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Jonty Skrufff DJ Stuff

Dancetrippin Live DJ mix

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Acapellas by Marlon Brandon, Bonnie Raitt

  1. Jet Project: Alright (Snatch Records) 6.07
  2. Mark Holmes – Coming Home (MUM) 12.13
  3. Solo: The Flea Circus (Kling Klong) 17.39
  4. Red Snapper: Jack (V2) 23.47
  5. Harvey Mackay: Want You (Soma Records) 28.58
  6. Zenbi; Double Trouble (Great Stuff): 32.49
  7. Graphics: Mama Grizzlies (Made To Play) 39.43
  8. Mick Finesse: Sex Machinas  (Perc Trax) 44.49
  9. Aeroplane: Storm Queen: (Jamie Jones RMX) (Defected) 49.50
  10. Dosem: Tales Of Tomorrow (Tronic) 54.39
  11. Meda: Curtain Call (Neverending Records) 59.39
  12. Rockers Revenge: Walking on sunshine (Jonty Skrufff Vocal RMX) (white label)

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Sochi Conference on Resident Advisor

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Resident Advisor are coming to the Sochi Winter Music Conference next week and they’ve just posted full details of the party line-ups on their site.  Click HERE for full details (I’m Djing with Perc at the Elite Showcase after-hours party on Saturday February 11.

 

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Germany Calling Joins France’s Radio FG

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Leading French dance music station Radio FG have added Jonty Skrufff and Fidelity Kastrow’s weekly BLN.FM radio show Germany Calling to their station, broadcasting each edition three times a week.

 

The one-hour weekly show is being broadcast on Tuesdays at 8am (CET), Thursdays at 17.00 and Sundays at 14.00 on Underground FG, the cutting edge channel of the massively successful radio group, said station administrator Nicolas Chanel.

 

Underground FG was launched in 2004 at the same time as Paris’ Techno Parade began, which FG DJ Radio cofounded together with Technopole,” he explained.

 

“The channel is specialised, similar to how FG was in its early days, focusing on house, techno and new genres, with a wide variety of radio shows, DJ live sets and a playlist featuring both classic and cutting edge music,” he said.

 

“I’d say the channel is aimed at electronic music lovers. From early Warp records to the latest Skrillex, you got it all on Underground FG.”

 

Fidelity Kastrow & Jonty Skrufff

 

 

Germany Calling (with some Warp tracks but almost certainly no Skrillex) joins a roster of DJs including mainstream stars Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold and Sander Van Doorn and alternative ‘underground’ DJs including M.A.N.D.Y., Jesse Voorn and Adam Beyer.

 

“The DJS we feature on Underground FG are either historical ‘big name’ scene DJs or underground DJs that might not have a sound that is “easy listening” enough for an FM broadcast,” Nicolas continued.

 

“But because today’s underground and mainstream scenes seem to be blending more and more together all the time, it’s getting hard to define who is underground or not, especially with all the niches of genre of the electronic music scene out there today.”

 

“Basically there are many criteria we use for selecting shows, with quality being the main show. And Germany Calling fits perfectly. We’re very happy to welcome Jonty and Fidelity to the FG team,” he said.

 

 

Click here to listen: http://bit.ly/aayywD (clicl the ‘ecoute/ listen’ button): Underground FG showtimes are Tuesdays at 8am (CET), Thursdays at 17.00 and Sundays at 14.00 (CET: ie Berlin/ Paris mainland Europe time).

 

Germany Calling also continues to be broadcast on BLN.FM at the regular times of Friday evening (20.00 CET) and Saturday nights (23.00 CET): http://bln.fm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonty Skrufff: http://listn.to/JontySkrufff

 

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Resident Advisor, Mixmag, DJ Mag, DanceTrippin & Ralph Simon @ Sochi 2012

Sochi's Day time panels

 

 

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Sochi Winter Music Conference (SWMC) have unveiled final details of the international panelists and speakers attending this year’s upcoming event which takes places in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi between February 9 and 12.

 

Mobile entertainment strategist Ralph Simon, who advises leading tech companies as well as pop stars including Madonna, U2 and Lady Gaga, will be delivering a keynote presentation while Swedish avant-garde performers Six Drummers will be showcasing their everything-but-the-kitchen-sick audio/visual unconventional art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joining them are international editors from DJ Magazine, Mixmag, Resident Advisor and tv web company DanceTrippin as well as Amsterdam Dance Event boss Richard Zijlma and Exit Festival founder Bojan Boskovic. Plus previously announced synch experts from Sony Playstation, Pitch & Sync and Anger Music as well as the DJ agencies Bullitt and Elite Music Management.

 

 

 

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Moving To Berlin? Pet Duo, Axel Bartsch, Ralf Gutterslut, Steffa Superheilig, Patrick DSP & Snuff Crew Discuss (feature)

Berghain (taken from Snuff Crew's video for God; click for more)

 

 

“A lot of times people move to Berlin for just three years or something and then they go back to America or Italy or whatever. But they bring the impact, the energy. That’s really good for the scene, because we have all these new people doing something, trying something. That’s why the music scene here is super dynamic.”

 

Chatting to US lifestyle guide Flavorwire.com in 2010, born and bred Berliner star Ellen Allien was positive about the hordes of incomers relocating to the German capital though added one important proviso:

 

“Rich people just visiting for the weekend, that’s what’s killing the city,” she warned, “but as long as people keep moving here, Berlin will remain cool.” (http://bit.ly/97ZU85 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International DJs who’ve since gone include Made to Play’s Jesse Rose (who moved to LA this year) and Visionquest’s Seth Troxler (now based in London) plus Berghain resident Cassy, a Berliner for 8 years up until recently.

 

“The rent is cheaper than elsewhere, this of course is a very tempting factor for staying in Berlin but the world is big, there are so many places to look at and live in,” she told Sweatlodge Magazine last month.

 

“I wanted to live in a place where the food is amazing and there’s more life in the street, more energy,” she explained (Sweatlodge Radio; http://bit.ly/uL8SYy )

 

 

Styling by Steffa Superheilig: picture by Jannis Mayr for Proud Mag

 

 

That Berlin can be bitterly bleak on windswept wintry nights (and uber-cold; down to minus 20ºC) is certainly true though it can be equally sweat-drippingly hot in July and August when temperatures regularly top 30ºC.

 

In energy terms too, it’s searingly scalding, at least according to Wired magazine who recently branded Berlin ‘one of Europe’s hottest start-up capitals’.

 

German magazine Der Spiegel agreed too, reprinting Wired’s words plus another interesting assessment from leading US technology blog TechCrunch.

 

“It’s become the place where misfits in Europe — people who want to be artists and creators, people who don’t fit in rigid social structures of cities like London — flock to do what they want,’ Der Spiegel (Tech-Crunch) reported

 

“If London feels like a European New York; Berlin feels like a European Portland or an Austin or a Boulder. And perhaps one day a European San Francisco,” they predicted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If London feels like ‘a European New York’, Berlin feels more like a retro New York, specifically the avant-garde, anything goes, ultra decadent lower East Side playground of the 80s.

 

Packed with clubbers, punks, gays, DJs, freaks, nerds and assorted global (and German) misfits, Berlin (or rather its three inner city districts of Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain and Neukoln) shares the same mix of graffiti tagged brownstone tenements, though unlike 80s era New York, it’s safe.

 

Remarkably so, in fact, despite the fact that every other street light is switched off after dark, as a budget saving device by cash strapped local authorities. And while it’s superficially menacing after dark, it’s also a surprisingly tranquil city, packed with cafes, parks and trees (Berliners will proudly tell you it’s the most tree filled city in Europe.)

 

It’s also full of cyclists and bicycle lanes; legend has it that hundreds were built after the second world war, both because so much of the old narrow street grid was flattened and because fuel shortages meant cars were beyond most people’s means.

 

 

Snuff Crew

 

 

 

Skrufff chatted to six Berliners who presently call the city their home: Steffa Superheilig (stylist, door selector at Renate, Kater Holzig and formerly Bar 25); German producers Snuff Crew and Axel Bartsch (Sportsclub), Brazilian incomers Pet Duo, Gutterslut (German) co-promoter Ralf Obergfell and Canadian producer Patrick DSP and asked them to share their insider tips for making the most of the city.

 

Ralf Obergfell's new series 'C U R R Y 6 6 6'

 

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Fidelity Kastrow: 21st Century Girl (video)

 

 

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Spartak’s Martyn Walsh on Inspiral Carpets, Fidelity Kastrow & Noel Gallagher (interview)

 

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Legendary Madchester psychedelic rockers the Inspiral Carpets announced they’re reforming this week, featuring the original line-up of Stephen Holt and Clint Boon, Craig Gill, Graham Lambert and Martyn Walsh.

 

The Manchester group, who achieved four number one albums in the 90s, are working on new material, they revealed on their website, in preparation for a world tour starting in South America in November. (http://www.inspiralcarpets.com)

 

 

 

 

 

Chatting to Skrufff some time before the announcement about his follow up project Spartak, Inspiral Carpet’s bassist Martyn Walsh spoke happily about his Inspirals days including hanging around with future Oasis star Noel Gallagher.

 

“Noel auditioned to be the Inspirals singer when Stephen Holt left (in 1989). We didn’t think he was good enough so we offered him a roadie job instead,” Martyn recalled.

 

“He was the sort of guy who was always at gigs and someone who seemed to know everyone. Some of his mates were the sort of people who it was better to know than get on the wrong side of.”

 

“I knew he played guitar when we first met him but for all the time he worked for us, he seemed more interested in U2 and the recreational lifestyle of being in a band than becoming the Beatles obsessive he is now,” said Martyn.

 

 

 

 

He also chatted in greater detail about his Spartak collaboration with (Skrufff DJ) Fidelity Kastrow on ‘Bad Love’,  a rocking electro flavoured mash-up topped off by the Berlin DJ/ performer’s unique vocals.

 

 

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Fidelity Kastrow; 21st Century Girl (more pictures)

 

 

This week, we’re uploading a selection of pictures from Skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow’s new video to 21st Century Girl . . . Styling done by Berlin’s Steffa Superheilig.

 

 

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 this one (above) is by Rüdiger Muller

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Skrufff @ ADE: Ibiza, Russia, Radio & Staying Alive

Demolition panel (saturday 19.00; click for more details)

 

 

The Skrufff team will be temporarily relocating to Amsterdam next week as Jonty Skrufff moderates and appears on seven panels at this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event.

 

Also DJing on Friday night at Club Home (alongside Da Fresh, Christian Cambas, John Acquaviva and Anthony Attalla) in the day time he’s moderating panels on new talent (Room at the Top: http://bit.ly/nKg9ju) and Russia (http://bit.ly/qhBDXO ) plus a heavyweight panel Staying Alive on Friday afternoon (http://bit.ly/pUtuTi )

 

Da Russia panel (Thursday: 17.00)

 

 

Staying Alive features six of the sharpest, most opinionated, accomplished characters in today’s music business, chatting about everything from egos (how should you handle out of control artists?), releasing music (are albums obsolete?) and surviving failure, I think it’s going to be particularly interesting,” said Jonty.

 

“The panel is all about how to survive and thrive in today’s music business and all six (Mute Records founder Daniel Miller, Ed Banger chief Pedro Winter, Cream CEO James Barton, Mo Wax’s James Lavelle, Wall Of Sound’s Mark Jones and Pieter van Bodegraven (Talpa) are full of knowledge, experience and ideas.”

 

Nastia (appearing on Room at the Top, Wednesday 15.30)

 

 

On Wednesday he introduces upcoming talents DJ Nastia (Ukraine), Claudia Cazacu (Romania, London) and Egbert (Holland) on Room at The Top, discussing how they’re carved themselves niches in today’s massively overcrowded club scene. Legendary R&S chief Renaat Vandapapaliere (Belgium) is also on hand, discussing how he reinvented his seminal label two years ago (almost 20 years after he first helped popularize techno).

 

Claudia Cazacu (on room at the top, Wednesday)

 

 

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Gutterslut Invade Berlin (October 15)

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London DJ/ promoter Nic Fisher chatted to Skrufff this week about plans for the first ever Gutterslut event in Berlin and revealed that over 50 of their most devoted London regulars are flying over to Germany for the party.

 

“What should Berliners expect? The usual craziness of the London party; the trannies; the music: and all of the Dalston Gay Mafia are coming with us,” said Nic.

 

“What does Gutterslut offer that Berlin doesn’t already have?” he continued, “er, the Dalston Gay Mafia,” he laughed.

 

 

 

 

 

The party takes place at underground Kreuzberg venue Hubertuslounge in the city’s hippest alternative quarter of Gorlitzer Park, on Saturday October 15, featuring Gutterslut residents Nic, Per Qx, Ralf and Miss Crystal plus Skrufff’s Jonty Skrufff, A Man To Pet and Jeffrey Hinton.

 

 

 

“We’re hoping to attract a mix of up for it party people, just like in London,” he continued, “of gays, straights, trannies and the in-betweens.

 

“I think the scene in Berlin is very much eclectic like in London, though maybe people in Berlin are a bit more into their music, which is great,” he said.

 

Gutterslut is at Hubertuslounge, Eisenbahnstrasse 6, Berlin on Saturday October 15 (until late)

 

http://bit.ly/az8y7x (Gutterslut video, 2010)

 

http://on.fb.me/nMe5uq (Gutterslut Berlin party details)

 

Seb Mortimer (Skrufff.com)

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Germany Calling; Raining in Kreuzberg show

Germany Calling; Radiohead Sex Machine Show

Germany Calling: Best of 2011: part 2

Germany Calling- Best of 2011: part 1

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Jonty Skrufff & Henry Cullen: Dark Destroyer

Live in Hanoi, December 2008

Germany Calling on BLN.FM goes FM (Youtube clip)

ADE 2011: live one take DJ mix