Wednesday 29 February 2012

Limited Selection - Disco Africa Mix

Big ups to the Casino Times boys for alerting me to this fresh and inspiring Wednesday morning mixtual.

Turns out Limited selection aka Jake Reed, one of Bournemouth/Oxford's "Get Your Geek On" man dem crew has spliced together a very refreshing mix for tonight's midweek Disco Africa party in Bournemouth. Joining him on the bill are a whole host of fine disco and deep house peddlers including the mighty Samson (ZooLookDisco) a man who legend has it once brought a herd of stampeding cattle to bay using only his smooth mixing skills and a bag of old disco 12"s.

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Also joining the line up, Disco Africa's very own Gabriel De Souza as well as the resident Disco Africa crew.

Check out the Facebook page here for more deets.

Anyway, this mix has sorted my morning right out so i suggest you let it do the same for you. Get it on the player below.

O

Monday 27 February 2012

Oli D.A.B & Robin - The 433 Apocalypse 2012 mix

Starting this week as we mean to go on with a promo mix we've spliced together for this Friday's Apocalypse Warehouse party taking place at The 433, London.

We mentioned the Apocalypse 433 party series which opens this Friday (2nd March) a couple of posts ago for which we will be joining the opening night line up. Check the mix on the player below with download available over on the Soundcloud page. Going a little more straight up house on this one with a darker teasing of warehouse 4-4 through out.



Tickets are flying out for this one so get over to the Facebook page here to snap up one of the few remaining passes. This is looking to be a lot of fun so get on it. Flyer also below.

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Friday 24 February 2012

Crepe City 5 @ Bar Music Hall, London

Last one for this week i promise but we thought we should give you at least a weeks heads up for this one so you can free up your diary.

Crepe City 5 will be taking place at Bar Music Hall on Sunday the 4th of March. Crepe City is the UK's leading sneaker Festival and swap meet. The event will be hosting over 20 stalls pushing some of the finest, rarest and flyest Sneakers out there as well as a good wack of apparel too.

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Nothing nicer that a Sunday roll around Shoreditch so why not head down and check out what's on show. Music will be provided by Crepe City residents and entry is a meager £2. Doors open from 1pm till 7pm. Web site here and Facebook event here. Check out the video of the last event below and perhaps we'll see you there.

O


Friday Mixtuals - Pelski + Coat Of Arms + Creed & Stone

As promised we're back with three top level mixes for this week's Friday mixtuals. Really spoilt for choice here as each mix is a right beaut. I've had all of them playing on constant rotation over the past few days. Definitely all well worth downloading on to your players and they're also going to leave you trying dig out a weighty bag load of tracks.

First up every ones favorite blogger Pelski steps up with his latest splice.

Pelski - "House & Disco Fix #1".
Proving that he can mix like a goodun as well as having a very sharp ear, Pelski serves up a top class mix of laid back disco funk and groove laden house treats.


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Stand out selections on this one including Dave Allison's "Soda Pop" prove he's on the ball when it comes to treating us to hard to find gems. Check it on the Soundcloud player below with a fresh download link here and track listing over on the Soundcloud page here.



Coat Of Arms - "February - March 2012 Mix"

With Eats Everything taking over the World and Chris James busy slamming out jam after jam you may be forgiven for overlooking their joint Project "Coat of Arms. Their debut record and massive Summer groove "Is this something" was a staple number in pretty much every DJ set i heard towards the end of last year.

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The boys have recently joined Future Boogie on the bookings front so hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of them as a duo over the nearing festival season. Check out the mix on the Soundcloud player below. Packed with Coat of Arms material taking you smoothly through a selection of sub ridden house and deep treats. Download also available here.



Creed & Stone - Sping Mix- 2012

Fresh from the Jackmode Berlin Office Creed & Stone have mixed us another big one. After meeting back in the Spring of 2011 their work for Klasse Recordings and Jackmode Agency brought together two chaps with a love for Berlin's underground house scene. Dickon Stone and James Creed decided to combine production, selection and DJ blendation skills and under the suitably appropriate name Creed & Stone haven't looked back since.

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Filled with Deep percussive rollers, this one brings a slightly darker feel to the table but without loosing an inch of groove. Take an earful on the player below with download link also available over on the Soundcloud page.

Also below that check out James Creeds Solo release debut on Klasse Recordings - "The Soft Parade Ep" on the Soundcloud palyer at the bottom of the page. It's out now and available in all good download stores.



Thursday 23 February 2012

The Apocalypse is Coming......at 433

So as promised, we got loads of stuff for you this week. Today is strictly one for the London crew or anyone that may be visiting town next Friday.

We are super hyped for this one as a lot of effort is going into every aspect of the party....that and there's something special about taking a very large sound system and cracking it in the middle of ware house.

Friday the 2nd March brings the first party in the Apocalypse Survival Guide series, and what a session it is looking to be. Taking place at the 433, a new creative community venue based on Caledonian Road, N7. The guys behind it are promising to bring "a series of interactive, immersive and experimental late night clubbing events" which sounds like a sack load of fun to me.

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The parties.....or chapters as they are being called open with the theme "Appeasing the gods". The 433 are enforcing a strict Mayan fancy dress theme with Mayan beauticians on the door to spruce up any one to dull or late to put in the effort for a small palm crossing of gold nuggets. Guests will be welcomed in to the warehouse-turned-temple with performances and interaction from actors/sacrificial priests thoughout the night. I've seen some sneaky pics of the DJ booth being built and it looks like this is going to be something seriously worth checking out.

We will be joining the DJ line up for the evening alongside Fife & Lex Darker (Yeah, Maybe), Ad Pan (Audio Farm) and resident Larry Sun (The 433).

Got a feeling tickets are going to fly for this one so get over to the Facebook page here for full details as well as the links below and we'll hopefully see you there!
O
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The 433

Tickets
Super Earlybird Tickets are priced from £5 and are available from:
Facebook (www.facebook.com/the433)
Skiddle (www.skiddle.com) 0844 884 29 20

Wednesday 22 February 2012

DJ Sneaks #20 Too Many T's

Yes yes!

Finally back with another DJ Sneaks and hopefully a selection of superb mix tapes later in the week.

This DJ Sneaks edition we're bringing in the Hip Hop. Fresh from the Camberwell streets......well maybe a comfy bench in the Camberwell Tiger (South London's finest boozer for those that don't know).

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Too Many T's step up this time round with a mix spliced together by their occasional collaborator and DJ on hand Mr Biscuits. But first a little bit about the boys themselves.

Too Many T's.... aka Ross Standaloft and Leon Rhymes are two lovable cheek mongers of an Emcee duo. After forming in the summer of 2011, Too Many T's have been gaining attention from all directions with their tight but tongue in cheek take on rap all laid down over real sounding funk and Sesame street soul influenced hip hop beats. Check out the below video for their track "Medina life" to get an example of this if my use of descriptives above has left you a little lost. The video recorded in on the streets of Marrakesh last Spring and released in December it definitely gives you an idea of what the boys are about.



The Kicks.
Was pretty hyped to get Too Many T's to step up for the kicks mix as i know Leon Rhymes is a bit of a trainer addict as well. Up Towns all the way with Leon selecting a pretty different pair of Nike Air Force 1s for show and tell. Here's his bit about them.....

"Trekking around New York's Lower East side looking for some fresh kicks at the end of 2011 I stumbles across these fresh AF1s in a vintage store - unworn but without the box - in perfect size and had to have em. Love the double set of red and pink laces and the splatter mid soles to give it that extra pop. Now i know they were release in 2008 and it turns out they're Supremes - and women's - but I'm now in touch with my feminine side, and anyway, they look fresh as fook"

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The Mix -

A corker of a mix laid down from a selection of Too Many T's influential jams. Mr Biscuit brings the skills in big time as well, with every track cut, rubbed and mixed too a T....
Featuring classic Eric B and Rakim right through to classic UK beauts by artists including Jehst and Foreign Beggars. Most definitely one for the download. Check it on the Soundcloud player below also featuring the DL link.



Find more deets on Too Many Ts on the links below and for the London crew check out their high energy live show, Friday the 9th March at the Hoxton Pony, Shoreditch.

www.youtube.com/TooManyTVs
www.facebook.com/toomanyts
www.soundcloud.com/too-many-ts
www.twitter.com/toomanyts
www.toomanyts.com


We'll be back later in the week and on the usual house music tip.

Peas.
O
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Tuesday 14 February 2012

Artworks Amsterdam, Throwing Snow XLR8R mix, J Dilla tribute tape

Sorry for the small amount of content recently, the last few weeks have been rather busy and our broken promises of a new DJ Sneaks and all the rest have been noted so we'll try and pick things up for you soon.

A few little nuggets to make you aware of today.

Artworks Amsterdam
Firstly we're going to be in Amsterdam this Thursday (16th Feb) laying down some tunes at the Artworks exhibition and after party. The exhibition itself will be featuring work by Super A, M Jay, Collin Van Der Sluijs and Rutger Termohlen. We'll be joining the Hear No Evil team in providing beats along side Throwing Snow and Blende. Check out Ross Throwing Snow's XLR8R mix from January over on the XLR8R site here for some serious tune selection as well as a number of his own Jams.

It's Our first trip to the Dam so any Dutch readers out there drop by and say hello. Heard big things about the Artworks exhibition parties. RSVP here - exhibition@glassworksamsterdam.nl for entry with full deets of the event here and the exhibition flyer below.

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J Dilla - A Tribute to the Drum.
Made aware of this by the missus so props to her for for alerting your ears to this one.
Last week was the anniversary of the passing of one of hip hops greatest producers.

James Sewitt Yancey aka J Dilla was one of the true masters of the MPC. His beats are the basis of what hip hop is to me and his productions for a Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Erykah Badu and many many more are some of the greatest examples of smooth soulful sampling ever laid down .
The below is a collection of influenced tributes and Dilla remixes that you need on your music player and it's all up for free download.




And as i said earlier, more posts, mixes and general banterbury to come soon so hold tight.

Going to finish with this.

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Wednesday 1 February 2012

Oonst joins Aus Music all night long party at XOYO this Saturday + Will Saul Mix

Another epic weekend of Trouble Visioness over. Huge love to all the TV family as well as Session Victim and Kyle Hall for getting my sets of the weekend awards :-)

This coming Saturday our party session Oonst returns to XOYO London to take over room 2 for The Aus Music all night long event. Oonst residents will be holding down room 2 all night along side our good mate and very talented Dj Ollie Rigg. The main room will be showcasing a whole host of Aus residents with Aus head man Will Saul being joined by Appleblim, Lone and Cottam. A seriously heavy weight line up and one not to be missed out on.

In preparation Will Saul has put together his second mix in the XOYO Aus party series and it's available on the Mixcloud player below. Get a listen and head over to the Facebook event page here for tickets and details. Full details also on the flyer at the bottom of the page.



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