LEWIS DENE’S
INSIDE TRACK
WHAT’S ON
IN ASSOCIATION
WITH
Another epochal recording
THE OFFICE
making a welcome return is ‘FAST’
EDDIE SMITH & KENNY ‘JAMMIN’
STEREO?
JASON’s ‘Can U Dance’ - one of the
fi rst jackin’ Chicago house releases
The music that’s been keeping us sane
from 1987 to gain wider notoriety
while putting this issue together…
and expose the masses to the new
art form emanating from the city’s
01. Hot Chip
‘One Life Stand’ (Parlophone)
clubs. The contemporary heat, on
02. Robert Babicz
SPANDEX MEN
the Premier Muzik release, comes
‘Immortal Changes’ (Systematic)
from Canadians HATIRAS and GINO
03. D-Bridge & Instra:mental
OLIVIERI, along with London’s ‘FabricLive 50’ (fabric)
HOXTON WHORES, who together
Five rounds with Greco-Roman’s new box set
04. Various
help reignite this timeless hip-
‘This Is Not An Exit Manifesto 1’ (This Is Not An
Exit)
house anthem for a new generation…
A BEARDED MATHEW HERBERT falling asleep on the door with the cash box
05. Kasper Bjørke
‘Standing On Top Of Utopia’ (HFN Music)
open, David E Sugar playing acid house off two Nintendo Gameboys, and a AARON PEREZ makes quality
06. Various
masked Joe and Alexis from Hot Chip DJing as Booji Boy High; all just typical house music with more than a
‘Elevator Music Vol.1’ (fabric)
events in the world of Greco-Roman. passing nod to the heady days of the
07. Ripperton
Born from a series of legendary nomadic globe-trotting parties put on by Paradise Garage and Studio 54. The ‘Niwa’ (Green)
Joe Hot Chip, Dom ‘The Great Mentsh’, Jez ‘The Boston Crab’ and Alex ‘Half Canadian, now based in Las Vegas,
08. Joy Orbison
Nelson’, February sees the release of boxed set ‘Greco-Roman From the Seat of grew up in the ‘80s listening to the
‘The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The
Blow’ (Aus)
Mount Olympus’, a collection of the fi rst fi ve singles from their eponymously- dance hits of the day, and his
named label. upcoming ‘Feel The Funk EP’, on
09. Ewan Pearson
‘We Are Proud Of Our Choices’ (Kompakt)
Gossip, perfectly reflects his
10. Count & Sinden
Featuring David E Sugar, Grovesnor, Buraka Som Sistema, Drums of Death and inspirations. Pitched somewhere ‘Elephant 1234 (Hot City Remix)’ (Domino)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, it enlists the likes of Skream, Jesse Rose, between ATFC, HOTT 22 and C-MOS,
Hot Chip, Drop the Lime and even old school ravemeisters 2 Bad Mice for remix cuts like ‘Feel Good’ are based
duties, giving some idea of the London/Berlin-based collective’s pull. around Shalamar’s ‘I Can Make You
“It’s a distillation of our parties,” says Alex, “which are a big musical Feel Good’, while ‘We Got The Funk’
I
experiment with lots of DJs, all coming from different angles and styles,
1975
takes a large bite outta POSITIVE
going back-to-back, then also a live act. The main thing we do is put out music FORCE’s track of the same name.
with really good live shows, so we can then tour them with the Greco-Roman They’re laced with French reference
soundsystem.” points a la Crydamoure (no bad
thing either!) and certainly offer a
Founded to release David E Sugar’s ‘Oi New York, This is London’, a soundclash refreshing take on your bog
track originally written for a party in the US, the label has already released Joe standard cover version…
Goddard’s debut solo album, with Drums of Death’s due for April, and a second
box set, ‘Return to Olympus’ pencilled for next year, while the parties continue REZA launches his new
to attract last-minute big name guests. But why the obsession with spandex- Rezonation label, with an aim to
clad crotch grabbing? unite house music lovers, and to DJ MEHDI
“It’s slightly homoerotic, very sweaty and underscore his intentions, fi rst up “I wasn’t actually there to witness it,
drawn out — just like our DJing,” explains is his ‘House Is A Feeling’, that because I was born in 1977. But it’s the year
Alex. “We dress up like idiots because comes backed with remixes by K my parents got married, so I guess the idea
everything else is serious. We don’t play KLASS and DIRTY SECRETZ. Other of me popped into the universe of
novelty records, we don’t have any lights artists lined up to release/mix for possibilities.
or visuals, and we don’t do podcasts the label include JONATHAN “Also, I think it’s the best year ever for
or allow photographers in. We release ULYSSES, DJ DOVE, NICOLE TYLER music, and not only for big artists, trust me:
colourful music because we dance in the and DIEGO DRUMZ… any used record store around your house,
dark.” go there and pick every record you see that
is from 1975. And thank me after!”
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