This Saturday sees NYC DJ and producer M A N I K play at the final summer Krankbrother's party alongside Nick Curly in London. It was meant to be a secret daytime terrace party with sunshine, pimms, bbq, dancing and sick tunes but alas there was a license-revoking-based-inciden t and they've had to find a new venue. What they've replaced it with sounds pretty good though, with a "beautiful massive warehouse space and a large outdoor courtyard..... DJs inside and outside." MANIK's sound covers everything from house to disco to electro to funk and so seems perfectly suited to laid-back daytime [...]
Transatlantic duo Benoit & Sergio have been making me go all fluttery-eyed with their dreamy brand of pop-laced house since early this year. With stand-out tracks Walk And Talk, Boy Trouble having crossover appeal, it's no wonder they've just got ever more popular. I caught up with them ahead of their performance at the Phonica Warehouse Party next month to find out the things that really matter, y'know, like zombies and films and sega, oh and a bit about music too... So Benoit, you grew up in Paris, and Sergio you grew [...]
More cryptic messages from our friends at SOCIETY regarding the next party, taking place this time at Dalston Superstore. Keep your eyes on the blog for the official announcement coming at end of the week or email ssh@societywarehouse.com for more details... MORE ON SOCIETY OFFICIAL SITE :: FACEBOOK :: TWITTER
So, I cannot remember the last time I made a mix CD! It's been years. However, there's a pretty special event coming up (PM Halloween Party w/ Danny Daze, Clive Henry, Martin Dawson, Jay Shepherd and PM residents PLUS an epic after party in case you were wondering), so I thought I'd honour the occasion by compiling a nice little warm up mix for it. I didn't plan it this way, but it's undeniable that my mix has a 902s jackin' house feel to it. It's all the kind of stuff that I'm really feeling at the moment. [...]
Reports have started flying around Twitter claiming that DJ Medhi has passed away. This is still unconfirmed, but if this is the case then dance music has lost a true icon, one who will be sorely missed. Born in France on 20/01/1977, DJ Medhi was a major player in the French electro movement that became a steady part of the underground dance music scene in 2007/08. We hope that this sad news isn't true... Once we hear more, we'll update you. Until then, take a listen to Joakim's remix of Pocket Piano, one of DJ Mehdi's biggest hits [...]
Do you get easily envious of young, beautiful and successful people? If so I'd advise you to look away now because I'm about to introduce you to Cocolores. This teenage(!) duo from Munich have just released their debut EP, Heartquest, on Exploited Records . I heard them about a month ago, whilst streaming Shir Khan's Berlin radio show and was totally taken with their '90s house inspired sound straight away. I've just been waiting from them to actually release something to tell you all about how awesome they are. In that time however, they've been getting bigger and bigger, [...]
If there is one club who have always remained consistently cutting edge and unquestionably captivating, throughout a long and highly regarded compilation series then London's Fabric would take the crown. Fabric have now roped in Fourtet , as the latest to step up to the prestigious plate and mix the 59th instalment of FABRICLIVE. Four Tet is the electronic outlet for the solo work of musical wizard Keiran Hebden: a top drawer producer and a magnificent maestro of meticulous electronica, Hebden is almost unanimously regarded as one of the most important [...]
French two-piece Logo describe themselves as a "what's the point duo" but that seems a little harsh on their part. Paris boys Thomas and Hugues are actually making some pretty fresh, optimism-laden electro beats. Since the release of their first EP, La Vie Moderne, last year, they've been on the road with Swedish band Icona Pop and the Kitsuné Club Night. And this summer saw the release of new EP Merit, a bleepy, chirpy affair with nods to '70s sci-fi theme tunes. They've hit the festival circuit to hone their skills and are playing Koko tomorrow night, supporting Ed Banger boss Busy P [...]
DJ Kicks has been one of the most well established compilation's since it's introduction in 1995, with C.J. Bolland. Since then, the series has expanded to 36 and has added the likes of Carl Craig, Four Tet, Nightmares on Wax, Stereo MC's and Daggy G from Massive Attack to its impressive roster. Mixmag even hopped off its fence and stuck its neck on the line to call it 'The most important DJ Mix Series ever'. Compilation 37 will be released on October 17th with Paul Rose, better known as [...]
Don't call it a come back, as The Phantom's Revenge has in fact been here for years, and what with every previous mix of his I've posted in the past proving so damn popular amongst our dear readers, I felt it only right that I posted his latest - Ladies Love Cool James. Weighing in at over two hours and twenty minutes this massively eclectic mix crosses genres with ease, electro, disco house, hip hop, classic R&B and more. There's something there for everyone, so download now... I can promise it will make this dreary tuesday morning so [...]
Ed Banger boss Busy P dropped this new mini mix at the end of last week. The Fall 2011 Delivery Mix features many of the label's most talented artists including DSL, Mickey Moonlight, Krazy Baldhead, Justice and Mr Oizo. Don't forget you can catch Busy P along with Carte Blanche this friday @ Koko, for a chance to win tickets enter our competition here ! Busy P - ED REC FALL 2011 DELIVERY Knockturnal MORE ON [...]
Ex-half-of Aeroplane, The Magician, teams up with Jeppe , he of Junior Senior fame, to bring us this lovelorn track telling a tale of a painful breakup clearly on the horizon and the fevered, unanswered phone-calls that accompany it. It's the type of song you'd put on in exactly that situation when you've drunk too much and you want to dance around anyway in a failed bid to cheer yourself up. There's something quite alluring about all this music at the moment that's highly danceable but drenched in despairing lyrics. With it's campy house piano intro, this is obviously quite [...]
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Ever since hearing Tanner Ross - B Side on that amazing Off-Sonar set from Art Department, I've been desperate to get hold of it. It's a beautiful and infectious work that you could quite easily have on repeat all day long. Mercifully, I spotted someone posted a link to a soundcloud of it on the WANARB fanpage which means that I actually will be spending the entire bank holiday weekend with it on repeat. No 19 Music still haven't announced a release date for the EP as yet but as soon as it is, this track, [...]
Summer 2011 in London has for the most part been a bit of a washout. As I sit hear typing in my darkened room I can hear the drip, drip, drip of raindrops once again and a crack in the curtains reveal more grey skies. Don't get me wrong, I've had a great summer. It just winds me up that we can't seem to have more than a couple of days of sunshine before the rain clouds decide to rear their ugly heads again. Thank god we've got good music, music that even when the suns not shining outside, can [...]
At just 24, Mondkopf's second album 'Rising Doom' is ready. Inspired by post-punk, black metal, and with the music of Aphex Twin and Autechre always in his head, the album exhibits a mesmerising force, that so many have tried and failed to demonstrate before him. Merging sound and vision, he has also recently collaborated with multimedia design agency, Trafik, to produce a Live show experience that is both an aural and visual assault; tension immerses, with an almost white noise affectation, igniting the sensation of terrifying squat raves, exorcism and a feeling of some sort of mystical wizardry… [...]
Hard to find is a brand new double CD compilation released earlier this month containing exactly what it say's on the box, hard to find classic and rare remixes from old 123 vinyl collections and CD singles. Claiming to take you back to a time when dance music was special and secret (much like our Society Parties) the album is a dream come true for DJs wanting to play something a little different. DJ historian and journalist extraordinaire Bill Brewster writes the sleeve notes... 'With Hard To Find, we've sent our vinyl archaeologists to sift [...]
If my excitement for the impending Eastern Electrics at Suffolk Street Warehouse this weekend wasn't enough, it turns out that the awesome 3-arched venue will be playing host to Soho record store Phonica's 8th birthday soon as well. Taking place on the first weekend of October, it boasts a line-up so exquisite that it makes me a bit dizzy just to look at it. Putting Leftroom's Matt Tolfrey and Radio 12s In New DJs We Trust's Heidi charge of an arch each to complement the Phonica-curate arch was basically a stroke a genius. It goes without [...]
Deadly are taking on Club NME and have invited their great friends from Paris to create a monster night! The Ed Banger boss, Busy P, returns to London with label mates Carte Blanche (DJ Medhi & Riton), and fellow French cohorts Logo (Kitsune), for what is set to be one of the parties of the year. DJ, Producer, Manager, Label Boss, Pioneer, Innovator - all descriptions that you can tag to Pedro Winter - founder of Ed Banger Records - home to the likes of Justice, SebAstian, DJ Medhi and a whole roster of [...]
I received this email from 4th Level Zombie over the weekend... "Alright dude, this video has just been uploaded to YouTube. I think you should be the one that posts it up. It contains two of your favourite things; beards and bikes." Um... I'm not too sure how keen I am on beards, I mean... I can respect a beard. But I'd never want a big beard myself (and I definitely don't like them on girls). He's right about the latter though, I do really like riding bikes. In fact [...]
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