Happy 9th Birthday to the Fabric crew! Still going strong after all these years, the formula - QUALITY across the board, and they always deliver! To celebrate, Toddla T & Serocee threw down this exclusive Fabric Birthday mix. If you can make it out, you best get your tickets now and be sure to QUEUE UP EARLY!
Xfm DJ Jon Hillcock emailed us to, in his words, “leave us drowning in a sumptuous sea of New Noise“. Below are tracklistings from his 4 hour radio show, that first aired on Saturday Sept. 20th. They include new music from from bands like Hockey, Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeds, White Belt Yellow Tag, Wave Machines, Deerhunter, Herman Dune and The Strokes’ drummer’s new band - Little Joy.
Xfm New Noise: Saturday 20th September 2008
Hour 1 (9 – 10pm)Listen again to this hour here
Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ (Zarcorp/EMI) single out October
hockey ‘3am Spanish’ (-) from album ‘Mind Chaos’ www.myspace.com/hockey
MGMT ‘Kids (Soulwax Remix)’ (Sony) b-side of single out 13th October
Cool Kids ‘What it Is’ (C.A.K.E/XL) from album ‘The Bake Sale’ out now
Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeds ‘You Let Me Go’ (Twenty Years of Boredom)
TV on the Radio ‘Golden Age’ (4AD) from album ‘Dear Science’
White Belt Yellow Tag ‘You’re Not Invincible’ (demo) www.myspace.com/whitebeltyellowtag
Drums of Death ‘Ozzzy!’ (Greco Roman) www.myspace.com/drumsofdeath4eva
Dananananaykroyd ‘Pink Sabbath’(Best Before) single out 6th October
The Kills ‘Cheap & Cheerful (SebastiAn Remix)’ (Domino)
Wave Machines ‘The Greatest Escape We Ever Made’ (Chess Club) single out 27th October www.myspace.com/mywavemachine
Golden Silvers ‘Magic Touch’ (Bronze Records) www.myspace.com/thegoldensilvers
Clor ‘Magic Touch’ (Parlophone) from album ‘Clor’
Hour 2 (10 – 11pm)Listen again to this separate hour here
Los Campesinos ‘Ways To Make It Through The Wall’ (Wichita) from album ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’ out 13th October
Kaiser Chiefs ‘Never Miss A Beat (Cut Copy Remix)’ (from Panda Toes blog)
Stricken City ‘Lost Art’ (from Pinglewood blog)
Bloc Party ‘Talons’ (Wichita) single out 20th October
The Streets ‘The Sherry End’ (679) from album ‘Everything is Borrowed’ out now
Madlib The Beat Konducta ‘Go! Ft. Guilty Simpson’ (Rapster/bbe))
Those Dancing Days ‘Those Dancing Days’ (Wichita) from album ‘Those Dancing Days’
Casio Kids ‘Togens Hule’ (Moshi Moshi) single out 27th October www.myspace.com/casiokids
Tom Vek ‘Nothing But Green Lights (Phones Madchester 90s Remix)’ (Island) b-side of ‘Nothing But Green Lights’ 12”
Deerhunter ‘Never Stops’ (4AD) from album ‘Microcastle’ out 27th October www.myspace.com/deerhunter
The Correspondants ‘Rentaclown’ (from You Can Call Me Pelski blog)
Hour 3 (11 – Midnight)Listen again to this separate hour here
Lo Fi Fnk ‘Want U’ (Kitsune) from ‘Kitsune Maison 6’ compilation out 20th October
Sky Larkin ‘Fossil, I’ (Wichita) single out 20th October
Air France ‘June Evenings’ (Something in Construction) from album ‘No Way Down’ out now www.myspace.com/theairfrance
Esau Mwamwaya & Architecture in Helsinki ‘Kamphopo’ (from Winnie Cooper blog)
Toddla T ‘Manabadman’ (1965) 7” single out now www.myspace.com/toddlat
Eugene McGuinness ‘Nightshift’ (Domino) from album ‘Eugene McGuinness’ out 13th October
Cryptonites ’Revolver Disco’ (from Trash Menagerie blog)
Cats in Paris ‘Cold Products’ (Kruger) available free from www.krugermagazine.com
Lemonade ‘Real Slime First Bounce (Mashepest Remix)’ (from Gorilla vs Bear blog)
James Yuill ‘This Sweet Love’ (Moshi Moshi) from album ‘Turning Down Water For Air’ out 13th October
Selfish Cunt ‘Avocado’ (Sparrow’s Tear) from album ‘English Chamber Music’ out now www.myspace.com/ixnewyork
The Shitty Limits ‘Espionage’ (DIRE) 7” single out now www.myspace.com/theshittylimits
Gang Gang Dance ft Tinchy Stryder ‘Princes’ (from Pinglewood blog)
Hour 4 (Midnight – 1am)Listen again to this separate hour here
Vampire Weekend ‘A Punk (acoustic with strings)’ (from To Die By Your Side blog)
Rufus Wainwright ‘Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)’ (from Birthday Party Berlin blog)
Fleet Foxes ‘He Doesn’t Know Why’ (Bella Union) single out October
Lawrence Arabia ‘The Mystery Lair’ (Honorary Bedouin) from album ‘Lawrence Arabia’ out now
The Research ‘I Think She’s The One I Love’ (DIY) single out 19th October
Herman Dune ‘My Home Is Nowhere Without You’ (City Slang) from album ‘Next Year in Zion’ out 19th Sept
The Felt Tips ‘My Girlfriend Tried To Run Me Over’ (Cloudberry) 7” single out now www.myspace.com/thefelttips
The Coney Island Sound ‘Introducing Mr Kellogg’ (Regular Beat) www.myspace.com/coneyislandsound
Little Joy ‘Don’t Watch Me Dancing’ (Rough Trade) from album ‘Little Joy’ out 4th November
Banjo or Freakout ‘Archangel’ (from Pinglewood Blog) / Alex Turner ‘A Choice of Three’ (spoken word piece) (Late Night Tales) www.myspace.com/banjoorfreakout
Laura Marling ‘Night Terror’ (Virgin) single out November
Everybody loves Toxie! Thanks to da man himself for sending us this mix to share with our TM homies. I especially like how the mix starts off, with some headbanging Metallica. ROCK ON.
Received this sexy little mix from London art rocker sweeties George and Fenner from Lesser Panda, who we featured - gosh, was it only back in Janurary? - to celebrate their new release, single “Carousel/Ghostdance” which debuts on 13th October 2008 !
If you get gooey and nostalgic over the great tunes from the 80s like the Cure, Talking Heads, Smiths and Psychadelic Furs, you’ll LOVE Lesser Panda - and you can catch a sneak of “Carousel” on this mix, which has also been featured on fellow music blog Fried my little brain - nice one.
Enjoy!
ps - is vanilla a euphemism for something or am i just being thick? yes, probably.
Blackpool’s darling Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots, and former lead singer of Dead Disco, has created a lovely mixtape entitled “Computer Fairyland Mixtape“, a short and sweet listen that will cause you to float off into her disco wonderland! Regarding the mixtape, Little Boots says, “Everyone keeps saying its too short… I stayed up all night and did it the day after I got back from LA with massive jet lag so please excuse. Speaking of which I’m going to back in a few weeks to play Nocturnal Festival (located in San Bernardino, CA), sick rave…. come see me?”
Be on the look out for Little Boots’ release which will come in the form of the “Arecibo” EP out mid-November through IAMSOUND Records. The EP will be on 12” vinyl and digitally through iTunes and emusic, produced by Joe from Hot Chip and Greg from Bird And The Bee. For everyone that is going ga-ga over Victoria, you’ll be pleased to know she is updating the Little Boots blog with news, images, and downloads!
01. Be Beat Girls - For Same Man
02. Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong (Riton Rerub)
03. Purple Crush - Physical Attraction
04. Popular Type - Febbre del Discotheque
05. Black Ghosts - Repetition Kills You (Emperor Machine Dub)
06. Trans X - Living On Video
07. Leon Jean Marie - Bring It On (Little Boots Remix)
DJ SPAZ. Photo courtesy of www.thefriendattack.com
During the course of this abysmal English summer, a Montreal DJ by the name of DJ SPAZ dropped a mix into TM that really cut through a lot of hazy, atmospheric summer type mixes we’d been getting that immediately made me sit up and connect.
After a couple of months of chatting by email, I can say that 33-year-old DJ Spaz, otherwise known as Alex Pearo, is one straight up no bullshit dude, which makes it even more of a pleasure to drop his mix on you lovely folk.
Spaz’s Robotic Mix starts with a winner of a tune, Chew Fu Phat’s remix of Florida hottie “I’m Da Man of My City” from Popov, throws in some Rico Tubbs, plus that nice Crooker’s remix I keep hearing everywhere – of Radioclit’s “Secousse” - then gets busy, banging through 40 odd more tunes.
The end result is a bouncing mix that’s most certainly informed by Alex’s anything-goes style (“good music whatever the style - if it sounds good I’ll probably drop it”), playing electro, Baltimore, ghetto house, house, hip hop, funk, dancehall. And no doubt further influenced by 15 years of Djing throughout Montreal: which included sitting tight on a hip hop and dancehall residency and being the buyer for indie hip hop at a record store for a good six years of those.
Alex explained that the tracks for Robotic Mix were all sourced via the internet, which was as much of a stylistic choice as it is an indicator of how important putting music online is these days.
He says:
“The interesting thing about this mix is all the different sources I used to get the music (blogs, forums, myspace pages, etc). It ain’t record digging like the old days aka 3 years ago, but the end result is similar. I think that the producers who remixed or produced the tracks on this mix have an original and futuristic sound, which is what drew me towards their music in the first place. Also surely many DJs might jump on some of these tracks eventually but they’ll have to hear it on a mix like this first.”
If you’re in Montreal, you can catch DJ Spaz on Thursdays at House - where they recently had DJ CZECH and LA RIOTS as guests – and at Coda’s Fix Fridays, one of Montreal’s biggest electro nights.
He’s jacked in the weekend residencies in favour of branching out of what can become a musical straight-jacket and getting out on the road, with Vancouver parties and an upcoming North American tour – can’t blame him really. Good luck with it Alex & keep us posted.
01. I’M DA MAN OF MY CITY (CHEW FU FIX)-POPOV
02. BMORE DOMINATOR-RICO TUBBS
03. SECOUSSE (CROOKERS RMX)-RADIOCLIT
04. LET’S GO TO WORK (ANDY GEORGES & JAKZ RMX)-BRYAN COX
05. BREAK IT DOWN (HERVE RMX)-ESTAW
06. BREAK IT DOWN (DETBOI RMX)-ESTAW
07. PUSH THE FEELING ON (DJ.DSTAR RMX)-HOODS UP
08. GANGSTER-RICO TUBBS
09. PARTY LIKE US (UDACHI RMX)-AC SLATER
10. TAKE ME UPP-N.R.O.T.B.
11. GUNSHOT LEAN FORWARD (ANDY GEORGE & JAKZ RMX)-DETBOI
12. SAY WHOA -A-TRAK
13. GRAB YA FUNKSTICK-KELEVRA
14. GET FAMILIAR FT RYE RYE (START THE VIOLENCE RMX)-COBRA KRAMES
15. EVERYBODY (HEADSHOTBOYZ RMX)-BACKSTREET BOYS
16. SOUND TAPE KILLING (DETBOI RMX)-TODDLA T
17. SMILE (DETBOI RMX)-KIDDA
18. STUCK ON REPEAT (FAKE BLOOD RMX)-LITTLE BOOTS
19. MOTHERFUCKING BASS (POPOF RMX)-DJ RUSH
20. RAVE ON-DON RIMINI
21. ON A ROLL MAN-MACHINES DON’T CARE
22. BACK IT UP MAN-FEADZ FT. SPANK ROCK
23. THE CHASE-ROB 3
24. BREW BARRYMORE-DIPLO
25. MAKING ME MONEY (SWITCH RMX)-JACKNIFE LEE
26. BIG DANCIN-BOUNCE CAMP
27. JERK IT (NACHO LOVERS RMX)-THUNDERHEIST
28. FASCINATION-KW GRIFF
29. NEWSTYLE CROOKS (CHAVY BOYS MIX)-SCOTTIE B
30. GETDOWN-METERHEAD
31. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN-DON RIMINI
32. MARS (DAVE NADA HOOD MIX)-FAKEBLOOD
33. MAKE IT BORDERLINE (RED FOXX RMX)-MICHEAL GRAY
34. HOLD ME DOWN (FOAMO RMX)-PRIMARY 1
35. BILL COSBY SWEATER (HOSTAGE RMX)-OH SNAP!
36. THROW IT AWAY (DESIGNER DRUGS RMX)-MESSINIAN
37. HOT CHICK (DETBOI RMX)-UFFIE
38. ANYWAY YOU CHOOSE TO GIVE IT (FAKE BLOOD RMX)-THE BLACK GHOSTS
39. LOOK FOR THE WOMAN (FAKE BLOOD RMX)-DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP
40. KAPUTT IN HOLLYWOOD (TROUBLEMAKER RMX)-ROBOSONIC
41. GREAT DJ (CALVIN HARRIS RMX)-THE TINGS TINGS
Rounding off the Futurecop! mixes, here’s their latest August mix with many original Futurecop! tracks we’ve all come to love and some of their favorites. Look out for their EP in the coming future! Waiting on a track listing..
Taken from their July 10th podcast, ‘We Are The Future‘ mix by Futurecop! will leave you basking in these 80’s tunes and 2 of their own, then reaching for your nearest Rubik’s Cube. Check the Futurecop! blog for updates!
01. Madonna – Borderline
02. Cameo – Word Up
03. Phil Collins – Sussudio
04. Belinda Carlisle - We Want The Same Thing
05. Janet Jackson – Principle Pleasure
06. Jermaine Stewart – We Don’t Have To Take Clothes Off
07. Futurecop! – Tonight’s Hero
08. Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
09. Bruce Hornsby – The Long Race
10. Kenny Loggins – St Elmo’s Fire
11. Robert Tepper – No Easy Way Out
12. Simple Minds – Don’t you (Forget About Me)
13. Futurecop! – Transformers
14. Robbie Robb – In Time (Futurecop! edit)
Growing up in the U.S. in the 80’s meant endless viewing of John Hughes films. I believe I watched Weird Science over 400 times, Sixteen Candles, 500 times and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 600 times. I could never get enough and rotated through those three fantastic movies. Every once in a while it’s nice to be taken back to all that was birthed out of that culture – Nintendo, E.T., Transformers, My Little Pony, Molly Ringwald, Miami Vice, David Lee Roth, Apple, Micheal J. Fox, Jem and the Holograms and so much more.
Viewing Futurecop!’s profile page takes me back to that 80’s wonderland. Here are a string of mixes from the past few months that have come out of Futurecop! land, that I never got around to posting. Thanks to Valerie for posting Futurecop! Live at Berlin Lounge, Australia, from June. Enjoy!
When NYC’s Mishka and Canada’s Jokers of the Scene get together, this is what happens – Mix tape love!!! Featured on the Mishka bloglin, we’ve snatched it up so we can spread the love around a bit more! Here’s what Mishka had to say on mix tapes and their collab with JOTS!
“Mix tapes have always been an integral part of NYC’s underground culture and burgeoning music scene, and as such, Mishka is proud to carry on the tradition with the launch of Keep Watch. Featuring top DJ’s hailing from every genre and geographic corner, Mishka’s Keep Watch party-mixes celebrates one of the most widely practiced American art forms. Released on a semi regular basis (usually to accompanying party), the mixes will be available for free download through our site, the Bloglin and very shortly podcast on Itunes.
To kick off the Keep Watch series, we have invited our Canadian friends, Jokers of the Scene (JOTS), to put together something special just for you. This first volume by JOTS also celebrates the 5th anniversary of their high popular club night Disorganised, which has hosted the earliest Canadian appearances of such party heroes like MSTRKRFT, CSS, Diplo, Crystal Castles and Girl Talk. Listeners can expect to hear mind-melting mixes that are loud, fun and guaranteed to light up dance floors world wide.” – Mishka
01. Audiofly & Paul Harris - Miscalate
02. Bumblebeez - Rio (Boy 8-bit Remix)
03. Style of Eye - Girls
04. Fairmont - Fade and Saturate
05. Congorock - Runark (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
06. Machines Don’t Care - Afrojacker
07. Sawtooth Sucka - Letting Go (Andy George Remix)
08. Bart B More - Bingo Players (Diplo Remix)
09. Dj Rob - The Chase
10. Jokers of the Scene - Acidrod (Destroy Disco Remix)
11. Baobinga - State of Ghetto Jackin
12. Nacho Lovers - Go On (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
13. Dj Rush - Motherfucking Bass (Popof Remix)
14. Lil Bo Tweak - Pressin’ On
15. Rejected - Let’s Go Juno (Harvard Bass’s More Chords Edit)
16. Santogold - Les Artistes (Switch Remix)
17. Thunderheist - Jerk It (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
