Every Kiss Begins With Headphonesex*
So I managed to survive a Tuesday night in Dalston with nothing worse than a bit of long-term ear damage and a punishing bout of tiredness.
Thanks for anyone who came along. Turned out to be a cracking night in the end, depite the ambitiously enormous venue!
The flash is busted on my camera, so I have no photographic evidence. I can tell you however that DJ Gorky was a bloody nice bloke & played some slammin' tunes whilst also managing to master the dodgy CD decks. You gotta love the baile funk. If only I knew the names of some of those records.....
Laptop wizard Casper did a great job on the organisation and the warm up set. Thanks for the Hot Chip! (And thanks to Hianta for the chicken!)
I lived up to my reputation of top tunes, mediocre mixing.
(What I played: Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone; Shit Robot - Triumph; Tomboy - Samba; Bushy - Drop; LFO - LFO; Hot Chip - Boy From School (Erol Alkan Mix); Betty Botox - Music is Music; Justice - Let There Be Light; Test Icicles - What's Your Damage (Alan Braxe Mix); Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah; David Gilmour Girls - HMMM; Delia & Gavin - Relevee (Carl Craig Mix); Franz Ferdinand - I'm Your Villain (Lindstrom Mix); Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig Mix); Hollertronix - Stay Fly)
I quite enjoyed dropping a bit of Hard Rock Hallelujah in the middle there.... sounded good played nice & loud. Casper commented on myspace that he thought it was a MSTRKRFT remix!
Finally Skull Juice were fuckin' awesome. It took me about 45 minutes to leave as I kept having to return to the fray for ONE MORE TUNE! disco pogo electro magic. These boys are hot. Book 'em for your party. You will be the opposite of sorry. Aroused. Or something.
But enough about that. This was an mp3 blog once, and there don't seem to have been too many recently. I'll hit you with a couple of tracks I played last night that you won't have heard here. Probably the only two in fact!
I have been LOVING the Fujiya & Miyagi album since picking it up a couple of weeks ago, and the first two tracks in particular have been on repeat ever since.
They've got an obvious Krautrock influence (bloke in Rough Trade while spitting doritos all over the floor "yeah mate, you may as well buy yourself a Can album instead. Exactly the same shit innit.") but I think there's a bit more to 'em than mere copyists. Granted Can are a gaping hole in my musical knowledge, but although track 1 (the FANTASTIC 'Ankle Injuries') does indeed sound how I imagine Can sound, by the time you reach 'Collarbone' (track 2) most of the droning synths have been done away with and you're left with some goddam funky-assed pop music.
Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes.
Listen, the cool kids have already been all over this lot & it's one of my albums of the year so far. Check it out for you will not be disappointed. It's called 'Transparent Things' by the way.
FUJIYA & MIYAGI - COLLARBONE
Other great songs: 'Transparent Things'; 'In One Ear & Out The Other'; 'Cylinders'.
So this next song has been stuck on my turntable ever since I bought it. Words can't express how fantastic it is. However since I seem to be proprietor of an mp3 blog I'm gonna have to try.
Betty Botox is the pseudonym of one half of a Scottish duo who likes to sneak out mixable re-edits of his favourite tracks in a limited and low-key fashion. I think he would rather remain anonymous however I think Betty's identity is pretty widely known by now. Shit, reading that I sound like I'm presenting 'Stars in Their Eyes'.
Anyhoo. This track is from Betty's second album, 'G4 Faggot'. If you could think of one way of improving Sister Sledge's 'Lost in Music' what would it be? Well there is no answer to that. It can't be improved upon. But hang on one moment.... what if we stretch out the intro & stick the sample from the beginning of Primal Scream's 'Come Together' over the top. Well fuck me sideways, that sounds great! Press the fucker up!
BETTY BOTOX - MUSIC IS MUSIC
Skull Juice played the brilliant 'I'm An Indian Three' from the album last night - which I imagine is a version of this - and i'm also enjoying 'Xantac' a lot. Check it out if you can.
* Title courtesy of the slogan generator
Thanks for anyone who came along. Turned out to be a cracking night in the end, depite the ambitiously enormous venue!
The flash is busted on my camera, so I have no photographic evidence. I can tell you however that DJ Gorky was a bloody nice bloke & played some slammin' tunes whilst also managing to master the dodgy CD decks. You gotta love the baile funk. If only I knew the names of some of those records.....
Laptop wizard Casper did a great job on the organisation and the warm up set. Thanks for the Hot Chip! (And thanks to Hianta for the chicken!)
I lived up to my reputation of top tunes, mediocre mixing.
(What I played: Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone; Shit Robot - Triumph; Tomboy - Samba; Bushy - Drop; LFO - LFO; Hot Chip - Boy From School (Erol Alkan Mix); Betty Botox - Music is Music; Justice - Let There Be Light; Test Icicles - What's Your Damage (Alan Braxe Mix); Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah; David Gilmour Girls - HMMM; Delia & Gavin - Relevee (Carl Craig Mix); Franz Ferdinand - I'm Your Villain (Lindstrom Mix); Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig Mix); Hollertronix - Stay Fly)
I quite enjoyed dropping a bit of Hard Rock Hallelujah in the middle there.... sounded good played nice & loud. Casper commented on myspace that he thought it was a MSTRKRFT remix!
Finally Skull Juice were fuckin' awesome. It took me about 45 minutes to leave as I kept having to return to the fray for ONE MORE TUNE! disco pogo electro magic. These boys are hot. Book 'em for your party. You will be the opposite of sorry. Aroused. Or something.
But enough about that. This was an mp3 blog once, and there don't seem to have been too many recently. I'll hit you with a couple of tracks I played last night that you won't have heard here. Probably the only two in fact!
I have been LOVING the Fujiya & Miyagi album since picking it up a couple of weeks ago, and the first two tracks in particular have been on repeat ever since.
They've got an obvious Krautrock influence (bloke in Rough Trade while spitting doritos all over the floor "yeah mate, you may as well buy yourself a Can album instead. Exactly the same shit innit.") but I think there's a bit more to 'em than mere copyists. Granted Can are a gaping hole in my musical knowledge, but although track 1 (the FANTASTIC 'Ankle Injuries') does indeed sound how I imagine Can sound, by the time you reach 'Collarbone' (track 2) most of the droning synths have been done away with and you're left with some goddam funky-assed pop music.
Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes.
Listen, the cool kids have already been all over this lot & it's one of my albums of the year so far. Check it out for you will not be disappointed. It's called 'Transparent Things' by the way.
FUJIYA & MIYAGI - COLLARBONE
Other great songs: 'Transparent Things'; 'In One Ear & Out The Other'; 'Cylinders'.
So this next song has been stuck on my turntable ever since I bought it. Words can't express how fantastic it is. However since I seem to be proprietor of an mp3 blog I'm gonna have to try.
Betty Botox is the pseudonym of one half of a Scottish duo who likes to sneak out mixable re-edits of his favourite tracks in a limited and low-key fashion. I think he would rather remain anonymous however I think Betty's identity is pretty widely known by now. Shit, reading that I sound like I'm presenting 'Stars in Their Eyes'.
Anyhoo. This track is from Betty's second album, 'G4 Faggot'. If you could think of one way of improving Sister Sledge's 'Lost in Music' what would it be? Well there is no answer to that. It can't be improved upon. But hang on one moment.... what if we stretch out the intro & stick the sample from the beginning of Primal Scream's 'Come Together' over the top. Well fuck me sideways, that sounds great! Press the fucker up!
BETTY BOTOX - MUSIC IS MUSIC
Skull Juice played the brilliant 'I'm An Indian Three' from the album last night - which I imagine is a version of this - and i'm also enjoying 'Xantac' a lot. Check it out if you can.
* Title courtesy of the slogan generator
posted by headphonesex @ 1:45 PM
