With the awesomeness of their debut compilation, Manifesto #1, coinciding with it’s release last week, Slutty Fringe decided This Is Not An Exit Recordings should be the first ever entrants into the very much hallowed (and less than regular) Slutty Fringe Label Of The Month feature.

Not only an imprint that rivals DFA for consistent excellence, but also a love story akin to Bogart & Bacall, we knocked heads with Simon & April from TINAE for a lowdown on how they did, do and plan to do.

Slutty Fringe: For those unfamiliar with TINAE, give us a brief run down of how it all began?

Simon: Thisisnotanexit began as much by accident as by design. I saw They Came From The Stars I Saw Them in a pub in East London in 2006 and couldn’t believe they didn’t have a record label so offered to put a single out. It all snowballed from there! I also met my wife April in 2008 and from then on Thisisnotanexit became a two person operation. She’s as important as I am in the decision making and running of the label.

Was there a particular sound you wanted to be associated with? My buddy Scott Urlaubshits described the TINAE policy as wonderfully idiosyncratic dance music with a strong commitment to looking forward which is near perfect (and quite lucid for a Scotsman)
 
Simon: The thing about Thisisnotanexit is that we’re not a genre label – we hate the way people put music in boxes – it’s so lazy. I like Scott’s description though. I guess our influences which may help people are early 80’s new wave, post punk, synth pop but mixed up with acid house, techno and disco. Think Factory, Mute and Output. Think Optimo. Think David Lynch if he directed music videos. Think Guy Debord if he was a rock star. If people are looking for something a bit different they may well find it with Thisisnotanexit.

Favourite release?
 
Simon: Favourite Thisisnotanexit release?! That’s like picking a favourite child! We love everything we put out in equal measure! I am though particularly fond of the Detachments Fear No Fear release and still can’t get over the fact that it sold so few – its an absolute juggernaut of acid house meets EBM and absolutely kills everytime I play it out – combined with the Naum Gabo and Moscow remixes it’s an overlooked release in my mind.

The Brain Machine album is also up there with Delia & Gavin’s Days of Mars and the double vinyl version is a piece of art, Naum Gabo’s Pictur release took over two years to come out and features Naum Gabo, Joakim and Tim Goldsworthy and artwork from a Turner Prize nominee – pretty amazing stuff, and I can’t believe They Came From The Stars I Saw Them’s The HOT Inc. was never a hit.

And the Salem / Detachments collaboration coming out soon is seriously amazing.

April: Spectral Empire – Innerfearence (Chateau Flight Remix)

Ones that got away? Bands or remixer?

Simon: Salem and FF are my two favourite bands of the modern age but we’re too small for them unfortunately. We luckily managed to get Heather from Salem to contribute vocals to a Detachments track which was a massive coup. Maybe FF will work with us in some form in the future – who knows.

Other than that we’d like to release Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, David Lynch or Cold Cave’s next albums if they’re reading this.

Why release a compilation now?

Simon: We’ve been wanting to put out a collection for a while but it feels like after a couple of years we now have the right to do so. We also don’t release much on CD so it’s nice to have something our non-vinyl friends can own. We’re also aiming to release Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 2 later in 2010 alongside a bunch of albums we’re really excited about.
 
How many takes for the mix on the 2nd CD? Personally hate doing recorded mixes as I’m a perfectionist!

How many takes? I’m a bit of a perfectionist too so it took a while to get right. I’m pretty bad at putting DJ mixes out there – I did a series of Thisisnotanexit mixes which are from 1-9 and are out there for those that want to go and hunt them out. After volume 9 got over 20,000 downloads I became paralysed with fear about doing volume 10 and thus it’s never been done. Maybe someday soon. I have every intention to do more mixes and hopefully with a Thisisnotanexit label night starting soon I’ll become a little less paranoid about putting them out there.
 
Plans for the future?
 
Simon: 2010 looks to be our busiest year yet – Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 1 is out now, and then we’ve got Detachments H.A.L out in April, the next single from Night Plane called Crimes Of The Future out in the summer and debut albums from Command V, Detachments, Spectral Empire and The Dark Esquire. Plus Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 2. We’ll also be doing regular monthly label events in Dalston soon starting with a night we’re hosting at Bardens Boudoir on April 23rd as part of the Land of Kings festival.

April: World domination!

Most favourite Musical Haircut of all time?

April: Debbie Harry – Heart Of Glass video (vee good choice!!)

Buy Manifesto#1 from Phonica 0r Juno

Angular art poppers Stricken City will be unleashing their debut and somewhat miniature  album Songs About People I Know on Pure Groove Records next week and it’s quite a joy to listen to, mostly for Rebbeca Raa’s swoonsome vocal chirrup.

One of the music industry’s unwritten requirements for new bands is they must be remixed by Gold Panda, ever the sporting types, Stricken City were happy to comply. Watch out for a Stricken City remix by that mysterious Skellington character mentioned previously.

Stricken City – Lost Art (Gold Panda Remix)

Rebecca Raa spared some time from repeatedly listing her influences for the benefit of journalists to provide Slutty fringe with her 5 favourite haircuts from musics past, click on for more….

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Kap Bambino have new single out now called Dead Lazers – We like Birdie Nam Nam Remix

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Kap  Bambino – Dead Lazers (Birdy Nam Nam Remix)

Kap Bambino have new album called Blacklist out soon

Kap Bambino, no strangers to striking hairstyles themselves,  took time out from creating speaker blowing feedback bleeps to give us their Five Fav Music Barnets

1. Robert Smith, The Cure

He looked amazing early on, I prefer his hair when he was younger

2. Desire Less

This is a French artist. Its so funny how she looks now, but her hair used to be cool.

3. Mireille Mathieu

Her hair was always in a style similar to this, but this is my favourite it ever was.

4. The Ramones

I can’t choose one member in particular, they all look so cool. I love the Ramones. Every picture looks classic.

5. Kim Wilde

Definitely Kim Wilde the early era. This photo of her is hilarious

Merci Kap Bambino x

Housewives favourite DJ wrongtom aired his ten minute All Time Top 100 mix on Xfm show The Remix last weekend which does exactly what it says on the tin, cramming some 100 tracks into ten minutes putting to shame those DJs amongst us that prefer the drawn out segue between tracks.

Being the nice sort, Thomas gave Slutty Fringe the download dibbs on the mix and also agreed to add his nominations to the hallowed Favourite Musical Haircuts feature which are more considered than some previous participants.

1. Papoose:

These guys were pretty special as individuals but like a barbershop Voltron they formed one of the most glorious hair bands to ever grace the music industry. Looking like a curious combination of Bowie, Eno and Kiss featuring a War song in French and gate-fold cover with pics of them having their hair done “Les Amants Outangs Moi Tarzan Et Toi Jane” was, as Howard Scott might say ’slept on,’ which is exactly why Papoose deserve their Keratin crown more than most.

2. David Hinds (Steel Pulse):

In 50 years the dread-lock has gone from being one of the most majestic and often fearsome of styles to a vehicle for upsetting your parents when you come home after your first semester at uni. Tarquin and his rosy-cheeked peers probably wouldn’t be familiar with the term blanket dread but it marks a distinction between conviction and “going up Camden to get my dreads done,” and no one did the blanket better than David Hinds who went from sporting the tree of life in the 70’s to tying a beach ball sized lock to his head last time I saw him.

3. Dez Dickerson (The Revolution):

Prince and entourage have ever been a source for great moments in hair, a high point being the cover of his eponymous album featuring a soft bouf and moustache combo offset on the back by riding naked on a Pegasus. Some however may have noticed the quiet confidence of Dickerson’s luscious locks in the Revolution days, coming off like the Prince Regent of sex-funk. If you missed it Citinite released his excellent “Modernaire” single last year having sat on a shelf for 25 years

4 Howard Scott (War):

We can trace the use of ’slept on’ in black music to the release of “The World Is A Ghetto.” I often wonder what Scott got up to the previous night as he scowls at the camera next to his fresh faced band mates.

5. Kid Rock:

Years before he was sound-tracking date rapes and murdering the already long-dead Lynyrd Skynyrd, young Rock was working with BDP affiliates and chipping away at the ozone in an attempt to give Kid N Play a run for their money in the hi-top stakes. Like Judd Nelson in New Jack City but one louder.

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DJ Wrongtom – All Time 100 Mix

mahoosive tracklist after jump

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With the release of their Reanimations Vol One compilation this week, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve have spent all day on a harrowing press slog.

With this in mind, Team Slutty Fringe opted to treat them to some light relieft and inaugaurate the cosmic psychedeliasongsmiths known to the taxman as R Norris and E Alkan into the hallowed hall of fame otherwise known as Favourite Musical Haircuts – loved by the great and the good.

Here be their nominations:

1. Brian Jones

That bowl head rules the roost, no contest!

2. Julian Cope (current style)

I mean what is going on? His psychic energy is radiating out through his rug. Top marks

3. Klaus Naomi.

Total eclipse of the barnet.

4. Phil Oakey (Human League circa late 1970s/early 1980s)

Not content with having one hairstyle, Oakey opted to have three at once. Good show, Philip!

5. Ian Hunter.

Mott the Hoople’s frontman has ringlets of the Gods. All the young dudes indeed.

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Reanimations Vol.1 includes all of the BTWS re-animations to date: Late of the Pier, Chemical Brothers, Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, Peter Bjorn and John, Midlake, Simian Mobile Disco and many more. Comes complete with an 8-page picture booklet, sleevenotes by the legendary Jon Savage plus an exclusive 60 minute mix of all the re-animations, reworked and mixed by Beyond The Wizard Sleever Erol Alkan.

Buy from Rough Trade or Phonica or iTunes

After coaxing Gang Gang Dance into opining on their favourite hairstyles of music past and present we thought we’d run with this flimsy excuse for journalism and invite more bands to partake.

First to bite were French based Dutch trio Le Le, whose track Breakfast is rightfully causing a ripple of excitement at the moment, count fans in the various shapes that Diplo, Soulwax and the Ed Banger crew occupy and have a rather dashing new album, Flage, dropping later this month on Magnetron.

1 Flock Of Seagulls

Best hair by a band, period. They we’re all hairdressers innit?

2 Ray Slijngaard (2 unlimited)

He styled his shavings to the theme of the song, just like we style the theme’s of our songs to, well, themes

3 Sique Sique Sputnick

Just because they can…

Le Le flunk it a bit here and run out of musical inspiration

4 The Comb Over

To pull a jedi mind trick on the number one fear of men…
also known as ‘une Chapeau de Viande’

5 The Toupee

Donald Trump here providing proof that not even all the millions in the world can set you up with convincing plugs

In case you have not heard it, here is the excellent Breakfast

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Le Le – Breakfast (Album Version)

Eschewing any notions of professional musical journalism, when asked if Slutty Fringe would like to interview Gang Gang Dance we instead tasked them with delivering their five favourite hairstyles of music past and present (handclaps to Bangon)

1 Brian Eno

GGD say: Roxy music era…fake receding hairline

2 Ian McCullough from Echo and the Bunnymen.

GGD say: We strive for our own hair to be like that. Lizzi is always trying to cut Josh’s hair in this style

3 Scratchy from Roll Deep

GGD say: He has two side ponytails and that reminds us of our late band member Nathan Maddox.

(that’s him holding onto his hoody btw [I think that's what he's doing] , pictures of Scratchy with the aforementioned hairstyle appeared to be almost beyond the reaches of Google)

4 Sinéad O’Connor

GGD say: mnml hair is sometimes the best

5 H.R. from Bad Brains

GGD say: One giant dread!

Gang Gang Dance’s new album Saint Dymphna is out now and is likely to be sitting near the summit of those wanky end of year charts that everyone who thinks they have a valid musical opinion loves to compile – ourselves included!

Buy it here here or indeed here

Gang Gang Dance – Princes (feat. Tinchy Stryder)

Gang Gang Dance – House Jam