Recovering from a blinding hangover so I’ll make this brief(ish). Wee selection of the tunes I’ve been digging the most recently. Can’t believe I hadn’t heard this Dusty Kid track til a few days ago. Kicks in big time at around the 2-minute mark. Also new 80kidz with Lovefoxxx from CSS – easily the best thing either has done for a while – excited for the 80kidz album. Was sent this Russ Chimes remix and must say he’s not put a foot wrong lately. Finally, one of the guys that runs the Killer Kitsch club night at Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh (and Glasgow) also does remixes and discovered this prize of a remix he did for Glasgow band Haight Ashbury. Fans of said Chimes and Fred Falke should enjoy.
You won’t hear from me for a week as I’m away to Keystone, Colorado on a skiing holiday! So I’ll leave you with these crackers as something to remember me by when I crash and burn on the slopes hahaha. Bye losers!!!!
Saw Jack Beats on Friday there and they (or should I say he – it was one guy, I thought Jack Beats were two people???) tore the fucking roof off the Cabaret Voltaire. Was rammed and sweaty and pushy but the beats were glorious. The one that I lost my shit for was SonicC. I’d never heard it before but it completely blew my mind. So after ID-ing the track (thanks Erol Alkan Forum) I’ve played it to death. I also love Kissy’s version which is a lot more playful.
When Jack Beats “dropped the bassline” the place went mental – I think I got about 4 elbows to the windpipe. The last two tracks I’m posting are just big bangers that deserve to be played at full volume. First is RipTidE who I’ve posted about before – his track Fk Me is huge and sexy and kinda sounds like Santa farting and you should download it immediately. Second is the excellent Para One remix of Boys Noize which I’d only first heard a couple of days ago.
Saw Steve Aoki on Friday just there. I was absolutely hammered and therefore dancing like an absolute gimp on the dance-floor. He played a really good set and did about 150 stage dives – love it, wish more DJs would do that. And yes he played Warp 1.9 and yes it was amazing. I shook his hand at the end for being a legend.
No Steve Aoki songs but Dim Mak-related material so stop complaining. Plus I ♥The Bloody Beetroots. Their Groove Armada remix is one of my favourite this year – I bet in the live environment it’s fucking euphoric. The Timbaland remix packs a big punch too.
Radio discoveries next. Kissy Sell Out played this Lucky Dip remix the other day and it stood out right away as one of the best ones he played – it actually made me smile when I first heard it. Takes a while to get into (~1min before it stutters in) but is a really playful remix and it’s worth the wait. Heard this Felix Da Housecat remix on Alex Metric’s Radio 1 show and same again, it stood out from the pack so I’ve ripped it for your pleasure. Finally, this Jaymo & Andy George (another Radio 1 staple) remix is fantastic. Exactly what I want from a remix.
Saw Phoenix at the Glasgow Arches on Sunday just there. Sounded awesome live, but the crowd really didn’t seem up for it. It was quite disappointing actually. I went with my bro and an altbro, expecting it to be really jumpy – but it wasn’t. I dunno if it was because it was a Sunday and people didn’t want to go wild because they had work in the morning or what, but it was a total fucking buzzkill. Worse, it was like the crowd had never heard of ‘Too Young‘ (my fave Phoenix song) or any tunes pre-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix for that matter.
Phoenix @ Arches, Glasgow
Enough of the rant FFS eh! Ok back to la choonage. Heard Sleigh Bells for the first time the other day and was kinda blown away – especially by this song. Sleigh Bells are a boy-girl duo who make a fucking glorious racket and I could see them going down a storm live – plus the singer is FIIIIT! Next is Juiceboxxx who apparently recorded this in one take. Anything with Javelin attached will at some point be posted by me – cos I’m obsessed. Slinky blue-eyed soul from Mayer Hawthorne puts a smile on my faces.
Caught this over at PMA and couldn’t resist a repost. Another fantastic Seven remix. I think Fever Ray sent each remixer a strongly worded email telling them to NOT. FUCK. THIS. UP. The Twelves didn’t. In fact, they made the best one yet. Lifelike sprinkled his Falke-dust over Barcelona and out popped this remix. Harvard Bass is fast becoming a staple of my morning wake-up audioporn. Harvard Bass = The Sex.
Yeah I saw Foamo last Friday – I know, this post is verrrry late. He rocked Cabaret Voltaire – we were on the vodka Red Bulls all night and ripped up the front row with our impeccable dance moves giving it the big licks. I’d give him an 8/10. He’s new but he’s got potential.
Oh yeah, some bastard hit the fire alarm at about 2.15am. The lights came on, the music stopped, and we all had to file outside. Foamo went out right behind me. There was a chant started on our way out. “FOAMO! FOAMO!” I turned round to Foamo and said, “They’re chanting your name“. He laughed. He understood why.
OK so its about time I informed you of what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks. I went on holiday with my family to Benidorm – don’t judge me. Basically spent a week going to the beach or lying beside the pool and at night venturing out to see trogolodytes like Sticky Vicky. After I came back I flew up to Iceland with a few uni chums for a wedding – Scottish-themed funnily enough, so I was looking braw in my kilt!
A great upcoming Icelandic band called Hjaltalín played at the wedding (they knew the bride and groom) and had everybody dancing – even threw in a Michael Jackson cover. After the band, the Scottish crowd got everybody pumping with some Ceilidh dancing – believe me its a fucking riot when everyone is hanging out their tree.
So here it is as promised – the Boys Noize debriefing. Before you start though, click on ‘Click To Play All Audio Posts‘ at the bottom of the screen. Wow. How does that feel? Feeling woozy yet? Yeah thats exactly what my brain sounded like as I was trying to get to sleep after seeing Boysy Noizey! We’d had it planned for a while that we’d go full NEONRAVE stylee, but that didn’t prepare us for when we got into the club. Two minutes after we arrived (literally in the cloak queue) we got asked “GOAT ENNY PULZ MATE?” haha. To be fair, we did look like a bunch of pill-popping eck-heads LMAO!
He played a cracking set, sprinkled with tracks from his new album ‘Power‘ and ‘Oi Oi Oi‘, as well as the odd remix. My favourite was when he played ‘Jeffer’. Me + my crewz all attempted the crazy dancing seen in the fan-made video. Best drop of the night for me though was when the Soulwax remix of ‘Mind Dimension‘ landed. I think I almost exploded. I’d say the biggest cheer of the night was for ‘My Moon My Man‘.
Yeah, thats him in the picture. It’s quite far away eh. We partied til about 4am (Boys Noize finished about 3am) bustin-a-groove to my main man Hostage then left soon after.
BTW Kid Alex is Boys Noize. Alter ego. Three men and a little ego. NapolEgo dynamite. Eternal sunshine of the spotless ego. Ego Vs. Kramer. Big ego in little china. Also, I’ve heard ‘Power’. Good stuff. Very good stuff.
The internet is a fast moving beast, so the streaming MP3s that are posted may not work after a while due to them being taken down. And since I can't be arsed uploading them all again it's tough shite. I'll always post a link to a downloadable MP3 though. As always, if you like what you hear - away and buy it eh!
p.s. if I've put up a song you'd rather not see here then let me know, you can email me here
