We’re about to go off on our Christmas hols, so today is a day of stocking up on new mixes to soundtrack journeys. Until normal service resumes in the New Year I thought I’d share with you a few to load your pods with.
The Magician – Magic Tape Eighteen
Stephen Fasano kindly gives us the sixteenth installment of his mixes as The Magician. Pretty damn lovely, and ending with my very favourite after-party melody: Hackman‘s Close.
The Magician is finally releasing his first solo ep, with Danish singer Jeppe Laursen, called I Don’t Know What To Do, and out on Kitsuné 3 October.
We’ve been knowing-and-loving Stephen Fasano’s Magic Tapes series for a year now, since he left Aeroplane, and he’s also been responsible for some pretty hefty indie-dance remixes, not least, Lykke Li‘s I Follow Rivers, Yuksek‘s On A Train, and partnering with Yuksek on Peter and The Magician’s Twist.
So this is pretty exciting times for our Belgian friend, and deservedly so, as the title track is a storming piece of piano-disco with a great vocal. Hands in the air!
The Magician Feat. Jeppe “I Don’t Know What To Do” (Original) by TheMagician
Ooooh, a collaboration from Future Classic DJs, that’s niiiice. A mixtape with all their new tracks, including new signings Scenic (watch out for The Magician remix of Another Sky) and New Navy. It’s a free download too. Enjoy.
Future Classic DJs- July’s Tuff Love
Tracklist
Scenic – Another Sky
Christophe – The Force (Julio Bashmore’s Piano Mix)
Sebo K – The Duke
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Waulking Song
Mano Le Tough – Baby Let’s Love (Midland Remix)
Maya Jane Coles – The High Life
Benoit & Sergio – Principles
Tigerskin – Feel For You
Tensnake – Something About You
Radiohead – Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix)
Jon Convex – Falling Again
Tale Of Us – Dark Song
New Navy – Oceans
Wow, one pops off to the beach for two weeks and comes back to a world exploded with music. Some absolute greats from Yuksek and The Magician (check out The Magician‘s remix of Yuksek‘s On A Train from the EP of the same name), and Mustang have given us two absolute beauts, with their remix of Golden Bug‘s Sex Beat from the Magia Potagia EP on Gomma, and their remix of Monarchy‘s I Won’t Let Go from the EP of the same name new from Moda Music. Made to Play have made a limited vinyl pressing of Round Table Knights remixes, with contributions from L-Vis 1990 and Homework, and that happy santa claus of techno Claude Von Stroke has remixed Girl Unit‘s 2010 banger Wut, which has made EVERYONE pretty excited, but no release date yet from Night Slugs. Finally Aeroplane releases My Enemy from the We Can’t Fly album, and even if you own the album the EP is worth it for the Rex The Dog remix alone.
Compilations are coming thick and fast too, with Moda Compilation Volume 1 out 23 May, including the first original material from Jaymo & Andy George, starting with their Night Music EP, and last week Lee Foss and Jamie Jones added another string to their bows with the first volume of the Hot Waves compilation, released of course on their own Hot Creations label. Chilly Gonzales brings us ‘orchestral rap’ withThe Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales album on 6 June on Gentle Threat/ Schmooze, and Toddla T‘s new single Take It Back is out on the mighty Ninja Tune on 23 May; a forerunner to his debut album to be released on the label later this year.
Obviously you’ll be spending all your money on these new releases so I’m going to save you some clubbing cash this weekend and tell you of two pretty epic free parties. Tonight, That Mixmag Thing #13 is at the Queen of Hoxton with Oliver Lang, Super Recordings Showcase and my favourites Riotous Rockers (their April mix was a joy as usual), and tomorrow Field Day host a free party with Omar S, Caspar C and Midland at XOYO. Well done all.
Jamie Woon – Night Air (Solomun Edit) – I still can’t get enough of it.
SBTRKT feat. Little Dragon – Wildfire
Zomby – Things Fall Apart (feat. Panda Bear)
Jess Mills – Vultures (MJ Cole Remix)
Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
Toddla T – Take It Back – Dillon Francis Remix
Sticky K – Prince of Persia
Woody 48.zip
And as for this from Turbo on 30 May: if you don’t know what it is, you should…
No sooner have I got my ears round Magic Tape Nine from the prolific The Magician, then he serves us another. Characteristically tracklist-less, but Stephen says he’s been excited by all the new tracks flowing out this month, so it should be a nice forerunner to Bank Holiday clubbing.
It’s that middle-of-the-month syndrome where you’ve got to the point already where you can’t afford to eat, and strangely; when you most need to stay in and conserve funds and energy, you somehow end up blowing your last pennies on the biggest dirtiest rave-ups. I want to say a big thank you to the Queen of Hoxton for easing the pocket with a great rooftop opening party last night. The brand new roof space is ready for the summer and we partied like it was 1999.
Tonight we’re migrating eastwards to The Nest, to see a bevvy of our favourites DJ for Scandalism, The Magician, Russ Chimes and The C90s to name but a few. Warm bring Mark E and Cottam to Plastic People- greats both, and Mark E’s Deny This has been doing the rounds in the last couple of weeks, and has generally received hoots of delight as a forerunner to the new album on Spectral Sound. If your tastes bend towards parties of the warehouse variety, then BokBok and Egyptrixx are playing at a secret location for Beat Redemption.
Tomorrow it’s all about rave-and-save, as all proceeds are earmarked for the save Japan disaster fund. Head down to Corsica Studios for Horse Meat Disco, Idjut Boys and friends Digging Deep for Japan, and on the river Cable hosts Dance for Japan with the Zombie Sound System crew.
And let us not forget the mighty Record Store Day tomorrow across the country. Last year was steaming hot weather and we trundled merrily along to Pure Groove (sadly online only now, but still worth a visit) for a few drinks while we listened to and purchased some good music. Sounds pretty perfect to me, and there are events all day at Rough Trade East and West, among many others.
Some tracks for the week? Oh go on then.
Death from Above 1979 – Black History Month (Stopmakingme Remix)
MixHell – Antigalactic (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
Mario & Vidis feat. Ernesto – Changed (Radio Edit)
Nite Jewel – Am I Real? (Classixx TPS-L2 Mix)
LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem (Tommie Sunshine, Vande and Gross Edit)
In Flagranti – Worse for Wear (Punks Jump Up Remix)
Mark E – Deny This (Extended Version)
Woody 46.zip
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We’re quite excited to get ourselves down to Counter Culture this Saturday – a new venue under the arches at London Bridge (what did we do before there were arches in our lives…) open for 99 days only with a remit to bring art, literature, theatre and clubbing all together under one arched roof. And who better to experience it with than Round Table Knights, Zombie Disco Squad, Christian Martin and Solo.
Here’s why we love them: Round Table Knights – Autumn Mix 2010
Tonight of course we’re starting off the weekend at XOYO for the London leg of the Abracada label tour, with Villa, The Krays, Mustang and The Magician. The lovely James Zabiela plays at East Village for their Bonfire Night special, and That Mixmag Thing #7 at the Queen of Hoxton with Grum and Mumdance. Community have done a blinder again with Plan B, presenting us with Jamie Jones and Le Loup (Wolf+Lamb).
This week’s tracks are a mixed bag as we alternate between good clean Autumn fun, walking around in fallen leaves and feeling all wrapped up, inhaling firework and sparkler dust, to getting ourselves down n’ dirty on a sweaty old dancefloor way past our bedtimes.
Nasty McQuaid – Nasty Pulse (thanks to Off Modern for another amazing night last night)
Andhim – Patty Sue (Super Flu Suncream’s Remix)
Leni Ward – I Want My Heart Back (Sean Eskimo Mix)
Catz n’ Dogz – Sunset in the East (Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix). Catz n’ Dogz’s album Escape From Zoo was released on Mothership on Monday and has been on repeat in the office this week. A good choice of release from Claude VonStroke for his ‘deeper techno label.’
The Glimmers – You Rocked My World
David E Sugar – Flea Market (Third Party Remix)
Neatly packaged: WoodyXXX
Oh my DAYYYZ out tomorrow is the Mitzwa EP by Hickup on Sweat It Out! and it’s very good indeed. Everyone knows I’m a sucker for a bit of woodwind. I mean who isn’t?!
I sometimes find that time nowadays is distilled into an endless list of dates I must remember. Largely Fridays and Saurdays, they are scrambled in my brain as a stream of numbers, obliterating what falls in between them. For example, November is 5,6,12,18,19 and 27 (at the moment), as I desperately try to remember that I’ve made plans on those nights and therefore MUST not drunkenly say yes when people suggest wonderful line-ups and club nights to me. Then once in a while a night will come along with a line-up so immense that it blows all tentative (and sometimes already booked) alternatives out of the water.
Abracada‘s London visit is just one of those nights. When writing this post I had to note down all the names on the flyer as by the time I’d got to the bottom there were so many I’d forgotten the ones at the top, and with Renaissance Man as a bonus special guest accompanying The Krays, The Aikiu, Villa, Mustang, The Magician, MikIX the Cat and Pilooski, it’s a busy billing. Like the label itself the night is an interesting mix of disco (Villa, The Magician and Mustang), hip-hoppy breaks (The Krays) and heavier electro (MikIX the Cat and Renaissance Man), and it contains all my favourite people.
The next two releases are the remixes of Villa’s Beats of Love, including interpretations from Mylo and Hannulelauri, out 22 November and Mustang’s Apocalypso EP out 13 December. Surrounding this the label have been on tour over in the US and are heading to Europe, with Paris Social Club this Thursday and XOYO for us on Friday (remember remember the fifth of November, right?). Here are some selected highlights (that we haven’t already posted) to give you a taste:
The Magician – Magic Tape Four
Findlay Brown – Promised Land (Villa Remix)
MikX the cat – The Key (Kingdom Remix)
Valérie Dore – The Night (Mustang Re-Dit)
ABRACADA TOUR 2010 – It’s a kind of Magic…in your city from AbracadaRecords on Vimeo.
Abracada tour :
Nov 4th : Paris (Social Club),
Nov 5th : London (XOYO),
Nov 10th : Brussels (Libertine Supersport),
Nov 20th : Glasgow (The Arches)
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)
Download Woody XXIII Zip.
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
