The Chef's Specials for Week Ending 19/07/09

Hi folks and welcome back to The Chef's Specials. I feel i must apologise for the lack of updates on here over the past couple of weeks but i have simply been too busy with other work of late and have not had time to write the blog. I'm hoping that today's crop of musical highlights can get me right back on track though so please bare with me.

FRIDAY 17th JULY 2009

The Vinyl Club and R.S.I Radio on Leith 98.8fm. 9pm - 1am in your front room.

This week The Vinyl Club will be kicking off with a guest mix from Club For Heroes' resident Disco Jockey, Jetlad aka Simon Eilbeck. Jetlad's intoxicating blend of deep techno, soulful house and raw 70s funk and disco has been blowing minds and blistering feet for some time now and his set for Leith fm will demonstrate exactly why the guy's reputation is growing at an almost alarming rate around Edinburgh. This weekend Jetlad will be hosting Edinburgh's deep house and techno institution, Ultragroove's back room at Cabaret Voltaire so if you like his set on the show go check out how he throws it down with a proper dancefloor in front of him!

Also on the show this week, Bayern, Germany's favourite exponent of deep, techy minimalism, Rainer Weichold drops by for a particularly sweet guest slot to disprove the theory that all minimal techno is boring. Indeed nobody can breathe excitement and melody into minimal quite like those pesky Germans.

Following The Vinyl Club, R.S.I Radio show kicks of with a drum n bass special this week. Regular host Kenny Breaks is off this week so warm up duties fall into the capable hands of Steven Calvert aka Retrend who'll be dropping an exciting, sweet and soulful liquid funk D'n'B set before Glasgow based, Nerve Records boss, Paul Reset steps up with a crate of incendiary deep rollers.

Paul is resident at Scotland's biggest Drum n Bass institution Xplicit and used to promote Glasgow's LiveEvil night as well. He's been Djing for over 12 years now and has always been a figurehead in the Scottish drum n bass scene having played guest slots at most of the most prominent nights on the scene.

Nerve Recordings Myspace

Telefunken presents Mark Farina (Mushroom Jazz, Om Recordings, San Francisco)
@ The Electric Circus, 36-39 Market Street, Edinburgh. Doors 10.30pm - 3am

Edinburgh's other house music heavyweight Telefunken is back this weekend with another of their one off parties this time at The Electric Circus near Waverly Station. This stunning new club space in the site of the old Massa/Club Mercado has only been open a few weeks and is fast becoming a proper jewel in Edinburgh's clubbing crown. After a suitably expensive refurb from the old dive that was Massa, this shiny new establishment is a breath of fresh air. With an interior staright out of a Baz Luhrman movie with beautiful artwork adorning the walls and some lush comfortable booth seating areas and a cracking soundsystem the venue has become famous more for live gigs than clubs.

However, Telefunken hope to change all that and this month they've hired the help of possibly the biggest name on the house music circuit for the past 6 years. Yes Chicago raised but San Francisco based, Mushroom Jazz pioneer, Mark Farina will be dropping in for his Telefunken debut and his first gig in Edinburgh for nearly ten years. Mark is widely regarded by some of the worlds best House djs such as Sneak and Derrick Carter, as the daddy and for the first time in a long time Edinburgh is gonna find out why.

This particular event has been a long time in the making and was originally supposed to take place at Studio 24 but after the Studios had it's licence suspended the Telefunken boys had just 3 weeks to find a new venue. Against all the odds they've managed it though and probably got the best possible venue in the city in the process so this will be an absolutely massive celebration for them and with a 3 hour set from Farina i don't think there are words which can even begin to describe the excitement they're feeling already.

Alan Gray and Nick Wilson will be supporting in room 1 while Lel and Carina stir the soup du soul, fry up the funk and bake the disco cookies in room 2

Tickets for this event are still on sale at Tickets Scotland, Ripping Records and Underground Solu'shun on Cockburn Street priced £12 plus booking fee but they're selling fast and limited to only 350 due to the intimacy of The Electric Circus so please get yours sharpish if you don't want to miss out. Myself , Frazer Devine and Lady Jaya will be playing some rekkids at The Wash Bar on The Mound before hand so if you're lookin for some preclub drinks and some crackin tunes pop in and say hi.

Mark Farina Myspace
Mark Farina Home Page
Telefunken Home Page
Telefunken Facebook


Saturday 18th JULY 2009

Ultragroove with Gareth Sommerville, Stephen Rodgers (Elements Of Soul) and Jet Lad (Club For Heroes)

@ Cabaret Voltaire, 36 Blair Street Edinburgh

Cabaret Voltaire is the place to be this Saturday night for yet more proper house music. Resident Gareth Somerville will be rolling out the disco, techno and everything inbetween in his usual style supported by Elements Of Soul's Stephen Rodgers who's making his Ultragroove debut this weekend and as i mentioned earlier Club For Heroes moustachioed marvel Jet Lad will be carefully blending the soul, disco and raw funk that is eaning him great respect among the city's musical connieusseurs through in room two. Entry costs just a fiver before midnight or £7 after.

Doors 11pm - 3am.

SUNDAY 19th JULY 2009

Soul Pigeon featuring the Digigals DJ Display Team @ The Granary, The Shore, Leith
5pm till late and free entry all evening.

Sundays for me are all about soul, funk, old school hiphop and chill out and it would appear that the mysterious Digigals Crew agree. They've recently started up a summer evening sunday session at The Granary on Leith's Shore. Kicking off at 5pm and running till late, the Digigals blend of all of the above styles is proving to be a refreshing soundtrack to summer sunday drinking.

For a wee taster of their awesome dj skills please check out their stuff on Soundcloud.

Free Ear Candy Selections.

This week as a way of apologising for my lack of updates over the previous two weeks i have dug out some rather delicious mixes from some damn fine djs. Starting with 2 from one of my absolute favourite Scottish DJs of the moment Graeme Clark aka The Revenge.

This first one is his set for Beats In Space Radio show which is broadcast live from New York every Tuesday evening from

The Revenge - Beat's In Space Mix

1. 6th Borough Project - Do It To The Max - Instruments Of Rapture
2. The Revenge - Funk On A Whole Nu Level - CDR
3. Madonna - Justify My Love (The Revenge Edit) - CDR
4. Gang - Love To Fly (Edit) - Lotus Records
5. The Popular People's Front - Showtime - The Popular People's Front
6. 6th Borough Project - Nights Over Memphis (The Revenge Dub) - Instruments Of Rapture
7. Deep Space Orchestra - City Streets - Five20East
8. Harmonic 313 - Flaash - Warp
9. Sweet Exorcist - Testone (Winston & Ross Remix) - Warp
10. The Pointer Sisters - Be There (Accapella) - MCA
11. Mark E - Fighter - Sonar Kollektiv
12. Andy Ash - Goin' Down - Universal Vibes
13. The Revenge - Hotz 4 U - CDR
14. Who's Who - Hypnodance (The Revenge Edit) - CDR
15. B.W.H. - Stop (Edit) - House Of Music
16. Lionel Richie - Serves You Right (Edit) - Motown
17. Tony Lionni - Better Change - Mule Electronic
18. Craig Smith & The Revenge - Jacques Cousteau (Beat) - CDR
19. John Daly - Lonely Beat - Drumpoet Community
20. Red Rack Em' - Picnic (The Revenge Remix) - Deep Freeze Recordings
21. Model 500 - The Chase (Riff) - Metroplex
22. Todd Terry - Bring It Back - TNT
23. Brother's Vibe - The Reaping (SOW Mix) - Mixx Records
24. Barbara York - Tonight (The Revenge Edit) - CDR
25. Network - Back In America - Warner

The Revenge - Hang On In There

1. Rare Earth - Celebrate (The Revenge Edit) - CDR
2. Eddie C - Let Your Mind Be Free - Jiscomusic
3. BT Express - Keep It Up (BB Edit) (Recut) - CDR
4. Change - Hard Times / It's Gonna Be Alright (The Revenge Edit) - CDR
5. Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight (DJ Harri Edit) - CDR
6. Q Tip - Breathe & Stop (The Revenge Redd Version) - L.E.S.S.
7. The Revenge - Nightflight - Jiscomusic
8. The Mole - Still In My Corner (Adam Beyer Remix) - Wagon Repair
9. Body 2 Body - Let's Get Intimate (DJ Harri Edit) - CDR
10. 6th Borough Project - Closer - Instruments Of Rapture
11. Jay Shepherd - Last Days (Of Cou Cou D) - Compost Black
12. BB - Do It (Recut) - CDR
13. Pilooski - Double Dub Edit - Diamond Traxx
14. The Revenge - Kiss U 2nite - CDR
15. Larry Heard - 25 Years From Alpha - Black Market
16. Jeff Mills - Glen21 - Axis
17. Phuture - Phuture Jacks - Trax
18. The Revenge - Cadillac - Jiscomusic

This next one is by Nottingham's Red Rack'em and is a deep excursion into detroit beatdown featuring some crackin tunes from Edinburgh's very own Firecracker label

Red Rack'em's Muthafuckin D mix

1 – Soulphiction – Dark Berry

2 – Fudge Fingas – Gettin’ Togetha
3 – Inverse Cinematics – Passin’ Through
4 – Andres feat Negue Hernandez – About Time
5 – Mark E – Touch
6 – Oblique – Love Town
7 – Theo Parrish – First Floor Metaphor
8 – Soul 223 – In Search Of Slowly
9 – Mark E – Slave 1
10 – Red Rack’em – You Can’t Pray For Your Soul
11 – San Proper – Twiff Twaff
12 – Theo Parrish – Twin Cities
13 – Linkwood Family – Miles Away
14 – Iken – Minds Eye
15 – Theo Parish – That Day
16 – The Godson – Magic Water
17 – Moodymann – Don’t Be Misled

This little beauty is by Disco Deviance boss Dicky Trisco and was recorded as a Podcast for
Cool In The Pool website.

Dicky Trisco's Cool In The Pool

1. Chacona & Anthony Mansfield - Oh Snap! (GW version) – Hector Works
2. (Wade Nichols edit) Mindless Boogie
3. O2 (Dclas Mixture) – D Classics
4. Q – The Voice of Q
5. Disco Deviance 04 – Don’t Let Go (PH Edit)
6. Phreek Plus One – Phreek Party – Compost Black Label
7. Ignition – Secret Sunday Lover (GW Version) – Love is War Music
8. West Phillips – (I’m Just a) Sucker for a Pretty Face – Quality
9. Atlantic Conveyor – We Are – Untracked
10. Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bay – Crossover
11. Peoples Front - Get Down Shep
12. Aeroplane – Caramellas – Eskimo Recordings
13. Two Sides of Sympathy (GW Version) – Edit The Edit

This last one is an absolute belter of relentless bumpin beats from the rdiculously talented mid west house maestro Scrubfish.
Jackin House like as ought to be played

Scrubfish live @ Uptown Lounge

Hopefully something in that little lot will help to soundtrack your weekend folks.
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