Save the date - 30.11.2024.  

The 25th Anniversary Party Part 2 at the wonderful 93 Feet East in Brick Lane, London East Central. 

Part 1 was absolutely mental.  Part 2 will be bigger and better.  

At Part one it was the first time the original Kinky residents had played with the new Kinky residents and I have to say, it was as if we'd all been a part of KM for 25 years.  They fit like a hand in a silk glove, and they did us proud.  I was mightily impressed by everyone of them as I made the point of listening to every DJ play.  

In fact, Juliet is now a permanent member of our House FM team, with myself and Alun Harrison every Wednesday from 8-10pm.  It's an indication of how highly we regard her.

Just like from 98' to 2006, we're creating that family feeling within the KM team again.  It was defintely one of the stand out things I rememberm that made it so special.  The cameraderie, the banter, the love and the genuine support are present in spades.  Becaue of that we all feel we can put on an even better show in November for you, and get back to the atmosphere that made Kinky Malinki such a well regarded and well loved night in our heyday.  Maybe we can impeove on it even?  We'll all defintely try hard to do that for everyone as a thank you for your amazing loyaty. 

At Part 2 expect music to be exceptional.  A mix of funky, vocal, uplifting, classics, deep house, disco house, tech house and progessive house, but with one theme.  Music that makes you want to throw shapes like no one is watching. At part one, the vibe was old school.  All night it was hands in the air and there wasn't a phone in sight.  It really was emptional for all of us involved.

Expect tickets to sell fast, so get in early and you'll get a discout as our appreciation. Early allocations won't last long. 

This mix has all of those genres on.  It's my 2024 interpretation of the classic sound of Kinky Malinki as I remember it.  Every track on this mix makes me want to shake my ass.  In fact I did exactly that for the 2 and half hours it took.  There old bones are now aching. 

If you like this, then I'm so very sure you'll love Kinky Malinki, so give us a try.  We'll certainly going to put all our love and passion into making this party even more special and a day/night to remember.  Who knows what's in store for 2025, but because of you all, we've certainly got the bug again, and it's even more powerful than before!

As always made with love and pure passion for house music.

If you enjoy it, please share the love and share it to friends you think might also enjoy it.  

With love, Jay x

The World According To...

It all started for me at around 13 years old as a secondary school boy, when I became fascinated with Electronic Music. I was a big Depeche Mode, Yazzo and Tears for Fears fan, so I liked modern bands using technology. I used to go to Trax Records in Greek Street with my best pal at the time Charlie,  and we'd spend the day in Soho Record shops, and listen to the music they played. One of the first tracks I bought was the beautiful Balaeric classic, 'Song for Denise' by Piano Fantasia in 86' when I was just 13 years old. From then I was hooked and passionately in love with this new electronic sound with a beat.

I'd scraped money working in the school holidays to buy my 1210's and a vinyl addiction continued.

I got my first DJ residency in 93' at Labrynth,which was all down to my new friend at the time Vinyl Matt (a resident DJ at the club). It was filled to capacity every Friday and Saturday at the infamous Four Aces club (orignally a Reggae venue) in Dalston Lane and ran by the enigmatic Joe Wieczorek & lovely Sue, who I idolised at the time. 

A rave club at heart, however having house music secondary rooms where I played my first sets. I used to also visit all the record stores within the M25 making sure Joe's Labrynth flyers were stocked up. and giving out the free comps he'd give me for store managers and owners, picking up obscure but brilliant music along the way.  I was in heaven during this period of my life!

After finishing at Labrynth, and missing DJ'ing to a crowd badly, I started putting on my own parties in 95'. These were small local nights, hiring restuarants and bars and filling them up with friends and their friends. some of my pas played at various London nights such as Release the Pressure and Just Can't Get Enough. I also managed to get CJ Mackintosh play for me as he was a lifetime friend of a pal of mine ar the time. 

After moving upwards with bigger venues, I took the plunge in 98' and hired a proper club with a bigger capacity, Imperial Gardens, and Kinky Malinki was born. 

I had to lie blatantly to Raymond at Imperial to even hire the club as I had no big venue history at all.  These were the days before social media existed.  It was sacks and sacks of letters getting franked at the post office and lots of weekends without much sleep giving out the 60,000 flyers we'd had printed.

Together with co-promoter Paul, we put on nights at Imperial Gardens., The Glasshouse, Aquarium, The Ministry of Sound, The Cross, Turnmills, El Divino and my favourite parties at our monthly residency at Pacha London (where we were the longest running residency). 


We were also guests around the UK at some of the most popular nghts of that era, such as Ultra Vegas, Eye Candy, Hotdog and many, many others.

I stepped away from running the parties years ago for personal reasons, but the passion for house music never, ever fades. 

I'm still as in love with the music 35 years later, as I ever have been ❤️ My music? it's underground baby!

Kinky Malinki 25th Anniversary Part 2 30.11.2024 at 93 Feet East 

Details of all Kinky Malinki events at www.kinkymalinki.com


The World According To...

Jay Friction (Kinky Malinki/House FM)