ORGANS OF LOVE / BONE / OPTIMO Dark Electro Cabaret from Jim McKinven, previously with One Dove. Laurie Anderson`s “X=X” and “White Lily” meet Add N To X. Goldfrapp`s choo-choo ch-boogie with torn stockings and a flick-knife instead of silk Agent Provocateur camiknickers and platforms. “Facefuck” is something German. Joe Meek getting blown by The...
It’s always nice to get a mix from Rune Lindbæk and this one is as good as ever taking in the brand new, and pretty special, mix of Joakim by Todd Terje, an unreleased Idjut Boys mix of Keren Ann’s ‘My Name Is Trouble’, the Toby Tobias mix of Hardway Brothers and some Arthur Russell...
Alright. Here’s that rare thing – a balearic party mix. I love a mellow one, as we all do, but its nice to hear a DJ in party mode and here’s Balearic Mike live and direct (well not live live) from the Vinyl Dreams launch party, San Francisco on the 18th of June in 2011....
Sometimes I feel like the only old articles I post are DJ Harvey ones but maybe that has just been recently but we’re not running the fan club honestly. I don’t even get the guru thing as I said before. I just think he’s a good bloke who stuck to his guns, throws a great...
Alexis Le-Tan has been into ‘this’ music for a long time now. His mixes have appeared on Lovefingers, Noise In My Head and Beats In Space and he has also released the Space Oddities compilations and various other edits over the years. He also runs a very fine creative agency based in Paris by the...
On my recent trip back to the UK I was lucky enough to bump into my old friend Kevin Summers, of Anomaly. He had come to a house party thrown in honour of my return, thinking it was the host’s birthday, but that’s beside the point (he did bring a nice card). Whilst reflecting on...
This interview with Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is from 1985 and comes from the Womad compilation Talking Book Volume One: An Introduction. Jeffes was a true great in our book and this is a lovely interview giving a little insight into the Penguin Cafe. (Please excuse the good doctors dodgy scanning ha.)...
Always good to welcome Sean Johnston / Hardway Bros back to the fold. Here he is with a great mix of lowdown, and sometimes dubby, house and disco business. Sean throws the A Love From Outer Space parties with Andrew Weatherall and they have a pretty big party coming up on Easter weekend at Corsica...
Quick heads up on this one. DJ Nature a.k.a Milo is in basement style DJ duties on Friday 30th March. This will be his first proper UK gig for a while (apart from a little lowdown session at LN-CC which saw the heads out and getting loose). You can see more on Milo in an...
We asked Tiago for a mix a long time back and here it is. Recorded and selected at home in the company of friends its one of those where he just goes as he chooses. You can hear Tiago in club mode here but the mix below is for your iPod ears. The man himself...
Ian Dewhirst, longtime Soul DJ and man behind Mastercuts and many other good things, just put this post on DJ History and I thought I’d put this up here almost so I could remember it. The thread was about Leeds club The Warehouse. Ian Dewhirst says… “Soft Cell recorded “Tainted Love” as a direct result...
SHAWN LEE’S PING PONG ORCHESTRA / SAN DIEGO / AFICIONADO RECORDINGS Shawn flicks on his Casio and channels Laurel Canyon. Dreaming of sunnier climes. Memories of everyone dancing at The Castle Hotel, Manchester. Moon played it to me and I thought it was a Crosby, Stills and Nash cover. Phil (Mison) does a respectful (both...
Andy Pye is the man behind Balearic Social, a one man balearic machine. He is far better than us at getting in touch with people and he’s getting results. His radio show is going from strength-to-strength and has had many guests since he last did a mix for us including The Seahawks, Jolyon Green, Sally...
Today is the first anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake, and I wanted to do something. Not a collection of sad songs, or conversely defiant anthems of solidarity. Not an in depth investigation or update on the state of Japan, North of Tokyo, South of Hokkaido. But something. How could I do nothing on this day?...
Jan Hammered (aka Ian Williams) has been doing mixes for us for some time now and have to say, as I’ve said before, they sit the line perfectly between music for the heads and music everyone can get. Here he is again with a new mix. Download While I have you Ian is soon moving...
