It's been a year of ups and downs (aren't they all?!) but what cannot be denied is that there has been some fantastic music! Here are our individual highlights of 2010, roll on 2011... Best Track: Andy: Ray Mang - Look Into My Eyes Didn't even make the a-side but this track still creates a buzz everywhere I play it. Danny: Games - Everything is Working like listening to Magic FM on Valium when 10cc comes on Marcus: Woolfy - Looking Glass [...]
The Beat! punk-funk-disco party at The Alibi. Friday 24th September. http://www.facebook.com/event. php?eid=117210198333830&ref=ts This month we've lined up dj sets from DFA/The Walls Have Ears/Dissident twitterers Cage & Aviary, a UK exclusive set from Melbourne's Fromage Disco, disco deviant Stephen Hodgen and The Beat! resident djs. PLUS a very special late night collaboration between Astrolab's ZNTN and some very special guests we're not allowed to tell you about!! Check back for details nearer the date. Please arrive early to guarantee admission. Cage & Aviary [...]
This Friday at The Russian Bar we have Defunkt - our night of 'forward-thinking electronic music' with very special guests Joe Hart (Bloc/World Unknown) and ZNTN (Astro Lab Recordings). To try and give and idea of the music we play we've compiled this mix covering dark electronic disco, techno, acid house, new beat and synth pop. Full event details can be found here and the mix is available below for download or streaming. Beat Djs - Defunkt Mix [...]
This Saturday 22nd May see us take to the decks at Real Gold's new bar The Alibi. We'll be playing punk-funk-disco-party and it's free entry ALL NIGHT! Full info: The Beat! The Alibi 91 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, London E8 2PB 9pm-3am Punk-Funk-Disco-Party Free entry
In advance of Defunkt this friday at The Russian with Andy Blake here's another mix of new beat, jacking acid house, cold wave, synth-pop, techno and italo taken from his 'World Unknown' series. Andy Blake - To Eastern Mysteries (Music for a World Unknown Vol. 4) The Beat and OffsetCircles present Defunkt at The Russian with guests Andy Blake (Dissident/World Unknown) and Spider and the Flies (Simulated Noise Experiments). Friday 26th March 2010. Click for full event info
We're djing at The Lock Tavern on Wednesday 13th January for our new night The Visitation. We'll be playing lots slo-mo disco, progressive rock and psychedelic soul all accompanied by some visuals we've put together especially for the occasion. If anyone's in London drop in and wig out. 'The Beat!' present The Visitation An evening of spaced out music and visuals in the loft of The Lock Tavern with djs from The Beat. Slo-Mo Disco · Progressive Rock · Psychedelic Soul [...]
In advance of our dj set at X-Ray Vision next month we've put together this exclusive mix. Beat Djs - X-Ray Vision Mix Tracklist: 1. Linda Lamb - Hot Room (Tiga's Remix) 2. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice (Edit) 3. Discodeine - Ring Mutilation 4. Soft Cell - Memorabilia (Long Version) 5. Miss Kitten & The Hacker - Stock Exchange [...]
Time Out resident djs 'The Beat' present an evening of forward thinking electronic music. From Silver Apples to DFA via disco, italo & proto house, post-punk, industrial, new beat and past, present & future electronic. "could only be more awesome if the P.A. was made from unicorns" Time Out Full event details here . Open 8pm-5am, Djs from 10pm Free before midnight, £5 after Bottles, wine, spirit & mixer £2.50 till 11pm Shots £2 till 11pm
Here's a short mix I've just made. Beat Djs - August Mini-Mix Tracklist: 1. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - 6am 2. Carlos Peron - Et 3. Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (C2 Mix) 4. Essit Muzique - Essit Muzique 1 (Corral & Smagghe Kill The DJ Edit) 5. Blake Baxter - Forever And A Day 6. Plastique de Reve - Lost in the [...]
We're going to be djing at ace new haunt The Stags Head next Friday. Post-punk, NY Disco, No Wave, Girl Groups. Please come. More info .
Time Out resident djs 'The Beat' present Defunkt, a new night of forward thinking electronic music charting the path from the adventures in stereo of Silver Apples and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop through musical pioneers such as Manuel Göttsching, Giorgio Moroder, Bobby Orlando, Patrick Cowley, Blake Baxter, Lenny Dee, Carl Craig and Antony 'Shake' Shakir to the more recent sounds of Warp, DFA and Border Community. We'll be playing sixties exotica, krautrock, post-punk funk, disco, italo, proto-house and past, present and future electronic. Friday 31st July 2009, 8pm-5am The Russian 267 Kingsland Road E2 8AS [...]
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This month's mix is something a little different... Bleak, strung out instrumentals with drones, tones and chimes - pop music this ain't. Less a 'mix' more a 'blend' and best listened to on your own at 4am. I hope you like it. Beat Djs - April Mini-Mix Tracklist: 1. Don Cherry - Malkauns 2. Arthur Russell - Place I Know / Kid Like You [...]
Slo-mo disco and the sound of space. Beat Djs - March Mini-Mix Tracklist: Aeroplane - Aeroplane Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma (Instrumental) Chromeo - You're So Gangsta (Playgroup Dub) Gaznevada - I.C. Love Affair (Italian Version) Simon Baker - Plastik (Todd Terje Remix) Gary Numan - Music For Chameleons A Mountain Of One - Lay Down
We're djing this Friday with the very hip Frankmusic, the rather amusing Skill Wizard and the really good To The Bone ( check them out ). You can get FREE TICKETS from here .
Another short mix for February - garage, disco and exotica. Beat djs - February Mini-Mix Tracklist: Hooterville Trolley - No Silver Bird Erotic Drum Band - Jerky Rhythm The Emperor Machine - Yes No Egg Hawkwind - Valium Ten (Betty Botox Edit) Tussle - Version Grace Jones - Private Life (Dub) Suicide - Dream Baby Dream Spirtualized - Pure Phase
We're djing on Saturday 21st February at London's Old Blue Last with the lovely people from This Is Offset . More details here .
Beat Djs - January Mini-Mix ( Play | Download ) Tracklist: 1. Errors - Hans Herman 2. Anne Clark - Our Darkness (Edit) 3. Liaison Dangereuses - Peut Etre... Pas 4. 23 Skidoo - Vegas El Bandito 5. The Flowers - After Dark 7. The Mob - Witch Hunt (JD Twitch Edit) 8. Can - Mother Sky (Pilooski Edit) 9. Psychic Ills - Witchcraft Breaker 10. Telepathe - Sinister Militia (TMJ! Mix) 11. Vivien Goldman - Private Armies (Dub) Compiled and mixed by Andrew Ingle
Here's a short mix for December compiled by our very own Marcus Price. December Mini-Mix Tracklist: 1. Frederic Sinful - Crater Sand 2. Unknown - Sir! Mr Doctor To You 3. Hubtone - Hot Muffin 4. Seelenluft - Manila(Headman Dub) 5. Boogie Corp - 94 Slices 6. Kano - I’m Ready 7. Mock & Toof - Underwater 8. Unknown - Unknown 9. Boogie Corp - Troubled Funk 10. Bruno Cried - No one Has Ever Pinned Anything On Me
Here's a short mix I put together. Enjoy! November Mini-Mix Tracklist: 1. Glaxo Babies - Shake The Foundations (Heartbeat Records) 2. Dave Gilmour Girls - Heavy Metal Music Magazines (Relish) 3. The Juan MacLean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Cajmere Remix) (DFA) 4. Gebr Teichmann - Aus Der Ferne (Kompakt) 5. Zombie Zombie - Dog Walker (Drums & Vocals Version) (Versatile) 6. Shocking Pinks - Cutout (Expanding Head Band Version) (DFA) 7. Severed Heads - Greater Dub (Betty Botox Edit) (White Label) [...]
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