London heads, you’d be bonkers to be missing this one.. One of our favourite record labels, the magnificent Disco Deviance, kicks off a new bi-monthly residency in a couple of weeks at the Queen of Hoxton by inviting one of the DJs & producers in circulation, The Revenge, to assist in blowing the roof off the place on the opening night!
2010 has been a year of truly extraordinary music, the very best of which we’ll offer our 50p’s worth on soon.. In the meantime though, whet your appetite with a bunch of mixes that will live for a very long time. For us, these are either really cool snapshots of 2010 music or bona fide timeless classics – in a couple of cases, both!
So without further ado, and in no particular order, here’s our pick of this year’s very best mixes..
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The Revenge – Garden Festival Warm Up Mix
The Revenge owned 2010. He’s been around for a much longer than that, of course, but this was the year Revengemania finally swept the globe. A year filled with gigging the world over, endless mastering, remix and label work, and topping the lot off with a guest appearance at isodisco. Graeme Clark deserves every accolade he musters – he’s a phenomenal DJ and producer, a talent like very few others, a complete and utter gent and, basically, we hate the bastard.
Ahead of his July trip to the Garden Festival in Croatia, he dropped this mix of slowmo, disco, and the uncategorisable in Tom Petty. This one soundtracked most of our summer, total greatness.
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Eddie C – Everything is OK
We can’t write much more about Eddie C – after he caught us peering through his windows and rummaging in the garbage outside his cabin, his law people got onto to us. Talk about an over reaction. Can a guy not tracking a man down to his log cabin in the middle of nowhere & ask him to autograph his bare chest without people thinking the worst these days? Sheesh..
Is Eddie one of the most prodigious downbeat production talents around? Hell yes. People can’t get their rocks off to 100bpm all night though, can he proper rock a party? Absofuckinglutely. Check this beauty out, everything really is ok.
Be amazing if Eddie was due to be playing a gig any way close to these parts wouldn’t it?
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RJA24 – Carina Ramos
In fairness, we could have picked anything from the stable of Ruff Jamz podcasts. It’s consistently crazy good, defo subscribe if you’re not already. Bonar Bradberry, Tornado Wallace and Moscow-based DJ Sandra churned out really top class efforts this year, but we plumped for this immaculate boogie selection from back in May time. Edinburgh’s Carina Ramos loaded up classics from the likes of Melba Moore, Gwen McRae, BB&Q and Kenny Loggins and programmed & segued them to within an inch of perfection. You’ll enjoy this.
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Kris Percy – Sweet Gløgg and Doughballs
Kris Percy is one of the Sleazybeats honchos so by default, knows a things or two about beats. He stuck this mix up his Soundcloud just a few weeks back but according to our itunes, we’ve played it 27 times. How is that even possible? That’s more than once a day since it was released. You’ll see why though – this is an hour-long spin drenched in deep soulful house music with some of our favourite tracks of the past 12 months and a few weapons that will be unleashed in 2011. Utterly sublime.
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BIS #523 – Wolf + Lamb
We posted about this one pretty much the second we finished listening to it. NYCs stellar W&L crew drop a rake of Soulclap , Guti, Deniz kurtel, Gadi Mizrahi, Jose James, Woolfy Vs. Projections, SECT , Nicolas Jaar, Ilija Rudman, Michael J Collins, Burnt Island Casuals, Mario Basanov, Zev and a bunch of others in what has been the finest BiS session this year.
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Mark E – Loves Got The World In Motion
Mark E is another one the lawyers have warned us about, and another that hasn’t been in the least bit slack this year. Alongside global domination Mark has squeezed in another slew of essential remixes and has nailed his new artist LP for release on Merc in the spring. He also loves knocking out the mixes does Mark, and when they’re as hot as his Beats in Space, Soulsearching or Join The Dots mixes, keep em coming we say.
Pick of the bunch for us was a ridiculously deep affair he did for ANOE. In his own words.. “A rough sunny lazy afternoon journey through new / old records, promos and new remixes loosely merged to the back drop of the world cup vuvuzela. From slo-mo balearic mooders, RnB shakers, detroit deep bangers, to disco shufflers, french house phazers and deep house hottness, a pleasure to be asked to do the mix.”
And an absolute pleasure to listen to, as well.
Mark E – Loves Got The World In Motion
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And there you have it, the sets and mixes that have dominated our stereos more than any other this year. Post to come soon with all those tracks that made 2010 so cool as well, if we can ever stop arguing about it and settle on them..
It’s that time of the year again, and the cheeky edits of all the classic Christmas songs are popping up all over the show. Some have even managed to make the proverbial silk purse from a sow’s ear..
Take Last Christmas by Wham! for example – isodisco favourite M.K. has come up trumps with this cheeky wee edit
Wham! – Last Christmas (Matthew Kyle Edit)
Also, check The Revenge edit of the same song..
Wham! – Last Christmas (The Revenge re-work)
Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas seems very apt at the minute (or Not Driving Home for Christmas, as seems more appropriate). The Revenge must love Christmas, cos he’s also done an edit of this one too..
Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas (The Revenge Redub)
Lindstrom hooked up with Ane Brun and Thom Hell to produce this cracking cover version of Paul McCartney’s Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time for Norwegian TV a few years back.
And here’s his magical version of Little Drummer Boy..
Little Drummer Boy (Lindstrom edit)
No list of Christmas songs would be complete without the brilliant Christmas in Hollis by the one and only Run D.M.C..
Run DMC – Christmas in Hollis
Whatever you get up to, have a great one this Christmas! And thanks a million for all the support this year!
Even if you possess only a mild passing interest in house music, you’ll have stumbled across The Revenge by now. You may not even be aware of it but chances are at some stage over that past 12 months, you’ll have heard, danced or more likely been obsessed with something or other he has touched.
His prolific output in the studio, be it as a solo artist or in conjunction with fellow Scots Craig Smith (as 6th Borough Project), or Ali Herron as the scintillating Ooft Music!, has seen some people suggest that Graeme Clark is the biggest thing to happen to house music in quite a long time.
Graeme began producing in his early teenage years, making a skewed blend of electronic music using a couple of his dad’s old drum machines and a sampler. Influenced by his parents’ collection of rock, soul and funk as well as eighties daytime radio and the burgeoning rave scene, he began the process of dissecting and re-imagining the music. As with many recent musical phenomena, the internets soon became his friend. Establishing a massively successful blog with Ooft partner Ali, their re-works and edits of classic soul and disco – tweaking them for the dancefloor and respectfully re-arranging them to across-the-board stellar acclaim – quickly became the stuff of legend. Look no further than The Revenge edit of Hot Chocolate’s Cadillac and you’ll see why. The frequency of their output was equally as stunning and it was clear for all to see that t his particular talent was something very special indeed.
Now keenly associated with the burgeoning pitched down, slow groove house and disco scene, Graeme’s DJ sets have become almost as revered as his productions. With a worldwide touring schedule that takes in every continent, The Revenge returns to Belfast on Friday October 29 for only his second gig in Belfast. This, folks, will be the hottest Halloween Friday night in the city and is utterly unmissable
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