Greetings troops! Hope you all had a top notch bank holiday weekend last weekend and that most of you have survived and are currently gearing up for yet another fun filled bonanza. To be honest i'm still feelin a bit fragile myself after partying with the House Arrest crew in Dunfermline last Friday then Glagow for Fiasco on the Sunday. Crikey what a rinse out!
Fiasco was quite simply superb all day. Fantastic tunes, great banter and some extraordinarily sound people helped to make it one of the best days out in a good long while. Even the notorious Weegie weather held out for us! Actually took me till Wednesday this week to recover although, as i mentioned, my vision is still some what fluffy around the edges.
This weekend there are plenty more parties on to get right in about so without further ado....
FRIDAY 29th MAY 2009
Club For Heroes presents Truffle Club Live (Optimo Espacio, Dissident , Wireblock)@ The Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College Of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh.
First up is CLUB FOR HEROES which takes place at The Wee Red Bar @ Edinburgh College of Art. Founded back in January of 2008 by resident DJ Simon Eilbeck, aka Dr Love, the Club focuses on the deeper shades of underground disco from classics from the likes of Giorgio Moroder and the Salsoul stable to more modern twists of electro-funk, nu-jazz and broken beats and deeper shades of Detroit-esque techno. The club’s tagline is “Disco Sans Frontiers” and that, I feel, sums up the music policy here perfectly. This coming Friday (29th May) sees Glasgow’s Dave Clarke aka Truffle Club making a guest appearance with a full live set. Simon is particularly excited about this because Truffle Club’s recent hit “Gone Blue” has become a bit of a dancefloor anthem at Club For Heroes. As one half of the Optimo production team alongside JD Twitch, Truffle Club has produced some ridiculously tasty tracks as well as having remixed many of the cooler bands around at the moment from Franz Ferdinand to The Glimmers. This will no doubt be one hell of a party and in the relatively small confines of The Wee Red Bar, the intimacy will inevitably create a truly electric atmosphere. Quite simply unmissable!
On Saturday afternoon The Roxy Arthouse in Edinburgh will play host to the city’s first one day festival dedicated to the art of electronic music making. The event sponsored by Edinburgh’s Red Dog Music store will bring together artists, technical experts and industry bods for an entire day of cutting edge equipment demonstrations, workshops on Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase, Cake Walk V-Studio and more as well as lectures and live performances from the likes of Christ, Frog Pocket, Joe Acheson Quartet, Morphamish to name but a few.
The Event runs from 12 noon to around 11pm and entry is just £5 and there will be a licenced bar open throughout.
Creative Industries drops again on Saturday with residents G-Dubs and Stephen Brown joined by tech-house veteran Trevor Rockliffe for another nerve shattering session of raw machine funk.
With a career that stems back to the mid 80’s Trevor has always been a figure head in the uk techno and house scenes. As one of the very first Djs to be signed by Carl Cox to his Ultimate DJ Agency, Trevor’s sound and relentlessly good djing skills have earned him gigs in nearly every techno emporium on the planet. From Fuse in Belgium to Tresor in Berlin, from Twilo in new york to the far off reaches of Australia and New Zealand.
His drive to educate and entertain in equal measure has ensured his following around the world has continued to grow. After a short break from production since acclaimed “Visions Of You” on Ultimatum he’s bounced straight back with releases on labels such as Bush, Primevil, Dark House Music, Primary Records and Intec not to mention almost countless remixes he done in the past couple of years. This is his first time in Edinburgh for well over 4 years and the Creative Industries camp are delighted to have him on board!
Sunday 31st May 2009
Bang Bang Sunday Social@ The Speakeasy, Cabaret Voltaire, 36 Blair Street, Edinburgh
Sunday afternoons will never be the same again… Not if Bang Bang Club has anything to do with it anyway. Located in the decadent confines of Cab Vol’s lush new Speakeasy room, this early evening session of high quality underground dub, ambient and chillout music hopes to ease away those weekend hangovers with great atmospheres, strange yet soothing music and a good dose of hair of the dog treatments. With devilish Bloody Mary’s, Espresso Martini’s and Mary’s legendary homemade comfort food this looks to become a firm favourite amongst the most hardcore of weekend warriors.
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Hi guys and welcome back to the Chef's specials. My apologies for no update last week but i was so busy with work and stuff i didn't really have time and to be honest i couldn't find much to write home about, clubwise, anyway so i took some time out for some quiet R&R.
Plenty quality clubbing action for ya this weekend though if your out and about, although most of it is outwith the City of Edinburgh this bank holiday.
Friday 22nd May 2009
House Arrest presents Alan Gray (Telefunken) @ Monty's, Guildhall Street, Dunfermline, Fife.
House Arrest returns to its new home at Monty's in Dunfermline this month for another session of bumpin', jackin' beats as resident disco jockeys Mr Manyana, Dibbs and Klubfoot enlist Sir Alan to demonstrate those tip top house flavours which have been rockin Edinburgh in recent months. As Telefunken's head honcho, Alan has played alongside the likes of DJ Sneak, Hector Moralez, Mastik Soul, Jason Hodges, Phil Weeks and Jamanta Crew to name but a few, so there's probably nobody in the country more qualified to rock this party to its foundations. Expect plenty of funky, ass shaking grooves from around the world heavily influenced by swingin Chicago.
Click the link below for a wee taster mix from Alan.
If you're in Edinburgh on Friday night and electro, dubstep, breaks, and bassheavy electronica is more your thing then head down to Cab Vol and join the Noise Porn crew as they celebrate their first birthday with a truly raucous party featuring the intimidatingly good, musical hurricane that is Hostage, supported in the main room by the equally talented Hijack and Master Chemist. These guys have been destroying dancefloors all over the UK and beyond recently with some of the wonkiest bass heavy beats you'll hear all year. Through the back the Aztech crew of Siren, Re:Tox and Al Majik will be serving their usual gut-bursting breakfest with some proper jumpin drum n bass and rip roaring electro bangers thrown in for good measure. Expect to sweat cos this is gonna get hotter than a snake's ass in a waggon rut!
Tickets available at £8+bf from Riping Records and TicketScotland or £10 on the door,
Fiasco's Secret Location Party 2, Somewhere in or around Glasgow, UK
If you're one of the lucky ones who've managed to get Monday off work and you still have some energy and an obsession for top quality House Music that just won't go away then you really should head out west to Glasgow for Fiasco's second annual Secret Location Party!
Resident's Frazer Devine and Ed-FM have pulled out all the stops this year to put together an amazing event featuring 15 Djs including Inland Knights, Tommy Largo, Giom, Soydan, Ibiza legend Marco Loco, Flatpack Traxx Crew plus a whole host of local talents who will be playing during this mammoth 11 hour event.
The Party kicks off at 4pm at Moskito on Bath Street, Glasgow where everybody will meet up before boarding coaches which will transport us to the "Secret Location." Here the party will continue with a fully lisenced bar and some more awesome house music guaranteed to keep you bumpin and jackin till the coaches ferry us back to the Admiral Bar on Waterloo Street at around 10.30.
Back at The Admiral the party will kick off again till the wee small hours or untill the staff manage to get us off the premises!
Tickets for this are £25 each and available from Ticket Scotland or from any of the DJs involved. If you can't make the secret location part of the days events but wanna come and join us at The Admiral from 10.30pm then you can pay at the door when you arrive. Door price will be £10
Greetings folks, i trust you are all well rested after a rather monumental bank holiday weekender. I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made it along to City Cafe on Sunday evening to what turned out to be a rather splendid wee party. Watch this space as i may be organising some more wee soirees down there in the not too distant future.
Anyway on to this coming weekend....
FRIDAY 8TH MAY 2009
Aztech presents Mr No Hands @ The Caves, South Niddry Street Edinburgh
If thundering funky breaks and shoot from the hip electro-boogie is your bag then you could do a lot worse than get your ass down to The Caves this Friday for the last Aztech party till October. Yes the city's Jack, Queen and King of breaks are about to embark on their summer holidays once again so they're throwing another beast of a break-fest to say thanks for all the support and to help them out in their quest they have enlisted the extraordinary dj talent that is MR NO HANDS.
"Scouted out at 2008's Glade Festival by TeamAz, his reggae and funk-tinged sounds seemed to tempt the sunshine further out from behind the clouds and soon we were being bombarded with so many big dubby basslines and grooving breaks that we didn't know what had hit us! With influences taken from disco, electro-funk and hip-hop, and a strong link to cartoon and skater culture, Mr No Hands is bound to be full of surprises and will no doubt get us all bouncing right through spring and into summer before you can say Sneaky Az!
Residing on the prestigious Air Recordings label, Mr No Hands enjoys a DJ residency at Air @ London's Matter, and also edits and writes for Mixmag."
Support as always from RE:TOX, SIREN AND AL MAJIK
Entry on the night will cost £7/6 members Doors 10.30pm - 3.00am
Fiasco presents Steph @ The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, Glasgow
If solid, bumpin, jackin house is more your thing then head out west to Fiasco country in Glasgow. As a wee precursor to their massive, upcoming secret location party the Fiasco lads Ed and Frazer have drafted in long time friend The Steph to help them out with this residents party which is sure to be another raucous affair. Steph has decided to leave for pasture new and is
emigrating to New Zealand next month so this Friday they are setting him loose on the hallowed Fiasco turntables to show off his skills which he's been honing since the late 90s. Expect heaps of classic jack tracks and a smattering of the freshest in bump 'n' swingin house.
Entry costs just £6 all night
Doors 10.30pm - 3.00am
Mid May Mix Bizzle to treat your MP3 player and your ears.
Here’s a few of the mixes which have been tantalising my audio taste buds these past few weeks. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have….
Starting with this rather fine down tempo affair from Baker Street recordings Jacob
1.West Cost Drive - Harri Edit
2. Astro Travellin - Andy Ash
3. Fun Thing - Amplified Orchestra
4. Shine On - Black Cock
5. The Pop - Good Kidz
6. We Be Groovin - Engin
7. Moody Bang - Ajello
8. Latin Vibe - Kevin Yost
9. 123 Yeah Yeah - Willie Graff
10. Cant Get Enough of Your Love - Simphona (with added vinyl crackles at the end)
Next up a mix of pure, bonafide disco classics put together by Eric Cohen aka DJ Strobe. This has rapidly become one of my all time favourite mixes and features some of the best loved disco tracks ever recorded, many of which spawned my favourite ever house tracks too. The most smile inducing mix of all time? Perhaps!
Dexter Wansel - Life on Mars (1976) Philadelphia International Records
B.T. Express - Does It Feel Good To You (1980) Columbia Records
Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation (1980) Salsoul Records
First Choice - Love Thang (1979) Salsoul Records
Brass Construction - Movin' (1975) United Artists Records
D-Train - Keep On (1982) Prelude Records
Cloud One - Disco Juice (1977) P&P Records
Joe Bataan - Rap-O Clap-O (1979) Salsoul Records
Freeze - Southern Freeze (1981) Streetwise Records
Carol Williams - Love Is You (1977) Salsoul Records
The Jacksons - Shake Your Body Down To The Ground (1978) Epic Records
Chic - Everybody Dance (1978) Atlantic Records
Chicago - Street Player (1979) Columbia Records
Eddie Johns - More Spell On You (1979) Intercord Record Service
This next one is a promotional sampler from the Jam The Box DJs, Jammiwam, Jimmy “Jammin” Thomas and Marmalade Maslin. Recorded in their usual club style of two tracks each and completely spontaneous track selection this is a good taste of how the guys play at their highly regarded clubnight here in Edinburgh. They were going for a two hour set but unfortunately a stylus died half way through so they were forced to wrap it up. I’m assured that the second hour will be recorded soon so I’ll post here as soon as I get the link.
Chip E - Time to Jack (Trax)
Armando Gallop ft. Sharvette - Don't Take It (Let's Pet Puppies)
Andonis - Rocking Down the House (Trax)
Armando - 100% of Disin' U (Warehouse)
Reggie R - Get Up (Real House Records)
Derrick L Carter - End of the Line (Classic)
Chow Daddy - Batman (Moxie)
Education - Housezilla (D1 Limited Editions)
Dukeyman - Doggystyle (Baltimore Club Classics)
Andrea Parker - Early Days (Touchin Bass)
Ramon Tapia & Maxim Lany - Some of us Claim to Think About Music (We Play House)
Len Faki - My Black Sheep (Radioslave mix) (Len Series Figure)
Mitch Igan - Windy City Theme (Windy City)
John Arnold - Universal Mind (Fragile)
Johnny Fiasco - The Message (Control Records)
Matzo & Pauli - Drama - Cyberdance
Tony lionni - 5th Gate - Aesthetic
Tactic - Track 2 (Dress 2 Sweat XXX)
Limited Edition - The Light (Go Bang! Records)
MXN - Dislok8ted Science (Ampart)
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Todd Terry - A Day in a Life (House Party)
Cajmere - Percolator (Cajual)
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Finally a taster of Toronto’s finest dj export, Jason Hodges. This set was recorded last month at Fiasco in Glasgow and is one of Hodges’s finest sets for a while. Absolutely impeccable mixing and outstanding track selection, showing why he’s one of the very best in the business right now.
Tonight sees the return of one of city's newest and most promising clubnights, Jam The Box, for their monthly showdown at The GRV. After completely packin out the venue last month with the first of their Live Jams the boys are gettin back to basics with a stripped down clubnight again tonight. Just decks, effects and 3 boxes jammed full of the best in soul, funk, disco, house, dubstep, techno, breakbeats and anything else their dj display team wish to bestow upon your ears. Disco Jockeys Paul "Marmalade" Maslin, Jimmy "Jammin" Thomas and Jammiwam are fast becoming 3 of the most popular club residents in town and when you hear these three chaps playin their trademark tag team set you'll know why. Seemlessly mixing between countless styles of heavyweight soul fuelled tunes they take their devoted crowd on a truly magical, musical journey.
Bargain £4 entry all night. Doors 11pm-3am
Sunday May 3rd 2009
E.C.C.F BIG DAY OUT! BBQ at The Outhouse and After Party @ City Cafe, Edinburgh
Sunday is all about the annual Edinburgh Clubbing Community Forum's Big Day Out which is a mammoth 15 hour dance-fest and kicks off at 1pm @ The Outhouse, Broughton Street Lane for part one the BBQ. This usually serene little boozer tucked away on a wee sidestreet near the top of Leith Walk, for 5 Sundays a year, transforms into a hedonistic wonderland somewhat like a little slice of Ibiza dropped straight into a city plot. And each year one of those sundays is hosted by The E.C.C.F in a bid to raise money for The Sick Kids Hospital Foundation charity. Tickets invariably sell out in ever decreasing times each year with over 400 tickets all snapped up in just under 6 mins this year. The Dj line up features jocks from some of the most popular E.C.C.F affiliated clubnight and this year it the turn of Telefunken, Karnival and Taste to host the party.
Tickets £2 but sold out Doors 1pm - 5.30pm
As always another venue has been booked for the Official E.C.C.F BBQ Afterparty and this year its downstairs at City Cafe where djs Lel P, Mikey Inglis, Jimmy "Jammin" Thomas, Lee Holden, Chef De Party, Mr Manyana and Dibbs will be droppin some more top funk, soul and disco tinged house music to keep the party rockin till late in the evening.
Entry to City Cafe is free but we do ask that you dig deep and make a donation to the Sick Kids charity. Party starts at 5 and goes on till around midnight.
Telefunken presents James Curd (Greenskeepers, Chicago) @ The Caves, Niddry Street South, Edinburgh.
The City's freshest and most happening night for lovers of true house music, Telefunken, is back for the first of its extracurricular parties with a one off show at The Caves. A truly incredible club space, The Caves forms part of the vast labyrinth of vaults which are buried beneath the oldest part of the city. Situated off The Cowgate, beneath South Bridge this venue is without a doubt the most spectacular in the capital. The Telefunken crew are all very excited to have one of their favourite guest djs from last year join them for another swingin, bumpin, jackin set. Chicago's James Curd is most famous for his work as part of The Greenskeepers band and hit records like Lotion, Low And Sweet and his track fhich featured on the recent Grand Theft Auto game. James has also had plenty success as a solo artist and he's constantly touring the globe pushing that trademark bumpin Chicago house sound.
Tickets will be on sale at City Cafe for £8. More on the door. Doors 10.30 - 3.00am
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