Thursday 23 February 2012

The Unabomber's @ ATTIC (Launch Party) this saturday!


This Saturday see's the The Launch of the a new club venue....ATTIC!!

It's based above Cotton Factory in Hudds and will see Myself, Jamie "Fatneck" Low & Scott Whitworth in charge of Booking's every saturday night, With a whole host of guests lined over April/May it's sure to put some credability back into the once very rich House Scene in Huddersfield.

This Saturday see's The Unabombers come over to launch the club in true Unabomber Stylee expect a mixture of House right through to Soul & Hip Hop with a sprinkling of Unabombers fun & frolics.



All the info is on the poster so take note.

After this party Attic will be open every saturday 10:00-6:00 a.m with a small door tax,great booking's and No Riff Raff it's sure to be well on the way to been Huddersfields only Credible House night!

The Rest of the March line up is...

3rd-Attic Presents-Tomorrow Audio- Marko RanÄ‘elović(TA), Ethan McNamara(T.A,Le Bloc),  & Challis


10th-Mini Ksd-Jamie Fatneck Low(Space Ibiza), Scott Whitworth(O.D.D)+ more tbc
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17th Attic Presents-Ali Scott, & Alcatraz Harry(Nest,Love Not Money) Iain O'Hare(Outcross Records) , Nick Storr(Dig deep, Le Bloc)

24th-Le Bloc-Junia Ovadose(1200 Traxx), Charlie Myers(Housewerk), Frase & Challis, Full Hott

31st-Very special Guest TBC.(It's huge)

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Or on Facey search Attic Huddersfield.

Under The Stars Radio Show (www.realhouseradio.com) 17/01/12


Stumbled accross this on Soundcloud...I loved it...hope you guys too, well put together and a nice solid Track list...Keep tabs on Andrew Clarke,follow him, listen to his shows & Enjoy..





Surface - Falling In Love (First Aid Disco Re-Edit)
Paul Weller - Starlight (D-Pulse Remix)
Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt - Gold Snake (Eddie C's Golden BC Remix)
LTJ - I Don't Want This Groove To Ever End
The Opiates - Reality TV (Dropout Orchestra Dub)
Crazy P - Beatbox (Orig Mix)
Slow Hands - Headgear
Pete Herbert & Golden Fleece - Ivory Waves (DTPN Remix)
Ilya Santana - Instrumental Odissey
Nelue - No Strings Attached (Vocal Mix)
Gazeebo - First Come First Serve (Orig Mix)
Cantoma - North Shore (Idjut Boys Version)
Lord Of The Isles - Teach Them No Hate
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love (Pscyhemagik Remix)
Faze Action - Hypnotic
Arthur Russell - Wax The Van (Ilija Rudman Remix)
DJ Kaos - Love The Night Away (Tiedye Remix)
Dean Sunshine Smith - Oh Honey

Wednesday 22 February 2012

First Serve - The Goon Time Mixtape

Track artwork


Badass Hip Hip infused with electronic music, may not be everyone's cuppa but i sure enjoyed it and i hope you do too..

In the unusually warm 3am air of a Parisian suburb, a house party is getting out of control. Police Nationale have been called - but no-one can get near. The air is thick with Hip-Hop filling the adjacent streets, acting like a force field. You can hear the faint licks of Aerosmith and the rising vocals of Bowie as far as the Champs Elysees. Is that DJ Kool Herc on the decks? Situated in the Capital of French Electro, the influence is audible, while Meth, Red, Jay-Z and even Mystikal get 16 bars in on the mic. Who knew The Beatles were this funky?
The cause for celebration? It’s the wrap up party for First Serve, an undercoverproject that has been two years in the making. First Serve is the brainchild of 2 & 4 (aka Chokolate & Khalid, producers/ DJ’s). After an instant meeting of minds they decided to embark on a musical adventure – a Hip Hop album played by musicians. All they needed was a couple of MC’s to help complete their vision. Enter NY based Jacob ‘Pop’ Life and Deen ‘D’ Whitter.Listen to the mixtape recorded at the party. It’s funky, it’s hip hop, it’s disco... and it’s a classic!


Monday 20 February 2012

Hard Times - Masters At Work - 1st Birthday - Huddersfield


A live recording from Hard times at the Bel Air nightclub in Huddersfield on the 6th August 1994 to celebrate the 1st birthday of the club night.

I wish i'd of been around when all this was kicking off, pure house vibes.



Thursday 16 February 2012

James McArdle @ Automatque.



After a chilled out festive period AUTOMATIQUE are back with their first party of 2012.
This is going to be a pretty special party to kick off the new year with the return of a well known local DJ making a one off appearance back at the Trades Club!
James McArdle (Construct/DividedByDirt)
Some of you will remember James from the legendary DividedByDirt nights which ran at the Trades Club from 2002 - 2006!
After twisting James's arm for a short while they have managed to get him to play a one off gig back where it all started!
But before they turn down the lights and flood the room with concentrated dissonant melodies,they caught up with james and had a chat....

1. Hi James, how's things....?

All good thank you, apart from a still nagging hangover from a long weekend in Europe. Worth it as always though.



2. You are known for the infamous DividedByDirt parties in Hebden Bridge but what have you been upto since then....?

Things were moving nicely just before we had to finish DividedByDirt. The night was getting talked about in the right places and selling out every time, I was DJing at Fabric and other great clubs. Given the circumstances in which we ended it I decided to remove myself from everything for a couple of years afterwards. If I'm honest I began to hate it for a while, I don't know why. I didn't think I'd ever get back into it at one point. I sold a lot of my records that I wish I hadn't. I moved to Manchester and continued working in PR, looking after press for Mute Records, Because, PIAS et al among others and slowly began to get back into all things 'dance' on the side. I set up Construct and got back into everything, DJing in particular. The break has done me a lot of good, things seem clearer now.



3. Tell us a little bit about Construct....


I set Construct up late 2008 I think, although I didn't really start working on it properly until the last couple of years. It was (and still is really) a small operation housing my personal tastes in electronic music. Something I could control on my own alongside other projects, a night that I could stop and start at will if necessary, choose how much output I wanted at any given time, look after all the artwork, work with artists I liked and respected.


It's essentially an agency, a (very irregular) party and a soon to be record label and mix series. I like to work with a small number of artists but work a lot more closely with them. I have no grand plans for the agency to be massive or anything like that. I think the majority of DJs and electronic artists don't need a manager as such, more someone who can look after a few things in one place, find the right labels for their productions, manage their own labels, make sure they play the right clubs..

I've been building Construct very slowly, I have a clear aim for it which I'll probably get to in the next few years.




4. I see you have Will Saul @ the next Construct party, nice booking! What other artists are doing the business for you at the moment....?

Thank you, we're looking forward to this one, I've always been a big fan of his DJing. I'm in a groove again of revisting older stuff at the moment actually. A lot of mid-90s trippy house music, ICube, Gemini et al. I tend to play more long, warm up sets so I can get away with more of that stuff. On the newer side, I really like Sam Russo's recent stuff, I'm a big fan of Ion Ludwig's, Hugo Barritt I've been playing quite a lot of recently, Steven Tang, Basic Soul Unit, Canson, Lerosa, Levon Vincent... there's a truckload of other stuff that will come to me later sorry! There's the ones that are always doing it of course.. Craig Richards, Perlon, Swayzak, Matthew Dear, Cassy, John Tejada, Carl Finlow, Motivbank, Spectral Sound, Dixon, Ata, Weatherall...





5. Whats your thoughts on all this DJ X Factor malarky....you can keep it short and sweet if you like....?

I'm genuinely intriqued as to how they will do this actually. A 5minute DMC Championship type routine perhaps? If so the auditions could be very funny actually. To be honest I couldn't give a monkey's arse about these kind of things anymore, it's too easy to get angry with them. It's a completely different world from what I see as DJing. It's mainstream music for mainstream audiences and that's ok I guess.





6. What can we see from yourself and Construct in the future....?


Well after many (many) years putting it off I'm finally going to get my head down this year in a studio. Unfortunately no matter how much you enjoy it or how great you are at it, it's not enough just to be a good DJ anymore. That's just the way it is now. You have to have a load of other stuff going on too.


The Mix Series will launch next month which I'm excited about. These will be as far from Construct's current musical output as possible. The first one will be from Philip Sherburne. He's done a really great job with it. They'll be pretty irregular and likely to be compiled more from label owners, journalists, collectors and not just DJs or producers. These kind of people have incredible, vast record collections and tend not to be jaded by turning out podcasts every week.


The agency will grow a little more with probably another 1 or 2 additions this year I think. The label will also launch this year, although I've been saying that for a while. I have a few bits almost ready but need to pull my finger out and get in gear with it really. When it starts there will be a release every few months focusing on just one original piece and one remix on the flip. A small run of vinyl, nice artwork, a very simple affair really.


Thanks Antony

Thursday 2 February 2012

Tristan Da Cunha-Back to Basics 20th Birthday(live mix)


If Carlsberg did mixe's they'd proberly be the best in the world....no they wouldn't becuse this is.

I don't have to say much apart from,...

This is without a doubt one of the best mixes i've heard & witnessed(i was there)..Tristan has always been a massive influnece to me, from selling records at play/to playing records at basics & been a generally nice guy whose love for music & smiles is visablly blatent.

Heres What Tris has to say about the mix...


BacktoBasics 20 years of Acid House - Nov 26th 2011

What a night this was , 20 years building up to it and it really was up there with the best we've ever done ..... The whole night ticked every box for me and was literally like i'd been transported in a time machine to the crazy hazy days in the early 90's when i just started going out to places like Basics. The atmosphere was electric and vibe was super high frequency with a lot of people going for it & peaking as soon as they got through the door. There was so much love in the club that night... i stood back and watched what was going on around me and i felt extremely proud. Proud that after 20yrs of weekly parties, Basics is still killing it and that i have played a part in some of the magic. I'm not gonna bang on about it too much though as you really did HAVE TO BE THERE to understand how good it was. If you were at BacktoBasics on 26th of November 2011, you know you were a part of house music history. If you weren't then maybe this mix can give your ears an idea of the kind of night it was.

This mix was the last set of the night in the main room 6-8am ... i had no idea what i was gonna play none of it was rehearsed ... it was done in the heat of the moment using the energy and feedback off the dance floor to take me from one record to the next... sounds cheesy i know but that's exactly how it was. Basics has always been a two way thing between the residents and the crowd... we bring the music, they bring the noise... it's a party. Of course i knew some of the records i definitely wanted to play but how or when i was gonna play them was to be decided on the night, in the moment.
Upon reflection, listening back there is a definite narrative & meaning to the tracks or songs i was playing. All the tracks i played with lyrics in were speaking for me and the tracks without were "scene setters"... setting the vibe/theme to feel like a real, sweaty, old school party. Also some of the lyrics are very poignant if you relate them to Basics moving homes & turning the page onto the next chapter in it's epic story. One door closes and another door opens.

I'd like to thank all the loyal basics party people for being the best crowd a d.j could want and thanks to all the artists and labels that work hard to make such amazing music for us to dance and lose our minds to. Without the music or the dancers to dance to it, there would be no party and no d.j's. RESPECT.

Huge Love goes out to all the Basics family for getting this far. It's been one hell of a ride and it ain't over yet ...

Buckle up as we blast into the new year, new era , new dimension.
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart."

~Author Unknown

Track list is below for all the spotters out there. I hope you enjoy the mix and that i see some of you on the dance floor at Basics in 2012.

Shuffle Inc - This Is House (acappella)
Chris Cuevas - Hip Hop (No Ears edit)
Solitaire Gee - Slumberland (Rhythm Invention remix)
Mario Reyes - Whatever Turns You On (SAS Edit)
How II House - Time to Feel The Rhythm (Def Party mix)
Moodymanc - Back to Basics (acappella)
Jamie Principle - I'll Make You Scream (Acid Mix)
Dee-lite - Wild Times (Mayday Mix)
Lenoir & Thompson - Can't Stop The House (Edit)
Sax - Don't Turn Your Back On Me (Rubber Dub)
Royal House - Jam The Mace
Queen Latifa - Come Into My House (Fast Eddie Mix)
Ann Marie - Just Waiting For You (Dub)
KC Flight - Let's Get Jazzy Dub (D.J fix up)
Scram - Come On (Empire Mix)
S-Men - Back (Roger's Ill Steelo Mix)
Raven Maize - Forever Together (Dub edit)
Prince - The Future (Ashley Beedle Edit)
Candy J - Some Things They Never Change (SAS Edit Vox)
K-Alexi - Don't You Know (Ron Hardy Edit)
Landlord - I Like It (Blow Out Dub)
Da Rebels - House Nation (Original)
Working Happily - Feel It (Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix)
(Last Tune)
Marshall Jefferson presents On The House - House Music Anthem (Move Your Body).

"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
~Edwin Denby

"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
~George Gordon, Lord Byron (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)

Peace Love & Happiness 2 U x

http://soundcloud.com/tristan-da-cunha/tristan-da-cunha-backtobasics by Tristan da Cunha

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Eddie C - TEP Guestmix for Sweat Lodge Radio

Eddie C is a bad boy remixer/DJ...but you already aware of this hence coming to this Blog...

if your not aware check out his soundcloud, i became aware of Eddie a while back and ever since i was, ive kept an eye out for his tackle...both Trackwise & Mixwise.

Although some of the Tackle i find a little wierd n noisey but some of it is unreal, so the best bet is just to follow it and discard all the stuff you don't like but you'll also pick up some gems from the motherlicker.!

Below is  Mix from the man....Enjoy!


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Tiger & Woods - Kleine Melodie Podcast - 07-01-2012



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