The Swiss – Mix for Studio Brussels

Tracklist

Ratatat – Drugs
Ilija Rudman – In Motion
D-Train – You’re The One For Me
Tensnake – Coma Cat
Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation
Felix – Tiger Stripes
Sidwho? – Pay For Love (Jamie Paton edit)
Gino Soccio – Dancer
Luke Million – Up Down
Le Knight Club – Holiday On Ice
Simian Mobile Disco – Flea In Your Ear
Tiga – Beep Beep Beep (The Emperor Machine remix)
In Flagranti – Business Acumen (Holy Ghost! cover version)
The Golden Filter – Thunderbird (Villa remix)
Joakim – Come Into My Kitchen
French Fries – Predador
Armand Van Helden – U Don’t Know Me
The Swiss – Bubble Bath (Glimmers Plastic Edit)
The Swiss – Bubble Bath

They have also got a paid soundcloud account so now their superb first EP is available for download again aswell

The Swiss – Movement Part 1

The Swiss – Movement Part 2

The Swiss – Movement Part 3

This Sunday (Queen’s Birthday Weekend) Canyons will be gracing Sugar with their presence. These guys are really nice as well as being amazing DJ’s. They were here about a year ago playing the Ed Castle and the select crew of music lovers in the know  had an amazing time. They are signed to Modular, had a release on DFA and run their own label; Hole in the Sky.

Here is a taste of what to expect. The mix is from Melbourne radio show Death of a Disco Dancer and has quite a few jams.

Canyons’ Death Mix

Link via H.I.T.S.

This Thursday will feature DJ Spun of Rong Music – an amazing New York Label. He started out as a punk ( a surprisingly common beginning for House and Disco DJ’s) and soon moved onto hip hop and later got entangle with Harvey and Sarcastic Disco. He changed coasts to New York where he started Rong with Ben Cook. He also curates Museum of Modern Art PS1′s seminal Warm Up – a summer party in the museum’s courtyard.

He was kind enough to answer a few questions for us.

Winston: What made you shift from punk to dance music?

Jason (DJ Spun): I got into hip hop first which had somewhat similar energy music of the oppressed and disenfranchised. I was prob

ably rebelling against how stale and narrow minded I felt some people in the punk scene had become.

Winston: What made you want to start your label Rong?

Jason: There wasn’t really a master plan. I moved to New York and it was a way for my partner Ben Cook and I to keep working together and to put out some music from ourselves and some like minded friends. It was easy to get it started at that time, being that I was good friends with the people at Syntax Distribution (RIP).

Winston: Which seminal disco re-editor/remixer would you most want to remix one of your tracks: Tom Moulton, Shep Pettibone or Larry Levan and why?

Jason: Walter Gibbons. Oh sorry he wasn’t on your list. Actually it would depend on the project. If it was more straight forward I’d say Tom Moulton who is still on the scene and doing good work. He came out to my parties at ps1 a couple times and is a really nice guy. If the track was more unusual I’d have to say Larry.

Winston: Did you always want to make and play music for a living?

Jason: Pretty much, my twin brother Donovan and I would lip synch and pantomime Kiss songs for the family from about 5 or 6 years old. I think I wrote my first song at around 8 and started playing in a band with much older people at 13.

Winston: What’s your 5 favourite songs at the moment?

Jason: My favorites change almost every day. How about my current 5 fave rong songs.

Coati Mundi – Voyage Libertad to the Boat Dance

James Chance  - Incorrigible

Vegard Dyvik – C.O.D.E.S.

Lee Douglas – Our Song 99

Rub n Tug – Lower Beard Stays the Same

Here is a taste of what to expect on the sonic front

CL010: DJ SPUN LIVE AT CUTLOOSE 19TH MARCH

Link via Cut Loose

After the last few parties at Sugar (Jacques Renault, Woolfy) nothing less than complete debauchery is acceptable – that means naked breakdancing.

Kisses XX

AAC

We at Adult Arts Club are a little obsessed with Larry Levan. Since some of us are trying to cut back on our obsessions with Arthur Russell our love for Levan has increased to fill the void. This is an amazing mix of his productions and remixes and really captures quintessential 80s disco. If you don’t know the history behind the Paradise Garage which Levan was resident of for nearly a decade than  educate yourself – it’s kind of a heartbreaking story so get the tissue ready.  It’s mixed by DJ Spinna who is pretty amazing in his own right – check out his compilation The Boogie back, you will thank me later.

DJ Spinna – Larry Levan Dedication Part 1

If that doesn’t entice this  amazing mix should.

Jacques Renault – One’s & Two’s Mix

Greg Wilson

Greg Wilson - Bestival Promo Mix

1 T-Coy – carino (greg wilson edit)
 2 War – youngblood (livin’ in the streets) (cosmic boogie edit)
 3 William DeVaughn – be thankful for what you got (onur engin edit)
 4 Banbarra – shack up (revenge edit)
 5 Rocha – feel the love (greg wilson version)
 6 Florence & The Machine – rabbit heart (raise it up) (leo zero mix / greg wilson edit)
 7 The XX – night time (greg wilson version)
 8 Goldfrapp – dreaming (greg wilson version)
 9 Hercules & Love Affair  – blind (frankie knuckles mix)
10 The Clash – casbah breakdown (joey negro edit)
11 The Beatles – tomorrow never knows (leftside wobble edit)

  Link via Bestival

Our Brisbane based friend Youth has put together a new track which we at Adult Arts Club HQ think is pretty choice. It kind of has an In Flagranti cut up electro style  mixed with camp 90s house – if you have any comprehension of quality you know this is  an irresistible combination.

Youth – You Move The Way I Like (Free Download) by Youth

The Swiss – Bubble Bath (Glimmers Plastic Edit) by The Swiss

Winston: Where did you grow and where do you live now?

Villa: We all come from a different place, but Villa as a music project is originated from Ghent. That’s a little town in Belgium with a vivid music scene. The studio is based at Seba’s place. He lives in a little village in the countryside.

Winston: How did you guys meet?

Villa: That depends on who is telling the story. Seba met Fredo on a party in Make Up Club, but Fredo was so drunk that night he thinks he met Seba on a music fair.

Anyway, from the moment we got in the studio together it went all very nice & easy.
Winston: How did you first get into electronic music?

Villa: The eighties were a great time for electronic music. Lots of bands were experimenting with these new instruments called synths, effects and drum machines. One could hear electronic sounds in the hit parade in a very acceptable and fresh manner. That is how it happened to us. Separate from our personal preferences, it sure has something to do with the era we grew up in and the novelty of electronic musical gear at that time… First there were Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson, Prince, Moroder and Vangelis. Later, as for many people, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Leftfield, Orbital opened our ears for electronic music.
Winston: What is about a song that compels you to edit it?

Villa: The feeling we have something to add to the piece, a fresh angle or the feeling to get more capacity out of the parts provided. A nice front lady always helps of course. It is a bigger challenge for us to edit a known track than an obscure hard to find one where no one actually knows what you did to the track. Take a guilty pleasure and make it credible again, combined with our approach and sound.

Winston: What sort of gear do you use to produce?
Villa: Seba has been collecting numerous classics from the memorymoog, cs60, rhodes 73, linndrum LM2, full system 100, sherman qmf, prophet 5, OBXA, EII, omega 8, banana synth, SY1, Expander, prophet VS, DX7, Andromeda…we could go on for another while here… to a Tascam M600 mixer and some vintage channelstrips…Oh yeah and a Pentium 3 oldschool PC

Winston: What’s your favourite edit you have done?
Villa: The first edits were very easy cut/copy paste edits of disco and house tracks, for example DMX Crew with Cold Heart part 2 on Gigolo Records. Emphasis the good groove and take out the bad parts. After those kitchen edits we evolded to a more active form of editing and started adding new elements to the tracks. A nice example is the Agneta edit we’ve done… So we are very delighted with our diva edits of last summer on Mindless Boogie…

Winston: Is there any song think should never be re-edited?
Villa: Too many to mention…  Every artist will think different about re-editing, do’s and don’ts.  So it’s hard to say.
Winston: How did you end up getting together with Mindless Boogie?

Villa: We’ve known the guy from Mindless Boogie for a long time. He was there from the start of Villa and years before that he booked the first big Fredo & Thang gigs in Ghent. He is also the man who brought the three of us together (after that music fair experience).  The mood was right, the setting was perfect, and the start of the summer and Mindless Boogie was celebrating their 20th release.
Winston: What do you have planned for 2010?
Villa: Have a chill, relax a lot…  No no, we ‘re gonna work even harder than we did in 2009, making good remixes, edits, mixes, sets, doing some co-productions and last but not least, come out with our own material. We are really excited to finally release them because we’ve just been working on remixes for the past six months.

Villa - Agneta

Villa - Anita

Villa - Tina

Courtesy of Mindless Boogie

there has recently been an increase in the flow of amazing re-edits of perennial classics and forgotten gems along the lines of those done by pioneers Larry Levan, Shep Pettibone and Francois K. With our new regular  Re-Groove series we try and get to know the crate diggers and splicers behind these tracks.

Our first interview comes from Brisbane resident Youth. you can catch him DJing with the Swiss at Rhino Room or at the Touch Party at The Ed Castle Hotel on the  23rd in Adelaide. He can also be found out and about in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Winston: Where do you come from?

Youth: A French woman and an Australian man hah. No I was born in Sydney and grew up on the outskirts of Byron Bay in Northern NSW.

Winston: How did you first get into electronic music?

Youth: I first really got into electronic music through hip-hop. Buying DJ Shadows Endtroducing pretty much blew my 14 year old mind and encouraged me to buy a stack load of vinyl (most of it being op shop junk) but that kick started my passion for creating music.

Winston: What is about a song that compels you to edit it?

Youth: There can be a few defining points to choose a song for an edit. I personally like to take something and create something new out of it that I can fit into my dj sets; generally they’re tracks I already feel are pretty perfect but could do with a little spicing up.
Being able to ‘break’ apart the original enough to create something new without it sounding like hot garbage is also a pretty defining point in the production side of things.

Winston: What sort of gear do you use to produce?

Youth: I began making songs around 2002 by sampling records onto my computer in Sonic Foundry Acid and then sequencing with one of the early versions of Fruity Loops. In 8 years I’ve upgraded my home studio quite a bit, added new software and hardware. But I still love the simplicity of arranging in what is now FLStudio, although Acid has now been superseded with Ableton. Warping is such an amazing tool.

Winston: What’s your favourite edit you have done?

Youth: Personally my favorite edit would have to either be my Stevie Nicks re-edit (which is kind of technically a remix I guess because I only used the vocals) or my take on Arthur Russell’s How We Walk on the Moon, which happened to coincide with an album featuring a number of re-takes of his tracks but not that one.

Winston: What song do you think should never be re-edited?

Youth: Hmm I think anything is free game as long as it’s done tastefully. A lot of people make unnecessary edits though or make edits chock full of digital artifacts (one of the downfalls of warping).
I guess in this day and age you can tell if something’s done well if it’s released. Otherwise you’re only wasting a small section of bandwidth and a couple of minutes of time before sending it to the recycling bin.

Winston: How did you end up getting together with Fragrant Fowl?

Youth: I’ve been a fan of Pocketknife and Cousin Cole for a few years and have traded music on a few message boards with them. I met up with Cole when he last came out to Australia a year or two back and gave him some tracks. One of which he found to be perfect for a FF release (which is still pending).

Winston: What’s in store for you in 2010?

Youth: Hopefully if all bodes well the FF release will be out sometime mid 2010. Catcall is hitting the studio with her band soon and a few of her songs are based off my production. Other than that I’m still working hard on some demo tracks of new wave’esque disco with a few collaborators.
I’m also planning some US shows when I visit midyear.

Arthur Russell – How We Walk On The Moon (Youth Return to Base Edit)

Stevie Nicks – Smile At You (Youth’s Going Home Dub)

check out his website for more quality edits.