...[[bytes of electronic sustinence]]...

27/10/2010

[Fabric 55 brings the Shack Attack]


Some recent news that many people (including myself) are rubbing their sweaty hands in anticipation of is the imminent arrival of the next installment in the illustrious Fabric mix series. Fabric 55 has none other than former Skull Disco label boss and current stable-member of the legendary techno label Perlon, Shackleton.

Shackleton has applied the Ricardo Villalobos formula to his mix, creating a composition of his own trademark middle-eastern dub-tec beats over the mix's 22 tracks. Expect a slew of unreleased material when the release drops on December 6th 2010, but get in there quick because some of these tracks will never see the light of day outside this mix, as Shackleton explains: "Some of the tracks are re-jigged versions of older material, some of them are new. Some of them will never see a release in any form aside from this. Some of them are not even tracks just coincidental parts merging with each other between tracks. Those are the best bits actually."

Here's Shackleton's acclaimed Three EP's to get your juices percolating, while you wait for what is sure to be a landmark in a mix series with 100+ installments to date.

08/10/2010

[Sine/Square/Saw TV]



In our bid to rule the online world I'm in the process of creating a sine/square/saw Youtube channel. This will feature our favourite music promos, interviews and other video-related curious and will soon be coming to a digi-box near you hopefully replacing that rubbish shopping channel (the one that's not QVC) or at very least the slot currently occupied by 'Dickinson's Real Deal' on weekday afternoons.

Any suggestions for suitably interesting/funny vids pop them on the Facebook page


07/10/2010

[Toothsayer @ Volks 12/10/10 and a few words with Danglo]

Getting daily more excited about the upcoming Toothsayer night. Almost worringly so, if my anticipation goes on to build in this exponential manner it might just rupture something vital. One of my housemates gets so excited before we put on a houseparty that by the time people begin to arrive 4 hours later than invited, she has exhausted herself, has a little cry and has to go to bed. So if you see me bedewing the Volks with me tears cut me some slack. Mole's even promise to get time off the day job to be my date (we shall see).
As well as the legendary Action Jackson, Steve 412 (don't ask what the numbers mean I did) you can catch Danglo and High Rankin underneath the 'world's oldest operating electric railway' .

Danglo is the man putting on the night. I have never had the chance to see him play out but am loving his mixes, such as this saucy blighter below.


'THE DOTTED QUAVER' - DANGLO [BALKAN/SWING/FIDGET/AFROBEAT] by TOOTHSAYER [BRIGHTON, UK]

Headlining this motley cohort is High Rankin. Humour in credible dance music is something of a rare treat, with far too much seriousness abounding. Germany being the largest exporter of innovative tunes until recently probably didn't help much. The Germs, for all their excellent work, do tend towards a certain taut functionality that doesn't easily lend itself to lightheartedness. Not something you could say of High Rankin.



Listening to his Cut You Down EP I found myself thinking Flying Lotus might have sound like this had he been born in Brighton, of English Pop ancestry rather than American Jazz royalty and trying to ween himself of a particularly nasty addiction to penny sweets. That is a compliment from a bombast Mr Rankin. (Follow link to listen to EP in full)

A little too scatty and day-glo neon in places, but moments of great production and hopefully just the thing for a raucous school night

Here are few words exchanged between me and Danglo for your entertainment and cultural enrichment:




What was the first tune you went crazy for/made you want to make music?







I’d say the tune that got me into dance music was probably Fat Boy Slim – Right Here Right Now. When my older sister had “I’m number 1, So why try Harder?"

But maybe… ‘Full Throttle’ by Prodigy. For some reason I went mental for that when I was 10. I didn’t have a clue what I was listening to but I knew I liked it.


So your Toothsayer night, do you have an ideology/desire to change the face of clubbing forever or are you just in it for some extra pocket money?






I do it for the money and the bitches. Straight up.





Real. Everyone seems to be heading to Bucharest for their samples nowadays. What is it about the Balkan sound that is appealing?






The Balkan sound is impossible not to dance to. At first I felt it was a bit gimmicky. But it just makes sense. If you get something that impossible not to dance to, add more bass and a club friendly kick. You’re away.


Give us one of your current favourite tunes. What makes it so damn good?







My new favourite is The Martin Brothers – Steal Drums.





Everyone likes a song title with a pun in it.
It crosses that tricky line, being minimal house, but being MASSSIVE at the same time. How is that possible? Minimal but Massive.


Do you think the job of the DJ has become easier due to the internet?







It means there is loads of great tunes at your fingertips, but it also means there is loads more crap getting in our nails, my god, there is a lot of crap to sift through. My job as a DJ is to sift through loads of crap and hope to come out with a little nugget of gold. And then another nugget of gold. Until I make a massive wall of gold.
Now High Rankin has brought to our attention ‘Meow Meow’s’ penis rotting affects, what as a responsible adult would you advise the kidz to ingest with their dance music?




Cranberry Juice. It’s Healthy and sorts out the inevitable Cistitis.




You heard it here first horselords. What can we expect in the future from Toothsayer and Danglo Jackson?






I’m planning to set up Toothsayer at some Festivals next summer. Get on some stages. Play some music. That way we can put music on in the sunshine AND in the night time. Oh, and I DJed in Estonia a few weeks back, and that was great. So I’m gunna of throw a Clubnight in Estonia. I love it there, their bathroom floors are heated. Why would you ever leave the bathroom if the floor was heated?

Myself, I’m going to keep producing tracks. I had a mate come over and play some saxophone last night. I’m looking forward to chopping that up and making it groovy. I might put a kick drum, a snare drum and possibly a hi-hat over it and see how it goes. Oh, and a bassline.


Love a nice bita sax. Thanks for your time mate, looking forward to the night.





05/10/2010

[A landmark day in S/S/S history...]


We feel it's time to spread some love across the blogosphere and will be dedicating a new feature to some worthy blogs that we've stumbled across over the years. They might be about music and culture and stuff (much like our humble site), they might be the ravings of a madman. The critera is quite loose.

That said and done, our very first pick belongs in the former category. Yardcore is a collective of four London Djs: Codeshift, Mashforcash, Rrritalin and Dj Rum. They've been playing dancefloors since 2006, as well as putting on parties showcasing their favourite producers from all corners of the electronic music scene.

They have a regular monthly online radio session on SubFM which they’ve been doing since March ’08, and you can find the archive of previous sessions on the site.

Here's the most recently blogged SubFM session for your aural pleasure: 
 
[Download]

Tracklisting:
Mash for Cash

Milyoo – Dasein
The Mercenary – Bagheera
JFK & St Mandrew – Beehive
Zombies for Money – Sacanagem (Drop Top Remix)
Ed Royal feat. Badkat – Pussy
JFK & St Mandrew – Towel Swinger
Filthy Rehab – Old Skool Filth (Dan Thomas Remix)
Proxy – Dancing In The Dark (Dubstep Refix)
Drop The Lime – Devils Eyes (Kanji Kinetic Remix)
Party Dark – Is That You (Akira Kiteshi Remix)

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DjRUM‘s ghetto-tek mashup featuring tracks by:

Dj Funk
Dj Clent
Waxmaster
Dj Assault
Dj Slugo
Blaxican
Jammin Gerald
Dj PJ
Dj Hyperactive
Dj Godfather

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Codeshift – including tracks by:

Sylvain Cheveau
Lamb
Svarte Greiner
Philip Glass
Hecq
Penderecki
Jacaszek
Helios
Murcof
D’atachi
Ennio Morricone
Monster X
Trentemoller
Broken Note

04/10/2010

Fact Mixes






The only thing that Mixcloud have up their faded sleeves, with which to make even a meagre stand against Souncloud 's imminent world domination, is their Fact Mix Archive. Without it they might as well lay down arms and limp away now.

Here's the latest in a long line of essential short sets. Check out the back catalogue. There's a raw vinyl mix from Pinch, Techy House sex magic from the ever dependable dirty bird Claude VonStroke and a blinder from personal favourite Fantastic Mr Fox, who can do no wrong.

Sweet sweet foxy synths.

Vagabondz








Stenchman - all the way down by stenchman


Haven't been to a Vagabondz night in at least a year, but their sticking to their filthy guns, unfortunatley wont be making this due to the inevitable financial difficulties of those who can't be bought (and Digital's hefty ticket price, who do they think they are?) Unless the fine people there want to extend a press pass to the humble purveyors of this modest blog, always been a fan of Digital innit? Great speakers... erm...




Nah only kidding they put on as many good nights as ones that aren't to my taste and we can't all be unrelentingly idealistic, some prefer to have some pocket money for the odd pint, new t-shirt, self-respect etc.



This is certainly going to be one of the good'uns. As well as old Action spinning his magic, which should never be missed by the right-minded, those cheeky Vagabondz are shipping in the ridiculously talented and versitile Stenchman. Check out the boy's range. Couldn't pick out out one tune, so picked many.



Couldn't find a decent full length decent quality version of 'spell on you' but here's a taste, can still hear how sick it is even if it sounds like its coming to us out of a well.



Too good, man's gone take over the world.

Legendary junglist rastafarian Congo Natty is headlining with surport from good old Marcus Nasty, who is always pretty fucking decent and would be quite something if he didn't feel the need to invite every one of his mates to chat inane nonsense over his solid beats. "When it comes to the eruption, I don't need no introduction" Though we could give MC Majestic the benefit of the doubt and credit him with a sophisticate sense of irony, with which he laudable critiques bad grammar and crass sexuality in one fell swoop, lets not, and leave him sounding like a rapist. I don't think its much less than he deserves. What is it about bass music the makes decent producers give their mates (who sound as if the took far too many pills in the formative years of adolescence) free reign to their inspid thoughts or at times hilariously bad rhymes.



For an example of decent lyricism you could try and break into MF Doom's gig at Concorde 2 15/10/10, which unfortunately sold out before I got a golden ticket. Not something think Mr Majestic will be achieving without a radical change of direction.



...oh go on, one more for luck:






STENCHMAN - TOO FILLED WITH HORROR TO CRY by stenchman

Alaween



Fuck Smirnoff and their fucking parties.



Long live grass roots promotion.




ALAN Summer Party 11th June 2010 from Infected Media on Vimeo.




Look out for Alaween coming soon.

For some reason it says the tune is something by somebody at the point their actually playing 'Trippin' by Mampi Swift - massive tune: