29/11/2006
On December 13th 2006, The Scumfrog will make a big splash in the online game/community Second Life. His contribution to this virtual world comes in the way of a 24 hour party island called Skyros
Skyros – named after the Greek island where The Scumfrog spent his childhood summer?s and started his DJ career 18 years ago ? is being developed by Loudbaby.com to become a new haven for fans of Electronic Dance Music. The virtual playground will be a combination of a game, a chat room, a vehicle for streaming DJ sets and a networking site. The pride of Skyros will be the otherworldly club ?Glam Scum.? Set to open in February 2007, this club is rumored to raise the bar for the new phenomenon of online clubbing through its design and audio/visual programming.
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29/11/2006
What does dance music mean to you? If it means commercial drivel, high-street clubbing, and chav house then kindly look away now. If, however, you?re partial to something a little more cerebral, then meet OrtzRoka?s stunning new production, ?T2?, another electronic broadside on Deeper Substance Records, one of the hottest young imprints on the block.
Half the pleasure of electronica is finding real gems, music you stumble across at derelict warehouses at 7am on a Saturday morning while trying to navigate your way home. That?s where you?ll find the Deeper Substance crew, a record label and group of like-minded individuals that?s fast becoming a byword for quality, dancefloor fare. If dance music ever died, then collectives like this have brought it kicking and screaming back to life.
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29/11/2006
New Years Eve – the end of twelve months of night-time shenanigans and the start of another. Looking back over the year with a slightly hazy memory, we?ve had some fantastic guests grace the decks of The End & AKA and some parties that we never wanted to finish. Some of the best nights of the year, however, have been with our very own kings of the blue DJ booth Layo and Bushwacka! at their monthly Olmeto parties. It seemed only fitting, therefore, that the deadly duo should welcome in 2007 with another of their legendary all night long performances.
Layo and Bushwacka!?s Olmeto night at The End draws in one of the most loyal, friendly and up for it crowds in the capital, and no wonder, as the music flows from deep house to breaks to techno via rolling drum lines, haunting melodies and funking electronic beats. 2006 saw the release of their third artist album Feels Closer, from which some of The End anthems of the year were born, including the growling title track, and the Joe Jackson inspired Ride the Train ? out in December with a new Bushwacka! mix.
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29/11/2006
For one lucky clubber Christmas is coming a little earlier than December 24th. tidy HQ are going to give someone somewhere the ultimate present – a chalet at this year’s NYE Weekender on December 30th, 31st and January 1st!
You and three friends could be having it large and in style as tidy go all out to ring in the New Year. Pontins in Blackpool is the setting for three days of the most amazing music and up-for-it partying you’ll ever witness in your life!
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29/11/2006
It’s like someone keeps putting Miracle Grow underneath the Hard Dance Awards 2006 because they get bigger and bigger by the second! At this rate they’ll be bursting out of the Brixton Academy come Saturday February 24th!
Huge news is that they have bagged one of the scene’s most sought-after DJs to perform on the night. She’s a true legend, adored by fans all over the world and her musical style is as uncompromising as it is sensational. The one and only Lisa Pin-Up will be live and firing on all cylinders on the main stage alongside Edison Factor Live, K90 Live, Lisa Lashes, the Tidy Boys and more!
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27/11/2006
Positiva heads into 2007 with a little something for the party season. The UK’s biggest dance label has gone for the jugular, bringing new and old ears alike the only official remix of Blondie’s ‘Heart Of Glass’, courtesy of Edison, aka Andy Chatterley. Currently rocking the DJ sets of Pete Tong, Annie Mac, and a host more, expect this to be one of the biggest anthems come New Year?s Eve.
Whether you know him as The Droyds, Demeter, EVE3000, or one half of Buick Project and Skylark with Nic Fancuili, you’ll know Chatterley is one of the most respected producers on the scene, with a pedigree that stretches back through the Noughties and Nineties. He?s recently remixed Muse, and produced up and coming bands, Deaf Stereo, Motormark, and Blondelle.
Almost peerless, Blondie were arguably the most influential group of the late 1970’s New York new wave scene, and scored hits with reggae, rock/disco, and hip hop. Their contribution to electronic music and the wider spheres of pop culture is immense. Be it the music, an intoxicating mix of guitars and electronic elements, or their style aesthetic (you only have to walk through London’s East End to see the latter) they?ve had an enduring appeal that has earned them a permanent place in club culture ? from Studio 54 through to today?s electro scenes dotted across the globe. Following a prestigious nomination into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, it?s also the band?s 30th anniversary this year (2006).
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27/11/2006
That?s right our kid, iO Music continue it?s drive to become one of the UK?s leading purveyors of all that?s electronic and house (hey, just don?t call it Electro House!) With this stunning fresh new single from one of the hottest production teams in electronic house Martin Eyerer and Chi-Thien Nguyen, better known as Chopstick
If you know the difference between house (as in where you live) and house (the music) chances are you?ll have heard of these guys. Both hugely influential producers in their own right; Martin with releases on labels such as Ministry Of Sound, Above The Sky, Unsubmissive alongside numerous collaborations and side projects whilst Chopstick has released music through Hooj, Silly Spider and his own Criminal Records. Both sides of the team have a huge amount of support from such deck luminaries as Digitalism, Chloe, Moguai, Funk D?void and Tom Neville, whilst the list of artists this duo have remixed include Kosheen, Snap, Simply Red, Deelite, Cassius, Deep Dish, LL Cool J, XZibit, Britney ?single again? Spears and Madonna. It?s fair to say I could actually run out space for famous people, DJs and labels that this duo have either remixed, been supported by or had records released by and that my friend, is no easy feat!
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27/11/2006
From being on the feet of everyone from 1960s Paris student revolutionaries to Mods and more recently the pioneers of the Garage, Grime and Rock ?n? Roll scenes, Kickers has always been loved by doers, not thinkers. Inspired by this heritage, their new Go Do Something campaign is a rallying, inspirational cry to creative minds, free-thinkers, bloggers, music-makers and individual spirits nationwide, encouraging them to take action, tell the world about their passions and make them happen.
They?re not asking people to start a revolution or take to the streets about global warming it?s about taking positive action to make things better in your own way, whether it be travelling the world, releasing a record or even growing a beard
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27/11/2006
In 2005, Ibiza based DJ Smokin Jo, and London’s renowned party organiser, Terry Hart, joined forces to create a party that was different from the trend saturating London’s club scene.
What started off as a relatively small intimate gathering at a small underground nightclub has progressed to road block parties at London’s Ministry of Sound. Throw in a couple of parties on the most famous terrace in the world at Space and secret beach parties, both in Ibiza and you have NUDE.
The philosophy behind NUDE is “what you see is what you get”. We are all born into this world equal, with nothing to hide, nude, filthy, beautiful and loved. NUDE is as much about outrageous, quirky avant-garde performance as it is about contemporary first-rate music. Jo and Terry together wanted to incorporate their backgrounds in Theatre, Fashion and Dance into NUDE and this they certainly have done.
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26/11/2006
1. Noir / One Love (All Mixes) – Onephatdeepa
2. Insomnia 06 / Insomnia 06 – White
3. Balazko / Beautiful Day (Noir Remix) – Pumpz Recordings
4. Depeche Mode / Just Cant Get Enough (Dirty South Remix) – Mute
5. Sucker Djs / Fireworks (MK + MTV Mix) – Toolroom Records
6. Fedde Le Grand / Take No s*** – Fluential
7. Bump / I?m Rushing (Dave Spoon Mix) – Art & Craft
8. Chris Lake & Micky Slim / Shake – Rising Music
9. Midi & Mowree / Burnin? – Molto
10. Funkagenda pres Tikk Takk / Good To Me (Fai & Lewis Mix) – Groove Digital
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25/11/2006
For New Year?s Day, not only is mulletover hosting a party in a ?secret warehouse location?, in East London, but ? apart from announcing that resident Geddes will be in play – they are also keeping the line- up secret.
If you?ve been to a mulletover event before, you?ll know that the music is always good, the production is always good, the lighting is second to none (you?ll know when you see it) and – that you always have fun. If you haven?t, well, you need to find out.
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25/11/2006
It began in an unknown club in Liverpool and grew to dominate the global club scene; with an 11 year reign in Ibiza, worldwide tours, Creamfields festivals on every continent and some of the biggest DJ line ups on the planet, Cream has become a worldwide phenomena, influencing the lives of thousands, if not millions of people with their electric blend of dance music.
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25/11/2006
Decisions, decisions, decisions! It’s the biggest night of the year and the whole world has only one thing on its party-driven mind – let’s have it large! And then some!
So where will you be? At your neighbours’ annual New Year tea party? Down the local next to some sweaty bloke named Barry drinking stale ale? Or in the middle of a packed dancefloor at the mighty Shepherds Bush Empire, dancing like crazy with 2,000 other hard dance fans listening to quite possibly the best music ever played on earth?
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22/11/2006
On Saturday 16th December, London?s favourite electronic house night Club Azuli will open the doors of The Cross, for THE Christmas party of the season.
Everything Azuli turn their hands to, results in pure class, including their Club Azuli party. Each one fills the famous brick arches with the best in electronic edged house music, the worlds best DJs, and the country?s most gorgeous clubbers. And as it?s Christmas, Club Azuli will pull out all the stops including Christmas d?cor to mark the end of a great Club Azuli year.
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22/11/2006
Freak N?Chic #18 is two debut releases from two new producers – ?Tom King and Jay Massive? and ?Marc Antona?. And, as a little bonus, :Terry: – one of
Freak N?Chic?s finest – responsible for 2005?s ?Stop Talking EP?, adds a remix to Tom King and Jay Massive.
Track one ?Our first time? comes from Tom King and Jay Massive. King and Massive first met in the toilets of London?s Fabric nightclub – where a friendship was born based on ?a world of hedonism, daftness and music with gaps?. A few years later, and bored one weekend, they made their first track – ?Our First Time?. Ghenacia was first made aware of the release mby another Freak N?Chic artist ? Jamie Jones – Ghenacia tried to sign the track, but was put off until this year. He finally got to sign it at the beginning of the summer and played the track almost every week on the DC10 terrace. ?Our First Time? is a simple groover; a slow, sleazy, teasing builder with interjected bleeps and bops.
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