Archive for July, 2008
Late Night Audio with Loud E & Steve Kotey
Posted on 30. Jul, 2008 by baggy.
There’s some fantastic disco parties going on throughout August and our friends in the South – Late Night Audio have put together what we think will be the cream of the crop…
Amid a summer of festivals, east end pub raves and an international gig schedule, Late Night Audio’s Toby Tobias and Danny Clark bring back [...]
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Byrne & Eno set to release an ‘Electronic Gospel’
Posted on 28. Jul, 2008 by baggy.
After a staggering 27 years David Byrne and Brian Eno have put aside the differences that surfaced during the recording of their seminal 1981 release of ‘My Life In The Bush of Ghosts’ to once again collaborate on what is going to be a self released album entitled ‘Everything That Happens Will Happen Today’ via [...]
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The Magnificent Dance at the Salutation Pub Manchester Saturday 2nd August
Posted on 28. Jul, 2008 by thp.
Another week another weekend. How was yours? Mine was tip top. Thoroughly enjoyed playing records in Common on Saturday. They also served up probably the best hummus in town. Seriously go try it. I recorded around an hour which I’ll share on the website over the coming weeks. We’ve got loads of mixes to go [...]
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Sly & Robbie and Amp Fiddler launch Inspiration Information album series on Strut
Posted on 27. Jul, 2008 by thp.
Strut embark on an exclusive new studio album series this Autumn exploring some mouth-watering one-off collaborations. Entitled Inspiration Information, the series involves bringing contemporary artists and producers together with their musical heroes, artists that have directly inspired their own careers. They then lock the studio doors for five days of intensive writing and recording.
The collaborations [...]
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Frankie Knuckles Interview
Posted on 27. Jul, 2008 by thp.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of dancefloor history knows Frankie Knuckles respectfully as the ‘Godfather of House’. Together with his childhood friend Larry Levan he ran wild on the early disco scene: his first job was spiking the punch at Nicky Siano’s Gallery. Transplanted to Chicago after a residency at the bacchanal of New [...]
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Steve Kotey – Warm Up at the Ambassador’s Reception
Posted on 26. Jul, 2008 by niles.
Steve Kotey is a busy man.
He runs the highly successful Bearfunk label for a start – home to such nu-disco luminaries as Todd Terje, Fabrizio Mamarella, Lindstrom, The Diaphanoids and the Idjut Boys.
He’s also part of Chicken Lips these days, joining them for live, DJ and Studio dates.
Oh, and he just compiled the utterly essential [...]
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Best Foot Forward this Saturday at Common
Posted on 23. Jul, 2008 by thp.
This Saturday I’ll be playing some records for our friends who glide around blogsphere with their wonderful musical blog Best Foot Forward. For the 2nd time this evening I’m going to be lazy and introduce the evening by way of taxing Kev’s opening introduction from his website.
Best Foot Forward is a weekly hoedown at Common, [...]
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Naive Melody this Friday at Charlies with James Holroyd
Posted on 23. Jul, 2008 by thp.
I think Dan summarises this months party perfectly. He does have a way with words that lad. Pat Badger don’t you know.
James Holroyd has been on our wish list for sometime. In our humble opinion, he (along with Rob Bright) is pretty much the best DJ in Manchester. He’s been around for donkeys, ignoring trends [...]
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Cosmic Disco Charts – July 2008
Posted on 23. Jul, 2008 by baggy.
More chart action from us. It’s month 7th of the year and the good records keep coming and coming. Peruse on.
Thp
Loud E – Pinchroller
Casionova – The Visionary
Rayko – White Russian
Discodeine – Joystick (Tomboy mix)
Bangkok Impact – La Musche
Popular Computer – Lost and Found
Ray Mang – Bad Boy
Ghecko – Firelight
Mark E – Ray Gun
The Revenge – [...]
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Niles – Frites Mit Alles
Posted on 20. Jul, 2008 by niles.
To celebrate this weekend’s gig at Chips I’ve done a mix that get’s well above 90 bpm and involves, whisper it, mixing.
There are also a large number of 4/4 beats, electronic noises and all bar one of the tracks are from this millenia. So as not to scare Simon too much I’ve also included a [...]
