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A Multiple Birthday Weekender

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | Event Preview | No Comments

As always we’re on hand to help you through the plethora of London nights happening this weekend. For the first weekend of Feb we have a selection of birthday celebrations, toilet raves and basement debauchery.

Act Natural @ The Hub (Buy Tickets)

Initially it was just Anthea and Alex Cellar set to headline this Friday night get together, but with 54 losing its license, Product have handed over their headliners Kruse & Nürnberg to set up a now pretty sizeable night. Expect lashings of deep percussive house easing you out of Friday and right into Saturday morning.  All is not lost for Product though. They’ll be throwing a free party at the Castle pub round the corner. So if you’re in the area pop down and show some support!

Decked Out 10^th Anniversary @ Coronet Theatre

The first of the weekend birthdays comes from Decked Out a London based DJ/artist agency celebrating 10 years in the business. They’ve roped in all their DJs to lay on an extravagant celebration with the likes of Dave Clarke, Justin Robertson, Erol Alkan, Justice’s Xavier, Boys Noise, DJ Mehdi, The Glimmers, Aeroplane and Busy P. Plus all DJs are playing slightly alternative sets and donating their DJ fee to local charity Kids Company. Its gonna be noisy, sweaty but definitely bouncy fun. I hope you got your tickets sorted as this sold out weeks ago! › Continue reading

Tags: Act Natural, Aeroplane, Alex Cellar, Ame, Anthea, Boys Noise, Busy P, Coronet Theatre, Craig Richards, Dave Clarke, Decked Out, Disco Bloodbath, DJ Heather, DJ Mehdi, East Village, Erol Alkan, Fabric, Gerd Janson, Henrik Schwarz, Innervisions, ivan smagghe, Justice, Justin Robertson, Kruse and Nurnberg, Marcus Worgull, Mark Seven, Miss Kitten, Nick Dare, Paul Harris, Paul Louth, Prologue, Terry Francis, The Glimmers, The Hub, Wet Yourself

Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Party In My | Single Review

Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Single Review | No Comments

From the album 1000 Dreams we gave Party In My Head a conservative thumbs up. We thought that Miss Kitten’s vocals had been layered with the Blondie/Moroder style disco synths just right. So its good to see that the Thieves Like Us run with the disco bit and churn out a great strutting piece of NYC disco funk. The vocodered vocals sit with the natural percussion and funk lines. So much so that it far surpasses the original.

Kiko on the other hand is at the other end of the spectrum. He’s gone for a brash whirring remix with rough electronic synths and stern marching beats. It’s noisy and in your face so it’s totally made for the big rooms. That leaves Mr Pauli’s remix. He’s gone with the 80s synth pop influence on the original and taken that to town. Think shoulder pads, Miami Vice and those great 80s electronic tom toms. I was confused at first, but the retroness has its charm.

TRACKLISTING:

A1.Party in my Head (Original)

A2. Party in my Head (Mr Pauli Remix)

B1. Party in my Head (Thieves Like Us Remix)

B2. Party in my Head (Kiko Remix)

Tags: Blondie, Kiko, Miss Kitten, Miss Kitten & The Hacker, Moroder, Mr Pauli, NYC Disco, Thieves Like Us

Miss dicA – Freak EP | Single Review

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Single Review | No Comments

Miss dicA is Barbara Tampiér, an Austrian producer and DJ who now lives in, you guessed it Berlin. Her Freak Out EP is self described as Electro-Techno-Trash and I can’t say I disagree. Freak Out uses trashy synths over high riding percussion and some farty electro basslines giving you a scatty electro-techno-trash workout. Freak’n Proud pines for a techno sound but keeps it intensely trashy with wave after wave of throbbing acid synths; whilst Freak In restrains itself with spindly electronic keys and whirring acid lines. It’s a good release but I can’t help think it sounds a lot like Miss Kitten and DJ Hell. But that’s no bad thing.

Miss dicA – Freak EP is out now
Tracklisting:
A1 Freak In
A2 Freaky Stars
B1 Freak Out
B2 Freak’n Proud

Tags: DJ Hell, Miss dicA, Miss Kitten, Third Ear

Miss Kitten & The Hacker – Two | Album Review

Friday, May 1st, 2009 | Album Review | No Comments

Miss Kitten is another artist who I find chalk and cheese. On one hand she’s come out with some great electronic tracks yet on the other she’s come out with some cheese melody laden tracks where she insists she must sing over. Her latest offering with The Hacker is no different.

On this album the duo aim for a futuristic space aged sound dipping into the cyber-pop and techno territories. Ironically the sounds they use have an old school feel to them with Moroder synths, 80s synth pop melodies and electrobreak beats. Headline track 1000 Dreams has a great synth pop hook to it and Miss Kittens vocals balance the track out with the soaring futuristic strings. It’s slightly corny, but it’s catchy so I’ll give her that.

Then you have Pppo, a mechanical chugging electroclash track. It has some great muted beats with spacey sonar bleeps and mechanical valve noises. Add to that some nicely placed vocals from Miss Kitten and you’ve got yourself a good stripped back bleepy number.

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Tags: 1000 Dreams, Blondie, Miss Kitten, Moroder, Synth Pop, The Hacker

Go Out on Sundays and You’re Bound to Wet Yourself

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | Event Preview | No Comments

Don’t know if you’ve heard but much loved Sunday shindig Wet Yourself have moved away from the swimming pool and dried themselves off to relocate to the cavernous depths of Fabric. To help with the move they’ve got some great guests coming up. They’ve already had Miss Kitten and Marc Houle, and Popof and Gaiser complete the February run. Excellent stuff, now the much loved London club can see you right through the weekend nights through to Monday. Sounds alright to me!

Anyways if you haven’t been to Wet Yourself before, we’ve got residents Jacob Husley and Peter Pixzel to give you a taster with a couple of their mixes. › Continue reading

Tags: Fabric, Gaiser, Jacob Husley, Marc Houle, Miss Kitten, Peter Pixzel, Popof, Wet Yourself