Sometimes you just need to dance. Sometimes you just need some disco infused house. Thankfully Per QX has delivered for me this Monday with the fine grooves of his latest venture IOU for Seamus Haji’s Big Love imprint. I feel a Monday wiggle coming on. Per QX’s IOU out now on Big Love. Listen / Buy here Yes buy not steal. Remember kids, home taping is killing music. Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Per QX’s IOU on Big Love
Like the wonders from Werk For Peace I believe that music is the answer. It has to be. Doesn’t it? Okay maybe house won’t fix the nightmare coming from the US right now but community just might. So until the day we do make everything okay again I’ m gonna find inspiration in tracks like this latest beauty from Joe Goddard. Re-imagining Tenaglia for the 21st century. … Continue reading Perfect distraction: Joe Goddard’s Music Is The Answer
So Goldfrapp have gone and dropped a wonder. And the tease is perfect. March the 31st can’t come soon enough. And if the forthcoming Silver Eye album opener Anymore is anything to go by then my non-Goldfrapp loving neighbours will be wishing I hadn’t made March’s must-purchase. Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory you right teasers you. Silver Eye, Goldfrapp’s seventh album is released on March 31 through Mute. Listen now on Spotify and … Continue reading Perfect distraction: Goldfrapp we can’t wait Anymore
Where Streisand leads I’ll always follow. Chasing tugs, running after Doc’s rocks in San Francisco, and even Up The Sandbox (yep I’m that much of a dedicated fan!) Since K-K-K-Katie protested in The Way We Were I’ve always had a thing for Babs and a cause. She didn’t disappoint this weekend when her words took on Trump at the Women’s March in Los Angeles joining the many legends speaking out against Trump … Continue reading Don’t tell me not to live, just sit and putter! 10 Actions for the first 100 Days.
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
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