Entitled Neon Nights, Volume 4 of the lush Future Disco series out on Needwant next week sees iconic tracks from The Revenge and Soul Clap to 2020 Soundsystem and The C90s. Mixed by Sean disco Brosnan, wonders like Jacques Renault’s 2010-changing remix of Midnight Magic are sat beside the Classixx ultra-Balearic remix of Holy Ghost. In anticipation we speak to Mr Brosnan about his future disco dreams and how he keeps getting confused for a relation to James Bond.

You have the same name as Pierce Brosnan’s son which makes it very difficult to google you. Have you found this to be a recurring issue in life?

Just yesterday I went to a meeting and I was asked if I was related and that I even look like him, which was a very nice compliment, but it was an A&R guy, I think he was still drunk from the night before. But I have had national newspapers ring me up and ask how the party was at the weekend. I thought it was a bit strange that the Daily Mail was suddenly interested in how my gig went at a pub in east London.

Having run Future Disco for a few issues now, do you think you’ll ever move on to a Future Dubstep or Future Dutch House comp?

Well I did Future Balearica last year which was the first step I guess in world future genre domination. I was really happy with that album and lots of people tell me they love it too which is great, but I think that’s as far as it goes. I often get reminded by people that in fact the records aren’t from the future. Which is very true of course, I’m still trying to figure that one out.

Where does your affinity for disco stem from?

I’m really not sure because my parents weren’t particularly into disco, my dad was really into 60s soul, but mainly our house was filled with big pop 12″ LPs from the 80s, the kind you now see at car boot sales for 50p. I think it’s because I had an early love for house music when I was a teenager. House and deep house in particular in the 90s was made up of mainly disco samples. Then I discovered the originals and was like ‘wow’, these records are amazing. I love that about dance music that it’s always grabbing bits from all over and somehow constantly creating something fresh and exciting.

If you were to invite a round table discussion on disco, who would be your ideal attendees?

I think better to move the table to the side of the room, get the disco ball out, turn out the lights and turn up the music. Invite, dead or alive; Harvey, Larry Levan, David Mancuso and Ron Hardy to play records. I think the music is much better at explaining it all and a whole lot more fun too.

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.

After playing like every club in the world, Detroit’s techno legend type Jimmy Edgar speaks out about his stripper mum and self loathing.

SF: You’ve been DJing since you were a teen, but what was your last day job?
Jimmy Edgar: My resume is extensive.  I worked as a graphic designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, where I mainly designed all the visuals for each exhibition and market.  I was a makeup artist at the county morgue as well, that’s where I got access to shooting ‘the models’ before I moved to NYC and got into fashion photography.  Other than that, I made hip hop for dudes in Detroit/NYC… pretty much always lived on it.

SF: Coming from the home of so many genres of music, who or what do you think has influenced your music?
Jimmy Edgar: I say this countless times when people ask me, my music is strictly R&B.  I grew up on Prince and underground shit like Steve Poindexter and Dominatrix.  My mum was a stripper so I got to hear it all.  I learned how to make music in the Baptist church, I was the only white kid but it was cool ’cause I was there for the music, not the Jesus.

SF: Any dream collaborators?
Jimmy Edgar: The Dream.  maybe Busta or Missy… I wouldn’t mind making Madonna make some horsey squeels though.

SF: Roughly how many haircuts do you go through in a year?
Jimmy Edgar: Probably 100, when I can’t sleep I end up in the bathroom, at some point trimming my split ends like a bitch.  I have this self loathing thing going on.

We speak to Siopis aka Silversurfer who’s worked with Kiki from BPitch to Get Physical and Ntrop ventures before he releases his rather exciting new EP, ‘Really Love Ya’ on GP. Expect groove-filled techno paired with emotive vocal samples and soaring synths; Not far from his usual catchy sound in tracks like ‘I’m on Miami’ with tribal claps and hollow percussions. Really love it.

SF: Your new single is rather romantically titled, have you found love?
Siopis: Yes… my new iPhone! No, that’s a joke- My son… my 1 year-old son, I love him.

SF: What influenced you to make the music you do?
Siopis: I think my biggest influence and also inspitation is travelling and nature, and of course life how it is… Right now I’m in Tulum, Mexico, in the jungle with my mini studio creating and recording new tracks and sounds… I’m really excited!

SF: What’s the difference between your productions as Silversurfer as opposed to Siopis?
Siopis: Silversurfer, for me, was a playground on which I could learn technical skills at a time when I wasn’t really ready to produce the music that I had in mind… well not 100% ready. ‘Welcome to Berlin’ was made in one night using Fruity Loops, after my first ever two weeks in my home studio. That was in 2003. Now I’m more experienced with the technical stuff and it’s easier to realise the music that I have in my mind. Now I can say that I’m more myself… so Siopis is my last name.

SF: I once saw Kiki at Egg in London and he was the happiest looking DJ I have ever seen. Is he always so chirpy?
Siopis: He is one of the funniest guys I know (was he drunk?!) We are thinking about making our next Kiki & Silversurfer EP, I hope in 2010… let’s see how busy we are…

SF: What are you listening to now?
Siopis: Now… some new trip hop and ambient music.

SF: So it’s the festive season, what do you most look forward to eating?
Siopis: I’m invited for christmas at a friends’ place in Juarez, and I’m really looking forward to see what the Mexican Christmas specials are!

SF: And your plans for NYE?..
Siopis: I’ll be playing in Playa De Carmen at a beach party…

GPM122 – Siopis “Really Love Ya” – out on the 16th December.

Remember Pony Pony Run Run? No.

Of course not, especially as they haven’t had a bloody official single/album until now. We had to deal with lead singer/charming Frenchman Gaetan (also of side project Error:Love) falling asleep on us before his ‘DJ set’ at Favela Chic last week in his interview, being the third day of his insomnia-filled weekend flying about Krakow ‘n such.

SF: How would you describe your sound in one word?
Gaetan: Pop. It’s a melting pot between our band, everybody in the band has different tastes so we put them together to make pop.

SF: Are you getting sick of the Phoenix comparisons?
Gaetan: It’s cool to be compared to them, but we play very different music. We’re both from France and really that’s it.

SF: Oh yeah, who would win in a fight, Phoenix or Air?
Gaeten: Well, Phoenix

SF: You also did a solo project called Error:Love? I used to listen to ‘Nightlife Souvenirs’ in my bedroom. Are you still working on that or just focusing on PPRR now?
Gaetan: PPRR is taking all my time right now but I was mixing with my friend in Paris last week and I really want to get back on stage with my own thing. I’m frustrated because I have no time but I love the project.

SF: Where did you get your name from?
Gaetan: I don’t know- it’s a gift from someone somewhere. Like you know the bands from the 80s… Wet Wet Wet, Duran Duran, maybe we should ask Wet Wet Wet what on earth that means?

In the midst of running their sex-tech New York label Wolf + Lamb with releases from Seth Troxler and Soul Clap to Jamie Jones,  Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi speak to Slutty Fringe about their T-Bar clubbing and the sultry house sound they’ve been perfecting…

Slutty Fringe: Who’s the Wolf and who’s the Lamb?
Wolf + Lamb: It seems to change actually, though technically Zev means a wolf and Gadi, a lamb in Hebrew, when we figured that our we promptly took up that moniker.

SF: Wolf + Lamb seems particularly deep and soulful compared to other current electronic labels, do you see a future for the label of shifting towards anything harder or does it depend on the artists you find?
W+L: We’ve actually made our way from harder stuff to where we are now. The artists on our label are pretty much set for now, and everyone’s quite excited to be exploring the slower, sexier side of the the electronic scene. There are enough labels putting out harder stuff, some of it definitely exciting but we’re really loving playing to the slower side right now. High energy, but definitely slower than the current trends.

SF: Do you think you strive for a particularly Brooklyn-influenced sound, or is where you’re based irrelevant?
W+L: Most the kids in Williamsburg [Brooklyn] are making and listening to indie rock. New York has everything, jazz, house, hip hop, rock.. being from New York means that you’re always around every kind of music and the potential of being influenced by them. We don’t really strive for any particular sound, the direction is all the label artists responding to life and the times we’re in.

SF: You’ve cited Moodymann as an influence/recommendation… any involvements with the man since you’ve started? Is quite as he Moody as he lets on?
W+L: We’re just big fans of the weirdness; his mixing of classic house sounds with future unpredictability, and the looseness.

SF: Is this a temporary residency you have at T Bar or is it something ongoing with Kubicle?
W+L: We love playing in London, we’re close with the people from T-Bar and Kubicle. It was the first time we played or even were in London and really felt at home.

SF: What do you think of the London club scene?
W+L: I think it’s the best we’ve seen so far, definitely for us, our artists, and the style we’re playing. We’re connecting to people better than anywhere else outside of New York.

Remember Pramface?

When that metally looking guy sampled Switch’s drunken voicemail to him at 4.44am, sparking off the ‘big sausage roll’ phenomenon? If you can call it that. Boy 8-Bit took a little time out from making Italian horror movie mixes for Dazed amongst new material and touring to talk to Slutty Fringe.

SF: Hi Boy 8-Bit, you’ve been a bit quiet this year, have you been taking a break or working on new stuff?

Boy 8-Bit: Ha, I suppose it does seem pretty quiet from a release schedule, but it’s been anything but quiet. I did both US and European Mad Decent Tours, the Parklife tour in Australia and I’m currently doing my first US solo tour. The EP took a while to finish, a few of the ideas on there are so old I had lost all confidence in them so I was constantly tweaking them  instead of just getting them done. I’ve also done a few remixes, some which never saw the light of day for various reasons and I’ve been working on my album etc etc.

SF: Where did the name Baltic Pine come from for your EP? I googled it, mostly hardwood/conservatories came up.

Boy 8-Bit: It’s a hardwood / conservatory company that used to exist in my home town of Penzance! I was listening to Russian folk music when I made that track and I couldn’t think of the name for that territory I kept on coming back to “Balkan” then I thought of the Baltic region and remembered the name of this company. So basically the name is a bit random, has nothing to do with Russia or Balkan stuff, but I thought it kinda fitted. The whole EP has pretty weird titles I sourced from various places.

SF: I heard you were influenced a lot by metal which if you think about kind of makes sense in considering the composition of your tracks, have you ever considered making metal?

Boy 8-Bit: Yeah I like metal… I’m not an obsessive fan who knows everything, but I like to try and keep up on it /  find out about old bands. I have definately taken lot of influence from the harmony parts people like Maiden use. That whole thirds thing. That’s probably the biggest reference in my compositions. I’ve played the guitar for quite a few years and would love to start a metal project, just need to meet a decent drummer! There are actually some really stupid mp3 clips of metal ideas I had a few years ago. I also set up a fake band page, but I’m not going to tell you what it is!

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The busy beardy Frenchman took some time out to speak to Slutty Fringe… Retard questions ensued. Mostly beard-centred:

Flo: Hello I like your beard. It’s quite shiny and possibly even better than Oizo’s.

Brodi: Thanks a lot, it’s not really a Big Beard like The Tom Hanks one, but I prefer my one ; )

Flo: Why do you think it is that you’re often still considered being part of this French electro scene when you actually produce more techno sounds?

Brodi: I don’t know, the people loved to reason just on ONE WAY, like ‘all the French people are arrogant and produce one French electro sound’ ahah.

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Ever the purveyor of relevant journalism, we interviewed Tim Noakes, Music & Deputy Editor of Dazed & Confused Magazine (the first of many wasted hyperlinks to come, one may as well be a capybara) in the Old St office-come-warehouse on a busy Thursday morning.

Flo: Hi Tim. So what do you do?
Tim: Well it’s a varied role, but basically I commission all the music features and co-edit Dazed with Rod Stanley, the editor

Flo: So you don’t have a separate music editor, you’re deputy and music editor?
Tim: Yeah, that’s the thing with Dazed, because it’s an independent magazine, we haven’t got a huge budget to hire a lot of people, whereas in bigger companies like Conde Nast they probably have 20 people trying to do what 3 people here do so, we wear a lot of hats.

Flo: And what did you do to get there?
Tim: I slept with a lot of people.

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Here I sit three days into the year that is referred to 2009 huddled over an ancient Mac and rocking the Chesire Cat look (dimples and all) after a very pleasing evening of disco and danceteria at Cargo……

yet daunted by my own penchant for procrastination that has seen the hotly anticipated tonypoland rubberstamped end of year round up, wanky lists and all, put to the side over the festive period in favour of some, yes some, cultural enlightening, lots of naan bread and reading.

Without further ado, here be the hastily cobbled together list of things what my ears did enjoy in that last year

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I managed to get some time to ask the rather talented musician and producer Mica a few questions before she jets off to the sunny climes of Barcelona to perform at the prestigious Sonar Festival later this month.

Slutty Fringe: So Mica, thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions for Slutty Fringe, why not kick off by telling thems that don’t know a little about who you are and what you do?

Mica: I am Mica. I am a 20 yr old girl. I write grime/hiphop beats and guitar songs and “experi”mental” music.

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Suicide Dogz photo by Chris J Overend

I recently got together for a chat with up and coming producer Suicide Dogz – responsible for killer beats on Miss Odd Kidd tracks – to discuss all things music and Claudia Winkleman….

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Last week I caught up with Miss Odd Kidd for a chat about her music over some coffee which is quite civilised for the pair of us as we usually cross paths when at least one of us has seen the empty bottom of one too many glasses.

Slutty Fringe: You appear to be something of a myspace celebrity, lots of  musical and non musical people have you in their top friends – How has myspace affected your career specifically?

Miss Odd Kidd: Its been massive, I’ve had a music page for just over a year and it’s blown up: interest from labels, offers from potential managers, gig offers, collaborations, literally my music career is down to myspace.

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