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Ireland's Daily Star (3 March 2010)

Our good friends at the Daily Star (Eire) have given a lovely big-up to my upcoming new remix of Dare & Haste’s Ghost Machine.

The track comes out shortly on Advanced Records: click here to listen.

Fidelity Kastrow live in London

Skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow has been featured as a key female artists from Germany this week in Deutsche Welle’s HITS IN GERMANY show ‘Girls on Top’ alongside Peaches and Nic Endo (Atari Teenage Riot).

Deutsche Welle (available online and on-air) is Germany’s equivalent to the UK’s World Service. It’s massive with an audience of nearly 90 million listeners and viewers worldwide every week .

To hear the show, tune in 4:30am or 5:30am (Berlin time / GMT+1) in the early hours of Sunday, March 7th. The show will be repeated also on Sunday, March 7th at 8:30am (Berlint time / GMT+1) and again on Monday, March 8th at 6:30am. The show was first broadcast on Monday, March 1st at 5:30pm and has been repeated at 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 11:30pm the same day.

Click here for Neale Lytollis’s story

Fidelity Kastrow @ SE One (Torture Garden) February 2010 (click to hear FK's Bad love) photo by Bobette

London clubland suffered another devastating blow this week as 3,000 capacity superclub SE One suddenly shut down.

“It is with great sadness, that I must inform you that seOne London ceased trading on Monday Afternoon, 22nd February 2010,” said SE One general manager Marcus Kay in a statement posted on the club’s website.

“After 8 Long, hard and exciting years, seOne London has fallen victim to the recession and hard times felt in Nightclubs all over the UK,” he added.
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Skrufff DJ Fidelity in feathers (click on the picture, 13 seconds in)

Fidelity Kastrow in feathers in Berlin back in the day (click here)

I'm spinning at Amores Perros a week on Saturday

Next weekend (Friday and Saturday 27/28 February) I’m back in Prague, spinning at Jimmy Sommerville’s mega gig at SASAZU on Friday then at tiny (but great) central bar amores Perros on Saturday night.

Friday’s gonna be a BIG gay party with strippers, dancers and Jimmy performing his greatest Communards/ Bronski Beat hits, while Saturday’s a much more intimate affair for just a hundred or so people.

Click on the picture to hear Fidelity Kastrow singing on Spartak's new track 'Bad Love'

Click here to listen to Skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow singing on Spartak’s new track ‘Bad Love’.

Fidelity DJs at Torture Garden tomorrow night (Saturday February 13, at SE One) and will be playing the track live in London for the first time.

Germany Calling: Gay Gothic Valentine’s Day

This month’s show has a distinct gay/ gothic tinge angled around Jonty Skrufff’s upcoming gig in Prague supporting Jimmy Sommerville as well as his brand new ‘Gothic Horror’ remix of Dare & Haste’s techno anthem Ghost Machine

Fidelity Kastrow meanwhile gets in the (Torture Garden) Valentine’s Day mood, showcasing the Carl Craig (or is that Carl Crack?) remix of Hot Chip’s One Life Stand and Peter Horrevorts’ devastatingly powerful new techno monster Bloody Hands.

Jonty’s remix of Motor’s Death Rave is currently up for a highly prestigious Quartz Award in France (having been chosen from over 4,000 tracks) and kickstarts the show in suitably slamming fashion, with Kylie and Bauhaus tossed in for good measure (in homage to still under-the-weather missing link Mark Reeder)

click on the picture for full line-up details (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

Licensing authorities have ordered South London superclub Mass to refrain from hosting bashment or funky house events in the future, under strict new licensing conditions intended to reduce the threat of gang violence.

Local police chief Sergeant Steve Strange said they closed the Brixton venue for 28 days at Christmas after receiving intelligence that a doorman was marked for assassination following a fight he was involved in at a Farringdon club.

“We know there are disputes between gangs, and gangs have affiliations to certain promoters and venues,” Sergeant Strange told the South London Press.

“We are taking steps to keep warring – and I don’t use the word lightly – factions apart,” he continued, “This has been a problematic club and the main reason is the type of music that is played . . . ‘bashment’. We know it attracts gang members.”

Fetish institution Torture Garden (TG) briefly cancelled their New Year’s Eve party following the December 26 police closure though ended up opening after a judge over-turned the ban specifically for TG. Allen TG told Skrufff they’ll be going ahead with their March 20 Mass date as usual and said they remain confident of the club’s security.

“I don’t think these new conditions have any implications for Torture Garden at all,” said Allen, “In fact, they show that the authorities actually prefer to have fetish nights in their borough because they never bring any trouble.”

“When we were told Mass was being closed just four days before our New Year’s Eve party and we announced we were cancelling and looking for a new venue, we all got a few more grey hairs and we lost a few people, but in the end the event had more energy and felt more special,” he added.

“The fact people were relieved the party was happening added to the vibe and it was a great party. And on the flip side we got to check out some very interesting venues while we were looking for a replacement,” he said.

The sometimes extreme-dressing club promoter also downplayed the threat of violence in London in general, declaring ‘I’ve been clubbing for over 20 years and never had any trouble, at least since I left (South Coast town) Hastings, but then socializing on the alternative scene makes clubbing a very safe option,” said Allen.

“Neither myself not David (his ultra-flamboyant dressing TG partner) have been harassed on the street or anywhere else for many, many years,” he added, “London is a very tolerant place.”
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Live @ D-Edge (Sao Paulo) 2008

Upcoming electro-tech DJ and pioneering blogger Jonty Skrufff has delivered a turbo-charged remix of British techno newcomer Dare & Haste’s new single Ghost Machine, which comes out on Advanced Records in March (listen to the remix on Soundcloud here)

His high octane crunchy electro-tech version (dubbed the Gothic Horror Remix) has gained the immediate and enthusiastic support of DJs including Judge Jules, acid house pioneer DJ Pierre and French techno hero Laurent Garnier following an ultra-limited initial mail-out to a wildly eclectic bunch of just 25 DJs and tastemakers.

While Bedrock guru Nick Muir praised its ‘spacey and haunting rock solid sounds and unexpected twists and turns’ and alternative legends Tom Tom Club gave props (I’d love to hear it in a club on a proper PA’), Judge Jules tore up his radio playlist.

“Thanks for the tune, I think the music is excellent,” said Jules, “I’m going to play it on tonight’s Radio 1 show.”

Spinning Ghost Machine last Friday (January 29th) Jules played it at the beginning of his show as his second track, just five minutes into his broadcast (click here to listen)

Live in Prague (Roxy) 2008

Jules’ enthusiastic support matched that of media tipsters including Billboard’s Gary Smith (‘relentlessly and unapologetically inventive’) and Neale Lytollis from Germany’s Electronic Beats Magazine who hailed its ‘fat and heavy beats and ‘howling electro hell hound sounds’.
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Click on the picture to hear Judge Jules' latest show on Radio 1 (my new remix is the second track)

http://tinyurl.com/yz57o9h (Judge Jules on Radio 1, UK)

I just completed a new remix this week of Dare and Haste’s Ghost Machine and Judge Jules has played it immediately on his show on Britain’s Radio 1. You can hear the remix (called Jonty Skrufff’s Gothic Horror Remix) by clicking on the link above- it’s the second track and is about 5 minutes in.