We’ve been big fans of Portuguese crew Photonz for a while now ever since we copped their essential twelves on the dearly departed Dissident label, so we’re very happy to report that their new EP, out now on their own One Eyed Jacks label doesn’t disappoint.

In fact we’d go as far as saying it’s another essential slab of chugging machine funk and we’re not alone in that opinion with the likes of James Holden, Trevor Jackson and Jackmaster all loudly singing the EP’s praises. Check out the streams below and then loosen your purse strings over at Juno.

Lamborghini Funk / Xabregas (EYE002) out June 27th on One Eyed Jacks by Photonz

Africa Hitech‘s monstrously BIG single Out In The Streets, has not only been given the VIP treatment in recent weeks but now has a video courtesy of Sixty40, which sees the Ini Kamoze sampling juke/dancehall hybrid become the soundtrack to robot suicide.

If you’ve yet to check out 93 Million Miles, the album from whence this single came, then sort it out it’s a stone cold classic.

Me and Lando Kal share a tenuous bond after I serenaded him with a round of Happy Birthdays at Bloc earlier this year.

It’s clear we also share a love for the Rush Hour Direct Current series which this year has delivered a stunning debut album from BNJMN as well as my favourite release to date in the shape of Cosmin TRG’s A Universal Crush. Soon to feature on the label, Lando Kal has just done this mix of tracks from the RHDC arsenal which is a delight from start to fin.

1. BNJMN – Tunnel Flight
2. Aardvarck – Respoken (Nubian Mindz Demo Mix)
3. Falty DL – All In The Place
4. BNJMN – Blocks
Jon Dasilva feat Donald Waugh – Love Is All We Need (Braille Mix)
5. Cosmin TRG – Liebe Suende
6. Aardvarck – Nosestep
7. Policy – Specialty Party (Vox)
8. Cosmin TRG – A Universal Crush
9. Falty DL – Groove
10. Cosmin TRG – See Other People
11. Falty DL – St. Marks
12. Lando Kal – Run It
13. Policy – Lights Over Fort Lee
14. Braille – The Year 3000
15. Lando Kal – Maneuver
16. BNJMN – Plastic World

Taking a leaf or two out of Tensnake’s playbook our boys :Kinema: have turned Princeton’s already lovely ‘To The Alps’ into a gorgeous slice of disco/pop, more than adequate as the soundtrack to any sunrise. Listen, love and download.

Princeton To The Alps (:kinema: remix) by :kinema:

In further :Kinema: news the band’s new collaboration with Drop Out Orchestra is available exclusively from Juno as of today (complete with remixes from the likes of Faze Action, JD73 and Casio Social Club) and is about as straight up a sun drenched summer hit as you’re likely to hear this week.

Drop Out Orchestra feat. :Kinema: – All The Time We Need • (Preview) by Mullet Records

A while back ZNTN asked me to contribute to his excellent podcast series How The Other Half Lives.

I finally got off my keister and provided him with 44 minutes of strangeness which was posted on his site whilst I was away at Sonar doing some quality musical journalisming……

Eminnently undanceable and poorly mixed in places, it remains a selection of the music I enjoy in the sanctity of my headphones.

Tony Poland – The First Fourty Four Minutes Of Strangeness

Porcelain Raft – Tip Of Your Tongue (Keep Shelley In Athens Remix) / Acephale
Beastie Boys – The Skills To Pay The Bills (Explicit Version) / Capitol
Pure X – Dream Over / Acephale
Cuticle – Merciful Swound / 100% Silk
Meth Teeth – World Is Going To End Soon / Woodsist
Ivan Smagghe – How Understanding My Darling / White Label
Oneontrix Point Never – Trauma 2010 / RVNG Intl
Thriller – Point & Gaze / Thriller
N/A
Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol / Modern Love
Roll The Dice – Axee / Digitalis
BNJMN – Traditions / Rush Hour
Midnight Mike – Lost In A Dream (Rough Mix For Jockey Slut) / Jockey Slut
Gay Cat Park – I Am A Vocoder / Clone Classic Cuts

Download via How The Other Half Lives

So the video to The 2 Bears‘ Bear Hug has just appeared and oh my god, I always forget how when this track switches up around the 2 min mark it just fucking SOARS. Gorgeous.

Ever since it appeared in our inbox a few weeks ago the new FunkinEven track ‘Roland’s Jam’ has been causing much jacking of bodies in the Slutty Fringe office (we don’t actually have an office) and now thanks to the wonder of YouTube you to can enjoy this gorgeously rough and ready slice of acid house.

It’s slightly scary to admit but this is the kind of music that makes me want to run clubnights again just so I can put Mr FunkinEven on in a dark sweaty basement with just a massive soundsystem, strobes and smoke for company… Must resist… Anyway  ’Roland’s Jam’ is out on Eglo Records some time soon.

One of those labels that can frankly do no wrong, Tigersushi, are back with what in a perfect world would be a summer smash with Yes Wizard’s new single “Elephant & Castle/Heaven Black“.

The EP is out now, and also contains a bomb Duke Dumont remix, marking a welcome return from a producer who seemed to have gone AWOL the past year or so.

Anyway check out the totally tropical video to Heaven Black, shot and edited by Tigersushi overlord Joakim.

Shout out number 2 today for a fellow blogger and for another party going on in East London tonight… This time we’re tipping our fringe in the direction of SlothBoogie who move their ‘Forgive Me Lord, For I Have Synth‘ night across the road from The Horse & Groom to debut at the Queen of Hoxton this evening.

Joining them in this epic road trip will be serial remixers Mighty Mouse, Moustache Mamas, The Men Who fell to Earth, plus your residents without hesitance (did that work… I’m not sure) ThatJohnTalbot and Captain Slothboogie himself.

Expect all manner of disco, nu- or otherwise, house, yacht rock, more disco, probably some music made with synths and you know general good times friday night shit. It’s free before 9pm and £5 after.

Sadly I wont be putting in a personal appearance as thanks in no small measure to the two torn ligaments in my ankle I’m going to be sat in my own basement in New Cross drinking rum, taking painkillers and listening to maudlin country rock, but I’ll be there in spirit.

Tonight the annoyingly good looking Pierre-Alexander Busson, aka Yuksek, is in old London town to play live with his new band at XOYO. To be honest I could probably cope with his scruffy, insouciant gallic handsomeness if he say made totally shit music, but sadly his new album ‘Living On The Edge of Time‘ sees the young Parisian deliver on his early promise with an album that take a step away from club bangerz into more Phoenix-esque indie/pop territory.

Anyway if you’d like a more considered review than ‘hot Frenchie makes sexy pop’ then you’re in the wrong place and I’d suggest popping over to our friend’s at HBF. In the meantime wrap your ears around the Gucci Vump dub of new single ‘On A Train’ (video above), which takes the track out of Phoenix-esque indie/pop territory and deposits it right back in ‘the club’.

Download: Yuksek – On a Train (Gucci Vump dub)

The past week or so has mostly been spent listening to Pleasure, the debut album from Austin troupe Pure X which starts out a bit Bongo Brothers before quickly settling into a hazy slumber of fuzzed out riffs and bewitchingly foggy melodies augmented by the fragile vocal turn from Nate Grace.

Such has been the effect of the ten track set, I swiftly made up the expression smudging out to fully covey the listening experience. It’s pretty much another gold star on the CV of bitcoin obsessed Acephale imprint.

Check out “Dry Ice” for a wee taste of how it all unfolds.

Download: Pure X – Dry Ice

Pleasure is released on August 22 with the first pressing limited to 1000 copies. Adhering to the usual high Acephale standards, the LP will arrive at Rough trade East splayed across heavyweight vinyl and housed in a sleeve with a foil cover.

Back in the days before blogs, ableton and soundcloud edits a fair portion of my monthly wedge was spent on whatever finely crafted pirate soul bootleg twelves surfaced from the laboratories of Yam Who and Blackbeard.

Whilst the former has spread his wings and now runs a sweet little operation called ISM which is home to the likes of The Off Key Hat, Ron Basejam and PBR Streetgang, the latter seemed to have creeped off my radar.

Quite nice then to discover Blackbeard is back under a new alias in Scotch Mist and is responsible for perhaps the best contribution to a Lover Lover remix EP that also includes effort from SF favourite Tronik Youth, RVNG Intl’s in house moo-rockers Mirror Mirror and astonishingly “the world’s favourite DJ” under the Steve Forte alias – have a guess who it is.

Download: Lover Lover – Freebirds (Scotch Mist Remix)

All remixes are available for freedownload via the Cross Keys bandcamp and it is worth mentioning that the  original – itself a rather delightful muscular pop ditty -  is still available on seven inches of vinyl from established emporiums such as Rough Trade and Pure Groove.

Following on from the other week’s Grade/1 mixtape Retro/Grade are back with more swag for you to plunder, this time a remix of forthcoming single Mindfighter by Gigi D’Angelos. Proper club tackle as overweight men in CP Company jackets and a worryingly in-depth knowledge of the early Chertsey house scene might say.