The eagle eyed cherries amongst you might have spotted Little Boots in a Sunday paper proclaiming the internet as her nomination for the biggest technological innovation.

This is quite true as without the internet we would not have the 16,314 remixes of Little Boots in existence freely available via any search engine.

At least the 16,313th remix, by LA dandy Daedelus, recreates Earthquake with something different to blog standard electropophouse results.

Little Boots – Earthquake (Daedelus Remix)

Back to the days before the Associated Press dropped her in a proverbial boxing ring with La Rooo and Flo & Co, Little Boots spent her evenings playing other peoples records in order to make people dance and making mixtapes for the internet.

And look here’s a new mix tape (with no track list) by her which after one listen will spur the London based internet dwellers into attending this Saturdays Bugged Out Boot Camp in a East London car park. Should you venture forth you can catch Little Hesketh drop some Robert Miles classics alongside Joe Potato Chip, Heartbreak, Piers Cocadisco and rising stars of big room haus Aeroplane.

Little Boots – Skull Of Dreams  Mix Tape

A brief nod to days gone by and evidence that Mickey Moonlight (or Midnight Mike, as he appears here ) has always been a star gazing piano tinkler

Midnight Mike – Lost In A Dream (Rough Mix For Jockey Slut)

What more can I say?

DJ Hell is a difficult man to pin down…..

Having spent the best part of 3 months trying to get Helmut to spare 5 minutes of his time to serve up his top 5 Electro clash haircuts he’s either been sunning himself on a yacht in the Bahamas or laughing teutonically at Felix Da Housecat’s Donald Duck impression or taking time out to pose as Thom Yorke’s grandad for GQ or agreeing to mix the next Body Language  or becoming an ambassador of Smirnoff or working on another bloody Gigolo compilation or designing t shirts for Patrik Mohr and sunglasses for Freudenhaus

We give up……

Watch this teaser video for U Can Dance which gets released as a single in January with some fckn great remixes from Carl Craig, SMD and a lolloping near 11 minute slice of  Tim Goldsworthyness.

The weekend has barely been put to bed and despite feeling like crawling under a massive duvet and never coming out again I have to say I’m already getting rather excited about this Friday’s party.

Why? Well just take a look at that line-up. Two of the best labels in the UK in one of the best venues in London, what’s not to like!

Tickets will be available on the night, but you can buy them now for a nice little discount and peace of mind.

We have a pair of tickets to give away just answer this simple question and email us before Wednesday 6pm.

Q: What is the scientific term for an irrantional fear of the date Friday 13th?

A wonderfull friend of mine Joe, introduced me to a really refreshing piece of animation over the weekend from Jon Klassen & Dan Rodrgues who have both arrived from Sheridan College’s Classical Animation Program.

Everything is hand drawn and coloured digitally with lovely textured backgrounds and idilic music from the artists themselves, with a take on Louis Armstrong’s “Jeepers Creepers”.

To check out the animation in full head over to YouTube, and for more great work from Klassen check out his blog here.

Educated at Camberwell College of Art, Anna Lincoln shows brilliant talent in Graphic and Product Design. What with a large collection of work along with collaborations with Print Club London and features in the likes of Graffik magazine and It’s Nice That, Lincoln is definitly one designer to keep one’s eye on in the future.

Genevieve Gauckler is a super Paris based Illustrator under the barrell of love that is the Big Active Collective. Her latest show and first in London at the Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch runs until December 19th, including a bright range of paintings and prints all available to get your hands on, if your quick enough.

Digitally Isolated by Geneviève Gauckler
November 6 – December 19
Kemistry Gallery
43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD

Photos via @creativereview

Some really lovely work from Londoner Vicky Simmons. Featured, are Vicky’s work for the Design Cluster 2008 catalogue which was commended in the AIGA 365 competition, and the royal Toast Tanning Guidelines for Hoxtons Breakfast cookbook. A fine find for Friday.

The good thing about the internet is that just when you feel like giving up on humanity, someone comes along and does something like this that puts a smile back on your face.

The new flyer for the Lock Tavern’s sweaty disco institution ASBO instantly won the heart of someone who likes to indulge in a Lucky Strike.

You all have something to do on Jan 2nd 2010 now too.

I have to admit I love comics, always have, always will. Probably the only time in my entire adult life I’ve been truly and blissfully content at work was when I ran the graphic novels department at one of the big bookstores and could spend hours reading about muscled up closet fetishists, chasing each other around the universe on their endless quests to spank their evil counterparts spandex clad behinds.

Still much as I love to soak myself in the continuity fucked and often mindless sagas of the DC and Marvel universes, over the years comics or, if you want to hide behind a pseudo-literate veneer, graphic novels have also provided a fresh look  the real world. Books such as Joe Sacco’s Palestine, or Art Spiegelman’s breathtaking Maus, fully deserving of a place alongside any traditional work of literature.

Celebrating this more concious strand of the genre is Ctrl. Alt. Shift unmasks Corruption a new anthology of work that brings together some of the leading graphic novellists of the day, people such as Peter Kuper, Pat Mills and Dave McKean, and sets out to address issues such as political corruption, global violence and social injustice and show just how powerful a medium ‘comics’ can be.

Indeed whilst comics dabbling in political topics may feel like a recent trend, from the all American Captain America taking the fight to the Nazis, or Tony Starkes hardon for the military industrial complex to the 1960′s Green Arrow as a champion of the working class and the likes of openly gay Northstar in the 1980s, there’s a long history of superheroes being used as cyphers for  political viewpoints both left and right.

Illustrating this nicely, Ctrl.Alt.Shift are also staging an exhibition in London, where artwork from the anthology will be juxtaposed with vintage comic books to show just how political and social issues have been treated throughout the years. This free exhibition will be held at Lazarides Gallery, 8 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1D 4DG and runs from 6th – 28th November (Tuesday – Friday 11am -7pm and Saturday 12pm – 5pm).

As if that wasn’t enough Ctrl.Alt.Shift are also holding a night next Tuesday at the ICA to celebrate the release of the anthology,  Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion/Test Icicles) will be showcasing his new project Blood Orange, and there’s DJs such as the lovely Mr. Crispin Dior and comic artist Woodrow Phoenix on hand to keep things moving along nicely. Full details can be found here.

Even better we have a pair of tickets to the night at the ICA, and a copy of the anthology to give away, just answer the question below and email or mentally transmit your answer to us before Friday (the 6th) 6pm and we’ll put you into the virtual hat.

Q: Monkey Joe was the sidekick to which furry superhero?

Let’s not dally on all the fervent speculation surrounding The xx at the moment and instead put words that glow with praise to Rory Phillips remix of Crystalised which adds a shot of percussive adrenalin to the somewhat sedate original.

Yet another sterling remix from Rory Phillips to put alongside recent reimaginations of Alexander Roobotnik, The Units, Jackpot, Plasticines and White Lies.

The xx – Crystalised (Rory Phillips Remix)