Penguin Prison is a name that will be familiar to those that frequent the more neon corners of the internet.

Penguin Prison has quite the silly name and screams “This Season’s Frankmusik” for some reason.

Penguin Prison’s new single The Worse It Gets is out in March on the bodacious Neon Gold can be preordered from the lovely Pure Groove.

And look here is a new remix from rising stars of London’s decadent disco popscene Luxury Living of the Penguin Prison rollerskating jam called Something I’m Not.

Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not (Luxury Living Remix)

A new Luxury Living track, Everything Is Going To Be Amazing, also surfaced this week and founds it’s way to our doorstep along with a note to say the following:

“Luxury Living will be performing live at the April Fools Day edition of Laser Club in Shoreditch with Sir Russel of Chimes DJing and some other special guests who we can’t possibly mention but you should be excited by.”

Luxury Living – Everything Is Going To Be Amazing

This is the post where Monarchy cast aside the initial impression of a Maroon 5 synthpop side project and indulge their inner cosmiche with a superb remix/re-edit/call it something of the thinking man’s post punk band The Durutti Column.

The Durutti Column – My Country (Monarchy Remix)

Primary One takes some time out from his hiphouse revival project with Henry Riton and proves he’s quite adept at crafting 7 minute nuggets of magical pop with help from schoolboy crushee Nina Perrson.

Primary One – The Blues (Featuring Nina Perrson)

Bass line usage of the week:

The Acid Girls Vibes Are Free Bromix of Nadine by fellow La La Land residents Fools Gold.

Fools Gold – Nadine (Acid Girls Vibes Are Free Bromix)

Things we like # 633:

Julio Bashmore, the Bristol based producer discovered by the awesome Curb Crawlers and swiftly signed by Von Stroke’s Dirtybird imprint, going head to head with Delphic, current riders of the mainstream music press gush, and remixing their latest single Halcyon with suitably bouncy results.

Delphic – Halcyon (Julio Bashmore Remix)

Continuing to plunder the propahaus sound to winningly splendid effect is the Hometaping imprint.

After Duckbeats turned up the heat with the House Back Home Pt 1 EP, Glasgow edit royalty The Revenge takes the reins on Hometaping #04 with two alternate remixes of his own Forever In Their Debt (which was centrepiece to the inaugaraul release)

Forever In Their Debt part 2 features the much requested Pitched Down Mix, which was debuted on The Revenge Resident Advisor podcast last summer and can be previewed below. 

Fans of Deep Detroit Warehouse Wobble (or DDWW for the acronym heads) should head for the Bottle of Scotch Mix pon di B side when it drops next month.

The Revenge – Forever In Their Debt (Pitched Down Mix)

No one to share a bargain ‘Meal for 2 for £10′ from M&S with?

Cancelled on by the friend of your flatmate with wonky hair who’s actually really annoying but you would anyway?

Well when you’ve got the choice of a bottle of red in front of (I don’t know what kids watch these days, Property Ladder or something) or a night out on the town with Luke Solomon, I know what I’d choose. He might be all over Geddes and blank you for Ryan Elliot and Tom Demac, but tbh they’re billed and you’re not so what can you expect. Two weeks late for Valentine’s, Mulletover‘s “Anti-Valentine’s” is the perfect way to bring back all those memories of feeling pretty alone. Super-enticing from the way disgusting flyer in my honest opinion.

Saturday 27th Feb. 10pm-6am, Secret Most Likely Rather Romantic Location. Tickets £8-£14 from RA.

Perfect timing… just as I’m heading off to the club, Plant Music have fired over the new release from NROTB, ‘Droplet’ and now I have to find another blank CDr from somewhere as there’s no way I’m leaving the house without it.

Sat firmly at the currently rather busy crossroads between house, techno, rave and electro this is guaranteed to absolutely slay clubs, and has already been getting ‘mad love’ from DJs as varied as Sinden, Drop the Lime and Groove Armada.

It’s out now (buy it here & here), and the EP comes with remixes from Felix Cartel, Deathface and Autoerotique but for me it’s all about the original which you can check out below.

Download: NROTB – Droplet

Twitter, yep we all know what it is and whilst the vast majority seem to think the world has an interest in their outlet of insignificant verbal diarrhoea some, such as Liil, explore it’s creative possibilities. Known as twitclipart each post features a different lo-fi graphic pattern created within the character limit. Nice to see someone using the platform in a unique exploratory way…

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When Marshall Mcluhan proposed the concept of the global village back in the sixties he was thinking of loftier things than kids from around the world trading beats.

Still the internet is good at multi-tasking and whilst it has been busy plunging it’s level 42 magic sword of necromancy into the fat corpulent body of the music industry it has also been the catalyst for an extraordianry cross polination of club music from around the world.

In the last few years, we’ve grown used to an ever increasinging array of local scenes blowing up that have quickly spread beyond their borders to be assimilated into DJ sets worldwide.

Whether that’s baile funk, Kwaito, carioca, juke, cumbia, b-more, crunk, jerk or any number of other improbably named scenes, it’s barely noteworthy these days to find kids in Berlin or London freaky dancing in warehouses to beats from Brazil, South Africa, Angola and beyond.

All of which brings us to the latest outpost of the global bass diaspora, Buenos Aires, and ZZK Records who, having already caught the attention of world dance kingmaker Diplo, are about to drop the latest 12″ from Montreal’s Poirier, ‘Las Americas Vol. 1′.

In the words of people that wear baseball caps, it’s a hot joint, and I’d have to agree. Heavy soca rhythms, backed up with the kind of low end sub sonics that will have the whole dancefloor doing the booty clap.

As you’d expect there’s a whole set of remixes to ensure every flavour of dancefloor is catered for, my picks being the Lagartijeando and Douster mixes. Douster in particular is a new name to me but based on the few tracks I’ve had a listen to is going to be a big name this year.

Download the Lagartijeando mix below and the EP can be bought now from here.

Download: Poirier – Kalima Shop Titi (Lagartijeando Remix)

So suave Spectral fave Seth Troxler has turned his hand to mixing the upcoming Boogybytes compilation release from BPitch Control out this week, 22nd Feb…

With the last few comps having had Ellen Allien, Modesleketor, and Kiki gracing their covers, Vol. 5 features DJ ‘ledges’ like Luciano and scary Roman Flugel, to bands like Fever Ray. Hearing a bit from respected Berliners Heartthrob, to disco-lover The Revenge and melancolic newcomer Nicolas Jaar, the compilation is a bit of a ride with the charismatic RA ‘Top Ten’ DJ, which I don’t think anyone would be complaining about, amirite?

It’s been a couple of months since we last heard from our favourite Münchner, but thankfully Gomma are back with another addition to their Gomma Dance Tracks sub-label.

This time it’s the turn of the excellent Golden Bug, with Reverso 68′s Pete Herbert and In Flagranti on remix duties. It’s out in a week or so, and is well worth divesting of a bit of your hard earned on, check out Pete’s remix below for proof.

Download: Golden Bug – Flamingo (Pete Herbert Remix)

As an extra bonus we also have a top notch Gomma Dance Tracks mega-mix from label boss Munk, featuring lots of new and unreleased tracks from the label. Wunderbar!

Download: Munk – Gomma Dance Tracks Mega-Mix

This the post that contains more alias than Jessica Alba’s Jennifer Garner’s early career.

Cavalier, the new single by the formerly mysterious Silver Columns, now unmasked as nu folk bore Adem and some other dude, get remixed by Time & Space Machine which is what Richard Norris does when he’s not travelling beyond the wizards sleeve with Erol Alkan.

Silver Columns – Cavalier (Time & Space Machine Remix)

Also on remix duties for Cavalier is Astronomer, recently unveiled as the results of how Alex Egan of Skull Juice fame spends his time when Benjamin SJ has to man the decks at Phonica.