Author Archives: luke
The AC Slater
Things I know/have deduced/guessed about AC Slater: 1. He’s named after a character from Saved by the Bell, namely resident jock Albert Clifford “A.C.” Slater 2. He hangs out with previous objects of my affection, Lismore (behind which you’ll actually find an AC Slater remix of Lismore. Oh my). 3. He has a whole lot [...]
More Delorean, MORE!
Ah, more sun-drenched glory from Barcelona’s favourite 80s car themed electro-rock band, Delorean. You may remember me rapturously talking about them in this post. Oh, and this one too. They really are very good. And now they’ve issued another remix and, by my count, that makes it four stonking remixes in this year alone (The [...]
Blänk Get Busy
I have no idea what it is, but I cannot stop listening to this song. I mean, it’s almost absurdly cheesy fare, being a fairly straight up combination of soaring string synths, filtered choruses and bouncing rap vocals, but there’s just something so rampantly joyous about it that in the end it comes off feeling [...]
Club Action Redux
Remember Yo Majesty’s Club Action? Remember how for a while there in early 2007 you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the Bag Raiders’ Enya-laden edit of the track played at least twice per evening? Remember how nary a week went by without another remix of the track dropping all over the blogs? Yeah? You remember [...]
Deekline and Ed Solo (but mostly Deekline… oh, and Tittsworth)
Truth be told, I’ve been looking for an excuse to do a post on breaks (and more) supremo DJ Deekline for quite some time. Although I feel a little weird talking about Deekline in the singular, because as long as I’ve been aware of his existence, he’s always been tied in with somebody else. First [...]
Russ Chimes and The Outrunners
Two months ago Duncan became so infatuated with Russ Chimes’ forthcoming remix of The Outrunners ‘These Girls Are Dressed To Kill’ that he devoted an entire post to the streaming version on Myspace. Which, in this day and age of downloadable 320kbps purism, is one hell of a commitment to make. But the good and [...]
Freq Nasty
In this age of ephemeral hype monsters and talent-free knock offs it’s refreshing to be reminded that artists like Freq Nasty still dot the landscape of electronic music. For those not in the know, Freq Nasty a.k.a. Darin MacFayden (which is really just proof that the name ‘Darin’ or one of its many variants need [...]
More Rogue Element, More!
I really like The Rogue Element. Like, I mean I REALLY like him. Like, if I told him exactly how much I liked him, it might, like, get really weird. Especially if I went to his house and told him to his face. As that would mean I probably flew all the way to the [...]
Love is All is Love
Finally! It’s coming! The album is coming! No more of these desperate sounding posts, where I frantically try to scrub up every last skerrick of Love is All related soundbites. The album is coming! Sure it’s a few months late, but when it sounds this good, who really gives a shit? The new album is [...]
More Nathan Vice
Jesus, it’s been like two and a half weeks since I blogged on here. I feel like there’s bugs crawling underneath my skin… No, wait, that’s the smack. So, Nathan Vice. Remember him?. Puerto Rican chap, about yay-high, making face-meltingly hard tech-funk. Yeah, you remember him. That remix of Misterio’s Star Crash almost made you [...]
Low Motion Disco
Two secretive producers from Belgium, they call themselves Low Motion Disco, and a more descriptive name it would be hard to think of. As they put it: We tend to be the strange kind of party visitors. The ones that would rather stand around and watch people dance than dance themselves. It‘s not a voyeur [...]
Kitsuné Maison 6: The Melodic One
If you needed further proof that the aural flavour of the year is smooth and glossy disco revivalism, then the latest Maison compilation from trend-setting uber-label Kitsuné should eradicate those final doubts in a blinding burst of disco ball funk. “Aieeeeee!” you’ll say, shielding your eyes from the safari suited splendour, “where be the bangerz?”. [...]
TV on the Radio Return
TV on the Radio hold an odd place in my musical pantheon. Over the past few years I became, and still am so deeply enamoured with the song ‘Staring at the Sun’ that it’s made it quite hard for me to really listen properly to anything else they’ve done. Every time I tried to listen [...]
Circlesquare Endorses Drug Use, Dancing