Arthur Russell Remix... Download and Dance

A bit of a bumper package today.

Flogging nights to readers aint really what this blog is about though it seems to have taken up a fair amount of "print"? recently. Saying all this I am going to hawk another night to you here, however with a special lil freebie added in for good measure.

Our friends at Electric minds have in their Go Bang project that drops on Monday, put together one of the most exciting albums of the year.

Arthur Russell for those not in the know was something of a disco pioneer, releasing his own tracks, producing for Loose Joints, dating Alan Ginsberg as well as being a classically trained Cellist, he managed to escape his home town roots in deepest darkest Iowa to collaborate with the likes of David Byrne and Nicky Siano

Go Bang features a host of reworks as well as tracks recorded from scratch by artist such as Yam Who, Pocketknife and Faze Action. There is also a host of remixes available from Ilija Rudman, Mark E and Max Essa.

The in-store Album Launch party is on Monday whilst the big bad full-on, rave-up disco-fused, house-orientated, party is on Friday the 27th of November, Tickets can be purchased in advance and there will be a whole host of Djs and artists connected with the album there as well as the mighty Maurice Fulton, Severino from Horse Meat Disco, Lowlifes Bill Brewster and a trio of some of East London's finest Party starters LOOSE, Cosmic Truth and 102EH?.

phew... anyway as promised here is the link to the Ray Burst mix of Get around to it.. something of a banger actually.

laters

Haunted House

Can't say much about this except it's free.. it's on Halloween... the previous two have been absolute massacres where we have had to lock the doors before 11.30... and the space is without a hint of hyperbole easily the best party locale in our fair capital and used exclusively by us!

For more info and to be added to the guestlist.. which is essential if you wanna get in then email yours and your friend's names to info@electricminds.co.uk

Fancy dress is more than actively encouraged and those who have made the effort will get priority entry in the exceedingly likely event that a ruckus breaks out.

In the interim for your sonic pleasure you can have a listen to Dolan Bergin head Boy at Electric Minds and Andy from Yam who taking turns for bit of a mix up on Redbull radio

Yam Who and Dolan Bergin on Redbull Music Academy Radio

Get LOOSE!

LOOSE are purveyors of fine electronic music a bit like an Emmanuel film; their parties are deep slow and banging but always with a hint of humour and accompanied by a cocktail served with a synthesised disco twist.

Normally little reviews like this now give a quick overview including a list of the DJ's they have booked other parties they have played at and venues they have used so inkeeping with etiquette LOOSE have Booked many Dj's, guested at many other parties and thrown Hoe-downs in a number of different venues. All have been good, none of them have been even approaching shit.

They have taken a little sojourn over the summer to change Venues,moving home from Platinum strip club to the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston, which is brilliant as its near my flat.

Tomorrow night they have a man with a funny name and big reputaion guesting. The funny named man is Mugwump. He is from Belgium and makes amazing music. He will be playing records at a loud volume to which it is expected you dance.

Cred Paul and Helen Run Loose, here is a mix from the male portion of the trio.

and here is a mix by Mugwump.

LOOSE
03 October - LOOSE @ BG's Niteclub

Mugwump (Misericord / Eskimo / Kompakt / Cocoon / Endless Flight)
Paul, Cred and Aitch
22:00 - 05:00 | £5 entry all night

BG's Niteclub, Shaklewell Arms
71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

Mark 7 - Salute to the Men of Vauxhall

This Blog is supposed to be about all things Join The Dots, news of gigs, releases and edits/mixes we have done. However every so often something rears it little head that deserves to be shared with all and sundry and this funnily enough after all the aforementioned hyperbole is exactly one of those things.

Mark Seven is a bit of a dude, a DJ, record collector, owner of Juswax record store , lives in Sweden, looks a bit like a modern pirate and is the owner of some of the best, rarest and most original records around.

A mix by Mark is a pretty rare thing, he is somewhat secretive about the tracks he plays and hardly ever agrees to allow his sets to be recorded. His Slow Blow Mix was an underground bomb, blogged more than a Lindsey lohan crotch shot and mused over in the greatest of detail by internet nerds across the globe.

A few months back the very trendy people at Oki Ni released A Salute to the Men of Vauxhall a three CD Mix of Mark's recorded at Sunday night Disco institution Horse Meat Disco. It is three hours of upfront disco and Saint-esq. early morning sleaze.

There's a few hits in there Pointer Sisters - Automatic and Hall and Oates - I can't go for that but good luck on spotting more than a quarter of the tracklist!

It was released as a limited edition free CD with Mark's latest 12" Travelogue and is already selling for upto £80 on Discogs.

Now with Mark's permission for those who either were not quick enough to get their hands on a copy (ha ha I have one) or don't have the money to spend £80 on a copy (ha ha I have one) here is the entire mix in full to download.

enjoy, tis is very special indeed

x

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Disco's Revenge

Graeme (The Revenge) the man behind one of the remixes off our first release has a brand spanking new shiny website.

It has Mixes, Press info and details on how to book him to play at your Birthday party or remix your latest sonic masterpiece.. if he agrees of course!

Find it here

Dirty Dancing

Duff's getting props… or maybe the boys and girls at Piccadilly records in Manchester are just being nice because it was his birthday recently?

Either way the Dan Black remix EP that includes his pretty damn decent mix has been named record of the week by these purveyors of fine sonic weaponary.

They say

“The Duff Disco remix is a deep disco remix via South Londoner Duffstep. The hidden gem on the package, low slung late night disco grooves.”

The last sentence of which may actually be describing the man himself and his sexy dancing skills!

Get it here

Field Day.. and Night

Field Day has been a beast of mixed reputation the last few years. For everyone who proclaimed “Justice were fucking amazing” someone else said “the sound was shit and I pissed in my knickers because the queues for the toilets were longer than the M6”*

For the last couple of years it has had some of the best line ups seen since the opening of “the usual suspects” This year they have managed to persuade luminaries such as Aeroplane, Erol Alkan, Mogwai, Skream and Owen Pallet’s amazing one man violin show Final Fantasy to play music in a park in East London.

Now while all this sounds absolutely mint, the festival has also been followed around by tales of shit sound, not enough bars and just shit, in the form of there not being anywhere near enough toilets.

Organisers have promised everyone that these have all been addressed and despite any problems the festival has been most of the time allot of fun, especially when the sun is out. One entirely positive trend from previous years is that, what have been consistently good each year without fail is the after parties and this year nothing has changed on that front! There are a couple of “official” (expensive) after parties and a slew of “official unofficial” (less expensive) after parties and parties of all sorts springing up all over the place chomping at the bit to cram the gurning masses into there little slice of post park action.

At one of these Deep Down in Hackney myself and Ben noir are hosting the Junk Yard Disco room alongside Join the Dots remixer Toby Tobias and Urban Nerds and Step One. Its only five minutes walk from the festival sight and is in the amazing Wallis Art gallery and warehouse, its intimate but not tiny (500 capacity) and is on all night long. Room 1 has Kitsune stalwarts Joe and Will Aks playing Live alongside Tapedeck DJs, Warboy and newest Bastard Batty Bass resident Deboa. Basically it will be a belter.

Fun can be had for an extended period for a very small dose of silver crossing a palm.... Hit me up at Mark@jointhedotsmusic for £5 concessions and if you don't believe me then even teh freebie papers are picking up on this one

The London Paper - Best Five Feild Day After Parties

*These quotes although based on truth are actually made up by me.