The moment I got my eight year old hands on that helicopter covered vinyl I was smitten. Within moments The Osmonds and their Crazy Horses were brushed to one side and it was all about the Swedish Tiger as ABBA’s Arrival entered my childhood bloodstream. And just like with The Supremes before them, within weeks I knew every word of every song they’d ever made. Pop … Continue reading Perfect lifetime distraction: ABBA
More uplifting than a Ms Mary Of Sweden basque, more joyful than Maze on happy pills, more disco than, well, disco, Calling Out by Sophie Lloyd featuring Dames Brown on Classic Music Company is gonna be THE tune of the summer. Believe us. It will accompany every sunset, enhance every wonderous festival moment, rock every boat party, sparkle at every Pride celebration, heat up every terrace, … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Sophie Lloyd featuring Dames Brown ‘Calling Out’
The sun came out yesterday and the cobwebs were swept away. Car stereo cranked up, windows down, sunnies on. And the soundtrack? The tune that kept making us hit the rewind? The summer-to-come sensation that is Tensnake’s glorious electro disco pop rework of Charlotte Gainsboug’s Sylvia Says. Genuinely do you need anything more on a sunshine day? Charlotte Gainsboug’s Sylvia Says (Tensnake Extended Mix) is … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Charlotte Gainsboug’s Sylvia Says (Tensnake Extended Mix)
This is making everything taste better. Yep Detroit Swindle are back with their taster single Flavourism featuring Seven Davis Jr and everything is delicious with the world. And with their stonking new album High Life forthcoming on Heist Recordings this May we can’t wait to flavour our summer days and nights with this Dutch duo’s latest seasonal soundscapes. Excited? Us? Hell yeah. Detroit Swindle’s Flavourism ft. Seven … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Detroit Swindle’s Flavourism ft. Seven Davis Jr
When this man creates we listen, when he DJs we dance and when he speaks about the doubts and delights of DJing for a living, as Midland does in his new film from Resident Advisor’s Between The Beats series, we learn. Too often we keep schtum about the stuff in our head. In a world where men under 35 especially find opening up about their … Continue reading Perfect distractions: RA’s Between The Beats: Midland
Nothing warms the soul like a Special Request can. Yep I’m defrosting nicely thanks to Gerd Janson & Shan House Mix of Special Request’s ’90s hardcore rave gear Brainstorm. This is a rave rework for us house heads, an early contender for remix of the year. But then with Gerd and Shan onboard I kinda knew the results would be special the moment it dropped into my … Continue reading Perfect distraction: Special Request’s Brainstorm (Gerd Janson & Shan House Mix)
You know us. We love a wiggly worm as much as the next person. Which is all good as Big Miz shows his affection for the worm in the most jackin’ of ways on his latest EP the glorious Build / Destroy on the Glasgow label Dixon Avenue Basement Jams. If his track Our House doesn’t get your inner Jill up Jacks hill then nothing will. Yes this is … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Big Miz’s Our House
Jack and Macs. House and history. Kim Jones and Louis Vuitton. Kate and Naomi, Honey and Cori. Over and over and over and over. A collaboration worth your attention. A runway re-edit so fashionably fierce it’ll charm the couture pants off ya. And available now as a free download thanks to Honey Dijon. Just as it should be. For the past seven years, Honey Dijon has collaborated … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Cori Josias’ Takin’ It Straight (The Honey Dijon Louis Vuitton Runway Edit)
A tune about obsession that is set to become my latest obsession. There’s beauty in the trees, there’s love in that tower, there’s a tune here for you. Get fixated on this Strange Boy and this beguiling girl. They will bring you endless rewards. Believe me. Recorded on the outskirts of Paris by Jonathan Lefèvre-Reich and mastered by Icelandic composer Valgeir Sigurðsson, Strange Boy’s Annunciation EP is both accomplished and brimming with … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Strange Boy’s Corbusier
So here they are. Our twenty tunes of glory from 2017. Twenty tunes that have accompanied some oh-so glorious moments we’ll not forget. Be it tears to Borderline on Brighton beach with Diablo, new friends and favourite DJs made on the dancefloor come 1am on NYD in Patterns (what a pleasure you were Harry and Mr Servito), goosebumps as we prep for our proudest Brighton … Continue reading Wildblood + Queenie’s 2017 12″s of glory
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