More GAS News

After covering the GAs reissue a few weeks back, good to hear news that Wolfgang Voigt will be back under his GAS moniker witha new single and live performance of GAS in September in Germany. More information here.

The DJs They Couldn’t Hang [1986]

Great article over at DJ History, originally published in 1986 a week before Love Can't Turn Around was to smash into the charts. Read it here.

There is also a good write up originally in I.d D magazine about the summer of love as well, read here.

Booming Back at You

Good article here at Remix Mag on monitors and monitoring whilst DJing.
Read here.

Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derybshire was the woman who created the most obscure, atmospheric sounds the BBC had ever heard and influenced a mass of dance producers.

Working in at the BBC in 1963, she experimented with sound using tape machines to create effects and and began scoring the music on Doctor Who. It has come about that a hoard of music unheard and untouched from her has been found and will hopefully be available to hear very soon. There is a write up on it on the BBC website with sounds and clips as well, check it here.

New Mixes

Some new mixes up over at Warm HQ from Roland Appel, Marcus Worgull and Toby Tobias

Art Of Acid

New mixed CD due 28th July by Justin Robertson purely as it says, acid. CD 1 mixed with a loads of classics with many tracks I've not heard before but it comes with a second cd of edits and remixes of Acid Tracks, worth it alone for these.

Disc 1

1. Beat Club - Security
2. The Rude Boy Farley Keith - Give Yourself To Me
3. Willie Wonka - It's Now Or Never
4. Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey
5. Phuture - Acid Trax
6. Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder
7. Phuture - We Are Phuture
8. Neil Howard - To Be Or Not To Be (Mayday Mix)
9. On The House - Ride The Rhythm
10. Rhythim Is Rhythim - The Dance
11. Mickey Oliver - In-Ten-Si-T
12. Lime - On The Grid
13. Unique 3 - The Theme
14. Renegade Soundware - The Phantom
15. Dee Lite - Wild Times (Mayday Mix)
16. R Tyme - R Theme (Mayday Mix)
17. Pierre's Pfantasy Club - Got The Bug
18. Frankie Knuckles - Baby Wants To Ride
19. Laurent X - Machines
20. Virgo - In A Vision
21. Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It

Disc 2

1. Virgo - In Vision (808 State Edit)
2. Hercules - 7 Ways To Jack (Ashley Beedle Edit)
3. Maurice Joshua - This Is Acid (Boys Noize Re-work)
4. Frankie Knuckles - You Love (Dusty Kid Makes Love Tender Edit)
5. Mickey Oliver - In-Ten-Si-T (Justin Robertson Edit)
6. Adonis - No Way Back (Greg Wilson Edit)
7. Samurai Sam - House Of Japanese (Rub n Tug Samurai Sauce Edit)
8. Phuture - Acid Trax (Plump DJ's Edit)
9. Pierre's Pfantasy Club - Dream Girl (Graeme Park Edit)
10. Joeski - My English Lover - (Laurent Garnier's Complete Re-work)Bonus track
11. Adonis - We're Rocking Down The House (Basement Jaxx Jazz Nitebeatz Mix)

Buy here

Ame Mix Fabric 42/New Innervisions Record

Busy time for Ame at the moment, first they have mixed the next Fabric CD due out 15th September and also there is a new track with them, Dixon and Henrik Schwarz out on Innervisions due out 28th July.

The Fabric mix promises to be a more elctronic mix than the usual Ame mixes, should be interesting, tracklist is:

01. Linkwood – Hear The Sun
02. Even Tuell – Untitled B1
03. Minilogue & KAB - That’s A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback
[Wighnomy Brothers Quintenzirkel Remikks]
04. Jens Zimmerman – Moddodblubbblub
xx. Moondog - Moondog Monologue
05. Mixworks – Berlin Dub
06. Armando – Don’t Take It [Thomos Edit]
07. STL – Something Is Raw
08. Edward Ft. Justus– Raw Structure
xx. Those Guys Ft Ras Baraka – An American Poem
09. 76-79 – Six Ten
10. Henrik Schwartz/Âme/Dixon – D.P.O.M.B [Version 1]
11. Matthew Styles – We Said Nothing
12. KB Project – The Symphony
13. Gowentgone - M.A.M. (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
xx. Broken Compass – Australiapella 2
14. LFO vs Fuse – Loop [Fuse Mix] – Plus 8

Available to pre-order here

The new Innervisions track can be heard and bought here

Marcel Dettmann

Great interview of man of the moment Marcel Dettmann over at Boing Poum Tchak, read it here.

Apple Patent New Touch Idea's

Apple have now patented more touch technology which is in use in the iPhone and iTouch. It looks now that the touch technologies will be coming to the iMac and Mac Book Pro, meaning a host of new and manipulated software program's. One patent is a touch screen virtual DJ, playing files from your computer as shown above. I'd still rather use a physical object and if using MP3/WAV, use Serrato as you are still using a deck, , but this new system which has been used a few times on a massive desktop screen by the likes of Kerri Chandler recently, is still a massive breakthrough that a company such as Apple is looking into it. Only time will tell if it will be part of iLife or a standalone programme. The other touch ideas are that of the dock, photo applications and video application. More reading here.

Korg nanoSeries

Last few months I've been trying to start getting into music production and bought myself some gear. I bought an M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2, fantastic small midi keyboard but no drum pads. I've been looking for a while for a small pad extension for my Mac Book Pro, as I am limited on space and money and think I have found the answer. Korg are due to release the nano series of a midi keyboard, drum pads and a controller, all round £60 each. I will only be needing the pads but for £60 they look fantastic, especially with the XY pad it has. Due to come out in August/September these slimline USB Midi controllers could be the answer so many people have been waiting for.

More information here.

Prins Thomas

Great interview on Resident Advisor with Prins Thomas who's Greatest Tits compilation is available now. Read the article here.

FAT FREDDY'S DROP ALBUM RELEASE TOUR 2008

Fat Freddy's drop are back with new single, The Camel, and new album coming soon. Been a while but surely worth the wait and even better is they are touring again, after the gig at Manchester got canceled last time this will be even better. Although anyone who caught them playing in Vox Pops in Manchester last time won't complain

Roundhouse, London, UK
4 December 2008
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UEA, Norwich, UK
3 December 2008
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Manchester Academy 1, Manchester, UK
15 November 2008
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Birmingham Academy 1, Birmingham, UK
14 November 2008
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The new E.P is available here, with Alice Russel on vocals, sublime.

RA 109 The Mole

Usually I listen to the Resident Advisor Podcast's straight away but been busy of late missed out on listening to the Mole until yesterday. Just before the mix, his girlfriend dumped him and then he broke his collarbone so he delivers us a soul mix from the heart. One of the best soul and uplifting mixes I've heard for a while and a keeper for sure.

Tracklist

Tracklist
01. Terry Callier - Dancing Girl
02. Os Mutantes - Baby
03. Teddy Pendergrass - When Somebody Loves You Back
04. Gap Band - Outstanding
05. Ethel Beatty - I Know You Care
06. The Blackbyrds - Think Twice
07. J Dilla Jay Dee - Don't Cry
08. Sylvester - I've Been Down
09. Donny Hathway - Giving Up
10. The Temptations - I'm A Bachelor
11. Donny Hathway - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
12. Marvin Gaye - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)
12. Genty - Baby Goodnight
13. Noviciat De Soeurs Missionaires De Notre-Dame D'afrique & Four Religious Drummers - Yesu Ka Mkwebaze

Get it here

Toby Tobias - Space Shuffle

Toby Tobias releases his long player, Space Shuffle on CD at Juno now with the full release coming 20th July. Including the single, The Feeling, it shuffles along through disco edits and deep spaced out beats. With Prins Thomas releasing his first full length album next month, even though its only 3 tracks long, looks like another good summer for deep disco space shuffle shizzle.

Gas - Nah und Fern

After years in the wilderness the masterpiece from Kompakt founder Wolfgang Voigt comes his 4 CD collection of ambient/drone, originally on Mille Plateaux in the 90s now on Voigt's label, Kompakt.

Some great recent write ups on the album and him, on Resident Advisor, MNML SSGS and the original exploration into the early 90s movement in Germany, from the Wire,

You can buy it cheap here at Play

MOM Haus Mix

Cracking mix from Mike O'Mara, slowly starting to get the gigs he deserves up and down the country after his stint as back room man at Development.

Tracklist

Linkwood-R.I.P
Peter Kruder-Coste
Manuel Tur-Deviate
Slow House-?
Ben Watt-Lone Cat (Dennis F & Steve Martinez Mix)
Alix Alvarez-Ugly
Trackheadz-Our Music
Joi Cardwell-What It Feels Like
Inner Soul-Support Your DJ (Instrumental)
Henrick Schwarz-I Exist Becasue Of You (Dixon Edit)
Middlewood Session-Fall Back (Spiritual South Mix)
Mike Delgado-Byrdmans Revenge
Sabrynah Pope-It Works For Me
Amira-Getaway (Blaze Original Mix)

Get it here whilst its still up

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Deetron - Let's Get Over it Remixes

Due in August, taken from his 2006 album Twisted, Let's Get Over it gets the remix treatment from Henrik Schwarz, Llorca and Marcel Dettmann, who's new mix album is available here.

Listen to the remixes here and here

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