Strong looks all round from the Luckyme crew and Jacques Greene.

This Friday see’s the final blow out of the year for the boys & girls over at Fragment before their new years eve spectacular. The usual first Friday of the month fun & games brings down the music tank that is Arveene from Kitsune, Plant NYC and Gang Bang to the Horse & Groom alongside the normal fortunes of Mad as Hell, Moman and James Fragment.

Doors open at 8pm and they’ve got it going down until 4 in the morning, with free entry until 10pm too it looks set to be a banger. For more information head over to the Facebook event here, or the Fragment site here.

The ever brilliant Golf Channel have a new 12″ out this week from Portuguese types Gala Drop containing four tracks of the most wondrous psychedelia.

The above video for “Rauze” should give you an idea of what to expect. Go Seek.

Slutty Fringe Mix Series #18 Acid Washed on Mixcloud

We’ve featured Acid Washed a couple of times this year so when the chance came to get them to get them to do a mix we jumped at the chance.

Signed to Record Makers the Parisian duo draw together aspects of Moroder’esque disco, Chicago acid, Detroit techno French house music to make music that sounds both timeless and utterly of the now.

With their debut album released and earning nods of approval from all directions, we caught up with them to see how things were hanging in Acid Washed land.

Slutty Fringe: Hello Acid Washed… Thank you for making this mix for us. How’s Paris on this fine November evening?

Andrew Claristidge: You are welcome! Paris is beautiful and getting ready for an exciting winter:) But right now I am in my studio in Berlin where we will start to record some new tracks…

RDA: Cold. Bright. French.

SF: So… debut album on Record Makers, lots of people heaping praise upon you, I guess 2010 has been a good year for you?

Andrew Claristidge: 2010 was great for us. We travelled a lot, played very good shows in Europe & the US. We were really busy the whole year and we did not have time to really realise what happened But yeah it was BIG FUN!

RDA : It was only the take-off, get ready to hear some more:) The great thing is that I feel loads of love around, the crowd on the dance floor is very responsive, and as a DJ…and a clubber (!), I feel blessed. I will keep playing & keep playing good music for such good people!

SF: What has been your favourite place to party and play (in Paris and abroad) this year?

Andrew Claristidge: I had several great parties. Out of the gigs we played I would say: El Rey/Los Angeles & Point Ephemere/Paris for Record Makers 10 years anniversary. PS 1/New York was also fantastic…
I also had great times while partying @ Social Club/Paris, SOJU Bar/Berlin, HBC/Berlin.. the ones I can remember

RDA : Chez Moune in Paris is definitely a great place to play : it’s sweaty, it’s dirty, it’s classy. With the proper vibe and the proper records, you can turn the place upside-down, and make a hell of a party in a clubber’s paradise.

I like Le Pompon, a new place which is getting really hip at the moment, and since it’s run by a friend of mine, a little promo over the Channel doesn’t harm, ey!

SF: There’s something about your music that makes me think of massive, awkward, wood panelled synthesisers the size of wardrobes, what’s the set up when you play live?

Andrew Claristidge: you are not far from the truth We bring only analog machines for our LIVE set but we control the sequences with a computer to have a stable basis. We bring analog but small machines like a 707, a 202, a SPD6 but also some new analog synths like the DEOPFER Dark Energy… the rest will stay secret

RDA : Well done Andrew.

SF: I read that you preferred vinyl over digital for DJ’ing, are you still holding out against laptops?

Andrew Claristidge: I am a vinyl addict but the sad reality is that many clubs do not have vinyl players anymore. So we adapt ourself to modernity

When we DJ, we mix vinyls, CDs and computer, but if there are turntables we usually forget quickly the CDs and our laptops! And vinyl is sounding so much more dynamic!

RDA : I definitely always will love to play vinyls more than anything else, including cd’s (that I especially dislike btw)…but we’re currently using 2 additional laptops (I’m going slowly but surely into The Bridge, developed by Live Ableton)…with that, 2 vinyls players, and 2 cd players (Andrew is using it), let me tell you that some of our dj sets are something like THE F… WALL OF SOUND:)!

SF: Which brings us onto this mix, is this representative of what you would play in a club?

Andrew Claristidge: in some ways yes: it’s a mixture. I would say that in a club we will play a bit harder but for sure it depends on the people. We are good at adapting ourself to the crowd.

RDA : We play much harder in clubs. But yeah, our sets are a real mixture, from disco to some bangers, from minimal but lyrical techno to house music…We don’t have any limits.

SF: I got very drunk the other night and stayed up very late listening to ‘French Touch’ era house music on YouTube, after the noisier excesses of the French electro scene in recent years, there’s something about your music that seems to hark back to that era, where do you feel you fit in the great history of French electronic music?

Andrew Claristidge: really hard question but I would prefer to fit into the future of French Electronic Music;)
I can say that we are influenced by all kind of era.

RDA : I totally acknowledge what you are saying here. I feel absolutely French, absolutely connected to the French touch, historically…and genetically, obviously:) I although we’re bringing our little contribution to it, and that the Pilgrim Fathers are proud of us, trying to be the future.

SF: You’ve also got a really strong visual identity and have worked with one of my favourite designers Anthony Burrill, how did that come about?

Andrew Claristidge: It was very simple. Marc from Record Makers introduced us and it was “love at the first sight”!

RDA : You know, somehow, we HAD TO work with a Brit! Anthony was chosen, it was his tragic fate

SF: Name one band our readers may not have heard of, but they should check out immediately (well after listening to this mix)?

Andrew Claristidge: Patten

RDA : My friend Leonie Pernet

SF: Who would you like to work with in the future? Anyone you’d really like to remix, or have remix your tracks?

Andrew Claristidge: I would like to have a remix from Carl Craig. And realize once again how talented he is.
I would love to work with Manuel Gottsching, Jean Michel Jarre, Steve Reich…etc

RDA : Les Daft, Kanye West, M.I.A…& Nico Mulhy, for the repetitive side of the things.

SF: Finally what can we expect from Acid Washed in 2011?

Andrew Claristidge: a new EP, new collaborations, the unexpected and lots of new cities to visit!

RDA : The worst behaviour but the best music.

Slutty Fringe Acid Washed Tracklisting
Cecil Leuter “Dialog Dans l’Espace” (Segway)
Scenic “This can´t be” (Tigersushi)
Get A Room! “Gazebeat” (Small Time Cuts)
Sharam Jey Ft. Tommie Sunshine “The Things” Acid Washed Remix (King Kong Records)
Munk “Violent Love” (House Version) (GOMMA)
Nakion “Jesu Sufo” Club Silencio Remix (Tiger Sushi)
Glimmers “U Rocked My World” (GOMMA)
Smalltown Rodeo “Party Motion” Malente Remix (Plant Music)
Azari & III “Indigo” (Turbo)
Bukaddor & Fishbeck – Rolling Stoned (My Best Friend)
Acid Washed “Acid Washed” Lazy Flow Remix (Record Makers)
Kink “Existence” (Ovum Rec.)
Paris “The Cross Over” Siskid Remix (Ekler´O´Shock)

Stream now from Mixcloud, and check back here later for a download link.

In the past few weeks I’ve seen Salem play live – well I’ve been surrounded by a cast of audition hopefuls for Life Aquatic: The Musical whilst the band meekly make noise at the other end of a crowded basement room in Dalston – and Salem lite aka White Ring, whose capacity to set off smoke alarms with an over indulgence in dry ice was the best thing about them.

Can’t really say I’m all that convinced by this witch house whatever you might want to call it (having listened to the new Demdike Stare album this morning I’d say that was a truer representation of witch house in that it”s fckn freaky) however this oOoOO remix of our Marina from the Gateway is all kinds of lovely.

Download: Marina & The Diamonds – Obsessions (oOoOO Remix)

Hi Modular thanks for jettisoning the gloriously psychedelic Dr Dunks Disco Extension of “My Rescue” by Canyons in the general direction of feverishly hungry music consumers.

We presume this was to deflect attention from the fact the new Cut Copy track is what happens when you cross Fleetwood Mac with Men At Work?

Download: Canyons – My Rescue (Dr Dunks Disco Extension)

Drunk, tired, mildly pissed off, I should probably do the sensible thing and go to sleep, but soft! what light through yonder inbox breaks? It is a really shitly formatted email containing a D/R/U/G/S remix of May68, and yes it is not at all bad. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.*

Download: May68 – The Prisoner (D/R/U/G/S remix)

*I Appear to have written this post, at about 4.30 in the morning and then fallen asleep on the sofa before hitting publish. Whilst I should probably delete it, i’ve decided it will stand as good warning to my future self never to drink and blog at the same time.

Arch London promoters Dollop make a swift return to Heaven next Wednesday evening with the second of their new mid week residency that is somehow more impressive than the debut event.

Border Comm dude Nathan Fake plays live and so do Factory Floor who generally find themselves  in sentences  following the words  “If you see one band live this year make sure it is” with added noise provided by Japanese types Bo Ningen.

In addition NMBRS don Jackmaster will be present to demonstrate why he’s being touted as one of this years best DJs and there’s also a opportunity to catch The Lovely Jonjo perfect his Hotboy Dancing Spot pout and Rough Trade DJs to play a track from every one of their top 100 albums of 2010.

Dollop just hooked us up with this new mix from resident Arne Blackman which is pure heat. Click on the fancy cloud thing above to listen. The below tracklist should be all the enticement you require.

Arne Blackman Dollop Heaven mix Tracklist

Moodyman – It’s 2 Late 4 U And Me
Ado & Heiko Voss – Walk Over
Factory Floor – 16-16-9-20-1-14-9-7
Roman Flugel – Stricher
Admiral Freebee – Myhippieainthip (Harvey Remix)
Caribou – Odessa (Junior Boys Mix)
Cobblestone Jazz – Dump Truck (Original Mix)
Nathan Fake – Castle Rising

Making Time, the Philly based club night overseen by eternal radsters RVNG INTL, have demanded their Hypercage minions (i.e. Pink Skull, Adam Sparkles and Broadzilla) knock heads and come up with something unique, something a bit different, something to get the pulses of a generation of lazy internet dwelling throwaway music consumers racing.

The outcome is the HYPERCAGE RECORD CLUB.

The ethos is simple. You, the aforementioned lazy internet dwelling throwaway music consumer, email Hypercage to sign up for their series of Hypergage mixes that expertly splice together 9,000 years of newwavehouse, nowavedisco, electro, acidrain, and sparklemotion and will be delivered straight to your inbox of choice.

More excitingly, a select few random specials will be chosen as the recievers of the hand-screened custom polybag-packaged hard-copies of the actual mix CD in the mail.

Regardless of post code or continent.

The first mix is done and dusted and we have heard it and its great so thats why we’re telling you! A snippeted sample of said radness can be heard by pressing that play button below.

001 minimix (november 2010) by hypercage record club

Shamefully I’ve started watching X Factor this year, I offer up no defence, it’s a ghastly soul sucking spectacle that makes a mockery of everything I hold dear. But as my 3 year residency at Proud has come to an end I’m having to readjust to a life that doesn’t involve spending every Saturday in Camden, and shouting at the  telly has filled that particular void.

Anyway probably the single most depressing aspect of Cowell’s cavalcade of catamites is just how desperate they are to be famous, not actual popstars, and yes I know this is hardly hold the front page material, but bear with me, I’ve several years of pop culture to catch up with here.

Seriously sod the music, none of them can seemingly hold a note, only Wagner seems to possess the inherent sense of ridiculousness that great pop stars need and sadly he’s just an end of pier freak show, just waiting for his panto appearance in beauty and the beat this winter. Let’s just get them off my TV and have them opening shopping centres in Coventry, they’ll all be happy enough.

Generally I wouldn’t mind, it’s not music aimed at me, I’m never going to buy (into) it, and if teenagers want to moist up at the flick of One Direction’s hair, good for them, they’ll soon grow out of it and be sat in their bedrooms playing emo tracks and writing bad poetry anyway, but I do think they devalue what it means to be a pop star.

Despite having a record collection boasting at least several feet of vinyl that could probably be described as bloody awful noise, I’ve always had a deep and abiding love for great pop music and those freaks of ego who can make genuinely weird and amazing yet accessible music.

So all in all it’s good to see the return of Patrick Wolf, an old fashioned pop star, to show us how it should be done. His new single Time of My Life is packed with the kind of grandiose strings, piano and soaring vocals that make you want to climb up on top of tall buildings in the dead of night and sing its chorus at the top of your voice, rather than throw Katie Waissel off to a bloody death.

It’s officially out on Dec 6th, but preceding that we have a fairly hefty package of remixes, including DFA’s Still Going‘s moody disco house refix, a surprisingly straight forward electro/acid vocal rework by Ceephax, and one of those ridiculously epic and emotional dubs that Leo Zero just seems to be able to knock out with disgusting ease.

Download: Patrick Wolf – Time of my Life (Still Going Remix)

Download: Patrick Wolf – Time of my Life (Leo Zero Dub)

Download: Patrick Wolf – Time of my Life (Ceephax Remix)

We’ve all heard and most probably loved the recordings of classic 60s and 70s pop and rock tracks by The Langley Schools Music Project. Now following in its footsteps, and in what has a good chance of being the best record released this year, Optimo Music have gone all Byker Grove on us releasing Muzical Yooth, an album of punk, garage rock and no wave disco classics as performed by some of Glasgow’s coolest kids.

Tearing into standards such as Louie Louie and I Wanna Be Your Dog, The Green Door Kids and Green Door Allstars, named after the studio that has provided them with a place to practise and record, are approximately 1000 times better than most of the rubbish you have to sit through if you make a habit of going to see live bands.

The album’s out on the 23rd of November, and hopefully thanks to the internet wont lay hidden away for two decades like the Langley LP. Anyway whilst we wait for some bright spark to chuck them all on a Megabus and bring them down to London check out this killer percussion heavy cover of ESG’s Moody as performed by two ten year old twins.

Download: The Green Door Kids – Moody

By now you will have seen the rather stush and totally suitable video for Teengirl Fantasy’s hauntingly beautiful “Dancing In Slow Motion” done by Mark Charles Brown.

Merok and the amazingly horribly designed DIS Magazine are offering the chance for you THE BUDDNG VIDEO PRODUCER to reimagine the track in your own vision with one of those there unique remix opportunites.

In addition These Are Powers dude Brenmar has turned in a sexx jamm remix of the track which reminds us of “My Boo” (this being a very good thing)

Download: Teengirl Fantasy – Dancing In Slow Motion (Brenmar Remix)

Fans of Brenmar might want to check his XL8R mix and keep an eye out for his forthcoming EP on Discobelle Rec which drops Dec 7.

Whilst some people are quite happy to use their time in transit playing Angry Bird, guffawing at James Richardson and avoiding the brainwashing rays that emit from every free copy of the Metro, others prefer to be more productive.

Lets take Tigersushi gent Krikor as an example. Currently zoom zoom zooming around Europe playing the figurative second fiddle to Jamie Lidl, the French producer has been spitting out his distinctive Crackboy edits at a rate of veritable knots in the tour bus down time between cities.

This tweak of one of John Carpenter’s many fine sound track moments  stands out in particular.

Download: John Carpenter – 69th St Bridge (Crackboy Fucks Balearic Edit)

Watch out for some excellent Krikor remixes of Lidl which should be out on Warp sometime in the near future.