Well guys, i cannae really say i feel that much wiser and i'm not really feelin any older either to be honest but another year in the life of Chef De Party has passed. Yes i'm now officially 32 and still just getting warmed up.
Having just had a monster birthday weekend which took me to Edinburgh for some live music at Citizen Smith, followed by some awesome djs sets from Yogi Haughton and DJ Q at Telefunken on Friday, then Metro Soul for some tough rythmic house music from Domm and Ryan Alan here in Glasgow on Saturday and finishing with Sunday Safari and Optimo on Sunday, I am feeling surprisingly fresh and full of energy this week.
Disco Kitchen HQ is becoming a real hive of activity as promotional work for various events and organisations is starting to come in for the summer festival season. And with all our Forever Cookin' events all starting to come together as well there's a real air of excitement and anticipation building. Support for our events at local level is also building momentum and i'm very grateful to be living in such a creative and supportive city. Indeed i'm very happy to say that 2010 is shaping up nicely and my 33rd year may well turn out to be one of the best yet.
Anyway, thats enough of the over indulgent optimism for now. I'm guessing you're here reading this because you wanna know whats on this weekend so lets have a butchers at this week's top picks.
THURSDAY 22nd APRIL
Equalised
@ Halt 2, 160 Woodlands Road, Glasgow
The Equalised lads' weekly Thursday session at The Halt features SubCity Radio's Men And Machines crew this week. Mixing up various styles of electronic dance music from disco to techno and deep 'n' bleepy house music, Men And Machine also run a clubnight at Stereo on Renfield Lane which has featured the likes of JG Wilkes (Optimo), Black Meteoric Star and I Am Blip amongst others. Djs start at around 8ish pm till eleven pm and its free entry all evening.
FRIDAY 23rd APRIL 2010
live on Leith 98.8FM
This week's show kicks off with James Carrol at the controls for an hour of solid tech house, minimal and tech funk. James and his co-host John "Gerry" Gerard have been friends for years. He has been a popular spinner at various parties in and around his hometown of Glasgow since his late teens.
These days he's a fully fledged club DJ, regularly playing at the likes of Pulse and Jam The Box in Edinburgh as well as the Velvet nights here in the west, warming up for the likes of Spektre, Redshape and Samuel L Sessions. After many years of djing together, John and James joined forces to try their hand at production. Their first single titled The Acid Incident is just about to drop on Pyrate Music later this month and its backed with a cracking remix from rising star Shaun Mauren.
The second half of the show features a mix from Ian O'Donovan. Hailing from the Emerald Isle, Ian's techy electronic sounds have been developing since he was 16. After immersing himself in Ireland's electronic music scene and djing at various local parties, he decided to move to Australia, where he made the leap into music production. He eventually moved back to Ireland last year and began to really focus on music production as a career. His first few promos were sent out and immediately began to gather support from some of the techno world's biggest stars including Laurent Garnier. This year he has a whole barrage of new tracks about to be released on record labels such as Flying Flowers, Hype Music and John Digweed's Bedrock imprint. His rich and uplifting melodic tech house is sure to continue winning him fans and supporters and 2010 looks set to be a big year for him.
A Deeper Groove
@ Blackfriar's Basement, 36 Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow
Glasgow's Deeper Groove merchants Joc and Steph will be back in Blackfriar's basement this Friday for another one of their rather nice wee soulful house parties. After their last one a couple of months ago which featured Edinburgh soul and house veterans Ricky "Soul Renegade" Reid and Craig "6th Borough" Smith, the lads have managed to pull in another old school Scottish legend. This time its Colours and Streetrave hero Jon Mancini's turn at the helm.
Jon is without doubt one of Scotland's most famous DJs having been a part of the first big acid house parties back in the early nineties. As a resident dj at Ayr Pavillion's now legendary Streetrave events, Jon played alongside some of the biggest names in the rave and early house music scenes. Nowadays his soulful, vocal house sound can be heard at the Colours events held at The Arches. He's also made a name for himself as a radio presenter having hosted Clyde FM's specialist dance music show Colours Mix for over 3 years. This is a rare opportunity to catch Jon playing in an intimate venue and it will be a busy night so best advice is to get down early. Doors open 10pm - 3am and Entry cost just £5 before midnight or £7 after.
Soulology
@ The Brunswick Hotel Basement, Brunswick Street,
Glasgow
Glasgow's undisputed queen of soul, Elaine McGrath, hosts another one of her Soulology nights at The Brunny Basement this Friday. Colin Sales and the legendary Mancunian Yogi Haughton will be popping in to lay down some sweet, soulful and jackin house music mixed up with a dash of jazz-funk and a sprinkling of disco rarities. These two DJs have been around for ages and have become pretty much synonamous with great quality clubnights.
Entry for this party costs £5 and please note the Brunny is only licensed till 2am so the event starts an hour earlier than most other places at 10pm.
Club For Heroes
@ The GRV, Hasties Close
(Off Guthrie Street), Edinburgh
Following an extended break, Edinburgh's sparlkiest cosmic discotech returns to its home at The GRV on Friday night with another galactic line up of musical mix-masters. Residents Simonotron and Honey Sweetcheekz will be joined by the bearded militant vinylist Jamie Spectrum and Glasgow's acid-disco-pop merchant The Niallist in the main room while Dapper Dan's Default and Picassio look after the front bar area.
Jamie Spectrum is one of Edinburgh best loved veterans of the dj booth. An old favourite at such legendary nights as Motherfunk, and Scratch and long time staff member at the city's finest and longest serving vinyl emporium Underground Solush'n, Jamie's dj style visits all points on the musical compass. Blending swiftly between hip hop, funk, disco, soul, house and techno with wild abandon and masterful skill, he knows exactly how to work a crowd by pushing its buttons and taking them into the unknown, on a musical voyage full of surprises and excitement. A true master of his art and one of my favourite disco jockeys.
Hailing from Glasgow, The Niallist is another of the Scottish clubscenes true underground heroes. A regular spinner at Death Disco, Optimo, Melting Pot (next week) and Wasabi Disco, The Niallist built his reputation creating acid tinged discopop and wonky, italo space-funk, the sort of beautifully chaotic and sexually charged sounds that labels Dissident and Little Rock lap up greedily.
Doors open from 11pm-3am and entry is just £3 before midnight or £5 after.
Unique Beats
Electronic Arts Festival v2.0
@ The Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
Electronic music enthiusiasts should head to The Roxy Arthouse in Edinburgh this saturday, as the second annual Unique Beats festival is taking place. Held in a stunning old church building located between the city's Pleasance and Bridges districts, Unique Beats has already become the biggest fairs of its kind in Scotland. The event features equipment and software demonstrations and workshops hosted by the likes of Moog, Novation, Ableton, M-Audio, Akai, Roland, Korg and more, plus live music from over 30 talented local acts such as Anchorsong, Frog Pocket, Tokyo Knife Attack and Asthmatic Astronaut upstairs in the main hall.
Meanwhile downstairs in the basement Leith FM's Vinyl Club and the Laptop Lounge will be hosting another stage where dj/producers like Deemond, Swede, Project Dataline and Slo-Mo djs will be playing some rekkids. The event is sponsored by Red Dog Music store and it looks set to be a really informative and fun day out. Tickets cost £7+bf in advance from the website or £10 on the door. The event starts at midday and finishes up at around 1am.
His n Hers Launch Party
@ Electric Circus, Market Street, Edinburgh.
(by Cornelius Pierce)
From the radge bastards that brought you "the bang bang club + erection section"
say hello to HIS & HERS...
A much needed, straightforward, quality indie and alternative club night, that for some weird reason doesn't currently exist in Edinburgh, the last thing close to this was in the liquid rooms before it burned down, and even still we had our critisms...
The question was... Why is there nowhere that plays all the quality stuff from punk, post punk, new wave, 80's synth pop and electro, 80's alternative, the wealth of 90's indie and alternative and the cream of the same crop from the last 10 years?
And when you find something close to that, it's always in a dingy venue with suitably matched punters, its a stigma that will prevent good people from venturing into one of these nights, even though there is a chance they "might" get to hear some of their favourite tracks.
Electric circus is without a doubt one of the cleanest, prettiest, sexiest venues in the capital, very friendly and a great host for a night such as this. Other than the venue, the playlist for this night speaks for itself, just good quality music with a healty dose of nostalgia, without being cheesy and definately missing out all the obvious stuff, no disrespect to nights such as Madchester and Planet Earth at the Citrus Club etc... They are what they are. His & Hers will be striving to be a little more discerning than that, with 3 decades of solid music to play for everyone, a vibrant and interactive facebook ideology. We are paving the way to give back something that everyone wants, yet would have to go to 3 different club nights to satisfy. Simple uncomplicated stuff, you should know what to expect and you should expect a high standard, as we are talking about the music we all grew up with.
Taking their name and visual styling from the Pulp e.p. and album, we hope to set the right tone for this night and hope it becomes a reliable, regular favourite for many in Edinburgh. There shall be a heavy amount of relevant kitsch on the screens and 2 His 'n' Hers cocktails on offer (pink for girls and blue for boys of course!)
This launch night will be immediately after The Fall's concert at Studio 24, so as you can imagine, there may be the odd fall track getting a right good seeing to.
We hope you can come out to play and enjoy the fresh air of some stuff you rarely get the chance to dance to elsewhere.
His n Hers starts at 11pm, finishes at 3am and costs £5 before midnight or £6 after.
Electrofunk-
discotek
discotek
& Supermax
@The Brunswick Hotel, 106 Brunswick Street,
Merchant City,Glasgow
Back here in the west The Brunny plays host to two excellent parties this Saturday as Craig Moogroove and Sir Billy Woods bring their crates full of cosmic disco, italo, techno, house and space funk to play for your listening and dancing enjoyment.
Upstairs in the main bar Craig's slick blent of modern disco-edits, deep house and cosmic hiphop jams will undoubtedly please a clued up crowd of 20-30 somethings who like to indulge their passion for undeground music in the plush comfort of one of the city's swankiest boutique hotels. Craig's experience both as a dj and as an accomplished producer has led him to gigs all over Europe including Paris and Berlin. His sweet and friendly nature coupled with a real passion for the music he plays has earned him a large circle of friends and admirers. He's also one of the resident jocks at Solar Disco which also runs at The Brunny and is another of my Favourite nights here in Glasgow. He's an avid blogger too and runs the Piece Together blog which is a great resource for mixes as well as bits and bobs about Glasgow nightlife and the creative forces behind it. This party kicks off from about 8.30pm and runs till around midnight. Entry is free all night long.
In the Ear Candy Section at the bottom of this week's Specials i've included a new mix from Craig to get you in the mood. It's pretty darn awesome so please check it out.
Glasgow's favourite eclectic wizard of dance music Billy Woods will be rolling his incredible Bozak-Balmain soundsytem down into the basement a little bit later on as his Supermax Love Machine touches down once again.
Billy is a full on vinyl obsessive and a collector of some of the rarest and most obscure disco records ever recorded. His dj style knows absolutely no genre boundaries and he's as prone to playing proggy Krautrock as he is to playing The Jacksons or the O'Jays. With Billy you never really know what to expect which makes him one of the most exciting DJs in the country.
He's one of the few jocks left in the world who still play by the unwritten rules layed down by the likes of Larry Levan where the emphasis is not solely on flawless beatmatching but in playing exceptionally good records to create a story and to bring people out of there shells and let them enjoy themselves. Popular club hits of today sit next to some of the most obscure rarities of the past 50 years. Squelchy acid techno merges with soulful disco and italo or electro and old school hip hop. The way in which the sounds are heard is also an obsession for him so his custom built Bozak-Balmain rig is one of the very best soundsystems you're ever likely to hear, with crystal clarity and a beautiful warm and organic feel.
Tronicsole
@ The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, Glasgow.
Freerange Records boss Jimpster will be dropping into The Admiral in Glasgow on Saturday night to help Tronicsole celebrate its first birthday. Tronicsole has been at the forefront of the city's deep house scene since its launch 12 months ago. With resident Stevie "Hiro" Middleton and his Solemusic label backing the night its no wonder, really.
Freerange Records is one of the UK's best known deep house stables. Their artist rosta reads like a "who's who" list of the nations deep house professors with names like Manuel Tur, Lovebirds, Milton Jackson and Shur-i-khan all featuring. Since the labels launch in 1996 they've managed to clock up over 100 releases and there's no sign of things slowing down for them just yet so expect loads of exclusive new tracks from the boss man on Saturday. Hiro and Stevie Coyle will be providing support this month as well as giving away loads of free cds featuring mixes and new tracks from the Solemusic label.
They're also throwing a wee pre-club party up at The Courtyard on West Nile Street from 9pm and will be issuing people with discount entry passes to the club afterwards.
The club opens at 11pm and runs till 3am and costs £10 entry. Preclub is free entry.
Ear Candy
Here's another crop of excellent dj mixes which have been tantalising my audio tastebuds this week.
First up is my mate Lel Palfrey's awesome new mix for Sleazy Beats blog.
Intro - Skit [Firecracker]
Red Rack 'Em - In Love Again [Untracked]
Fudge Fingas - It's about time [Prime Numbers]
Session Victim - Danish Daughters [Retreat Vinyl]
San Proper - Sex Drive Rhythm - [Dekmentel]
Small World Disco Edits - Where is The compassion [Small World Disco Edits]
Nu Frequency ft Ben Onono - Fallen Hero (MCDE RMX) - [Rebirth]
Cottam #3
The Beatdown Machine - More Love (LTJ X-Perience mix) [Sleazy Beats]
Riccio - Thrills (ft Kelvin Sholar) [Gentleman]
Story #1 - Subway To Cologne [Story]
I:Cube - Falling [Versatile]
Amplified Orchestra - Shake Up Theme [Amplified]
Amplified Orchestra - Sugar Honey Baby [Amplified]
Lovebirds - Modern Stalking - [Winding Road]
Red Rack 'Em - In Love Again [Untracked]
Fudge Fingas - It's about time [Prime Numbers]
Session Victim - Danish Daughters [Retreat Vinyl]
San Proper - Sex Drive Rhythm - [Dekmentel]
Small World Disco Edits - Where is The compassion [Small World Disco Edits]
Nu Frequency ft Ben Onono - Fallen Hero (MCDE RMX) - [Rebirth]
Cottam #3
The Beatdown Machine - More Love (LTJ X-Perience mix) [Sleazy Beats]
Riccio - Thrills (ft Kelvin Sholar) [Gentleman]
Story #1 - Subway To Cologne [Story]
I:Cube - Falling [Versatile]
Amplified Orchestra - Shake Up Theme [Amplified]
Amplified Orchestra - Sugar Honey Baby [Amplified]
Lovebirds - Modern Stalking - [Winding Road]
Electrofunkdiscotek and Solar Disco residents new mix of nu-disco and deep house
Jay Shepheard - End Of Part One - (Retrofit)
Burnt Island Casuals - Scotch Hop - (Under The Shade)
I:Cube - Falling (Versatile France)
Crazy P - Stop Space Return (Ron Basejam Remix) - (2020 Recordings)
Bottin, Kotey Extra Band - Hot Ring (Fernando Edit) - (Bearfunk)
Golden Bug - Flamingo (Pete Herbert Remix) -(Gomma)
KZA - Gothenergy (The Revenge Remix) - (Endless Flight)
Fromage Disco - Acidic Strings (P.H Edit) - (Lightspeed Records)
Dirty Jesus - Don't Fuck With My Shit (Pete Herbert Remix P.t 1) - (Juno Records)
Golden Bug - Flamingo (Pete Herbert Remix) -(Gomma)
KZA - Gothenergy (The Revenge Remix) - (Endless Flight)
Fromage Disco - Acidic Strings (P.H Edit) - (Lightspeed Records)
Dirty Jesus - Don't Fuck With My Shit (Pete Herbert Remix P.t 1) - (Juno Records)
Burnt Island Casuals - Truth & Temptation - (Under The Shade)
Ooft Music's Ali Herron delivers a party rockin set of pitched down house,
deep and moody disco edits and some nice techy flavours towards the end.
Rene & Angela - I Love you More (Mr K Instrumental)
Reset - Juiced (Recut)
Tornado Wallace - Be My Ladyboy
Daniel Solar - Got To See Her
Surround Sounds - Beyond The Dance (The Revenge Demo Mix)
Chamboche - Show Must Go On
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Moving Through Clouds
OOFT! - Ride In To The Red Zone
Sascha Dive - Jus Groove
Denny Trajkov - Pacific Dream (OOFT! Remix)
Missing Linkx - A Short History Of...
Runaway - The Fire Below
OOFT! - Spanky Spanky
Rick Wilhite - What Do You See? (Moodymann Remix)
Josh Wink - Counter Clock 319 (Chateau Flight Remix)
Jovonn - Losin My Mind (Jon Cutlers Distant Music Dub)
Paul Du Lac - The House Of Spirits
Floating Points - Estian III
Edinburgh's Simon Hallworth delivers a really stunning chill out and ambient electronica mix
The Last Atlant - Reminescences (Original Mix) .::. [bonzai elemental]
Jon Anderson - Amor Real (Global Communication Remix) .::. [Dedicated]
Nick O'Sean - Sureness (Adrien Aubrun Chillout Mix) .::. [e Musica]
Chicane - No Ordinary Morning .::. [Xtravaganza]
Yunus Guvenen - Indigo (Original/Layered Sounds mix) .::. [Bedrock]
Spooky - Shelter (Slow Phase) .::. [spooky.uk.com]
Peter Martin - Sunday Melody .::. [Morrison Recordings]
Sasha - Baja .::. [Deconstruction]
Delerium - Twilight .::. [Nettwerk]
Banyan Tree - Feel The Sun Rise .::. [Songbird]
B.I.G. - Teardrops .::. [Klik]
Ulrich Schnauss - Monday-Paracetamol .::. [City Centre Offices]
Blank & Jones - Daydreaming .::. [Gang Go Music]
Nemos - kuues meel (Aural Imbalance Remix) .::. [Nemos Music]
Underworld - Banstyle , Sappys curry .::. [Junior Boy's Own]
Sister Bliss - Sister Sister (Blissed Out Mix) .::. [Unknown/white]
Medway - Slow Resurrection .::. [Hooj]
Solarstone - Last Defeat (Part One) .::. [Solaris Recordings]
Well that about wraps it up for this week folks. I'd just like to thank you all again for the birthday wishes and for continuing to read The Chef's Specials, brought to you as always by ...
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