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1. Underground Resitsance – Big Stone Lake
2. The Martian – Sex in Zero Gravity
3. Underground Resistance – Nation 2 Nation
4. Octave One – Day Star Rising
5. The Martian – Skypainter
6. Suburban Knight – Midnite Sunshine
7. The Martian – Ghostdancer
8. The Martian – Tobacco Ties
9. Red Planet – Starchild
10. The Martian – Wardance
11. The Martian – Pow Wow (Fancy Dancer Mix)
12. Scan 7 – Password Soul
13. UR – Subsonic Shadow
14. UR – Untitled (Codebreaker B1)
15. Aztec Mystic – Ascension
16. The Martian – Windwalker

Moving into 2009 your comrades at Moskow Diskow have decided to take the opportunity to showcase the breadth of their love for electronic music of the past, present, and future by starting with a techno hootenanny banger…

We are enormously happy to announce the arrival of special guest Warp DJ and producer Tom Hopkins, famous for his remixes for the likes of Hot Chip and Jamie Lidell. Stepping up with him we have the delectable Mr. Simon Shelley all the way from Holland. A firm Moskow Diskow favourite on the decks Simon produces his own unique brand of quirky melodic techno under the Tennis alias, and we expect to hear a show case of his latest material all for you dear comrades. As if that wasn’t enough we’ve also got Semi-Squared, head honcho of Pollinate Records. A former Jungle producer, Semi-Squared will be rinsing out his unique style of music, inspired by influences like Basic Channel and Kid 606. We’re also going to be graced by the presence of Chris Hammond, one part of the Janitors and well-known for touting ‘wonky electronic sex music’ around Sheffield and London. Finally, DJ Spuddha, minimal techno heavyweight of Sheffield’s C90 night.

TOM HOPKINS (Warp DJ)

SIMON SHELLEY aka Tennis (Prefab Leeds / Eindhoven) www.myspace.com/raketsports

SEMI-SQUARED www.pollinaterecords.com
www.myspace.com/semi_squared

CHRIS HAMMOND www.myspace.com/dothedulondon

DJ SPUDDHA www.myspace.com/biffbaffer

Beyond that you’ve got the Moskow Diskow DJs, delving into the depths of their Detroit Techno record collection. Forget the January doldrums, start the new year the way you mean to go on… drinking too much vodka at the Russian Bar.

The story goes that, like lots of good things, Don’t Take It was made in a hotel room. It was improvised and recorded (obviously) in a single take, during an after-party session. Despite those potentially adverse conditions it’s an amazing piece of music. It’s hard to believe it’s twenty years old, two years old than Armando was when he made it.

As tends to be the case when people record things in hotels, the bathroom was used as a makeshift vocal booth. Sharvette Cole sat on the toilet seat and adlibbed her entire contribution, complete with occasional ‘uh’s and pauses that add to the rawness. Despite clearly being pretty talented and interesting she only seems to appear on one other record, Marcus Mixx’s Shake That Thing. Thomos’ edit retains Sharvette’s women’s liberation speech, whereas Johnny Fiasco’s edit strips the vocal out and toughens up the drums a bit. Both of them make you feel like you’re in the hotel room with them, and make it hard to resist a bit of air-303…

You can here the Johhny Fiasco treatment here. Personally the one for me is the Thomos version though. If you want to hear that you’ll probably just have to buy it.

I picked up this end of year release from Moodymann yesterday, and it’s really grown on me, one of those releases that is greater than the sum of its parts. Architypal Moodymann from the outset, blaxploitation snippets add the usual cinematic feel. The main track ‘Freaki M***er F***er’ is all slowed down x-rated ghetto vibes, with a lolloping bass grind, and finger snap metronome. ‘Hello 2morrow’ is the real delight with its roller-skate party feel and filtered disco-funk guitar. The title track despite more serious overtones relating to the Detroit riots of 1967, deserves a mention for the crazy bass synth weirdness that it descends into. 

Download here: Playing DJ Tennis – Moskow Tennis

Running Time: 50 minutes 24 seconds

Tracklist:

1. Tennis – Intro
2. Tennis/Kilgarriff – Schadenfreude
3. Massi DL – Wonderland
4. Damian Schwartz – R y F 1
5. Gaiser – Trunkated
6. Gabriel Ananda – Doppelwhipper
7. Stephan Bodzin – Rekorder 0
8. Robert Babicz – Dark Flower (Joris Voorn remix)
9. Massi DL – Barbabietola E Spinas

I have to credit Ed DMX with being the man who introduced me to a lot of old skool electronic music. Though I enjoy his own stuff, it’s his DJ mixes where the education really begins. Case in point see here for a genre hopping masterpiece of stone cold dance floor classixs.

Recently he’s started producing a podcast where he discusses tunes that have inspired him with a radio 2 style voice over. It is my tip for this month’s recommended downloading:

dmxkrew.blogspot

(Gear freaks should also take a look at his studio tour.)

I really love Ed DMX, and as one of the few musicians who can regularly be seen out at parties in the punter capacity, I’ve on more than one occasion taken the opportunity to say this to his face. Unfortunately, and I blame the number of beverages it takes me to get to pluck up this kind of courage, it’s never been well received. So I feel I should take this opportunity to make an official apology for all the times I have – and will – run up to the poor bloke and shouted “I love you Ed!” off my head at 4 in the morning. I’m really sorry.

The photo above is one I took during Ed’s set at Extrema Eindhoven, where there was also a fat man doing some amazing break dancing moves whilst trying to poke a cigarette out of his belly button:

Moskow Diskow are delighted to announce a Christmas Party edition, with our close friend and mainstay of the Moskow Diskow dance floor: gwEm.

Expect to hear the no holds barred floor filling sounds of 8-bit, micromusic, electro, rave, old skool, dub-step, hip hop, and jungle all churned into a melting pot of musical mayhem by this protagonist of the perfect beat.

gwEm is fresh from recent gigs in New York and Japan as part of his 8-bit micromusic collaboration with M.C. Counter Reset. Check their cover of The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) by Kraftwerk on Astralwerks’ 8-bit Operators Compilation. Tonight he will be turning their hand to the turntables, though his talents don’t end there so expect some additional Nintendo DS 8-bit action.

On top of that we’ve got Meschi, stalwart of the italo/disco/electo scene and Apiento, who will be taking a break from his music bunker, where he’s been holed up crafting a whole new genre of music based on the workings of Jam and Lewis, Compass Point and Prince…

gwEm (Shitkatapult)
gwEm describes himself as an “Atari ST Old Skool Rave DJ and Heavy Metal dude” which succinctly describes his mad scientist formula of 8bit, hardcore rave and driving hard rock guitar which has seen success on Berlin’s Shitkatapult and Muller records, his own London based label preromanbritain, and net community Micromusic.

gwEm is also known for his Atari ST chiptune virtuosity, as demonstrated on his ground breaking Atari ST music disk, ‘The Phatt Demo’, and with the renowned ‘YM Rockerz’ crew.

www.myspace.com/gw3m
www.preromanbritain.com/gwem

MESCHI (Dream Machine / ISM / RobotDJ.NET)

Located in London UK, Meschi appears to operate on the fringes of the local scene. He’s seemingly ever present but purposefully chooses to keep a low profile. His vast knowledge covers the wide range of all music including, but not exclusive to; avant-garde Rock, Ambient noises, deep Techno and wonky Electro. But in the end, genres are of little consequence as he puts together refreshing mixes which hold the highest musical pedigrees. – www.MPIII.com

Check some of his excellent mixes here:
Dance Frandisco
Disco Propaganda
Your Friend, The Robot

www.myspace.com/meschi

APIENTO (Junior / Testpressing)

Apiento had been making music for years, under many guises, including a spell doing production for M.I.A. He’ll rinsing out some classic dancing tunes from one of the best (and neatest) record collections around.

www.myspace.com/apiento

MOSKOW DISKOW
www.myspace.com/moskowdiskowlondon

Also, catch us at 93ft East on NYE for Jack To The Future, with To The Bone, Rough Disko and others:

One of my recent purchases I guess this is really one for the historian, apparently unreleased tracks credited to Ron Hardy edits. The first batch sold out in a few days, but I managed to pick one up on discogs with a few other bits and pieces. The tracks are remastered from tape but what they lack in fidelity they make up for in authenticity – these cuts are raw Chicago artefacts, all minimal drum beats, echo and tape fx, with druggy whispered lyrics drifting in and out. I’ve seen it alleged that these are Larry Heard tracks with Robert Owens on vocals, but I couldn’t vouch for that. What they are is a great piece of house music history that after 20 years have finally made it out into the wider world.

A recent disco mix I recorded, was going to go back and add a few more tunes, but I ended up being happier with the flow left as is:

I love DeepHousePage it’s must be the most encyclopedic archive of house music mixes available. A Godsend for people who were too young, too far away, or just missed out first time around.

As I mentioned this Larry Levan mix in my previous first ever blog post I thought it really deserves a special post of its own.

Discovering this mix a few years ago was one of those real musical revelations for me, and it must be my favourite and most listened to mix since then. There are lot of other contenders for this accolade and I hope to get through some of these in future posts – should I keep this up that is!

Download Here

Tracklist which I shouldn’t take credit for

1. Jocelyn Brown – Somebody Else’s Guy – Live PA
2. T.C. Curtis – You Should Have Known Better (Dub Mix)
3. NYC Peech Boys – Come On, Come On (Don’t Say Maybe)
4. Answering Service – Call Me Mr. Telephone
5. Man Friday – Love Honey, Love Heartache
6. Serious Intention – You Don’t Know (Paul Simpson Limited Edition Special Remix)
7. Tony Paris – Electric Automan / Black Mamba ‘Vicious’ (A Cappella)
8. Man Friday – Jump (Garage Version) / Gunshots
9. Aretha Franklin – Jump To It

The photo was taken by myself on my pilgrimage to the Paradise Garage when I went to New York in 2006.