TONIGHT ! CRUCIAL & FRESH w/ GLOWING PALMS

Ahead of tonight’s Crucial & Fresh Party at the London Fields, Glowing Palms has sent us his track of the month. Keeping it all in the family, it’s Australia’s FREEKWENCY feat Sarah Bates – ‘Do What’s On Ya Mind’ on Gulf Point Records.

And the GP Bonus Ball:

“This is a sweet one – still not been able to locate a vinyl copy props to Ruf Dug for diggin’ it”

Tonight going to be a ripper. Need we say anymore. Click the link through to the Facebook Event Page. THX

Check our PROMO VID below.

BONUS BOLLYWOOD PARTY

In light of the overwhelming response to the last Bollywood party held at Sneaky Pete’s we have decided to have another one.

This time for free, at Filament Coffee which will have a bar and club pop up, as if by magic, for the duration of the Festival.

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Crucial & Fresh w/ Bell Towers

Friday night was a ripper. Thanks to all that came down danced and talked shite to each other. Follow the links and check the quality gear that Rohan has out there already. He also mixed with us on our radio show prior to the party, this will be available shortly. More events in the pipeline.

“Having recently made the jump from Melbourne to London, Rohan Bell Towers hasn’t wasted anytime making an impression. After releasing two records on Munich imprint Public Possession, delivering an impeccable Juno Plus Podcast and just partaking in the mandatory Boiler Room mix we are in no doubt that Bell Towers is more than qualified to bring the heat.” 

and our daft promo…

 

TEESH MIX 009 – Telfort

Appearing at TEESH’ new Saturday night slot at Sneaky Pete’s on June 14th, Telfort has recorded a mix demonstrating his plans for the dancefloor with panache. Enjoy an hour of excellent sounds plucked from a pool of DJ’s and Producers the world over including a healthy slather of Scottish representation.

The TEESH office is enjoying this working with the window open this sunny afternoon along with that Janzsoon Aeropress’d Coffeeeeeeeeeee 🙂 DJ Cheers x

Tracklist
Suzanne Kraft – Feel
Percussions – Sext
Presk – MOD1
Vince Watson – Rendezvous
Fort Romeau – Jetee
Telfort – Bansuri Tapes
Telfort – Artefact
Atlus – Zopiclone
John Daly – Move (Club Mix)
Chez Damier – Help Myself (Unreleased Reshape)
Joseph Marinetti – S W M
Ron Trent – I Feel The Rhythm
Damiano Von Erckert – No Fish In Detroit

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Day & Night Terrace Party with Vakula || Lovebirds || Brackles at The Prince of Wales

Eighty Six productions have asked us to play at their London party debut this Saturday at the Prince of Wales in Brixton. It’s an all day / all night terrace party sort of affair with the likes of Vakula, Love Birds and Brackles all playing. Myself Brixton local self proclaimed ‘badman,’ Flaxman will be taking control for a  4 hour back 2 back reach around session from 7 – 11 pm. To top it all off its a bank holiday weekend as well. Bevvy and dancing and never going to bed.

You can buy tickets through the Resident Advisor page here and check the event Facebook page here.

In the meantime here’s a little slice of Chi-Town goodness from Marco Spoon, Gotta Get Back In Your Arms, the dub version. You can also catch myself  (Semi-Deluxe) and Dr. Astroturf playing a 6 hour set at the Lock tavern this Sunday night. More details to come.

TEESH BOLLYWOOD DISCO PARTY – Top 5 Bollywood Recordings.

It is Friday tomorrow, more importantly it is the second Friday of the month which means it is time for TEESH. Joining myself and DJ Cheers is previous contributor and stalwart friend, young gun DJ Yves. (Check his TPA Mix Here).

We are going totally off piste here, throwing down the standard ‘House & Disco,’ instead it’s Bollywood all night. So here are my top 5 Bollywood tracks, in no particular order,with plenty of misinformation, inaccuracies and preconceived ideas. Get to the event page HERE. Yarrrr?!

Bappi Lahiri – ‘Come Closer’

As sultry as they come, this turbo steamed love hit from the 1984 movie Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki starring Govinda, Juhi Chawla and Raj Kiran should be used with discretion. Not suitable for the dance floor and will probably get anyone in to bed with you. For the sample spotters: ‘ONRA – Come Closer’

 

Chaalbaaz -‘ Na Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai’

This is absolutely bonkers, the video comes highly recommended. Look out for the  ‘Part Time Lover‘ parallels and the latin freestyle-esque sample  interludes. 

“Anju and Manju are twins separated when babies thanks to their mentally retarded nanny. An evil uncle Tribhuvan gets their parents killed in a car accident. He brings up Anju as coy and easily frightened girl. Manju grows up in a basti as a happy-go-lucky stage dancer…..” An absolute classic

 

Hassan Jehangir – ‘HAWA HAWA E HAWA’

Not strictly Indian (Pakistani in fact) this ones all about the big synth stabs and the drum fills. As usual the video is a top drawer. No doubt this will do the damage down your local discotheque.

 

R.D. Burman (with Asha Boshle and Kishore Kumore) – ‘AA DEKHEN JARA’

Never one to over use the word ‘big’ but this one is, Big. ‘Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian film score composer, who is considered one of the seminal music directors of the Indian film industry.’ This is lazy writing but I’m on my lunch break, my tiffin box awaits. If you are interested in this stuff then use Google. Here is a handy link to Google. Lots of good sound effects, lazers n’that on this one. Getting a War of The Worlds ‘vibe.’

 

 Charanjit Singh – ‘Raga Megh Malhar’ 

Simply couldn’t leave this out. Close your eyes and pick anyone of the tracks on this album. Listen to the whole thing here. Rather than paraphrase this about sums it up nicely. 

‘It was originally made in 1982 by a Bollywood soundtrack composer, intending to capitalise on the disco phenomenon with a combination of centuries-old classical Indian Ragas set to a disco backing. To achieve this Charanjit used a prototypical acid set-up of Roland TB303 bass melody sequencer and TR808 drum computer together with a Jupiter-8 keyboard. He basically created a sound which mirrored, and more importantly, pre-dated the first acid house record – Phuture’s ‘Acid Track’ by five years, and even preceded Chip E’s ‘Jack Trax’ in 1985.’

Put that in your Juan Atkins and smoke it.

 

Listen Again – CRUCIAL und FRESH! Radio w BEST INTENTIONS

Here’s another chance to listen to last Fridays radio show, airing from 8pm til 10pm in Hoxton’s MEATmission. Joining us in the booth were our guest from ‘Best Intentions.’ As expected they put together a top notch disco selection. There’s minimal chat, lots of beer, mixed 100% live and on wax.

TPA MIX 006 – Floatingboy ‘Catching a Vibe’

It’s Monday and you’ve heard/had enough club music. Doing the honors on the mixing front this week is Scotland’s own Floatingboy (resident at Juice, member of the Gastric Band and general explorer of sound.) Self effacing he is,  loquacious he is not. Cameron Cullen and egotism are words that dont go together, this boy’s got talent but doesn’t feel the need to shout about it. Have a listen to this brand new piece ‘So We Our Best Should Give.’ It contains emotion.

As for the mix, its as broad ranging as you can get, opening with the eccentric jazz of Sun Ra, moving on to the Huerco S (outsider house?) and beyond. I’m really not joking here, this mix defies all convention. I have listened to it six times now and it sounds completely different every time. Either way it’s an incredible accompaniment to start the start of the week.

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Sun Ra – ‘Demon’s Lullaby’
Huerco S – ‘Prinzif’
Quasimoto – ‘Catching a Vibe’
Nujabes – ‘Haiku’
Steve Spacek – ‘Dollar’
Floating Points – ‘For You’
John Coltrane – ‘Ascension’
Theo Parrish – ‘ Love Is War For Miles’
Takuya Matsumoto – ‘Drafting Under The Stairs’
James Mason – ‘Nightgruv’
Efdemin – ‘Revenge’
Pepe Bradock – ‘Right Way’
Cities Aviv – ‘Don’t Ever Look Back’
Steven Tang – ‘Some Solace’
Huerco S – ‘Elma’ (Ruff Rub)
Gala Drop – ‘Rauze’

TEESH MIX 006 – Semi Deluxe

As is tradition, another all vinyl mix put together before the next TEESH Party. Recorded in my room at 3 am using a pair of iPhone headphones. I think I lost the plot slightly towards the end, most of us probably do. See you on Friday.

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‘CRUCIAL und FRESH!’ Radio with Ledoux and Steve Seagull

Joining us on ‘CRUCIAL und FRESH!’ Radio at MEATtransMISSION tonight night are Ledoux (formerly BEN//LA//DASH) and Steve Seagull (Future Radio/Cosmic Pint Glass). Catch us from 10 -12, as usual it will be an all vinyl affair. You should probably not go out, this will be better than the warehouse you paid 30 quid to get into. Radio station HERE. Stay locked?

TPA MIX 004 – BEN//LA//DASH (Aslan Inst)

TPA Mix 004 arrived this morning courtesy of none other than BEN//LA//DASH who just recently kicked off our new ‘SNACK TRAX’ feature. Compiled in his yurt, all on vinyl, this has Ben’s signature italo disco seasoning sprinkled all over it. Have a taste.

Saâda Bonaire

There are numerous benefits to physically going out, walking into a record shop and buying records. Personally the most idea central to record collecting is that of serendipity. Soundcloud, the blogosphere, beatport and juno all have their benefits and to ignore them would be daft. Dependent on who you follow, like or have previously purchased you are generally fed a stream of music from artists that you already know. The beauty of walking into a record shop is the opportunity to break free of your ‘feeds’ and potentially hear something new (or old) that excites you and that you wouldn’t have found  otherwise.

Walking into Underground Solushn in Edinburgh last week and hearing this on the system instantly grabbed my attention. Initial impressions were that this was a new production, but not so.

Saâda Bonaire were formed in Bremen, Germany and were a sultry disco / world music duo that never gained the recognition they deserve. The double LP re-issued by Captured Tracks doesn’t come cheap but is worth every penny. What’s interesting is their use of musicians from the local immigration centre and the Eastern flavours they infuse throughout. You can read more about the album in more detail on the Captured Tracks website (here). Anyway, below are a couple of picks from the album.

Just a quick reminder about our radio show, ‘Crucial und Fresh’ this evening. We will be broadcasting directly from Hoxton’s very own MeatMISSION, going live on MEATtransMISSION radio from 8pm. Expect an eclectic selection of our current favourites, both weird and wonderful, Saâda Bonaire included. Stream it here.

Saâda Bonaire – ‘More Women’

Saâda Bonaire – ‘Invitation’

BarbaRAVE: Factory Floor – ‘Real Love’ (Optimo (Espacio) Remix)

It’s been a pretty wild couple of weeks in Edinburgh. We’ve been lucky enough to be involved with two very special parties. The first was a bit of a Christmas take over in the Blue Blazer and the second was a fundraiser called BarbaRAVE at the Cuckoos Nest on Saturday night. Things got a little out of hand (check the youtube video below). Despite that we raised over £700 for The Teenage Cancer Trust! “Big Ups!” (as they say in London) to Joel Kaplan for organising and remembering his big brother Jessie on his birthday. It was special night. There was a Buckfast raffle in the over capacity basement, great techno from Berlin Resident’s Owen Normand and Nick Dow (who provided incredible live set). Check both their Soundclouds. Marinello brought the evening to a close with a track he’s been championing alot recently – Factory Floor’s – Real Love (Optimo (Espacio) Remix). Released in 2011, it’s an absolute melter and you can hear it full below and in the youtube video. As previously iterated, it was an amazing night and thank you to all those involved!

If you are feeling generous then please, please donate via the Just Giving page that Joel has setup. HERE.

Komiko – ‘Feel Alright’

We will be playing records at one our favourite pubs in Stoke Newington this evening, The Lion on Church Street. We’ve six hours, from 8 til 2, down stairs in the bar, should be a hoot! Come and say hello. Image credit : Kevin Tadge /  Laura Lamp 

Trevino – ‘Another Lifetime’

It seems like a long time ago now but ‘Crucial und Fresh!’ was a resounding success with a full capacity crowd. Thanks to those that came down and had a dance, drank too much and fell in love.

The highlight of the evening for me (from what I can remember of it) was blasting Trevino’s ‘Another Lifetime.’ You’ll here this track being championed by few people at the moment but with good reason.

Our intention is to arrange a similar occurrence in the near future so keep an eye out. In the meantime you can find us (Dr Astroturf & Semi Deluxe) playing at our favourite boozer in Stoke Newington this Friday at The Lion (on Church Street) from 8pm til 2am. Pop your head in for more of the same.

Mercedes – ‘Living For The Moment’ (Booker’s Dub Mix)

Picked this wee 1994 house number up for a whole pound at Lucky Seven Records this evening.

The Live Band – A Chance For Hope

Was having a listen to an old Street Wise compilation I have and this came on. I was struck by the strings.

Mark Fisher (ft Dotty Green) – Love Situation

Picked this up for 33.3 pence…

Mark Fisher (ft Dotty Green) – Love Situation (Broadway Mix – (Tooting))

Mark Fisher (ft Dotty Green) – Love Situation (Dub)

Bobbi G – Lollipop

Found at the Boogie Cartel

Plair – Classy Freak

Burns Night & The Average White Band

It’s Burns Night. To help you celebrate have some Scottish funk courtesy of The Average White Band.

Stop The Rain.. sampled by Gang Starr

The Right Now – Call Girl (Hot Toddy Mix)

Out yesterday on Deep & Disco

6th Borough Project – The Vibes [Delusions Of Grandeur]

Craig Smith and Graeme Clark reppin’ Edinburgh here..

ILL005 – MIC NEWMAN & GARRY TODD – THE PENNY FARTHING DIARIES – ORIGINAL MIX

Harry Thumann – Underwater (Daniel Lucas Edit)

Face Bake – Neil Young

Harold Faltermeyer – The Discovery (Beverly Hills Cop)

Kenny G – Songbird

Your Love Has Taken Me Over

James Welsh – Nowt

Love Bandit – Otis Clay

More vocoder fun…

You Need A Little Bit of This Medicine

Mo’ Soul Touchin’

Touch Soul – Groove With You (Touchsoul’s Kleer Edit)

Work Song

Pat Lundy – Work Song

Do It Anyway You Wanna

 

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Mike T – Do It Anyway you Wanna 

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Mike T – Do It Anyway You Wanna (Instrumental)

 

Technical Difficulties

There are lots of broken links. They will be fixed in due course. Let Ol’ Kano keep you occupied in the mean time.

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Kano – I’m Ready

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Previously mentioned here!

Trapped

 

Previously posted here.

Tell Me

This one is taken directly from Feel My Bicep. It was to good for me to resist.

52nd Street -Tell Me (How It Feels).mp3

Stop Holding Back

Soul Jam Hot Tonight! Sneaky Pete’s…..

Gwen Guthrie – Stop Holding Back.mp3

Sport

Indian Disco

Found an interesting article about Indian Disco on The Original Soundtrack.

Cashmere

Cashmere – Do It Anyway You Wanna.mp3

Cashmere – Do It Anyway You Wanna (Instrumental).mp3