It’s time to have some fun. The boys in Vinyl Life have been at it for years rocking classic Hip-Hop, rave and house cassettes while at the same time collecting an impressive array of vintage analog gear. Seriously pissed off with the lack of presentation in modern electronic music, Vinyl Life built their debut album from the ground up and it’s all about the live show. Think Joey Beltram meets The Jungle Brothers meets Fast Eddie meets The KLF.

A true live act, New York City’s Vinyl Life is comprised of founder/programmer Butcha, MC Phaze Future and Keyboardist Richie Roxx. The stage show is comprised of a full on “rig” of analog gear set up on the stage where Phaze Future stands front and center dropping his signature rhymes and making an instant connection with audiences. And since most Vinyl Life tracks feature lyrics, this show is much more exciting than 45 minutes of instrumentals. There’s a classic pop element here that’s hard to resist and it’s the “gear-only” philosophy that gives Vinyl Life a sound like no other. Studio tracks have a live feel because they are produced in a dub style – the mixing board is the main instrument.

With a needle-on-the-record crackle, “Hot Sauce” immerses in some fresh Hip-House packed with Phaze Future’s hysterical lyrics, vocodered choruses, P-Funk bassline and 4/4 beats. “Hi-Tops” takes it way back to the rave era, throbbing with all of those great elements that made it an inspirational time for dance music. Yes, sirens are included. “Bass Go Boom” ventures out into breakier territories matching jagged beats and heavy synths with lyrics that cite Brillo Pads, Weed and Blanka from Street Fighter. Next, we turn down another road and find the album’s ballad – “Electric Symphony (feat. Nite Club).” It’s pure robot love with vocals split between Richie Roxx and Butcha. We wash away the tears and get ready to boogie once again with “Innovation (Sebastian Marciano Remix).” This is the big room dance track of the album and it possesses quite an electro synth line. It’s simply massive.

“Like This” is the album’s first single and a classic sing-a-long for the breakdancers. You can listen to this song and imagine kids spinning on their heads. “Elevator Up,” “Future Beat” and “Etch-A-Sketch” provide some more Hip-House madness, while “Good Life (It’s More Fun To Compute)” is Vinyl Life’s ode to Kraftwerk and a pretty sick cover. Next, for a real pace changer the boys visit the islands and recruit dancehall prophet Uzimon who spits some tropic thunder on “Press Rewind.” And if Vinyl Life’s comedic side was not yet apparent, then look no further than their 2009 reworking of De La Soul’s “Take It Off.” This one features Prince Paul collaborator J-Zone and proves that the more times change the more they remain the same.

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Preston’s electro pop magicians Team Waterpolo return with a new single in August in the shape of ‘Letting Go’. Seasoned Waterpolo watchers will know the track in its demo form as the moment where the band first caught the public eye propelling them to the forefront of the web as MySpace featured artist of the week and bagging them an NME Single Of The Week into the bargain.

The track is a taster for the band’s debut album, recorded in France at Black Box Studios and is radically reinvented from the version familiar to the diehard fanbase. Across the formats the single comes back with new Team Waterpolo music in the form of ‘Return To Sender’ and ‘Sexual Ice Age’ alongside a club classic in waiting courtesy of a Starsmith remix of ‘Letting Go’.

The summer has already seen the lads spend a weekend in at Glastonbury Festival, playing three sets at the Queens Head, The Orange Stage and the Dirty Boots Stage, whilst July is all about the Secret Garden Party on Thursday 23rd July.

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Summer may be at its tail-end by the time our August installment at matter comes along, but at Kinky Towers, we’re taking our clubbers to new heights. This is because our appetite for gargantuan line-ups is insatiable, our hunger for the finest performers is never suppressed and our thirst for new music is never quenched. Who cares what the weather’s like outside? At Kinky Malinki the sun will always shine on our salacious dancefloor.

In previous months at matter, we’ve given you Tom Novy, Kurd Maverick, Seamus Haji, Raymundo Rodriguez, Audiowhores and Kid Massive – all purveyors in the kinkiest house music around. What’s that? You want more? Okay then.

This is the Kinky Malinki playground at matter in August. Enjoy…..

ROOM ONE:

FUNKERMAN

Dutchman Ardie van Beek, or Funkerman as he’s now known around the world, teamed up with friend Raf and fellow Dutch DJ/producer Fedde Le Grand to create Flamingo Recordings in 2004, a house and electronic-tech label that is currently one of the hottest imprints in the world. Over the past5 years Funkerman and Flamingo Recordings have been behind such hits as ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’, ‘Take No Shhh’, ‘The Creeps’, ‘Speed Up’ and the current smash, ‘3 Minutes To Explain’. Not only that but as far as DJ diaries go, Funkerman’s is fit to bursting point. With his own Flamingo Nights series of parties becoming an international benchmark for high-class production and world calibre guest mixes, a successful label and a fast-growing reputation as the man to front up any dance floor, Funkerman’s finger is firmly on the house music pulse!

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D.O.N.S

D.O.N.S, are one of the biggest and finest house producers coming out of Germany at the moment. Notorious for their anthemic remixes of classsic house tracks such as ‘Pump Up The Jam’, ‘Big Fun’, ‘The Night Train’ and their current reworking of the Ralph Rosario classic ‘You Used To Hold Me’, D.O.N.S duo Oliver and Nils are also adept at remixing the more current and future sound of house, working with the likes of Dirty South, Erick Morillo, Steve Mac, Robbie Rivera, Bob Sinclar, John Dahlback and Roger Sanchez. Prepare to don your finest dancing shoes for these guys….

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PROK & FITCH

Brighton boys Ben Prok & James Fitch joined forces after meeting in a record store in 2006. Both DJ’s in their own right with 18 years experience between them, they discovered that their tastes were very similar and soon became the formidable DJ duo we know today. Their debut, Outro Lugar,was picked up by Roger Sanchez and released on his Stealth label. Since then, remixes for the Utah Saints, Freemasons, Seamus Haji, Funkagenda, Hoxton Whores and Kinky’s Kid Massive have fuelled their bouncy and energetic sound and unleashed it to the masses. With their own record label ‘Floorplay’, a string of new releases and DJ dates across the globe, Prok & Fitch are the hottest new thing on the electro circuit and we’re hoping for plenty of Kinky Floorplay indeed….

RAYMUNDO RODRIGUEZ

Raymundo Rodriguez is one of the most prolific DJ’s working today, with a relentless DJing schedule that has earnt him the reputation as ‘The DJ who never sleeps’

Ray is among the few dj’s in the world that can boast a healthy domestic and international dj career without having released a single track, something that is near enough impossible to achieve in this dj/producer dominated business. His devotion to everything house means he has a passion for it in all it’s forms, from deep lush grooves, right through to jackin beats and techno. Resident at Jaded, London’s biggest and most famous after party. After 2 fantastic years at the Egg club in Kings Cross, and 2 more legendary years at AKA/The End Raymundo goes into his 5th year as Jaded’s main resident, which has now moved to the Amazing Gothic Warehouse that is Ghost in East London!. Jaded has become a Sunday morning institution, guests that have dropped in for a spin include Paul Woolford, Ralph Lawson, James Zabielia, Nic Fancuilli, Tony Humphries, Clive Henry, Jose Nunez, Phil Weeks, Mike Monday, Tiefshwartz, Dan Curtin and Jamie Jones.

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ROOM TWO:

RASMUS FABER

Globe-trotting DJ, classically-trained pianist, producer, Farplane record label owner and remixer to the stars, Sweden’s Rasmus Faber is one of the most talented and captivating entertainers of the house music scene. Rasmus sets himself apart from his industry counterparts by incorporating not just three CDJ’s into his set but also flawless live piano playing which adds a whole ‘live’ elementand leaves crowds amazed and dancefloors in shambles. His star is risingnot only because of his showmanshipbut alsohis remix duties for industry icons such as Junior Jack, Miguel Migs, Axwell, Kaskade, Tiger Stripesand Kings Of Tomorrow. Needless to say, his own productions have truly stood the test of time with classics such as ‘Ever After’, ‘Divided/United’ and’Get Over Here’ as well as recent hits; ‘Are You Ready’ and ‘Everything Is Alright’ being permanent fixtures in many a DJ’s record box.

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CJ MACKINTOSH

Well not many clubnights can claim to have absolute clubbing legends and Godfathers of house musicas theirdistinguished regular guest but here at Kinky Malinki we can do just that. CJ Mackintosh has been setting our Kinky dancefloors alight ever since he came on board. What else is there to say about him? His sets are uniquely mesmerising and spellbinding. His ability to bring a dancefloor to its knees is second-to-none and his ear for sourcing out the finest in cutting-edge house music has had us in raptures for over two decades. He is CJ Mackintosh and he’s ready to do it all again at matter in August.

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So, there you have it. 5 of the biggest hitters in house music today. Allin one line-up, all exclusively with Kinky Malinki and all waiting to entertain. It’s play time…..

Club Name: Kinky Malinki

Venue: matter

Address: The 02, Peninsula Square, London SE10 ODY

Date: Saturday August 1st

DJs playing: Funkerman, D.O.N.S, Rasmus Faber, CJ Mackintosh & Prok & Fitch

Plus Grant Richards & Ja Da Vibe

Times/prices: 10pm-7am / Advance tickets £15/£20 NUS £15

Website/phone number: http://www.kinkymalinki.com / 0208 851 6848

DROP to the ground; take COVER by getting under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture; and HOLD ON on until the shaking stops. If there isn’t a table or desk near you, cover your face and head with your arms and crouch in an inside corner of the building.

Stay inside until shaking stops and it is safe to go outside.

This is it. The penultimate London party before we set off around the UK on the huge Mixmag club tour in September. And this time around it’s all about bass.

From the kingdoms of drum and bass, dubstep, electro and house, we’ve assembled the biggest bassiest beasts around.

We’ve got Sub Focus, the hottest rising star in drum and bass. We’ve got Hatcha and N Type, original dubstep legends. We’ve got DJ Zinc, junglist supreme. We’ve got incredible new talent in the form of Crystal Fighters playing a full live set, the smokin’ hot Basque electro five piece already being talked about as the single most exciting live show in dance music. We’ve got the superfresh Boy 8 Bit, new young star of grinding epic electro. We’ve got the fantastic Filthy Dukes, London’s lords of indie dance, the party starting genius of Radio One’s Jaymo & Andy George, the dubbed out madness of High Rankin and the sheer dancefloor ignition of usual suspects People Are Germs and the Union DJs.

This is room shaking, floor trembling, speaker punishing, party rocking mayhem.

This is a solid ten on the Richter scale.

This is Mixmag Big In The Bass.

Line-up in full

Crystal Fighters LIVE (kitsune)

Filthy Dukes (Kill Em ALL)

Subfocus (Ram Records)

DJ Zinc (Bingo Beats)

Jaymo & Andy George (BBC Radio 1)

Boy 8Bit (Mad Decent)

Hatcha Vs N-Type (FWD >> & Rinse)

Technicolour

Danaeo Live

I:AM

Fish Don’t Dance (1980 records)

People Are Germs

Union Djs

Jacob Husley WYS! & John&On

Plus guests: Supermilkmen, HeyBoyHeyGirl, Dansette Junior, John Ryan, Jul Bricks, OhLiuLiu, Jason Marx, S.O.N.A, Future Freakz, Dave Winney, Pure Filth Electro, OutofControl, 3D Music, Leroy Roberts, Labrum & Meekcoms, Mick D, Harez on Bongo’s + Many more

Another month another party marathon with Bitch. If you haven’t been in amongst it at a Bitch session – either in Ibiza, Leeds or Manchester – you certainly should be this month. In their summer home, BoHo – with its circular interior and opulently decorated confines– Bitch is likely to excel as drinks are cheap and entry prices are fair. You’ll also be treated to a state of the art light and sound installation and some all important pulsating electronica.

This month’s sounds come from:

Mason – a Dutch electro houser who, in the studio, remixes the works of Mylo, Luetzenkirchen for labels like CR2, Ministry of Sound, King Kong and Great Stuff. Having played institutions such as London’s Fabric and Germany’s Cocoon – this man is well versed in how to hold a dance floor in the palm of his hand.

Oliver Lang – a chunky and jacking man who acutely tailors his sets according to the dance floor vibe – be he spinning Judgment Sundays, Bora Bora or Ministry Of Sound – and who sites Danny Tanaglia as an main influence. That tells you all you need to know really.

Danny Savage – hard working DJ and promoter behind Leeds’ first and best fidget house and electro night, expect 4/4 from every nook of the genre.

H2 and Matteus complete the line ups and are beloved favourites of the Bitch crew wherever they happen to be playing. Perfect accompaniments to headliners, the pair wouldn’t keep getting air time if they couldn’t do the business.

It started in humble surrounds in drizzly, grimy Manchester, and flourished into a night Sankeys was quick to lock into regular sessions, so full and bouncing was the club, week-in, week-out. And now it is set to fully bloom under the Ibizan sky in what is fast becoming known as one of the Isle’s most beloved, intimate clubs – BoHo.

Festival season is well and truly underway here in the UK and with the beast that is Glastonbury behind us (South West Four artists Layo & Bushwacka, Timo Maas and David Guetta smashed the Dance Village!) we’ve a great SW4 video interview featuring the world’s undisputed No.1 DJ and Gallery resident DJ Armin van Buuren!

Voted the world’s No. 1 two years running and having just released the latest instalment of his hugely influential ‘A State Of Trance’ mix album series Armin looks set to dominate 2009. With a hectic summer schedule packed to the rafters with headline slots at festivals across the globe alongside his weekly Armada parties set to take place at Amnesia in Ibiza, this is a man truly at the top of his game. Having made such an impact at last year’s South West Four we’re more than thrilled to have him back. Check out a video interview where Armin talks about his summer ahead, his top picks for the summer and of course South West Four…

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