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).

DC La Rue Reworks

The beginning of a new series of remixes of legendary disco / house producer DC La Rue commissioned for wax ...

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The Weekend

This Friday is the launch of Prins Thomas' Full Pupp party @ Corsica Studios in London with Mark E, Blackbelt Anderson, Bjorn Torske, Warm Residents and yours truly.

Saturday is a Glasgow affair in The Glasshouse with the iguanas and orchids at the Wee Chill - also with Thomas and a whole bunch of other folk.

The weekend culminates in Glasgow's Courtyard at the Sabbath's infamous house party, Sunday Circus, where Ali will be taking care of some OOFT business.

Dexter

Been messing around with a classic! Some say you shouldn't but I guess most of you will see what I was going after with this one...

400 D/Ls - no reposting as always

Dexter Wansel - The Sweetest Pain (OOFT! Edit)

Calling all Glasgow Heads...

Heads up... We're going to be holding down a monthly residency at the Mamasan late-night Bar/Club from next Friday October 2nd, and then the first Friday of each and every month after that.

Part of the Saint Judes Boutique hotel on Bath Street, it's a rather nice place to lay down some beats and will give us the chance to explore all the various sounds we've been punting on the blog for so long over each 4-hour set. So if anyone local is kicking about that end of town, on that particular date, at that particular time then pop in - its free entry. And if you ask nicely there may be some free muso-goodies too ;)

RJA05 : Chamboché

Chamboché brings home number 5 in our Ruff Jamz series.

Sam Williams made his production mark recently with the debut release on new UK imprint Under The Shade Recordings. With a follow up for UTS in the pipeline, a release just dropped for Shrink Records and his residency at Nottingham's respected Stealth club allowing him to further blur the lines between house and disco, you'll be hearing more from this man over the next few months.

Tracklist :

Tensnake - The Then Unknown - RUNNING BACK
MarK E - Formed - UNDER THE SHADE
Soulclap - Conscious - WOLF + LAMB
Still Going - Untitled Love - DFA
Moscow - Throw Up - CDR
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Padded Cell remix) - DFA
Chamboché - Ipso Facto - UNDER THE SHADE
The Mole - There's Hope - INTERNASJONAL
The Revenge - Savin' The Day - JISCO MUSIC
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts 5# - MCDE
Soultourist - Fo Eva - DRUMPOET COMMUNITY
Craig Smith & The Revenge - The Soul Part II (6th Borough Project dub) - DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
Brothers' Vibe - Do You Feel The Vibe (Unreleased drum version) - MIXX
DJ Wild - Ahora (Kabale und Liebe Tambem remix) - SOWESO

RJA05 : Chamboché

Right On Point

Got this 12" today from one of my fave producers. Been heavily bumping the B-side track Truly for a while now (as anyone who's listened to the recent OOFT mixes will testify), but the title track trumps it - just a beautiful piece of emotional electronic dance music. Both are easy contenders for tunes of the year at OOFT towers.

Vinyl

He's A Crazy Mutherf*#ker!

If you think you're going a bit mental and need to get brought back to reality check out this interview with The Mole, 'cause he crazy! Who'd a thunk it eh?

RJA04 : Scott Udberg

Newcastle's Habit resident Scott Udberg provides the ammo for number 4 in our series.

Habit began in 2004 and has grown steadily to become a recognised feature in the fabric of Geordie nightlife. Guests span the spectrum of house music and have included Radio Slave, Todd Terje, Dixon, Simon Baker, Domu, Tom Middleton, Ewan Pearson ... well you get the picture. If you want to check it out in the flesh they are doing a special free outdoor party on 19th September 09 with the mighty Funk D'void (details at http://www.clubhabit.co.uk).

Tracklist :

Arnold Jarvis - Take Some Time Out

Mascara - Baja (Sweet Deal Edit)

Popular Peoples Front - Ruf Dug (Una's & Break For Daze)

Imagination - Instinctual

Toby Tobias - Acid Party

Plein Soleil - Casus Belli (The Brontosaurus Saga)

The Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Still Going Drum Lines)

Canyons - Fire Eyes (Vox Edit)

Free Blood - Weekend Condition (Purple Prins Edit)

Cos & Mes - U>

Rub 'n' Tug - Acid Drums

Bumper - Mascara Love (Pigna People Re-Edit)

Cos & Mes - XXX

Fjordfunk - Berlin Uber Alles

Phoreski - Proud To Be A Fool

World Premiere - Share The Night (Breakdown Edit)

Gauthier & Zagba - It's Love (Rob Mello Re-Dubbed)

40 Thieves - Shake & Bounce

Redshape - Blood Into Dust

Sian - World Within A World

Global Communication - The Biosphere

Nemesi - Jurassico (Prins Thomas Miks)

RJA04 : Scott Udberg

One For The Weekend

Been a bit quiet on the edits front recently whilst working on original stuff and remixes, but here's a deejay friendly version of Lillo Thomas' midtempo 80s cruiser "Your Loves Got A Hold On Me" for those smooth moments in your set ;)

Lillo Thomas - Your Loves Got A Hold On Me (OOFT Simple Edit)

Tomorrow's Festivities

If anyone in Glasgow or London is heading out tomorrow you can catch The Revenge at Craig Richards & Jamie Jones' new night "Shoplifter" at the new T Bar down in the big smoke.

Locals can catch AliOOFT at the Sunday Circus all-dayer at the Courtyard in Glasgow city-centre.

Best have a good breakfast methinks, as it'll be a long day!

Part Four

Ilija Rudman has provided the ammunition for number four in the Instruments Of Rapture series due out at the end of September. There's a Revenge mix and a 6th Borough Project mix too.

We'll have some more info in the next week or two.

(Com)pressing Matters

I was on a short holiday over the weekend and picked up a copy of the new issue of Sound On Sound magazine for the flight to Viva Espana. It turns out it was a good thing I did as the main feature was a great article on the use of audio compression, which is always seen as a bit of a black art to anyone (such as myself) who has never had any formal audio training.
So if you've every wondered about what compressors to use in a specific situation, or worried about messing around with attack/release times and the like grab yourself a copy now. Article taster link below...

Sound On Sound Audio Compression Article

Proton Radio Mix

A little mix I did recently for a new show on Proton Radio. The mix from one of the hosts Zhino is up here too ...

The Revenge Proton Radio Mix

Zhino Proton Radio Mix

RJA03 : Harri

This one just missed the beginning of our podcast series and I figured it would be a crime not to give it more exposure as it was received so well. So here's the man like Harri doing what he does so well ...

RJA03 : Harri

UTS002

Mark's new one is just out on Under The Shade ... it's a belter.

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The Weekend : London / Dundee

Craig Smith will be holding it down with an extra special set at Soulful Beats Summer Party Part II tommorow from 9pm until midnight at the Garden Bar, London W10. The party kicks of in earnest at 2pm with BBQ and support from DJs Matt Hughes, Neil Maclean, Mickey Blanco and Powdersoul. Expect carnage ...

I'll be venturing north to Dundee for the infamous Autodisco party tommorow night. Support from the Disco Deviance massive in the most excellent Reading Rooms.

Soulful Beats Summer Party Part II

Saturday 22nd August

Garden Bar

41 Bramley Rd

London, W10 6SZ

020 72291111

Autodisco

Saturday 22nd August

The Reading Rooms

Blackscroft

Dundee

DD4 6AT

You Tell 'Em Jeff

The Jazzmaster himself extolling the virtues of Ableton in this video, and who are we to disagree?

Jazzy Jeff Video

RJA02 : OOFT!

Part two of our new weekly Ruff Jamz podcast is available now. It's a live recording of us at Solar Disco last weekend. No tracklist I'm afraid.

Ruff Jamz

Beyond Senses

Harri and myself put together a remix for "And If" on Rebirth Records in Italy recently. All handclaps, string bits and boingy bass. There's a tasty Dave Pezzner workout on there too. Out today and ROTW at Piccadilly ...

Piccadilly

4Trac Reggae Specials

Our buddy, DJ 2Three set up his own limited 7" project 4Trac recently. The first release received Piccadilly's Record Of The Week last week. Check it oot ...

Piccadilly

The Future

Yes! I've got this kinda thing to look forward to in a couple of years :)

Ruff Jamz Podcast Relaunch

Due to the amount of good mixes we've been hearing lately, we have just relaunched our Ruff Jamz podcast (previously available through Five20East) on a new server. We'll be sporadically bringing you some of our favourite mixes and of course we'd be interested in you getting some of your own mixes over to us if you reckon they can meet the grade.

The first mix is from Neville's Disco (aka Paul Thompson & Paul Barton), and it's a great little chilled out number to get us back on our feet again.

Ruff Jamz

** A quick note : you'll need to re-subscribe to the new podcast through i-tunes if you had already subscribed to the old one **

Keeping Talley

I've been listening to this supa-deep mix by Detroit Beatdown veteran, Norm Talley over and over again recently. Originally posted by Lee Bolton who recorded them for his radio show in Pittsburg, it's are a great example of a legend at work. There is also a disco mix which is great too.

Norm Talley - Deep House Radio Mix

Norm Talley - Disco Classics Radio Mix

American Heart Remixes

We've been busy finishing a few more remixes for Music For Dreams America. There's dub and vocal versions of this one for Bliss on the same EP, featuring the enigma that is Boy George. We left out the A-Team samples.

Juno

Interviewing Edward

Great little interview and mix on the most excellent Sleazy Beats with our pal Eddie C ...

Fragmented Dreams

For lover's of the extended remix ... my versions for Kenneth Bager's Fragment One track will be out soon on double 12" vinyl through Music For Dreams America. The digital version is out at the moment with more mixes.

Juno

OOFT @ Solardisco

This Saturday 8th August, Brunswick Hotel in Glasgow ...

Revenge Advisor

Another mix to while away those long summer nights ...

Resident Advisor

Thundering Shade

David Griffiths (he of Jisco fame), has taken one step into the future with his new label Under The Shade. Aiming to combine his A&R penchant for fresh underground material and heavy edits, the first release see's new blood Chamboché step up to bat. Remixes come from yours truly and Pete Herbert.

Piccadilly

Phonica

Juno

P.s. Mark E has also just finished a single for the label and it's an absolute belter ... ears peeled.

Skinny Mix

To launch Skinny Mag's new podcast series, they enlisted JD Twitch, David Barbarossa, Full Phat and myself to do a mix each ...

The Revenge Skinny Slo-Mo Mix

Wogan Chic

Thought this was a great comment and associated picture by Slutty Fringe about the new Major Lazer release ...

"Perhaps the most striking thing about the Major Lazer project for Slutty Fringe is Switch’s current penchant for printed shirts, flat caps and Wogan esque decisions in the pant department"

Something Bigger Something Better

And More...New Track and Mix

A new remix of Vadim Yershov we've done for Discoteca Recordings has just popped up for sale on Beatport. A bit of a different side of our output, this ones a rolling deep houser. Although for some reason they've genred it progressive house - main rooms and dodgy myspace friend requests here we come!

Also I meant to post up the ad for the Discoteca Monthly Radio Show which we supplied a house mix for earlier this week, but due to the fact I've got an 8 month old son and my girlfriend was away for more than 15 minutes I kinda had my hands full! Actually, checking the Frisky Radio site you've got to pay to access the shows so I've directly linked to our mix below ;)

Digital Release

OOFT - Ode To Glasgow / Discoteca Mix

Oot Noo

Just arrived in store ...

Sunbursting

I was really pleased to be asked to contribute a remix for Z Records Sunburst Band Remixes compilation a while back. There's some jam-hot versions on the double CD from peeps like The Idjuts, Henrik, Yam Who, Elektrons, Milton Jackson, Recloose ... phew! I noticed the new 12" has just appeared in a couple of shops too which I think has the longer version of my mix on it.

Vinyl

CD

IOR003 Competition Winner

Firstly - thanks to all y'all who entered our IOR competition - it's been hilarious for us reading the entries, and just goes to prove that the job of the DJ is not one to be undertaken lightly.

A tough choice - but we have finally managed to agree on a winner ... PJ, who's anecdote (and associated YouTube footage) swung our votes. Well done mate - we've dropped you an email.

As an added bonus ... and due to our neverending good nature, we've also decided to give our winner AND all entrants into the competition a copy of the new L.E.S.S. compilation on release (date TBC). The comp will feature one track from every L.E.S.S. CD + one bonus track. We'll keep your email addresses on file and will be in touch when the CD's arrive.

And here's the winning entry ...

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Playing at my old residency in montreal, i was approached by local man about town 'Chuggo'. He got my attention, and showed me a CD, "hey, my album just dropped, you wanna give it some play?"

To preface things, i had just mixed in GW edit of Raw DMX, and i replied "what kinda music is it?"

"similar to this....a bit nastier"

"do you sing on it?"

"I RAP ON IT!"

He left the cd with me and dissapeared for a bit,i scanned through the CD. Put it aside. He returned with two pints. Gave me both. And said,

"Track 9, cue it up"

I paused ... looked at the half full dance floor ... Cued up track 9

I said, 'are u ready?'

He pulled out a staff with a skull on the end, which had somehow escaped my attention earlier, and nodded.

I played track 9

He basically lip synched to his own track, which, words can not do justice.

Thankfully ... He has a youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPeHk4WMWpY

Techno Please If Possible

In the spirit of our competition, which is providing constant tittering and guffawing here, here's a scrap of paper we were handed last year at a gig. I thought it was pretty polite and together in most respects. The fact that someone actually formed the thought to politely scribble the request and hand it to us was funny enough, nevermind the fact we were at about 105bpm at the time in an empty festival tent.

Competition : IOR Part Three

We just received a test pressing through for Instruments Of Rapture Part 3 and thought we could pass the love onto one of our faithful blog squad. In return we're asking you to give us your best DJing anecdote / request from a punter whilst in the mix. Try and keep them short and to the point ... the funnier the better.

Just fire your suggestions in the comments of this post (with some sort of contact email) and we'll decide the worthy winner on Tuesday 21st July. A glorious test pressing will be mailed to the victor.

Rainer Trueby / MCDE

We've been playing this Rainer Trueby + MCDE collab on promo for a few weeks now and it's killer. Just appeared in Piccadilly so don't hesitate ...

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Harri Summer Mix

Harri passed me this exclusive mix for the blog which is stacked full of Saturday night action. No tracklist at present but needless to say it's a good un'.

On a Sub Club theme ... It's a summer of resident's nights at Subculture for a good few weeks so it's the best chance you'll get to see Harri & Domenic playing together in one of the best clubs on the planet.

Harri Summer Mix