G-r-r-r-e-a-t!

A mammoth 5 hour set from Lil' Tony in Helsinki to soundtrack those Hogmanay after-parties.

Lil' Tony live @ Kuudes Linja Club Helsinki

RJA12 : Simon Busby

Next up in the series is London-based disc(o) jockey Simon Busby, who turns in a dope mix of pitch-down bangers for your listening pleasure.

Originally crafting instrumental hip-hop mixtapes before discovering the Electric Chair whilst living in Manchester, Simon hit London in 2005 with his much loved Short Circuit night, before creating his new Glitterball events which fill interesting spaces in the big smoke with and friendly crowd and a cool mixture of disco and house. Sounds right up our street! The mix itself has plenty of high points including Mark 7, Pete Herbert, Mark E and more, so tuck in.

Sorry - no tracklist

RJA12 : Simon Busby

Memix

Tasty new Mark E mix for Warm ...

Here

MCDE

About all that remains of my memory after Saturday night's shenanigans playing with MCDE @ Tronicsole. Anyone care to do the honours on the track title? Think this was about 2:30am, although I was very, very drunken by this point.

I am NEVER drinking again!

Feel Up Mix

A little mix I put together for the Feel Up girls ...

Feel Up

Weekend (again)

Tomorrow night at the Admiral in Glasgow, it's Motor City Drum Ensemble till 4am (plus me warming up till 1ish). Well up for this!

Any London mutha-fuggas can catch the Revenge at Plastic People tonight alongside Todd Terje et al, and finally Manchesterites are in for a treat on Sunday as G will be doing a hush hush bar gig somewhere in the city centre.

Have a good'un whatever you're all up to ;)

Double Whammy

Pumping slow-mo festive kneesup.

Just Be Good

Dub just out on 12" with vocals from Ms Crazy P and a tasty Ron Basejam mix. New Digital mixes coming soon.

Phonica

Piccadilly

Juno

Warmageddon Mix

In preparation for Plastic People this Friday ...

Warmageddon Mix

Flying High

When I was Djing a couple of weeks ago and dropped the Linkwood & House of Traps jam "Barely Eagle" a guy came up to me raving about the video for the original Dennis Parker track thats heavily sampled in it. Just checked it there and it is indeed ace. That silver jumpsuit is going on santa's list. And the 'tache ;)

Dennis had it all - a day job as a porn actor with a sideline in making disco. Something we can all aspire to! Apart from the contracting aids and committing suicide bit obviously...

That Time Of Year...

...and so it's time to look out the only christmas record required - a Knight Rider christmas! Its a totally fake rip off song not featuring any vocals from the Hoff or anyone, but that makes it better (I think!).

Never managed to find a decent quality version but head on over to the David Hasslehoff archives (!) here and grab a copy ;)

KITT The Amazing Car of the Future - A Knight Rider Christmas

Less Is No More

Here's a sneaky peak at the last L.E.S.S. Productions CD. We've picked 10 tracks - one from every CD plus a bonus track, we've tried to explore some of the undiscovered tracks alongside more obvious ones. We're currently stickering them at the moment to ship to Piccadilly & Phonica for January delivery. There'll be a few in our Five20East store before then, but we'll let you know as and when.

Our competition winners from earlier this year will get their copies before Xmas (we'll be sending emails to you today to confirm addresses).

Tracklist :

1.Willie Hutch - Brothers Gonna Work It Out (The Revenge Rework)

2. Wganda Kenya - Tifit Hayed (Cronk Family Enterprises Rework)

3. Michael Jackson - Thriller (OOFT! Phazed Edit)

4. Herb Alpert - Rotation (DJ Harri Edit)

5. 6th Borough Project – 7 Grams Of Funk

6. Andy Ash – Never Give You Up

7. Ian Dury – Spasticus Autisticus (OOFT! Rework)

8. The Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets (The Revenge Rework)

9. Kleeer - Open Your Mind (DJ 2Three Rework)

10. Gwen McCrae - Keep The Fire Burning (The Revenge Need II Edit)

Sleazy C

Heads up folks, the inaugural Sleazy Beats Recordings 12" has just dropped from our man across the Atlantic Eddie C, and it's rather braw ;)

Check it out here on Juno.

House Your Father

A nice house feature in German music + clothing shop HHVs mag with MCDE, Trus'me and myself. Also featuring Dam Funk, Hudson Mo and more.

HHV

RJA11 : Deep Space Orchestra

We're coming thick & fast now for the rest of the year with a plethora of new mixes to get out before the xmas slow-down. Next up is a cracking mix from our Deep Space Orchestra chums from down south.

Deep Space Orchestra are Chris Barker (Jigsaw/TrebleO) & Si Murray (Cronk Family Enterprises/Jazzchops), two music afficionados hailing from the Liverpool area. With one joint release already out on our Five20East imprint you can expect to hear plenty more from these two in the oh-ten with forthcoming works on Drumpoet and a couple of others which have escaped my mind at present The mix itself is a tip-top blend of deep dancefloor workouts ranging from exclusive digital dubplates courtesy of the boys themselves through to classic chicago and detroit jams.

PS as if having OOFT DJing in Glasgow this Friday wasn't enough, the DSO boys are gracing the city with a debut performance for the Cosmic Microwave night at new venue La Cheetah too, so you're really spoilt for choice ;)

Sorry - No Tracklist

RJA11 - Deep Space Orchestra

Soul City & Benji

Our homies at Soul City are doing a tidy little party in their original Covent Garden basement this Saturday December 5th. Benji B, Matty Archer & Si Finnegan are on starship controls.

Boulevard, Wellington Street, Covent Garden WC2 7BD

Weekend

A quick update for the coming weekend - you can catch us both at the boutique Mamasan venue in Glasgow on Friday night for our monthly late night bar / micro club set (11pm-3am). On Saturday I'll be laying down some pre-club beats at our local favourite IVY Bar from 9pm while The Revenge gets sorted for his 4 hour set at the Horse & Groom on Sunday. Bosh!

Cyberjamz

A new Craig Smith mix recorded live from Ross Hutchison's Cyberjamz radio show ...

Craig Smith Cyberjamz

RJA10 : Tosh Ohta

Next up in the series is another new face - Bournemouth based Tosh Ohta. He's a medium sized anglo-japanese crate digger / enthusiast, and has been running his night This Sporting Life at Sixty Million Postcards (the infamous Lock Tavern's sister pub) for 3 years.

The mix spans 3 decades of music, taking influences from everywhere including Factory Records (Quando Quango and Mondays), 80s pop (Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac), Proto house (Mr Fingers / Psychotropic) and many other places. Tosh's night This Sporting Life has just migrated to London (debuting at the Lock Tavern on Chalk Farm Road) so keep the eyes peeled for more dates in the big smoke if you like the sound of the mix.

Sorry - no tracklist

RJA10 - Tosh Ohta

Muletide Greetings

The new thang I laid down for Japanese label Mule Musiq ...

Juno

Phonica

Piccadilly

If This Is House I Want My Money Back

6th Borough Project "McLovin" is out now digitally through Permanent Vacation - The comp is getting a full CD release soon. There's some absolute belters on it with Hunee, Walter Jones, Zwicker, Neville Watson, Precious System, Jacob Korn, John Talabot, Roots Unit and Mugwump.

Permanent Vacation

RJA09 : Hushpuppy

Resident DJ at the legendary R-P-Z Thursday night sessions at the Glasgow School of Art, Hushpuppy takes us on a cosmic odyssey of the highest order.

The mix gives an insight into the earlier hours of an R-P-Z Thursday, before guests such as Alex Metric & Autokratz (playing live at the end of this month) crank up the pressure and get the Art Schoolers brewing up to fever pitch. Selection-wise this mix is something of a departure from previous Ruffjamz episodes, so we hope you enjoy it as much as we did ;)

Sorry - no tracklist.

RJA09 : Hushpuppy

Mister Saturday Night

Tommorow night for the funk.

Glasgow Connection

Thought I'd give everyone this little ditty myself and Telford from the Sub Club made a couple of months back. We never did anything with it due to the samples used, but I've been playing it a lot in deeper points of a set as it's a great little mid-tempo groover. Enjoy

400 D/Ls / No repost as usual

AliOOFT & Telford - Give It Up

Dogcast

Delusions Of Grandeur have set up a new podcast series hosted by the mysterious Norm De Plume. The plot thickens ...

DOGcast

Deep Space Orchestra Mix

Deep Space Orchestra have done an exclusive DJ mix for Cosmic Microwave ahead of their debut Glasgow gig in early December. It's a reassuringly deep-filled selection.

Download (right-click-save-as)

Shit

Domu's finished with music. Gutted.

Domu's Final Blog Post

Art Deal

Our mates over at Fine Art gave us a heads up on some swag at their online store. The last few hand-stamped copies of their balearic bubbler "Rumshack" by Disk are good for 20% off if you're quick.

Just make sure and use the discount code 'ooft' when you checkout.

You can preview the track here ... and buy it here.

Some kind of Karizma

Quick interview to sort out the men from the boys...

(I can't wait for the) Weekend (to begin)

You can catch both of us for a rare back to back 4 hour set at Mamasan in Glasgow tonight from 11pm - not done one of these for a good couple of months so should be good fun ;)

On Saturday I'll be doing a 2 hour OOFT/L.E.S.S. Productions showcase in the flagship Apple store also in Glasgow from 3pm, then its off up the road to Aberdeen to play at Korova for Esa (of recent Ruffjamz fame) & Fuad's "Frankly" night.

Roll on...

Wireless

A little autumn mix I did for Steve O'Connor's Ministry Of Sound radio show recently ...

The Revenge - MOS Radio Mix

Finalleee ... It Is One After Three

IOR004 is out this week (at last), sitting nicely alongside a great package from Under The Shade which has some top drawer mixes by Mark & Pete.

Phonica / Piccadilly / Juno

As a bonus ... Here's a link to an unreleased instrumental version of the IOR Night People track for the heads. 320kbps for 14 days.

Ilija Rudman : Night People (Instrumental)

RJA08 : ALIOOFT

Next up in the series is a live recording of yours truly at the September Sunday Circus event in Glasgow.

The mix contains several recent edits posted on our blog, plus the usual cast of mid-tempo and deep house bizness, all mixed live the way we like it.

Tracklist :

Intro FX
Dexter Wansel - The Sweetest Pain (OOFT! Edit)
The Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets (The Revenge Rework)
6th Borough Project - Nights Over Memphis (OOFT! Bootleg Edit)
Cottam - Cottam 1B
OOFT! - Moovin'
Mark E - Freakin' & Shreakin'
Lillo Thomas - Your Loves Got A Hold On Me (OOFT! Edit)
Acid Pauli - Marvin
OOFT! - Ride Into The Red Zone
The Revenge Ft. Paul Joseph - Leave Your Mind
Deep Space Orchestra - Riding In My Imaginary Jeep
Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie
Ilija Rudman - Night People (6th Borough Project Love Rub)
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Theo Parrish Space Cadet Remix)
Mark E - Give It Up For Love
Mood II Swing - Move Me

RJA08 : ALIOOFT

Versionitis

Just got a few promo test press CD's done for the L.E.S.S. Productions CD compilation. We'll have final artwork in the next 14 days with a full tracklisting and info on availability. There'll be one track from each of the previous 9 discs included + a bonus track. 500 copies worldwide.

Boo!

Throwing some frightening jams down for Halloween in Tokyo on Saturday if you're in the sc-area.

Friday Night Session Mix

Our very own 'Cisco kid Mike Battaglia hosted a new OOFT mix on his show Friday Night Session last week.

Get wired in here

Fabric 10th Birthday

Pretty hefty line-up if you're about tonight or tommorow. Think I'm on sometime Sunday evening ...

Future Disco Party

The Future Disco Vol. 2 launch party is tonight @ The Queen Of Hoxton in London. If you're in the area it'd be silly to miss it as it's a ridiculously good line-up.

Queen Of Hoxton

Curtain Road

Shoreditch

10pm - 4am

Sleazy Beats Special

Craig did a special mix and interview for the Sleazy Beats blog recently. Check it here ...

Craig Smith Sleazy Beats Special

Dog Five

And more canine action ... I knew my love of dogs would manifest itself in a musical sense one day. Soultourist + OOFT remixes.

Juno

Phonica

Piccadilly

Wolf Three

A nice package here from the Wolf chaps ... Just out.

Phonica

Piccadilly

Juno

Buzzin' Fly Guest Mix

A guest mix I did for Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly's radio show last week with some new and forthcoming bits and bobs ...

Tracklist

1. Eddie C - My Woman - Wolf Music

2. Kenneth Bager - Fragment One (The Revenge Remix) - Music For Dreams

3. KZA - トラック - Mule Musiq

4. Joey Negro - Beyond The Dance (The Revenge Remix) - Z Records

5. Mark E - Borneo - MERC

6. Zwicker - Who You Are (Junior Boys Remix) - CDR

7. OOFT! - This Sound - Instruments Of Rapture

8. Space Ranger - Keep On Edit - CDR

9. Ryo Murakami - Untitled (The Revenge Remix) - Dessous

10. Gatto Fritto - Bursting The Bubble - Electric Minds

11. Chris Duckenfield - Music Don't Stop - Home Taping Is Killing Music

12. DC - Riot - Drumpoet Community

13. Tony Lionni - Better Change - Mule Electronic

14. Acid Pauli - Marvin - CDR

The Revenge : Buzzin' Fly Mix

RJA07 : Esa

Glasgow's resident South African house aficionado Esa mixes up a decades worth of 4/4 gold in tribute to his late father.

In the short time he's been living in Glasgow Esa has got stuck right in to the house scene and put together several Red Bull workshops with dons such as Linkwood and Josh Wink, as well as bagging himself a resident spot at our favourite local night Subculture. His dad Mervin used to DJ in S.A. back in the day, so to mark a decade since his passing he's delved deep into his collection to put together this blend of some mighty fine classic deep house, fittingly titled "A decade of dedication Mervin Granger Williams '99-'09".

Sorry - no tracklist

RJA07 : Esa

Elephanting

Peeped this vid of a rather healthy looking UB's boat party at the Electric Elephant Festival this year. And wait a minute - thats our mate smiler right in the middle with the white t-shirt on! A regular face down at the Sub Club ever since we've been going to see our favourite DJs Harri & Domenic, he's branching out into the worldwide clubbing community these days ;)

RJA06 : Leftside Wobble

Leftside Wobble, aka Jonathan Moore hits it for six.

For the last 12 months or so, Leftside Wobble has been joining the dots between dub, funk, disco and house on his blog through a series of re-edits and themed mixes that he's made available as free downloads. A veteran of London' music scene, Jonathan has manned the decks at various establishments in the capital. This mix gives an insight into the soundtrack for those nights. Check his blog for more info http://leftside-wobble-blogspot.com

Tracklist :

Azari and III - Hungry For The Power
Syndromes - The Hit (Pete Herbet and Pablo Contrband Re-Work)
Outmode - Dark Journey (Toby Tobias Mix)
M - Pop Musik (Todd Terje Mix)
Sugar Daddy - Love Honey (Greg Wilson Funk Mix)
Florence and The Machine - Drumming (Seiji Dub)
Ajello - Dolphy (Bass Interlude)
Joey Negro and The Sunburst Band - Far Beyond (Recloose Mix)
DTrain - Music (Bedmo Disco Dub)
Pink Monkey Flower - Rolando A Carmen (LSBMix)
Move D - Heldelberg Gals (Parts One, Two and Three)
Matt Flores and Tyree Cooper - Shining Lights (Channel F Mix)
I:Cube - Oblivion (Dixon Edit)
Christian Prommers Drumlesson - Rudiments
Markus Enochson Feat Cornelia- Take Me Away (Eva Be Mix)
Wigald Boning - Kobra Dance (Joris Vorn dub)
Don Froth - 10,000 CC's
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (Leftside Wobble Edit)
Bangkok Impact - Premature Ejaculation
Seiji - I Can't Let It Go
Cottam01 - Side B (Erikah Badu's Bump It re-rub)
Floating Points - Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub)
Carl Craig - Home Entertainment (Combo Re-Edit)
Social Disco Club and Maia - The Way You Move (Diskjokke Mix)

RJA06 : Leftside Wobble

Mastering : The Movie

Ilija Interview

Nice little video interview with Ilija for Brazil's D-Edge.

Competition : HTIKM

New House imprint, Home Taping Is Killing Music, is just about to launch with a double 12" single from myself (with a supadeep Red Rack'em remix on the first one) and follow up material from some top notch producers (I've heard Chris Duckenfield's ... and it's a belter).

We've got one test pressing to give away to the first person to answer this completely unrelated question correctly ... (remember to include your email address with your answer).

Q : Name the dog from Fraggle Rock.

Pre-order

Weekend Man Hoovers

Tonight (Friday) you can catch Ali at our brand new monthly in Glasgow. Head over to Mamasan on Bath Street where he'll be kicking out the jams until 3am.

I'll be in Leeds for Technique tonight at The Northern Light with Carl Craig, Simon Baker, Charles Webster and a few others and then onto Hamburg on Saturday for I Feel This @ Baalsaal.

Avon Calling

A nice little edit of Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" just up on Mash's Compact Disco site.

Anita Ward - Ring My Bell (Mash Compact Disco Edit) [Right-click Save-as]

HTIKM

A wee heads up ... We'll be running a competition on Monday 5th October to win a test pressing of the debut release on new imprint Home Taping Is Killing Music.

Dedicated to that H.O.U.S.E. sound we all love, the label kicks of with a Revenge release as a Part One / Part Two (including a double-extra deep Red Rack'em remix).