This Saturday join Wildblood and Queenie for a Home Service filled with house, disco, camp banter and some more house. It’s gonna be a peach of a show, filled with tunes tailored just for you. We’ve some Xx album action, a slice of downtempo bliss courtesy of Daniel T, house of the very fine kind from Marquis Hawkes, COEO, Denney, Carlo & Black Loops, our tune of … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s Home Service 21.01.17
Today I need hope. Today I need to know its gonna be alright. So today I’m reaching for Nina Simone. And filling my belly with fire for the fight to come. Sure it maybe just over the pond but just as in Russia, Indonesia, Lithuania, Eygpt, Iraq, Jamaica, Maldives and over 79 countries across the world, the LGBT+ community of the USA need our support. Anti-sodomy laws were ruled … Continue reading A much needed perfect distraction: Nina Simone’s Revolution
You don’t have to wait to long for a decent tune to turn up on the award-winning weekly Horse Meat Disco show on Rinse FM. Infact from you don’t have to wait any time at all. This week DJ Luke Howard, aka Filthy Luka delivered a rewind moment that has kept me grinning all week long. The right lovely Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long [The Reflex Revision] … Continue reading Perfect Distractions: Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long [The Reflex Revision]
Happy birthday mister. You are and will always be our godfather of house. You built our church, you gave our disco life, you brought joy with your tears. Thanks Mr Knuckles. You are missed. Always. Continue reading Perfect Distractions : Having a Frankie Knuckles moment
Today I needed a bleep that didn’t resemble the various bleeping expletives coming out of my mouth in response to May’s latest sink-my-nation speech. I needed a perfect distraction. Thankfully Justin Cudmore’s Forget It has enough bleeps to disguise the sounds of me banging my head against my desk. In fact it has enough bleeps, filled with addictive basslines, vocal hooks and wiggly acid overtones, to please everyone. Old skool meets … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Justin Cudmore’s Forget It EP on The Bunker New York
More infectious than that annoying cough we’ve all been knocked sideways by and more spacey than Kevin, Sandy Turnbull’s new EP Deep Inside Yourself on Galleria Records will get your temperature rising in the right direction this January. Filtered, spacey and cooler than a menthol infusion, Deep Inside Yourself is everything you could desire from an underground house track. As Yoda would say, sweat you will. And if … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Sandy Turnbull’s Deep Inside Yourself EP
Sometimes your heart needs to skip a beat. Goshawk provide just that heartfelt sensation with every moment of their sweet as EP These Drops Are Giving Me A Breakdown on the ever hot Hudd Traxx. Get ready to warm up your winter with the lush grooves and esquiste vocals of Astral T on the stand out track My Heart and prepare to wiggle – all stealth like … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Goshawk’s These Drops Are Giving Me A Breakdown EP
This NYE I had the pleasure of meeting a certain dancing house queen. A DJ called Mike Servito who delivered a set so sweet, so rooted in the wonders of house music; old, new, acid, deep and dirty, that once I came home from Patterns and recovered I felt the love of Jack, all over again. Berocca downed and headache dismissed I hunkered down and found this beauty, Servito B2B with … Continue reading Feeling the Voice I Hear courtesy of Mike Servito and The Black Madonna
At a time when the world feels as if its heading backwards it would be simpler all round for us to just bury our heads in the glittering sand and indulge in that most comforting of distractions. Nostalgia. And yet this slice of brilliance from Francis Inferno Orchestra encourges the opposite of that – yes the video for the stand out EP track Oasis may be of those raving … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Francis Inferno Orchestra ‘Oasis and A Time’ EP
Sometimes life needs a tingle down the spine. Especially on a rainy winter Monday. Which is where this beauty from Hifi Sean ft Yoko Ono comes in. Check out In Love With Life and, well, prepare to find a new found love for life. Ono style. And if you have yet to check out Hifi Sean’s outstanding longplay FT then do so immediately. Your life will blossom that … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Hifi Sean Ft. Yoko Ono – In Love With Life
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