Field Day.. and Night

Field Day has been a beast of mixed reputation the last few years. For everyone who proclaimed “Justice were fucking amazing” someone else said “the sound was shit and I pissed in my knickers because the queues for the toilets were longer than the M6”*

For the last couple of years it has had some of the best line ups seen since the opening of “the usual suspects” This year they have managed to persuade luminaries such as Aeroplane, Erol Alkan, Mogwai, Skream and Owen Pallet’s amazing one man violin show Final Fantasy to play music in a park in East London.

Now while all this sounds absolutely mint, the festival has also been followed around by tales of shit sound, not enough bars and just shit, in the form of there not being anywhere near enough toilets.

Organisers have promised everyone that these have all been addressed and despite any problems the festival has been most of the time allot of fun, especially when the sun is out. One entirely positive trend from previous years is that, what have been consistently good each year without fail is the after parties and this year nothing has changed on that front! There are a couple of “official” (expensive) after parties and a slew of “official unofficial” (less expensive) after parties and parties of all sorts springing up all over the place chomping at the bit to cram the gurning masses into there little slice of post park action.

At one of these Deep Down in Hackney myself and Ben noir are hosting the Junk Yard Disco room alongside Join the Dots remixer Toby Tobias and Urban Nerds and Step One. Its only five minutes walk from the festival sight and is in the amazing Wallis Art gallery and warehouse, its intimate but not tiny (500 capacity) and is on all night long. Room 1 has Kitsune stalwarts Joe and Will Aks playing Live alongside Tapedeck DJs, Warboy and newest Bastard Batty Bass resident Deboa. Basically it will be a belter.

Fun can be had for an extended period for a very small dose of silver crossing a palm.... Hit me up at Mark@jointhedotsmusic for £5 concessions and if you don't believe me then even teh freebie papers are picking up on this one

The London Paper - Best Five Feild Day After Parties

*These quotes although based on truth are actually made up by me.

Always check under the stairs!

You know that scary cupboard under your stairs (please keep reading if you live in a bungalow or a flat, this post is not trying to alienate you), where most people would keep a Hoover or where my Nan keeps the beer and lemonade she never drinks which she saves for when I come round (it is always flat) to visit.

Why in haunted house films does this cupboard always signify something evil and unspeakable.?The plot usually revolves around at least one skimpily dressed fit girl, who like every character Tom Cruise plays has this unnerving tendency to run allot, she will also get her white vest wet at least once.

There will also be at least one very odd older man, usually with a strange wandering eye. He will end up being either A: some evil pervert, a conduit through which what ever it is which lies beneath the stairs can permeate the real world or B: He will appear to be the previous, yet turn out to actually be a kind hearted, wise old man who has been battling to keep this evil at bay for decades. He will still be a little bit pervy and either way he will die.

The point being that it is always under the stairs, The Haunting in Connecticut, under the stairs, The Orphanage under the stairs, The Burbs you guessed where they keep the furnace..?

Tonight I am playing alongside 102eh partner in crime Benoit as well as Electric Minds Owner Dolan Bergin and Loose resident Cred at a night creepily called "under the stairs"at 333. in Shoreditch. In the other room is Shitdisco, Robotwon and a special live guest.

I will be the very odd, pervy older man with a strange wandering eye.. !!

Oh and it’s free all night!

Lindstrøm - Where You Go, I Go Too (Outmode's Melancholic Remix)

We put some remixes together towards the end of last summer for the legendary disco don Lindstrøm. If you have heard the original 'Where You Go, I Go Too', you'll know its an epic slice of melodic mayhem...notably some 28 mins or so in length. So when we received 4 DVDs worth of parts from this track, we knew we had our work cut out to make sense of it all. In the end we whittled it down to 2 Outmode remixes.

After much waiting around for the label to decide what they wanted to do with the remixes, and talk of releasing limited edition vinyls, our remixes sadly never saw the light of day. Nevertheless we got a nice nod of recognition from the man himself, and we thought it only right to share our work. We have tested our Melancholic remix at quite a few clubs and Glastonbury and it sounds fairly hefty to us. We hope you enjoy.

Mode

Lindstrøm - Where You Go, I Go Too (Outmode's Melancholic Remix)

Symphonies (Duff's Deep Disco Mix) - Free MP3

Join The Dots own, Duff, recently completed a remix for Dan Black's 'Symphonies' which for your audible pleasures you can download below;

Dan Black - Symphonies (Duff's Deep Disco Mix)

We're told there's to be a limited run of 500 12's potentially on Monday next week (20th July), so keep an eye/ear out! Enjoy!

Dark Journey in more stores!

After a two week run exclusively at Juno Download, Dark Journey is now available at both Beatport and Zero Inch.

Support the music, support the artists, support the stores, well you get the point click below :)

Beatport.

Zero.

Juno Download.

Shirt Lifter

Our friend Tom Mangan of Deadset and Made to Play recordings has done a Hawtin and released his own T-Shirt label.

Its called Million Hands and you can get a 10% discount using the promotion code 'FA001' at http://millionhands.net/.

The T-Shirts are a mix of slogans, doodle graphics and the odd Made to Play Tee.

Added to the discount code all postage is FREE!

Summertime

As it's been warm all week, I thought I would post a little shiny happy edit that I got from the Black Joy blog.

It's very much an old favourite, but give a little Balearic twist for these bright summery days.
Enjoy then while they last!

Steve Miller Band - The Joker (Black Joy edit)

As an aside I will playing tonight at the Florist Arms in Bethnal Green. It's on Globe Road, starts at 7 and is free all night. Expect obscurities, rarities and records of conflicting notions of genius!