View on Vimeo . Strong looks all round from the Luckyme crew and Jacques Greene . Share/Save

This Friday see's the final blow out of the year for the boys & girls over at Fragment before their new years eve spectacular. The usual first Friday of the month fun & games brings down the music tank that is Arveene from Kitsune, Plant NYC and Gang Bang to the Horse & Groom alongside the normal fortunes of Mad as Hell , Moman and James Fragment. Doors open at 8pm and they've got it going down until 4 in the morning, with free entry until 10pm too it looks set to be a banger. For [...]
View on Vimeo . The ever brilliant Golf Channel have a new 123 out this week from Portuguese types Gala Drop containing four tracks of the most wondrous psychedelia. The above video for "Rauze" should give you an idea of what to expect. Go Seek . Share/Save
Slutty Fringe Mix Series #18 Acid Washed on Mixcloud We've featured Acid Washed a couple of times this year so when the chance came to get them to get them to do a mix we jumped at the chance. Signed to Record Makers the Parisian duo draw together aspects of Moroder'esque disco, Chicago acid, Detroit techno French house music to make music that sounds both timeless and utterly of the now. With their debut album released and earning nods of approval from all [...]

In the past few weeks I've seen Salem play live - well I've been surrounded by a cast of audition hopefuls for Life Aquatic: The Musical whilst the band meekly make noise at the other end of a crowded basement room in Dalston - and Salem lite aka White Ring , whose capacity to set off smoke alarms with an over indulgence in dry ice was the best thing about them. Can't really say I'm all that convinced by this witch house whatever you might want to call it (having listened to the [...]

Hi Modular thanks for jettisoning the gloriously psychedelic Dr Dunks Disco Extension of "My Rescue" by Canyons in the general direction of feverishly hungry music consumers. We presume this was to deflect attention from the fact the new Cut Copy track is what happens when you cross Fleetwood Mac with Men At Work ? Download: Canyons - My Rescue (Dr Dunks Disco Extension) Share/Save

Drunk, tired, mildly pissed off, I should probably do the sensible thing and go to sleep, but soft! what light through yonder inbox breaks? It is a really shitly formatted email containing a D/R/U/G/S remix of May68 , and yes it is not at all bad. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.* Download: May68 - The Prisoner (D/R/U/G/S remix) *I Appear to have written this post, at about 4.30 in the morning and then fallen asleep on the sofa before hitting publish. Whilst I should [...]

Dollop Heaven Mix By Arne Blackman by Dollop on Mixcloud Arch London promoters Dollop make a swift return to Heaven next Wednesday evening with the second of their new mid week residency that is somehow more impressive than the debut event. Border Comm dude Nathan Fake plays live and so do Factory Floor who generally find themselves in sentences following the words "If you see one band live this year make sure it is" with added noise provided by Japanese types [...]

Making Time, the Philly based club night overseen by eternal radsters RVNG INTL , have demanded their Hypergage minions (i.e. Pink Skull, Adam Sparkles and Broadzilla) knock heads and come up with something unique, something a bit different, something to get the pulses of a generation of lazy internet dwelling throwaway music consumers racing. The outcome is the HYPERCAGE RECORD CLUB . The ethos is simple. You, the aforementioned lazy internet dwelling throwaway music consumer, email Hypercage to sign up for their series of Hypergage mixes that expertly splice together 9,000 years [...]
Shamefully I've started watching X Factor this year, I offer up no defence, it's a ghastly soul sucking spectacle that makes a mockery of everything I hold dear. But as my 3 year residency at Proud has come to an end I'm having to readjust to a life that doesn't involve spending every Saturday in Camden, and shouting at the telly has filled that particular void. Anyway probably the single most depressing aspect of Cowell's cavalcade of catamites is just how desperate they are to be famous, not actual popstars, and yes I know this is hardly hold [...]

We've all heard and most probably loved the recordings of classic 60s and 70s pop and rock tracks by The Langley Schools Music Project. Now following in its footsteps, and in what has a good chance of being the best record released this year, Optimo Music have gone all Byker Grove on us releasing Muzical Yooth, an album of punk, garage rock and no wave disco classics as performed by some of Glasgow's coolest kids. Tearing into standards such as Louie Louie and I Wanna Be Your Dog, The Green Door Kids and [...]

By now you will have seen the rather stush and totally suitable video for Teengirl Fantasy's hauntingly beautiful "Dancing In Slow Motion" done by Mark Charles Brown . Merok and the amazingly horribly designed DIS Magazine are offering the chance for you THE BUDDNG VIDEO PRODUCER to reimagine the track in your own vision with one of those there unique remix opportunites . In addition These Are Powers dude Brenmar has turned in a sexx jamm remix that reminds us of "My [...]

Whilst some people are quite happy to use their time in transit playing Angry Bird, guffawing at James Richardson and avoiding the brainwashing rays that emit from every free copy of the Metro, others prefer to be more productive. Lets take Krikor as an example. Currently zoom zoom zooming around Europe playing the firgurative second fiddle to Jamie Lidl , the French producer has been spitting out his distinctive Crackboy edits at a rate of veritable knots in the tour bus down time between cities. This tweak of one of John Carpenter's many [...]

If you're in the US then today is the day that you should seriously consider buying The Glass ' debut album 'At Swim Two Birds' (you can even stream it here if you don't want to just take my word for it), as handily today is the day it gets released on New York's Plant Music . If you're not in the US you'll have to wait (or just go somewhere like Beatport ) as it doesn't get an official RoW release till early next year. Still dry your eyes and [...]
As Night Slugs cruise towards the end of their first full year as a label and no doubt a pile of 'Best of 20102 awards, we're already looking forward to 2011 when they'll be making the step up to releasing full artist albums. First off the blocks is Toronto based Eqyptrixx whose debut long player ' Bible Eyes' is released in February and which in a bold statement of intent doesn't even include the monster The Only Way Is Up released on 123 earlier this year. To check out what [...]

Making their Slutty Fringe debut today are Youthless , a popular Portguese beat combo with a fine line in catchy, fuzzy garage rock and what my mum would describe as a good beat to dance to. They've just released a new single on One Bird Records and lovers of fine looking things will want to take time out from gazing wistfully at the Slutty Fringe About page and check out the limited edition screenprint by Secretly Swedish the label commissioned to celebrate the single's release. Doing things [...]

Errors 'Come Down With Me' is a bit of an odd duck, if you asked me my top 10 albums of the year there's every chance I'd forget to mention it, and yet it has been one of those records that I've gone back to time and time again since it's release, and probably racked up more plays than any other save One Life Stand and This Is Happening this year . Anyway that's probably more the deleterious effect of a misspent adolescence and inability to remember mainly instrumental [...]

Continuing in the golf clap worthy theme of sourcing excellent remixers to accompany their single releases, Brooklyn duo The Hundred In The Hands release "Commotion" on Monday backed with tweaks from Capracara and mystery duo Tiger & Woods who by all accounts destroyed Plastic People last night. (Sadly I was too busy attempting to gorge my height in Firezza Pizza to attend proceedings on Curtain Road) Warp Records kindness in giving the internet an advance [low bit rate] sample of the T & W retro [...]

Ghost Eyes are many things to many men. They are devious box openers who make promises that can't be kept. They are synth wizards who conjure up scuzzed out melodies over crashing crazed boombap. They are the exception to the rule that support acts who sit at the bottom of gig lineups are shrouded in awful. Wtiness at least two of the above at the ever so slightly aforementioned Gold Panda does Corsica Studios gig next Thursday. Engulf your senses in the subsequent tracks if words are not persuasion [...]

Right now I should be flexing in front of the mirror, getting ready for a night at Plastic People with Tiger & Woods, but frankly I've just got in, I'm knackered and the oleaginous microwave meal I just rustled up is sitting uncomfortably in my digestive system with frankly menacing intent. So instead it's looking like a night of Alan Partridge, a catch-up of The Apprentice on iPlayer and some frankly borderline illegal Google searches before I pass out on the sofa another day older and closer to death. Anyway on a slightly cheerier note, although to [...]