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Big sounds from everyones favourite ginge Switch as he gets on the remix bus once again for the Big Pink's tune 'Dominos' ( who btw have some mint pics on their myspace. )
Recently, you just get the feeling that Switch just takes the piss out of new tunes he produces rather than giving a shit. However, he is still the proverbial Don Juan of xxxxxx house, so i guess he doesn't have to... but really..? So i introduce to you Major Lazer, Diplo and Switches little project - i guess they have a little too much time on their hands..... Switch and Diplo - Zumbi (ft. Andy Milonakis) / alt
Room 2: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (Erol Alkan & Richard Norris) Rub N Tug, Micron, Andro
I actually arrived at around 11.30, and caught a fair bit of Franz Ferdinands set, who seemed OK - pretty energetic, which got everyone moving around a bit. They did of course play the obligatory 'Take me out' which made everyone ceremoniously pogo around the dancefloor like a penguin. I hardly blame them, considering it was absoluteley freezing in and around the dancefloor! Erol started his set around 12.00 with his usual style of big electro / technoey tracks, but his set leaned more towards the techno side of things this time round, with Popofs 'Motherfuckin Bass' Remix, ZZT's Mind Dimension and Duke dumonts remix of the Mystery Jets 'Two Doors Down' being particularly memorable tracks for the set.
Diplo however played a much more varied set, but some absolute crowd pleasures to keep things liveley. With tracks like Paul Johnson's 'Get Down':
Some other notables, Dead Prez's 'It's bigger than hip hop', varying Ragga remixes, a smattering of his own productions with a hint of Crookers thrown in for good measure ;-) His mixing was really tight, which left things niceley for the ginger ninja.
Switch did suprise me a little bit, playing less of his trademark fidgety, wonky stuff and was playing more upfront electro.. he didnt really impress me with his track selection, and in my opinion just played what he felt like rather than what the crowd wanted to hear ... I left around 4.20 or so, but supposedly Erol back on stage and livened things up a bit by dropping Phantom II at 4.30, im gutted i left a bit early...
All in all the night was awesome fun, and was really impressed by Diplo - also this was the first time i had seen him, so will be checking him out again soon. Erol and switch were less impressive but still dropped some awesome tunes throughout the night. Bingo Players - Get up (Diplo Remix) / Y.S.I
The Manchester music scene is becoming very exciting for dance music again. There has been surge of interest in the Manchester club nights and some recent projects see a new intimate techno club Spektrum opening, run by the Sankeys lot, we get to see Santogold and Massive attack for free and only last weekend we saw the return of the mighty Warehouse Project. Since starting out in an abandoned Boddingtons Brewery in 06' the string of big-name club nights have steamrolled their way into being the biggest club night in the UK. The Manchester only event located in run-down city locations have provided some of the most memorable club nights for me in the last few years.
Boasting mammoth line ups from genres including DNB, Breaks, Hip hop, Electro, Minimal, Techno, Indie, Progressive.... there is definately something for everyone. My bag is definately more down the electro route. I have my name down for three nights in particular - notably:
- Annie Mac's night that includes Herve / A-Trak / Surkin / Drop the Lime and Toddla T on 25th oct
- Justice, Busy P, Mehdi and Fake blood / Yuksek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sold out)
Hey - this is my first post, so ill put an old mix i did on, just to let you know what kind of electro i have been into recently. It also gives me time to put a few upto-date posts together!
Bangers 'n' mash:
Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve remix) Spektrum - Kinda New (Dirty South Remix) Holy Hail - Born of a Star (Shir Kahn Remix) Daft Punk - Around The World (Killdahype Remix) The Whip - Trash (Bloody Beetroots Remix) Headland - Dogging Sisters (Blamma! Blamma! Remix) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Patrick Alavi Remix) The Whip - Muzzle Nr.1 (Bloody Beetroots Remix) The Lazy Fingers - Froisse 3 Magik Johnson - Scanning For Viruses (Claude Von Stroke's Coffee on Your Motherboard Mix) Annie - Happy Without You (SebastiAn Remix) Scissor Sisters - Shes My Man (Goose Remix) Lillica Libertine - Limited Edition Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up (Kissy Sell Out Remix) I-Robots - Frau (Boys Noize Remix) The Black Ghosts - Face (Switch Remix) Danny Freakazoid - Tekken
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