The unstoppable D.O.N.S cements himself in the heart of music lovers once again, with his new release a re rub of the classic ‘Big Fun’ ‘paying homage to his musical roots backed up with an exceptional remix from Dave Spoon. Already riding high at No 1 in the Ministry of Sound download charts, this track is tipped for HUGE success.
Featuring the sultry voice of Terri B, “Big Fun” is set for release on the 20th April 2007 on the almighty Ministry of Sound label Hed Kandi. An uplifting piece of blissed out electronica, you cannot help but fall in love with Terri’s beautiful vocals over a hooky bass line that is D.O.N.S trademark. With support already from Radio 1’s Pete Tong and Trophy Twins, Mark Knight, Will Bailey, Chris Lake, Soul Avengers, Jonathan Ulysess, Jim Shaft Ryan, Mark Doyle and Jim Breese.
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Welcome to the dawn of ‘uneasy listening’. Imagine a Ninjitsu-trained hybrid of Tom Waits, Aphex Twin, and Debussy, and you have your finger on the mere tip of Automated Acoustics’ giant creative iceberg. 26 year old musician, filmmaker, songwriter, and 8th Kyu belt, Lawrence, makes Amon Tobin look like Stock, Aitken, and Waterman. Experimental electronica and avant-garde beats collide on his 16 track debut album, ‘Love To The Dedicated Listener’, creating over an hour of the most inventive music you’re likely to hear this year.
Automated Acoustics is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire. On this album, in addition to writing and providing all the vocals, he plays autoharp, cello, mbira (thumb piano), organ, violin, marimba, glockenspiel, drums, steelpan, percussion, piano, keys/synth, guitar, bass, singapore whistle, beatboxing, body percussion, the world’s weirdest guitar, and many more. There’s not one recorded music sample to be found, and he only uses homemade or old instruments, picking them up from charity shops and car-boot sales, and modifying and repairing them to his satisfaction.
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Clandestino is Sunday night clubbing with a difference – delicious house, techno and electro for a European crowd who like to dress up to get down. A party that looks as good it sounds and sounds as good as it looks. Clandestino clubbers don’t normally give a damn if they have to work on Monday, but with the May Day bank holiday, an extended opening time of 7am and an extra special line-up there is really no excuse not to put your gladrags on.
Clandestino has been setting the standards for end of the weekend clubbing since 2002, when Miss Jools and Luca Elle decided that they wanted to start their own little haven of music and decadence on the first Sunday of every month in the heart of London.
Residents Miss Jools, Luca Elle and Kumarish are joined by cutting edge guests from across Europe and beyond.
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Big & Dirty is one of those labels that does exactly what it says on the record sleeve - bold, thumping beats, raw and filthy electro noises and tunes that strut out of the speakers with an air of supreme confidence. Backed by the passionate crew at Be Yourself, we are proud to present a new mix series called ‘Big & Dirty Sounds by…’ and who better to kick it off than the scorchin’ German duo DJ Delicious & Till West.
They exploded into the worldwide consciousness last year with the immense ‘Same Man’, a record that shot straight to the front of every discerning house DJ’s record bag and devastated Ibiza all summer. No one hit wonders, they’ve put out a string of top-quality productions since including the party-starting ‘Rockin’’ under the Punk-A-Delic guise that is currently doing just that to dancefloors everywhere and impressed the refined ears of Marco V so much he re-worked it and snapped it up for his label.
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Of course, we could go completely over the top and use every superlative in the book. Instead, it’s prefered to take a somewhat more modest approach and let you be the judge of the Dance Valley 2007 line-up. Still, we do want to mention that surprising and fresh were the guidelines when putting together the programme listed on this year’s poster. Dance Valley will return to its original one-day form on 14 July.
‘Circus’ is the fun-filled theme of this year’s edition. Naturally, since the festival’s premiere in 1995, music has always been the foundation, and programming that features quality combined with diversity continues to take priority 13 years later. This year, a number of new high-profile areas have been added. In keeping with tradition, once again a large number of artists will be making their Dance Valley debut.
In the valley, none other than Paul van Dyk – number one in the world, according to DJ Mag’s Top 100 list – will be headlining what hopefully will be a bright sunny day. The Berlin trance guru will be accompanied on the main stage by a group of musicians playing live, and will share the DJ booth with Ferry Corsten, Erick E., Marcel Woods and Umek vs. Valentino Kanzyani. Dance Valley 2007 will also mark the return of the second outdoor podium. With enough room for 10,000 hard dance fanatics, it’s time to raise the roof in more than one sense in the HQ area. In addition to a number of impressive back-to-back sets, the line-up also features sets by greats including Tom Harding, Yoji Biomehanika and Proteus. True to form, the black giant Carl Cox has invited a group of his best techno friends for the Global area, including several exciting new names. The capital’s Electronation organisation, too, has come up with a sizzling programme that will be music to the ears of every fan of quality underground techno, electro, tech-house and minimal.
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DMC, the great minds behind Back To Mine and Under the Influence, unleash the first in their storming new series. A bone-shaking ode to the best of the current dance-rock underground, ‘Neon Nights’ boasts infamous tracks by established mainstreamers alongside choice buzz cuts from up-and-coming and unsigned acts who are primed to make a suitably dramatic, Ketamine-drenched impact upon unsuspecting stereos everywhere.
Included in this immaculate, finger-on-the-pulse collection is sassy chanteuse Kate Nash’s infectious slab of brooding electro-pop, ‘Caroline’s a Victim’, The Gossip’s all-conquering disco anthem (and chart mainstay) ‘Standing in the Way of Control’, and Hadouken!’s psychotic, scene-assimilating amphetamine rush ‘Tuning In’.
Louche, U2-bating synth-punks Bono Must Die deliver an apt statement of intent with ‘We’re Better Than You’, and this confrontational line continues with the addition of Ali Love’s ‘K Hole (Sebastian Remix)’, a witty sonic dissection of a long night lost to horse tranquilizers, brought to you by a man fresh from his winning collaboration with The Chemical Brothers on their latest smash ‘Do It Again’.
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In November 2006, Ed Banger Records released their very first album, it was called ‘Lucky Boy’ and it was by a certain young chap named DJ Mehdi. Since then things have changed a little bit…
DJ Mehdi, alongside his label buddies Justice, Sebastian and Busy P, haven’t just shaken up clubland, they’ve grabbed it by the balls lifted it way above their head and slammed it to the ground! The French are back and they’re bigger and noiser than ever, but with all the hype and screaming young fans, Mehdi’s music injects a healthy dose of soul, backbone and disco fever, and boy does it sound good!
The original version of ‘Lucky Boy’ didn’t just get journalists hot under the collar; his massive tunes ‘I Am Somebody’, ‘Signature’, ‘Wee Bounce’ and ‘Lucky Boy’ have been the soundtrack to the hottest parties of the last 6 months. ‘The Kids’, as they say, love him and there was no better example of this when Ed Banger threw their 4th Birthday party in Paris in March, when 1000 fortunate party animals crammed into the ‘Espace Pierre Cardin’ and rocked out till the very early morning. Where else do you see people po-going like Punks, headbanging like Rockers, breaking like B-Boys and screaming like fans at an 80’s Michael Jackson gig?
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Tim Deluxe is back with a new single that’s set to explode both in the clubs and the charts and launch his brand new studio album. ‘Let The Beats Roll’ is released on 21st May and features Simon Franks from the Audio Bullys on vocals.
Already championed on Radio 1 by Zane Lowe, Jo Whiley and Pete Tong (Essential New Tune) who have all played the record several times even though only a handful of CD promos were in circulation, ‘Let The Beats Roll’ is the toughest jackin’ electro groove of the year. A simple bleepy melody, fearsome dirty electro beats, old school whoops and topped with the unmistakably dry vocals of Simon Franks of Audio Bullys ‘Let The Beats Roll’ is already set to be one of the tunes of 2007 - and it’s only April.
The pairing only happened by accident - Tim Deluxe just happened to be mixing the track when Simon Franks from Audio Bullys popped his head round the studio door. “Can I have a go at doing something over the top of that?” he enquired politely. A couple of hours later and what was initially intended as an instrumental track for Tim’s album had now turned into a hit record.
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Monday 14th May sees the eagerly awaited release of “No More Conversations” from the frankly fabulous Freeform Five.
Freeform Five are set to invade all dancefloors with their ’07 version of “No More Conversations”. Remixed and re-modelled by Mylo – to thank Anu from Freeform for whipping up the vocals for his track “Muscle Cars” - “No More Conversations” has already become a club monster and is on it’s way to becoming a bit of a classic tune. To compliment the Mylo Club Mix, Apollo have dug deep to get you the mix package to die for featuring Fedde Le Grand / Mason / Switch and Radiokillaz.
“No More Conversations” has already hit the No1 spot on both the Cool Cuts and Buzz Charts, has support from the likes of Pete Tong and Annie Mac and looks set to repeat this success everywhere else.
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Fast becoming one of the most talked about new arrivals of 2007, following tips from PopJustice, Sunday Times Culture and Perez Hilton. Dragonette are set to release their debut single on Mercury Records, entitled ‘I Get Around’, on April 23rd. The track is taken from their debut album ‘Galore’, which is out on July 16th.
‘I Get Around’ is a dirty, hooky-heavy sure-fire smash. Pioneering French label Kitsune has snapped up one of the mixes of the single for a future compilation and the tastemakers have already had their appetites whetted with a spectacular showcase that took place in London last week.
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If Franz Ferdinand are doing rock music that make people dance, Digitalism are making dance music that make people rock.
There are loads of rock bands making music for the dancefloor. Digitalism make electronic music that everyone can rock to. For the past two years, they have been the go-to men for indie remixes, having reworked the Klaxons, The Test Icicles, Cut Copy and The Futureheads, to devastating effect.
Digitalism hail from Hamburg. Isi, the German born son of Turkish immigrants, met Jens, the child of a liberal family, at the city’s Underground Solution record store. Jens Moelle was the first to find employment there, towards the end of the 1990s. When he took leave from the shop to devote more time to his school work, Isi filled. Later Jens returned, and the pair worked alongside each other: Jens in the shop, and Isi at the attendant record distribution business. They soon bonded over their shared love of dance and rock records.
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Renowned in their native Denmark, Blue Foundation’s CV reads like a who’s who of pop-tinged cool; they’ve supported Faithless, Mew and Gnarls Barkley; appeared on the MTV European Music Awards and at seminal festivals such as Roskilde and the Norwegian Woodi (no puns please!). Their last album ‘Sweep Of Days’ went Gold in Scandinavia and was even licensed to Japan! But it is this single, ‘Sweep’ (taken from the aforementioned album) that’s set to become their crowning glory.
The hype on the record began last summer when Hollywood director Michael Mann personally selected the original version to appear on the ‘Miami Vice’ soundtrack. Aware of the growing momentum, the band approached fellow Dane, Mikkel Metal to remix the track. And what a mix it is! As soon as it touched down at Renaissance Towers the decision to sign it was instantaneous, a sentiment shared in Bristol by one Nick Warren, who also put it on his latest Global Underground Paris compilation.
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Functional Records’ continue their onslaught into 2007 with the latest in a very fine release from one of Bristol’s leading talents’ the imitable Rob Smith with his second release for the label ‘Loveage’
Bristol based DJ, musician and remixer Rob Smith has been producing for over 12 years under various guises such as More Rockers, Henry, Louis & Smith, Jaz Klash and Smith & Mighty which over the years have seen him release a series of seminal dub heavy inspired drum and bass, dub, breaks and hip. As part of the legendary production outfit Smith & Mighty he has been responsible for production duties on early Massive Attack material as well as influencing fellow Bristol boy and drum’n’bass legend Roni Size.
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If you’ve had your ears anywhere near a dancefloor in the past few months, then you can’t fail to have heard one of clublands biggest anthems, Another Chance’s ‘Every Time I See Her (Sound Of Eden)’. A cover of Shades Of Rhythm’s rave classic, ‘Sound Of Eden’, this is simply one of dance music’s hottest records right now.
From the same outfit that brought you Bodyrox’s ‘Yeah Yeah’, the fired up electro anthem that hit No.2 in the national charts in January, Another Chance is Jon Pearn (of Full Intention fame) and Nick Bridges’ other production project, with Abigail Bailey and Xavier Barnet providing the new vocals.
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After a week off for Easter, Pete is back with this weeks show. He has videos from videos from Groove Armada and Damien J Carter,
an Upfront Tune from Nicole Otero.
Weekend Manoeuvres and an exclusive interview with Dave Spoon
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