Excuse # 316

“I was perfecting my ostrich impression when the internet first premiered this outstanding ’bootcut’ of Helmut from Finnish duo Renaissance Man.”

Download: DJ Hell – My Definition Of House Music (Renaissance Man Bootcut)

Bit of a love in here as Stopmakingme drops a hot club edit of the already fckn great Astronomer Lo Fi Fnk remix – paying homage to the Factory 12″ mixes of days gone by.

Download: Lo Fi Fnk – Marchin’ In (Astronomer Remix – Stopmakingme’s 12″ Edit)

Check out Dan’s latest mix recorded live at The Lovely Jonjo’s Hot Boy Dancing Spot night for more stop making me edit action including a superlative take on !!!’s ’Me & Guiliani Down By The Schoo Yard’

I think I have the beginnings of a full blown producer crush on Radiant Dragon. Following on from his previous appearances on these pages (here & here) we now can supply you with his sublime refix of Teenagersintokyo.

Joining the dots between Vangelis’esque widescreen ambience, dub and the best bits from Disintegration by The Cure, this is just the ticket as I melt into my sofa today.

Mr Dragon has an album out later this year on his own ‘Cloud Factory’ label, I will now make a bold prediction and say it’s going to be great.

Download: Teenagersintokyo – End It Tonight (Radiant Dragon Remix)

There is absolutely fucking loads on this weekend in London, but I have to give a quick shout out (hold tight! keep it locked!) for two more parties taking place this Saturday and Sunday to launch a new project Last Night  A DJ Saved My Life.

LNADSML is and I quote “an events production collective of DJs and professionals within the dance music industry who all believe in getting out there to raise funds & essential awareness for humanitarian and environmental causes in order to be part of positive change and see the current problems within our world overcome with unity.”

Fair enough, a good cause is a good cause, the parties look quite fun (especially if like me you’ve just spent the last month reading the Boys Own book and Jane Bussmann’s Once In A Lifetime) plus it gets some old DJs out the house for the night. Sorted! etc etc

Saturday 5th: THE ACID HOUSE EFFECT
DJs – Alfredo, Nancy Noise, Noel Watson, Trevor Fung, Frankie Valentine, Colin Hudd, Steve Proctor, Winston Hazel, Chris Duckenfield and DJ Eren
Corsica Studios, Elephant & Castle / 10pm til 6am / £15 in advance

Sunday 6th : BALEARIC MYSTIQUE (East London)
DJs Danny Rampling, Bill Brewster, Phil Mison, Balearic Mike, DJ Sergio, Lucci Capri, Moonboots, Ross Allen, A Man Called Adam plus more tbc
The Light Bar, 233 Shoreditch High St, E1 / £10 in advance

I feel slightly redundant writing/posting this as it’s the kind of thing the ‘blogosphere’ will generally ‘lose its shit’ over and will be all over the place by about 2pm GMT.

Still it’s tres bon and you never know there may be some of you that have such a fierce loyalty to this small corner of the internet that you wouldn’t even think of looking elsewhere for your fix.

So anyway, here it is the already much loved Holy Ghost remix of much blogged about Monarchy. The single is out properly on the 26th July, and I’m led to believe that the likes of Tim Goldsworthy and Sinden have also had a hack at it.

Incidentally I love how if you Google Holy Ghost, a couple of DFA related guys from New York outrank the weirdly ill defined third wheel of the Christian trinity, good work people!

Download: Monarchy – Love Get Out Of My Way (Holy Ghost! [featuring Dixon] remix)

If you sign up to their mailing list you’ll also get the dub of this mix and some Kelis track, go figure.

Next month sees the release of Night Light, an Au Revoir Simone remix album on Moshi Moshi which features the likes of Dam mantle, Clock Opera and Silver Columns giving the trio a re rub.

just missing the cut was this ZNTN remix of ‘Organised Scenery’ which strays away from the standard remix fare and wanders towards pleasant downbeat house.

Download: Au Revoir Simone – Organised Scenery (ZNTN Remix)

ZNTN also does this podcast How The Other Half Lives which invites DJs to compose mixtapes (of the C60 variety) of the music which they can’t play in clubs – a neat little concept – and to date has included Matt Waites, Tiago & TJ Kong, with big names such as Ivan Smuggles, Optimo, SMD and Andy Blake pencilled in to contribute.

Thanks to JimJam Graphics for sending this over, the internet’s premier creator of retina scorching visuals (and scary drawings of elephant cocks).

Whilst we are generally of the opinion here that Gonzales can do no wrong, he’s managed to trump himself with the video to his new single, Never Stop (out now on Phantasy).

The 7 pints I’ve knocked back tonight will curtail any serious critical analysis of this obvious masterpiece but let’s just say ‘GIVE IT UP FOR BOUBOU THE CAT’ who was cruelly left out of the end credits.

Let’s hope he joins Chilly on tour soon.

When we started this mix series one of concerns was that it shouldn’t just turn into an endless parade of tasteful disco mixes. Nothing wrong with that of course but seeing as we’ve only just about escaped being pigeon holed as thudding, overdriven electro evangelists, we were wary of falling into a similar if sparklier disco trap.

Simon Carr’s amazing industrial/synth/ambient mix last week went (quite) some way to achieving that, and following closely on its heels comes this week’s effort from Radioolio that gets about as far out of the 4/4 box as it’s possible to.

I’ve long been a fan (possibly the only one…) of the collective’s wondrously eclectic night at 93 Feet East, and that’s ecelectic as in playing music from completely different cultures and eras rather than bravely mixing up electro with electro house, so when we heard they were throwing a Rock n’ Rolio party we asked them to provide us with a mix.

To fill us in on what’s going down, we caught up with Radioolio and Regolith main man Graeme Ross.

Ok, who or what is Radioolio?

ra·di·o n. medium for communication.
o·li·o n. collection of various artistic or literary works or musical pieces; a miscellany.

Born out of severe boredom with various modern club scenes spitting out the same old, same old all night, every night I wanted to try and do something a little different, particularly as my listening/djing habits began to move away from ‘dance’ music into more, dare I say it…”eclectic” territories.

So, with the help of my good friend DJ SP, we started Radioolio with the idea behind the blog and various nights we’ve put on or played at to present an adventurous collage of raw and intoxicating sounds (and images) from the last century and beyond – from way-out recordings of Thai pop, wild jug-band funk and new age hypnagogic synthscapes to mind-bending Indian ragas, Gypsy speed brass, a cappella Maasai hippos, spaced-out rockabilly, lo-fi agit-punk…and everything before, after and in-between!

Basically, the best sounds you’ve never heard before!

So tell us a bit about this weekend’s party then? What can we expect, Mongolian Crunk? Intelligent Donk? Peruvian glo-fi?

Yes, none of those. As mentioned, these days I lose interest fairly quickly in the same music played all night long (“all night”)…but one genre that I never tire of hearing (you can also add Acid House to this) is good old fashioned Rock ‘n Roll so expect an action packed mix of primitive grooves to get the red hot gals shakin’ all over and the daddy-o’s doing the chicken walk!

Sounds greasy! Any tips for sculpting the perfect quiff then?

Never comb back, comb up!

What about the ladies? Apart from tattoos and a come hither smile what would you recommend they get tricked out in?

Now this is my area of expertise and I’m sure my lovely lady will agree that there’s two main options for the wild, wild women; you can go for a Bettie Page ‘wiggle’ look, either with a slinky fitted dress or a highwaisted pencil skirt with a vest underneath or you can go with the poodle skirt look – a circle skirt (with petticoats underneath) with a tight knit sweater or a sexy halter neck top – and most importantly – big heels are a prerequisite!

…and for the hair…well…how about a back-combed bouffant for that late 50s/early 60s feel, or a cute ponytail with a small pomp at the front. For something more exciting; a bit of curling, rolling and pinning and there you have it, a 1940s style victory rolls look, easy.

So I suppose you better tell us a bit about this mix then…

I tried to put together a mix summing up the night with some no nonsense, whacked-out Rock ‘n Roll from the mid to late 50s mostly and tried to stay away from the well known classics of Eddie Cochran, Elvis and the like with some lesser known tracks, but classics all the same.

A red hot mix of Hillbilly Rock from Skeets McDonald, a great throat-ripping track from the First Lady of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson, the orgasmic wailing of “Little Girl” and some down and dirty instrumental twang action from The Strangers through to the echo drenched, off-kilter sounds of Vic Gallon and the madness of Chaino’s Jungle Rock.

There’s also a great rebel rock track from one of Britain’s first Rock n Roll stars, Tommy Steele (thanks mum) and for all the young lovers out there a superb a capella version of “Unchained Melody” from late 50′s vocal group The Fleetwoods. Hopefully there’s a little bit of everything for everyone.

So who would win in a fight between the Fonz and Danny Zuko?

The Fonz, Danny Zuko isn’t real.

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So now you know what to wear and a soundtrack to help you get in the mood, put this Saturday’s Rock n Rolio party in your diary. It all takes place this Saturday (june 5th) at the Moustache Bar, 58 Stoke Newington Rd. The word on the streets is that the rumble kicks off at 8pm and it’s FREE in.

Lets just hope the sudden proliferation of quiffs doesn’t inspire the local gangs to stage a grime re-enactment of West Side Story.

Radioolio Slutty Fringe Mix Tracklisting
Geno Lanzi – Countdown 4-3-2-1 (intro) [1962]
Dick Penner – Cindy Lou [1957]
Skeets McDonalds – You’re There [1958]
Wanda Jackson – Rock Your Baby [1958]
Bob Luman – Red Hot [1957]
John & Jackie – Little Girl [1958]
The Strangers – Caterpillar Crawl [1959]
Gene Vincent – I Flipped [1956]
Vic Gallon – I’m Gone [1956]
Bobby Louis – Cell of Love [1959]
Cliffie Stone – Barracuda [1955]
Chaino – The Pigmy Song (Tikky Tikky Boom Boom) [1958]
Sandy Nelson – Let There be Drums [1961]
Tommy Steele – C’mon Let’s Go [1958]
Peanuts Wilson – Cast Iron Arm [1957]
Mickey Hawks & the Night Raiders – Cotton Pickin’ [1959]
Jimmy Bennett – Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On [1958]
The Rockatunes – Honey, Baby, Sugar [????]
Vernon Green & The Phantoms – Sweet Breeze [1956]
The Fleetwoods – Unchained Melody (A Capella Version) [1959]
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates – Shakin’ All Over [1960]

Download Graeme’s Mix now from here or stream via our Mixcloud page.

It’s a lovely day again here in London, so let’s have something nice and breezy in the shape of newcomers Jungle Fiction‘s remix of Acid Washed by Acid Washed.

Going to show there’s more coming out of Iceland these days than just billowing clouds of ash, JF have turned in a nicely arpeggiated slice of rubbery bassed space disco, ideal for dancing to in both dark nightclubs and sunny fields.

You can catch Acid Washed playing this Saturday at the Modular Summer Sundance alongside our own Flammette.

Download: Acid Washed – Acid Washed (Jungle Fiction Remix)

In which we give you a lovely little sonic teaser from the new Wolf & Lamb album Love Someone, out on the 14th June, which touches on all the right elements of proper haus in the space of just 8 tracks.

Download: Wolf & Lamb – I’m

Since we’ve already posted up the Logo and Morgan Geist remixes (here) of Botox‘s Overdrive, it seems only right and proper to square the circle and stick the video up too.

The EP is out on Monday on I’m A Cliche and as well as the aforementioned  mixes also features one by Welcome Stranger (Thomas Bullock from Rub n Tug). This is what is technically known as a result.

Crystal Castles are one of those bands you listen to and go YEAH! and then you read an interview with them and go ARGH! and buy something else.

Still, in a clever move sure to make old people like myself sit up (slowly) one of their new tracks has just been remixed by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore.

Which as you’d expect goes ‘nice plinky ambience/HORRIBLE NOISE/nice plinky ambience/HORRIBLE NOISE’ and reminds me that I actually need to go and get their new album.

Mission Accomplished. Cue Applause.

Download: Crystal Castles – Celestica (Thurston Moore Remix)