FRIDAY! ITS FUCKING FRIDAY! Here's a ridiculously uplifting retro disco tune to get you in the mood. Sir Nenis and Marked Man team up to give you Enjoy Life. Put this on, get the beer outta the fridge, chill on the couch for a bit and then get your friday dancing shoes on and head for the clubs. Download [Sir Nenis & Marked Man - Enjoy Life] [...]
This ep is FIT. And it's FREE. Brought to you by Suicide Dub, it's ConRank showing you why he's still the freshest and most original drumstep producer in the scene. I can't figure out which track I love the most. It's so fucking good. Love Me and Time To Go is seriously BIG. Why they are giving it for free I have no idea but grab it while its still hot: [ConRank - Love Me] [ConRank - Time To Go Featuring Pleasureland] [...]
Last night I dragged my mate who hasnt slept in 3 days to this Dinosaur Pile Up homecoming gig, sponsored by Miller Beer, at The Brudenell (also affectionately called "The Brude"). He was literally falling asleep at the table. But, a pint of guinness and a double rum and coke later, he was awake enough to ask the band a silly question during the Q&A which included the word "poo" twice and something about a brown sleeping bag. I cant remember what the question was but it was weird. The Q&A itself was a bit weird and awkward. [...]
Crystal Fighters got the Lapalux treatment via this insanely amazing remix of their track Plage . It's the kind of woozy, ambient beat music style like Gold Panda or Dam Mantle . Psychadelic, random, experimental but a treat to the ears because of the so many layers of sound textures and samples. There are folks who might not get it and because they dont get it, they hate it. I don't know about the rest of you but I find this extremely beautiful. [ Crystal Fighters - Plage (Lapalux Remix) ]-> [...]
Fucking Tuesdays. If you hate tuesdays like I do then you and me need to agree that we need a little pick-me-up. How about Lifelike 's new single Motion ? I kinda gotten over Italo for a while now but this one's really doing it for me today. I put it on on my walk home from work, grab a can of coke, smoke a fag and then I'm ready to rumble. New EP When The Night Falls comes out July 25th and will feature remixes by Hercules And Love Affair and [...]
I want every weekend to be like the one just gone, chain smoking, hard drinking, loud music, leery friends, screaming over balconies, talking to random strangers, greasy chips and cheese for the slow walk home, collapsing on couches, intimate conversations, so tired I could fall sleep right here on the street. The Dirty Nil fits this ideal. Like the pizza and beer before going to the show, sweat and sneakers and slacking. So loud, near shambolic, and so much chunky meaty grungy fuzz its making me feel all furry inside. That's a good thing. I [...]
As another week draws to a close and the weekend bursts into full swing, the bankers undo their top buttons, the pr girls hike their skirts up a dash and let their hair fall around their shoulders, yes just like those commercials. When bar staff sigh silently to themselves at the impending stream of drunks they will be dealing with for the next 48 hours and those same drunks rejoice because they can now drink for said 48 hours and go see their mate the local bartender because they'll get served quicker. We can sit back and feel slightly superior [...]
This has been the most action packed week. I need to be careful and check that its not my mania setting in again. However, I have managed to decide that I am going to Berlin with my good american friend, Justin, to check out the scene and especially Berlin Fest, 2011 . And then maybe do a stopover in Sweden. I have also decided that I am going to help him run this new clothing distribution agency. That is going to be fucking mint. And then,inspired by the 2 french films I saw at the Hyde Park picture house, [...]
Just Kiddin , two dudes from Leicester. Doin bubblin disco and tropical house, the kinda stuff you'd expect to be played at a pool party at the top of some penthouse in the heat of summer. Just one word of advice: that tash has to go, I'm not kidding. [Just Kiddin - Last Chance Saloon] [Just Kiddin - Return To Tropicana] Get Seriously released via Top Billin, on Beatport here . [...]
So this is festival season then isn't it!? Can't say I've been that wildly impressed so far. Basically it's just made me skint, I've had to hang out in the rain and watch a tiny man on a massive stage dj to a crowd of people who are staring and seem completely unprovoked to move or make any contribution to the world of dance, by busting some funked out hip hop treble step side wind glide biz, .….. Luckily though I remembered that main stages suck face so I wondered off to the second or even third stage and hark [...]
Sunday. Think I'm going to clean the apartment today. Sort out the bills. Go for a walk. Maybe take the laptop to starbucks, get a frapp, get on the wifi and do some writing. Like some proper writing. Alternatively I could just stay in bed all day and do fuck all. Bit of Polish disco house by Spox anyone? [Spox - One More Time] Get on Juno . [...]
Saturday night. This is me predicting what I'm gonna be doing coz this post was written in 48 hours in advance. A mix practice session with some friends and then heading out to town for a piss up. Or probably just staying home, recovering from the night before, maybe. This is something new from another hip french label, Yeah, Dish recs. Admittedly, I haven't heard of them before but it's never too late for anything. Le Canyon does that SebastiAn -esque chopped up thing, like this InnerPartySystem remix. [InnerPartySystem [...]
Escape. Every person has an ulterior motive, every explanation is selfish. This is a game we're playing here. The politics of saving your skin. Are you ashamed of it? Because I am. There should be no emotions. It should be cold. Functional. With no movement. Exacting. Brutalism. And trust - trust is but a childish, thoughtless assumption for reciprocation, expecting altruism, the desire to fill this gaping hole you call "loneliness". It sits in your chest. And you play with fire so the darkness inside doesn't overwhelm. [Chaos In The CBD - Birthday Song] [...]
I can't judge a band I have never heard before just by listening to one song (although I know I've done that many times on here) so I am going to judge them by how they look: 4 pretty white boys with pretty haircuts, guitarists playing their guitars high on their chests and the drummer looking like he's in pain / having an orgasm / crying while he plays the drums - makes for a decent 3 and half minute entertainment. The Slowdown are from Manchester, they look like they probably go to Up the [...]
Last week, after the fundraiser event, I came to learn the meaning of "friendship." How clique-y gossip and pettiness can turn malicious. Funny how people believe the stories and things about a person when it's not coming from the person itself. The poison has set in too deep. [The Weeknd - Wicked Games] The Weeknd is Abel Tesfaye, based in Toronto, bringing back rnb to the cool kids just below the mainstream belt. Soulful rnb vocals over dubsteppy productions, nothing too harsh or over produced but not too [...]
Helped to organize this gig last night at the Fenton in Leeds and fucking hell that was probably like one of the best gigs of the year already?? COWS ON PARADE totally killed! They're an all grrrl Rage Against The Machine covers band and usually I don't like cover bands but these guys are fucking mint! It takes skill to play like Tom Morello or rap / scream like Zack de la Rocha. It was hard to believe that, in the midst of all the moshers and crowd surfing and sweaty packed dancing, this was their first gig? [...]
This has been on of those odd weeks. I've been out having a few drinks, nothing to reckless mind, most nights and consequently I'm in some kind of weird half hungover, sleep deprived ambient state of euphoria. One person actually said to me the other day I looked different, my response was "oh yeh, I had my hair cut", "no" she said "you just look really chilled out". I then explained how I hadn't really slept more than a couple of hours and so this "chilled out" state she observed was actually induced by being soo out of it I [...]
Seclusiasis is giving away this bangin track away from Kastle aka Barrett Richards previously known as B.Rich (co founder of the Party Like Us label with AC Slater ). Pitch tweaked vocals, and purple synths over a garage R&B beat. [ Kastle - I Kn0w ]->click to download This grimey badboy below is massive. One of my favorites: [Kastle - Bring Me Back] And check the garage goodness of the title track: [Kastle - Time Traveller] I [...]
Sduk and Halp team up to do this 8 bit / dubstep mash up tune. I first got into Sduk from his Dubplates mixtape ages ago and his edit of Emalkay's When I Look At You . If you haven't yet heard the mixtape, listen to it here: Download Lunge here: [ Sduk & Halp - Lunge ] Sduk's latest release on Slit Jockey , YouNyt , drops on 20th June. Preview the track: [...]
I think I'm going to go to tesco and grab a bigass bottle of nutella and stuff my face with that shit, stare out of my window, watch Leeds city getting darker, the streets wet from the rain. The best thing about living in a tall apartment is that you get to see the whole skyline, watch the sunset, daydream about better days. Today is one of those better days. After the constant feeling of fear, dread and anxiety, today at least, today is okay. Joe & Will Ask ? have this tunage for free D/L: [...]
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