Yes, i've missed you too!

Shame on us for not writing for a while!
I have had a very busy few weeks, and so i should now splarge about them on this here blog...



ATOMIC JAM (7th March)
Many of you will know the Jam to be the biggest techno night in the UK, the lineup always being a big roster of techno's laaargest players.
This month we saw titans Dave Clarke, OVR (Ruskin & Regis) and Adam Beyer pulverising attendees at the Que Club under the wash of the biggest and best Lite-Brite i have ever seen (make's Berlin's Watergate lightshow look, well, pants.)

Highlight of the evening for me was Adam Beyer :)

Our lot ELECTRODE and bezzie mates Noodle hosted the 3rd room, showcasing the best in UK electro, ravestep and UK Bass...of course i'm going to be biased, but we rocked it!

check it out for yourselves by downloading one of these mixes recorded on the night...

Paul Blackford @ Atomic Jam by matthew-t-hinton

Glove:r @ Atomic Jam by matthew-t-hinton

Ally Reilly @ Atomic Jam by matthew-t-hinton

That's the stream, but you can right-click and save the set below...
Teutonic Kaboom - Atomic Jam Set 070309

BLOC Weekender (13-16th March)

Hooo-wee! Wow, i love this festival. Everyone knows that UK festivals can be spoiled for some people by the weather.
What better way to combat the moaning silly Billies who forget their wellies than to hold the event in a Butlins!

The lineup for this was SICK, just SICK.
I can't believe i missed AFX, but then again i'm not really a huge fan...
There was no way i would have fit in everyone i wanted to see, even if i hadn't drunk a drop of alcohol.

My heroes of the weekend were

Drums of Death, who's stage presence is
amazing. Takes the laptop set into a new comicbook dystopian realm.

Ebola (who kicked off festival with some wicked gabba at 6pm in the evening. That's the way to do it!),

Appleblim, who played some ace 4x4 dubby step business

Alexander Robotnik, who at 59 years of age technoed the PANTS off Carl Craig (who was a bit of a yawnfest)

Heartbreak, who i must admit i've been a bit slack on getting into. Anyone who loves 80's synthpop and italo should get their album Lies RIGHT NOW

DJ Godfather, who delivered topnotch Booty Bass using Serato Scratch. There's nothing like some fast misogynistic electro to fill a room with slutty vibes. I love it.
They were giving away this Promo CD, so i've uploaded it for you :)


I-F
awww, i've been waiting SO LONG to hear this man DJ. I love him. His "Space Invaders are Smoking Grass" pretty much kickstarted the Electroclash genre, and introduced thousands of electro/techno fans to young to remember to Italo disco.



If anyone reading this has not heard his Mixed up the Hague series...Download them now!
I-F - Mixed up in the Hague Vol 1

I-F - Mixed up in the Hague Vol 2

The two mixes are a journey through Italo, Electro boogie and disco. They're in my top 10 mixes of all time.


phew! now that's a lot of tunage to be getting on with for the time being, eh?


Hehe, i found this animation of a human Space Invaders game...

ELECTRODE parties; Spring Collection '09

Woo!

Boring old hibernation skintamundo January/February is soooo over.
Grab your filofaxes and start scribbling down the following dates in your glitteriest party pen!

07/03/09 - ATOMIC JAM!

March sees myself and the rest of the ELECTRODE crew hosting the back room of the UK's biggest and best techno event; the ATOMIC JAM, held in a big old church in Birmingham; the mighty Que Club.
Start warming up your jackin' arm...now.



After the excursion to Brum we return for two months of parties in Manchester...



17/04/09 ELECTRODE host the back room at Shrewsbury's DUBCLUB



Dubclub returns to the Buttermarket for an easter extravaganza featuring b'ham heavyweight system 'KING EARTHQUAKE! Expect a evening of ground-shaking dubplates and roots reggae classics from this top quality roots sound system. The legendary reggae star, WINSTON 'sugar cane' FERGUS will also be making a guest appearance and providing sweet live vocals throughout the night. Dubclub’s Room 2 will once again be occupied by Mancunian wobpeddlers ‘Electrode’. The ever successful outfit will taking a break from hosting The Jam’s back room and will continue to probe the limits of electronic music by unleashing their distinct blend of dubstep, techno and breaks!

jam faint gun of bass

Well well well... it's been rather an exciting few weeks for me.

November has been simply chock full of lots and lots of good music.

The first weekend of November was drunkenly taken over by The Electrode Warehouse Party.

A resounding success, and a great venue that we're hoping to use again once they've obtained a proper music license.

 

After that, the Bass Gun night at Jabez Clegg saw the very best in UK underground electro 

{Synapse, Paul Blackford, Smashback, Darkmode, Bass Junkie, DJ 3000} congregate under one roof to teach people the meaning of a snappy snare.  The place wasn't as busy as it should have been, but by jove the place rocked.  The in house soundsystem in there is pretty damn fine - i'm glad to see some venues in manchester note the importance of a kickin' rig :)

Then, earlier this week i went to see one of my faaaaave bands; The Faint!

Yes mate.  

Due to a streaming nose and pounding head I thought it best to lay off the sauce for the week - and i'm glad I did to witness this fine band [Because for once, i remember the whole gig!].  

I love them...i mean, sure, i'm not really that enamored with the new stuff on wax (The Geeks Were Right and Forever Growing Centipedes are pretty cool though...) but their body of work is just brilliant.  Check out Blank-Wave Arcade and Danse Macabre for your first tastes if you haven't already.

My fave tune at present>>>> [zshare]

The Faint - Take Me To The Hospital

The night was filled with catchy synth-pop songs and hooks, Duran Duran tendencies, banging, techno-inspired jacking, rock-outweirdness fronted by a nu-skool Willy Wonka begoggled lead singer in a labcoat.  

I was in heaven.  I bought a tshirt.  I smiled all the way to Sale.  I took a video of Dropkick The Punks with my crap phone.

Here it is.

Tonight I very eagerly await ATOMIC JAM.

3o-something of my friends from Manchester are to pile onto a private hire coach to be carted to Birmingham for one of the most overdue and exciting nights of all time (?)  - 

Atomic Jam's return to The Q-Club *squeal*

I used to make the quarterly techno pilgrimage from the age of 17 until the place finally shut down in 2003 - The Jam was never really the same in venues like the Medicine Bar or Air...

So five years down the line - we're going back to our roots.  Huzzah!

Not only do we get to have a right old thrash about to some amazing 4/4 techno, but dirty boy WARLOCK [Rag & Bone] is playing in the breaks room! 

Anyone who hasn't heard his sinful poisonous brew of bassfuck breakstep should get themselves learned right here.

In preparation for the weekend i've made a mix - hopefully to listen to on the bus - but mainly just to bang it out in my room - to give my jacking arm a warm-up.

roadtoatomicjam>>>>>>>>>>>>>201108

***right click and save***
Teutonic Kaboom - roadtoatomicjam 201108

rustie - zig zag
mazulla - traaaance bitch
female - cally 1
zomba - strange fruit
hemingway - machine
teutonic kaboom - sito
n-ter - runner
sol_dat - speed demon (mazulla rmx)
? - work
smashback - push me harder (ardisson rmx) [tk edit]
babylon soundsystem & noah d - examination of time
dst - csillag
debasser - fat girls (teutonic kaboom rmx)
oliver $ & gantman - zds edit
go hiyama - geometric
luke's anger - war
clarke - new year storm
goth trad - electrical
trode - keep going
mark hawkins - 13 years of raving

Another thing floating my musical boat***********************

Amanda Palmer in general... and her new video for Leeds United. 

I want her jacket. 

That's probably enough garbage for one post, innit.  Roll on the Jam!