Triple Chrome Dipped

I am big on Agyness Deyn (maybe not so big that her fledgling musical career will get any more than the cursorary mention given here) but any musical correspondence forwarded that contains the magic words will certainly pique my fancy.

Step forward then Noir Boys Club who named a track after the honey from Hull - this shit was downloaded before I even read who is behind it - only the joint musical minds of Lillica Libertine and Glamour Soundsystem who as Noir Boys Club form one branch of a very fashionmedia savvy tree called Style Noir.

The track Agyness Deyn is from the forthcoming EP “Style Noir presents:NBC” and is on some hefty lysergic electrohouse tip - they also sent through a splendid remix of that Wiley track wot is everywhere right nows and a remix of new Universal signing Marvin but that’s not getting posted cos the Universal legal time are like the Mafia

Noir Boys Club - Agyness Deyn

Wiley - Wearin My Rolex (Noir Boys Club Remix)

London peeps might wanna go down Hoxton on the 11th May to the Bar and Kitchen with dj’s Tapedeck, Lillica Libertine and Thick as Thieves as well as live performances from The Real Heat and Glamour Soundsystem and a one off live show by Noir Boys Club.

To My MF Clubheadz

Sportsday Megaphone is not only a talented musician but also a thoroughly decent chap - this is qualified by the fact he offered me one of his vegetable samosas when we bumped into each other at Standon Calling last year.

Despite the fact he has signed to Sunday Best and has an eagerly awaited album due to drop in the summer and will be super famous and spend his time answering silly questions posed by Alexa Chung, hopefully he would still offer tasty Indian sundries to hungry Slutty Fringe scribes at music festivals.

In order to keep on his good side here is taster of Sportsday Megaphone forthcoming single LA whose lyrical content might upset Tom Cruise and drops on seven inches of vinyl on June 16th backed with the excellent Young Lust which Big Stereo posted whilst I was sauntering home.

Sportsday Megaphone - LA

Watch out for the album So Many Colours / So Little Time dropping on Sunday Best in August with a whole bunch of remixes to from the likes of lysrgic Nic Nell, South Central, Slagsmålsklubben and Wax Stag.

People who like Sportsday Megaphone and like going out in Camden should get their fashion on and head down to the all new Proud Galleries on Saturday as he is playing live at Be alongside Micachu and Envelopes with shiny discoball electro dj stuff from Punks Jump Up

It’s Not Called Hackers……

Words haven’t appeared on here describing Miss Odd Kidd’s naughty music for at least a minute too long - not for any particular reason just because there has been so much other music that has slapped us in the face and demanded our attention.

(though if this blog was actually centred on interesting hair then words of appreciation would definitely be in front of your eyes regarding the fine fringe Miss Odd Kidd was sporting on Friday evening)

However there has been more than a certain amount of badgering directed at rising talent Plimsouls ever since he disclosed he was remixing the Black Affair produced Sperm Donor - with the results being a somewhat lovely piece of electropop pie.

Finally after ages (partly down to a forgotten download link) Slutty Fringe has been given the lime green light to wrap it in silly words and give it a punt in the general direction of the internet.

Miss Odd Kidd - Sperm Donor (Plimsouls Remix)

A Plimsouls sounding bonus is now provided in the form of his remix of Surprise! by yet another talented young Parisian called Janedge which has just surfaced as the fourth release by Boule a facettes

Janedge - Surprise! (Plimsouls Remix)

You can cop the rest of Janedge’s EP at the Bouleafacettes blog and check Plimsouls myspace for his massive new remix of 2 Doors Down by Mystery jets.

**photo by Solen**

Niceup! The Dance!

Ever since the first JSt*ar release dropped several years ago, cheeky reggae/pop/rap mashups have always found their way into the Slutty Fringe DJ set at some point throughout the night (Curses are still uttered regarding the drunken evening at The Asylum when the No Diggity seven inch was misplaced)

If you don’t know about Heatwave refixes then you need your head seeing too, and of late a new name to the reggae blend game has emerged in the shape of the Niceup! collective.

The first Niceup release was the bomb diggy Bigger Than Jamrock and have been followed with soundclashes of Biggie, Nas and Dizzie. Now they have turned their hands to The Gossip. Thanks mostly to Skins and unimaginative DJs I want to do bad things everytime I hear the ubiquitous Standing In The Way Of Control (even more so the Soulwax remix) So I was dubious about hearing this re/version but it drags the song back from the edge of overkill and makes for a nice summer rump shaker.

Niceup! - Skankin In The Way Of Control

This seven inch can be found in all good vinyl emporiums and comes backed with student disco favourite I Wish by Skee Lo over some skanking Black Grass beats - good party tackle all round!

Meaty Focker

There is plenty of love for Late of The Pier round here - check the new video for live favourite Focker  which is just crazy - be on the lookout for the re/release of Space & The Woods backed with Focker in a couple of weeks with some champions league remixes from the dons Switch and Erol Alkan - one of which I may have heard at the Deadly Rhythm Fluokeeeds hoedown on Friday night but that’s alll a bit hazy….

Three Little Words

photo by manuelomatic

I was meant to go and check out Teenagersintokyo at the Barfly on Monday, however the weekends seem to bringing too much fun into my life at the moment and consequently I spent Monday evening trying to ignore the protestations of my aching limbs.

Some degree of respite is presented in the form of some remixes of the spiky attractive girl poppyness  - given that TIT are on Backyard there was a musky air of inevitability that electrohouse remixes would appear at some point, but having listened to their mini album quite frequently these past few weeks I was a bit apprehensive about having what is quite enjoyable on it’s own get put through the remix grinder.

However efforts of fellow Australians D-Cup and G.L.O.V.E.S. on Very Vampyr and Robocat respectively are very much dancefloor heat and should be applauded accordingly with G.L.O.V.E.S.turning in a remix which should delight those who haven’t decided to treat Ed Banger as a verbal punch bag.

Teenagersintokyo - Very Vampyr (D-Cup Remix)

Teenagersintokyo - Robocat (G.L.O.V.E.S. Remix)

It also struck me today that the same night I wasn’t attending the Barfly I was also missing the chance to catch Sebastien Tellier before he knuckles down for Eurovison rehearsals. Though I was planning on attending to catch the lovely Lykke Li who was opening for the hirstute crooner. This caused a liberal dose of cursing at self.

Here is new Midnight Juggernauts remix of  Seb Tellier single Divine which drops on May 19th along with remix from the next French hype Danger.

Sebastien Tellier - Divine (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)

It also came to my attention how much I fancy the lass from Crystal Castles

(this may be bacause she has stopped hiding under her hoodie)

Machine Gun - Tronik Youth Shr-Edit

Back in the daisy age days of the nineties, the claustrophobic triphoppery of mumbling Bristolian Tricky always found favour over your Portisheads and your Massive Attacks in the Slutty Fringe residence - however we have to admit to genuinely liking what we done heard of the new Portishead namely lead single Machine Gun.

On Saturday whilst having fun at the Warm Lasermagnetic night (despite only seeing one bloody song by The Chromatics) I bumped into Neil from Tronik Youth and he told me about a re/editt hat they’d done of Machine Gun which was getting love from the DJs (I think Skull Jus Jus are fans) but hasn’t spread across the internet yet - so let’s change that!

Love this - sounds like it’s been taken from The Terminator, some mad industrial sci fi techno thump going on here

Portishead - Machine Gun (Tronik Youth Shr-Edit) / ysi

be looksing out for the new Tronik Youth EP on Backyard on june 2nd

Parking Lot Blues

More new Gomma heat in the shape of Munk and Asia Argento being led down an alley in Brooklyn by The Juan Maclean and getting violated with his Death Disco appendage.

In less queasy terms, the new Munk single Live Fast, Die Old features the sometime actress and somtime singer but mostly always a bit horny looking Asia Argento ( you all checked the In Flagranti remix of her collab with Antipop yes?) and comes with some splendid remix action from The Juan Maclean, Maral Salmassi & Zero Cash and Gomma boss Headman (brother Discodust has had the Maral and Cash remix up for some weeks btw)

It’s all about the re/fix by the Iain Dowie lookalike from the DFA here, which follows on nicely from the recent Happy House single which is cherished to a great degree at Slutty Fringe

Munk feat Asia Argento - Live Fast, Die Old (The Jaun Maclean Remix) / ysi

Live Fast, Die Old is released in May, with the Munk longplayer Cloudbuster to follow soon after!

Hubba Hubba (What’s In The Bag Man?)

Sometimes it’s nice to hear a mix with a conceptual angle, instead of 60 minutes of unreleased ed banger / dubsided/ boys noize / etc / bah / blah / blah.

Step forward friend of the fringe and amateur Tim Roth lookalike wrongtom who found some time in his busy schedule of playing music, making music, shopping for a big enough broom to clear up his many name drops and day dreaming about Phoebe Cates to put together a mix dedicated to the musical career of J Saul Kane aka Depth Charge aka a load more aliases!

Now label boss of DC Recordings, J Saul Kane is prolly not a recognised name to young un’s so this mix is a very good starting place yes.

He even done a fancy press release…..

“For those of you still waiting for the next Cassetiquette here’s a little something to wet your appetite. I’ve taken a shelf-load of J Saul Kane productions and chopped, re-edited and dubbed out in the usual incorrect fashion.

Those of you already familiar with Mr Kane’s output will no doubt recognize a handful of the records which lie within covering the first 6 years of Depth Charge, Eon, Octagon Man and T.E.T releases and even a pinch of early Cash Crew for good measure. Those of you who don’t know what I’m on about have been missing out for the past 2 decades and should get downloading soon as and click here for further info on him and his record label.

Kanetiquette was made in 3 sections ranging from low slung dusty old beats to John Carpenteresque electro and some good old fashioned rave action. In keeping with the original Cassetiquette, Emma Ferguson is on board once again with some hand stitched artwork (displayed above) which you can also download for your ipods or whatever you wish to do with it.

This is for everyone who’s stayed up late watching badly dubbed Kung Fu flicks, splatter movies and unconvincing aliens. It’s dirty, it’s messy and it might harm your ear canals but just keep telling yourself - It’s only a mixtape.”

Depth Charge vs DJ Wrongtom - Kanetiquette tracklist

Part One - J.Runken Masters…

Depth Charge “Depth Charge Vs Silver Fox”
Depth Charge “Silver Dub”
Depth Charge “Death Is Ma Name”
Cash Crew “You Can’t Stop This (Jumpapella)”
Depth Charge “The Bit In The Middle”
Depth Charge “Goal - 1st Half”
Depth Charge “Goal - 2nd Half”
Depth Charge “Shaolin Buddha Finger”
Eon “Electromagnetic Waves”

Part Two - A Carnival Of Saul’s…

Depth Charge “Drum Death Version”
Depth Charge “Bass It”
Depth Charge “Dead By Dub”
Depth Charge “Daughters Of Darkness”
Depth Charge “Hubba Hubba (What’s In The Bag Man)”
Depth Charge “Searching For Records With Bonus Beats”

Part Three - It Kane From Outerspace…

Depth Charge “Under The Eye Of The Electric Storm”
Eon “Spice (Original Mix With Notes)”
The Octagon Man “Okugai Eigakan”
The Octagon Man “(something in Japanese which i can’t read)”
T.E.T. “Burning Paradise (Space Bug)”
T.E.T. “Burning Paradise (Stick Mix)”
Depth Charge “Space Mutant”

Get on with the downloading here

I Heard They’re Sending Rockets To The Moon

The cynical Music PR beast that appears to be following Alphabeat’s every move like a ungainly monkey on their back (umpteen plugs in the London free press, appearances on Richard & Judy [how we know this is not important, move along now] Sinden remixes available via SMS etc etc) has so far prevented any actual intention to check out their music from ever coming into fruition.

However we’re all about supporting the exiting, the upcoming, the new so any personal feelings towards how Alphabeat are marketed are put to one side with release for hypem huggers of the Plimsouls remix of the Alphabeat track 10,000 Nights Of Thunder.

Having not heard the original, comment on what exactly Plimsouls has changed cannot be made though an assumptive wager could be made on the fact alot of the vocals have either been removed or messed around with. It’s a good bouncey electrohouse look anyway, and peep the official release for a double French kiss in the form of a Yuksek & Brodinski remix soon come.

Alphabeat - 10,000 Nights of Thunder (Plimsouls Remix) /ysi

It seems like Discobelle and Slutty Fringe are on some sort of unplanned Anglo Swedish internet venture to expose Plimsouls talents to the general public and it must be working as the young Bristolian has just completed a remix of the forthoming Mystery Jets single Two Doors Down which should be appearing in some offical format - exciting news! His remix of the potty mouthed Miss Odd Kidd should also be appearing on Pure Groove sometime soon.

Completely unrelated but newsworthy nonetheless is the appearance of a new Skull Juice podcast mixed by the 50% that is called Alex, some 24 months after the last, which is currently playing as these words appear and is thoroughly enjoyable - as is the latest installment of the Resident Advisor podcast mixed by Nordic disco edit king Todd Terje which ends on the Cousin Cole remix of The Boss!

p.s. tshirt available at Hanon