The Plugs

This Wednesday sees a nice little launch party for Brighton’s indie and electro pop blog phenomenon The Recommender, which was started over a year ago and has become a real hit here on our seaside city.  I never plug Brighton nights enough, which is a shame as it’s really been getting a piece of the action with live music and dance music still both going strong.

So, it’s mid-week, but I think I’m going to go down check it out as there are some interesting looking bands on, like The Plugs, which is indie pop from  Does It Offend You, Yeah?’s front man, and the charmingly named The Woo!Worths.

The Woo!Worths

Party darlings can get snapped in the Photoboosh, by fashion photographer, Eleni Mettyear (check out her flickr pics) and look forward to receiving their free goodie bag, promising amongst its treats the Recommender’s monthly mixtape.

If you’re not yet a fan of the site, the Battery Powered DJs will be playing music featured on the blog.

The Recomender Launch Party, Wednesday 3 Feb 2010, Doors 8pm @ Jam, Middle Street, Brighton. £3 advanced tickets from Resident, Rounder Records and Ape.

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The Breakspoll 2010 line-up has been announced, and there are some heavy names involved this year, with a lot of back to back and vs performances! You’d never see this line-up at a festival, so make sure you buy tickets as it’s gonna be a roadblock (as all the kids are saying these days)!

With a 4500 capacity, that will be a lot of bald headed goatee beard sporting parka wearing DJs dancing around 12 girls! Yep Breakspoll can be a sausage fest, but with a line up like this, I don’t mind a sweaty cuddle from someone into the scene like me – especially with a line up like this!

I’m shortlisted for two awards this year, Best Radio Show and Best Podcast so if you fancy showing your support, then head over to Breakspoll.com and vote for me!

Breakspoll 2010 Stats

Two massive events with a huge line up to be held in two of London’s most prestigious venues, Fabric and Matter. Both have killer sound systems and a huge, huge line up!

• 4500 people
• 70 artists and
• 18 awards
• 2 nights

Breakspoll 2010 at fabric Line-Up (25th Feb 2010)

• The Breakspoll Awards – presented by Janette Slack & Ken Mac
• Afghan Headspin vs Pixel Fist ft Stapleton MC
• Apply The Breaks
• Ben & Lex
• Bombstrikes pres. Mooqee & Pimpsoul
• BSD
• Cut La Roc vs Peo De Pitte
• Deekline vs Keith Mackenzie ft Sporty O
• Elite Force
• Eshericks
• Farace
• Featurecast
• Flore ft Rodney P & MC Chickaboo
• Freestylers vs Ctrl-Z
• Future Funk Squad
• High Rankin vs Gella
• Left/Right
• Karl Sav
• Krafty Kuts vs A-Skillz (4 decks)
• NAPT vs Beat Assassins
• Quadrat Beat
• Shut Up and Dance
• Smash Hifi (ft Martin Hoerger & Leeroy Thornhill)
• Specimen A vs Pyramid ft Miss Trouble & MC Incyte
• Swifty B & LockUp ft C.A.$.H MC
• Vent
• 9B0

Stanton Sessions presents Breakspoll Aftershow at matter, London (Friday 26th February)

Working closely alongside the Stanton Warriors, Breakspoll delivers a line-up of the Worlds freshest producers spanning breaks, dubstep, hip-hop, and house, combined with the powerhouse system at matter providing an all encompassing musical assault.

Breakspoll Afterparty @ matter (Room 1)

• Stanton Warriors
• KOOL KEITH (Ultramagnetic MCs / The Black Elvis / the one who done Diesel Power w/ Prodigy)
• Adam Freeland
• Bassbin Twins (live)
• Doorly
• Sick Rick
• More TBA

Breakspoll Afterparty @ matter (Room 2)

• The Freestylers
• Drummattic Twins
• Lady Waks
• Slyde
• Adsorb
• Richie Balboa Vs Will Streetwise Feat MC Benny C
• More TBA

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So this internet thing might achieve the impossibility of simultaneously being amongst hundreds of so-called friends while still being entirely alone. Thus the joy of personal connection combined with intimately shared musical taste is an experience so delightful it is only matched by the afterthought that this is partly a frustrating illusion created by the world wide web, and that in fact this connection is being made thousands of miles away from me, this time, in Boston.

Max Pearl, aka DJ Kat Fyte is our newest progenitor of the “nu whirled music” vision, coming in correct alongside other Mass. reps like Dancehall Diva Rizzla and the mother/father of the “nu whirled” Wayne Marshall, of Beat Research and Wayne & Wax.Today marks the introduction of DJ Kat Fyte the DJ and genre-destroyer, but also DJ Kat Fyte the promoter and curator.

Kat Fyte is involved in hosting touchstone DJ’s of the transnational bass movement at this year’s Boston Electronic Music Festival “Together”, taking place between February 8th and February 14th. Kat Fyte’s invites include Trash Menagerie short-list favorites DJ/Rupture, Kingdom, Kat Fyte himself, and the homie Taliesin of Dutty Artz, all corralling to put truth to power in the superhuman command of heavy bass music from the depths of the globe’s party basement.

To kick-off Together and originally mixed for Boston-based blog On A Friday, DJ Kat Fyte offers a very persuasive argument for the intersection of Dancehall rudeness and underground club music. I look forward to hearing more from this kid, as I’ll be even more thoroughly delighted to share a physical stage with him, rather than this lonely alternative.

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DJ Kat Fyte – The Cat In A Bag (Mix for On A Friday)

Tracklist (45:55):

01. Balkan Beat Box – “Bulgarian Chicks (INSPKTR Bootleg)”
02. Sticky feat. Natalie Storm – “Look Pon Me feat. Natalie Storm”
03. Princess – “Frontline – Original Mix”
04. Heckmann – “mushroom man ji fi remix”
05. Killaqueenz – “Double Up feat. Lady Chann (The Only & Breakdown Remix)”
06. Malente&Dex feat. New Kidz – “Lions (Douster Remix)”
07. Shystie – “Pull It (ill Blu Funky Mix)”
08. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)”
09. Headhunter – “Prototype (Modeselektor’s Broken Handbrake Remix)”
10. Pangaea – “Memories”
11. Octa Push – “Ai Nadia”
12. K Dot – “Get Milli Get Mad (DJ Q remix)”
13. Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix) Simian Mobile Disco
14. ??? – ??? (White label)
15. Kat Fyte – “Birthday Sex (PAINFUL EDIT)”
16. Sp:Mc – “Trust Nobody”
17. Zomby – “Liquid Dancehall”
18. TEMPA T – “Next Hype (Starkey Vocal Mix)”
19. Jahdan Blakkamoore – “The General Remix feat. General Steele”

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Kick your weekend off with “Fuck 2009″, a mix put together by Destructo, aka Gary Richards, one of the driving forces behind the infamous HARD events in L.A. Listen in on Hard Radio, which happens Saturday nights at various stations listed at the link and get ready for HARD 13! The next in the relentless Hard series, HARD 13, returns with headliners Fake Blood and Jack Beats, along with Boy 8-Bit and Destructo, March 13th, 2010 at Club Nokia in Downtown LA.

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Destructo – Hard Radio Fuck 2009 Mix

01. Terry Poison – Comme CI Comme Ca (Twelves remix)
02. Gucci Vump – Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 remix)
03. Gucci Vump – The Boogieman (Downtown remix)
04. Yolanda – Be Cool Holy Cow
05. Afrojack, Benny Rodrigues – Something (Original Mix)
06. Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Jack beats remix)
07. SonicC – Stickin (Orginal mix)
08. Yuksek – Extraball (Breakbot remix)
09. 7 Dance With Me (Switch remix)
10. Afrojack – Thief (Original mix)
11. Afrojack – Pitbull, Honorebel Now you see it feat. Jump Smokers
12. Pompeii – Obi blanche remix
13. Mr. Oizo – Cheetas w/Missy Elliot
14. Fake Blood – I think I like it

I want to share with our San Francisco readers that myself The Crooked Clef, Taliesin of Dutty Artz, and Chief Boima of Ghetto Bassquake fame will be rumbling with the Slayer’s Club DJ crew at the Bollyhood Cafe on Friday at 9pm. I’m super honored to be playing with these fine DJ’s, and I’m sure you will feel similarly if you decide to join us. Specifics are below, and if you need convincing there are any number of mixtapes and examples of bass carnage for you to gnaw on. Be sure to revisit Chief Boima’s Dutty Artz EP “African By the Bay” before you make your excursion, as it will surely bring you out if none of the other DJ’s will.

Celebrate fall and it’s darkness at the monthly takeover of ‘Rumble Lounge’ at Rodan, Chicago, where minimal, subtle and moody sides of dubstep and techno and the increasing overlap between the two are explored. A night for casual listeners, aficionados, and the curious alike to enjoy a relaxing environment and appreciate the texture in the more subdued stylings of dubstep, dub-techno, uk funky, minimal house and techno with DJs Olin and akademy. Last month was fantastic, this month should be even better. Nuff said. Peep aKademy’s mix below for an array of deep dub step/future dub/deep tech house and Olin’s mix of deep house/tech house and a bit of future dub.

Rumble Lounge
Wednesday, Dec 9th

Dj’s
Olin (Klientele, Trustus)
aKademy (Opaque Project)

Rodan
1530 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
NO COVER
Details -
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1/2 price sake with the purchase of any makimono
$5 Bartender’s choice cocktail
$2 PBR

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aKademy – Microseism

01. Silkie – The Horizon
02. Breakage – Rain
03. Scuba – Aesaunic
04. Blind Minded – Tekatek
05. Stimming – Stormdrum
06. Claude Von Stroke – Vocal Chords
07. Radio Head – Nude (Justin Martin Remix)
08. Joy Orbison – J. Doe
09. Alys Be and Mr Lager – Tell Me
10. Giant – Rain Mind
11. Indigo and Synkro – Turning
12. Jahdan Blakkamoore – Get Hustlin
13. Emalkay – Angie Got Stoned
14. Shortstuff – Relapse
15. James Blake – Air & Lack Thereof
16. Guido – Beautiful Complication
17. Thee-O & Merlyn Martin – Refugee (aKademy Dub)
18. 6Blocc feat Buju Banton – Murderer
19. Skream – Angry
20. Rob Sparx – The Funk (Synkro Mix)
21. Submerse – 94
22. L-Wiz – Girl From Codeine City
23. Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The XX Remix)

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Olin – Rumble Lounge promo mix

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