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May 13 Scooter-ing to the top of the chartsScooter have knocked Madonna off the top of the UK chart with their new album Jumping All Over The World, eh?
This story makes me happy for all sorts of reasons. Not least because I had no idea the comedy German "dance" (in the loosest sense of the word) act were still scooting along. Apparently, that is the reaction Scooter-boosters would expect someone like me (i.e., Londoner, goes to proper clubs) to have to "commercial dance music" as Matt Cadman, director of Scooter's UK label All Around The World says in an interview with the BBC. "We tend not to do particularly well is within the M25. As soon as you get inside the M25, it's like commercial dance music doesn't exist. And 95% of the national media is controlled from within the M25 so I think that's why they don't see it. They just literally don't get it. When they hear something like a Scooter or Cascada, they'll think it's rubbish. We've heard it called chav music, council house music, kiddie music - every disparaging term," he says, rightfully sounding a little smug. You'll get no argument from me there, Mr Cadman. It absolutely is kiddie/chav/rubbish music. But the world is full of kids, chavs and people with bad taste -- so why shouldn't they have their music? I'm a kinghell music snob, and have no problem admitting it, but I also have no problem admitting that Hard House Nation Vol 2 was one of my all-time favourite albums for a year or two, or that I used to go clubbing in homemade hot-pink furry boots. So what? Cool or un-cool, clubbing is about having fun. I won't be buying the new Scooter album, or going to a Ritzy anytime soon (or indeed, ever) but to each their own. Clubland would be a very dull place if we all loved minimal tech-house...
May 12 AudiomatiqueFree music? Go on then. Head to http://www.audiomatique.com/html/promplay1.html for a free download from the forthcoming Audiomatique album mixed by Adultnapper...
May 09 Dirty is the new clean... Filth & Splendour One of the best/worst things about clubbing is how clubby it is. I moved to London six-and-a-bit years ago blithely assuming I'd be able to lose myself in a city of millions. A very romantic fiction. The first time I went out (to the Fridge, in Brixton, of all the godforsaken places) I bumped into my a bunch of guys who'd been at my housewarming in Wood Green two years earlier. It got so I could walk into any club and immediately encounter three or four people I knew well enough to not like. So I moved to Ibiza. The flipside of this is that people you know and actually like crop up unexpectedly but at regular intervals. This week it's the Filth & Splendour boys (last seen at my favourite-ever New Year's eve party a couple of years back). If you haven't had the pleasure they're a couple of very gifted grafters with the sort of talent and charisma that sticks, even in as slippery a universe as "clubland." Since we bumped into each other they've released a fistful of tunes on Mass and Born To Dance Records, among others, and are notching up an impressive list of gigs and residencies like Itch and Maximal at venues including the Cross, the Key (RIP), Pacha and are planning their assault on the southern hemisphere with their first international tour this winter. In two years time I'll probably be somewhere in the South American jungle and find out they're throwing a party in the next town. I hope so, at least. DJ dates and release info on their MySpace and catch out their Ministry Of Sound mix here...
May 06 Addictive TV meets Robert Downey Jnr.... hmmmm
The video-tweaking Addictive TV chaps do what normal DJs do... but with pictures. The world-renowned VJ team have taken their cut and paste to Downey's new superhero film, Iron Man. Fitting, no? Remixed live and on-the-fly their handwork reinvents the notion of explosive entertainment... catch it in its Technicolor glory here. And for more on the Addictive boys check their MySpace. There is more big screen hoo-haa to be enjoyed on MSN's summer blockbusters page (I highly recommend The Worst Blockbusters Ever run-down... it's a schadenfreude filled thrill...)
May 05 Free CSS!
No, they're not in jail or anything. Rather, they're giving away a track from their new album Donkey (due 21 July) at www.csshurts.com. They are by far the best and bravest of the current crop of electro-rockers so hurry along and whet your appetite for the new LP!
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