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Best DJ Best Radio Show Ben UFO Mistajam – BBC Radio 1Xtra Eats Everything Coco Cole – Capital 1Xtra Bicep Night Slugs - Rinse FM Scuba Slimzee – NTS With Jamie Jones Annie Mac – BBC Radio 1 Danny Howard Best Label Best Remix from BBC Planet Mu Eats Everything feat Tiga vs Audion ‘Dancing Radio 1 Defected Again’ Tectonic Acid Mondays ‘Interstellar Cake (Richy Ahmed Crosstown Rebels Remix)’ Naked Naked Aphrohead ‘Let’s Prance (Radio Slave & Thomas NOTHING ELSE MATTERS... BUT Gandey Remix)’ THE RECORD LABEL! Breakthrough Label Eric Prydz ‘Opus (Four Tet Remix)’ One incredible night almost ten years ago, in Lobster Theremin Dusky ‘Skin Deep (Global Communication Remix)’ Birmingham’s Air club, my favourite DJ Erick Dixon Avenue Basement Jams Morillo performed. At the end of the night I PC Music Best Tune turned to my friends and said the words, ‘It was Fina Bicep ‘Just’ like Nothing Else Mattered, but the music’. Now 22a Crew Tim Green ‘Eclipse’ that I’ve actually got a record label called that Paul Woolford ‘MDMA’ is something I still can’t get my head around. Best Live Act Steve Lawler ‘House Record’ Never in a million years would I think that those Leftfield Kiwi ‘Short Tail’ words would follow me into my career to become Chemical Brothers a brand, but I guess I never thought those words Paranoid London Breakthrough Producer (which I said when a little worse for wear, I might Karenn Fort Romeau add…) would be so fitting to a scene that can The Prodigy Ivy Lab be so opinionated, cynical and egotistical at Shanti Celeste times. In reality, take everything away and it Best Small Club Palms Trax all just really comes down to the tunes! That’s Dance Tunnel, London Mr Beatnick why I’m so happy that I can turn this bad-boy Black Box, Birmingham into a label supporting new and upcoming Corsica Studios, London Breakthrough DJ artists worldwide with a strong UK focus! Patterns, Brighton Jasper James I’m proud to have teamed up with my old BBC Sub Club, Glasgow Sam Divine Radio 1 colleague Nigel Harding, who was a key Weiss figure in the music team and helped launch the Best Large Club Eli & Fur career of some of the biggest stars in the whole Fabric, London Tough Love music industry today. Not only that, we’ll be Motion, Bristol running the label via Sony and RCA to make Ministry, London Best Compilation sure we have the infrastructure and platform Egg LDN, London Slam – ‘Transmissions’ our future artists need to really make an impact Rainbow, Birmingham Ed Rush & Optical – ‘FabricLive 82’ whilst representing dance and electronic music. Trevor Jackson ‘Science Fiction Dancehall Following our first release, the huge ‘99 Souls feat. Best Club Event Classics’ Destiny’s Child & Brandy ‘The Girl Is Mine’, keep an Hospitality Mumdance ‘FabricLive 80’ eye out for plenty of fire dropping in the new year. Krankbrother Bill Brewster ‘Late Night Tales presents After Circus Dark’ THE BIG THREE Abode Ryan Blyth & After6 feat. The Flirtations ‘Trust Me’. The Hydra Best MC Dance heads might recognise the string sample Skepta in this one from an old Carrie Lucas record. No? Dance Festival Novelist Well, you’ll definitely recognise it from Armand We Are FSTVL Lady Leshurr Van Helden’s iconic ‘U Don’t Know Me’. Now UK SW4 Rodney P duo Ryan Blyth & After6 have added a modern Eastern Electrics Eksman twist with a drop Format:B would be proud of, Love Saves The Day together with an original yet classic-sounding Boomtown Best Album vocal. This one ticks all the boxes… pure fire! The Revenge ‘Love That Will Not Die’ Boutique Festival Romare ‘Projections’ Tim Baresko feat. Room 303 ‘Marilyn Monroe’. Gottwood LHF ‘For The Throne’ Amine Edge & DANCE have done it again by Lost Village Roisin Murphy ‘Evil Eyes’ dropping another massive track on their ever- The Social Benjamin Damage ‘Obsidian’ growing Cuff imprint. This one is the ultimate Field Manoeuvres groover, with a rolling bassline that’s guaranteed Born & Bred Best Producer to make the dancefloor give it the big one. Mr G Best DJ Mag Live Stream Special Request Axwell feat. Max C ‘I Found U (Fono Remix)’. Sam Divine aka Paul Woolford With Axwell and his famous Axtone label Alan Fitzpatrick Julio Bashmore celebrating ten years, they’re re-visiting their Carl Cox Floating Points VOTE back catalogue to release a series of special Eli & Fur Maya Jane Coles tracks and remixes, starting with this one from Dave Clarke aka Nocturnal NOW! UK rising star, Fono. Usually I’d say not to touch Sunshine AT such a classic as ‘I Found U’, but with the original elements and soul intact, Fono manages to bring DJMAG. it right up to date. Check it out… it’s rather large! COM djmag.com 007 COMIN’ UP

The sounds dominating DJ Mag HQ On The List! Spirit of the boogie

Disco didn’t die — it evolved into boogie. Synth basslines, crisp beats and ‘80s vibes all the way, plus a few GETTIN’ SMASHED FUTURE CLASSIC DUSTED OFF modern exponents of the sound. The weapons DJs can’t get enough of! New tracks destined to be remembered An old forgotten classic dug up

01. FONDA RAE ‘Over Like A Fat Rat’

02. SHARON REDD ‘Beat The Street’

03. TAANA GARDNER ‘Heartbeat (Club Mix)’

04. JIMMY SPICER ‘The Bubble Bunch’ Red Axes First Touch Theo Parrish 05. MILTON WRIGHT ‘Keep It Up’ ‘Sabor’ Crosstown Rebels ‘Beweg Dein Körper’ Omega ‘Falling Up (Carl Craig Remix)’ Not Supreme Records On Label/Third Ear Recordings 06. AURRA ‘You And Me Tonight’ TEL Aviv-based duo Red Axes are unstoppable. Following their debut WE want the funk! And luckily for REISSUED by Third Ear Recordings this 07. MAZE & FRANKIE LP ‘Ballad Of The Ice’ earlier this year, us, mysterious Mannheim crew First year, Carl Craig’s slow-burning remix BEVERLEY ‘Twilight’ the pair’s latest release on Crosstown Touch have delivered just that — in this of Theo Parrish’s dirty jazz classic from 08. DAYTON ‘The Sound Of Music’ Rebels has fast become a DJ fave, thanks deliciously smooth slice of boogie synths 2005 is powerful and steady... still. An to its sparkling top-lines and complex and vocoded vocals. Their mantra is undulating techno slug, it’s grandiose, 09. LES SINS ‘Why (feat. Nate arrangements. Enchanting vocals come “positive, good feelin’ music”, and have hypnotic and dizzying; a dark Motor City Salman)’ courtesy of Brazilian-born vocalist Abrao, presumably kept that in mind for ‘Beweg romance with noodling keys that’s as who has started touring alongside the DJ Dein Körper’ (meaning ‘move your body’), guttural and pumping as it is cerebral. 10. TIGER & WOODS ‘Curb My duo, performing his vocals live over Red a jam that can’t help but put a smile on It’s rising, breath-taking build serves as a Heart (feat. EM)’ Axes’ tracks. There’s also a well-crafted your face and make you move those limbs. guaranteed floor-filler — as ideal for the instrumental remix from Isolée, get your warm-up as it is an early-hours stomp — mitts on this one ASAP! and, for that reason, should never leave Breakbeat bounces your bag. back

Rolling beats have been threatening to make a comeback after the dominance of 4/4 for so long. Now they have in a MAINROOM MAULER HIDDEN GEM DOWNBEAT DIAMOND big way — Special Request, Mella Dee, This month’s big-room decimator Some of you may not know this, but... Need an antidote to the dancefloor? Benton and many more are blending breakbeat with house and slowing jungle breaks into fresh forms.

01. LUCA LOZANO & MR. HO ‘Autonomika’

02. SPECIAL REQUEST ‘Reset It’

03. MELLA DEE ‘Helter Skelter’

04. MAK & Mat Playford Gwen McCrae Junior Boys PASTEMAN ‘Formation 131’ Mr Future Hard Times ‘Keep The Fire Burning (The ‘Big Black Coat’ City Slang Revenge Need II Edit)’ Atlantic 05. JAMIE XX ‘Hold Tight’ THIS track steps up to the plate on so JEREMY Greenspan and accomplice many levels. Following Mat’s success with CURRENTLY selling on Discogs for a cool Matt Didemus are on their way back with 06. LEGOWELT ‘Immensity Of Cosmic Space’ last year’s critically acclaimed album ‘Too £150, The Revenge knows a thing or arguably their best work as Junior Boys Big To Fail’, his latest release ‘Mr Future’ two about crafting a classy re-edit. First since ‘So This Is Goodbye’. Their fifth 07. HOTFIRE ‘Pivotal’ does not disappoint. Intentionally or not, dropping way back in 2010, his ‘Need studio album ‘Big Black Coat’ is released Playford takes us back to the phuture time II Edit’ has been a favourite of disco on City Slang in February; it’s absolutely 08. IPMAN ‘Regicide’ and time again. This frantic yet melodic selectors like DJ Harvey and Greg Wilson amazing and the first single of the track takes you from the deep strings ever since, leaving other reworks of the same name is already out. The perfect 09. DJ MADD ‘Gunshot Riddim (VIP Mix)’ of Detroit, seizing your attention from ‘82 Gwen McCrae classic in the dust. Even if soundtrack to a murky winter night, it’s the onset, to the familiar yet dirty and you’re not a fan of re-edits (disco purists, a tasty little amuse bouche for the LP. 10. A SAGITTARIUN ‘3-4-3’ unique sounds of Chicago’s acid house we’re looking at you!) you should give this Laden with Jeremy’s shadowy vocals over era. Playford continues to push the rework a whirl — it’s a tasteful ode to one bottom-heavy synths, acidic squelches boundaries, a pure underground soldier. of disco’s most enduring records. and arpeggio bleeps, this is Junior Boys at *Find these and many more playlists by following DJ Mag Can’t wait to see what he does next. their most effective once again. on Apple Music on iTunes

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A one-track release from DINO LENNY is slated for release This month’s promos destined to on MACEO PLEX’s Ellum Audio label destroy the dancefloor... this December. ‘This Is A Love Song’ is lumbering punk-funk techno with a gothic new romantic vocal Stone Cold Maceo Plex and well worthy of your attention... KILLER Meanwhile DRUMS OF DEATH has actually, um, well, died. Thankfully, he’s been reborn as J.G. Wilkes AUSTIN ATO, ‘Jaxon EP’ Colin Bailey The Vinyl Factory has revealed on soundcloud.com/thevinylfactory social media. ‘Dreams’ got ONE HALF OF CULT DJ DUO OPTIMO and production partnership Naum rinsed on Radio Gabo, Jonnie Wilkes sure is a busy man. The Glasgow via Belfast stalwart 1 all summer has reached legendary status for his DJ sets with Twitch and, though widely and his firstAustin Ato renowned as a beatmaker, his ‘Jaxon’ EP arrives as his first widely available release under solo 12” release. Made up of two originals and a pair of remixes, Wilkes has the moniker, ‘Vol 1’, out soon, is opted for two radically different sides of his own production capabilities. “melodic techno with influences Swiped from a limited edition album box set titled ‘German Pizza Party’ from modern classical, afrobeat and (where can we get an invite to one of those?), the title track is firmly aimed at labels like Pampa”, he says. He’s the floor — straight-up and gruff, its dusty snares and claps keep a ruthless also preparing for a tour with ETON rhythm. While ‘Bathing Beauty’ is a beatless, cosmic slice of twinkling elegance, cut through occasionally by searing strikes of white noise. Audiojack Remixes are supplied by elusive Cologne producer Barnt, who adds a welcomed beat under ‘Bathing Beauty’, while Wilkes’ own Naum Gabo production unit — the luminary Kompakt duo — handles the hypnotically winding remix of ‘Useful Tool’. Another win from The Vinyl Factory, and an essential item for your set or collection.

MESSY... Also, AUDIOJACK are back! This time the Leeds duo are landing on Culprit with ‘Nefelibata’. It’s a Ejeca Kessel Vale strong slice ‘Octiv’ ‘Coil’ of bouncing Last Night On Rhythm Nation soundcloud. dancefloor Earth soundcloud.com/last-night- com/kessel-vale funk with a on-earth particular spicy RHYTHM Nation (no, not Janet xylophone A ballistic dancefloor slammer with late-night appeal, Ejeca’s Jackson’s label) proudly present their third release after that comes new release ‘Octiv’ is a heart-stopper. It’s out as part of his contributions from Tallmen and Levon Vincent apprentices with remixes brand new four-tracker, titled ‘Avon’, that’s seen the Irish Terriers. The Berlin label has just let loose this brand new from FRANCK producer return to Sasha’s ubiquitous imprint, Last Night On three-tracker from Munich newbie Dominik Lekavski, aka ROGER and Earth. “These four tracks sum up where I’m at musically at Kessel Vale. A-side cut ‘Coil’ is a masterpiece: a forward WHITESQUARE, the moment,” Ejeca told DJ Mag when we premiered ‘Octiv’ in thinking piece of modern techno with a zipping synth-line plus a V/A November. Head over to the DJ Mag Soundcloud to hear it for that’s as rough round the edges as it is delicate. We’re keeping EP called H.O.S.H yourself! our eyes firmly on Mr Vale... ‘Remastered by Steffen Muller’ comes to their Gruuv imprint with remixes from RODRIGUEZ JR, H.O.S.H and HUXLEY as well as from the label bosses Baba Stiltz Riva Starr themselves... Speaking of label Cherry ‘I Believe In You EP’ bosses, Bristolian food junkie EATS Unknown To The Snatch! Records soundcloud. EVERYTHING has finally launched Unknown soundcloud.com/ com/rivastarr his Edible label babastiltz alongside NRK’S RIVA Starr heads back onto his own Snatch! label after NICK HARRIS with STUDIO Barnhus associate Baba Stiltz is back with a stepping out on his mates’ Dirtybird, Hot Creations, Saved and a double-sided EP vengeance. ‘Cherry’ is like a Dance Mania house jam sent Cajual. Transporting you back to an era of uplifting, hands-in- from LORD LEOPARD from the year ‘96 that got mutated along the way (“bastard the-air house, the two-tracked EP is a club hit in every sense (‘Mark Of Passion’ bass”, perhaps?). Legowelt’s remix is a bit cleaner; a spiralling of the word. A-side ‘I Believe In You’ has sparked singalong /’Fantastically cascade of reedy organs and steely stabs engineered to stir a sessions in the DJ Mag office on the basis that the vocals Well’), and it’s a peak-time dancefloor into a frenzy. In a word — awesome! sound exactly like “hot ginger lamb”, which is nice... big bass-y treat, good enough to eat. Yummy! Eats Everything djmag.com 009 COMIN’ UP

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ROOTS MANUVA Pic: Words: JOE ROBERTS SHAMIL TANNA The mercurial brilliance of Root Manuva, aka Rodney Smith, is evident once more on his sixth studio album, ‘Bleeds’ (out now on Big Dada). Drawing on influences from Barry White, sampled on beautifully bittersweet lead single ‘Don’t Breathe Out’, to booming trap 808s, it’s a gutsy ‘Hard Bastards’, the opening track of your new born. He’s nearly taller than me now. Connecting the ride through the turbulent state of the modern album, pours equal scorn on rich and poor people. baby to the young man is a very emotional thing.” world and Smith’s ever-analytical mind. Is it your indictment of the state of the country? “The state of the world, not the state of the country. Do you think he’ll follow you into music? Talking Corbyn-omics and his role as patron of We need to fight for a fairer distribution of the earth’s “Definitely not! I’ll do everything on earth to stop Hastings’ Respond Academy, a multi-media project wealth and resources. Nobody is ready to fight for him. He’s going to go and do something more useful. for kids, when we catch him in the middle of a press this, we’re all happy with our little crumbs. Somebody He should definitely have a hobby. Definitely all my day there’s a personal intensity that matches his needs to motivate. I hate to say the word revolution, sons, I’ve got five, they all need to get degrees. I music. But, as with his ability to flip a lyrical flow or but somebody needs to motivate the people to want don’t care if they get degrees on ping-pong balls, just inject humour into the darkest of subjects, he has a to engage with getting some real change to these get a degree. I don’t care if they even get a Third, they disarming ability to surprise, too. Living in Surrey, political systems.” just have to go to university. Do I regret not getting a having moved there from his native Stockwell, degree? Of course. Information is good, and just the there’s talk of opening a farm. And though ‘Bleeds’ What do you think of Jeremy Corbyn coming to the physical networking and the emotional bonding is features heavyweight contemporaries including fore? good for your life.” Four Tet, Switch and Adrian Sherwood, his next “Jeremy Corbyn is a breath of fresh air. I don’t agree musical ambition is... guesting on a Calvin Harris with everything he says, but at least he’s got a Previously, you’ve said you’d like to work with some fist-pumper... standpoint that’s based on humility and kindness and unlikely people like Will Young and James Blunt. fairness. So what he doesn’t wear Armani suits? So More recently you’ve added David Guetta and Calvin There’s a Skepta diss track about Wiley called what he don’t get the best haircut or have manicured Harris. Can you really imagine writing lyrics for ‘In The Country’ which uses the chorus to Blur’s nails? Why has British politics come to being fanciable fist-pumping music? ‘Country House’. Is it harder to write hip-hop since and not fanciable? What the fuck is going on?” “The challenge is what intrigues me. I think it could you moved to Surrey and the suburbs? work. Definitely with Calvin Harris any day of the “Absolutely, totally not. I still have a room in I read that you might one day go into politics. Do week. It might be a little harder with David Guetta, Stockwell. So anytime I need to get some Stockwell in you see that as an extension of what you do now in but I think he could get it out of me. I’ve done that my bones, I can go back to the very house I was born music? [working with Four Tet and Switch]. Now it’s time for in. No guy can diss me about living in the suburbs.” “I’ve always been into politics, really. If anybody something different. I’ve done the dark side so long. knows me from school, they know what my party Now I need to get into the swivel, shiny shoes side.” Does living there give you a wider perspective on is. But we was a bit crooked and we tried to fix an life? election... I’m learning to change my ways and be a Is that the influence of your sons? “I don’t know. It’s hard living in the suburbs. It’s bit more accountable.” “Yeah, they can’t stand daddy’s miserable music. hard to know what’s the done thing. It’s a new adult They’re really into house. ‘House Every Weekend’ is experience. I don’t know certain protocols. I have to Speaking of party politics, we hear you still go out the anthem right now. They’re my biggest critics. learn them, and it sometimes feels quite intimidating. to clubs around Shoreditch. Whereabouts? What do They’re like, ‘Look, if you don’t get a feature with A lot of people do have guns in the suburbs. They wear you go out and listen to? someone like David Guetta then we’re never, ever gun clothing when they’ve got their guns on them. “All the time. I’m always at Passing Clouds, I’m always gonna get taken seriously’. That’s all you’ve got to do. I’m not a licensed gun holder, yet. It’s going to be a at The Macbeth. This weekend I was at Cargo, and Get Adele on a track.” few years before I even get a chance. But I still wear loads of other places that I can’t even remember. I like hunting clothes. I wear it out of fashion. to just go out, look at the door and just try and gauge You recently announced on stage that Barry White “I’d love to really know about owning and managing the vibe. I like to leave it to chance.” saved your life. Can you elaborate? a farm. My farm ain’t gonna be that important, it’s ‘It’s a bit of an inside joke because the Barry White going to be more of a leisure farm. You know, the Is it important growing up and becoming a family Foundation actually charged me £10,000 to use the farms that have pig races on them, they’re semi- man to still have that connection? bloody Barry White sample. I’m a massive fan. The functioning but they’re more educational and fun.” “There’s no growing up and being a family man. My Love Unlimited Orchestra were amazing. Barry White eldest child is almost 13, so this has been going on is love music, seduction music. If you’ve got a nice Like Hackney City Farm? for 13 years. My son is going clubbing now. It made Mercedes and you play some Barry White to the right “Yeah, the cousin of Hackney City Farm, but in Surrey me cry, because I can remember when I first held my chick, you’re going to get some pum-pum.” somewhere.” eldest son, I was the first to hold him after he was

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__WEAREDEFECTED_djmag-november2015.inddDJ Mag page template.indd 1 1 16/11/201514/10/2015 15:40 15:04 COMIN’ UP JUNGLISTS PAY TRIBUTE TO DIANE CHARLEMAGNE The singer on Goldie’s ‘Inner City Life’ sadly lost her battle with cancer SINGER Diane Charlemagne lost her battle with ANDY C: “Diane had a truly stunning voice, she will TONY COLMAN (LONDON ELEKTRICITY): “In cancer at the end of October. She was 51. Diane live on in the music forever.” November 2014 Diane was on our table at the Drum was the vocalist on many prominent dance tracks, & Bass Awards, nominated for Best Vocalist. She perhaps most famously her amazing vocal on ‘Inner FABIO: “Diane was a wonderful person. She had was shining extra bright that night. The next day City Life’ by Goldie. She also did vocals for Moby on a magical voice and a magnetic personality. I last she gave me the bad news that something was some of his live tours, and worked with other drum & saw her at the D&B Awards last year where she told wrong. Since then, it’s been a rollercoaster ride bass acts such as Netsky, London Elektricity, Aquasky me she was ill but maintained her dignity. She was and I’ve witnessed the strongest woman I’ve ever and S.P.Y., as well as house outfits such as the honest and open as she told me, and I saw the spirit met fighting the fiercest of battles. Every hospital, Rhythm Masters, Joey Negro and Satoshi Tomiie. of a fighter. Illness couldn’t destroy the soul of an ward and hospice she was in, despite her pain amazing woman who was beautiful and courageous. and deteriorating condition, she had the doctors Manchester-born Diane started out singing with She left us way too soon.” and nurses in stitches — such is the nature of her funk act 52nd Street in the 1980s. She then went personality. onto form Urban Cookie Collective, who had a big AYAH MARAR: “Never a warmer smile, stronger love, “Diane has been part of the Hospital family since hit with pop-rave cut ‘The Key, The Secret’ in 1993. or more honest and open a human being have I 2004 and for the last four years she has lived in It was her work with proto-d&b label Reinforced come across, not only in this business — where real Tulse Hill around the corner from my house, and was Records in the early ‘90s that brought her into friendship and mutual respect is something that is so always popping into my studio to write and record contact with Goldie. She recorded ‘Inner City Life’ hard to come by — but in life. vocals for our artists. Diane was selfless and giving with the legendary junglist, her soaring soulful “This woman who took me under her wing, who to the core. She was an irrepressible force, full of vocal helping to make it the centrepiece of Goldie’s taught me to stick to my guns, to put family and warmth, love, humility and an infectious positive ‘Timeless’ album — an enduring masterpiece. music first, and to give it all I’ve got because we are energy. Being the generous and positive force that the ones who will carry the message — that it falls on she was, she shrugged off so many challenges in her Mostly immersed in drum & bass in recent times, it’s us to make sure it is heard. life and career — at times treated so badly within the no wonder DJ Mag received a flood of tributes from “A woman whose voice defined a generation, music industry that where others would crumble, the scene after her untimely passing recently.. represented a movement and blazed the trail for she just shrugged off the negative and embraced the female vocalists like me. A voice that opened my positive. GOLDIE: “I’m very very sad. Diane was a powerhouse eyes to the possibilities within this music we love “Diane’s passing is still sinking in for all of us. We within so much of my music. We took it to the world so much. She lit up a room with her smile, and miss our friend and sister deeply but most of all I and created something new... For all of us.” she smashed through walls with her voice. Her feel blessed to have worked so closely and frequently knowledge, her compassion, her love and her with such a true legend, one who has left an NETSKY: “Diane will always be in our hearts. She was incredible hooks will stay with us all for a long, long indelible glow behind her and has had a real effect one of the most inspiring people I ever worked with. time.” on my life. My love and positive energy goes out to I have so many amazing memories of her. She always Diane’s friends and family and to the whole dance found a way to brighten up my day. I’m gonna miss music community for this enormous loss.” you, chuck.”

012 djmag.com COMIN’ UP TWO IS COMPANY! DJ duos are ruling dance music right now. Here are two terrible twosomes making big waves this month... PAUL C & PAULO MARTINI Italian friends are no newbies, but it feels as if now is their time... PROLIFIC ITALIAN DUO, Paul C & Paolo Martini, our own EP, ‘Get This!’.” returned on Gruuv last month whilst ‘Pinball’ has When asked what was behind this successful just dropped on Hot Creations, the second outing progression onto these essential imprints, Paolo on the label for the pair. With regular support of proudly responds with, “We did it all by ourselves both original and remix work from the likes of and our music, no PR and no management. It was Marco Carola, Jamie Jones, Nick Curly, Monika nothing but our music. We worked very hard and Kruse and more, this is one duo that are reaching built up something solid step by step.” boiling point. If they weren’t already at the tip of the tongue of house DJs then that’s about to Laying self-reliant foundations looks to have paid change. dividends, as the pair recurrently churn out a Veterans of dance music who have racked up 40 brand of tech-house that’s very much their own, years experience between them, it was back in and both fun, inventive, percussive and groovy, 2010 that the pair “decided to join forces and and more importantly always looking forward. put together our experience and knowledge Strong basslines are very much a signature for to become stronger,” states Paolo. Originally their productions. This is apparent in tracks such producing under Paul’s Boutique, and releasing as ‘Bermuda’ (8Bit) and ‘The Calling’ (Circus), or on their label of the same name, he comments, for some deeper, rolling numbers try ‘Get This!’ “people started to get a little confused, and (Hot Creations) and ‘La Victoria’ (Terminal M). frequently asked; ‘Is Paul’s Boutique a label or So isn’t it high time they released an album? your alias, or both?’” Well, excitingly they both say, “we are thinking They cite 2013 as a poignant year, and where they about making one in 2016”, and highlight the began to release on some of the scene’s bigger fact it’s not their usual, familiar undertaking, labels, to which Paul adds that it “started with they maintain, “We would like to approach ‘Spunk’ on Materialism”, followed by a gamut of the project in a different way, work with good top-tier imprints that included Cecille, Terminal M songwriters and singers and create something and Moon Harbour, but asserts that, “the cherry extra special but within our trademark sound.” on the cake was the release on Hot Creations of LEON CLARKSON

BROTHERS LUIS AND JAVIER Their first electronic incarnation GARAYALDE — better known these was in the late ‘90s as a live techno days as Kyodai — take the art of the outfit called Way Out. They supported remix very seriously indeed. For the the likes of Claude Young and Luke now-feted Swedish label Local Talk, Slater, but never released a record, the brothers’ de facto home for the only making live studio and club past few years, they’re following recordings. It was when they formed label-mate HNNY in retooling some of the outfit Wagon Cookin’ at the turn their favourite tracks from the label of the Millennium that things ramped in its ‘Rework’ series. But these are up. Swag’s Chris Duckenfield urged no ordinary remixes. them to release material on his Odori “We worked so hard on it,” says Luis, label, and they also recorded for the elder brother by four years. “We Munich’s eminent Compost and their didn’t use the stems. We made real own imprint, Appetizers. edits, and put our own instruments They released four albums in all as over the top. It was super hard. With Wagon Cookin’, but having made the track by Atjazz, it was stressful, musical connections with Jimpster we were like ‘This track is already so from Freerange, a new project they good, we can’t change anything!’ But were mulling took over. At first, everyone is happy [with it], so that they kept the identity of Kyodai a means we’re happy.” closely-guarded secret. They even It was never going to be any other managed to fool Gilles Peterson, long way. Born into a household steeped a fan of Wagon Cookin’. He played in jazz, they picked up instruments their first new tracks on his Radio 1 very early, first off the piano, then show, believing them to be from an percussion, bassoon and double unknown Japanese producer (Kyodai bass. As such, their house music is is Japanese for ‘brothers’). more like live music — all played, no Next up, as Beltza (meaning ‘black’ samples. “When we travel and meet in Basque), they will remaster and these young guys, they think we’re rework that old techno material they KYODAI sampling everything. They’re saying, played back in the day with Claude ‘Where did you find that piano?’ No, Young and Luke Slater from the Tech-savvy DJ brothers re-work it out... we are recording it,” adds Luis. original DAT tapes. BEN ARNOLD

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Fresh acts ROSCIUS Not the last waltz Cheeky rising to BUBBLERS London-based producer Roscius lists a diverse range of influences on his Facebook the top... page, everything from Bulgarian folk to improvisational jazz and Björk. His own productions, however, veer closer to house than any of the latter, merging a variety of hand percussion with waves of ambient synth and catchy vocal samples. His skill with weaving together classical instrumentation and electronic production is perhaps a product of his formal musical training at the National Conservatoire of Paris, where he developed his technique in marimba, vibraphone and timpani. So far Roscius has ROSIE LOWE released two EPs, his debut ‘WMD #1’ on Muta in March and a second in September. On both, Roscius moves effortlessly between the worlds of classical and dance music, How Lowe, can you go? showcasing a warm and technically impressive style that has us eagerly anticipating future releases. EVERYONE HAS A VICE, and for UK singer-songwriter Rosie Lowe it’s writing music — which she’s SOUNDS LIKE? Luciano, Einzelkind, Michel Cleis described as “a bit like being on drugs. I don’t remember doing it. It’s the best kind of therapy.” Even if you’re a killer writer and vocalist, it can be criminal if you pick the wrong producer — but luckily London-based Rosie nailed it by singing over a Machinedrum beat on ‘Worry Bout Us’. The latest single to be swiped from her debut album ‘Control’, which is arriving in February next year, it showcases her versatility as someone who can do sparse, piano-led soul as much as synth-driven bangers. The 25-year-old is one who slips in and out of categorisation; at times avant-R&B, at others glitchy pop or jazz. The album, she promises, is very vocal- heavy — with over 100 vocal tracks inbuilt into ‘Who’s That Girl?’, while also being backed by some hefty drums.

SOUNDS LIKE? Banks, Jesse Ware, Andrea Triana

TIAN KARL Heard it on the grape D-vine

With recent releases on Black Butter, D-vine Sounds and Nervous, things are heating up fast for German tech-house export, Tian Karl. Spending the first half of his career as a studio engineer for some of hip-hop and house music’s biggest names, there’s little doubt Tian knows his way around a set of studio knobs, so much so that he caught the eye of Defected golden girl, Sam Divine, late last year. His first single dropped via her fledgling imprint in the summer, with a full EP scheduled for release in December. Then there’s his upcoming Black Butter-based collab with fellow production maverick and ex-Cazals member, Martin Dubka, plus another two-tracker titled ‘All/Eighty Eight’ on NYC label, Nervous. If you’re a fan of imprints like AVOTRE, Moda Black or Madtech, then Tian Karl might just be your new No.1 DJ.

SOUNDS LIKE? Sidney Charles, No Artificial Colours, Celcius

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FORMATIONS On form duo

SOUTH LONDON duo Formations, made up of Will and Matt Ritson, make disco that’s heavily indebted to LCD Soundsystem, Arthur Russell and Liquid Liquid. Since putting out their first release back in 2014, the pair have attracted a fair amount of attention: Zane Lowe premiered their latest single on his Beats 1 radio show and they recently supported Foals on their European tour. Formations have somehow managed to keep one foot in the world of underground dance music while also appealing to a much broader audience — their latest EP, ‘Under The Tracks’, was produced by Brighton-based house producer Leon Vynehall. “Working with Leon has added another layer of inspiration to what we’re doing, bouncing ideas off each other and working in a free and improvised way, laying down what feels good and always surprising each other,” says Matt Ritson of the collaboration.

SOUNDS LIKE? LCD Soundsystem, !!!, Cold War Kids

CONTOURS ROBERTO Mountainous music Sooty and sweep IT’S NO SECRET that drummers often make the best Rob Kirkaldy, better known as Roberto, heads producers. Manchester-via-Cumbria producer and DJ Fossil Archive, one of the most promising Tom Burford (the artist formerly known as Burford, new labels to emerge this year. Kirkaldy first who’s had his name stamped on a collaboration with got into dance music through drum & bass Werkha) is now Contours. He’s currently making a splash as a teenager before discovering techno on Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section, following releases at university. His releases, which bear the from Henry Wu and Chaos in the CBD. Six-tracker influence of both Detroit and Dutch techno, ‘Technician’ veers between loungey jazz, Afrobeat and have featured on a number of labels over the hip-hop, taking in a wealth of influences that arose years including Fachwerk, Phobiq, Artform, as a result of a childhood spent surrounded by drums Affin. The Leicester-based producer has opted and various percussion and, as the liner notes suggest, for quality over quantity, putting out three it’s one for the warm-up, the heads, the dancers, top-notch releases on Fossil Archive so far and the after-party. His DJ sets follow these same (with more planned before the year’s end). principles, where sounds and rhythms from Africa and Kirkaldy set the bar high with the label’s Latin America are backed by sweat-soaked basslines first release ‘Prolecanites’, a moody, pared- and hypnotic melodies. With Bradley already tipping down techno workout backed by skittish, it as a “Rhythm Section future classic,” this rhythmic unpredictable percussion that we’ve returned technician seems about to drum up a load of support. to many times since its release in February. SOUNDS LIKE? Floating Points, FunkinEven, Henry Wu SOUNDS LIKE? Mike Dehnert, Marcel Dettmann, Alan Fitzpatrick

LEE WALKER Moonwalker

TEESSIDE isn’t exactly known for continually churning out a crop of top level producers, but maybe it should be. The same area of the North-East was responsible for Burnski and Denney (who graced these pages last month as a Cheeky Bubbler), but Lee Walker is a DJ straight-championing Balearic. The 23-year-old became a proficient vinyl DJ when he was still in school, and by 17 already had his first vinyl press. He’s now one half of Groove Syndicate, as well as A&R for Mile End Records whose output boasts people like Roy Davis Jr and Josh Butler, while Lee’s own productions have been released by Butane’s Little Helpers and Scottish label Bulletdodge. His material was getting smashed by the likes of Marco Carola and 2016 will see his first vinyl release since his teenage years, on Sascha Sonido’s ‘Straight Ahead’.

SOUNDS LIKE? Dale Howard, Mark Jenkyns, DJ S.K.T

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HAMMER HUSKY Strong and funky What’s up, dog?

NOT TO BE CONFUSED for a side-project for Jan Hammer — or MC DJ AND PRODUCER Husky is on the up. Chippin’ away at dance production for close Hammer, for that matter — this Hammer is the artiste nom de plume of to a decade, the Bobbin Head Music boss dropped his much-applauded debut LP last Rory Hamilton, a Northern Irishman living in Glasgow who’s made his September, titled ‘Break Free’, as well as releases on Shapeshifters’ label Love Inc. and name via collaborations with Bicep (‘Lyk Lyk’, ‘I Believe’ and ‘Dahlia’). Kolombo’s Lou Lou Records. He’s about to release the fourth single ‘If You Want Me Next, what we can expect is an artist called Fist or Spanner to appear, from ‘Break Free’ later this month — it’s a dreamy house banger destined to fill early such is the new zeitgeist for classy house producers with iconic, evening house sets and primetime radio playlists alike. When he’s not crafting tunes, beefed-up titles. Because there really isn’t anything more aspirational Husky’s Bobbin Head label has also signed up the likes of Greywolf, Arco, Ted Nilsson than the Bicep duo at the minute, and Hammer is a worthy addition and Dave Mayer, with fellow Australians Carl Hanaghan, Adamwah and MTV favourites to the family. He gets about too, doing it with Ludd last month on SET MO on remix duties for the imprint. ‘Controller’ for Craige Knowes’ fund-raising ‘War Child’ compilation last month. An illustrious spiral of melodica with lashings of space-y SOUNDS LIKE? Duke Dumont, Kings Of Tomorrow, Alex Mills arpeggios, ‘Controller’ sits alongside ‘Dahlia’ as stand-out movements of the album. He’s obviously a capable DJ too, spotted on line-ups with Space Dimension Controller and b2b with T-Bone recently. This guy is no tool.

SOUNDS LIKE? Bicep, Lauer, Detroit Swindle

FOUK What the Fouk?

DUTCH DUO Fouk first appeared as a blip on our radar with a smoked-out EP (‘Kill Frenzy’) in May on Detroit Swindle’s Heist imprint. Their latest effort is for well- respected London-based label (clue’s in the title) House Of Disco. And, once again, it’s ace. Friends since high school, Daniël Leseman and Hans Peeman know exactly what they like, and that’s bold, funk-laden house of a disco-flavour. The EP (‘Gruff’), which features remixes from Crazy P’s Ron Basejam and (recent ‘Cheeky Bubbler’ selection) Snacks is another example of their bold, bicep- flexing sound, and we can’t wait for the next one.

SOUNDS LIKE? Session Victim, Dan Shake, Andy Hart

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JAMES LAVELLE ames Lavelle is the precocious club-kid who founded his iconic beats label Mo’Wax while still a teenager, releasing DJ Shadow’s amazing sample-tastic ‘Endtroducing’ album in 1996. He then formed his own production project,J UNKLE, with Shadow and worked with a long list of collaborators — including, on the first album ‘Psyence Fiction’, Thom Yorke, Mike D from the Beastie Boys and Richard Ashcroft from The Verve. UNKLE has been through several transitions since, and James simultaneously made his name as a forward-thinking eclectic DJ in the late ‘90s, helming the first ever ‘FabricLive’ mix for the club where he was a founding resident at the time. In the noughties he released a string of Global Underground CDs too — ‘GU23: Barcelona’, ‘GU26: Romania’ and ‘GU37: Bangkok’ respectively — and has now returned to the format for an extra special release. Pioneering Global Underground founder Andy Horsfield is now back running the imprint, and he’s coaxed something quite special out of his old mate Lavelle for ‘GU41: Naples’. Featuring a raft of new UNKLE material and lots of UNKLE remixes and refixes of acts like Queens Of The Stone Age and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, the two mixes are another fine example of James’s devotion to pushing the envelope. “These are my ‘Club Classics Vol 1’,” jokes James about his Take 10 for this issue, “the records that changed my DJ life. They’re in no particular order...”

01. GOLDIE ‘Inner City Life’ 04. MASSIVE ATTACK ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ 08. DJ MILO, KUDO & HIROSHI ‘The Return Of “The first time I heard this record was Gilles Peterson “My musical holy grail. The record that changed The Original Artform’ playing it at our seminal Monday That’s How It Is night everything for me; inspiring me to make music. We “A collaboration between Japan’s Major Force and [at Bar Rumba, Shaftesbury Avenue, London]. It was [UNKLE] wanted to be like them. I was inspired by DJ Milo of the seminal Wild Bunch (who later became played on dubplate. It was a total game-changer, everything from the visuals to the music. Massive Massive Attack and Soul II Soul). This record was one of introducing drum & bass into a whole new world, Attack have been one of the most consistent the most highly collectable records as a teenager, as it especially because it was a song, which was unusual for inspirations throughout my musical career. One of the was only released in Japan. A classic hip-hop ‘cut and that style of music. I had Goldie perform this and his most devastatingly beautiful records ever written.” paste’ instrumental track. It inspired everything from classic album ‘Timeless’ with an orchestra at last year’s Mo’Wax to Fatboy Slim. I finally re-released this record Meltdown. It was one of the highlights.” 05. TOUGH CREW ‘My Part Of Town’ on Mo’Wax.” “I started DJing in a soundsystem in Oxford. It was the 02. ORBITAL ‘Chime’ era of hip-hop and soul. A lot of the hip-hop records 09. RUI DI SILVA ‘Touch Me’ “I was about 15 when this came out. I was working at were very uptempo. This record reminds me of those “One of the greatest songs in ‘90s house music. It’s one Bluebird Records, one of London’s best music shops at early sessions and the amazing energy in those days.” of my total guilty pleasures. I’ve just done an UNKLE the time, starting my career in music. My friends and cover for the new ‘GU41 Naples’ album. I remember the me would be going out to raves, chasing telephone 06. RHYTHIM IS RHYTHIM ‘Strings Of Life’ first time Paul Oakenfold played this; it was a total A&R boxes trying to find a party in the countryside. I can’t “Arguably the greatest techno record ever made, frenzy. It became one of the biggest songs of that era.” express the moment I heard this record being played; it essentially defining Detroit’s new musical movement. was the first time we did ecstasy, nothing else sounded I can’t explain what it was like to hear this record for 10. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST ‘Scenario’ that good. It is a memory I’ll never forget.” the first time. It was like hearing something from out of “In the ‘90s, when I was DJing a lot more hip-hop, this space. One of the greatest electronic records ever.” record was the biggest club smash. A Tribe Called Quest 03. DONNA SUMMER ‘I Feel Love’ were the kings. You couldn’t go anywhere without “Arguably with New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, this is the 07. DJ SHADOW ‘Organ Donor’ hearing or playing this record — from Westwood best dance record ever made. It’s not left my record box “It represents the golden age of Mo’Wax and the to Gilles Peterson. It still sounds so fresh today; for 25 years. The most consistently played club record beginning of the instrumental hip-hop revolution. the ‘dungeon dragon’ line being used in so many of my career. A record that truly brings everybody It reminds me of good times in San Francisco with contemporary hip-hop records.” together. Whether you’re playing techno or funk, this DJ Shadow, collecting records and working on record can be played anywhere.” ‘Endtroducing’ — one of the most important albums of its generation.”

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SINCE LAUNCHING IN 2013, Lobster Theremin has become one of London’s most prolific and, crucially, LOBSTER dependable underground dance music labels. In the past year alone, the label has put out over twenty THEREMIN releases (with more to come before the year’s end) as well as finding the time to launch to two sub- labels, Mörk and Distant Hawaii. But despite having grown considerably, the label’s releases haven’t dipped in quality, with recent stand-outs including Moodcut’s ‘Heart Beat Takeaway’ and Daze’s ‘Neuromance EP’. As for the amusing name, it was initially suggested as a joke by a friend but it stuck and label-head Asquith ended up keeping it.

Lobster Theremin’s origins have come to define its light-hearted tone, setting it apart from an all-too- often humourless dance scene. That’s not to say though that the label isn’t a serious venture, quite the opposite. Asquith also now handles distribution for some 100 independent labels, turning what was originally just a part-time, one-man operation into a full-time job backed by a five-person team. At this rate, he might need another five or so by 2016.

Who is behind it? Qnete, Romansoff... plus tons more to “I basically started the label at the end come, spread across Lobster Theremin, of 2013 and started the distribution in Mörk and Distant Hawaii, plus another six early 2015, but Lobster Theremin and or seven secret labels I can’t talk about.” Distribution is now a five person in-office team and one freelancer. It’s a pretty Who’s playing it? robust outfit, although I feel like most “Legowelt, Ben UFO, Nina Kraviz, DJ Deep, people think it’s me laid in bed in my Helena Hauff, Erol Alkan, Randomer, underpants just listening to ratcheting Martyn, DJ Qu, DJ Haus, Danny Daze, techno.” Intergalactic Gary, most of France, my mum, Palms Trax’s dad, cartoon avatars on What does it sound like? YouTube, and everyone who’s ever skulled “Anything from a light splash of Lilt up a super-hot Bloody Mary with their roast ASQUITH your nose followed by a velvet glove on a Sunday.” How did it start? stroking across your cheek, to an “A combination of random Facebook electrified helmet strapped onto your What’s the next release? conversation (the name), incredibly bonce while you’re chased through the “There are about 70+ releases across all naive sketch (the logo) and Jay Palms forest by me driving a giant mechanical projects lined up for next year, which is Trax playing me Equation while we both Death Bone war drone.” about 3% of projected capacity by 2020. got smashed on a Tuesday night in my Key ones that tingle the loins are a new previous Tottenham abode. It took a year Who have you released? Imre Kiss white label, three separate to get off the ground (we did a launch “Route 8, Snow Bone, Daze, Palms Trax, ‘1800HaightStreet EPs’, a super-lush DJ party in late 2012), but that allowed for a Imre Kiss, Manse, nthng, Privacy, Ozel Wave record, S.Olbricht’s mini album lot of planning and ideas to grow around AB, Hedge Maze, 1800HaightStreet, (12” + 10” vinyl pack), a huge debut from the label, and what’s being witnessed now Tissu, Steve Murphy, Raw M.T., Reflec, Grammar Of Movement and some proper is a veritable explosion of that and the Gilmer Galibard, Hidden Spheres, Chicago cheeky Ross From Friends releases.” three years that we spent playing records Jim, Royer, Rawaat, sonofdistantearth, at Streets Of Beige.” Panthera Krause, Moodcut, DJ Sonikku, GIMME 5 Route 8 ‘The Sunrise Daze ‘Death Whirl’ Palms Trax Snow Bone nthng ‘Human’ In Her Eyes’ “After the success of Lips, ‘Equation’ ‘Protoplanetary’ “Hazy, undulating, emotive “The emotion in Route 8’s ‘Daze’ has literally tornado’d “Back where it all began. It “Our regular provider of techno from possibly our tracks usually reaches through a load of different was a massive relief for me possibly the toughest techno youngest producer (he’s heart-wrenching levels of influences, but this off-the- and Jay (Palms Trax) that known to man, he’s probably 20!). I’ve never seen such a melancholy (see ‘I Can’t’). cuff jump-up acid banger is this was so well received — the label artists’ favourite mature, resonating sound It’s a similar case on this but a straight up brain-melter. as we were launching him artist. This is one of his more being made by someone so imbued with a huge sense of A proper body-gyrating club as an artist and me as a groove-centred cuts and young, and the next few optimism, and is transmitted crusher.” label — but to see it go on to is a relentless battering of years for him are going to be via a reworking of the classic become such a huge track is bell-bashing melody. Prison really exciting.” house music sound palette.” incredible. Mind-blowing.” escape soundtrack vibes.”

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Books, art, movies, etc... Words: KIRSTY ALLISON Seeing as this is the December issue, we thought we’d do a bit of a round-up of stuff that falls into the remit of this lovely page ‘ere. So we’ve itemised twelve films, books etc that you might want to check out this Christmas — or might even want to give as gifts to a loved one or DJ pal...

01. EDEN 04. FUNK AND bums, drugs, and a performer’s need for acceptance It’s not Christmas without a SOUL COVERS by becoming top queen on a stage which allows codes decent film. And this is the Absolutely corking design of normality to be challenged. Out on DVD and online absolute DJ Mag Film Of The history of Afro-American now. Outstanding soundtrack. Year, out on DVD just in time dance music of the funk era to fill yer stockings. With — from psychedelia to Black 09. KATE BUSH all le ooops et le downs of Power with soul and disco. Goldfrapp, Tori Amos, Bat For Lashes and Florence club-life, this knowing and Some of the grooviest, most Welch all cite Kate Bush as an inspiration — but sensitive paean to every happening record sleeves beyond her music, Bush’s imagery is what propelled party is loosely-based around ever, this is deep, dense and beautiful — and will do her stardom, with pop videos shown in cinemas, and director Mia Hansen-Løve’s brother’s life, where he more than take you, or a loved one, through the 12 riding the MTV-wave in the ‘80s. Many of her far-out chases the elatedness of working a crowd in the Roulé nights. Step inside the love wagon... ideas were developed through the collaborative trust era. With a soundtrack featuring ‘Plastic Dreams’, of her brother. In an often superficial industry, John ‘Sueno Latino’, ‘Sweet Harmony’, Frankie Knuckles, The 05. CENSORSHIP NOW!! Carder Bush’s Inside The Rainbow is a beautifully Orb, Joe Smooth, Daft Punk and Rosie Gaines, what Twist yer melon with a series of essays by Ian F. presented insight into that process. could go wrong? Other than that mistake of producing Svenonius, America’s punk Barthes. The musician’s records when you really should be in hospital. French eponymous slice proposes a code where industrialised 1 0 . M A R LO N J A M E S ’ A B R I E F to the core, drugs provide the perfect tool for internal artists of all types declare their agenda and HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS dialogue, rather than actors screaming over club- responsibility for the cause of futurekind... New Year Jamaican ghetto-infused ride through Bob Marley’s scenes. File aside Human Traffic and It’s All Gone Pete Resolutions cometh, are we up for that? death, or attempted assassination of ‘the singer’ — a Tong. collage of voices from kids in Clarks’ shoes that are too 06. 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“I stayed up all night and I couldn’t stop playing, working on what became the piano riff to ‘Where Love Lives’. Once I’d figured it out I couldn’t stop playing it, it was such fun and it felt so right.” LATI KRONLUND

ALISON LIMERICK ‘WHERE LOVE LIVES (CLASSIC MIX)’ (Arista, 1990)

We talk to the producer behind one of the most well-known and enduring house tracks ever — Lati Kronlund — to hear how the record came to be, via singer Alison Limerick and a little bit of magic dust sprinkled on it by the late, great Frankie Knuckles...

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IF there’s one element that epitomizes the classic Like many of the best dance tunes, it was made in a Holiday song, I think it was ‘God Bless The Child’. She house music sound, it’s a memorable, massive piano quick burst of activity after years of musical practice was sitting on this huge swing wearing a fantastic riff. They don’t come much larger than the opening and dry runs. Lati couldn’t quite believe his luck after frock. I was blown away by that and made contact lick of Alison Limerick’s 1990 club hit ‘Where Love he came up with the infamous central piano part. with her after the show. I called her and presented her Lives’. It’s an iconic passage of soulful grand piano “I remember sitting there laughing out loud to with ‘Where Love Lives’ and she came in and it was just drama that creates an instant surge of recognition myself,” he tells DJ Mag. “I only had one light in fantastic. and excitement, from a club record that comfortably the studio cos I was trying to save on electricity, I “She is one of those singers who can hear a melody dominated the radio airwaves at a time when house didn’t have a lot of money at the time. But it was just once and it’s with her,” he adds. “She makes it her was reaching new heights and beginning to become a fantastic. Something happens and you feel you’re own. When she sings something it feels like it’s marketable commodity. on the right track. Something happens which just coming from her heart, it’s not just singing somebody A proper song blessed by the enviable vocal chords feels right, you feel warm. That’s a feeling of inner else’s song. I think she liked to sing ‘Where Love Lives’ of diva-in-the-making Alison Limerick, it sounded confidence. because it has a very broad range.” like an authentic taste of American dance music. But “That night I put the whole thing together,” he A confluence of perfect ingredients, from the it was actually the product of a fortuitous meeting continues. “I didn’t want to have that piano riff going plangent piano to the warm, bumping bass and between Swedish producer Lati Kronlund and London all along, I wanted to break down into the verse which Alison’s dynamic vocal — belting in the chorus, cool, singer Limerick. has that other piano riff that I really liked, which is controlled in the reflective verse — it seemed a dead almost like an arpeggiated thing.” cert. The final sheen was added by house heroes and Lati had moved to London in ’84 to study at film Def Mix alumni Frankie Knuckles (RIP) and David school. Already a big fan of soul, funk and disco, when Despite the apparent ease with which he made the Morales on their ‘Classic Mix’, a stamp of Chicago-via- house blew up in the UK it felt like a natural step for track, Lati employed a fair amount of equipment New York realness that was surely guaranteed to get him. to realise his vision. “I used an Atari 1040ST for the record noticed. “House music had started, I’d been checking it out,” programming. There was a 16-track Tascam or Fostex “That came about because Frankie liked the song so Lati says today. “I thought it was cool but it wasn’t until machine. I had an Akai S900, and a Roland 808 for much and he wasn’t happy with the first remixes,” Lati ’89 that it really clicked for me. One of the tracks that the percussion and I think part of the kick-drum. And says. “He had gone into the studio and worked more really made it click for me was Lil’ Louis, ‘French Kiss’. I had a Casio FZ1, also for loops. I had an M1 for the on it. Arista said, ‘You can’t do that, because we can’t I remember dancing to it at [London club] Heaven, piano and I mixed it with an S900, so there were two pay you again’. Frankie said, ‘Don’t worry about it, and it was kind of mind-blowing. It opened up a new layers of pianos. And the pad is a Roland MKS50. I I will pay for this myself because I’ve got to get this musical thing for me. The Kraftwerk electronics and played a guitar that was a Strat and a Fender Jazz bass right’. And when it came back, which was the final Fela Kuti multi-rhythms, it was really like a new thing. for the original bassline. It’s a lot of stuff. My mix was ‘Classic Mix’, and also David’s stripped-down mix, then Nobody had done that. Yes, we’d all been dancing to sent off to Billy April from Drizabone and he added I went into Arista’s office and said, ‘You better pay disco and stuff but this was really taking it to a level stuff which he never gets credited for, the little string because this is brilliant’. I hope they did eventually. that was trance-inducing — as it were. I thought that parts, those are really cool.” Frankie always really loved the song, and that was was really fantastic, so I got into it more.” Lati wanted a vocal on the track but wondered whether fantastic to know that too.” he needed one, mindful of the essentially simple, Hooked on the sound, he went to see house vocal rhythmic core of the best house music. “The melody But the track wasn’t a big hit to start with. Lati was group Ten City perform live at the Dominion Theatre, didn’t come to me when I was writing the music, anxious when it was released and didn’t appear to be who had hit big with the track ‘That’s The Way Love Is’. because with the piano groove and the whole house getting quite the attention he’d initially hoped, only Emboldened by their Philly soul-inspired take on the music thing, once you get the groove going, that’s compounded when Arista told him they were unhappy form, right after the show in a flush of creativity he enough. That’s one of the things about house music, with its chart performance. Yet it was only a matter of de-camped to his studio on Wardour Street in Soho to it works so well as instrumental music. But after a bit I time before the record would become a club hit. lay down the foundation of what’s become one of the started thinking about adding vocals to it.” “I remember one night I was at the Milk Bar,” Lati house classics. He’d played the track to Beatmasters and Soul II Soul recalls. “I was kind of depressed because I’d had a “I was completely blown away. After that show I went singer Claudia Fontaine with a view to her adding her call from Arista that day where they said the song straight back and wrote ‘Where Love Lives’,” Lati voice to the song, after having subsequently written was ‘sliding back in mid-weeks, so we should probably remembers. “I stayed up all night and I couldn’t stop lyrics and a melody. But Claudia wasn’t keen on start thinking about the next single now’, and I wasn’t playing, working on what became the piano riff. Once the style. It was when Lati encountered Alison that really feeling the party. I was getting ready to leave I’d figured it out I couldn’t stop playing it, it was such inspiration struck. and I was in the bathroom. I heard Danny Rampling fun and it felt so right.” “I met her at the ICA, she was part of an alternative start playing the song. I come out and it’s complete fashion show,” he says. “She performed a Billie madness. People were dancing on top of the bar. I couldn’t believe it. He played Frankie’s remix and I thought, ‘This is brilliant’.” When the record was rereleased in ’91, it hit No.27 in the UK charts and No.3 in the American Hot Dance Club Play chart. But its legacy is most keenly felt as a club record.

Today, Lati’s central focus is his band Brooklyn Funk Essentials. Initially a project dreamed up with Arthur Baker after the ‘Planet Rock’ producer invited him to come to New York to work on an Al Green record, Brooklyn Funk Essentials grew from a samples and loops, jazzy hip-hop sideline into a full live band that Lati leads today. His new record ‘Funk Ain’t Ova’, out through Dorado, explores his soul roots, with a host of guest vocal appearances. But would he ever work with Alison Limerick again to recreate the magic of their first, fateful collaboration? “Absolutely, we’ve been talking about working together. Every time we meet, it’s like hugs, and, ‘When are we gonna work together again?’ And then life gets in the way. But as a matter of fact, I’ve been playing around with a song that I feel would be really good for us to work on. I haven’t even told her this, but that will definitely happen!” You heard it here first.BEN MURPHY

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