy Hotel in Brooklyn they became part of the family. Alongside Gadi (Lamb) they set up the vinyl-only Double Standard label, releasing the first EP Joint Custody earlier this year, and have branched further out onto the Crosstown Rebels label for the Action/Satisfaction EP (released this week).

Now you know about them you’ll see them everywhere – on lineups, on remixes, on edits, and productions, collaborating with friends they’ve met along the way. SECT is their latest collaboration with flatmates and fellow producers Sergio Santos and Tanner Ross (one half of Voodeux). Their first EP Man Of Wisdom was released in May on Culprit. We thought we’d drop them a line.

Hey Charles and Eli, thanks for talking to us. We’ve been fans for a while now, your Baker Man edit gets me every time and Emily just goes crazy whenever she hears Beautiful Thang. We thought we’d ask you a few important questions…
You guys said you got to know each other in the Boston rave scene in the late 90s. Set the scene a little – can you describe your best outfits back then?
40″ wide-leg jeans with red fleece inserts and polo bear sweaters plus visors to the side and plug earrings. Polo ravers 4eva!


Your records are pretty sexy; you’ve described their purpose as “to make girls shake their butts and dudes say “oooooh”.” Is it all about making those asses shake? Whose in particular?
Please rephrase that question as an interpretive dance.

Puppy crack???
Ask Sergio Santos…

This question’s been knocking around national radio over here – would you rather have to fight one horse-sized duck or an army of duck-sized horses?
That’s easy. We’ve always been firm believers that a quack in the hand is worth two ducks in the horse.

You’re destined to be trapped in a room together indefinitely, you’re allowed two records to keep you going… What would they be?
Imagination – Night Dubbing
Goldie – Timeless

We were lucky enough to catch you guys at the Miami WMC this year. Our favourite video from the conference generally is this one:

Does that describe Miami pretty accurately for you too?
Yeh boat shoes and bats pretty much covers it but gotta disagree about the gross chicks, Miami usually lives up to its reputation. Seth was probably trying to score brownie points with his girlfriend for that one.

Use ‘soul’ and ‘clap’ in a sentence.
Soul sorry I gave you the clap.

What are your plans for the rest of the year, you’re working on an album right?
Lotsa touring for the summer. More SECT music (check our first release here). Then we’re writing our album in the fall possibly at the Marcy or maybe on a island in Colombia. We’ve also got new music coming on Crosstown Rebels and Double Standard plus a buncha remixes.

The SECT Man of Wisdom EP is out now on Culprit Records, and the next EP from Soul Clap will be released in July on Crosstown Rebels, including an edit of Goldie’s Timeless.

Catch Soul Clap in London 24 July

Download: SECT – Thieve $krilla

Subscribe: The Adventures of Soul Clap podcast

SECT – Thieve $krilla, Hi-Fi All Around, SECTsy, Searching For Santos, Man Of Wisdom by Soul Clap

Wolf + Lamb: Ready For Love

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Wolf + Lamb are New York based DJ duo Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi, who have been together for almost a decade. Priding themselves on engaging with music from all over the world, they started their record label Wolf + Lamb Music in 2005.

It was also in 2005 that they also began the famous Marcy Hotel parties, describing the philosophy behind them as “a special place where we share our passion with discriminating music lovers from around the world. Though it seems like chaos to the untrained eye, everything about our space is carefully calibrated; the music, staff, artists, the sound, and you, our guests…” The Marcy Hotel itself acts as not only their party venue of choice, but their studio too; perhaps more surprising is that it is actually a five-star hotel!


Love or hate the concept, the parties were no doubt an exciting addition to the New York underground dance scene. When they first began the entrance fee set out not to make money, but to cover overheads and to filter out anyone not ‘in the know’. The message to their guests is as follows, “…while most of our guests are part of the wonderful New York dance community, some are there simply because it’s a good party that’s open real late with cheap drinks; we’re pretty sure they don’t know or care who Damian Lazaraus or Jamie Jones are. For those people, there are plenty of other incredible parties to go to, but with the limited space at the Marcy, they are taking up precious space that we’d rather have for more of you…” It’s controversial dialogue which presumably does just enough to intimidate those who aren’t considering it for the ‘right’ reasons…

Last month played host to a huge warehouse party in Brooklyn (reviewed here), which showcased label DJs No Regular Play, Soul Clap, Nicholas Jaar and Gadi Mizrahi himself, accompanied by a backdrop of performance art. Wolf + Lamb are also set to take on the Miami Winter Music Conference next week with a party at Electric Pickle in downtown Miami on the Friday, which is being hyped as the ‘most versatile Winter Music Conference party this year’.

Wolf + Lamb as a label have a fair few strings to their bow; initially starting out as a digital label in 2005, and in the spirit doing things against the grain, they have since moved into vinyl distribution (in 2008) to satisfy a diversifying, and somewhat retrospective, music market. The boys also keep it light-hearted with a further label Wolf + Lamb Black which pulls together a collection of edits and bootlegs including fresh takes on greats like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.

There are a number of tracks available via the Wolf + Lamb Music site which give you a taste of the eclectic medley of artists they select, as well as huge history of Wolf + Lamb podcasts. Below are my favourites of the free downloads up for grabs (most notable being Gadi Mizrahi’s remix of Seth Troxler’s Love Never Sleeps), as well as Nicholas Jaar’s incredibly different interpretation of Billy Jean (probably not one for die-hard MJ fans)…

Seth Troxler - Love Never Sleeps (Gadi Mizrahi remix)
Gadi Mizrahi – I’ll Hold Your Hand (Bodycode Remix)
Nicolas Jaar – Billie Jean (Nico Rework)

… and two stunning new tracks which prompted me to look more closely at Wolf + Lamb in the first place: Gadi Mizrahi - I Can Never Get Enough (Spectral Sound) [buy] and the BPM defying Nicholas Jaar – A Time for Us (Wolf + Lamb) [buy].

For a sneaky look inside the Marcy Hotel parties check out this video by RebelRave featured on the Wolf + Lamb website.