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Trentemoller is playing at Sankeys 23rd May, should be ace this, we sell bucket loads of his records in the shop and he doesnt play the u.k very often.

Jemmy

Well it’s been & gone once more & what a party!! I managed the whole weekend despite having to Dj Fri, work on Sat, record a radio show & play@ the after party! Fri night was a take things easy vibe moving from room to room checking bit’s and bob’s of set’s. Fertile Ground were on in the Beat Bar (formaly the bacardi bar) but being just under 5ft 5inches i found it hard to see much. Also on the agenda was dj Spen who was amazing as usuall! Then it get’s a little blury! Sat night is when i relaxed a little checking out Louisto Quintero live - Joey Negro - Mr Scruff - Monique Bingham & Quentin Harris & that’s just what i can remember, All exceptional. On to Sunday where it was all about The Sunburst Band - Bob Jones - Billy Davidson & bob Jeffries. Then on to play the After party with Dr Bob Jones & Dj Meme who were both amazing phew!. Thanks to them and everybody @ Southport Weekender. Roll on November!!! 

Thomas Tuft.x 

1 SOULTRONICS FT MAX C I BELIEVE (ORIGINAL/CAHILL/E-SQUIRE) 3 BEAT BLUE
2 CIREZ D JOURNEY/STOCKHOLM MARATHON MOUSEVILLE
3 GUSTO DISCO’S REVENGE (WHELAN & DI SCALA) AATW
4 JOSH WINK STAY OUT ALL NIGHT OVUM
5 BLANK & JONES FT BERNARD SUMMER MIRACLE CURE (GLENN MORRISON) MAELSTROM
6 YAZOO SITUATION (HERUCLES & LOVE AFFAIR) MUTE
7 LEFTFIELD SONG FOR LIFE (TIM DAVISON EDIT) WHITE
8 ORLANDO VAUGHN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING DUFF NOTE
9 JOHN DIGWEED GRIDLOCK (HENRY SAIZ) BEDROCK
10 DANNY CLARKE & JAY BENHAM WONDEROUS STRICTLY
11 BOOKASHADE CHARLOTTE (BOOKASHADE REMIX/DUBFIRE) GET PHYSICAL
12 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR YOU BELONG EMI
13 DJ JEAN THA LAUNCH RE-LAUNCHED HOUSE-TRAINED
14 JOHN DAHLBACK WORLD OF LOVE PICCADOLL
15 KING UNIQUE SUGAR HIGH (FANCIULLI/KING UNIQUE) CURFEW
16 DARIUS SYROSSIAN & MUNDYK CASPIAN MAN (PAUL WOOLFORD) BREAKOUT AUDIO
17 SKYLARK MOVIN (JORIS VOORN) NRK
18 PAOLO MOJO SIRENNA OOSH
19 GUY J UNDER PRESSURE (ORIGINAL/ERROR ERROR) BEDROCK
20 DONNA SUMMER I’M A FIRE (MATTHIAS HIELBRONN) SONY
21 WHELAN & DI SCALA NEVER LET GO (TOM NOVY) AATW
22 ROLLING STONES YOU CANT ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT (DFA) COLUMBIA
23 GLENN MORRISON COSMIC FLIGHT (ORIGINAL/NICK WARREN) HOPE
24 LIL MO YIN YANG REACH (MARK KNIGHT) DEFECTED
25 QUIVVER DIRTY NAILS & VAPOUR TRAILS BOZ BOZ
26 STEVE LAWLER 21ST CENTUARY KETCHUP SCI-TEC
27 EMANUEL, MCALL,KATHERINE ELLIS GOTTA GET THROUGH (SMAX & GOLD/WESLEY S) BORN TO DANCE
28 LIZ KAY TRUE FAITH (ULTRABEAT/HYPASONIC/RIFF & RAYS) AATW
29 PAUL WOOLFORD UTOPIA INTAMACY
30 SHARAM THE ONE (D-FORMATION/GUETTA/COLEMAN) DATA
31 CHUS & CEBALLOS GO ON! (MATTHEW DEKAY) STEREO
32 FEDERICO EPIS SIMPLE GLOBAL UNDERGROUND
33 RHYTHM FX BIG FELLA (TOTAL CONTROL ACCESS MIX) DEFIANCE
34 MARMION SCHONEBERG (GLENN MORRISON) GREAT STUFF
35 NICKO & ALSE THE WOODS (SKYLARK) OKYO
36 JAMES TALK YUCCA SPOKEN
37 JUNKIE XL CITIES IN DUST (KING UNIQUE) NETTWERK
38 THE JUAN MCLEAN HAPPY HOUSE DFA
39 HERNAN CATTANEO ANIME (ORIGINAL/ROCCO) URBAN TORQUE
40 SANDER VAN DOORN PURA VIDA/SUSHI NEBULA

Does Eric Prydz ever sleep? Or does he just sit there locked in his room making anthems? 3 Beat Records staff are al amazed by how consistant this chap is - he’s had poppy hits under his Eric Prydz name, Pryda is his underground guise and the Cirez D is when he wears his techno hat - yet they are all outstanding… how des he do it?

Fabric Test is the latest one that we’ve heard, and its huge - check it out when Sasha and Digweed dropped in in Miami

I had the pleasure of DJ-ing with Mark Ronson on Satuday night @ Bandstand, and I was curious to hear what he would play, as I know he used to be a Hip Hop DJ and grew up in New York, but then I know the kind of music that he’d had hits with too… So all of the 3 Beat lads were very interested to hear him play…

Anyway, I was DJ-ing and playing mainly 80’s party dance (stuff like Colonel Abrahams - Trapped, Cameo - Word Up, Gwen Guthrie - Aint Nothing Goin On But The Rent etc) and then i dropped New Order - Blue Monday, which got an enormous scream from the crowd, proper hysteria… until I’d realised that a very tall man in a suit with a Massive top hat had walked on stage.. Ah.. It was Mark Ronson.. makes sense with the screams now! Ha Ha..

So Mark politely asks can he borrow my headphones, as his team of men set up Serrato for him (superstars often forget head phones, co-incidently Rob Da Bank had forgotten his too…) and he complimented me on my musical choice “I’ve been listening from the other room, you’ve been playing some great tracks, it reminded me a lot of a club that I used to go to in New York” he said, which made me smile…

So Mark comes on, and it musically made sense to me, he was playing upbeat Motown kind of tracks, Stevie Wonder, Supremes, and then stuff like his version of Valerie (which raises the roof of course) and then he drops in to old school hip hop party rockers like Walk This Way. By this time I’d had too much beer and cant remember too much else that he played!

He later went on upstairs and did the full live thing, and was rather good!

A Good night was had by all though

Steve Parry 

brand new label House label  - House Trained have signed the funky house anthem Work It Out - from dj Disciple and given it a super hot pakage with mixes from Mischa Daniels - Klaas & 3 Beat Friends Whelan & Di Scala. Large!!

Thomas Tuft. 

Proving my trainspotter status is still as good as ever, i managed to piece together bits of information, and although I wasnt even at the Sasha gig at Circus, I manged to find out before anybody else that went what the ‘huge vocal tune’ was that he dropped in the middle of the night!

Its the new Sasha remix of the new Ladytron track, and it will appear first on Sasha’s Involver 2…

watch this space!

Steve Parry

Late Of The Pier are a band or outfit (if you like) that are part of this trendy nu wave/electro, rock, house and whatever else crossover thingie that’s going on at the moment (and has been for some time for that matter) & at the centre of it all is Emi music, With Dfa Records on board & a whole host of other interesting acts & sub labels in tow, Late Of The Pier (of which we know very little incidently) with there very quirky & almost undescribable - The Bears Are Coming 12″ which feat an amazing Emporer Machine mix that more than tickles our fancy !! Funk injected Nu disco that rocks!!

One of the greatest producers of our time, Henrick Schwarz is back with a brand new single - I Exist Because Of You feat Amapondo. A wicked future afro House cut with a groovey techie feel. This has so many levels! also inc a more striped down mix from Dixon. Miss this at your peril!!

yes I know thats a heck of a title ‘Pezz’s 40th birthday, chats with desa from bassheads and greg wilson on tele and 20:20 vision‘ for a blog, but it does all make sense.. I’ll explain..

On Saturday we celebrated Pezz from 3 Beat Records 40th birthday (happy birthday baldy if you are reading this), and Greg Wilson the disco legend was DJ-ing, and dropping some damn fine underground disco classics.

I was speaking to Desa from the Bassheads at Pezz’s party, and he was telling me a story that greg Wilson was the first DJ ever to play on Uk television, on the legendary Tube no less!

Anway, Monday morning comes and I’m sent a new promo CD, mixed and compiled by Greg Wilson for 20:20 Vision (the fine label of Ralph Lawson), and part of the press pack was a link to Greg playing on the Tube…

And so, you see, the worlds craziest blog title of ‘ Pezz’s 40th birthday, chats with desa from bassheads,greg wilson on tele and 20:20 vision’ does make sense after all…