Real Gold are three years old. In this time they’ve released records and mixtapes, printed up posters &  stickers, thrown parties and designed some fancy t-shirts, my favourite being Kate Moross & Georgia-Rose Fairman’s Turkish Gold one.

All of which deserves a round of applause I reckon. Clap, clap, clap.

To celebrate they’re throwing a traditonal East London warehouse party and would like you to join them, the likes of Jamie XX and Golden Silvers will be manning the decks, there’s cheap entry before midnight, drink offers, you’ll probably see someone famous doing something naughty, all good fun.

As I’m going to be spending the weekend checking out Amsterdam’s finest hookers we’ve decided to give away our guestlist places to the first person to email here – you’ll need to get down before 11.30 though, but you should anyway, being late to parties is so over.

This week saw the release of the fifth installment on our occasional sparring partners Keep Up’s most excellent label. Featuring Tom Central’s Hillbrook Boogie on one side and Avé Blaste’s Sega on the flip, both tracks have been heavy hitters in our DJ sets the past few weeks.

Before you rush out and buy it, and trust me you should, warp your ears around this rather tasty mix the boys have put together for your listening pleasure. Even better for all you wallet shy types they’ve given us a couple of bumper Keep Up care package to give away to two lucky readers.

First prize wins a limited 7” vinyl copy of KEEP005, a vinyl copy of Lopez’s recent EP Beat Dispenser on 12” vinyl, a one-off Tom Central A3 screenprint of the Keep Up! logotype in three colours, and a CD containing the entire Keep Up! back catalogue as well as exclusive unreleased material. Second prize wins the limited 7” vinyl copy of KEEP005 and a CD of the Keep Up! back catalogue featuring unreleased material.

Question: What are the names of the two tracks from the first release on Keep Up! Records?

Email us the answer before Monday 21 December and cross your fingers, or just pop over to here  and buy it now.

Download: Tom Central – Dynamite Disco Boogie Mix

Tracklisting

5th Borough Project – Do it to the max
Tom Central – Hillbrook Boogie
Seiji – I can’t let it go
Avé Blaste & Cosmo Lopez – Sega
Lopez – Dancer
Best Boy Grip – Copyright
The Little Dabs – Spotlite (edit)
Woolfy – Odyssey
Muddy loop – Girl on girl (Instrumental)
Lopez – Disco Sh1t
David Rubato – Circuit (Siriusmo remix)

When you get to my advanced years there are few things in life you tend to do for the first time, but this year after more than a decade and a half of somehow missing them I finally got to see Red Snapper play live.

Bursting onto the scene back in the halcyon days of the mid nineties, the Snapper, ostensibly a punk-jazz band, were a curious propostition considering most of us were pilled up to the gills on double dipped doves and making little box, big box shapes on top of speaker stacks at the time.

But through a combination of old Lord Sabre’s patronage, epic drum and double bass live sets and a series of critically acclaimed albums on Warp, it’s fair to say that Red Snapper soon had the techno fan’s favourite jazz band slot sewn up and I along with many others was right gutted when they split in 2002.

Thankfully after a lengthy hiatus they reformed in 2007, and this year has seen them once again back in the spotlight with the excellent A Pale Blue Dot album out on Lo Recordings getting the critics all excited and crowds once again marvelling at the noise that three blokes with just a double bass, guitar and drums between them can make.

To celebrate this renaissence of all things Snapper, sticksman Rich Thair (as handy on the decks as he is behind the drums) put together this mix for us to give to you. Featuring all the recent mixes from the Chris Smith EP plus a load of unreleased material, this is just the ticket for those looking for something a bit different to kick start the week.

Download: Rich Thair – Red Snapper Mix – Nov 09

1. Danger Global Warming – Red Snapper Remix
2. Robert Logan – Accurate Spit Boy – Red Snapper Remix
3. Red Snapper – Moving Mountain – The Waldorf And Statler Trio – Move Any Mountain Remix
4. Red Snapper – Moving Mountain – Scuba Remix
5. Red Snapper – Deathroll – Robert Logan Remix
6. Red Snapper – Brickred – Dr.Radius’ Brick Dub
7. Red Snapper – Lagos Creepers – Memory 9 Remix
8. Moist – I Am – Red Snapper Remix

Talking of seeing the band play live, as you can see below Red Snapper have a few dates coming up, any of which I would heartily recommend you attend. But if you’re in London this week then let us make the decision even easier by giving the first person to email us here, a pair of tickets to the show at Koko where the band will be going head to head with The Bays.

5th December – London, Camden Koko
12th December – Oslo, Jazz festival
18th December – Thessaloniki, Mylos Stage
19th Decmeber – Athens, Rodeo
20th December – Athens, Rodeo
19th Fenruary – Istanbul

As previously stated on the more up to speed areas of the internet the creative forces behind Scots labels Wireblock, Stuff and Dress 2 Sweat have become one great globule of musical excellence as Numbers.

Tommmorow night sees a most excellent of launch parties for this most excellent of new labels at Plastique Pueple dans le Curtain Rd et la Shoreditch wiv live sets from the most exciting Dorian Concept and Redinho plus a DJ set from rising Ldn funky type Deadboy and Numbers bod Jackmaster going back 2 back with Benjamin UFO.

Why if we weren’t playing oddball edits at T Bar tmrw night we’d be down the front doing the Benga Brap!

Thanks to Numbers you could do the Benga Brap for free as we have a clutch of two tickets for the NMBRS launch to give away to whoever direct an answer via email to the following quandry:

Which other worldly Dorian Concept track was used on the recent fckn amazing MDSLKTR Body Language mix?

We’ll be picking the winner out of a hat tmrw at 2pm.

The door to this opportunity of free entry is now shut and the winner has an email in their inbox.

This Friday Gilles Peterson is hosting a launch party for his new album, Havana Cultura, at 29 New Inn Yard, (E2 2EY) in that there London town.

Recorded in Cuba with a group of over 20 musicians, the album is the perfect musical accompaniment to a drink made with Havana Club’s Máximo Extra Añejo, the first choice of rum connoisseurs worldwide.

Playing live on the night will be the Havana Cultura band, and you can be sure that both they and many of the audience will be enjoying the wide range of fine cask aged rums that Havana Club produce.

We have a pair of tickets and some copies of the album to give away, just answer the question below and email us before noon on Thursday.

Question: When the Havana Club’s chief Maestro Ronero, Don José Navarro oversees the creation of a bottle of the sublime Máximo Extra Añejo, the final act of blending is known as the… what?

People who’ve been reading Slutty Fringe from the off know we big fans of Greg Wilson (thats him up there floating and trying to find that bit of biscuit he dropped) and now finally after several years of waiting and lots of emails asking “When Greg? When?” the totally rad Credit To The Edit Vol 2 has just been released on Tirk.

On it you will find a selection of his more contemporary reworkings of 40 Thieves, Crazy P, Klein & MBO and the like alongside a smattering of previously unreleased edit bombs of dancefloor classics like Voodoo Ray & Love Is The Drug.

There’s a 12 hour launch party at Curtain Road’s disco den The Horse & Groom on 22nd Nov with Greg Wilson playing along with the boys from Tirk – like most things in life that are labelled BEST it is free! Facebook deets here.

The aforementioned boys from Tirk have a vertiable swag bag of Tirk goodies to give away including a copy of Credit To The Edit Vol 2 – for a chance to win you simply need to send an email with the answer to the following:

Which R & B singer (with lovely pins) formed the vocal part of Greg Wilson’s Two Sides Of Sympathy Edit?

Competition will close 20th Nov

The weekend has barely been put to bed and despite feeling like crawling under a massive duvet and never coming out again I have to say I’m already getting rather excited about this Friday’s party.

Why? Well just take a look at that line-up. Two of the best labels in the UK in one of the best venues in London, what’s not to like!

Tickets will be available on the night, but you can buy them now for a nice little discount and peace of mind.

We have a pair of tickets to give away just answer this simple question and email us before Wednesday 6pm.

Q: What is the scientific term for an irrantional fear of the date Friday 13th?

I have to admit I love comics, always have, always will. Probably the only time in my entire adult life I’ve been truly and blissfully content at work was when I ran the graphic novels department at one of the big bookstores and could spend hours reading about muscled up closet fetishists, chasing each other around the universe on their endless quests to spank their evil counterparts spandex clad behinds.

Still much as I love to soak myself in the continuity fucked and often mindless sagas of the DC and Marvel universes, over the years comics or, if you want to hide behind a pseudo-literate veneer, graphic novels have also provided a fresh look  the real world. Books such as Joe Sacco’s Palestine, or Art Spiegelman’s breathtaking Maus, fully deserving of a place alongside any traditional work of literature.

Celebrating this more concious strand of the genre is Ctrl. Alt. Shift unmasks Corruption a new anthology of work that brings together some of the leading graphic novellists of the day, people such as Peter Kuper, Pat Mills and Dave McKean, and sets out to address issues such as political corruption, global violence and social injustice and show just how powerful a medium ‘comics’ can be.

Indeed whilst comics dabbling in political topics may feel like a recent trend, from the all American Captain America taking the fight to the Nazis, or Tony Starkes hardon for the military industrial complex to the 1960’s Green Arrow as a champion of the working class and the likes of openly gay Northstar in the 1980s, there’s a long history of superheroes being used as cyphers for  political viewpoints both left and right.

Illustrating this nicely, Ctrl.Alt.Shift are also staging an exhibition in London, where artwork from the anthology will be juxtaposed with vintage comic books to show just how political and social issues have been treated throughout the years. This free exhibition will be held at Lazarides Gallery, 8 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1D 4DG and runs from 6th – 28th November (Tuesday – Friday 11am -7pm and Saturday 12pm – 5pm).

As if that wasn’t enough Ctrl.Alt.Shift are also holding a night next Tuesday at the ICA to celebrate the release of the anthology,  Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion/Test Icicles) will be showcasing his new project Blood Orange, and there’s DJs such as the lovely Mr. Crispin Dior and comic artist Woodrow Phoenix on hand to keep things moving along nicely. Full details can be found here.

Even better we have a pair of tickets to the night at the ICA, and a copy of the anthology to give away, just answer the question below and email or mentally transmit your answer to us before Friday (the 6th) 6pm and we’ll put you into the virtual hat.

Q: Monkey Joe was the sidekick to which furry superhero?

Next Tuesday we will be hosting the First Annual Slutty Fringe Conker Tournament, high above East London on the roof of the Queen of Hoxton. We’re not ones for hyperbole here but I think it’s fair to say that this date will go down in history.

Indeed in a hundred years when this event is bigger than the Olympics and World Cup combined and your cloned grandchildren are desperately trying to find the final silver foil hologram for their Pannini World Conker Cup collection, will they be able to look back with pride and say my DNA was there at the start? Only if you enter will they…

And if competing for honour and pride isn’t enough we also have some rather great prizes for the winners that includes male and female clothing from new website Lipstickandlaceboutique.com, signed copies of Gilles Peterson’s October release Havana Cultura and a meal for 4 at just opened Mien Tay in Battersea.

Think you’ve got what it takes to be the best? Get a team of three people together, drop us a line and reserve your place.

If you’d just like to enter solo, still drop us a line, as if there’s enough of you singletons out there we’ll try and do something just for you, or maybe just set up a dating agency.

Download The Rules (PDF)

Modeselektor, the Berlin duo equally at home in clubs across the globe terrorizing punters with their speakerjunking live show and frolicking naked around the Garden of Eden in the name of ill advised press shots have just unleashed Body Language 8, a titan of a mix CD, on Get Physical.

In what can be classed as a worthy successor to their 2007 Boogybytes mix, Body Language Vol 8 sees Modeselektor effortlessy slip between genres and tempos, dropping some classic Psycho sampling Busta Rhymes between  the contemporary wonkstep of Joker and Rustie, using bomb tracks like Kick Drum and Nerve as tools to bridge between sub genres and finding the space to allow THAT Animal Collective track to breath amidst a sea of basslines.

Us London folks get to toast the album launch in the cavernous confines of Farringdon clubbing behemoth Fabric on the 22nd October when Modeselektor make a rare excursion to these shores to play live (they were last seen in 2008 by Slutty Fringe  in a soggy tent in Victoria Park bemoaning the poor sound)

Joining them is the aforementioned Joker and Patchwork Pirates, who are aiming to keep up their record of playing a party a night every week since 2007.

For a chance to win a pair of tickets email your answers to the following quandry:

Which easily riled punk rocker come loudmouth media fixture was sampled by Panacea on the opening track of Modeselektor’s Boogybytes mix?

Ciompetition winner will be given the good news on Thursday 15th

Amorphous Androgynous, the psychedelic beardy incarnation of Future Sound of London are back with their second compilation ‘A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol 2 – Pagan Love Vibrations’.

Those of us who made it past the first compilation’s awkward title and mind bendingly horrid artwork, found one of the best releases from last year, a dizzying trawl through the outer reaches of psyche-rock and folk that even made me re-evaluate my hitherto utter lack of interest in Pop Levi.

The follow up looks set to be it’s equal (in every sense) featuring some of the best psychedelic music from recent years mixed in with some dusty classics, with the likes of Hawkwind, Bo Diddley, Animal Collective, David Holmes,  Mountain Machine and Cranium Pie all rubbing shoulders across both discs.

I’ve already decided to credit it with splitting up Oasis.

Amorphous Androgynous – Psychedelic Bubble 2 Mini Mix

The album is out on October 26th with a launch party taking place at Matter on October 30th, and thanks to those nice people at Stay Loose you can enjoy both for free,  simply answer the question below and email us the answer before Friday 23rd of October. First correct answer wins tickets to the launch party and a copy of the CD, 2 runners up will each get the CD.

Q: When and what was ‘Bicycle Day’?

This month Shane Meadows‘ (This Is England/Dead Man’s Shoes) ‘Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee’ finally hits the screen.

Starring Meadows regular collaborator Paddy Considine as the eponymous ‘Le Donk’, a washed up roadie turned wannabe music svengali, it has been described by no less an authority than pseudo-grumble mag FHM as “The Spinal Tap of Midlands white-boy rap”.

To celebrate this milestone of British cinema we have a copy of the film’s poster signed by Shane Meadows to give away, just answer the question below and email us the answer before Friday 16th to be in with a chance of winning.

Q: Name one Blackout Crew track other than ‘Put A Donk On It’?

‘Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee’ will be in selected cinemas from the 9th (check Warp Films for listings) and is released on DVD on October 26th.

Legendary avant-rap group Anti-Pop Consortium are back after a six year hiatus with ‘Fluorescent Black’ probably the album of their career. It’s out this week on Big Dada and one of you lucky sods can win both a copy of the album AND a pair of tickets to see the band play live at the Scala in London on November 5th.

Simply email competitions@sluttyfringe.com before October 10th with the answer to the following question and we’ll randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.

Q: When was Heinz Baked Beanz first introduced to the UK?

If you’re not feeling lucky, head over to Ticketweb where you can buy tickets today.