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This week Sinden brings us his “Best of 2009” chart with a range of the year’s biggest dance floor bangers. The London-based DJ has remixed the likes of A-Trak and DJ Mujava, holds down his own radio show at Kiss FM and toured with M.I.A (as her personal DJ no less). He has become famed for his wide-ranging sets, which touch on everything from Baltimore and dancehall to dubstep and house.
Ellen Allien, Joy Orbison and DJ Rush are among the second wave of names to be announced for next year’s Bloc festival, to be held March 12-14 at the Butlins Resort in Minehead.
The line-up is really starting to take shape, with Subloaded, FWD/Rinse FM, Overkill and Braindrop all set to curate tents.
They join the likes of US trio Salt-N-Pepa, who will perform their first live show in 15, Grandmaster Flash, Derrick May and Autechre.
For more information, visit the Bloc festival website.
Scott Ferguson has made some of the most captivating deep house records of recent times, from his collaborations with Marvin Belton to his own solo productions that echo the likes of Theo Parrish and Moodymann. In a revealing interview, the Ferrispark boss spoke to Juno Plus editor Aaron Coultate over a pint of Guinness in one of Camden’s backstreet boozers…
Artist: In Flagranti
Title: Sounds Superb Vol 6
Label: Codek
Genre: Disco/Nu Disco/Re-Edits
Format: Digital
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The imperious In Flagranti continue to channel their love of obscure 70’s danceteria, imaginary bands, anagrams and disregard for copyright laws with this, the sixth installment of their Sounds Superb series of edits. The somewhat murky nature of these releases means that the original source material is never disclosed, which delights the countdown loving disco trainnspotters and frustrates music reviewers in equal measures.
The standout track on vol 6 is “Psuedo Wind” by Sanda Doris, with a typically percussive beat combining with a vocal sample familiar to fans of L-Vis 1990’s best work before dropping into a male vocal cover version of Diana Ross’s wedding disco classic Upside Down.
The spirit of Melvin van Peebles is channeled throughout Exotic’s “Sip Lace”, a moog heavy blaxpoitation funkateer that is perfect early set fodder. “Fried Fence” is further demonstration of the Brooklyn duo’s penchant for slap bass and rough vocal editing and “Calico Quiver” takes the disco to the Carribean with a steel drum heavy two minute track that drops in disco strings to perk things up.
Review: Tony Poland
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Artist: Baby Ford
Title: Basking In The Brakelights
Label: Baby Ford
Genre: Minimal/Tech House
Format: Digital
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Baby Ford aka Peter Ford, who also released as Cassino Classix and Solcyc was considered a major part of the acid house scene in the UK back in the day. And we understand just why that is – listening to his reissue from 2003, we can instantly hear from the intro track’s pumping house rhythms with a driving bassline, the classic sounds of acid. With past remixes from CJ Bolland and S’EXpress, Baby Ford has been on labels like Sire Records and Rhythm King, whilst co-managing the Trelik and Ifach.
Basking In the Brakelights was originally intended for release on the now defunct Force Inc Music Works. Due to the bankruptcy of the label the pre-album 12″ inch single “Built In” was one of the last releases on Force Inc, and with only the CD making it into the shops the vinyl remained unreleased until Perlon stepped into the picture a year later and it became Perlon 40.
This reissue brings back this almost lo-fi acid tinged flavour and abrupt house-y hi-hats. Providing some unexpected sounds, the track “Plaza” plays with a jauntier rhythm in an almost Anabatic style, before 8-bit bleepiness and minimal drums form “Exopolis”. Soaring synthiness and the first emergence of more obvious vocals in “All Set” and “Built In” appear in a vague and subtle manner, somewhat dipping into IDM and electronica.
Filled with typically ravey 90s percussion, not much happens as the tracks themselves sparsely change, although “NYC Slippers” brings in groovy funk bassline sounds before darker things take place giving a wider range of ambience throughout the record.
Review: Flora Wong
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This week Juno’s Ben Daly takes a peak at Live Intro, the new piece of sofware from Ableton.
Juno Minimal 27 Podcast Online Now
Baby Ford, Paco Osuna, Kiki and more all feature on our latest minimal techno podcast, which mixes brand new cuts with a classic or two. Subscribe for free in iTunes here and buy the tracks here through our chart system here.
Where to begin? Christmas is looming fast, and the usual slew of quality releases came through the Juno doors this week.
Fever Ray – aka Swede Karin Dreijer Andersson – will digitally release her Live in Lulea album on November 30.
Artist: In Flagranti/Rory Phillips/G & S
Title: Electric Fling
Label: Codek
Genre: Disco/Nu Disco/Re-Edits
Format: Digital
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Despite plugging away at filthy disco workouts for years, it took the reissue of “Business Acumen” on Kitsune to really put In Flagranti in the hearts of the club going public. Not that the Brooklyn based duo will complain as since then, they’ve been called upon to create a slew of remixes, complemented by a superlative album and a continual pilfering of obscure discoteria with the Sounds Superb edit series. They end a superlative year with Electric Fling, the aural result of a spontaneous jam session between the duo and some of their London based kindred spirits in G & S and Rory Phillips and presented in the requisite 70s porn imagery.
Surprisingly In Flagranti’s effort, “Erector Set”, is probably the least impressive of the three track EP, being a somewhat understated slow burner. “Portable Control” by G & S (aka ex Nightmover Matt Waites and Say Yes! resident Nadia Ksaiba) functions at a similar tempo, but certainly retains the interest of your ears with synth washes and cowbell aplenty.
Rory Phillips contributes the standout track here with “Solar Breakfast”, his first original production, which is a beast of a track and reminiscent of In Flagranti at their finest. After a year of awesome remixes of The Units, Jackpot and The xx, this track certainly marks Phillips out as one to watch.
Review: Tony Poland
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Check out the exclusive new remixes to classic Layo & Bushwacka! tune “Deep South”, by Linkwood, House of Traps and Badboe.
They will be released on December 9 on 12” and CD via Juno Records. Digital copies will be available from Juno Download.
Philippe Zdar from legendary French dance duo Cassius is set to produce new material from New York post-punk outfit The Rapture.
In the latest instalment of our featured chart series, we get the low down on Faze Action’s hottest tunes for November. The disco duo are set to play at a show to launch Electric Mind’s Arthur Russell tribute album, taking place this Friday (November 27) at the Garage in north London. The likes of Maurice Fulton, Yam Who? and Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay will all be DJing on the night.
Toolroom Records have extended the Funkagenda remix competition deadline by one week – making the new cut-off date Monday, December 7.
Artist: Debruit
Title: Spatio Temporel
Label: Civil Music
Genre: Dubstep/Grime
Format: 12″, Digital
Buy From: Juno Records, Juno Download
Frenchman, Xavier Thomas aka Debruit, is a bit of an odd-ball, but you probably have to be to make music as immense and quirky as this. His new EP, Spatio Temporel, takes up where Let’s Post Funk left off with its thick layers of syncopated rhythms and squelchy beats, only this time, as a nod to his roots in a modest Parisian Congolese basement bar, he takes us on a swift jaunt across Africa while he’s at it.
Opening with “149 Dalston Airline”, Debruit samples traditional Yoruba street percussion, feeding it through a vocoder while cowbells play off the humming synths and a barely-there funk-bass notes to tremendous effect. The breezy “KO Debout” combines a wobbly dubstep bassline with more of those whirring vocals before “Persian Funk” whisks us somewhere else entirely, opting for a heavier funk-bass foundation while Persian tar bleats are looped and chopped.
And finally there’s the summery “Nigeria What” which layers cut-up Yoruba vocals and tension drums atop subtle dubstep zips while Nigerian Highlife guitars drive everything along. Obviously Debruit is absolutely brimming with ideas and with Spatio Temporel running at just over fifteen minutes in length, he fits a phenomenal amount of them into a really tight space.
Review: Bec Crew
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Juno has teamed up with Munich label Gomma to bring you exclusive mixes from the imprint’s impressive stable.
Juno was among the winners at last night’s DJ Magazine Best of British dance music awards, taking out the “Best Record Shop” category for the third year in a row.
Seminal Bristol trip-hop trio Massive Attack have confirmed they will release their fifth studio album, Heligoland, in February 2010.
Artist: Marbert Rocel
Title: Catch A Bird
Label: Compost
Genre: Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Format: CD, Digital
Buy From: Juno Records, Juno Download
Marcel Aue, Robert Krause and vocalist Antje Seifarth have combined again for the band’s second studio album ”Catch a Bird”, producing a unique brand of soulful techno where guitar and clarinet layers feature just as prominently as synthesither keys.
There is much genre-hopping between each of the albums tracks, as they adopt the kind of liberated musical format which draws heavily from the traditions of jazz.
Standout moments include the understated ska beats of “Bababounce” and the electro funk-infused ‘”Clappeople”, while the insouciant delivery of Seifarth’s vocals adds much charm throughout what is a lively and unpredictable album.
Review: Peter Carroll
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DJ don Erol Alkan unveiled the eagerly anticipated new Late of The Pier single on his BBC 6 radio show over the weekend. “Listen out for the bizarre ending,” he told listeners.
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