now put your hands on your waistline

another great dj who’s coming to stradbally next week (next week!) is duke dumont. he’s been making big noise for a few years now, with two epic releases on great labels (the regality ep on turbo and the dominion dubs ep on dubsided), as well as melting the collective consciousness of the blogosphere with simply mind-blowing remixes. lily allen, bat for lashes, late of the pier and mystery jets have all been transformed at his hands, and his work has made that of many a dj that much easier (the latter even made if onto james lavelle’s recent global underground mix, a seal of approval it hardly needed yet thoroughly deserves). he’s no one trick pony either. as a dj he’s pretty darned impressive too. case in point is this live mix from fabric, which surfaced on bodytonic last year.

BodytonicLive 05 : Duke Dumont

everybody nôze

continuing with my perusal of acts playing electric picnic (can you tell i just got my ticket yesterday?), i’m revisiting the podcast nôze provided for bodytonic last february. there’s no tracklist, it’s just an hour of gorgeous tunes, ranging from weird jazz-house to ethnic-tinged techno, to 80s pop. enjoy.

Bodytonic Podcast 030 : Nôze (Direct Link)

le mix du weekend

the bodytonic website has just received another overhaul, things are looking colourful yet accessible so i reckon i’ll be spending more time over there from now on. one aspect of particular interest is the new mixes section:

The mixes section is a database of links to non-commercial mixes supplied by registered users of our site. It’s a place to find out about new mixes, mixes by a particular artist or mixes in a particular genre.

top of the list right now is a rough and ready mix from moodymann. what’s really tickling my fancy, however, is my friend forde’s mix, quantly tuitled “july mix to flick your bean to”…. with that in mind, enjoy the weekend

Forde – July Mix (to flick your bean to)…

1.sascha dive-as long as its grooving (its allright now)
2. manuel tur-acorado
3.robert dietz-actrice
4.markus homm-torn
5.kiki-good voodoo
6.motor city drum ensemble-get slapped up
7.danton eeprom-to the bone(Jamie jones percussion)
8.tony lionni-found a place
9.scott ferguson-dump days
10.radio slave-never ending / moodyman-heaven untitled
11.robert dietz-its lonely at the dub
12.rework-love love love yeah (chloe)

no rest for the wicked

so i was supposed to have an internet-free weekend, but my kind host has left me in his university’s computer room while he does some photocopying, or something. this afternoon i trawled around london looking for phonica – printing a map might have helped – until i was helped my a kindly policeman on piccadilly circus who just happened to have a map of the capital in his pocket. sweet. so i picked up some random oddities for super cheap in the uber-cool soho record store (which just received those crazy ark 1 tees), and i also grabbed the juan maclean’s one day vinnil (with added marc romboy/emperor machine/surkin) in hmv of all places.

meanwhile, whoever isn’t at airbound is certainly keeping the bodytonic site ticking over. they’ve just announced the tracklist for chromeo’s forthcoming dj-kicks mix. i’m stumped – the only track i know is the eagles cover they’ve just released. wow. i’m excited. nice to see young shazam getting a look-in.

Kano: “Ikeya-Seki”
Pierre Perpall: “J’aime Danser Avec Toi”
Toba: “Moving Up”
France Joli: “Gonna Get Over You”
Donna Allen: “Serious”
Lovelock: “Maybe Tonight”
Chateau Marmont: “Solar Antapex” rework
Val Young: “Seduction”
Soupir: “Larmes de Métal”
Lifelike: “Sequencer”
Carmen: “Time to Move”
Shotgun: “Don’t You Wanna Make Love”
Cheri: “Murphy’s Law”
Leo Sayer: “Easy to Love”
Shazam: “Luckier”
Chromeo: “I Can’t Tell You Why”
Diane Tell: “Tes Yeux”
The Alan Parsons Project: “Pipeline”

monday mixes

i just sauntered over to the bodytonic forum for my weekly visit and came across some nice stuff. first off is prins thomas‘ mix from his recent set at nightflight at the button factory. as one forum member says, “he not only has an extensive library of “WTF is that” tunes from the past and the present, but he is also one of the best technical DJs I’ve heard too, mixing un-quantised 70s disco into un-quantised 80s Krautrock with no sweat.” while you’re on the nightflight blog you can pick up mixes from mr. scruff, daniel wang and forthcoming guest nicky siano, who plays this friday.

second of all is grandmaster evlis‘ SUMRHSEMIX – or summer house mix if you don’t do txt spk. in his own words, “Serge Santiago, Herve, Switch, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Black Devil Disco Club, Hot Chip, Westbam, Radioslave, In Flagranti, Geenius, Claude Von Stroke, Acid Kings, Josh Wink, The Glimmers, Trickski, Some Buzzin Fly tune, Theo Parrish……..” what’s not to like?

Evlis – SUMRHSEMIX