glesgie - numbers - redshape - subclub

its already thursday again, and only getting round to doing an entry about last week!

So last friday, i hopped on a train back home to Glasgow. Went straight over to my friend Pat's house who was busy concocting some amazing homemade dinner and desert to set us up right for the evening ahead. Bunch of us headed down to MacSorleys for some pre-Numbers drinks, and we hooked up with a few people - good to catch up with Dave Erstlaub, and also got to meet Ali Gravious for the first time - we managed to talk him into joining us at the Sub Club!

The Sub Club was our club of choice back in the early 1990's, when we had first started going out - it wasn't as techno as Tin Pan Alley, it was the more "sophisticated" club! Loads of excellent memories are wrapped in nights out at parties like Joy and Atlantis, so it was ace to come back again, and to have Numbers rocking the place out. Dave/Production Unit and Ruardih/Village Orchestra were on the decks all evening and dropping utter bombs, the dancefloor was heaving and the atmosphere was excellent. When Redshape took to the stage, the place went pretty wild, and his set was so good - he looked totally in control behind his setup, wearing his red mask, all concentration and enthusiasm.

Saturday we went along to The Ivy for Miso with Konx Om Pax and Mike Dred DJing which was a nice follow up, but we weren't up for a full-on night out again, and declined to go see Luke Vibert at the Soundhaus. Was good to catch up with Tom/Konx Om Pax though, and theres talk of us doing a split 12" with him and The Village Orchestra, which would be amazing.

All in all, an excellent warm-up for BLOC this weekend! Ouch! Tonite we're heading out to an event put on by my dayjob, Last.fm, with Heartbreak headlining, an excellent italo house band by my friend Ali Renault. I think i've been roped in to do a video interview with them before the show! I'll post a link to it next week when i'm back from Bloc.

Other bits and bobs - Twerk is due to do the mastering on "Magnetism" tomorrow, so hopefully that should get finished over the weekend. Mary Anne Hobbs played one of the tracks from our upcoming Funckarma 'Stub Dane EP' on her show on tuesday. You can hear that streaming for a week if you head on over to her webpage at the beeb. And.. we're working on a makeover for the HPLL site; Mat/Fisk was showing me the mockups for it yesterday, and it looks amazing! I'm looking forward to seeing that go live.

Labels: bloc, erstlaub, glasgow, gravious, konx on pax, mary anne hobbs, numbers, production unit, redshape, village orchestra

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Redshape and Rustie

No, not on the same bill, which would be astoundingly good, but two totally unrelated mixes i've been listening to!

I'm planning to head up to Glasgow next month to see Redshape play at Numbers alongside The Village Orchestra which should be ace. I've been really excited about Redshape for a few months now, and been tracking down as much as i can from him. His own site at http://www.shapedworld.com/ doesn't have much info, just his discography. Hiding in the listings there you'll find a link to download "Redshape Live At ADE 2006". Its pretty excellent.

I was checking Rustie's myspace this morning again, and hadn't noticed before a link to http://www.thisisluckyme.com, a loose collective of scottish DJs and producers. They have a download section there which includes a mix from Rustie which is well worth downloading, full of well chunky hip hop.
Theres also a pretty interesting Rustie interview over at http://lazeruspit.blogspot.com/2008/01/rustie-interview.html. Curiously I think he looks quite like Kit Clayton in that image!

Labels: dj, downloads, mix, mixtapes, redshape, rustie