Following on from Cosmo Lopez’s excursion we continue the South American love in with a mix from Argentina’s Fernando Pulichino. Whether playing with Silver City, 2020 Soundsystem or solo as plain ol’ Fernando his tracks pitched perfectly between dubby new wave disco and quality house have been a constant presence in our record boxes the past couple of years.

With a new single out soon (the majestic Open Source) and a summer of gigs in Europe lined up we asked him to put together our next mix and the result is a gorgeous hour long selection, perfect for heads down dancing in the small of the night and lazy afternoons in the summer sunshine.

Hello Fernando… thanks making this mix for us. I’ve had it on in the office constantly on repeat the past week, is this pretty much what you’re playing out these days?

Style wise it is pretty representative of what I’m playing out this days. This is mainly the more recent stuff.

You’ve got a new single, Open Source, out soon, can you tell us a little about it…

Yes, ‘Open Source’ is my new single, Is coming out on ‘Internasjonals’. You can check it out on the DJ mix, it’s track 3. Prins Thomas is finishing the main mix for the single, he’s done an edit of it. There will be another track on the flip called ‘Best is yet to come’. This should be out in the next 2 months.
I also have a new EP coming out on ‘Redux‘, It will be 2 tracks plus a remix from Stevie Kotey. I did a remix as well for ‘Detachments’ on ‘This is not an exit’ records. That should be coming out soon too.

The first record of yours I came across was your version of Bauhaus’ Kick in The Eye’ and it’s probably been one of our most played out tracks of the past couple of years, what inspired you to make it, were you a fan of the band?

Yes, I’ve been always a big fan of Bauhaus. I remember going to their gig in Barcelona in 1998, it was a very dark show but at the same time I couldn’t stop dancing for a minute, I thought that was a brilliant combo.

I wanted to do a proper cover of them but I wasn’t sure which track to pick. I thought ‘Stigmata Martyr’ then ‘Bela Lugosi’s dead’ but one night my friend Matt was playing 7″ on a bar and he dropped ‘Kick in the eye’, I said this is it. The day after I started to record it, did all the instruments and the vocals.

And the past few years you’ve been playing in 2020 Soundsystem with Ralph Lawson, how did a bassist from Argentina get involved with a Leeds DJ/producer?

In 2003 my friend Julian Sanza and I were living in London, We sent a demo to 2020Vision (Lawson’s label) and got signed and started a project called ‘Silver City‘. Some time later Ralph proposed to start a live band (2020Soundsystem) along him and Danny Ward, and we accepted.

You’re over in the UK this summer, any gigs lined up yet? If, as they should, European promoters want to book you to play, who should they speak to?

Yes, I’m over in Europe this summer. I’ll be playing with 2020SS in Sonar, The Garden Festival, The Big Chill, London Matter, The Village Underground, T Bar, Space, etc. I’m also going to be Djing as ‘Fernando’, forefront agency is doing the bookings for that.

Fernando Slutty Fringe Mix Tracklisting
Vangelis – Spiral
Architeq feat. Ilija Rudman – Mind Games [Emperor Machine Dub]
Fernando – Open Source
Toomy Disco – Age of Jaguar
Ilija Rudman – CallMeTonight (The Revenge mix)
Pete Gooding and Chris Coco – Night Dance (Max Essa Remix)
Nacho Marco – Rising (Silver City remix)
Creatures of Habit – How We Lustre (Nick Chacona Mix)
Fernando -Venetian Mask
Out in the sticks – In the Dark
Sare Havlicek – Pork Chop Express
The Juan McLean – No Time (Shit Robot Remix)
Vangelis – Spiral

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Cage & Aviary are about to release their next EP via their own The Walls Have Ears label, and as you’d expect it’s great.

Clocking in at over 11 minutes Friday 14th pt. III and it’s dub are sublime night music, from its Rapper’s Delight style guitar riff to the ass shaking percussion.

Cage & Aviary – Friday 14th pt. III (LA Mix)

Music to sweat to on hot nights in far flung tropical locations, or indeed Bermondsey…  it’s out soon and this Friday (the 14th… see) they’re having a party at The Alibi in Dalston in honour of the new release.

On the night Cage & Aviary will be manning the decks alongside Little Dirty and Rik Motor from Rocket Recordings… If I wasn’t planning on spending Friday night nursing my liver back to health I’d be there in a flash.

Sexy French imprint Tigersushi is 10 years old in 2010.

To celebrate they’ve just released More GDM X, an awesome compilation of rarities and hits from the likes Krikor, KIM, DyE and Panico with the added bonus of a CD mix by label boss Jimi Bazoooka.

Further celebrations have today been announced in the shape of a series of collaborative 7 inch releases, the first being a showdown with Optimo which hits the shelves in June.

We’ve all been teenagers, hey I’m sure some of you still are, so we can all appreciate just how mindbendingly dumb that sudden rush of hormones and limited freedom makes us.

Thankfully most of us grow out if it and get to experience a fleeting moment of being confident, vaguely clued up and in control of our lives people before the crushing numbness of middle age sets in and we’re packed off to be recycled into food pellets.

This Thursday though you can relive the highs and lows of teenage existence  at an excruciating looking event, Cringe, at the Hoxton Hall. On the night those in attendence will be encouraged to stand up and read from their teenage diaries, baring their adolescent souls for all to marvel at (and mock).

Thankfully a long time ago I found my teenage diaries – packed full as they were with terrible gothic poetry and guilt laden allusions to masturbation – and fed them to the flames, so I can just safely enjoy other people’s humiliation.

The event is part of an ongoing project, Dear Diary, organised in support of the lovely people from youth charity Ctril.Alt.Shift. and as well as getting the public to embarrass themselves at the aforementioned night they’re holding an exhibition at Gallery Seven in Covent Garden.

On display will be a range of diaries from the cult (Kurt Cobain, Anais Nin, Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks) to the political (young journalist Dan Eldon’s visual diaries of his time in Kenya before he was killed in Mogadishu, Somalia at the age of 22), and the historic.

Finally whilst this all sounds great and we’d have probably covered it anyway, full marks must go to the, shall remain nameless, PR person who really went above and beyond the call of duty and sent us a scanned extract from her own diary (click image above for a larger pic). You’re a braver person than I and we hope your clients appreciate your work!

Two Thousand & Ten Injuries is pretty much how my body feels today after a particularly punishing weekend.

It’s also the name of Love Is All’s recent album which is full of all kinds of musical excellence, with The Birds Were Singing With All Their Might a real highlight.

Love Is All – The Birds We’re Singing With All Their Might (buy)

It’s nice to sometimes take a break from the shitty blog haus and listen to some proper music.

The news that revered Border Community boss James Holden is behind the knobs for the next installment of the long running DJ Kicks series (out June 7th) gives us an excuse to post his remix of Electronica posterboy Nathan Fake which is widely perceived to be a stunning example of the perfect remix….

AND

point and giggle at Holden’s totally ridiculous hair, sort it out mate.

Download: Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)

This Monday Slutty Fringe will be decamping en masse to Madame Jojo’s where Grovesnor is holding a launch party for the brilliant Soft Return LP.

If that wasn’t exciting enough they’ve also just released a video for one of the album’s tracks ‘Dan’. All I can say is that judging by this, music’s gain has been cinema’s loss…

The honour of the 900th post on Slutty Fringe is shared between Gallic types Chateau Marmont and DFA stalwart Gavin Russom with the latter retreating the former’s new single Monodrama with typically superlative results.

Download: Chateau Marmont – Monodrama (Gavin Russom Remix)

So according to this press release Ed Banger have 3 new singles coming out this month. So what you say, we’re like totally over them. Well yes indeed except these all look and sound like THE shit, featuring as they do some of the labels more interesting producers.

First up Mr Flash continues his admirable work rate dropping ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’ his third EP in only 7 years signed to the label, slow your roll bro! Anyway if it’s half as good as Disco Dynamite it’s more than worth the wait.

Meanwhile the brilliant Mickey Moonlight follows up the immense Interplanetary Music with with another space oddity in the shape of the ‘Love Pattern’ EP. We’ve probably gushed over Mr Moonlight enough in the past so I wont further debase ourselves but still, you need to jump on this like a fat kid on a trampoline when it comes out..

Finally we have Mehdi tag teaming Riton into submission with their new Carte Blanche project, now I used to run a night called Carte Blanche so according to this I think they owe me something… I could be mistaken though…

Anyway they’ve just put up a great video (you may have spotted it up above) for one of the tracks which sounds like a cross between Phuture and early/mid nineties DJ Hell, which just in case any doubt remains is generally a good thing….

This is the post where James Rutledge escapes his studio prison long enough to jettison a remix of Ellie Goulding’s next single in the general direction of the internet.

Download: Ellie Goulding – Guns & Horses (James Rutledge Remix)

Proving they’ve been paying full attention in Mr Moroder’s How to do arpeggiated synths class are the increasingly ubiquitous Disco Bloodbath with this dubbed out & drunk down the Dalston Superstore remix of the ‘Just Loved on many a blog’ dudes Monarchy

Download: Monarchy – The Phoenix Alive (Disco Bloodbath Dalston Dub)

Walls, the cunningly titled debut album from Walls, has soaked into the inner echelons of my cerebral cortex of late, with tracks like Burnt Sienna quite happily playing on loop in my head most afternoons.

If the above is not persuasive enough to investigate then why not try this quite lovely remix of Hang Four by the 50% of Walls thats not in Allez Allez.

Download: Walls – Hang Four (Banjo Or Freakout remix)

It might only be Thursday when you read this but we already have a winner in the Throwaway Indie Disco Remix Of The Week contest.

Step forward Brace Paine, guitar dude from The Gossip who dons his Nightschool mask (to hide the contemporary Marx Bro look) and tackles End It Tonight by Teenagers In Tokyo with a degree of aplomb worthy of a 10 second golf clap.

Download: T.I.T. – End It Tonight (Nightschool Disco Hijack Remix)