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Back in the days when I was a child and had no witty opinion on the career of Friendly Fires and most of my thoughts we’re about how awesome the T Rex eating my geography teacher would be, Tango In The Night by Fleetwood Mac got a lot of play in the parental car I was transported from one place to another in.
Now that The Mac are in vogue with the disco beards it’s cool to post this awesome edit of album favourite Everywhere that fellow London types Psychemagik did
Ask Slutty Fringe to name their favourite three French peoples and we’d reel off Noemie Lenoir, Discodeine and Mondkopf without losing a moments breath.
Here, the latter two excel in providing their own unique take on the musical endeavours of M83 singer Villeneuve – Discodeine adding their trademark acid disco squeak to Death Race in a further attempt to put to bed that Franki Valli edit that 50% of Discodeine did, whilst relative newcomer Mondkopf takes Patterns by the hand and saunters down the atmospheric electronica path (with added intro fuzz) that served him so well on his under rated debut album Galaxy of Nowhere (Which label is gonna grow some plums and release it here eh?)
Noemie can of course be found on the internet and in adverts for fashion boutiques chilling in her pants smoking a cigarette, doing telephone banking or discussing current affairs with big snakes – we salute you Noemie
Greetings Blog Dwellers…
So this is it, the shiny new, long overdue Slutty Fringe 2.0 site. After 3 years of slacking it on WordPress and with an ever growing editorial team, a batch of hype camera pointers on the payroll and ideas well above our station it seemed like the perfect time to give the site a shakeup.
Expect interviews, label features, swag giveaways and all the usual Slutty Fringe missives. We’ll still be talking the usual rubbish about our favourite bands, producers, club nights and DJs, only now we’ll be also be dipping our collective beak into the worlds of fashion, art and design.
If you take a second to look to the left you’ll also notice a box to subscribe to our mailing list, sign up and you’ll get a weekly dispatch of all things Fringe related, from parties we’re playing at to exclusive downloads and competitions.
So update your bookmarks, have a look around and make yourself comfortable.
Anyway after a wholly enjoyable launch party at Cargo on Saturday, it’s only right to kick off things with a bit of fresh filter house nonsense from Leo Zero who helped kill the dancefloor.
Raving ’89, Neville and Gavin Watson’s excellent photo history of the early days of acid house has been one of our favourite books published this year, and now thanks to those fine folks at DJhistory.com it can be yours too.
To be in with a chance with getting yourself a copy, just email us before the 7th of September.
Whilst Sunday’s siren call of sofa and post roast snooze is busy seducing most of London, those looking for a truly decadent end to the weekend have been flocking to a refurbished Victorian bath house in the city where the likes of Roxy Velvet, Miss Vicky Butterfly, Kitty Bang Bang and friends hold court at the Boom Boom Club each week.
We dispatched Tom Medwell down camera in hand to catch the action.
Last Saturday Vice threw themselves a ‘warehouse’ party in Shoreditch with the likes of LA hardcore punks The Bronx, (also moonlighting as El Bronx), Crystal Fighters, Lovvers and Lovefoxxx from CSS playing. Slutty Fringe photographer-in-chief Tom Medwell braved the moshpit to report back.
DJ Hell, or Hell when he’s no Djing, or Helmut to his Mutter, seems to be taking over my head at the moment.
Always found him a somewhat amusing character, sort of like a flamboyant uncle from Berlin with interesting friends your moms didn’t like to discuss (seem to recall him having a transvestite as a muse during the last embers of electroclash)
But never paid much attention to the International Deejay Gigolo label boss’ music, other than cursing him for putting out Sunglassess At Night back in 2002.
However, his fourth album Teufelswerk released back in April has got right under my skin of late, with even the vague Day and Night concept behind the album not posing a barrier.
(Hate Concept Albums)
Thanks mostly to P Diddys vocal contribution, several certified haus bngrs and witty titles like I Prefer Women Anyway that complement the kosmicheness of Day, Teufelswerk is one of a few albums from the first six months of this year yet to be knocked off my ipod by the likes of The xx, Wevvers, Health, Pens and the LCD SS 45 33 Remixes.
Subsequent to the earhog of Teufelswerk is the current love for the awesome 18 minute Playgroup remix of Hells Kitchen which is so completely epic it would be impossible to top but for the news that Radioslave has conjured a 28 minute (yes that’s right) chugathon remix of The DJ.
Piqued by Helmut’s hold on my musical train of thought, I recently dusted off my copy of International Deejay Gigolos Vol 11 that had formed part of the great promo cd mountain that casts a mean shadow at Slutty Fringe HQ.
Quite glad I did too as it contains some right good house/techno/electro/delete as appropriate and add new pigeon hole from the likes of Abe Duque, Seelenluft,Henrik Schwarz and a calvacade of peeps whose names have the Vienna effect on me.
Amongst these is this awesome back to basics house track from Heib called Jackpot that combines vocals vaguely remiscent of Lil Louis’ Blackoutwith crashing symbols, plinky plonky synths, off key drum beats, farty bass and ACID and clearly wasn’t closer to my nu disco radar upon it’s release last year…
The problem with the phat line-up-really-good nights at Fabric is you want to be in all three rooms at the same time, so unless you’re the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, you’re practically dance/fighting the pill-heads out the way to catch a bit of everyone’s always banging sets.
However for last Friday’s Headthrash night, I decided Room 2 was where it was at, featuring Joe Ransom and Riva Starr dropping tech bangers such as Retur 2, and DJ T.’s Dis, Christian Martin’s Elephant Fight and ending on Style of Eye’s remix of Fake Blah. Jesse Rose’s set involved more post-wonky house and midget than a Gael Garcia Bernal lookalikes contest until Mowgli was on to entertain the hardcore ravers/stragglers at 4.
Elsewhere in the underground labyrinth before Yo Majesty’s live shenanigans, Sinden played an energetic early set packing out Room 1 with party choons mixing in Brodi/Noob Peanuts Club into Style of Eye’s mental Grounded, before getting all Roots Manuva Let The Spirit Move You wobble remixes. Although such frequencies were unmatched by ‘wobblier than thou’ Toddla T w/ MC Serocee was in Room 3 getting everyone Pon Di Floor and Count & Sinden’s ‘Lord Have Mercy Remix’ of Love You No More, moving onto Baobinga‘s heavier dubstep.
Much a change of scene since Mumdance’s early set with my favourite booty-shaker Kalemba, paining me to see only three backcombed toffs shaking it in the smoke machined pit. Just another demographic added to the ever-changing crowd from the Friday night summoned 30-something office workers to ghettotech Sinden-fanboys, where running around in a American Apparel mini-dress gives you enough shiny attention to part the drunks (i. e man-berks) although on the dancefloor this seems to have the opposite effect. Thank God this is one of the few places in London where you’re SUPPOSED to dance like a madman instead of clutching your Flirtini and nodding your head disdainfully at your favourite song in the world, that’s right, put that in your Dalston pipe and smoke it. Pssh.
There’s a lot of generic psuedo-techno labels coming out the woodworks recently smelling like the work of Techno Viking to me but regardless, a few things have leaked through that are notably danceable such as the Modest Goddess EP from Canadian My Favorite Robot Records.
Check out the old school vocals via the Pan/Tone and the deep house Jonny White remixes as recommended by M Walshy, Ellen Allien and DJ Hell. Also acclaimed is the We Come in Pieces LP as the dashingly OTT review from ever-loveable Jori Hulkhonnen puts it: “There’s something about the gated drums… LOVE IT!”
Check the Cargo blog for interview with DFA’s Iain Dowie lookalike for in depth discussion on robot mascots and Nancy Whang.
Cargo have offered up a pair of tickets to the gig, nice people that they are. Just send email here entitled “Dance With Me” with answer to following quandry:
Which track by Scotch egg Indie types Franz Ferdinand did The Juan Maclean recently contribute one of 273 remixes for?
Competition will close Tuesday 18th August at 1pm prompt with winners notified soon after!
Filling your gargle sampling horror disco needs perfectly is Acid GirlsThe Numbers Song which finally sees the light of day in record shops on September 1st.
Say hello to Meghan Collison: having campaigned for Prada and D&G Resort, walking on every runway, appearing on every magazine from i-D, Dazed & Confused and all the blimmin’ international Vogues, her face is more well travelled than *insert slag joke here*. Standing at 5″11, she’s a formidable fringey force to reckon with.And in the spirit of all things Summery in London (WHAT rain, WHAT swine flu?), check out Erobique‘s Tensnakey release on Mirau- Endorphinmachine.
Bar the Housemeister/Siriusmo-esque intro, it’s the soundtrack to you skipping down the road in a gingham pinafore after a really dapper gentleman just winked and asked you out on a date laden with all his cash monies. This applies to men too.
The eagle eyed amongst you may well have clocked the tagline ‘Version 2.0 Soon Come!’ that has sat under our title for the past 12 months or so… Well come the end of August all our wishful thinking will become reality when we unveil the brand new, beautifully designed, next generation, 2nd edition of Slutty Fringe.
Such an event will no doubt be marked with national holidays, animal sacrifices and tributes of gold, frankincense and myrrh and rightly so, but we wanted to do something too, give back a little something to you, the fans.
So on Saturday August 29th as the new site is launched and networks around the world buckle trying to cope with the increased demand, we shall be kicking back and throwing a party in our hometown of London to celebrate (ourselves) and you are all invited.
