sure there were American roots but I don't think it was confined to convient stereotypes like "gay, black"...I was there (not white, not straight) and it was an underground that was mostly Chicago DJs from the Warehouse (all white at the time) and the black dancers whose scene brought in the DJs from other scenes (Detroit!) so stop reinventing the wheel for today's politics ffs we're all on the same side. Like he says "playing Dark Entries and Sticky Fingers" - there you have it.

This is a DJ set obviously, but I will soon be playing live for the first time since 2013....

D:U:LIVE
12 June - Peckham Audio, London
13 June - The Love Inn, Bristol
14 June - Yes Basement, Manchester

Scuba @ Potent, Shanghai 30 Mar 2024

D:U:LIVE info

MASSIMILIANO PAGLIARA @ DGTL ADE

No matter what sounds you profess to be your music of choice, chances are, that at some point over the last five years, you will have got your rocks off to Matt Edwards.
As Matthew E he fashions club-based, dancefloor slayers. Under that aegis he’s updated the classic Chi-town, jackin’ sound beloved of house aficionados and layered it with fractured funk, belligerent, oddball beats and mechanical soul.

If Matthew E is all about the Saturday Night Fever, then, by contrast, Rekid is the slower, more deliberate, rhythmical funk of the mid-week mayhem. Its well-intentioned muscular intensity making it perfect soulful sustenance.

Quiet Village is something else all together. A collaboration with long-time musical sparring partner Joel Martin (a vinyl freak, like Mr Edwards, who works in esteemed auction house Christie’s pop department), it’s sample-based music which veers from drawn out disco-not-disco delirium to evocative, under-stated soundscapes.

Sea Devils - you keeping up at the back? – is undeniable electronic pop brilliance. Working with Tom from Cagedbaby, it’s the least niche of Matt’s projects and thanks to Sea Devils alluring pop dance grooves they’ll no doubt be shagging the upper reaches of the hit parade sometime soon.

Last, but by no means least etc, etc, etc, is Radio Slave. Perhaps Matt’s most instantly recognisable nom de guerre, thanks in part to his inspirational melding of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head to New Order’s Blue Monday, this is Matt’s DJ moniker and the guise under which he completes his incendiary remixes and re-edits.

However, before such sonic schizophrenia gets you calling for the men in white coats, just feel the quality and consider Matt’s legacy. Fired by the first wave of acid house, Matt gained his musical spurs by partying to dance music that was just that: music you danced to, irrespective of tribal factions.

This was the raison d’être he acknowledged when he took to the decks, first at London’s legendary Milk Bar in 1992, then onto the, then, recently opened Ministry Of Sound and then to parties across the country, most notably in Wales – where he was a regular at free parties – and in Brighton, his home since 1998.

His love of re-edits, dance music’s oft-forgotten backbone, led Matt into the studio himself. His own re-edits and remixes, such as the aforementioned epoch-defining re-imagining for Ms Minogue, soon gave way to his own productions and since the floodgates opened there’s been no stopping the man known as, erm, Matthew E, Quiet Village, Sea Devils, Rekid and Radio Slave.

He’s released records for Skint, Soul Jazz, Classic, Whatever We Want, and he’s worked with fellow travellers, Belgium’s The Glimmers. If Matt comes up with another two projects he’ll have enough alter egos for every day of the week.

Psychologists would probably have a field day with him; mercifully, we don’t have to worry about any crisis of identity, we just get to keep on dancing.

Lumberjacks Tapes 059: Radio Slave

Always with the Detroit sound in mind, Deetron presents his new SOULMATE project which he will bring to fabric this Friday.

Tickets: https://ra.co/events/1889721

037 - Deetron presents SOULMATE - fabric podcast

For the 129th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome the legendary @magda-official and @mikeservito. Dear friends and extraordinary DJs, their deep music knowledge and skill is on full display. This mix is a 2 hour excerpt from their recent set at Public Records. Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 129: Magda b2b Mike Servito

Julia Govor is one of those artists who can take the fundamentals of techno and make it sound hers. At this point in her career, the Georgia-born, New York City-based artist has established a style that feels half-Rome school, half Japanese hypnotic techno, but fully Julia Govor. Her label Jujuka has become a home for the stuff, featuring plenty of her own work along with like-minded folks like EMIT and Victoria Mussi, and she recently put out the biggest and best release of her career with the hefty Laika And Ulka Were Here on Semantica.

Her production style carries over to her DJing. Govor's RA Podcast is made up over half her own tracks, and the cuts she picks from others match her style: twirling arpeggios, rushing cascades of synth, heavy but groovy kicks. Much has been made of her childhood in a military family, and how she fell in love with techno via her classical musical education, where she felt drawn to the darker, romantic shades of composition. You get some of that here, but to call Govor's style "dark" would be overly simplistic. Instead it's sleek, aerodynamic and fluid, the kind of techno that gets you lost in a wormhole.

@juliagovor

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RA.937 Julia Govor

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Tresor Expansions - Chloe Lula & Helena Hauff - 18 May 2024

Ahead of their performance at our We Are Not Alone x Movement Detroit official afterparty this Sunday, we are proud to welcome the legendary Paranoid London to our BPitch podcast series! 

Paranoid London have become synonymous with stripping acid house back down to its basics. Rescuing the sound from smiley faces, rave, and sugary excess. Referencing instead its gay, black, American roots. Taking the underground overground. Knocking out not hands-in-the-air anthems, but rough, rude, raw jack. Not safe, slick, or soulless, but joints purposely over-driven, distorted, and full of tape hiss.

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BPITCH 025 - Paranoid London

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/themix014WesBaggaley

Wigan's greatest export @wes-baggaley rolls through an all-vinyl mix of EBM, deep house and acid

"This is me going against what I’m hearing in clubs at the minute. It's all-vinyl and recorded in one take — I haven't edited out any mistakes or anything, so there's a couple of crackles and pops in it, but I wanted to leave them. I’ve just moved house, so I've pulled some of my favourite records out for this mix — there’s hardly any new stuff on here. I didn’t plan any of it apart from the first track, which is from Gemini - and the last track: Throbbing Gristle’s ‘Hot On The Heels of Love’ which is my favourite track ever — for the rest I just winged it."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 014: Wes Baggaley

This month’s radio show celebrates the Carhartt WIP x Tresor collaboration, highlighting the historic Berlin and Detroit techno axis, also known as 030/313.

For the show, we welcome the Hamburg-based DJ @helena-hauff, who has created a mix documenting the legacy of Tresor, both as a club and record label, and its link to the roots of techno in Detroit.

Pulsing with wild melodies and rapid kicks, the mix was recorded using all vinyl, and features classics from the likes of Drexciya, Joey Beltram, and the late Silent Servant, as well as records from nascent producers such as UFO95. As ever, the mix is accompanied by an interview with Helena Hauff, who gives insights on her relation to the Tresor club and label as well as news on future projects. Read the interview via www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music and learn more about Carhartt WIP x Tresor via https://www.carhartt-wip.com/en/journal/news/2024/05/tresor.

tracklist:
1. Drexciya - Intro: Temple Of Dos De Aqua
2. Holy Ghost - Agents At The Door
3. The Advent - Inn Touch
4. Joey Beltram - TenFour
5. The Vision - The Protector
6. System 01 Featuring Laurent Garnier, Dr. Motte - Mind Sensations (Voov / System 01 Mix)
7. Jensen Interceptor + DeFeKT - Mr Kinney
8. Silent Servant - M-87
9. Shifted Phases - Scattering Pulsars
10. Transparent Sound - Atmosphere
11. 3Phase - Voo Doo Pop
12. 3MB Featuring Magic Juan Atkins - The 4th Quarter
13. Bam Bam - The Strong Survive (Zeki Lin Mix)
14. Brunson - Hoffman's S.O.S.
15. Christian Vogel - Absolute
16. 3 Phase feat. Dr. Motte - Der Klang der Familie (F.U.S.E. Mix)
17. UFO95 - Gargk

https://www.carhartt-wip.com/en/journal/music/radio/2024/06/artist-feature-helena-hauff-tresor

Carhartt WIP Radio June 2024: Helena Hauff - Tresor

Young partygoers might know Man Power, AKA Geoff Kirkwood, as the earnest geezer going back-to-back with DJs like Ewan McVicar, Paul Woolford, La La and Skream—peak-time specialists with a fine line in boofy bangers and ravey techno. Kirkwood is also a dab hand at the kind of elliptical house and deep cut detours favored by '00s labels like DFA and Optimo.

In spite of a long track record as a producer and promoter, if you had to boil Kirkwood's work in recent years down to a single quality, it might be altruism. He hails from North Shields, a small town fringing the boundary of Newcastle in England's oft-neglected North East, and wears his heritage proudly. The Me Me Me label boss's involvement in a flurry of civic restoration, and no-filter paeans to the importance of working class involvement in culture, have become as central to his life as music-making itself. For an accomplished DJ who has played at nearly every good club you could name, that’s no small feat.

So which side of Man Power were we in for? The answer on RA.940 is: both. '60s free verse poetry, Zebra Katz, Gesaffelstein and John Carpenter in the opening stretch? Makes sense. Octave One punching through Rozalla? You got it. An extended Joe Claussell workout atop Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place"? Why not. In Kirkwood's hands, it all goes down as smooth as a pint of Newcastle Brown.

@manpower-1

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RA.940 Man Power

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