Should you be of a fancy vinyl buying persuasion and have a spare 40 odd notes to drop on some plush wax you could do worse than the new Hot Chip album.

One Life Stand has been given a glowing review in Dummy by one of Slutty Fringe here – and can be purchased in the aforementioned pricey format from the Vinyl Factory.

Finnish quintet Husky Rescue returned from the wilderness this week with a new album ‘Ship of Light’ with chief Husky Rescuer Marko Nyberg taking a leaf out of Danny Dyer’s (picture) book and looking to UFOs for musical inspiration……

Right.

Luckily for fans of the band ‘Ship of Light’ sees them continue their celebrated sonic adventures into noirish freakpop wrapped snugly in the swoonsome vocals of singer Reeeeeeeta.

This is in abundant evidence on Sound of Love, the 1st single to be released from the album which came out last month.

Sound of Love seems to have been largely ignored by the ever growing crevice of the internet allocated to MP3 blogs which is pretty slack really, especially as Brazilian blog darlings The Twelves contributed a typically perky remix – for a taster check this instrumental version.

Husky Rescue – Sound Of Love (The Twelves Remix Instrumental)

Husky Rescue’s fellow Scandinavian Implosion Quintent also tackles Sound of Love and turns in a splendid psychedelic lounge version.

Do Investigate Further.

Ever since they stumbled out of hibernation at the end of 2009 we’ve been keeping a watchful eye on The 2 Bears. Although nothing’s been properly released yet the music on their website has been on heavy repeat here, with Follow The Bear probably one of my favourite house tracks  in ages.

Anyway with the hirsuite duo throwing their second party at Plan B(ear) on February 26th straight after the Hot Chip gig at Brixton Academy, we decided to  set off into the woods and catch up with the furry duo.

Slutty Fringe: I’ve always thought that George The Hofmeister Bear would have made a fine dancehall toaster, who would The 2 Bears most like to work with in the future?

The 2 Bears: Yogi. THEE don. That bear has had picnics on lockdown since morning. Get me. In terms of lyrical flow it’s gotta be the man like Baloo.

SF: We’ve recently had albums from Polar Bear, Panda Bear and Grizzly Bear but bears have been surprisingly absent throughout much of the history of proper house music, what ursine qualities do you think your mighty paws bring to the table?

The2B: HEAVY bottom ends and a sense of FUN.

SF: I went to a bear party once, but just found lots of big hairy men dancing to Bronski Beat, your next party is at Plan B(ear) after the Hot Chip gig, what should inquisitive cubs expect from their first bear rave?

The2B: In an attempt to integrate into human society I went to a so called gentlemans club once but just found it was full of women. AND they were taking their clothes off too. In the hope of getting more acquainted with the ways of man I bought a copy of a magazine called Men Only, it was a similar turnout.  I mean! What’s a bear from the woods supposed to do.

Plan Bear is open to all creatures of the Brixton forest on 26th Feb. Our pals Hot City and Ross Allen will be coming correct with 5 styles of party flavour and we’ll be rinsing out all our freshest bearvibes from the studio. HEAVY. We’ve just got into the Jerkin’ scene outta California (a grizzly cousin put us on to it) so we may get a bit of that on the go too.

SF: Finally can you settle this once and for all, Pandas… true school bears or fake racoon biters?

The2B: Nah man you can’t diss our eastern bretheren. True, there’s a lotta haters here in the west but they’re just jealous cos them boys rock some FLOSSY coats! C’mon, It’s really a big look, isn’t it?

SF: Indeed

Get your tickets for the Bear Rave here.

Ah yes New Young Pony Club - object of much fuss at Slutty Fringe in the halcyon blog days 0f 2006 - are launching something of a comeback, shorn of gin loving East European band member, free of the shackles of Modular and with a more Moody sound (apparently less cowbells are involved)

Indie remixer du jour Sir Rory Phillips is on hand to add his deft dancefloor polish to new single Chaos with typicaly splendid results, somewhat reminiscent of DFA’s Orange Alert remix.

New Young Pony Club – Chaos (Rory Phillips Remix)

Fans of vinyl recordings and Rory Phillips should give serious consideration to the new Rory Phillips Remixes EP which features the latters re/imaginations of The XX, White Lies, The Units & Eine Klein Nacht Musik.

Slutty Fringe can recommend the Hang The DJ section at Rough Trade East for such considerations.

London may not look like one of Kate Moss’ hallucinations anymore, but it’s still bloody cold so we had a quick ask around the fictional Slutty Fringe office to see what was keeping our spirits up this January.

Flora
1. Nicolas Jaar – Time For Us EP
2. Salted caramel macaroons from Laduree
3. Looking forward to A/W 10 Fashion Weeks (NOT)
4. Kasper Bjorke – Alcatraz remix package
5. Not letting go of mulled cider

Tom
1. Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
2. Galaxy Ripples
3. Arsenal FC
4. Cheddar mash
5. Long nights

John
1. Glee
2. Hot Chip – One Life Stand (Drums of Death Remix)
3. Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold
4. Various – Elevator Music Vol. 1
5. Peter Hook – How Not To Run A Club

Stem
1. Illustration by Gemma Correll
2. Crochetdermy
3. Hot Water Bottles
4. Big grizzly bear bean bag
5. Panda porn

Tony
1. Tensnake – Coma Cat
2. Drunken Noodles
3. Carl Craig remixing indie bands
4. V/A – This Is Not An Exit – Manifesto #1
5. Every blog and his dog posting Fake Justeece

James
1. Decode at the V&A London
2. O. Children – Dead Disco Dancer
3. Ross Berens Graphic Design
4. Melted (then frozen) tins of Quality Street
5. New York

Now don’t you feel richer for knowing that.

In which one song after another that teeter between sounds new and not so new & fit snugly into the descriptions of epic disco pogo, wanky edits and happy house music are put together by Yours Truly.

Tony Poland – Lay It On The Line Track List

1. Linkwood & House Of Traps – Barely Eagle Intro
2. The XX – VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)
3. Linkwood & House Of Traps – Barely Eagle
4. Sounds Superb – Psuedo Wind
5. M – Popmusik (Todd Terje Remix)
6. Duckbeats - Music (Don’t Stop)
7. Whomadewho - Keep Me In My Plane (DJ Koze Hudson River Dub)
8. Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love
9. Joakim – Spiders (Astronomer Remix)
10. Tensnake – Coma Cat
11. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
12. Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance (Dixon Edit)
13. Tiga – Sex O’clock (Matias Aguayo Remix)
14. Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (Serge Santiago Remix)
15. Delorean – Deli (Acid Girls Remix)
16. New Order - Your Silent Face (Burglar Tom Edit)
17. The Human League - Open Your Heart (Eamon Harkin Edit)
18. Friendly Fires – On Board (Joakim Remix)
19. New Young Pony Club – Chaos (Rory Phillips Mix)
20. Manicured Noise – Metronome (Cousin Cole Remix 2-5)

Download Tony Poland – Lay It On The Line Mix

With the start of a new decade comes the end of the long running and much loved RVNG Of The NRDS 12” series  with the 10th installment now available for public consumption.

Sad day for fans of lovingly crafted vinyl and obscure psychodisco but all good things comes to a trend and RVNG are moving onto bigger and better things with further editions of their FRKWYS series planned plus musical missives from the always splendid These Are Powers.

Since it’s inception in 2006 re/edit daddies such as JD Twitch (under his Betty Bo’tox guise), Greg Wilson, In Flagranti, Jacques Renault, Lovefingers and Todd Terje have contributed.

With this final edition the RVNG dudes have turned to France and Gallic type Pilooski, who turns in a nine minute monster of a track which is complemented by a etched bside locked groove bromage to the film from which this series takes it’s name.

1005 copies for the world – more info and purchasability here.

To mark this occaision lets go back to the beginning and one of the edts by The Flying Squad (aka THE SWEENEY) from the inaugural RVNG Of The NRDS.

Munich Machine – Trip One (The Flying Squad Edit)

Mano Le Tough’s name, which evokes images of a Puerto Rican Queen centre stage at Studio 54 in it’s pomp, is matched in the discoteria stakes by fckn awesome productions.

Played by Sweeney, loved by our boy Keytars and booked by Sonar, if you’ve no heard about Mano Le Tough yet, that is bound to change soon.

Why you ask? Well his next EP, Eurodancer (Dance For Euros) out on Mirau Musik in February comes backed with remixes from the latest cowbell crushes in Tensnake and Azari & III.

Splendid.

To whet appetites here is Mano Le Tough edit of the Thin White Duke’s perenially re-edited Golden Years which grooves and bumps in all the right places.

David Bowie – Golden Years (Mano Le Tough’s Passion Beat Edit)

One to burn on the CDr marked ‘PISS BREAK’ is the new, and I must add most excellent, Metal on Metal remix of mask wearing Liverpudlians, Wave Machines.

Clocking in at a healthy queue busting 13 minutes this is just the trick for those moments when you really need to make a quick escape from the DJ booth.

Wave Machines – Keep The Lights On (Metal On Metal Remix)

London party types Cliche step up a gear or two with CLICHÉ IS GOING TO THE ZOO, their first event of 2010, which takes places on the 29th Jan and touches on the ingenious equation of taking a Dalston warehouse and filling it with rave.

And calling it a Zoo.

Drop The Lime headlines.

Getting fooked on jaigermesiter and shaking a leg on stage whilst Drop The Lime Djed at Club Nasti in Barca ranked as one of my 2009 highlights so the prospect of Luca playing at some zoo themed warehouse space in Dalston should not go un-noted.

Legendary italo cyborg Alexander Robotnik, ping pong enthusiasts Joe & Will Ask?, GrlCore’s Isa Gin & Tonic and some Parisian dude called French Kriss are also on hand to bust out the zoo themed ravecore.

For an idea of what Drop The Lime might be playing here is a mix he did – tracklist after jump

Download – Drop The Lime Warehouse Mix

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In which we present further evidence of the Night Slugs collectives predicted inexorable rise to greatness in 2010:

Exhibit #216

Mad Decent compiling a crack squad of remixing talent to take on L Vis 1990’s all conquering United Groove with part time John Terry lookalike MJ Cole, Buraka Som Sistema, TRG, Kingdom, Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team and Boabinga & I’d on the treatment.

For some silly reason the cold freeze ghettostep remix by Night Slugs fav Kingdom is being thrown at the internet willy nilly – Enjoy

L Vis 1990 – United Groove (Kingdom Remix)

This coming Saturday (23.01.10) marks Camden institution Be’s third birthday, quite an achievement really in today’s here today/gone tomorrow clubbing market.

Over the past few years it’s a fair bet that if you’ve been in an up and coming indie/electro band and played London you’ll have probably played Be with everyone from Mystery Jets and Temper Trap through to The Chap and our own :Kinema: having graced the stage at some point.

To celebrate this milestone the team have lined up a night sure to keep the crowd at Proud very happy, with  live sets from Fenech Soler, Fools Gold (love! love! love!) and Race Horses, the lovely Clemence LaChance and myself on the decks, plus lashings (literally) of burlesque perfromances and rock n roll in the back room with Bioux.

Fancy a bit of that and a spot of guestlist action too? Drop them a line here.

Those in London this week may well be pleased to hear that MEN, the… (CTRL+V) Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective consisting of core members JD Samson (Le Tigre) Michael O’Neill (Ladybug Transistor) and Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR), are in town for a couple of dates.

Jan 18th- Hoxton Bar & Grill, London
Jan 19th- White Heat @ Madame Jojos, London

Those on the internet may well be pleased to hear these remixes courtesy of fellow New Yorkers Tête-À-Tête and Lauren Flax.

MEN – Simultaneously (Tête-À-Tête Remix)

MEN – Simultaneously (Lauren Flax Remix)