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Scandinavian Disco, Openings, Closings and Marathons – It’s the Weekend!!!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | Event Preview | No Comments

My God this summer is absolutely flying through. We’re already half way through yet I can’t even remember the summer beginning. We’ve literally been bitch slapped with great weather, festivals in parks, outdoor parties and for those lucky enough, flights to exotic places. Still dizzy from being sucker punched, here’s the run down for this weekend…

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Tags: Antonio De Angelis, Brickhouse, Clive Henry, Corsica Studios, Craig Richards, Dan Ghenacia, Derren Smart, DJ Three, Ekstravaganza, FB Julian, ivan smagghe, Jamie Jones, Joy Orbison, Jozif, Kubicle, Lee Foss, Metropolis, Nicholas Jaar, Plastic People, Prins Thomas, Prosumer, Public Life, Scrutton Street Warehouse, Sean Johnston, Soul Clap, T-Bar, The Mole, Warm

Optimo – Fabric 52 | Album Review

Friday, May 7th, 2010 | Album Review | No Comments

It’s pretty dark times for our northern breadrin in Glasgow. Their football club can barely scrape together the costs for an open top bus trophy tour; then there’s that ridiculous stat you always hear that a good proportion of the city lives in poverty at a level which rivals Zimbabwe and to add insult to injury their easterly sister Edinburgh gets voted the best place to live in the country. But these things are the least of the city’s worries. It’s more so the dark cloud that hangs over the legendary Sub Club since Optimo announced they were ending their Sunday night tenure. Their weekly blend of eclectic samplings will be sorely missed, I for one am gutted that I never made it that far up north to witness these legendary nights first hand. › Continue reading

Tags: Cumbia Moderna De Soledad, Desire, Fabric, Italians Do It Better, Optimo, Prins Thomas, Rebolledo, Rheingold, Roska, Spencer Parker, Sub Club, The Tyrell Corporation, Thomas Brinkmann

The Berlin Bus is Coming and Everybody’s Jumping | Weekend Round Up

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Event Preview | No Comments

It’s the end of the month… That can mean only one thing – pay day! And don’t the clubs know it. The arse end of the month is so stuffed with nights that it’s actually touching cloth wanting to overspill into December. Consider this the official start to the run down to Christmas and New Years Eve/Day. › Continue reading

Tags: Alex Jones, Anthea, Black Strobe, Cable, Cedric Maison, Corsica Studios, DJ Hell, East Village, Ekstravaganza, Fabric, GetPhysical, Guide Schneider, Hector, Heidi, Horse Meat Disco, Hypercolour, Lindstrom, Luciano, M., M.A.N.D.Y, Magnus International, Mark Henning, matter, Metro Area, Morgan Geist, Mulletover, Pedro, Pete's 50th, Phonica, Prins Thomas, Prosumer, Simon Rigg, Thomas Sch, Thomas Schumacher, Tiefschwarz, Very Very Wrong Indeed, Vitalic, Warehouse Project

EarPipe Has an Even Hazier Look Back at the Music Through 2008

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | Music, News | 2 Comments

I normally struggle to think what tunes have been and gone in the last month, so trying to remember what I was listening to back in January is a mountainous mission in itself, which is probably why I’m going to write this avoiding any specifics and will talk around the subject pretending I know what I’m talking about like any good politician would do. But from what I can recollect “minimal” became housier (or maybe I became housier?), Dubstep collided with Techno and Disco has undergone a massive revival

So lets start with the shift towards the housier sounds. We noticed a lot of DJs ditching the repetitive and bland “minimal” sounds that were starting to stagnate and instead nudging more towards the house end of the spectrum. This meant a bit more funk and soul embedded into tracks, more vocals and jazzier samples. It may sound like we’re harking back to the funky house days circa 2000-02, but this was slightly different, it was more an amalgamation of what came out of the “minimal-tech” sounds which dominated ’05-’07 with older house music sensibilities as seen from the Chicago deep house days. A perfect example of this is probably My My, their remix of Djuma Soundsytem’s Les Dijnns ’s typifies where the sound was during 2007 whilst their latest release Everybody’s Talkin’ is a glimpse into the house sound doing the rounds at the moment. The same goes for Josh Wink’s Stay Out All Night and Matthew Styles We Said Nothing, both distinctly Chi-town influenced numbers which bebop’s to a fun and funked up skipping rhythm. In a similar vein who could forget Johnny D who’s had a fantastic year. His track Orbitallife was causing raucous everywhere through the summer not to mention all his other releases.

But then it wasn’t all fun funked up house, this year saw a lot of dub style house and techno music with heavy basslines at a relaxed pace. Tracks like Trus’me’s W.A.R Dub particularly stood out as did a lot of the output from Gedde’s new label MurMur which had artists like Bearweasel pumping out deep and hypnotic house. One of the best tracks of the year for me was the highly elusive Wax1001. There was no artist or label, just this white label containing the rawest house track ever. A simple track with clunky beats, classic hi hat patterns and a dark raw bassline made Wax1001 show how less is definitely more.

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Tags: Afefe Iku, Ame, Appleblim, Bearwesel, Disco, Disco Bloodbath, Dixon, Djuma Soundsystem, Dubfire, Dubstep, Fabric, Geddes, Henrik Schwarz, Hercules and Love Affair, Horse Meat Disco, house, Innervisions, Italo Boyz, James Murphy, Johnny D, Josh Wink, Laurent Garnier, LCD Soundsystem, Lindstrom, Metro Area, Minimal, Mulletover, Murmur, My My, Mymy, Osborne, Pat Mahoney, Prins Thomas, Quiet Village, Radioslave, Ricardo Villalobos, Secretsundaze, Shackleton, SiS, Skull Disco, Smalltown Supersound, Stimming, techno, Trus'me, Villalobos, Wax1001