Just saw this on the Soul Clap Facebook page, a gorgeous 110bpm slice of disco from Soul Clap, released on Permanent Vacation, the label which is also home to acts such as Mano Le Tough and Session Victim. With a slow, typically rich Soul Clap bassline and rolling melody, it is a track you need in your life!
Next is Jamie Jones' remix of T.E.E.D, which I blogged before here, like Jamie Jones T.E.E.D has torn 2011 apart with remixes and productions alike garnering support from all over the globe, he has a forthcoming remix of Crosstown Rebels producers Space Ballad's new tune 'Fur Coat' but for now you'll have to be content with Jamie Jones' great mix of 'Trouble'
Maxxi Soundsystem have previously remixed Hercules and Love Affair to melodic, chilled out effect, but this mix of Retro/Grades' 'Mindfighter' bucks the trend, delivering a driving, building house anthem, one for the DJs for sure!
Retro/Grade - MIndfighter (Maxxi Soundsystem Remix) (Download from Soundcloud link below)
Bristol has recently become a hotbed for electronic music other than dubstep, with stars such as Julio Bashmore emerging and Eats Everything continues the trend, signed to Dirty Bird he's been creating a stir in recent months and you'll see why.....
And finally, the piece du resistance, The Magicians first solo production, he is a favourite here at the Juicy! show, having found out how much of a gent he was when we interviewed him in May (listen here). This piano-driven slice of disco is perfect for the end of summer, stick on The Magician over the coming months as he is sure to only deliver pure quality!
Just a quick one from me to highlight a fantastic tune by Laura Jones being released on Leftroom, it's called 'Love In Me' and has been tearing up the house and techno world and you can tell why....
With previous releases on Visionquest Laura Jones has serious credentials, if you like what you hear then check out Rendez Vous in Edinburgh, who booked her to play last night (Saturday), which is in my opinion a phenomenal shout. Add to that the fact they've alread had Lee Foss, Clockwork, Robert James & Russ Yallop grace their decks and you'll see that these boys really know what they're doing, check them out here.
And to further whet your appetitie, here's a mix by resident Ryan Harrower:-
Freshers week is looming large in Edinburgh and since me and Ian have got a couple of sets sprinkled over the course, so I thought I'd take the chance to explain where and when we were playing and drop the 2 promo mixes we've been working on.
- Monday 12th September - You Me Oui Launch Party @ Shanghai. Seasoned sessioners WeOwn are bringing a brand new Monday night to the capital, with me and Ian on the decks, check out Ian's promo mix, tracklist and write up here. With a reputation for bringing banging acts to the capital and throwing some crazzzy clubnights, WeOwn will once again deliver the goods, get on it!
And heres the mix for you to check out, full of main room bangers from Hey Today!, Jaymo & Andy George, Style Of Eye & more......
- Tuesday 13th September - Africanism At The Caves We played at the first Africanism party last year (also known as 'Springboks') and it was safely one of the biggest partys of the year, the relaunch this year promises to be even bigger, with Seratonin and Slayer Slan also taking to the decks and to celebrate I've put together a mix of funky house and soulful acapellas, check it out and get hyped for the largest night of the week!
1. The Street - Homework
2. The Trumpeter (With Estelle - Fall In Love [Acapella]) - Ray Foxx
3. Don't Care - Bauchamp
4. Hot Jazz In Ya Face (With Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness [Acapella]) - Anhanguera
5. Jazz Extender - Melohman & Javi Bora
6. Midgets Go Deep - Solo [Uk]
7. After Laughter (With Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining [Acapella]) - FiltertÿPen
8. Get Funky - Pirupa
9. Mucho Gusto (With Blaze - To My Beat [Acapella]) - Riva Starr
10. Tresenraya (With John Legend - Rolling In The Deep [Acapella]) - Coco Silco & Santy Lafonte
11. Holla If You Came To Funk - Scrubfish
- Thursday 15th - Monstar Mash @ The Liquid Rooms The new Thursday night to hit the Liquid Rooms sees ourselves and Stu Todd take to the decks in one of Edinburgh's most prestigious venues, which also plays host to phenomenal nights such as Musika and Xplicit.
After Freshers catch us on rotation at Candyboxx, as well as every Monday at You Me Oui and Thursdays at Monstar Mash, on top of a one off at Heavy Gossip & UltraGrooves coming together on 24th September at Hawke & Hunter with Tony Lionni & Rahaan, its gonna be a massive few weeks!
Juicy! August 2011 Chart.
Having been away a lot this summer we've been Djing less regularly however with our return imminent and having played a few fantastic sets recently, Ian at Belladrum for WeOwn and me at the Festival Closing Parties with Jesse Rose & Tiga (read about it here) we've decided that it's time to get our August chart sorted, as usual its an eclectic mix of dancefloor based music, from the funky but deep house of Waifs & Strays through to the pumping disco of His Majesty Andre, it's all goooood!
So next year i'm a resident and this brrrrand spanking new club night - You Me Oui? hosted by the WeOwn boiz. Basically every monday night at Shanghai in Edinburgh i get full control over a fairly intimate venue (300ish?) with a banging sound system, shit's gonna be crazy.
So to get everyone hyped for it, i've hoyed together this promo mix which starts pretty mellow and funky and goes heavier and heavier, anyone who caught my set at Belladrum Festival will recognise some of the tunes.
Full tracklist and download link below...
Download it by clicking on the arrow in the soundcloud player...
So this weekend I had the pleasure of playing 2 sets, for 3 of my favourite Edinburgh clubbing brands as visitors and residents alike looked to enjoy the last weekend of the festival.
First up was Sugarbeat and Musika's Festival Closing party with Tiga and they certainly closed the festival in style with all 3 rooms of Cab Vol absolutely jumping. In the main room Derek Martin took control early on with some deep, funky house to get the crowd moving, including Maceo Plex's phenomenal remix of Azari & III's 'Manic',
Then the hosts and residents, The Utah Saints, took to the decks and brought things a bit darker, dropping some heavy techno to an increasingly busy main room, with a sprinkling of more house orientated tunes such as Style Of Eye's smash 'We Are Boys' to mix things up.
After this Tiga took to the stage, to the crowd's adulation and I moved to the Speakeasy to take control of the decks for an hour, taking over from Sugarbeat residents Trilogy who dropped some fantastic house including Oliver $'s smash 'Doin' Ya Thang'
I played an hour of house and disco, including my current go to tune Waifs & Stray's 'Yeah Yeah', before stepping things up into jackin house at the end from Solo & Scrubfish.
At 3, Musika resident Laurie Neil took over control and I went to check Tiga, who was, predictably, killing a jam-packed main room with his trademark heavy techno sound.
Leaving a sweating, heaving main room, I made my way back to the Speakeasy to play the last hour, after Laurie ended on the magnificent Benoit & Sergio's 'Principles' I played an hour of downtempo Nu-Disco to close out what had been a night to remember!
Big thanks to Musika & Sugarbeat for having me and for putting on such a massive night, watch out for both brands over the coming months as they deliver the cream of electronic music on monthly Saturdays (Musika) and Fridays (Sugarbeat)
Then on Saturday I had the honour of returning to Cab Vol, this time in the mainroom for Karnival, warming up for Made To Play (& Play It Down) head honcho and all round house legend Jesse Rose. I played from opening until 12.15, starting with an empty room and ending up having played one of the funnest sets I've ever done. I started out with nu-disco from Tensnake, Aeroplane and Tiger & Woods before building up to house and techno from the likes of Lee Foss, Clockwork, Julio Bashmore and Danny Daze.
Karnival Resident Stu Todd then took over, dropping some fantastic house tunes, including Maceo Plex's smash 'Falling' and Oliver $'s remix of Made To Play newcomer, Homework's Rally Racquet Club, before smashing 2011 anthem 'Battle For The Middle You' getting the crowd suitably hyped for the main man Jesse Rose.
Jesse Rose then took control to a suitably rammed main room, and things went up another notch, with Jesse showing exactly why he's such a legend in the game, whilst Laurence Nolan and Jordan Cochrane delivered a deeper vibe in the second room. For the second night in a row CabVol was absolutely bouncing!
Many thanks to Karnival for having me to play and I look forward to seeing who they have in the future, if you're ever around Edinburgh it is a must visit for the finest in house & techno!
Having returned from Edinburgh after 2 sets good enough to distract me from my Creamfields non-attendance blues, which I'll do a write up on tomorrow, I've come across this absolute gem by 2011's undisputed hero, Jamie Jones. He's remixing another rising star, T.E.E.D, whose choice of remixers is superb having already had Justin Martin and Jesse Rose amongst others giving his tunes the treatment (Household Goods & Garden respectively). Jamie Jones turns in a trademark funky, sleek house remix, well worth a listen.
Big News. The first brand new single of his forthcoming album 'Sirius' was released yesterday, think the next evolution of 'Babylon', he goes harder & dirtier than ever before. Brutal.
Emeli Sandé's anthemic single heaven reached #2 in the uk charts and i was genuinley suprised by just how good it was for a chart hit, such a soulful voice over a breakbeat rhythm was a treat. But that's not what i'm bothered about... Hospital Record's Nu:Tone has stepped the breakbeat up to D'n'B, he's not added masses to the actual tune but it just didn't need it. With simply a quicker beat, this commercial sucess has become a liquid D'n'B bomb...
Despite only being Juicy!'s second favourite member of the old Aeroplane, Vito (who still produces under the name Aeroplane) still has serious skills, as he yet again showcases his ability to create amazing grooves with a storming remix of Cassius's 'The Sound Of Violence'. Steel drums, gospelesque vocals and an 80's bassline make this a hit, check it out...
Lee Foss and Robert James are currently taking the house scene by absolute storm, having remixed Clockwork's 'It's You Again' earlier this year to great effect, check it out here. They've now turned their hand to Ben Westbeech's new tune, 'Something For The Weekend' from his second solo album on Strictly Rhythm. Other remixes come courtesy of Disco don Joey Negro and Uk Funky officionado Roska, but the deep house interpretation by Foss & James stands head and shoulders above the rest. Set to drop on August 30th, this promises to be a huuuuge release, for now here's a youtube teaser ripped from Pete Tong's essential selection.......
Stick on Juicy! over the next few weeks as we drop a pair of hot new mixes for the new year at university as well as announcing a host of dates we're Djing in the forthcoming months check us on Facebook and Twitter too.
Surkin has returned with some solo work after collaborating with Para One & Bobmo as 'Marble Players' as part of the new Marble Music label formed from the ashes of the now extinct Institubes imprint. Jaymo & Andy George (who else) dropped it when they sat in for Pete Tong on Friday and I can safely say it's one of the best pieces of music I've heard all year, I can only find a radio rip so far, but that is enough to whet your appetite for the massive full release, and, if you're anything like me, force you to play it on repeat for about an hour going nuts in front of your laptop......
Any of you who check this blog will know just how much respect we have for Alex Metric, having played one of the funnest sets we've ever done warming up for him earlier this year. His remix of Niki & The Dove has just dropped, as part of his 'Open Your Eyes' album and as ever with an Alex Metric remix it has phenomenal quality, with a haunting vocal from Malin Dahltstrom over a phenomenally produced electro beat. This version is only a 128 kbp teaser so stick around for a full 320 to do it justice, get on it!
I've known about Moonlight Matters for a while now from his contribution to The Magician's amazing magic tapes but i only found out today that it's actually the solo side project of one of the members of Juicy! favourite VillA. He's very recently released a brand new remix of Hercules & Love Affair's 'Painted Eyes' turning a decent release into a disco anthem complete with slap bass and violins. Get all over it...
Despite what people say about him doing seemingly fuck all in the Swedish House Mafia except blow air horns at their gigs, Sebastian Ingrosso wrote the famous riff in 'One' and puts out some seriously good music on his Refune label like this new track from Style Of Eye, 'We Are Boys'. It's really a twisted electro/techno hybrid, everything you'd expect from Style Of Eye...
Massive news. Theo Keating aka Fake Blood, a hero in the electro/bassline crossover genre released a teaser of his new Deep Red EP onto soundcloud just 2 hours ago. The 3 new tunes are Deep Red, Voices and Medieval which Jaymo & Andy George used in their mixmag CD a while back. I'm not even going to attempt to descrive how big this release will be, hear for yourselves...
Over the past few years house music has seen an explosion in 'Big Room' house as we'd call it. Those tunes with the epic breakdowns, spiritual buildups, massive chord stabs and huge drops. Hands in the air, worshipping the DJ kind of music. I've always been a bit sceptical about it, tune blurs into tune and eventually they all begin to sound the same but everyone needs a bit of big room in their life at somepoint...
Juicy! favourite and the biggest house & techno night in the capital, Musika, have come up with an absolute killer line-up for October, with deep house goddess Maya Jane Coles and house don James Zabiela gracing the decks, ably supported by residents Derek Martin and Kirk Douglas.
Safe to say we're excited about this ridiculous double bill, having seen both of them smash it at Exit festival, alongside Zabiela's reputation as a past Space resident and all round monster in the house/techno scene and Maya Jane Coles phenomenal rise over the past year.
To get you in the mood here's Maya's recent essential mix, featuring her new remix of Little Dragon's 'Ritual Union' amongst many more of her own productions and tunes from Eats Everything, Nicola Gala and many more:-
Check out the event page here and get involved for what promises to be one of the largest nights of the year!
In the meantime come and check out Musika's next event, a collaboration with Sugarbeat to bring Tiga to Edinburgh for the festival closing party, alongside a selection of Edinburgh's DJing talent, I'm having a spin in the backroom, check out the most recent mix I did in anticipation/need of practice for it here.
Today i want to properly introduce you to an awesome house duo from the Southern Fried label: Keith & Supabeatz. They've been producing together now for two years or so and they're churning out some properly funky house, in a style similar to the 2 Bears who are exploding right now, i expect these two to do the same. Their latest offering throws together a massive bouncy bassline with seemingly random vocal samples but the slightly chaotic rhythm works so well and creates a really fresh sound...
I don't know just why it's taken me so long to get all over the anglo/german Greco-Roman label but without doubt it's one of the most exiting and forward thinking out there. The cream of the emerging electronic talent like Joe Goddard (The 2 Bears & Hot Chip), Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Drums of Death and Hackman have all released on Greco-Roman so keep your eye on it in the future. Also all the artists combine on the label to DJ under the guise Greco-Roman Soundsystem, i'd fooking love to catch them live sometime. Check below for some of their releases, not the usual Juicy! craic but it's good to spread your wings every now and then...
