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...