Tight Fit

As is the way round here, I did my favourites of 2006 review in a distinctly wonky fashion. I had a rather grand notion of doing some silly awards type thing, but forgot all the categories, hence the rather straight up favourite albums and tracks post.

You can find a very eloquently written and well chosen 2006 review at PopScene (especially the blog choices yo!) – For what it’s worth I reckon Discobelle and Fluokids can have a pillow fight over best music blog – Discobelle’s comments section has provided some choice humour over recent weeks especially.

Yeah so, I meant to say Dave Taylor was artist of the year – A man of many an alias and quality remixes in 2006 and has featured very heavily on Slutty Fringe since its inception. The whole ‘fidget house’ ting is kicking strong with new artists and labels popping up all over the place. It’s exciting times.

(Anyone who fancies posting me the One Week To Live issue with the fidget house feature that was out a few weeks back will get some goodies in return)

Black Ghosts – Face (Switch Remix) Out 22nd Jan check myspace for more info

Bugz In The Attic – Move Aside (A. Brucker & Sinden Remix) (YSI)

Solid Groove & Sinden – Din Da Da (YSI)

Only Freak – Can’t Get Away From Your Love (Solid Groove Remix) (YSI)

Radioclit – Mature Macho Machine (Solid Groove & Sinden Remix) (YSI)

Phonica is the best place to get all the Dubsided/Counterfeet fidget fam stuff

This year I have also been introduced to the excellent music that Drop The Lime puts out, he sent through a mix he did for Resonance FM recently and it kicks hard just like you expect it to! Props and thanks to the whole Trouble And Bass family for the excellent music and kind words of support.

Drop The Lime Resonance FM mix 18th December 06

(0:00)Sky City Rising – Fever Gasp
(2:20)Math Head – Dream Tigers
(4:38)Matt Shadetek – Bump Bump
(7:09)Trouble & Bass – Stitches (DTL V.I.P)
(8:03)Drop The Lime – Hold On
(10:27)Starkey – Let You Go (DTL Remix)
(11:26)Ciara – Get Up (DTL Watching U Edit [STAKEHOUSE Re-Edit] )
(12:31)White Label- Clap Clap
(13:53)Drop The Lime – Died In Your Arms Refix
(17:19)DJ Debonair Samir – Sirens
(18:28)Bmore Gutta Music – Kick A Few Ho’s
(19:23)Ciara – Get Up (Drop The Lime Watching U Edit)
(24:39)The Game – One Blood (DTL One Shot Refix)
(26:53)Drop The Lime – Big Malice
(29:00)Vyle – Strobemouth (DTL heavy bass Remix)
(32:18)Fatboy Slim – Champion Sound (Switch Remix)
(34:40)Brainstorm – Rock The House
(36:29)Math Head – Magnum (Megaforce Edit)

And to end on a high note, Curtis Vodka has jus put out a tuff tuff remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s track Cheated Hearts which is splendid (thankyous to low bee forum for this)

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Cheated Hearts (Curtis Vodka Remix) (YSI)

Slutty Fringe will return in 2007, there may be some more people contributing next year as it takes up alot of time to keep it this good heheh and man like tonypoland needs to work for dollars more. Fear not as there is stringent criteria in place for those that wish to write.

If you have any suggestions on how to improve Slutty Fringe please send such thoughts in written form to me. Have a splendid New Year!

63% Overproof

My head hurts from too much Wray & Nephews rum and too much Kahlua – I hope everyone had a splendid Christmas. Here are some songs which have somewhat distracted the pounding sensation in my head today.

Love – A House Is Not A Motel (Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve Re-Edit) (ysi)

Ricardo Villalobos – Gugga Sempa (ysi)

Booka Shade – Pong Pang (ysi)

The Kills – I Call It Art (La Chanson De Slogan) (ysi)

Isolee – Beau Mot Plage (Freeform Reform Pt 1 & 2) (ysi)

Kings Of Convenience – The Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix) (ysi)

PJ Harvey – Beautiful Feeling (ysi)

The 2006 Hot Sauce list

I love a good list – here are the albums and tracks (in no particular order) from this year that have been worrying the speakers at slutty fringe towers.

Albums

Presets – Beams Modular
The Blow – Paper Television K Records
Booka Shade – Movements Get Physical
V/A – Kitsune Maison 3 Kitsune
V/A – Cut Copy Fabriclive Mix Fabric
CSS – CSS Sub Pop
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Yer Bones Polydor
Daedalus – Denies The Days Demise Ninjatune
The Whitest Boy Alive – Dreams Bubbles
The Rapture – Pieces Of The People We Love Vertigo
DJ Mehdi – Lucky Boy Ed Banger
Fujiya & Miyagi – Transparent Things Tirk
MSTRKRFT – The Looks Modular

Tracks

New Young Pony Club – Descend
Peter, Bjorn & John – Young Folks (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Edit) ysi zshare
Spektrum – Don’t Be Shy
Alice Smith – Love Endeavour (Freeform Reform) ysi zshare
Spank Rock – Bump (Switch Remix)
Delia & Gavin – Revelee (Carl Craig Remix) ysi zshare
CSS – Lets Make Love (spank rock remix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts (Peaches Remix) ysi zshare
Justin Timberlake – My Love
Young Dro – Shoulder Lean (Curtis Vodka Remix) ysi zshare
Simian Mobile Disco – The Hustler
SebastiAn – Ross Ross Ross ysi zshare
The Gossip – Standing in the Way Of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
Diplo – Buy It, Use It ysi zshare
Nelly Furtado – Promiscuous (Hint Remix)
Cassius – Toop Toop (Cassius Reggae Rock Mix) ysi zshare
Peaches – Downtown (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Epic Man & Plan B – More (Sinden Remix) ysi zshare
Crookers – Atomic Baile Boy
The Teenagers – Homecoming ysi zshare
Lily Allen – LDN (South Rakkas Crew Crackwhore Riddim remix)
Jamelia – Something About You (Mr Oizo Remix) ysi zshare
Husky Rescue – Diamonds In The Sky (Emperor Machine Remix)

living on borrowed time….

The worst thing about writing a blog is getting home at 2am loaded on margarita and beer and feeling slightly unhinged from watching some Japanese art house porn (don’t ask) and deciding it’s the best idea to write a very narcissitic post about you being a tastemaker – well getting sent some tracks by the next Celine Dion is probably worse but doesn’t flood you with the same feelings of self loathin.

Thankfully I got writers block halfway through such a post that was meant to be about a splendid band called the Consolations but was more about how great this blog is – goddamn tequila!!

Yeah so the Consolations are this duo from Stockport, a longtime Northern hotbed of musical talent. They’ve just released an ep called Borrowed Time on Upset Zombie Records and it really is quite special.

Comprising of 6 tracks which demonstrate that there is still some room for experimentation within Indie music. Vocalist Tom Griffiths has this brilliant cynical northern drawl that somehow snugly rests on the subtle beat based arrangements of producer Matt Philbin. The production is kinda reminiscent of The Beta Band in it’s use of sampled beats which are layered with dusty lo fi-ness (or something)

I’m sticking up my two favourite tracks from the EP plus a wee exclusive demo they also sent through to me. You can get the EP for a fiver from their myspace page, go doowit!

The Consolations – Johnny

The Consolations – Gangland Love Story

The Consolations – Messages

Infants Versus Drop The Lime

Slutty Fringe favourites the Infants have just finished their remix of Drop The Lime‘s Wake Up Call and it’s deliciously unhinged – I certainly don’t know what wanky sub genre to put it under (and I like my wanky sub-genres!)

Drop The Lime – Wake Up Call (Infants Remix) [ysi]

Drop The Lime – Wake Up Call (Infants Remix) [zshare]

London based people can catch both Drop The Lime and Infants dj at Pick Up The Pieces, a new night at the half devil (333) on January the 12th – it’s an all round hefty looking lineup.

I’ve recently been liking Revl9n, a band out of Sweden (it’s mostly been Sweden or Australia with the good music this year eh?)

I got the Walking Machine remixes 12″ last week and it’s a good look what with SebastiAn, Hot Chip and Simian Mobile Disco sharing vinyl space (can’t go wrong with that really)

I also have this mstrkrft remix of Someone Like You to share which I don’t think is getting a proper release for whatever reason.

Revl9n – Someone Like You (mstrkrft remix) [ysi]

Revl9n – Someone Like You (mstrkrft remix) [zshare]

Hot Sauce presents… A FETE WORSE THAN DEATH

Sunday 17th December
3PM till 11PM

Hot Sauce presents…
A FETE WORSE THAN DEATH

93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1

FREE ENTRY.

LIVE:

Methodist Centre
Black Daniel
Ebony Bones
Miss Odd Kidd
The Cock n Bull Kid

Plus!

LJ Kruzer’s Electronic Carol Service
Le Cocteau Jaune’s Burlesque Nativity

DJs:
Ice Monster (crackin skullz)
John Power (hot sauce)
tonypoland (sluttyfringe)

SFS vol 4: w A x – wynn-tur o’sicks(micks)

As the days close in on this year and the nights get increasingly colder (a sign I should start wearing a jacket on my rum escapades perhaps) Slutty Fringe brings you a lovely winter warmer of a mix by Needlework Records artist wAxFactor. A selection of glitchy bruising hiphop beats lovingly crafted together by a very talented dj and producer

tracklist

The Waxolutionists with DJ Vadim – Wild Elephants (wAx bruised and beaten edit) [Universal/unreleased]
Dabrye with AG – My Life [Ghostly International]
Danny Breaks – Window Wiper [Alphabet Zoo]
Hifana – Hitaro (feat Kentaro) [Warner Japan]
J-Treds – Praise Due (Indopepsychics remix) [Mary Joy]
Wu-Tang Clan – Reunited (Funkstorung remix) [Loud]
MHE – 003 [Sound In Color]
Daddy Kev and The Grouch – Opening Spit [Alpha Pup]
Rob Swift with Toadstyle & Ricci Rucker – Military Scratch [Coup de Grace]
Organized Konfusion – Bring It On (Buckwild remix) [Hollywood Basic]
Larvae with Nongenetic of Shadowhuntaz – Nation of Bling [Ad Noiseam]
edIT – Crashes []
El-P – extract from Bomb the System score
Ill Suono – Doll (Riow Arai remix [Soup-Disk]
7l & Esoteric – Def Rhymes [Brick]
Madvillain – Figaro (Madlib remix) [Stones Throw]
Airborn Audio – Freestyle
Six Vicious – Salle Torturée [Bully Records]
Conrad Newholmes – Arctic Robots Demise [Couchblip]
Eddie Def vs. Ingrid de Lambre – Poesies, Scene 1 [Om-Records]
Waxfactor – Beat Meld [Needlework]
Ludacris – Stand Up (wAx’n’n’relaxin mix) [unreleased]
Waxfactor & Sacred Hoop – Float Yer Kegs [unreleased]
Waxfactor – The Huston Rockets [unreleased]

Slutty Fringe Selection vol 4: w A x – wynn-tur o’sicks(micks)

French Touch

My head isn’t working today so no witty prose – ShitDisco and Duke Dumont completely smashed it last night and I have large horn for Uffie.

Revl9n – Walking Machine (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)

The Rapture – Sister Saviour (Black Strobe Remix)

Edu K – Hot Mama (Sinden Remix)

Mylo – Paris 400 (SebastiAn Remix)

Boys Noise – Feel Good (TV = Off)

The Presets – Down Down Down (Digitalism Remix)

I will have a very fucken sick mix by Needlework’s wAximillien up tommorow

I Hate Beetroot

It’s the devil’s food.

I am, however, very exited about the Adventures In The Beetroot Field party at Canvas this Saturday (I hope the Security has a short memory…) which has all manner of buff hype bands and djs playing for FREE

So for those who can’t make it for any number of reasons here’s a selection of tracks and remixes by just a handful of the acts they got crammed into 3 rooms.

Uffie – Pop The Glock (Curtis Vodka Remix 2)

ShitDisco – Reactor Party

Kissy Sellout – Saw You

M.I.A. – Sunshowers (Surkin Remix)

Missy Elliott – We Run This (Duke Dumont Remix)

Diplo vs The Beatles – Shhake It Up (erm it’s on Uppercuts which is the label run by one of Radioclit, who are djing, so there’s a real tenuous link going on here)

The Klaxons – The Bouncer (South Central Bootleg)

(I think I have leached all these tracks from other blogs haha so thankyou whoever I got them from)

Peep the full lineup at the AITBF website and I guess I’ll be seeing some you there innit

post edit: I’ve abandoned yousendit and reposted all these tracks on zshare – enjoy

Some Things Old, Some Things New

Keep On Your Mean Side, the debut album by The Kills, has been caned these past few weeks at Slutty Fringe Towers. Back in the days when I was a till monkey in a hight street music shop, a track from that album, Fried My Little Brains worked its way into my head and didn’t leave.

I only picked up the album earlier this year but they are steadily working their way up the Slutty Fringe last fm favourite artist list. I can’t seem to get enough of their scuzzy raw rock sound. I really don’t know what their stuff since is like so if anyone wants to enlighten me I would most grateful.

The Kills – Cat Claw

The Kills – Wait

( You can purchase Keep On Your Mean Side here)

A recent discover for me has of course been The Blow, anyone unlucky enough to engage me in conversation about music has been forced to promise to invest in Paper Television.

So I was more than happy to chance upon a splendid club blend of The Blow on the low bee forum, skillfully put together by San Fran DJ Vin Sol

The Blow – Pardon Me (Vin Sol Beatnik Jive Turkey Blend)

I also saw a couple of remixes of Timberlake’s awesome My Love posted up by Hollertronix heavy Low Bee – one of which had a very funny “Your Mom’s Records For Low B Clearance” tag line running over the top of it heheh here’s the other plus the excellent Radioclit club remix

Justin Timberlake – My Love (Low B Pawtry Remix)

Justin Timberlake – My Love (Radioclit Club Remix)

On a Radioclit related note, their debut release on Counterfeet is FINALLY dropping on the 12th December – Go seek it at the usual vinyl emporiums.

And to finish some random tracks which have been making me smile recently.

Chelonis R. Jones – Na Na Na

KMD – Peachfuzz

Carl Craig – Chicken Noodle Soup

Alice & The Enemies – Touching Boys In Supermarkets

Pic: Dirty Dirty Dancing