Holding myself back from breaking into a hideous chorus of ‘Le Freak C’est Chic’ in anticipation, Dan Ghenacia’s Parisian-based Freak’n'Chic label will be throwing its farewell party in Room 2, Fabric this Saturday to mark the demise of the iconic deep house label – bringing Dyed Soundorom, Monsieur Shonky, and Anthony Collins in tow. The legendary Derrick Carter headlines whilst Jimpster and Nature or Nuture celebrate their 2nd birthday elsewhere at the unadulterated night of grooving, melodic house. Check out the new Anthony Collins mix to get you in the mood. Bon appetit.

The Fragment boys are back in town this Friday hitting double figures with their 10th superior blow out at The Horse & Groom down Shoreditch way. Bringing to town good friend and ultimate party maker Opuscule alongside residents Moman, Mad as Hell and James Fragment it should be all set up for a mega, mega party.

For more information head over to the Facebook event here or the Fragment blog here.

Is Patrick Wolf‘s new album (out in May) going to be one of the best pop records of the year? Quite possibly judging by the big hearted singles that have emerged so far. Following on from last December’s ‘Time of My Life‘ and its attendant boom! remixes from Still Going, Leo Zero and Ceephax comes ‘The City‘ and this time it’s Richard X who has been handed the keys to the… oh yeah.. anyway it’s great.

To be honest I wish Richard X would stop tweaking other people’s efforts for a while (unless he fancied producing the :Kinema: album…) and would make a follow up to the pop-art masterpiece that was ‘Richard X Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1‘, still for now I’ll settle for numbers like this that have had me dancing around the flat all weekend like some offensive caricature of Louis Spence.

Download: Patrick Wolf – The City (Richard X Remix)

After a healthy post NYE break, Team Fringe returns to the decks in fine style this weekend as we drop in at The Nest for the next instalment of Scandalism.

As you can see from the flyer above we’re playing alongside The Glimmers, who I’ve hero worshipped from afar for much of the past decade now and who are responsible for at least half a dozen of my favourite ever dance records, including probably my most played out record of recent years ‘I’d Much Rather Go (Out With The Boys)‘

Event details here, FB business here. 2011 officially starts here.

Following a standard week of hanging out with space hookers and chowing down on Xenarbeast from Planet X-5, a certain Space Dimension Controller sat down to have words about his love of ancient Earth instruments and slick piano-print attire.

What is Mr 8040′s primary objective whilst space travelling? Some noble cause or merely to seek out the love of astrohoes?
Before I came back through time my main objective was to protect the boundaries of the Tiraquon6 Security Barrier. As Deputy Space Dimension Controller of the Tiraquon Security Council my main area of focus was Mikrosector-50, the new home of mankind since the death of the Sun left the planet dead in 2257. In this time, my primary objective at the moment is to restore the time travelling capabilities of my Electropod. Once I’m able to return to 2352 I will send back the album I have prepared for R&S records. Until then I’m just all about getting to know Earth and spreading Galactic Funk across the planet.

What are your favourite (galactic or non-galactic) sounds of the moment?
I really like Boddika and Boxcutter plus a friend of mine James makes some good stuff. The last track I heard of his was very good. Hopefully it gets released.

Your outfits tend to include leopard print and ‘piano ties’ when DJing, is this the daily attire of the people from your planet?
I have a uniform and protective helmet, but they are in my main vessel floating somewhere in space near where I accidentally sent myself back through time. Once I’m able to return to 2352 I will retrieve it. The outfits I wear now are things I find and throw together. I just really like the leopard print and piano ties, I think they look fressssssh. The citizens of Mikrosector-50 have to wear jumpsuits that come in a variety of primary colours depending on what age you are and what demographic you are a part of.

What’s next on today’s agenda after this interview?
I’m just relaxing in my Electropod before a gig tomorrow. I’m going to play around with some synthesizers, what’s new.

Friday afternoon golfclaps to Oki Ni for inviting Sir Weatherall to explore the less rowdy spectrum of his enviable music collection for a really rather nice headphone mix drenched in ambience.

For the second and far overdue  release on his Little leaf imprint Matt Moroder delivers a superlative psychedelic reimagination of Shuggie Otis which sits far beyond the realm of your bog standard Ableton edit.

Out later this month on the vinyls only.

☆ little leaf ☆ # 02 – shugg (moroder rework) by matt moroder

Check this mix he has just done for the brilliant Test Pressing site too.

The above being the latest teaser from XL ahead of the hotly anticipated Jammy Scott collab We’re New Here.

Thumbs are up.

Fans of epic camp italo thumpers delivered with a Glaswegian slant on humour will no doubt be delighted by Gods From Outer Space, the forthcoming long player from Den Haan which sets the benchmark for all to follow, as demonstrated aptly on “Universal Energy”.

Download: Den Haan – Universal Energy

Gods From Outer Space is released on February 28 on the duo’s own Courier Of Death imprint and yes that is the album art.

Video for the new Jarvis Cocker’ed vocal version of Discodeine‘s Synchronize. Out now on Dirty via iTunes.

Indeed.

Number#1 in great things that appeared on the internet whilst I had a West Coast vacation:

Lockandload’s Johnny Redman delivering a video that perfectly visually encapsulates the pressurized obsidian techno horror of “Hashshashin Chant” – one of many highlights from Voices Of Dust, Demdike Stare’s final entry in their trilogy of 2010 albums.

An olive branch is proffered for those who missed out on these vinyl only editions with Modern Love compiling all the tracks on a triple CD release entitled Tryptych which includes bonus tracks and is released on 24 January (more deets here).