Tartelet

I like pastries a lot, and like most people who talk about dating them I've often wondered how our relationship can really progress before you om nom to death it to its flaky demise. However Tomboy & Fredski of WhoMadeWho have long honoured this love with their Danish label (yum, danish) Tartelet Records featuring piano stabby tech-house and grown-up understated stompiness from artists like Wareika, Kenton Slash Demon and James Braun (Mothership).

Here's one of my (and probs Christian Martin's seeing as it was in his FACT Mix) fave pick:
Kenton Slash Demon - Singla (from the awesome Khattabi EP available at Juno)

and the unreleased Clouded Vision Remix via Matt Walsh's blog.

Their Tarterama Mix for Panorama Bar.

NEW BLOG

A Blog I Made Whilst Making a Mix:

Flammette Blog

Fuck

Wow, a Fuckpony song I actually like.
A Pills Medley is some pretty smooth going from Fuckponey poney.

P.s check out my interview with Renaissance Man for Dazed: here.

Too Much

dOP- Genius of the Crowd

Another 'geniusly' percussive piece from fave dOP aside their Bateria remix, with Insomnia-esque vocals from the EP with Mambo Jambo, complete with a Guy Gerber remix.

Such insightful lyrics from Bukowski beg the question of where dance music is going.

The answer? Nowhere.

I mean come on. The peak of dance music was recently a song about peanuts and a song about I don't know what the hell you're saying.

..Or beating a bird with a BAT?

Nice one VonStroke.

You've Made a Big Mistake

Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Astronomer Remix)

You all know who Astronomer is? Lovely.

Espresso

NY's Biatchcorp sends love via the medium of Karraskilla's Expreso Cali (Pawas Remix)

ft. soaring synths, jittery cut-up vox and strummed harps, over Karraskilla's trademark breed of dark driving bass.

In a similarly lush vein, the DJ Hell and Tigerskin remixes of 'Abe Duque & Virginia's Following My Heart are pretty tight too, the latter as heard in that Matt Walsh Fabric Promo Mix in Juuune or whatever.

Ghostly

A far cry from Matthew Dear's light summer choons from the Ghostly/Spectral labels also of Audion, Seth Troxler, and deep 'MANDATE MY ASS' disco Daso comes

Lawrence (of Dial Recs) with Divided.
The gardener-turned-minimal-techno-producer brings us this beautifully chilling track with the gentlest of claps and ethereal leads, the perfect soundtrack to a berkishly pretentious film about a blossoming young lady coming of age in Tokyo. Or something.
Also to check out is Immune by Bodycode, a melancholic rhythmic shuffley motherbitch feat. dark vocals accompanying the piano and robotic blips.

LuckyMe

German lady photographer Debora Mittelstadt

Glitchy

Roman Fluegel- Prinzessin X

This is really glitchy. In fact, horribly so, but like a small cranky child, have some patience and bear with it and it becomes this lovely almost Unit 4's Remix of Aquaplane deep house-esque layered piece with warped bass. (That's what kids become, right?)

Jet Set Njet

GREAT name. GREAT artwork. Little bit poop band.

Like the kinda reject Artrocker proto-ensembles you used to nod your head knowingly to down in the Buffalo Bar in Islington and that's got to be a good thing- on Norwegian Anomalie Records 'cause I've bloody heard of that.

EU Funky

Have been in love Mount Kimbie's 50 Mile View- but will get shot in the bum if I leak this so check it out here. Beautifully ambient 8-bitty dubstep of epic proportions.

Perhaps my posterior is a little more likely to remain intact if I post these gems:
A remix by Solo for Maps' I Dream of Crystal.
And motherfucking SIS- (Stipe Remix) of Sum. Far from his Trompeta, it remains a superbly summery breed of tech-house similar to the wave of Dutch/Danish/Euro tracks these days featuring ridiculous pitch-bends and tribal percs added with 'ethnic/world' sampling more silly than Primary One's voice in Style of Eye's Vocal Remix of Who's There?
Call it... 'EU Funky'.

Macking Hoes

Here's a snippety snip of the sample from which Erol Alkan created his Waves:

Albion- Space Time Continuum. Unfortunately nerds will catch you out, don't expect them to be out macking hoes on a Friday night as if they wouldn't prefer to be at home on the 'Robots for Robots Forum' which discovers this track is a result of further musical theft. Shock. (Hehe thanks Leighton)

Maher Daniel- Casbar on Get Physical's awesome Full Body Work Out Vol. 5.

Sparse trippy vocals and expect the triangle.

Illustration by Ricardo Fumanal: My Dazed article on his surreal shizz is out HERE.

Bambi

Should have done this post last week but obviously I was still suffering a facial spasm from the cuteness of Stella McCartney's Fall '09 campaign with Sigrid Agren shot by Ryan McGinley.
Described as an attempt to "contrast fierce clothes with the innocence of Bambi".

Look at Thumper there. What an absolute twat.

I cba to post an unreleased il/legal mp3 today with the hopelessly vague intent of making people buy other stuff of the artists I like so I will do this:
GO HERE for the Astronomer (aka Alex Skull Juice Egan) remix of The XX. Tis lovely.
(Sadly the Clouded Vision is a bit meh)

Away for the Weekend Chart

Thought I'd do a little 'chart' (I'd make a 'mix' but 'Nobody' would listen to it) before I embark on a free trip to Amsterdam to see some Chuckie, Afrojack, Pilooski, and Toddla T. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?

-Gregor Salty's- Mexer (3am Remix by 'FUNKIN Matt')

-DJ T- Bateria (Dop Remix)

-Gossip- Love Long Distance (Riva Starr Remix)

-Digital Manges- Manges (Sharkslayer Dubmix)

-Steve Angello & AN21- Flonko

-Voodeux- Pina Colada (J.Phlip Remix) or something pon her myspace

-Iron Curtis- Solgerhood as also featured on Brodinski's Bugged Out Mix

Some bangers. Some non-bangers.

SHOES

16 year old STEVE from Bromley's amazingly homoerotic Midnight Roland Remix of Shoes.

It was on that weirdo Tiga podcast about dwarves innit.

Note: I HATE Shoes (Original).

Pic: Juergen bloody Teller for Christ's sake:

His Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998-2009 Book = WANT

Renaissance Boy

Sonic C- Saiph sounds a bit like a 17 yo Aoki making trumpet tech.
Oh wait. IT IS. Fun stuff.

Chaim's back with a new EP Thrill You on Bpitch to go mental with your shopping cart, remember his Chicken Kiev? This is what happens when you name a song when you're higher than Balmain's next season shoulderpads.

Floating Points

Today is the day for making up more sub-genres because Lardcore and Crudstep weren't funny enough:

Floating Points- Shangrila

Nice deep-step hip house B-side to Love Me Like This

Bibio - Jealous of Roses

Funk house groove beat from Ambivalence Avenue

Train to Tehran

Photo: Skeleton Legs

Namito- Train to Tehran (Original Mix) as heard in Style of Eye's Essential Mix so you know it's good. Even got everyone in a vicarage singing along to SoE's Grounded (Radio Edit) on a Sunday morning.

Er I hear everyone is posting about that Joy Orbison guy innit. HYPH MANGO. I'm COOL. Since when did 21 mean GRANDMA? I'm down with the kids.XXX

Riton + Primary 1

Video as directed by L-Vis 1990 for Who's There out on Erol's Phantasy label.

Yes it was Riton & Primary 1. SIGH..

No it wasn't Erol Alkan & Boys Noize AGAIN,

no it wasn't Erol Alkan & LA Priest,

and no it REALLY wasn't a small child and half a bean pie.

SUPER DISCO

Hey guys. Me mate Kirsti from Dazed is Djing tonight alongside Nathan Fake and Vincent Oliver at the 'Gold Bar' (genius name?) on Stoke Newington Church St. Check it out if you're not Brodinski-ing.

Plus rumour has it Buster Super Super Bennett has started a 'DJ School', 808 Academy. Prepare for more Peaches Pudding Face Geldofs.