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

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

Wet Love

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

Toby Tobias – In Your Eyes (Tensnake Remix)
Nick Chacona & Anthony Mansfield – Slow n Low
Azuri & Ill – Hungry For The Power
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #2
Gonzales – Let’s Ride (U-GO-B’s Edit) (Ed note – this is my new favourite song)
Chaka Khan – Fate (Todd Terje Edit)

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?

J: Anoraak contacted us shortly after we started Jupiter last year, and asked us to remix Nightdrive With You. Apparently, he was pleased with the result as he subsequently introduced us to the rest of the collective and included our take in a remix EP. We have a very good relationship with the crew, as they’re all very talented and really cool people. I guess that makes us friend, which is why we were included in the Valérie & Friends compilation.

W: What’s your take on the world’s fascination with the French electronic music scene? To me it feels like there is a shift back to a more disco centric house sound like Cassius, Dimitri from Paris and Fred Falke rather than the Ed Banger sound, what do you think?

J:French people have a bit of history with electronic music; not only did people like Pierre Schaeffer and Jean-Jacques Perrey pioneered electronic music (I was taught this in class in the UK, so I’m not trying to be chauvinistic here!). The massive international success of Jean-Michel Jarre probably paved the way for more recent acts. Because of this, the French benefit from a great international respect when it comes to electronic music, which we think is great.

If by the Ed Banger sound you mean a lot of distortion, then we’re pretty glad people are returning to a more disco sound. However, the impressive craftsmanship of bands like Justice has influenced a lot of people, and I don’t think people will ever go back to the receptiveness of French house, like it was after the peak of the era. We like to think people are trying to bring back the sound and spirit of that music (or disco music for that matter) through a more modern and eclectic approach. The best of both worlds in other words

W: What sort of gear do you use to make your tracks?

J:We don’t have much hardware actually, we usually use our Juno 106 up to the point where we need more perspective in sound, which leads us to use a range of virtual synths, most often a prophet 5 and a dx7. We have some digital synths that needs fixing though, but it’s often more tempting to use our computer straight away haha. However, we’ll probably invest in more hardware when and if we get the chance to grow bigger, and thus be able to carry around more equipment, which leads us to the next question…

W: What your live setup is like is backing tracks or live instruments or a combination?

J : …on stage we use a lot of pre-programmed stuff, as electronic musicians must. However, we try to play as much live stuff as we can; Amélie sings and plays now and then, while I play non-stop from our first intro till the last note. It’s very funny because my synth patches are programmed to change automatically so I can play bass, chords and lead at different moments of the same song, which can be very confusing for people who watch us haha

W: first single Starlighter has just come out, what else can we expect from Jupiter in 2009?

J: At the moment we’re trying to see where that single leads us, how people respond to it and as such to our music in general. Maybe another EP, remixes and a lot of gigs. We have a few concerts lined up at the moment and we love performing live so we can only hope for more!

W: Ile de France is a pretty big place, where did you guys grow up?

J: It is a big place indeed, we actually live in Paris. Does our MySpace say Ile de France or something?! I personally grew up in Bordeaux, which has a double-meaning to it.
Amélie grew up in a small town north of Paris, not very exciting but sufficiently close to go to gigs, record shops etc

W: Jupiter has only been around for a short time but what is your favourite memory with the group so far?

J: Playing in Moscow was perhaps the greatest memory we have, as the crowd there was very responsive, expressive and most importantly mad about disco music!

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

His August mix is now up and available to download for your ears over on our mixes page.