Join The Dots

Whats up your New Year's sleeve?

2009-12-15T10:41:00.016Z

New Years Eve is always something of a pain in the arse... yes it is cliche'd but it is true. With Places like the O2 charging a to be honest; fucking ridiculous SEVENTY FIVE quid to get in and Fabric raping you for Forty notes, for the un-imaginative, un-informed or un-cool the seeing out of another 12 months of shattered dreams and broken promises can be an expensive, alienating and depressing excercise.

So instead of crowding in with the tourists, suburbanites and thise that wear their sunglasses at night into a souless box, listening to David Guetta hand pleasuring himslef becase "he's famous" apparently, just spend 11 quid and buy a ticket for the Electric Minds from HERE.

It's in a brilliant intimate venue, the normal 102EH?, LOOSE and Electric Minds crew will be joinded by young girls on the block Minkioni and Party starters extraordinaire Bad Passion Project.

Get involved...or GTFO

Yo Momma is a Ho Ho HO...

2009-12-10T10:12:00.007Z

Tonight is the ever dependable Low Life's Christmas bash, along with Music supplied by Myself and Benoit, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Soft Rocks and Nick the Record will be manning the booth.

There is also a record fair and swap shop (got, got, need, need)upstairs for all you vinyl loving gimps.

I am a Vinyl loving gimp so no need to be ashamed

It is on till 2am it is free it will be rammo in the main room, there will be some beards and bevvy of beauties in attendance..

You can also download all the live mixes from Lowlife's Halloween party HERE

x

Get Low - Duff Mix Download

2009-11-30T11:05:00.001Z

Who is this Duff?... welll...

Duff is half of Outmode, a portion of Join the Dots, a producer of some esteem and a great big dirty stain upon the face of society.

The boy is prolific.. it has to be said, slo mo dubby bass bin destroyin Duffstep one week.. edits of pop and rock clsssics the next(more on those a little later) and now a mix of groove laden house and techno, get low.. in fact bow.. immediately

Oh and he also has an amazing array of hand shakes...

Duff Mix October 2009 Tracklist

Phil Kieran - Foot Of The Hill (Cocoon)
Claude VonStroke - Aundy (DJ Version) (Dirtybird)
Johnny D - No Point Of Return (Oslo)
IBex - Panacea (Exchange Bureau)
Anna Miranda - Hipernova (Ketra Records)
Oxia - Whole Life (8Bit)
The Groovers - Cause I Know (Daniel Kyo Remix) (Pack Up And Dance)
The Electricalz & Luca Doobie - Cheenk Treevot (This Order Italy)
The Electricalz & Luca Doobie - Don't Leave Dakota (This Order Italy)
Secret Cinema - Jazz Me (Cocoon)
Justin Martin & Claude VonStroke - Beat That Bird (Dirtybird)
DJ T - Shine On (Motor City Drum Ensemble Warehouse Dub Mix) (Get Physical)
SIS - You Want A (Cocolino)
Caio Stanccione - Bones (Italo Business)
Davide Giugliano - Psycopath (Italo Business)
Duff - Get Down (Join The Dots)
Phil Kieran - World On TV (Cocoon)
Phil Kieran - Dirt (Cocoon)
Zwicker - Dragon Fly feat. Billy Oden (Soultourist Remix) (Compost)
Kingpin Cartel - Ghetto (Pure Plastic)

Duff's October Mix

With the lights out it's less dangerous

2009-12-04T09:36:00.011Z

Is this the most un-Rock n Roll potentially Rock n Roll story ever told?

"Our bassist Tom went up later on in the night to the "VIP" backstage room to find a guy telling him the lights are off there. Tom not being afraid of the dark and slightly amused at the guys comments went into the room to find a boy on his knees "pleasuring" (orally) a lucky female on the sofa. Tom in a slightly shocked and aroused manner says" oh, hi guys, just getting my bass" which was right next to them.. the girl says "we should stop", dude replies "Nah, it's cool" tom grabs bass and says goodbye."

Not meaning to be sexist or owt but DJ/random band guy "pleasuring" the groupie.. what ever happened to eager to please female bandaids, raw meat, piles of blow and the odd bit of mindless destruction. Wonder who asked to turn the light off, and why didn't Tom join in?

Prior to this very middle class act of sexual gratification The Join the Dots Collective (our in house gang of musical lords) or JTDC as they will be known from here on in played their first proper gig on Saturday night at Beat Redemption in Bournmouth's old Fire Station.

Apparently they nearly died as part of a multiple pile up on the journey down, the car itself actually did die in the morning and in another Rock n Roll watershed moment just ripe for a Don Mclean, American Pie dedication, the AA were called out....

In keeping with the automotive theme Duffstep also played a live set, debuting material from his forthcoming album, that is receiving props from amongst others Mary Anne Hobbs and the 102eh gang in the brrm brrrm Engine room.

Lovely pictures and a Live mix can be located below..

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an organization or business which is owned and controlled by the people who work in it

Duffstep rather self indulgently recorded his own set that you can download

HERE

Disco's Revenge

2009-09-09T15:01:00.009+01:00

Graeme (The Revenge) the man behind one of the remixes off our first release has a brand spanking new shiny website.

It has Mixes, Press info and details on how to book him to play at your Birthday party or remix your latest sonic masterpiece.. if he agrees of course!

Find it here

Arthur Russell Remix... Download and Dance

2009-11-05T09:57:00.034Z

A bit of a bumper package today.

Flogging nights to readers aint really what this blog is about though it seems to have taken up a fair amount of "print"? recently. Saying all this I am going to hawk another night to you here, however with a special lil freebie added in for good measure.

Our friends at Electric minds have in their Go Bang project that drops on Monday, put together one of the most exciting albums of the year.

Arthur Russell for those not in the know was something of a disco pioneer, releasing his own tracks, producing for Loose Joints, dating Alan Ginsberg as well as being a classically trained Cellist, he managed to escape his home town roots in deepest darkest Iowa to collaborate with the likes of David Byrne and Nicky Siano

Go Bang features a host of reworks as well as tracks recorded from scratch by artist such as Yam Who, Pocketknife and Faze Action. There is also a host of remixes available from Ilija Rudman, Mark E and Max Essa.

The in-store Album Launch party is on Monday whilst the big bad full-on, rave-up disco-fused, house-orientated, party is on Friday the 27th of November, Tickets can be purchased in advance and there will be a whole host of Djs and artists connected with the album there as well as the mighty Maurice Fulton, Severino from Horse Meat Disco, Lowlifes Bill Brewster and a trio of some of East London's finest Party starters LOOSE, Cosmic Truth and 102EH?.

phew... anyway as promised here is the link to the Ray Burst mix of Get around to it.. something of a banger actually.

laters

Don't be a Cissy

2009-11-12T10:31:00.017Z

Confessional Time... when I was a kid, well 11 years old I toilet papered Whitney Houston's house on Halloween. True story. I was dressed as Zorro.

Whilst this story hasn't been incorporated in my formidable cannon of comedy for quite sometime it has begun to make a re-appearance at after parties recently mostly due to the storming Whitney comeback that is Million Dollar Bill... and her strange scary eyed appearance on X Factor...

Anyway this post isn't actually about Whitney, but her mamma Mrs Cissy Houston and what with the days getting ever so short I thought I would post this beauty all about what kind of mischief one can get up to in the hours of daylight that still remain!

enjoy

Cissy Houston - It doesn't only happen at Night

Mark 7 - Salute to the Men of Vauxhall

2009-09-30T12:48:00.011+01:00

This Blog is supposed to be about all things Join The Dots, news of gigs, releases and edits/mixes we have done. However every so often something rears it little head that deserves to be shared with all and sundry and this funnily enough after all the aforementioned hyperbole is exactly one of those things.

Mark Seven is a bit of a dude, a DJ, record collector, owner of Juswax record store , lives in Sweden, looks a bit like a modern pirate and is the owner of some of the best, rarest and most original records around.

A mix by Mark is a pretty rare thing, he is somewhat secretive about the tracks he plays and hardly ever agrees to allow his sets to be recorded. His Slow Blow Mix was an underground bomb, blogged more than a Lindsey lohan crotch shot and mused over in the greatest of detail by internet nerds across the globe.

A few months back the very trendy people at Oki Ni released A Salute to the Men of Vauxhall a three CD Mix of Mark's recorded at Sunday night Disco institution Horse Meat Disco. It is three hours of upfront disco and Saint-esq. early morning sleaze.

There's a few hits in there Pointer Sisters - Automatic and Hall and Oates - I can't go for that but good luck on spotting more than a quarter of the tracklist!

It was released as a limited edition free CD with Mark's latest 12" Travelogue and is already selling for upto £80 on Discogs.

Now with Mark's permission for those who either were not quick enough to get their hands on a copy (ha ha I have one) or don't have the money to spend £80 on a copy (ha ha I have one) here is the entire mix in full to download.

enjoy, tis is very special indeed

x

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Haunted House

2009-10-15T09:37:00.034+01:00

Can't say much about this except it's free.. it's on Halloween... the previous two have been absolute massacres where we have had to lock the doors before 11.30... and the space is without a hint of hyperbole easily the best party locale in our fair capital and used exclusively by us!

For more info and to be added to the guestlist.. which is essential if you wanna get in then email yours and your friend's names to info@electricminds.co.uk

Fancy dress is more than actively encouraged and those who have made the effort will get priority entry in the exceedingly likely event that a ruckus breaks out.

In the interim for your sonic pleasure you can have a listen to Dolan Bergin head Boy at Electric Minds and Andy from Yam who taking turns for bit of a mix up on Redbull radio

Yam Who and Dolan Bergin on Redbull Music Academy Radio

Get LOOSE!

2009-09-30T13:26:00.031+01:00

LOOSE are purveyors of fine electronic music a bit like an Emmanuel film; their parties are deep slow and banging but always with a hint of humour and accompanied by a cocktail served with a synthesised disco twist.

Normally little reviews like this now give a quick overview including a list of the DJ's they have booked other parties they have played at and venues they have used so inkeeping with etiquette LOOSE have Booked many Dj's, guested at many other parties and thrown Hoe-downs in a number of different venues. All have been good, none of them have been even approaching shit.

They have taken a little sojourn over the summer to change Venues,moving home from Platinum strip club to the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston, which is brilliant as its near my flat.

Tomorrow night they have a man with a funny name and big reputaion guesting. The funny named man is Mugwump. He is from Belgium and makes amazing music. He will be playing records at a loud volume to which it is expected you dance.

Cred Paul and Helen Run Loose, here is a mix from the male portion of the trio.

and here is a mix by Mugwump.

LOOSE
03 October - LOOSE @ BG's Niteclub

Mugwump (Misericord / Eskimo / Kompakt / Cocoon / Endless Flight)
Paul, Cred and Aitch
22:00 - 05:00 | £5 entry all night

BG's Niteclub, Shaklewell Arms
71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

Dirty Dancing

2009-08-07T10:47:00.009+01:00

Duff's getting props… or maybe the boys and girls at Piccadilly records in Manchester are just being nice because it was his birthday recently?

Either way the Dan Black remix EP that includes his pretty damn decent mix has been named record of the week by these purveyors of fine sonic weaponary.

They say

“The Duff Disco remix is a deep disco remix via South Londoner Duffstep. The hidden gem on the package, low slung late night disco grooves.”

The last sentence of which may actually be describing the man himself and his sexy dancing skills!

Get it here

Field Day.. and Night

2009-07-30T10:31:00.020+01:00

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!

2009-07-17T12:59:00.012+01:00

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!

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

2009-07-13T15:04:00.024+01:00

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!

Outmode // Dark Journey - FREE SHIT.

2009-06-20T15:58:00.014+01:00

It’s a tad intimidating writing the first post on a blog, I mean there are so many things to consider. You need to get the tone right, draw people in, yet not just ramble on and on about complete pony.

You need to be informative, but not dull. Funny but not up your arse regarding your immense arsenal of comedy weapons. There needs to be a point to what you are writing but then again it should read like you are catching up with a friend and not just imposing yourself upon people.

So the point of this is that apart from being the first post on our shiny happy new blog, Monday marks the date we pop our release cherry and shower you all in sonic love.

You can get the track exclusively at Juno Download for 2 weeks from the 22nd of June and from Beatport and Zero there on in. There are remixes courtesy of the Revenge and Toby Tobias too of the hottest "sizzling" producers of discerning discothèque music around, as well of course the original and two further remixes from Chroma Set and part of Outmode, the general and the inventor of Duffstep... Duff.

As an act of unprecedented generosity you can get a full 320 version of the second Revenge remix that we have decided not to release just below… consider it a musically flavoured offering.. ask any dealer the first one is always free...

The Revenge Remix - Unreleased Version (150 downloads available)

Join The Dots at Glastonbury.

2009-06-21T23:08:00.009+01:00

Whilst I am sitting on my sofa watching it with a cold beer in my hand, a dry cigarette in my mouth, wearing warm socks and feeling safe in the knowledge that I have a double bed and duvet awaiting my arrival in the next room the boys responsible for the first single on Join the Dots (available now from Juno Digital), Outmode (John, Duff and Joe) will be taking their Live shizz to the mother of all English festivals and famous Dionysian mud bath orgy that is Glastonbury.

They are playing live on the glade stage of Friday at 5pm. That night they will then be walking through a field in knee deep mud, trying not to contract Swine flu and trying to buy expensive no drug, drugs, while I will be on the sofa mentioned previously waiting for my first glimpse of Fearne Cotton...

Note; Unlike the Emirates stadium (spit!) the Glade stage does not get its name due to the fact it is sponsored by the air freshener company.

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

Parallel Dance Ensemble

2009-06-25T10:42:00.011+01:00

Yam who has released some absolute belters over the last year including his simply amazing Grace Jones remix as well as his mint Arthur Russel interpretation of "Wax the van" that was out earlier in the year on Electric Minds

Having has just returned from an Electric Minds tour of Australia and Japan our boy Dolan sent us this video to accompany the first release on Yam's own imprint ISM.

Great track, Amazing Video.

Yam who will also be playing alongside Steve Kotey, Electric Minds owner Dolan Bergin and LOOSE residents Cred and Paul Crognale at a little disco pie that Join the Dots have a finger (up to the second Knuckle) in, that takes place in a few weeks time.

Details on request ;)

Summertime

2009-07-04T15:01:00.011+01:00

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!

Shirt Lifter

2009-07-06T18:46:00.009+01:00

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!

Dark Journey in more stores!

2009-07-06T20:44:00.009+01:00

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.

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

2009-07-14T20:04:00.007+01:00

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)