Blogasaurus Rex!

It's coming. On Sunday in Manchester's Contact Theatre (next to the Academy on Oxford Road), the stars of the Manchester music blogging miniverse are joining together like some sort of web-savvy/music-spoddy Voltron to create the beast that is Bloggerpalooza. From 6pm onwards, the cream of the crop of Manc's mp3 bloggers will be providing a sensory treat for your ears and eyes (beautiful guys and gals that we are, once you look past the pixel tans) as part of Manchester's five-day Futuresonic festival. Sod The RZA, we're the big draw this year so you really should be there.

There'll be various web 2.0 kind of shenanighans going on like live internet streaming, an ongoing Twitter feed telling you what we're playing as it spins and all sorts of other fun stuff. It's going to be great so if you're in the area, there's really no excuse for not coming. Your selectors for the night are Just Hipper and The Ledge from The Indie Credential, Niles and Baggy from Cosmic Disco, the Best Foot Forward crew, Shoplifters, Jon The Beef from Black Country Grammar and, of course, yours truly. Hopefully the weather will stay nice too.

I might well play this...

6th Burrough Project - So Glad (mp3)

... but not this, although I think you'll admit it'd be funny if I did...

Tim And Eric - Doo Dah Doo Doo (mp3)

See you there?

More from me soon, honest...

JMx

Better late than never.

Let's just forget for a moment that I forgot that this blog was three years old last Saturday (12th April), even though it falls the day after my own birthday and let's celebrate it today, with this little mix I threw together for y'all. It's not perfect, there are a few pops, clicks and sloppy mixes to contend with, but it's something and, hey, it's the thought that counts, right?

6th Burrough Project - Just A Memory (Five20East)
Maurice Fulton - My Gigolo (Transfusion)
Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love (Soft Rocks Mix feat. Kathy Diamond) (Eskimo)
Al Usher - Lullaby For Robert (Out Of The Loop)
Windsurf - Pocket Check (Internasjonal)
Maps - To The Sky (The Loving Hand Remix) (Mute)
Mocky - Catch A Moment In Time (Ewan Pearson's Memory Blissed Remix) (Fine.)
James Pants - We're Through (Stones Throw)
Junior Byron - Dance To The Music (Vanguard)
Chaz Jankel feat. Brenda Jones - You're My Occupation (A&M)
Fred Cherry - Busride To The Zoo (Hole In The Sky)
Hercules & Love Affair - Athene (DFA/EMI)
The Shortwave Set - No Social (Optimo Espacio Mix) (Wall Of Sound)
Baby Oliver - Shot Caller (Environ)
Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong (DFA/EMI)

Download Yer Mam!'s Birthday Mix

Back soon with something a little more substantial.

JMx

Devils and Aeroplanes

Here's a novel concept in the world of blogging; this is a post where I talk about things I can't post yet. This isn't me getting all big-headed and saying "Look what I've got" and getting off on withholding it, Lucille Bluth-style. No, this is me saying, "Hey guys, you need to look out for this, because it's well worth hearing". I wish I could share these things with you, but it'd be nice if the little guys got paid once in a while, wouldn't it? So bear with me. There are mp3s to follow, just not the ones I'm talking about. All will become clear soon enough. That vicarious enough for ya?!


Rejoice! Black Devil Disco Club are releasing a new mini-album/six-track EP in June! Entitled Eight Oh Eight, it continues Bernard Fevre and Jacky Giordano's (if that is what they're really called) obsessions with the number eight and cavernous, spooked-out disco. The first release came out in 1978, with the follow-up coming a whopping 28 years later in 2006. Now they're bringing something out this year - 2008! Whaaat?! I'm going to have a lie-down.

Numeric mind games aside, there is a common thread that runs through all Fevre and Giordano's releases to date and that's the patented Black Devil sound. Never really deviating from the echoey analogue synths and springy synthetic percussion template, complete with heavily-treated vocals, Eight Oh Eight at least brings something new to the table in that it comes off a little more sophisticated than its forebears. Where the previous two Black Devil releases sounded thrillingly amateur, as if Fevre and Giordano found the instruments in a dusty basement and just sat down and hammered out whatever came to them, the new one sees the duo finally getting a grip of their tools but without losing sight of that trademark sonic blueprint.

Eight Oh Eight kicks off with the bracing, Cerrone-esque 'With Honey Cream' and its unnerving falsetto vocal and what really hits you first of all is just how textured it is. You could spend months listening to this and get no closer to nailing its multi-layered grandeur. It's one of the best things I've heard so far this year (how many times will you hear me say that over the next eight months?). That said, all of the tracks here are pretty fucking great, with special mentions going to the light-fingered closer 'For Hoped' (easily the loveliest thing they've ever recorded) and 'Never No Dollars'' filtration of Italo through Chicago house.

Eight Oh Eight is apparently the final piece in the Black Devil puzzle, which is a shame, as no one sounds remotely like them. It's great to be able to listen to the whole of Fevre and Giordano's output (all 18 tracks of it) in one sitting though. I'm sure you'll be able to do the same soon enough. Here's some vintage Black Devil to tide you over...

Black Devil - "H" Friend (mp3)

Black Devil Disco Club - I Regret The Flower Power (mp3)


At the start of the year, I was planning to do a Tips For 2008 post, just like all the other bloggers probably did, but that fell apart when I realised I was a bit burned out after those mammoth year-end lists. I had a rudimentary list in my head of bands I wanted to clue my readers in on that could be divided into three categories; the obvious (Vampire Weekend, Late Of The Pier, Hercules & Love Affair), that everyone seemed to be tipping, the not-so-obvious (Holy Ghost!, Durrty Goodz, Wild Rumpus) and the I'm-really-sticking-my-neck-out-here (Invisible Conga People, The Revolving Eyes, Gatto Fritto).

The one act that nearly made me see the whole endeavour through, before deciding that if I kept on posting at the rate I was going at, pretty soon I wouldn't have anything interesting left to say (a fear that keeps me awake at night, as I'm sure it does for most music writers), was Belgium's Aeroplane, a two-piece made up of Stephen Fasano and Vito De Luca, signed to Eskimo and currently churning out some of the most immediate, poppy Balearic disco you'll have heard in years. Their first self-titled release made my top 100 tunes of 2007 list, but it's since then that my love for them has really started to blossom. In a totally platonic way of course.

Anyway, after the wonderful 'Pacific Air Race' and their stupendously good remixes for the likes of Das Pop, Cobra Dukes and Lullabies In The Dark (De Luca's solo project) comes the one you've all been waiting for and the point where Aeroplane's crossover potential is starkly realised in the form of a rather blindingly good pop song. 'Whispers', featuring the vocal talent of fellow Yer Mam! crush object, Kathy Diamond, is just that song and it comes out, finally, on Eskimo next month. It carries all the Aeroplane touchstones - scene-setting, gently building first half leading into blisteringly anthemic, soaring second half - but the addition of the vocals should help them garner some notice in the commercial spheres. I can definitely imagine this one on daytime radio and it's not often you can say that about something released on Eskimo.

If that wasn't enough there's a brilliant Hercules & Love Affair remix on the flip that's a touch clubbier and sees Andy Butler carry on in the classic acid house vein of his recent reworks. It also has one of the best borderline cheesy vocal samples in recent years ("Over and over and over and over and over and over again") and a great wobbly bass refrain. All in all, THE best single of the year so far. Until it gets replaced in my affections by something else in about a week, that is. Here's some Aeroplane and Kathy Diamond related downloadables in the meantime...

Aeroplane - Pacific Air Race (mp3)

Das Pop - Fool For Love (Aeroplane Remix) (mp3)

Kathy Diamond - The Moment (mp3)

In other news: I'm on this week's Blog Fresh Radio, talking about the wonderful Canyons.

Also, some new reviews up over at Yer Mam! II, of Weatherall's Watch The Ride mix and the excellent new Clinic album. Check 'em out.

"I got a tape I wanna play for you"...

http://yermam.muxtape.com/

JMx

A Bunch Of 12s

The year in music so far hasn't been characterised by great albums - not for me at least - so much as great singles, mainly in the dance music sphere. Sure, there's been some cracking full-lengths from debutants (Hercules & Love Affair, Quiet Village, Vampire Weekend) and reliable old hands (Bad Seeds, Supergrass, The Dirtbombs) alike, but aside from a small few, nothing has had the replay value of some of the year's 12"s.

Perhaps the single - which some commentors will try to inform you is dying out, misguidedly - is the perfect format for our times? You get two, maybe three tracks - four or five if you're lucky - and out, with no time allowed to test the patience. The single therefore lends itself to addiction more than an album does. The more commercial artists out there - they who populate the top 40 - have indeed lost sight of what makes a good single. If you stick the song on iTunes with maybe one bonus track, then that'll do just fine. The consumers like it this way because it's less unwieldy than a big, black plastic disc, or even a small, shiny plastic disc. It's iPod-ready and doesn't take up any space.

But what of those who like something a little more tactile? Something they can hold in their hands or place on a shelf. Are these people being short-changed? Not if you like your modern disco and house music it seems. By the way, I know that the mp3s I'm about to post make what I've just said seem a little hypocritical but indulge me, okay.


London's shadowy Dissident imprint is still chalking up the releases like Chris Partlow and Snoop rack up the bodies. They're also still limited, pricey and, in the main, one-sided. Now £8 for one track might seem a little too much for some (it is for me, with my paltry income), but that hasn't really stopped them becoming gradually more revered with each 12". The frequency of Dissident's releases might well decrease their collectibility in the long run, but the minimalist chic of their labels (all variations on the same theme, only the font for the artist and title change) has marked out a style at least.

Also, you can't really argue with their output so far. Mainly dealing in twilit Italo and pastoral Balearica, with the occasional tech-y diversion, they're developing a distinct in-house sound. Their 2008 releases so far have been pretty uniformly brilliant too, with particular plaudits going to Ali Renault's slo-mo, drugged-out electro-disco, 'Our World Is...' and the long-form lushness of Gatto Fritto's 'Hungry Ghosts'.

My personal favourite has come from Truffle Club though. If we're to believe the rumour (and why not? He's used the moniker more than once in the past), Truffle Club is the work of Optimo main-man, JD Twitch. The neon-flecked, Blade Runner grooves of 'Gone Blue' marks Twitch out as a producer to keep an eye on. 'Gone Blue' pulses and shimmers with bleary-eyed wonder and is a perfect end-of-nighter for those with a passion for old sounds given a modern twist.

Truffle Club - Gone Blue (mp3)


Mock & Toof have been laying the releases on a little thickly as of late too, with two 12"s on different labels. The self-released 'Big Hands For A Lady' is a doozy, but it's their recent three-tracker for Tiny Sticks that has me reaching for the stylus over and over again. A double-A with an extra remix thrown in for good measure is mighty good value, especially seeing as the two lead tracks are the best things Mock & Toof have put out so far.

'Beat Up' does the jazzy-disco thing, with sneaky Afro elements incorporated that they do so well, but there's just something about that maddening, corroded Rhodes line that screams addictive. 'Lucky' on the other hand is a gentrified little slice of moody electro-pop that still retains their ear for the unusual. Darshan Jesrani of Metro Area then sets about giving the raucous kitchen-sink disco of 'Black Jub' something of a classy makeover, turning it into an altogether spacier, more cosmopolitan affair. I await the forthcoming album with bated breath.

Mock & Toof - Black Jub (Darshan Jesrani Hot Seat Mix) (mp3)


It wouldn't be a post about 12"s without me looking in on what DFA have offered forth lately. After a veritable flurry - for them anyway - of releases in the first couple of months of 2008, they've gone a little quiet now. But while everyone was busy trumpeting Hercules & Love Affair's stellar debut album, they flung out a couple of singles from some master producers of quality dirty disco that you may well have missed.

First up, there was Syclops' 'Where's Jason's K?'. Now, whether you believe that Syclops are a band from Finland who, conveniently, "don't tour or do interviews", according to their MySpace, or whether it is just another in a long line of aliases from Maurice Fulton is by-the-by. This is his/their fourth 12" now, following one on Fulton's own Bubbletease label and a couple on Tirk and it is most definitely a Fulton joint, all wobbly, agitated synths, echoey percussion and pervasive sense of menace. Fulton's askew-view of disco, funk, soul and electro is a perfect fit for DFA and the album, I've Got My Eye On You follows pretty damn soon. Here's a taste of what's to come with the b-side from 'Where's Jason's K?'.

Syclops - Monkeypuss (mp3)


Then came 'Happy House'. Premiered halfway through 2007 on Beats In Space, The Juan Maclean's massive comeback single was an instant hit. It's not hard to see why as this is an instantly likeable piece of uptempo disco-house with an infectious vocal from in-house diva, Nancy Whang that just goes on and on and on and on, in a good way, as if powered by a pilled-up Duracell bunny. I've wrote about it before, I'm sure and I'll most definitely talk about it again before the year's out, but for now this is one of the best primers for a forthcoming album I've ever heard. Here's hoping it doesn't disappoint.

The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Lee Douglas Remix) (mp3)


Lastly, but by no means leastly, here's a tribute in mp3s to the greatest punk drummer of all-time, Krautrock pioneer, Klaus Dinger who died on March 21st of heart failure. As a member of Neu!, Kraftwerk (in the early days) and La Dusseldorf, his influence is still felt hugely in modern music. R.I.P.

Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck (mp3)

Neu! - Hallogallo (mp3)

Neu! - Hero (mp3)

La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf (mp3)

Kraftwerk playing 'Ruckzuck' with Dinger on drums on WDR in 1970.

I'll be back with more guff about singles and that later this week.

He's Not Such A Bad Guy After All

The resurrected Strut label are on something of a winning streak since their return. Following on from the rather good Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986 and the excellent Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986 comes Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1974-1983. Strut like their left-of-centre disco almost as much as they like torturous titles with timeframes at the end, so you can understand why I love them so much.

August Darnell is known to most as Kid Creole, but he's often seen outside of those in the know as a bit of a novelty (sartorial choices and his willingness to appear onstage opposite Will Mellor in recent years probably did for that). This misconception is one of my own personal bugbears as he was the catalyst for some of the best disco music to come out of New York in the late-70s/early-80s. Arthur Russell gets the critical plaudits - and rightly so, most of the time - but Darnell is arguably more influential and, oftentimes, his music was just as artful as Russell's, albeit in a different way.

Anyway, Going Places goes a long way to rectify this misrepresentation as it pulls together some of his lesser known work (no place for 'Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy' or 'Stool Pigeon'), sidestepping the whole 'Tropical Gangster' schtick he became known for and highlights his nous as a producer. The collection kicks off with Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Darnell's first band with his brother, Stoney Browder Jr. and Coati Mundi, aka Andy Hernandez - and the pop-soul of 'Sunshower' (sampled by M.I.A. on her song of the same name), before taking in the kitsch delights of Cristina's take on 'Is That All There Is?', Machine's absolutely massive underground disco anthem, 'There But For The Grace Of God Go I', Don Armando's' classic disco cover of 'I'm An Indian, Too', alongside early tracks from The Coconuts and Darnell's other band, Aural Exciters.

For Ze Records scholars, Going Places probably won't hold that many surprises - some of the tracks here have seen the light of day on their Mutant Disco compilations - but as a balance-redressing collection of some of the funkiest, most flamboyant, showtune-inspired, decadent, yet lowdown and dirty disco to ever come from the Big Apple, Going Places is absolutely essential. I, for one, eagerly anticipate Strut's next move.

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - He's Not Such A Bad Guy After All (12" Version) (mp3)

Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I (12" Version) (mp3)

Still bored? 24:Hours have an excellent Rune Lindbaek mix up for download at the moment. Hasn't left my stereo for the last two weeks.

Also, if you're not all disco'd out by now, let me rep once more for the excellent Million Dollar Disco site, especially the mixes section. The Love On The Run mix is superb, but they're all worth checking out if you have the time/inclination/disco pants.

JMx

Cosmic Mentalists

Daniele Baldelli's influence on DJ culture cannot be overstated. Almost as revered as the likes of Larry Levan and Ron Hardy, it's only in the last few years that his influence has really been felt outisde his native Italy. Of course, 'round these parts today it's all cosmic disco and whatnot, but this guy was doing it back in the late '70s on the shores of Lake Garda at his club, the appropriately-monikered Cosmic. Baldelli's trick was to mix up all sorts of genres and styles, as long as he could pitch it down or up to around 100bpm.

Anyway, the Baldelli story is one for another time and a writer better versed in the mythology surrounding the man. In tandem with partner-in-sonics, Marco Dionigi, Baldelli has a new mix coming out on April 21st through Eskimo, entitled Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock! and it's an absolute corker. Baldelli and Dionigi edit and filter eighteen tracks of Eurotrashy rock, synth-pop, new beat and new wave from the early 80s through their own cosmic vision and it's one of the most crowd-pleasing, yet delightfully strange mixes I've heard in quite some time.

Where else are you going to find Ray Parker Jr. and Thompson Twins rubbing shoulders with the esoteric likes of Strafe Fur Rebellion and Richard Bone? Immense replay value and just good fun in the purest sense of the word, not to mention massively danceable and addictive, Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock! should by rights become essential listening for those interested in mixes that take the road less travelled without disappearing up Rectum Lane. Can't recommend this one enough.

Here's a few tracks that Baldelli and Dionigi use, although they appear in differing forms on the mix...

Fra Lippo Lippi - Say Something (mp3)

La Bionda - I Got Your Number (mp3)

Thompson Twins - Beach Culture (Long Version) (mp3)


I've lavished praise upon Per Martinsen's electro-pop project, Frost on these pages in the past (their 2007 full-length, Love! Revolution! made number 50 in my albums list last year), but I haven't shown much love for his solo turn, Mental Overdrive before. Don't know why, because I've been a fan since I first heard about him about eighteen months ago. As regular readers will know, I'm a sucker for the Norwegian stuff, but Mental Overdrive is an altogether more malevolent beast than most of his Scandinavian compatriots.

Perhaps closest in spirit to DiskJokke, but a little darker, a little less technicolour, MO's music skirts and blurs the lines between disco, techno, punk (in spirit, at least) and house with panache, consummate ease and a winning sense of the perverse. He's about to release his fourth album proper through Smalltown Supersound, You Are Being Manipulated and as the title suggests, it's a manic, paranoid, schizoid stalk through the aforementioned genres and quite possibly his most accomplished album to date. More focused than 1999's Ad Absurdum and 2004's brilliantly messy 083, You Are Being Manipulated is both the most easily digestible record he's released under the Mental Overdrive blanket and his most sonically adventurous.

Martinsen flirts with, screws up and fucks over punk-funk (most obviously the sinewy bass and spare percussion of ESG) on 'Original Material', covers Iron Maiden's 'Run To The Hills' in a manner that's both respectful and massively irreverent, gives 'The Rage' one of the most hilariously portentous breakdowns (complete with mangled, down-pitched "Turn it up"s, naturally) in years and in 'Europa', crafts one of the best chances of the Norwegian sound crossing over since 'I Feel Space'. All in all, You Are Being Manipulated is a bit of an achievement. Artistic growth for Martinsen and one of the most fully-realised albums to ever emanate from the Norwegian dance music scene.

Mental Overdrive - Spooks (mp3)

In other news: The Cosmic Disco boys recently posted a great, detailed track-by-track breakdown of the new Compass Point compilation on Strut (reviewed by my good self here). Check it out.

This is unbelieveably scary...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/them

Check out the video entitled "I'm Joe and I'm A Ska Kid" and try not to punch your monitor.

I've set up a blog for all the bits of writing I do for other people (pretty much just High Voltage really). I've imaginatively called it Yer Mam! II. Go over and have a read, if you want.

That's all I've got for now. Back soon, though...

JMx

Beards And Bears

No, I'm not dead. Just lazy. That's about to change...


I first became aware of Quiet Village, aka Matt 'Radioslave' Edwards and Joel 'Zeus' Martin, back in 2005 when they released a series of 12"s on New York's super-collectible Whatever We Want label (home also to spiritual brethren Map Of Africa and Bobbie Marie). I fell in love and have been playing them ever since. The boys went quiet on the release front after 2006's 'Circus Of Horror/Free Rider' 12, but kept up the profile with a regular sprinkling of moody, dusty remixes for the disparate likes of Grandadbob, James Yorkston and Mudd amongst others.

Now, like an extremely welcoming bolt from the blue, comes their debut album, Silent Movie due for release on !K7 next month and it picks up where the WWW releases left off. It's twelve tracks of downbeat, sample-based splendour that touches on soul, dub, psychedelia, disco and all points inbetween. Five of the tracks have seen the light of day before so there may be some familiarity for the initiated. For newbies though, this may well be seen as a godsend - I can see this one making a lot of year-end lists come December - as if you're not already well-versed in the QV aesthetic, Silent Movie will be a breath of fresh air.

Of the new tracks, the playfully emotive, gospel-skank of 'Pacific Rhythm' and the Vollenweider-esque Balearic bliss of 'Utopia' are the most immediate, but on further plays each of the songs assembled unfurl and bloom in hitherto unnoticed ways. Silent Movie is one for the file marked 'grower' and it becomes more and more cherishable with each run-through. For fans of their output thus far, I'm glad to note that the songs you'll know and love already - the gnarled acid-rock of 'Circus Of Horror', 'Pillow Talk''s Alan Parsons-sampling twilit psych and the slo-mo organic Italo of 'Can't Be Beat' in particular - still endure and benefit from the context of a full-length album.

For anyone coming into Silent Movie cold, however, I envy you. A lush, sonorous delight, front-to-back, Silent Movie might well change the way you think about sampling and will almost definitely forge an immovable place in your heart and on your stereos for months to come. A modern classic in the making.

Quiet Village - Pacific Rhythm (mp3)

Bonus: The Osmonds - I I I (Quiet Village No-Edit) (mp3)


Another thing I've been loving lately is the new Late Of The Pier single, 'The Bears Are Coming'. I know you're probably thinking "That's not normally James' kind of thing", and you'd be right. I normally steer clear of these newfangled British indie bands, especially if they try arduously and often misguidedly to fashion something they intend to 'work in a club'.

That said, Late Of The Pier set themselves aside from their peers in a number of ways. First of all, they've recruited Erol Alkan to twiddle their knobs for them (something that's becoming more of a smart move with every passing day when you regard his good recent work with The Long Blondes and Mystery Jets), a man who clearly knows how to make something danceable. Also, LOTP's songs are mostly loveably odd, schizophrenic cut-and-shuts of electro, new wave, prog and 70s soft-rock (check last year's barmy 'Bathroom Gurgle'); hard to get a grip on, but never totally self-consciously quirky. Late Of The Pier's digressions always seem to come from a completely natural place and never feel forced.

'The Bears Are Coming' is a squelchy amalgam of D.C. go-go, pistoning tech-funk, garage-y fuzz guitar and a middle-eight that melds Stereolab-like moog effects to pastoral Brit-psych harmonies, with a brilliantly incongrous glam-soul vocal. Then there's the daft race-to-the-finish climax. It's all-over-the-shop but maddeningly addictive and one of the best darn pop songs of the year so far.

The remixes on the flip all take differing views of the source material. The Emperor Machine appropriates the a-side's shape-shifting spirit and fashions a thrilling nine-minute space-disco mini-opera from it, while Joakim's mix is halfway between classic acid house and modern Parisian retro-fetishistic electro. The best of the bunch comes, unsurprisingly, from Alkan himself, with Richard Norris in tow. The Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation, accentuates the go-go elements of the original, even throwing in some of Trouble Funk's 'Pump Me Up' for good measure, tucks in some mournful solo trumpet before twisting the song into that holy grail of 21st Century British indie-rock; a dancefloor bomb. Anyways, see for yourselves...

Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation) (mp3)

Exclusive Mix: Peter Jay (Nish Nash Nosh)

Back in January, I gave Peter Jay's Nish Nash Nosh mix the number five spot in my DJ mixes of the year list. Not for nothing either. I know a lot of you were probably thinking I was doing it out of Manc loyalty (Moston in the area!), but I genuinely thought that Nish Nash Nosh Volume 3 was the dog's balls. Mixing up the finest disco and soul, past and present, Jay found room for Rene & Angela, Crown Heights Affair, Stevie Wonder, Skinny Joey, Frank Hebly and Phantom Slasher along the way. If you haven't got it then shame on you (Fat City still have some by the look of it), but you can redeem yourself a little in two ways...

First of all, you can make it down to Nish Nash Nosh this Saturday, the 22nd - or every Saturday for that matter - at the Mint Lounge on Oldham St., Manchester, where you can see the disco hairdresser himself on the ones and twos, alongside fellow resident, Dave "Serious" Walker from 10pm 'til 3am. It's always a good 'un and at £6 a throw (£5 for members or for people hardy enough to get there before 11), it's not to be sniffed at.

Secondly, you can download the exclusive mix Peter's knocked up especially for Yer Mam!'s readers below. It's well good...

Peter Jay (Nish Nash Nosh) Exclusive Mix

Tracklisting:

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Mix)
Bittersweet - Overdue (Blackbeard Mix)
Beatconductor - Jibaro
Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost (Ray Mang Edit)
Banbarra - Shack Up (The Revenge Edit)
Restless Soul feat. Shea Soul - Turn Me Out
Tangoterje - I Wanna Dance
Gino Soccio - Try It Out (Barna Soundmachine & Der Beat Mix)
Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-Edit)
Coppa - Society Ho's
Prince - Let's Work (Dark Dancer Remix)
Phantom Slasher - Woman
Macho - I'm A Man (SDC Edit)
RS - Under My Dub
Mindless Boogie - Emotional R (In Flagranti Edit)

Back later (maybe) with more hot shit.

JMx