Hang over music...

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Drinking Russian Standard Vodka from an old sports cap Highland Spring water bottle last night resulted in a day of chilled out music listening to help me cope with feeling like "a bag of dicks" as a dear friend would put it.

Following is the top 3 highlights of the days listening:

This video is of the best (in my opinion) pop-jazz group, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, playing - Behind The Yashmak at the Jazz à Juan Les Pins festival. Sadly I didnt ever see EST live, and following the death of the pianist Esbjörn Svensson in 2008 I'll only be able to imagine how awesome it would have been.



Next up, we go back to the hip hop instrumentalist Aim's first album, 'Cold Water Music', with the track 'The Force' featuring Q.N.C. as the MC. (The skating is from the video Lordz "They don't give a fuck about us")



Finally, 90's hiphop pioneer Del tha Funkee Homo Sapien. I was pleased to discover he is STILL going strong. All his future gigs seem to be in the US/Canada.

Bubble Bath

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Here's a bit of foamy disco for you:


The Swiss are a class act hailing from Austraila, check out their myspace, they spout some crap about being the only legit disco band around, ignore that nonsense and enjoy the selection of smooth sounds they produce.

our flyer:

Noise Ban @ Cocomo

We have some great news! Noise Ban has a venue for our first night. On Friday the 2nd of April (Good Friday), the Noise Ban crew will be bringing an awesome collection of electronic beats to Cocomo on Old Street. Get there early to enjoy a (reasonably priced) cocktail in the comfy lounge area, before the music gets dirty and it's time to get your boogie on.

Wobbly Bass!

A couple of interesting tracks I have heard recently are the High Contrast Remix of Kaleidoscope (by Tiësto feat. Jónsi - Kaleidoscope) and The Dubstep mix of Get Mad By Wickaman and Sylo. Possibly to stop people calling him a sell out for remixing Tiësto, High Contrast has made his remix available for free. Unfortunately I cant find an official download link, try this unofficial one instead.

Day and Krunk - Monsieur Ferro

I command you to-


-Listen to the new Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-up by Monsieur Ferro,


-Enjoy the new Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-up by Monsieur Ferro,


-Come to NoiseBan and listen to further Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-up's by Monsieur Ferro,





Original Artists:
Kid Cudi
Kanye ('gunna let you finish) West
Santogold
Lykke Li

Sampled Remixes by:
Crookers
Rusko
Steve Aoki



While We're on the Subject of RUSKO check out his lovely remix of hide and seek...

Edit: Monsieur Ferro's Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-Up is now in mp3 format, with reduced file size. Original Wav format available here.

Cosmic Mix

In Europe’s dark discotheques in the late 70s and early 80s “Italo” disco was the music of choice. To be honest a lot of it was cheesy crap, but some of it sounds as fresh today as it was back then. Ceefax B has collected a few old skool synth classics for your listening pleasure. I’m not sure of the exact definition of Italo, not all of the songs below are strictly qualify but that’s fine by me. A couple of the tracks sound a bit dated, but I think that doesn’t stop them being great, like the Donna Summer hit State of Independence, which has an all star chorus featuring Michael Jackson, Brenda Russell, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Loggins, Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder.

Ceefax B – Cosmic Mix

Tracklisting:

Blade Runner, End Title - Vangelis (1982)

Penguins Invasion - Scotch (1983)

The Chase (Midnight Express Soundtrack) - Giorgio Moroder (1978)

Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine (Gloria Estefan) (1984)

Magic Fly - Space (1977)

Archeopterix - I Signori Della Galassia (1979)

State of Independence - Donna Summer (1982)

Another track which didn’t fit into the mix but is still worth a listen is Prison by the French trio Space: