Feature: Filthy Dukes
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the mixing desk to his own
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specs, using it on ev
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une.
from Autobahn to the
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remix of The R
Vienna, before his untimely
Eurythmics’ debut and Ultravox’s Grand Job’ – a big song,
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death in 1987. The desk had
retooled and rebooted
lain in his studio outside
which went on to be a
Cologne, switched off and
dancefloor smash in
dormant, adrift in cobwebs.
its own right. As did
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their remix of The
desk like it: purpose built b
as only one other mixing Maccabees ‘X
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Filth
museum. But ma
with their
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still life – still cutting-edge,
ybe there was shopfloor/dancefloor
robo-soul tunes – lurking under
the Krautdust…?
writing songs, could
savvy about the craft of
mak
The dance rock DJs and
and mak
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promoters had seen some great
music…
e their own
nights. Their London club Kill Em
All had progressed from
Camden’
(it
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s gloriously grotty the north
ys night time there),
dancefloor of ultr
that Filth
west London studio
The duo, Olly Dix
a-club F
on and Tim
abric. It
y Dukes call home.
work with the band’
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s third
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being put out b
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member, producer Mark Ralph.
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rescued from Cologne and
lo
Castles, and Late Of The Pier –
Party, Justice, Cut Copy, Crystal Mark. It
vingly restored b
’s here that
y
bands who fitted the DJ-slash-
their album, a genre-
promoters’ musical vision of a
melting electro record
banging night that mix
with an indie heartbeat, has
energy of a liv
ed the been lo
power of dance music. Olly and
e band with the analoguely put together
vingly, tweakingly, album. Timdebut
Tim w
‘Nonsense In The Dark’ features
.
soundcheck, w
atched their bands proper songs – ones to mo up v
himself takes
up
the head and your heart as well
ve show and album’ocal duties, both for the livs dancefloor e
juggernaut ‘
the crowd, work
, watched how they work
atched them set
ed
own DJ sets could complement
ed out how their three Duk
as the feet. It’s here where the Control’. Absolute Body
and enhance the liv
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