Jamie from Bermondsey’s finest Cage & Aviary has compiled the latest Mystery Mix for DJ History.

Jamie Paton – October Mystery Mix

Flex your trainspotter muscles here

The Parisians among you can catch Cage & Aviary alongside Prins Thomas at this weekends D*I*R*T*Y party at Social Club – more details here

Dre$$ 2 $weat, the much loved Glasgow based label, whose excellent name was matched by a superlative  musical policy and artwork is winding down and merging with fellow weegie labels Wireblock and Stuff Records to form the Numbers imprint – More Info in garish details on the site.

Sad news but D2S depart with a bang – that bang being the Night Slugs EP from our buddies Alex Bok Bok and L Vis 1990 which finally got released a few weeks back and is quite the rowdy joy – cop it at Boomkat.

Accompanying the release was a Best of Dre$$ 2 $weat mix compiled by big cheese Jackmaster which charts the labels progression from the Bmore of Rod Lee through hybrid ghetto house to bassline and other such noise all mixed with the ‘Jack’ man’s trademark 1 take style.

This mix is now available for download

Jackmaster – 60 Minutes of Dre$$ 2 $weat

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So I was in bus blighted 93 Feet East on Monday at a  friend’s night, and amongst the many, many records he played by bands that I really should already know about, one stood out, a track by New Yorkers  Silk Flowers.

Now maybe the teen goth in me never really got ‘closure’, my acid house e-piphany came on (up?) so fast but damn I liked what I was hearing, ice cold synths, a bare skeletal drum machine that seemed to be just a beat out of time and vocals pitched (literally) somewhere between Ian Curtis and Andrew Eldritch.

Even better now that I’m a proper grown up and spend my evenings slumped on the sofa playing the Xbox rather than writing piss poor poetry about ‘THE DARKNESS WITHIN’ (translation my teenage inability to get laid), I can appreciate it without feeling the need to wear ridiculous winkle pickers and troublingly tight leather trousers, a definite bonus.

Like the sound of that, then get your gloom on to this track off their recent self titled debut album.

Silk Flowers – Costume

The Brooklyn three-piece are touring Europe in November, I’ll be at The Luminaire covered in homepride.

Nov 5 – London – The Luminaire w/ Thank You, Grouper
Nov 6 – Nottingham – Chameleon
Nov 7 – Dublin -The Joinery Gallery
Nov 8 – Belfast – The Menagerie
Nov 10 – Berlin – Festaal Kreuzberg with Six Organs of Admittance
Nov 11 – Copenhagen – Lades
Nov 12 -  London – Barden’s Boudoir with The Present

Next Tuesday we will be hosting the First Annual Slutty Fringe Conker Tournament, high above East London on the roof of the Queen of Hoxton. We’re not ones for hyperbole here but I think it’s fair to say that this date will go down in history.

Indeed in a hundred years when this event is bigger than the Olympics and World Cup combined and your cloned grandchildren are desperately trying to find the final silver foil hologram for their Pannini World Conker Cup collection, will they be able to look back with pride and say my DNA was there at the start? Only if you enter will they…

And if competing for honour and pride isn’t enough we also have some rather great prizes for the winners that includes male and female clothing from new website Lipstickandlaceboutique.com, signed copies of Gilles Peterson’s October release Havana Cultura and a meal for 4 at just opened Mien Tay in Battersea.

Think you’ve got what it takes to be the best? Get a team of three people together, drop us a line and reserve your place.

If you’d just like to enter solo, still drop us a line, as if there’s enough of you singletons out there we’ll try and do something just for you, or maybe just set up a dating agency.

Download The Rules (PDF)

London based photographer Dan Tobin Smith has updated his portfolio with some brilliant new work for Wallpaper magazine and Jay-Z. Smith’s developed a style so unique and so different, that his work is gaining international acclaim by the minute.

For a full interview with Dan head over to our friends at “It’s Nice That”.

In the midst of running their sex-tech New York label Wolf + Lamb with releases from Seth Troxler and Soul Clap to Jamie Jones,  Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi speak to Slutty Fringe about their T-Bar clubbing and the sultry house sound they’ve been perfecting…

Slutty Fringe: Who’s the Wolf and who’s the Lamb?
Wolf + Lamb: It seems to change actually, though technically Zev means a wolf and Gadi, a lamb in Hebrew, when we figured that our we promptly took up that moniker.

SF: Wolf + Lamb seems particularly deep and soulful compared to other current electronic labels, do you see a future for the label of shifting towards anything harder or does it depend on the artists you find?
W+L: We’ve actually made our way from harder stuff to where we are now. The artists on our label are pretty much set for now, and everyone’s quite excited to be exploring the slower, sexier side of the the electronic scene. There are enough labels putting out harder stuff, some of it definitely exciting but we’re really loving playing to the slower side right now. High energy, but definitely slower than the current trends.

SF: Do you think you strive for a particularly Brooklyn-influenced sound, or is where you’re based irrelevant?
W+L: Most the kids in Williamsburg [Brooklyn] are making and listening to indie rock. New York has everything, jazz, house, hip hop, rock.. being from New York means that you’re always around every kind of music and the potential of being influenced by them. We don’t really strive for any particular sound, the direction is all the label artists responding to life and the times we’re in.

SF: You’ve cited Moodymann as an influence/recommendation… any involvements with the man since you’ve started? Is quite as he Moody as he lets on?
W+L: We’re just big fans of the weirdness; his mixing of classic house sounds with future unpredictability, and the looseness.

SF: Is this a temporary residency you have at T Bar or is it something ongoing with Kubicle?
W+L: We love playing in London, we’re close with the people from T-Bar and Kubicle. It was the first time we played or even were in London and really felt at home.

SF: What do you think of the London club scene?
W+L: I think it’s the best we’ve seen so far, definitely for us, our artists, and the style we’re playing. We’re connecting to people better than anywhere else outside of New York.

In which we look to the past and delight in a slice of 2003 pub song punk funk from Big Two Hundred – the short lived project from mid nineties chart housers and long term Chicken Lips cohorts Dean Meredith & Andy Meecham (now impressing as The Emperor Machine)

One that still remains in the record box. 

Big Two Hundred – Let It Bleed

Musical genius, and of course ‘Entertainist’, Gonzales has announced he will be playing 4 dates in London this November, every Wednesday night at La Pigalle.

Billed as a ‘piano talk show‘ each night will see the Guiness World Record holding pianist joined by special guests such as Jarvis Cocker, Akira the Don and the Cocknballkid.

Probably one of the only musicians I’d actually want to see 4 times in the space of a month, these shows should be pretty special. Tickets are on sale now.

Check out the video above for a typically Gonzales-esque explanation behind the shows…

October sees the much anticipated re-launch of the legendary Brixton venue, Plan B. The opening weekend begins on 23 October with acts including Hot Chip, Disco Bloodbath, Snap, Crackle & Pop DJs and Snitch DJs set to perform. The season then continues with a massive line up, seeing Rusko, Drums of Death, Rob Da Bank, Goldie, Plastician, Herve and many more passing through the hallowed doors.

As well as the stellar line up, the venue has been revamped with the creative assistance of designer Kate Moross, and David Cohen (Simian Mobile Disco’s lighting designer).

To see what’s been happening for yourself, get your tickets to the opening party here.

Our superb friends over at Off Modern have a brand new night starting this October down at the new 580 capacity venue in Brixton, The Rest is Noise.

Featuring the mid eighties stallions, Tippa Irie with support from Actress (Werk Discs) and SBTRKT. To top it off there’s also music from Lixo (Get Me) and Off Modern’s very own Nasty McQuaid.

Temple of the Sun begins October the 24th for a grand £5! For more information check out the event on Facebook here.

The coolest shop in town, GoodHood has a brand new brilliant website complete with an online shop for all your independant needs. The Goodhood collective are set in the heart of East London on Coronet Street, commited to keeping dirversity and creativity alive in London along with selling some pretty fresh clothes.

Check out their new store here.

New limited edition series of bold & simple typographic tees by Ugmonk available here, particularly liking ‘Math Problem’ & ‘Lowercase’ myself.

Fancy seeing your name up there with the likes of The Juan Maclean, Konrad Black, Lowfish, Mickey Moonlight, Matias Aguayo, Russ Chimes and Anoraak? Well then like all the above you’ll want to have a crack at remixing Circlesquare‘s ‘Hey You Guys’.

Luckily instead of having to build up a career, develop a reputation and generlly suck industry dick whilst waiting to be asked you can just click this link here, and enter the band’s remix contest for the chance to see your re-rub released on the excellent !K7 label.

If you’re looking for inspiration have a listen to the original below and then check out the Juan Maclean edit here.

Circlesquare – Hey You Guys