This is a bit late for the event I was originally sent it for, but it keeps popping up in my itunes & it's really rather good.... a mix recorded by Dekker live at Fabric. As well as being good, it doesn't outstay its welcome. Who has time to listen to 80 minute mixes these days?



DEKKER - MINIMIX LIVE @ FABRIC

Tracklisting:

1. OrtzRoka - Big City

2. Plugs - That Number (Yuksek remix)

3. David Gilmour Girls - Crimson as Murder (Punks Jump Up remix)

4. Burial - Archangel (Boy 8 Bit remix)

5. Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Dave Spoon remix)

6. Dekker & Johan - Brooklyn (unmastered)

7. UNKLE - Restless (Fake Blood remix)

8. Pink Skull - Drugs Will Keep Us Together

Something else that's popped into my ears recently is this remix of !!! by Still Going. I may have missed out on this as so far as I can tell it was a digital only release late last year, but it still sounds great. DFA disco with that trademark piano house tinge that Still Going are so masterful at.

!!! - YADNUS (STILL GOING REMIX)

Remember The Night

I meant to say something about Dead Kids at Stag & Dagger last weekend. They were pretty fantastic, albeit in a slightly terrifying fashion.



Singer Mike Title isn't content with psychotically prowling the stage, and spends as much time in the audience, strutting on the bar & swinging from the light fittings. Meanwhile the band fire out a ferocious punkified electronic noise.

I suppose Mike's antics were slightly to the detriment of the band, as I didn't remember too much of the music, except for a frenetic version of 'Party All The Time' that it took me until getting home to realise was originally by Eddie Murphy & Rick James. Tune!



As live gigs go however, this pushed all the right buttons, and I was rather mystified to discover afterwards that the band aren't signed yet. Fortunately there are plenty of venues in London that they've still not been banned from (they apparently won't be welcome back at The Macbeth!) so catch them if you can.

DEAD KIDS - FEAR & FLUORIDE

Enough noise for now, let's switch back to some disco... with an excellent new compilation entitled 'I Love Norway' on Dialect Records.



Featuring many of the Norweigan disco mafia (Well, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas), it's this track from Ost & Kjex that's the stand out for me.



Most of the beats seem to be made of vocal samples, and veers close to sounding like some kind of gypsy frog chorus.... but power slides round that effortlessly with some choice vocals & accordian, before ending with a glorious slo-mo Basement Jaxxish finale.

I've made that sound shit haven't I. It's not....

OST & KJEX - MILANO MODEL (MUNGOLIAN JETSET REMIX)

High on my 'highly anticipated' list right now is the new 'Disco Italia' compilation on Strut. I only have a sampler at the moment, the best track of which seems to be on an accompanying 12" rather than the CD album.


The album is compiled by Steve Kotey from Bear Funk & Chicken Lips, and he's re-edited this track himself. Seemingly designed for pulling shapes on rollerskates, the funk is strong with this one.

GEPY & GEPY - AFRICAN LOVE SONG (KOTEY EDIT)

Finally here are a couple of quality videos from that Disco Italia microsite.

The camp Daft Punk:




and some magnificently bad miming:

After All Recovery

Well done to Geoff McQueen, who won t-shirts beyond his wildest dreams in my competition. Hurrah!

I've just been hit by this in my inbox & feel it's worth sharing... a remix of 'Windowlicker' incorporating cut-up dialog from the video. I'm not usually into all that cut-up hip hop stuff, but probably because of the high quality ingredients, this is hot.

APHEX TWIN - WINDOWLICKER (MAC 3000 REMIX)

I'm also thrilling to the Depeche Mode-isms of this Midnight Juggernauts remix of Cut Copy. It's a bit of a sensory assault, with some pretty crazy Moby-style arpeggios & an insistent twanging bass. Good stuff!

CUT COPY - HEARTS ON FIRE (MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS REMIX)

That's all for now... i'm off out. Before I do, check this Pivot video... an entertaining remix of Jaws!

Fly me Away

I will get round to a proper post eventually, but in the meanwhile I have some clothes & shit to give away. I will never be well dressed but you could be.

So I have a £100 clothing voucher from fly53 (a fashionable clothing label i'm told) available if you can email me an answer to the following question:

• How can flying be made less rubbish?

Personally i'd like a silver space suit & a cosmic disco soundtrack... but let me know your ideas & i'll pass them on to BA customer services. Closing date is about 10pm ish tomorrow (Tuesday).

This competition is kind of to promote the Stag & Dagger festival, which happens in Shoreditch on Thursday & which looks pretty awesome. Quiet Village, Das Pop, Diplo, SebastiAn, The Shoes, Pivot, Jimmy Edgar & loads of other good music for only £14.




In case you'd like something to astonish you, here's the latest wall animation by Italian artist Blu.



He's one of the artists being let loose on the front of Tate Modern at the moment. Seems that Nunca has already got things started though:

A Bit Late

This is tomorrow. Should be good...