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London at Sunrise 31 Floors Up with Jamie Jones Behind the Decks?? – Sir Yes Please

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | Event Preview | No Comments

London at sunrise, 31 floors up, with Jamie Jones at the helm? Yes please… where do i sign up?

right here – Buy Superfreq Tickets

Get em fast… The last one was probably the party of the year so this is bound to sell out fast.

Superfreq @ Paramount – 8th August
Jamie Jones
Mr C
LukeVB
Dollz at Play

Tags: Dollz at Play, Jamie Jones, Luke Vb, Mr C, Superfreq

Jay Haze – Fabric 47 | Album Review

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | Album Review | No Comments

For Fabric’s 47th installation of the CD series, they’ve brought in the colourful character that is Jay Haze. Known for telling it like it is and literally coming from the streets of Philly (according to the press release he was homeless a couple of times), Jay Haze has mixed up an honest borderless mix that is full to the brim of soul and deepness. The mix predominately skirts around the house and tech house domains but there are wide and far reaching influences on the sound from Jazz, Funk and Disco to Hip Hop, Reggae and Dub. All of this is effortlessly blended together by Jay Haze.

For example the opening six or so tracks, Jay Haze has touched on Hip Hop with his track Awakening, which quickly runs over to deep house with an exclusive track on TuningSpork from Lil Dirty Ghetto Bastard, › Continue reading

Tags: Carat, Contexterrior, Dirty Bee, Fabric, Jay Haze, Johnny Fiasco, Lil Dirty Ghetto Bastard, Michael Ho, Mike Dunn, Ms Minelli, Pheek, Ricardo Villalobos, The Last Poets, TuningSpork

All This Summer Dancing Meant I Forgot to Tell You About These Albums

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | Album Review | No Comments

June to July has been a particularly lost couple of months. Mainly due to being found on various dancefloors in the UK and abroad. But as I stumble between the parties with that crazed ‘I Need Crack’ look I have been listening to a few good albums that came my way. The moment may have passed for most, but I’m still going to tell you anyway.

Robert Hood – Minimal Nation

When I said the moment might have passed I wasn’t talking about the one back in 1994 when this seminal classic was released. Instead I’m talking about Robert Hood and Planet M’s decision to re-release Minimal Nation to another generation of techno lovers and re-school the kids on where manipulating a minimal set of elements comes from. › Continue reading

Tags: Berghain, Black Pearl, Bloody Mary, BPitch Control, Butane, Contexterrior, Crosstown Rebels, Ellen Allien, Endless Forms, Jay Haze, Marcel Dettmann, Minimal Nation, Mutation, Planet M, Robert Hood

I’m Sorting My Life Out, But If I Didn’t Have to Here’s Where I Would Go>

Friday, July 10th, 2009 | Event Preview | No Comments

Just a quick note on weekend manoeuvres. I’m not going anywhere as my life is in tatters after the last few months of being massively on it, all of which I will litter these pages with the details. But if I were to head out I would probably be looking at these things:

Saturday
The decks have barely cooled down from the last party, but pappa Sven is already back at matter for another Cocoon party. Even if Sven isn’t your cup of tea there is still the highly talented Onur Ozer who will finally be gracing London with his visa in hand, not to mention Reboot loaded with his hotly anticipated tune of the summer.

Even though pappa Sven is a veteran on the scene, nothing gets more veteran than Kevin Saunderson one of the birth givers to the techno sound. He’s dusting off the old Inner City moniker which gave us Good Life and Big Fun. This is definitely going to be a special show. But just for kicks Kevin Saunderson is going to play a few tunes and they’ve also brought in Claude Von Stroke to sweeten the deal.

Aside from the two heavyweights there is Tom Middleton in the East Village basement doing an Electro Funk set or there is Superfreq doing their final party at Cable with Adultnapper, Chloé and Tolfrey along with the ressies Mr C, Luke Vb and Dollz at Play.

Cocoon at Matter tickets HERE
Eastern Electrics with Kevin Saunderson tickets HERE
Superfreq tickets HERE

Sunday
Well, I don’t really need to say much about Sunday. I’ll just spell it out plain and simple.
Prosumer – Light Bar – Secretsundaze. Done.
If the weather holds out its going to be a stellar party.
Get your tickets HERE!.

Tags: Adultnapper, Cable, Claude Von Stroke, Cocoon, Dollz at Play, East Village, Eastern Electrics, Inner City, Kevin Saunderson, Light Bar, Luke Vb, Matt Tolfrey, matter, Mr C, Onur Ozer, Prosumer, Reboot, Secretsundaze, Superfreq, Sven Vath, Tom Middleton