Finally after many a moon spent listening to Big Coast on repeat we are ready to welcome Beautiful Swimmers of Future Times out of Washington D.C. to our next party with Radiomade.ie at the Sugar Club on Feb 11th. These guys have been making seriously good dance music incorporating elements of booty shaking, jazzercize and house. See the videos below to confirm their beautifulness. Also on the bill are Le Galaxie who will be dropping ‘synth supernovas and thunderous drum starfields’ into their killer live set which has been getting kudos all over the shop!
N.B unfortunately Le Galaxie have had to pull out of this (next time Gadget!) but we are happy to announce that newcomers Dogs have been booked as well as our old pal Kev Sheridan, the One Man Loop!
Well folks, the first release on our sexy new label Fatty Fatty Phonographics is now available all over the world on sexy black 12″ vinyl, just the way the Good Lord intended.
Featuring three tracks of chunky funky 70′s soulfulness reworked for the modern floor, it’s picked up plaudits from the likes of Sleazy Beats Recordings, Dom Servini of Wah Wah 45′s, and Situation Edits ( Disco Deviance), as well as attention from local disco heroes like Billy Scurry, Get Down Edits, Keep Schtum, Check The Guns and Padraic Disconaut.
It’s available at some of our favourite record stores in the world, such as Manchester’s Piccadilly Records, Dutch behemoths Clone.nl, and Juno.co.uk. It’s also available in loads of other shops stretching out as far as Japan at jetsetrecords.net
To celebrate the release we had two parties last weekend – one with our disco brothers at Belfast Music Club, and a Dublin launch with Manchester’s demon deck wreckers The Unabombers.
The Una’s weaved together a set that summoned up the spirit of 2am at their legendary night Electric Chair in Manchester – plenty of modern sci-fi disco and deep, jackin’ tackle, interspersed with some vintage electro-disco and boogie manoeuvres to keep ‘em juiced.
We simply couldn’t think of a better way to mark our first release than with these boys on the decks, and you can listen to the whole thing right here….
We are delighted to announce that the very first release on our Fatty Fatty Phonographics label is imminent.
Constructed with love and no small measure of JUST PLAY THE FUCKIN’ NOTE! by Pablo and Shoey, it’s entitled The Rejigs Volume 1
It will feature re-works off tracks by The Emotions, Glady Knight and The Pips and Bernard Purdie on lovely fat 12 inch black vinyl, and will also be available as a download for you modern types.
Pablo is of course a stalwart of the Fatty Fatty crew, while Shoey is the resident production whizz from External Sounds, a Drogheda based collective with the same spirit and soul.
You can listen to samples of the sweet tracks here
Very excited to be throwing a spooky halloween costume party in the Sugar Club with a badass line up of local and international talent. Repping the home guard of live dance music is I Am The Cosmos and Laser Tom & The Blast Crew. Protect-U will be bringing the D.C future funk to our shores for the first time and wrapping things up will be black belt DJ Billy Scurry.
Something a little bit funkier, twisted and 21st Century here for you today, as Dom Servini of the fiercely independent London label Wah Wah 45′s mixes up some of his favourite sounds from his slots at the Electric Elephant festival in Croatia this past July. There is already a slavering eulogy to the festival a few posts below so we won’t repeat ourselves. We will tell you that Wah Wah has had a place in our hearts and our record bags ever since it’s early days re-issuing choice cuts such as this:
Dom can always be relied upon for all sorts of modern beat-trickery to keep an open minded dancefloor moving, thus we were delighted to see that we would be sharing the bill on a boat on the Adriatic. He truly rocked it out that day with a set of sizzling jazz-house, floorburning disco edits, and funky what-nots that had us leaning over the decks and having a sneaky peek every ten minutes or so. We won’t even mention his excursions into drum n bass and bad-ass soulful boogie during his Beach Bar and Main Stage slots…..There might even be a part 2 to come!!
You can find out all about the world of Wah Wah here and check out the mix below.
Ding, ding! After a long wait it’s round two of the Gmos & Nico series of mix-ups. Queensbury rules, no grandstanding, no overwrought premeditated blends, just hit record and hope for the best. The opening two tracks indicate when this was recorded (r.i.p GSH) and from there it’s everything from Tom Noble’s exceptional re-issues/re-edits, Audio Atlas, Nick Straker Band, Chaka Khan, Kerri Chandler and a whole load of other shit that hasn’t been properly ID’d yet.
A mix from our boy Pablo here, recreating his set from one of the infamous boat parties at Croatia’s Electric Elephant festival this past July. He’s had the honour of playing the festival each year since it’s inception in 2008, and it’s slowly but surely turned into his favourite week of the year. It’s packed with amazing people with a real thirst and passion for tunes, spawned as it is by The Unabombers, who created one of the modern world’s finest clubnights, Electric Chair. This was a monthly party running in Manchester for 13 years, famed for a mystic brew of funk, soul, hip hop, freaky deaky Rn’B and diva disco all the way up to gutbucket house and techno.
The festival is a week long extension of that spirit, with sweet and mellow chilled out balaeric vibes at the Beach Bar each day, before mayhem ensues in the evening in the psychedelic 70′s flashback that is Barbarella’s nightclub. In between you have two boat parties each day, live bands on the outdoor stage, and some of the most pleasant sights you could possibly nurse a hangover with…..They’ve already got their early bird tickets for 2012 on sale, with Andrew Weatherall confirmed to return for a 4th year in a row along with Lowlife DJ’s, renowned Manchester man of records Balaeric Mike, and of course the Unabombers themselves. With previous headliners including the likes of Francois K, Derrick Carter and Theo Parrish there is sure to be some serious heat added to that list in the coming months…
There is always a decent Irish contingent on board at EE, with local hero Billy Scurry’s appearances on the climatic Monday evening boat party already the stuff of EE legend and edits maestro Michael McKenna of Keep Schtum joining Pablo and Dom Servini of London’s Wah Wah label on the boat this year. His edit of Odysssey’s ‘Hang Together’ has become a nailed on anthem with the Electriks crowd, and he could be seen grinning from ear to ear as The Unabombers dropped it on the Beach Bar this year. In previous years Nightflight, Bodytonic and External Sounds Dj’s have also graced the festival, so if you can’t get through a week without a good dose of begorrah and begosh you’ll be safe here! That’s not to mention the incredible bunch of random locals, Northerners (both English and Irish) , Londoners, Scots, Italians and other space cadets you get to meet each year.
But anyway, back to the mix – unfortunately some bellend pulled out the recording gizmo on the boat this year, so Pablo recreated a large chunk of his set, adding a couple of his personal EE favourites from down the years….starting off with the heavenly strings of Quiet Village’s ‘Victoria’s Secret’, aka the sound of sweet water lapping at your feet as you stare out on the Adriatic – we soon get right down to it with a set of crowd pleasing house, disco and modern dancefloor all-sorts.
