Sid, Tony and Luke have been heating up clubs and warming (maybe breaking) hearts across Europe this month. Recently they put together a mix for a Belgian radio station for the fans - Belgium is the first country where they have had a top 40 single. Hopefully when they get a Top of the Pops performance it will take the best part of early Depeche Mode, Zombie Nation and Tiga.
The Swiss – Mix for Studio Brussels
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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.
Link via H.I.T.S.
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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).
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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
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Let’s face it we are spoiling you. It was only 2 weeks ago that we had Woolfy, a month since we had Maurice Fulton and a month before that Greg Wilson at Adult Arts Club. This week we have Jacques Renault. I think his releases speak for themselves but it’s worth noting he has DJed at the Guggenheim Museum and was resident at an NYC club called Happy Endings,which I vote Sugar change its name to. His prolific body of work includes releases on Rvng Intl., Wurst Edits, Hole in The Sky, I’m A Cliche, Italians Do It Better and DFA.
If that doesn’t entice this amazing mix should.
Jacques Renault – One’s & Two’s Mix
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Prince of Persia AKA K-Von is one of Adelaide’s more compelling DJ’s. With his ubiquitous record bag of dusty vinyl gems he has toured Brazil with Nokia’s annual MobJam party, played the underground depths of Sydney’s infamous Club 77 aswell as our own Rocket Bar. Rather unsurprisingly his forray into production is equally as compelling with Williamsburg Get Down to This.
Prince of Persia – Williamsburg Get Down to This
He has also put together a mix that he describes as ’2001 a Space Odyssey’ meets ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
Prince of Persia – Sabre Knights Mix
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Tom and Alex of Kids With Guns are pretty awesome guys. They like gin and tonic and love amazing music. They don’t mix well with hay fever tablets or South Rakkas Crew fans. Catch them at Adults Arts Club the new Thursday night at Sugar , starting the 15th of October.
Pilooski – Love Is Wet
Metro Area – Miura
Woolfy Vs. Projections – Neeve
Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (DJ Agent 86 Remix)
Faze Action – I Wanna Dancer
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Quarles Baseden and Amélie de Bosredon are Jupiter. To write like the NME they have the enchanting vocals of Sally Shapiro combined with driving energy of Fred Falke. Hopefully my lazy comparison doesn’t put you off as these guys are amazing. Their debut 12” Starlighter comes out Monday (the 14th) and is already out digitally with a cool remix by Bottin.
Winston: How did you guys first get interested in electronic music?
Jupiter: We were more into rock initially, and we didn’t feel so attracted to house music but when Daft Punk started getting big around 96/97 we changed our minds. They were all over the place in France, there was no way you could miss them. And upon hearing their first few singles, you couldn’t help but fall in love with the mix of influences and the novelty of their sound, so we could say that Homework first got us into electronic music.
W: What made you start Jupiter and how did you two meet?
J: We met on holiday through a mutual friend, but we hated each other at first. But we both happened to be studying in London the following year, and we somehow bounced into each other and had a very different feeling than the first time 
At first we were making electro-folk music, with no apparent reason as we were both really into electro, funk and disco. I guess we both played guitar and wanted to get into electronic gear slowly but surely, and it was the best way to do it. Anyway, we quickly realised we had way more fun playing the sort of music we most enjoyed listening to, which sounds pretty logical now hahaha
W: How did you get involved with Valerie Collective?
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NEWS
Jamie is Playing Huntleys & Palmers Audio Club this friday night at the Horse & Groom in Shoreditch, along with stellar guests including Andy Blake and Ali Renault from the Dissident stable, no C&A live this time just him playing records. They asked him to put a mix together to help promote the party – It’s being hosted on the Allez Allez blog, home to lots of tasty earworms, and the selection is a mostly house affair – some new, some old..
Enjoy this, recommended by our friends Cage & Aviary.
http://www.allez-allez.co.uk/
Forthcoming releases
Sidwho? – Vote Bowie for President / Violet Run – TWHE / Sept
C&A – Beat N Path / Low Noise (inc Brennan Green remix) – Tiny Sticks / Oct
Sidwho? – Same Game (C&A remix series, pt 3 of 6) – TWHE / Oct
Already out there
Truck – Radio (C&A remix series, pt 2 of 6) – TWHE – buy vinyl
C&A – Television Train / Suburban – DFA – buy mp3 & wav / vinyl
Many more….. head to www.twhe.co.uk and subscribe to their mailing list
myspace.com/cageaviary
myspace.com/cageaviaryremixes
Good friend Prince Aaronak has began moving along the Adult Arts Club mix train with his latest offering of some old classics, new classics and some forever favourites.
His August mix is now up and available to download for your ears over on our mixes page.
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