Take Me With You

I'm going away for a week or so... just thought i'd leave you with a few things to listen to while i'm gone.

Top of the Pops is the forthcoming single by South Central. Remember that incredible remix of Metronomy they did? How much do I love that. This new one came in an envelope with stickers all over proclaiming 'The British Justice'. I think they may be selling themselves a bit short with that really... I couldn't imagine Justice coming up with a press release full of Burroughs / Crowley inspired mysticism. Anyway, I don't have time for much chit chat. Just fire it up.



SOUTH CENTRAL - NOTHING CAN GO WRONG

Stupidly I missed 'em at the last Bloggers Delight.... but no doubt though they will be pretty inescapable in the coming months. Has anyone got their mix of Klaxons 'The Bouncer'? It's caused a bit of controversy apparently. I'd be grateful for an mp3!


OK, so you'll also want the new single by Friendly Fires. No, you really will. It's a 10", and the b-side features a cover of Frankie Knuckles' 'Your Love' done in an indie rave style. It's magic. Absolutely magick. I have to thank Hianta for bringing that to my attention, however if you didn't get it from Fluokids go and listen on their myspace.



This is another track from the same single. It sounds like an old shoegazing record by Ride or something. It's excellent. 'Your Love' is going to get all the attention, but I feel this is the conoisseur's choice.

FRIENDLY FIRES - IT'S OVER NOW


Next up, here's a re-rub of Infadels by hot remixers Nightmoves. Slowly winding up to action in a similar style to the recent Simian Mobile Disco / Erol Alkan mixes, you might find your head exploding scanners-style about 6 minutes in.



INFADELS - GIRL THAT SPEAKS NO WORDS (NIGHTMOVES REMIX)


Finally, and best of the lot, some Baile Funk for you to get your teeth into. I love the Baile Funk big style, but unfortunately don't really know any of the artists. So it was great to find this lot on myspace & get my ears round four absolutely cracking tracks.



All the essential ingredients are present & correct - cheap sounding 808 beats; well known & obvious samples; and Brazillians shouting incomprehensibly (and no doubt filthily) over the top. Who can tell why it works so fucking well! Goddamn, this lot need to come to the UK pronto....

Maybe I ought to write 'Britney Spears' just to welcome in a whole new load of perverts.

BONDE JAMES BONDE - DETOX

BONDE JAMES BONDE - PANCADAO ROCKER


Be good when i'm gone. And i'm still waiting for your CDs!!! Don't forget.....

Michael Rocks

Michael says he's amazing.

And he is!!




Clever fucker

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Listen Up!

Adventures Close to Home have done a new mix. It's fucking awesome. Like, seriously fucking awesome.

Kelis vs Kongo Thong (ACTH Edit)
Ali Love - K Hole (SebastiAn Mix)
Epicman & Plan B - More is Enough
Uffie - Hot Chick
Yo Majesty - Club Action
DJ Mehdi - Boggin'
JME vs The Eraser (ACTH Edit)
Carl Craig - At Les (Russ Gabriel Mix)
Indo - R U Sleeping?
Various Production - What About Them?
MIA - XR2 (ACTH Raveon Remix)
Klanguage - Priceless Things
Diplo vs Ramirez (ACTH Edit)
Klaxons - Magick (Simian Mobile Disco Mix)
Futureheads - Worry About it Later (Switch Mix)
(Lotterboys - Superdope
SebastiAn - Ross Ross Ross
Justin Timberlake - FutureSexLoveSound
Standing in the Way of Control - The Gossip (Headman vs Tronik Youth ACTH Edit)

ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME - NOVEMBER MIX

Directions for Use

1: Watch this (with sound down)



whilst

2: Listening to this (with sound up)

THE ALIENS - THE HAPPY SONG

tip: for best results hit play on the video at the end of the song intro.... so after the song's been playing 14 seconds.

Trust me!

If anyone can do this for me properly i'd really love ya!

3: Be Happy

You Are The Music In Me

Perhaps at times I should stop gabbing on about football & glowsticks and just post some good music up. God knows I have enough of a backlog.

This is a new Playgroup remix of M.Craft, forthcoming on 679 Recordings. I don't know too much about M.Craft, but this mix by Trevor Jackson is superb. It's blissful spun-out sunshine disco, and as such is probably being released about 3 months too late. But the last embers of summer are just about holding on, and perhaps if you fix yourself a cocktail, lower yourself into a deckchair and slap this on the stereo, we might make it to November without coats. This dub is perfectly constructed, and the vocals hit at exactly the right moment as far as i'm concerned, giving a lovely release to the track after such a patient build-up.

Our Martin:


Our Trev:


Our Disco:

M.CRAFT - YOU ARE THE MUSIC (PLAYGROUP DUB)

Trevor Jackson's Output label of course went to the vinyl factory in the sky recently. But you can download MP3s from some of their last releases here. I've not listened to any myself, so can't recommend anything. Perhaps if you hear something that gives your ears an erection you could let me know in the comments....


Something that's stuck on my stereo since I was sent it a few weeks ago is a lovely album by Cacoy called 'Human is Music'. It's quirky Japanese electronica, with a real pop edge. The beats and melodies are beautifully (and by beautifully I mean stupendously) produced by DJ Klock, and Saya's vocals are full of innocent joy and wonderment. The album seems to have taken a strange route to these shores, having been released in Japan in 2003 then re-released by a Danish label (Rumraket) in March this year. However it made it, i'm glad it did. It's been my bedtime soundtrack for many nights recently.



CACOY - MURAL OF MUSIC




Finally here's a track from a mysterious 12" out this week by The Black Ghosts. Supposedly the work of some famous producers under a concealed identity, i'm not sure it's as dark and ghoulish as their myspace profile tries to paint them.... but it is a catchy as fuck bit of electro pop that will keep kids dancing. You'll find it on Southern Fried records this week.



THE BLACK GHOSTS - FACE

Is it an Atom Bomb?

This is gonna be a pretty lame post, as I have to leave for the football in 20 minutes. But I ought to tell you about Wednesday's superb Modular records gig. Midnight Juggernauts, Shitdisco (again) and The Presets made up the bill, and all completely slayed it.

Looking back retrospectively, Midnight Juggernauts seem to have been modelled on fellow Aussies The Presets. And indeed they've recently remixed each other's songs. Guitar, Drums & keyboards set to 'Daft Punk'. And an abundance of great tunes.





Their mini-album 'Secrets of the Universe' is well worth a purchase. The track below is the second I've posted from the album, and I still haven't posted the best one ('Shadows'). Also.... they're playing for FREE at Adventures Close to Home next Friday. Check it out:



MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS - TOMBSTONE

ShitDisco rocked it once again as far as I was concerned. But I won't bang on about them again. Here's a photo.



Headliners The Presets aren't too well known here, but seem to be pretty huge back in Australia. And since if there's one thing London isn't short of it's Aussies, they were guaranteed a good turnout. The room suddenly became completely packed, and pretty soon the entire place was jumping. My friend Mike & I both remarked completely seperately 'Pet Shop Boys'. And indeed reading an article since, it appears the band originally bonded over a love of the PSB. They've got a much harder danceable edge than Tennant & Lowe though, and the gig really kicked off when they slapped a sample from Daft Punk's 'Rolling & Scratching' into one of their songs... there was no looking back from there. It was an hour-long set that seemed like half that, and didn't let up for a second.

The photos really don't do them or the atmosphere justice. But here they are all the same.







It seems a shame to post remixes of their tracks up here, but these versions are closer to how they sound live. As you can probably tell I was well impressed, and i'll certainly try & catch 'em again next time their in the country. The Van She mix in particular is highly recommended.

THE PRESETS - ARE YOU THE ONE (VAN SHE NYC TECH MIX)

THE PRESETS - DOWN DOWN DOWN (DIGITALISM MIX)

Something to make you smile on a dreary Friday afternoon

This is undoubtedly the best thing i've ever seen....



EDIT: For the benefit of Julien, and myself, i've ripped it as an MP3. Obviously the quality's not great, but I doubt a better version would ever show up. And this is class!

MP3: INDIAN THRILLER

Also, i did have a wee chuckle with myself in yesterday's Telegraph (it's usually lying round at work) after seeing an obituary for a Lt Colonel Pine Coffin.

Foolishly, I didn't read the text. One of the many highlights of his remarkable military career:

On coming ashore, plastered in mud and wearing only a red beret and a pair of flippers, he was confronted by a party of armed Cubans. Mustering as much authority as he could in the circumstances, he informed the group that they were trespassing on British sovereign territory and were surrounded.

The following morning, when the Royal Marines arrived to rescue him they were astonished to find him and his radio operator in a clearing standing guard over the Cubans and a pile of surrendered weapons. He was appointed OBE.

elsewhere:

His parachuting career was brought to a premature end when he landed in the dark on a tractor and broke several bones in his feet.

and I enjoyed the image brought up by the following encounter:

When he came across a number of heavily bearded men hiding in a monastery, Pine-Coffin suspected that they were Eoka terrorists in disguise and asked his sergeant to give their beards a sharp tug. These all stayed firmly in place and he had to make a swift tactical withdrawal.

He sounds remarkably like Peter Cook's creation 'Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling'.

"We like you too much to see you killed"

Turbo Fun

Last night I was finally indoctrinated in the ways of "nu rave". For I witnessed Klaxons murdering the dancefloor in Oxford. Yes, revolution was in the air. As I supped my nu rave pint of bitter and waved my nu rave glowstick (well, a fag) in the air, I prepared to close my eyes and enter the Interzone.

When opened again, the main difference I found between a nu rave gig and a normal gig is that as well as the bands I got to hear the Justice remix of Franz Ferdinand played 6 (six) times. For the Simian Mobile Disco mix CD that accompanied last week's NME was played from track 1 at every conceivable opportunity. And every time the CD skipped and fucked up at around track 4, they started it from the beginning again.

I dunno, I thought it might have been good if they'd turned it into a proper rave, and kept people dancing all night with the aid of some decent DJs. But what do I know?



The other difference was of course the glowsticks. Glowsticks everywhere. And though I initially scoffed, you know what... glowsticks are FUN! Yeah they're daft, but once you've had 8 glowsticks it's pretty hard not to dance. I imagine. I mean, i've never done 8 glowsticks in a night before, but I have friends who have. They make your eyes widen, they make you wave your arms in the air, and dance like a pillock. And it was indeed stupid fun. Particularly since the majority of the crowd were far younger and less cynical than me. Dancing, laughing, blowing whistles, painting each other with glowstick fluid. And going absolutely crazy to all the bands.

So yes, everyone agrees that this whole concept is a load of old shite. But that doesn't matter a bit. Because last night was great. I even let down my grumpy old man facade and waved a glowstick around myself. Fuck yeah! I'm down with the kids.

Datarock opened the show. And, well I have to say they were a little disappointing. They have grown by two members since last time I saw them..... and unfortunately it's not an improvement. All the electronic beats and bleeps and clicks and fuck yeah's produced by the gnome in the middle were pretty much inaudible, due to the pointless addition of a drummer and another bloke making noises at the side.



Don't get me wrong, they weren't bad by any means. They were very far from bad. They were ace. But they weren't as good as they should have been had they not decided to become a 'proper' band. There are loads of 'proper' bands. I liked the fact they weren't a 'proper' band.



The other mystery is why once again they didn't play either 'Computer Camp Love' or (to a lesser degree) 'I Used to Dance With My Daddy'. Both of which would have made their set much much better.

Of course they have a devastating weapon up their sleeve.. being 'Fa Fa Fa'. Which i've decided I want played at my funeral. (although, perhaps the 'going nowhere' could be construed as a threat).

But seriously guys.... just fucking play 'Computer Camp Love' will you!


Next up ShitDisco, taking things a little darker, a little more menacing. A lot more punk rock. And sending the kids even more crazy. They were great.





The three songs I knew - 'Disco Blood', 'I Know Kung Fu' and 'Reactor Party' stood out. But they didn't let up on the tunes or the energy the whole way through. Turbo Fun indeed.

The fantastic 'Reactor Party' comes out as a single on 23rd October, backed with remixes by the likes of Nightmoves and James (Simian Mobile Disco) Ford. I don't know where I got this remix from (probably somewhere slightly dubious), or anything about it.... and it doesn't appear on any of the single formats. But I like it a lot.

SHITDISCO - REACTOR PARTY (ARNE BLACKMAN CLARKY CAT REMIX)

So then we waited for Klaxons, whilst being treated by three more low volume plays of the Justice FF mix (by this time I was very grateful that it was on quietly!). This kicked any dance energy out of the audience, so they sensibly ripped their glowsticks apart & covered themselves in the contents instead.

However when Klaxons did appear from beneath the lasers it was probably to more hysteria than when I saw Arctic Monkeys at the same venue last year.



To be honest i'm not sure they've quite got the material to justify the hype yet - with a short set including two covers ('The Bouncer', and 'Not Over Yet' - which was amazing). But it's said the secret of good showmanship is to keep them wanting more, and they certainly did that. From 'The Bouncer' to 'Four Horsemen of 2012', with all the hits packed in between, it was unrelenting magick the whole way.



This one is slightly dissimilar to the rest of their set, but you may not have heard it yet.

KLAXONS - GOLDEN SKANS

and this the one you've been waiting for.... their rocking cover of Grace's pop trance anthem 'Not Over Yet'.

KLAXONS - NOT OVER YET

And lastly this is the brilliant video for 'Magick' - directed once again by that man Saam.

I am truly sorry

Thanks to Rich for sending me something that has literally changed my life.

Pass me the pills & the razor blades.



PETER ANDRE & JORDAN - A WHOLE NEW WORLD

In case you're not from the UK, this is NOT a Peter, Bjorn & John tribute act.

Can we do a swap for Kevin Federline please?

source

So I Can Say What's On My Mind

Thanks to the marvellous Modular records for sending me some really great stuff last week. I've been particularly enjoying the forthcoming single by The Presets.



The track's called 'I Go Hard I Go Home'... and much as I love the original (and I do, lots. Especially the Led Zep riffs that infuse it), you can and should hear it on their myspace page, so there's not much point in posting it up here.

This remix is very different, but strangely the original has the vocals chopped up beyond recognition, whereas they are reformed into comprehensible shape in this remix. Which is a different way round to how these things usually work. Sounds more like the original is a remix of this.

So what can you expect? Shouted vocals a la Rapture; a noisy squelchy bass line; and a groove that you'll find it pretty fucken hard not to dance to. You'll like this one....

THE PRESETS - I GO HARD I GO HOME (ASCII DISKO MIX)

The single also has a mix by The Juan MacLean, so it's well worth your money & attention.

The Presets are playing a great looking gig next Wednesday. I'll be going along for sure.



On a rather different tack are new signings 'The Soft Lightes'. This debut single 'Girlkillsbear' sounds to me awfully like 'Her Space Holiday', but there are also a lot of hints of The Flaming Lips in their sound.



Again you can hear the single on their myspace page, so i'll post up the remix by Lo-Fi-Fnk. Which I think I prefer anyway. It's quite similar to the original, but with lots of added Lo-Fi-Fnk noises. Handclaps, cheap synths and chanting. It's blissful electronic pop that will slap a big smile across your face.

THE SOFT LIGHTES - GIRLKILLSBEAR (LO-FI-FNK REMIX)

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Give a little love

You may not realise since it's not had a lot of media coverage, but today's the fourth anniversary of the Bali Bombing. I won't bore you with my story again, however some of you will remember that I was in the Sari Club when the bomb went off, and it's nothing short of a miracle that i'm still here today.



On a couple of occasions now i've met Polly Miller, a fellow survivor of the bombing. Although the stories of how we escaped are very similar, the outcomes were very different. Polly lost her husband of 5 weeks and 8 of her best friends. She also suffered horrific burns to 43% of her body. There was an article about Polly in the Observer Magazine a few weeks ago, that i'd really urge you to read. It's very moving, and conveys what an inspirational woman she is.

Anyway, as you will discover in the article, Polly has since the moment she stepped out of hospital, put an incredible amount of energy into a charity she set up in memory of her husband. Called 'Dans Fund For Burns' (registration details here), it's now raised over £500,000 for the treatment of burns victims in the UK and abroad... and still going strong.

I've been wondering for a while how best to raise some money for the charity, and thought that since I get quite a few readers now I could try and (ab)use your generocity.

What I am hoping is that you can all have a look into your record collections, and pick out some unwanted CDs that you could send me. I'll be collecting donations over the coming month, at the end of which I will auction the CDs on ebay. All proceeds will go to Dans Fund For Burns.

Whether I sell them all in one lot or split into smaller ones I don't know. I'll do whatever I think will raise the most money. Please for the time being could you just have a scan of your CD (or DVD) collection, and pick out something you can stick in a jiffy bag & send over to me. Without being overly fussy,

• Please try & send things that are in a reasonable condition
• Please send things that you think someone may actually want to buy! If I end up with a couple of battered albums by Steps and Terrence Trent D'Arby, we're not gonna raise much money!
  

I'm going to kick things off with the following, although I'm sure I'll be adding to the pile as time goes on....

Hot Chip - The Warning
Daft Punk - Human After All
Scratch Perverts - Fabric Live 22
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Basement Jaxx - Atlantic Jaxx Recordings Vol. 2
Grand Central Records - Central Heating
Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Maximo Park - Missing Songs
The Neptunes Present... Clones
Farley & Heller - Late Night Sessions Vol. 3

I really hope that you can help me make this work. Obviously if no-one sends anything in this will be a complete waste of time, however i'm really hoping we can raise at least £1,000. As a small charity, anything we can raise will have a great impact. Please take a look at last year's newsletter for examples of some of the projects that will be funded.

In order to differentiate the CDs for sale from others I receive, please could you ensure that you send the booty to the following address:

James Woodley
Bali CD Collection
PO Box 204
Slough
SL2 2QE
UNITED KINGDOM

If you work for a Record Company / PR Company, or anywhere else where you may be surrounded by boxes of CDs, DVDS or other Merchandise.... please dig deep & send something in for the auction. I will make sure I plug whatever it is you're selling!

My provisional date for starting the auction(s) is November 12th.

Tomorrow i'll be back to usual... music mixed in with many many increasingly insistent reminders to SEND ME SOME CDS. For example, i'm sure there must be at least some people who've bought the new Razorlight album. Don't let it pollute your ears again! Send it to me....

Thanks a lot in advance. I love you.

Everywhere You Look it Seems It Can't Be Found

Ah man, i've got too much to listen to, digest, enthuse about. By the time I get round to it I invariably find that someone else has done all the enthusing before me. So rather than sit on this shit for another few days i'll just crack a couple of tracks off the wrist before going to bed. Don't expect much poetry.

First, the most frequently used phrase on headphonesex... 'hot new muthafuckin' dope assed freaky electro shit on Kitsune'.



Guns 'n' Bombs is a project between Chicago's Johnny Love, and Filip Turbotito (previously of Junior Senior). This track is immediately reminiscent of Digitalism's 'Zdarlight', but with even more heavy riffing head banging action. So anyway, it's out on Kitsune sometime. And you'll like it.



GUNS 'n' BOMBS - CROSSOVER ACTION

Told you this would be quick.....


Next Midnight Juggernauts, who are part of this new breed of funked up Australians (See also Cut Copy, The Presets...er... and all the others). Which is certainly progress, since when I was there a night out seemed to involved dancing to Vanilla Ice in a singlet before leaving the bar carrying a woman over your shoulder. (I jest of course, my antipodean friends - but hey, the ashes are coming up & i'd best start getting the digs in early).

Their debut EP 'Secrets of the Universe' is quite something. In particular opening track 'Shadows', which if you have any sense you should go and grab from Fluo Kids right now. I would have posted that myself if they hadn't done so first. It's a BLISSFUL slice of, god, could I describe it as 'funky house'?? No, that would be cruel. But it certainly has a bassline that could only be called funky. And it's housey. In honesty the whole EP is more influenced by Daft Punk than anything - particularly so on '45 and rising'. And let's face it, who doesn't love Daft Punk.

Having said that, this is the one track that doesn't sound much like the robots. And in fact has a touch of the New Romantic about it. I can imagine them doing that dance you do when you bang electronic drums with long sticks.

And that's all you're gonna get as i need to go to bed.

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS - DEVIL WITHIN (PRESETS REMIX)



But one last thing before I go ....if you remember in my post about Yuksek I mentioned his electro pop group 'Klanguage'? Well the increasingly on-the-ball Big Stereo have a couple of fantastic tracks to download. I love 'Priceless Things'. I love it a lot.

Come on Mi Selector

I'm really loving the new Squarepusher album, out on Warp on 16th October.



You can see from the cover (acoustic guitar, xylophone, bass) that he's trying to show 'hey, i'm a real musician... not just a knob twiddler'. And well, he is of course. In last months 'Observer Music Monthly' he was described by Flea (from some band called 'Red Hot Chilli Peppers') as 'the best bass player on earth'

For evidence check out the first track on the album, Hello Meow. It's almost the archetypal Squarepusher track with its Jungle riddims & acidic analord synths. But just check the jaw dropping virtuoso bass hitting around the 2:50 mark.

SQUAREPUSHER - HELLO MEOW



Trouble is that like the AFX output of the past few years, Tom Jenkinson is prone to Jazzfinger, which has become more and more manifest since his incredible debut 'Feed me Weird Things' (released on Aphex's Rephlex label), which is still his best album IMO. I've got more into this new one than anything since though (excepting the occasional rip-roarer of a single - 'Come on Mi Selector', 'Do You Know Squarepusher' and of course 'My Red Hot Car'). The indulgence seems to have made way for something a lot more, well, fun. And euphoric. And save a few ambient tonal pieces in the middle it's full of tunes. 'Welcome to Europe' is another highlight, but I'm also particularly enjoying 'Planetarium'.... which starts off like some bad-bwoy junglist track before morphing into something like Moroder would have produced if he'd tried his hand at drum & bass.

SQUAREPUSHER - PLANETARIUM

Yeah i'm liking this a lot.

Also, looks like I didn't win this BT award thing... which i'm not exactly fussed / surprised about... however I can't quite understand how it was that the winning blog was the one from Mike Skinner & some mate of his called Ted Mayhem. They (there are two) are not updated often, they're a pain to access (via a shitty flash interface) and they write badly about inane shit. I mean SURELY there's a better music blog in the UK? Mind you, as No Rock & Roll Fun points out it was basically a big corporate backslapping.

But anyway, 6th. Yeah that's pretty cool. I'm better than Jamiroquai but not as good as James Blunt. Hmmm.

Personally I think xxjfg or xrrf should have won best blog. But I suspect they're respectively too cool and too cynical to enter.

Still, 'claps and smiles nicely'

,-)

Watch out, the world's behind you

I'd forgotten that the next 'Blogger's Delight' is on Sunday..... all afternoon & evening in the Lock Tavern, Camden.






Here are some photos from the last one (where Justice played, if you recall). It went OFF!

There's also a special secret guest this time around. He's a devil in sports casual!

Look, it's free. What more do you want? Music?

Well OK then. You'll notice 'Nightmoves' on the flyer above... of whom you're probably aware since they knocked up a great remix of 'Atlantis to Interzone' for the Klaxons 12" on Kitsune. Well this is their 'other' remix.

Now I know that Infadels are much maligned, however I saw them on the Camden Crawl last year (2005) and in the confines of a tiny pub totally unsuited to an overcrowded gig... they were great. This remix is similar to Erol Alkan's recent efforts, in that it slowly builds to a wall of sound, rather than relying on lots of biffing bashing and boshing for effect. I approve.

INFADELS - GIRL THAT SPEAKS NO WORDS (NIGHTMOVES REMIX)



Finally head over to Music for Dirt & download 'Alright, Steal' - a compilation of tracks Lily Allen sampled on her album. I loved that series of 'sampled' compilations, so i'm enjoying this a lot.

Life in Plastik

If you're at a loose end this Friday night, you might want to head over Camden way, where you'll find me DJing at Adventures Close to Home.



I suppose if you're there you may want to listen to Paul Epworth as well (that's Epic Man btw), and you may also know Ali Love from the great Erol Alkan (Mustapha 3000) remix of K Hole that came out recently. Whatever, it'll be a night with the usual ACTH stamp of musical quality shitting all over its face.

One thing I expect i'll play is the new Simian Mobile Disco mix of Klaxons. It's great, as you'd expect. In the old days i'd have it up here now, however the (fluo)kids have well and truly come up from behind, and as is now customary they got their hands on it first. Go check it out.

So what's left for me? Well someone else that first Fluokids, and then Music For Robots turned me onto is this French kid called Yuksek.



This is the b-side to his new single 'Sorry', forthcoming on the excellent Relish Records. It kind of sounds like a phones / erol alkan / justice remix of an indie band. But he's skipped the band & gone straight for the remix.

YUKSEK - PLASTIK

I do love this, but the track that Fluokids posted is killer. I have been told that I have unlimited bandwidth, so fuck it, let's stick it up. It's slamming and glitchy, but is actually tuneful rather than over-abstracted.

YUKSEK - BREAK YA

If you like those two, you'll like this also.... a headbanging acid squelcher with a touch of Justice.

YUKSEK - CROSSWORDS


The talented bugger is also in an electro-poppy group called Klanguage. What i've heard on their myspace sounds rather good.... 'All This Time' and 'Priceless Things' come very highly recommended.

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Talk of the French brings me onto who else but Kitsune. Yeah I probably shouldn't post up EVERY record they release, but then they shouldn't make EVERY record so fucking good. Admittedly for the beginning of the song I was feeling a bit 'meh'... but how could I be so lacking in faith. This is Kitsune goddamnit. I don't know whether they found Alex Gopher in the same retirement home for house legends as Adamski, but i'm glad they did. This is a fine record that really gets going once the 'Washing Machine' style synths come into play.



ALEX GOPHER - MOTORCYCLE



By the way, since I mention Kitsune... remember that mysterious (and fantastic) 'JD Mix' of Fox 'n' Wolf I posted up a while back? The one that goes 'Put your left hand up in the air, put your right hand down in yr underwear'? Well anyway i picked up the vinyl at Record & Tape Exchange at the weekend, and it turns out that the JD is Jesper Dahlback. Just in case anyone is still wondering, like. I think that must be out on 12" soon....

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Finally, the new single on Carl Craig's Planet E imprint seems to have been named single of the week in every new release mail I get... and is also topping lots of DJ charts. Seeing this, and being a complete Carl Craig / Planet E nut, this was something I had to get hold of. And well, it's pretty good, but I don't think you'll be humming it in Tescos. If you like things deep and minimal and very well produced this will probably be right up your street. Personally I live on the corner of that street, and although I do walk down it occasionally it's not somewhere I like to hang around too long. There are plenty of familiar Detroity synth stabs and sounds, but I find the rhythm a bit druggy and tribal, rather than the motor city funk I love so much. Still, see what you think. On the right dancefloor this could do some damage.

MARTIN BUTTRICH - FULL CLIP

According to Piccadilly Records, they're expecting a new Carl Craig remix (of Japanese Synchro System) next week, so that should be worth keeping an ear open for. If anyone gets hold of it, do send it my way! ,-)