Our in-house live act extraordinaire 2 piece, party rocking Juggernaut known as Loose Fit have sent us over a remix they have done of Snoretex (new moniker of Sam from Allez-Allez and WALLS fame) the track is.....

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Snoretex - Strange Aeons (Loose Fit Remix) [Free Download]

It’s Lucky number 7 for Join The Dots as we welcome back Loose Fit, the northern duo responsible for our second release. Originally hailing from Manchester Loose Fit have been mates since birth (they even high-fived on the way out) and pride themselves on being the best looking and most interesting boys at the party. Whilst we can’t vouch for their social skills we can recommend their music which is why after their first release with Join The Dots way back in April last year we have brought them back for round two. Ding ding and all that.

While much of dance music is simply about slamming the bass in as that’s what keeps em dancing. Loose Fit whilst never forsaking the party, are proper song writers, taking the ancient craft of story telling and spinning in their own tales melancholy and loves long lost.

Table beggar stems from a piano refrain onto a broken beat end of the night slab of emotive techno whilst Magnetise is an inter-stellar tale of unstoppable love set to the sound track of deep (space nine) house.

Manuel Tur loved Magnetise so much that even though we only asked him for one remix, he actually sent us three, two of which are included here. Manuel likes house music, we like house music, Loose Fit like house music. Are both remixes house music? Yes they are. Obviously.

Ripperton is the forth most famous thing in Switzerland (after clocks, chocolate and lake Geneva). His version of Table Beggar is bouncy, shuffly, almost 2-step dance floor igniter. Make sure you install smoke alarms before this is played please.

King Of Town isn’t a king but he does live in a town which means whilst only fifty percent of his name is factually correct it isn’t a lie to say that his interpretation of Table Beggar is a thing of beauty, extended, filtered and sent first class with a disco kiss.

Lastly Ruff Dug gets all big room and epic, turning our lads from the north from twee lads in flat caps sporting a whippet to shirts off, fists pumping rave buffoons. A look that suits them pretty well. Enjoy

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Loose Fit - Table Beggar [Snippet]

Loose Fit - Magnetise (Manuel Tur's Motion Illusion Dub) [Snippet]

Loose Fit - Table Beggar (Rippertons Raw Remix) [Snippet]

Loose Fit - Magnetise [Snippet]

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Is there a better way to spend the summer than sweating, dancing and twirling with unfettered wild abandon, in a basement (in the basement, in the basement)? Whilst, if we are being totally honest, there undoubtedly better ways to spend those warm balmy nights, Join The Dots latest release is designed for just such subterranean based activities, get down, get hot, blot out the sun and dance your days away.

Release number eight is from a man who knows something about the sound of the (down) under-ground; The Francis Inferno Orchestra has been lighting fires across dancefloors from Joondalup to Woolongong back in his native Australia for the last few years. When Francis, or Mr. Inferno as he likes to be known sent us the two tracks, 'I Need It' and 'I said Yes Sir' which literally replied "Yes sir we do need it, thank you very much!" If you’ve ever had a mad-scientist moment and thought you could perfectly fuse disco influences with a house sensibility then you have missed the boat mate it has already been done, and done right here, it has.

Despite sporting a ruddy good old English sounding name (Nickelby, Parsons, etc) Nicolas hails from Italy, a place that knows a thing or two about dance music. It shows here, add in an organ and make it sound like it came straight out or 1991, call it the "basement mix" and there you go, a sure fire winner set to light up the darkest of discerning dancefloors.

Fellow Australian Mic Newman (under his Fantastic Man guise) has popped us over a more modern affair with a juttery, deep bassed, looped up 'd.d.d.did I stutter' beast that just helps to prove that the boys down under are definitely on the up.

4 tracks all aimed straight for the dancefloor then, over ground, underground and raving free.

Tracklist

1. I Need It 
2. I Said Yes Sir 
3. I Need It (Nicholas Basement Remix) 
4. I Need It (Fantastic Man's Electric Boogaloo Remix)

Francis Inferno Orchestra - I Need It (Preview)

Francis Inferno Orchestra - I Need It (Fantastic Man's Electric Boogaloo Remix) Preview

Francis Inferno Orchestra - I Said Yes Sir (Preview)

Join The Dots // DOT010

Duffstep ‘Together EP’ 
Release Date December 12 2011 
Distributed by ST Holdings

In the last year Duffstep  has released his debut album to shed loads of critical acclaim, released multiple singles and knocked out remixes for the high and mighty , played every festival and clubs across the world and has probably even got off with your mum. Lucky her.
 
So It’s 10 out of 10 for Join The Dots and as something of a celebration for this release we are returning to one of the mainstays of label Duffstep. Together is a brand new composition mixing the  laconic sun-drenched leanings of his album yet with a greater emphasis on the upbeat danceable side of the coin. We celebrate then by combining him with some of the artists that have just released their debut on this very label and one of the brightest young talents to emerge from these shores in quite some time.
 
New York’s Background Sound fresh from their first release and our last release plumb the depths of underground New York city to the extent that one might think that the Paradise Garage was a club playing the British centric music of the same name. Their version of Duff’s ‘Together’ is epic without being overblown and dark but intelligent enough that the lights are still firmly switched on, a two step ridden steed wrapped in a soft blanket if you like.
 
Youandewan is a young lad (some might call mad professor) that could easily be forgiven for getting high on the hype such is the buzz around this guy at the moment. Having just released a remix for Maya Jane Cole’s and getting props from XXX he has turned his hand to crafting ‘Close’ into a melodic, dubbed and warped out piece of cinematic soundtrack music. It sits somewhere between classical ambient leanings but combined with lo-fi aesthetic and comprehension of mood that is fast becoming his trademark
 
Resisting genre classification and giving us all a double hi five Duff drops another dance floor detonation device able assisted by two of the games brightest stars, for once it’s duff and Join The Dots that feel like the old boys in town.


Duffstep - Together [Clip]

Join The Dots // DOT011 
Zoo Look ‘People Let Me Down EP’

Order here - http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/450855-01.htm

Tracklist

A1 - People Let Me Down 
B1 - Grove Side Blues 
B2 - Cutters Choice 

Many prominent figures throughout history have proclaimed that “you can get by with a little help from your friends” now whilst this is a lovely romantic notion and does,  we suppose have some (albeit very small) grounding in reality you need a bit more if you want to progress  through life as opposed to simply jog in. Zoo Look are a good example of this, whilst Sam, Alex and Craig have been friends for quite some time, forging their completely plutonic relationship through DJing together, their latest release, number 11 on Join The Dots is forged from more than simply the burning fires of friendship, it’s born out of a love of all things deep as well as house music based. They may be mates but you can also get along very well if you have bags of talent too. 
  
The lead track of the release ‘People Let Me Down’ may be a diss at an old girlfriend, a broken home reference to a Hollyoaks sub-plot or an under performing footballer? Luckily though it can’t be an accusation aimed at Zoo Look. Slo-mo and comprised of a bass line that practically emerges in China.

The words, cinematic and layered get thrown around like a retro Frisbee in London Fields (i.e. very badly and with much more of an eye on aesthetics that actual content) so in the spirit of all things trendy and slim-fitting, that is exactly how you could describe ‘Grove Side Blues’, the second in the package from Zoo Looks release. It’s deep whilst never losing sight of itself up its own backside or the dance floor.  It’s got more chug than Thomas the Tank Engine whilst sounding so futuristic that it might not even have been composed yet. 
  
‘Cutters Choice’  showcases what happens when the boys get let out of their cage (zoo joke innit). Whilst still clearly stitched together using the same Zoo Look palette it’s track to start or finish a night, a build up or a comedown, but  never a letdown, all sprinkling hi-hats and swathes of synth splendidness.

Zoo Look, nothing to do with Zoo’s really and proof that friendship whilst obviously a good thing, cannot be alone held responsible for such sonic wizardry.

Zoo Look - People Let Me Down [Clip]

Join The Dots // DOT011 
Zoo Look ‘People Let Me Down EP’

Order here - http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/450855-01.htm
Tracklist

A1 - People Let Me Down 
B1 - Grove Side Blues 
B2 - Cutters Choice 

Many prominent figures throughout history have proclaimed that “you can get by with a little help from your friends” now whilst this is a lovely romantic notion and does,  we suppose have some (albeit very small) grounding in reality you need a bit more if you want to progress  through life as opposed to simply jog in. Zoo Look are a good example of this, whilst Sam, Alex and Craig have been friends for quite some time, forging their completely plutonic relationship through DJing together, their latest release, number 11 on Join The Dots is forged from more than simply the burning fires of friendship, it’s born out of a love of all things deep as well as house music based. They may be mates but you can also get along very well if you have bags of talent too. 
  
The lead track of the release ‘People Let Me Down’ may be a diss at an old girlfriend, a broken home reference to a Hollyoaks sub-plot or an under performing footballer? Luckily though it can’t be an accusation aimed at Zoo Look. Slo-mo and comprised of a bass line that practically emerges in China.

The words, cinematic and layered get thrown around like a retro Frisbee in London Fields (i.e. very badly and with much more of an eye on aesthetics that actual content) so in the spirit of all things trendy and slim-fitting, that is exactly how you could describe ‘Grove Side Blues’, the second in the package from Zoo Looks release. It’s deep whilst never losing sight of itself up its own backside or the dance floor.  It’s got more chug than Thomas the Tank Engine whilst sounding so futuristic that it might not even have been composed yet. 
  
‘Cutters Choice’  showcases what happens when the boys get let out of their cage (zoo joke innit). Whilst still clearly stitched together using the same Zoo Look palette it’s track to start or finish a night, a build up or a comedown, but  never a letdown, all sprinkling hi-hats and swathes of synth splendidness.

Zoo Look, nothing to do with Zoo’s really and proof that friendship whilst obviously a good thing, cannot be alone held responsible for such sonic wizardry.

Zoo Look - Grove Side Blues [Clip]

Zoo Look - Cutters Choice [Clip]

Joe Jackson - Acid sunshine mix

Join The Dots // DOT013
James Welsh 'The Way EP'

Tracklist

- The Way
- Walk
- Hold

Order here - http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/474002-01.htm

Unlucky for some but not it seems you or us, DOT013 comes comprised of a hat trick of deep and sultry, some would say R’n’B flavoured slow jams, made for those sexier evenings when you feel the urge to want to nod your head, wine your body and give those hips something of a work out as opposed to just pointing haphazardly to the sky whilst hopping between legs and occasionally pulling your best “ooooh listen to that bass line” face. Though those evenings clearly have their place as well.

James Welsh has, it must be said, lived quite the life already, from touring with post-punk outfit The Rise, riding BMX in Texas or remixing everyone from Britney Spears to Depeche Mode or DJ-ing around the world as part of Ocelot, a key player in that whole blog house scene from a few years back. Basically the boy has been there and done it, he didn’t even buy the t-shirt, he designed it and then sold it back to you and your folks for a massive profit. We said it was R’n’B flavoured and R’n’B flavoured it is. The Way sounds like James got locked in a basement with Baby Face, Brandy, Monica, Jodeci and Montell Jordan and was forced at gun point to make a track that could be played in those sexy nightclubs that all the ghetto stars go to, where they spray Cristal over each other then have a fight and post a twitter picture of their war wounds. Fighting and champagne spraying is optional though sexy dutty-wine dancing is not.

If we had to classify one of these tracks as ‘the peak time one’ then Walk would be it, now our mum always told us to walk before we run and we don’t like classifying things too much so let’s just say that if you want to make loads of people jack, but in more of a sexy way as opposed to that frantic jerking shenanigans they used to do back in the early nineties that was recorded on beta-max then this is the track to employ. It’s low-slung and sultry, jacking house music, which means ladies like it too.

Hold should perhaps be named Hold Tight, as in “you’d better strap yourself in and hold on mate”. But it isn’t. If you like your music slowed down with enough low end to dislodge your undercarriage then this is the track for you. It’s got some spoken word vocal on it and some chanting that crops up from time to time but the rest just kick-drum and bass, loads of loverly, slow, elongated bass. It sounds more like you are in the jungle than in a night club, so more Greystoke than Grey Goose.



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James Welsh - The Way [Clip]

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James Welsh - Walk [Clip]

Join The Dots // DOT013
James Welsh 'The Way EP'

Tracklist

- The Way
- Walk
- Hold

Order here - http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/474002-01.htm

Unlucky for some but not it seems you or us, DOT013 comes comprised of a hat trick of deep and sultry, some would say R’n’B flavoured slow jams, made for those sexier evenings when you feel the urge to want to nod your head, wine your body and give those hips something of a work out as opposed to just pointing haphazardly to the sky whilst hopping between legs and occasionally pulling your best “ooooh listen to that bass line” face. Though those evenings clearly have their place as well.

James Welsh has, it must be said, lived quite the life already, from touring with post-punk outfit The Rise, riding BMX in Texas or remixing everyone from Britney Spears to Depeche Mode or DJ-ing around the world as part of Ocelot, a key player in that whole blog house scene from a few years back. Basically the boy has been there and done it, he didn’t even buy the t-shirt, he designed it and then sold it back to you and your folks for a massive profit. We said it was R’n’B flavoured and R’n’B flavoured it is. The Way sounds like James got locked in a basement with Baby Face, Brandy, Monica, Jodeci and Montell Jordan and was forced at gun point to make a track that could be played in those sexy nightclubs that all the ghetto stars go to, where they spray Cristal over each other then have a fight and post a twitter picture of their war wounds. Fighting and champagne spraying is optional though sexy dutty-wine dancing is not.

If we had to classify one of these tracks as ‘the peak time one’ then Walk would be it, now our mum always told us to walk before we run and we don’t like classifying things too much so let’s just say that if you want to make loads of people jack, but in more of a sexy way as opposed to that frantic jerking shenanigans they used to do back in the early nineties that was recorded on beta-max then this is the track to employ. It’s low-slung and sultry, jacking house music, which means ladies like it too.

Hold should perhaps be named Hold Tight, as in “you’d better strap yourself in and hold on mate”. But it isn’t. If you like your music slowed down with enough low end to dislodge your undercarriage then this is the track for you. It’s got some spoken word vocal on it and some chanting that crops up from time to time but the rest just kick-drum and bass, loads of loverly, slow, elongated bass. It sounds more like you are in the jungle than in a night club, so more Greystoke than Grey Goose.

James Welsh - Hold [Clip]

James Welsh ‘The Way’ EP has been played, raved to and generally bigged up by some of the biggest names in dance music (Ame, Maya Jane Coles, James Zabiela, Deetron, Space Dimension Controller, Sasha, Luke Solomon, see, we weren’t joking mate). Whilst Zoo Look’s earlier ‘People Let Me Down’ release has been thrust upon un-suspecting dance floors by the likes of Tony Humphries, Max Essa, Ralph Lawson, Jimpster and Cole Medina. It’s a smorgasbord of DJ talent, all serving up only the best ingredients.

However James and the Zoo Look brethren were not content with simply taking a shot at world domination with their respective releases, so we have tooled up two of this year’s biggest remix maestros in Medlar and Tom Demac to provide us with their own interpretations of two of our biggest tracks of 2012.

The original of James Welsh’s ‘The Way’ is a smooth grooving, RnB laced piece of house music. Perfect for eliciting a ‘lil’ bump and grind for the ladies on the floor. Tom Demac slips (but not so quietly) something like a 90’s house bass line into the mix, stepping the sexual chocolate up, removing the grind but not the bump. Whilst the original was a warm up weapon, Demac’s re-interpretation is definitely not to be introduced during foreplay.

Whether remixing Deep Space Orchestra, Disclosure or dropping gigantic (if somewhat Cheeky) white-label garage-house juggernauts Medlar has spent the last couple of years releasing his own material or indeed meddling in others sonic business. Here he takes Zoo Looks slo-mo chug-athon and sprinkles it with fairy dust, a dash of disco and a whole heap of that Medlar attitude. Whatever exactly that may be?

Zoo Look - People Let Me Down (Medlar Remix) [Clip]

James Welsh - The Way (Tom Demac Remix) [Clip]

Continuing on with our theme of selecting our favourite producers from the past year to give us their interpretation of Duﬀstep's 'Getting to Sirius' we have arrived at the last of three remix EP's. This one lands ﬁrmly in the dub camp and features three producers responsible for some of the ﬁnest bass music to emerge from the continuing diversiﬁcation of dubstep; or sub-low as it was more astutely coined back in the bad old days.

First up and fresh oﬀ the back of releasing his third album on Planet Mu we asked FaltyDL to rework 'Tired'. Our only roll of the dice outside of the UK on this one, FaltyDL is a New Yorker who has become synonymous with intricate and rolling 2-step rhythms underpinned by a rattling sub bass fearsome enough to shake even the most 'sirius' of bootys. His mix delivers the sort of style we have come to expect; beautifully layered melodies, rolling bass and low swung 2-step rhythms.

Eliphino delivers the second mix, a free-fall swelled up and dubbed out version of 'Free'. He is fast becoming one of the UK bass music scenes' ﬁnest assets, his recent track 'Let Me Love You Forever' was picked up by Giles Peterson for a release on his Brownswood imprint.

Young Montana? is young but he is not from Montana, he does however continue to produce what can only be described as the clearest window into the mind of a young producer that has ever existed. Dropping the third remix for the package, Young Montana's music seems to defy any logical means of music creation and fast forwards straight to mind boggling notions of genius. 'Sacre Cool', an epic re-mash of Chemise 'She Can't Love You' is due out on his 'Limerence' debut LP on Alpha Pup in May. If you haven't checked it out on youtube, do it now. Seriously, right now. This is a boy that is going to do very well this year and we are very proud to be ﬁrst in line to capture some of his beat wizardry on wax. 

An oﬃcial survey has shown that there is higher percentage of people in the UK excited by the prospect of this EP than there is for the Olympics.

Duffstep - Free (Eliphino Remix)

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The second in a mini series of remixes from the Duffstepper's debut album is a gathering of many tribes; from big wigs such as disco devil, Mark E, new kids on the Berlin block, Session Victim, underground hero Riley Reinhold as well as fellow Join The Dots artists Loose Fit; plus Facebook's evil twin, Social Monster and soon to be second most famous man ever to emerge from Australia (after Mick (Crocodile Dundee of course) The Francis Inferno Orchestra.
 
Bringing some dusty, blown valve house sounds to the fold we welcome the sonic deftness of Mark E, Session Victim & The Francis Inferno Orchestra; three artists responsible for some of our favourite house and disco tracks from the past year. Throwing some new light on 'Your Touch', all three come up with their own interpretations, giving the original a tickle and prod in all the right places and bending it out of shape in the best way possible. These are remixes that take aim at the discerning dancefloor, where the four-four rules the roost and house is king.
 
Riley Reinhold a true unsung hero of house music, responsible for several labels including Traum Schallplatten, Trapez and My Best Friend, all a mainstay on our monthly podcast; he is, it would seem compelled to bring the world quality house and techno music. His version of 'Your Touch' finds its home in the early part of the morning or the late part of the night, depends on your outlook, jam packed with guile and melodic flourish, it’s a big track from a big man, that isn’t afraid to put its hand up in class and shout 'check me out'.
 
Lastly we roped in Loose Fit and Social Monster. Both incredibly talented duos that feature a large live element in there sound. The similarities stop there, Loose Fit's remix ‘Love The Freak’ in something of a New York punk funk-ish way, all low slung guitars and shimmering high end, we are seeing the East Village in its pomp or Chorleton on Friday nights. Social Monster's mix of ‘My Kiss’ is composed of some big ol' bass and melodic twirls, while that sounds like cheer leading routine their additional hauntingly intimate vocal makes it sound like the ghost has finally escaped the machine.

Duffstep - Your Touch (The Francis Inferno Orchestra Remix)

Join the dots is a kind of paper puzzle containing a sequence of numbered dots. The puzzle is completed by drawing lines between the dots in order of the numbers, starting with a line between the dot next to the number one and the number two, and continuing on until the last number is reached. The drawn lines reveal a hidden picture.




Join the dots is also a record label. We do not aim to puzzle you. What we do, do is release tracks and work with artists we love. Join the Dots though is aimed at being more than singularly a musical project, the idea behind the name stems not simply from joining the dots between musical genres but more from encouraging artists of all types from right across the spectrum to become involved with multi media projects; from video through music into graphic design as well as encouraging promoters and DJs to become involved. Pushing the spectrum of the traditional production house and evolving the concept of a record label.




A dance music label, that is not simply focused on dance music. We aim to look to the future yet all the time still rooted in the love and curation of music.




The phrase 'connect the dots' is sometimes used as a metaphor to illustrate a person's ability (or inability) to associate one idea with another. "Connect the dots" is also slang for touching your private parts.



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