MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
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I’ve also just found the first Mixmag piece I wrote this year on the delightful house DJ Cassy as part of their ‘Queens of the Underground’ cover feature in May. At some point, I’ll post the interview in full because she was quite simply just awesome. But for now, here she is talking about Miami Winter Music Conference, playing at DC10 and how gender boundaries can go fuck themselves.
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I interviewed James Priestley and Giles Smith at length about their innovative all-day Sunday rave-up Secretsundaze for Mixmag. It originally appearred in the magazine’s August issue, but I’ve just found it online too. SPECIAL.
Here is a snippet about Carl Craig getting down on his knees: “I’ve made Carl Craig crawl through a fence before on his hands and knees,” chuckles Smith. “We did a huge party at The Arches and there were a few thousand people there. Carl Craig’s taxi arrived a bit late and there was a huge queue of people at the main door, so I got him to crawl through a hole in the fence to get to the decks. I’ve teased him about it every time I’ve seen him since.”
So you’ll want to read the rest, right? You can do that here.
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A couple of weeks ago, I went to review End of the Road festival for Drowned in Sound. I was an organisational disaster, but it was a super-lovely weekend in the end, and, best of all, I got to DJ with Anthony Chalmers from God Don’t Like It inside a boat suspended above a flashing dancefloor while young children breakdanced. I am currently resisting the urge to say YEAHBEATTHAT. I suppose this is also the part where I tell you that I’ve been playing the odd record here and there since February and I rather like it.
Anyway, wonderfully, The Guardian have captured a split second of that moment in this short film about the festival.
You can read my review of it on Drowned in Sound here too, if you please. I swooned over Beirut rather a lot.
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Look how excited he is! Yes, Mylo, he of “Da da da da, drop the pressure” fame is back. He has been, like, throwing underground parties an’ that at Dalston Superstore in east London for most of the year. But on October 8, he gonna take it to XOYO once more with Ed Banger young gun Breakbot and loads of other face-splitting electro DJs.
Read my interview with him from waaay back in May after the jump. It’s all about comebacks and Charles Kennedy. WIN.
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Online video/radio broadcast The Boiler Room is so hot darn exciting it makes me feel funny in my ladyparts. They take some of the best cutting edge DJs from London and beyond, stick ’em in a south London warehouse in front of a webcam to spin their heart out and let lossa dubstep fanboy tweens slate them all on their live feed at the same time. Shazzam.
I did write a serious article about it, though, for Time Out all the way back in April. Do read it here.
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Miaow. I am writing this from the future, even though it will (hopefully) publish in the past. I’ve been so terrible at updating this blog with all my work over the summer, but there’s no time to start like a cold Sunday night in on the sofa, and I’m going to backlog as much as I can.
Here’s my review of the wonderful Matias Aguayo’s ‘I Don’t Smoke’ EP on The Quietus from June 2011. I managed to refrain from using MATIASYOUARESMOKINANDIWOULD a lot.
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I can’t believe I haven’t updated since Febs. UGH. But, due to onset of further lazi-nests, here’s a linkstastic round-up off things I’ve liked in late February and March. And when I say liked, I mean, written about.
An interview with Miss Beth Ditto
“Can you give me a minute? I need to do a number two. You can put that in your article – Beth Ditto needs a poo!” the singer in question howls down the corridor after me.
And so, as instructed by Miss Ditto herself, I do. Here you have it. The journalist I greet as I leave her hotel room, however, looks bemused. Whatever he was hoping for, for his first impressions of the popstar, it certainly wasn’t that she washes her hands afterwards.
Read the full interview on Drowned in Sound here.
An article on Lady Gaga’s favourite latex couturier, Atusko Kudo
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I’ve started a weekly international clubbing column for Red Bull, Blog on the Dancefloor. Check it.
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© Ben Yacobi
A version of this article first appeared in Time Out’s Valentine’s Issue, 2011.
It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day and everybody is doing it. DJing, we mean. You filthy lot. Like rockland, clubland also has its Gwen Stefanis and Gavin Rossdales (minus the love children, we imagine) and many of them are playing at parties this weekend, just like house duo Bearweasel at Fabric on Saturday and this frisky lot below.
As it happens, I’ll also be spinning in, erm, the name of love: in the ‘kissing booth’ at Nauti.Cool at The Book Club on Friday with my better half, where there will also be couples-only sets from the likes of Zara from Peanut Butter Jelly Time and her beau, Tim of the Filthy Dukes.
But is it all just a good excuse for a grope behind the turntables? Or does the relationship dynamic lend itself to skillz outside the sheets? We grilled four couples to find out what makes them tick…
Read the full piece after the jump or on Time Out’s website here.
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© Jane Brodie
Like Hyperdub, Hotflush, Hemlock and other labels beginning with ‘H’, Hessle Audio is redefining the sound of UK dance music. It procures a futuristic blend of homegrown genres like dubstep, house, garage and jungle – a genreless smörgåsbord represented in mainstream by BBC Sound of 2011 winner James Blake, who released a single on the label last year – and eschews them for a new school of electronic fans.
The imprint is led by young London-based producers Ramadanman (22-year-old David Kennedy), Pangaea (Kevin McAuley, 25) and Ben UFO (Ben Thomson, 24), who met each other at dubstep night FWD>> in London, and named after the road that the latter two lived on during their university years in Leeds. Now in their early twenties, their output is on everyone from minimal superstar Ricardo Villalobos to techno legend Carl Craig’s radar.
Read the full interview with the future stars of London nightlife on Time Out London HERE.