Jamie Jones Remix (Storm Queen; Look Right Through)
Storm Queen; click to listen
Sure every man and his dog adores Jamie Jones right now which as a rule would make us run a mile, but in Jamie’s case, he really is the exception that proves the rule.
This new remix ( click HERE or on the picture to listen to it) is out on Defected so it’s unashamedly housey but it’s also a great club track that works. Click HERE to buy it.
Paul Loraine; Move Closer
Great new remixes of this track are now available but we still love the original.
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Rock Fan Stabs Himself to Death After Developing Tinnitus
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A father of two who developed tinnitus after forgetting to take his earplugs to a Them Crooked Vultures gig, killed himself after being unable to sleep for three months, a court heard this week.
Robert McIndoe, 52, became increasingly desperate after he failed to find medical treatment and even considered permanently deafening himself by having his auditory nerve cut, the Daily Mail reported.
“When it first happened he wasn’t too bothered about it because he thought it would subside, and the friend he had been with also had ringing in his ears that day,” his wife Shirley McIndoe told the inquest.
“It was awful, he looked terrible, and he just felt so bad all the time,” she continued, “He was desperate that it was never going to change – he didn’t know if he could live like this.”
Carl Craig’s Mother’s Pride
Detroit techno pioneer Carl Craig chatted about the secrets of his success to the Independent this week and attributed his longevity to listening to the ‘just say no’ advice of his mother.
“My mum is the person that had the most impact on me because she can see situations, analyse them and see the negative and the positive. And that’s part of her whole thing,” the 40 something Planet E veteran explained.
“She told me at a young age, and I tell a lot of people this: ‘Don’t do drugs. And you know why you don’t wanna do drugs? Because it takes all your money and you don’t wanna lose money, do you’,” Carl recalled.
’I didn’t start drinking until I was 25,” he added. (Independent: http://ind.pn/sRU6Kg )
Plastikman; sheet one
The importance of parental support was also emphasized by Richie Hawtin’s mother in his 2007 DVD documentary Richie Hawtin: Pioneers of Electronic Music, Vol. 1 in which she recounted him keeping her awake night after night, working on ‘the same old beats, the same old beats’.
She also helped out the then unknown young producer doing the door at some of his first parties, reputedly turning away gatecrashers who pretended to be cousins, earning eternal gratitude from her nowadays multi-millionaire son.
“My parents are really cool,” Hawtin told Digboston.com in September, when he was asked when his parents finally realized what he was doing ‘wasn’t just a funny hobby’.
“They realized quite early on, but in around 2001 we had this huge festival in Detroit called the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. And I headlined and closed the stage at the very first festival and it was like 50,000 people, downtown Detroit,” he recalled.
“And my mom and dad were up there and I think they were like wow, what the fuck. That was really on point,” said Hawtin.
German DJ Sven Vath also named his mother as being one of the key architects of his success, in an interview with Australian newspaper the Sunshine Coast Daily in 2008.
“She always comes when I play here in Frankfurt and she is always here dancing next to me for four to six hours in a night. She is 64 years old and in such good shape,” the Cocoon chief explained.
“She is such a wonderful woman and she was giving me all she had and was filling my life with this and probably this is why I love to share so much because she was feeding me with love,” said Sven.
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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)
Barefoot Doctor Bit: Is It OK To Be Disappointed When Let Down Unexpectedly?
Barefoot Doctor: “Of course it’s OK to feel disappointed, it’s inevitable to feel disappointed and to momentarily lose your faith in the benign nature of the path you’re on.
What would not be OK would be to go into denial about it, as that would produce stress, which depletes vital reserves and you’d be needing those to rally yourself and get back in the game, with plan B.
So you acknowledge the hurt and let yourself feel it in a physical sense in the chest and belly, then you breathe a little slower and deeper and use your mind to get that area to relax, in order to disperse it.
Once it releases from your body, it starts dissipating in your mind too and then you remind yourself that you are not that which feels the pangs of momentary local disappointment but are something far greater and limitless. And as such you are on a wondrous path to goodness knows where and that into the vacuum created by the let-down, something more appropriate to your healthy growth in the long run, will soon come to fill it.
Rallying yourself and returning to a state of balance and positivity doesn’t preclude feeling the hurt, however. It’s perfectly OK and healthy to feel the hurt and still be positive and optimistic at the same time.
It’s also important to always remember that the actions of others are never really meant personally, even when it looks that way – they are simply doing the best they can acting out their processes under the circumstances and according to their current stage of personal evolution.
Recalling this makes it easier to forgive them and move on, as there’s no point carrying the weight of a grudge around. Forgiving them doesn’t mean forgetting their transgression, just in case you fall into the same trap with them in future- the bastards!”
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Push: Founding Muzik Magazine, Fighting Serious Ilness & Setting Fire to Jordan (interview)
Push today (click the picture to access his articles)
“The most bizarre situation I experienced was setting fire to Katie Price, I got chatting to her in a bar once and she asked me for a light. I must have had a new lighter or something and it must have been set very high.”
15 years after he launched seminal British dance music magazine Muzik, founding editor Push admits his memories of the era are a little hazy.
“I can’t remember when and where it happened, but I think it was somewhere in Soho,” he continues, recounting his incendiary encounter with the uber famous (in Britain) reality TV star (who at the time was better known as topless model/ glamour girl Jordan).
“As she leaned forward, a huge jet of fire shot out from the lighter and there was this horrible smell of burning hair and a squeaky scream,” he chuckles, “I think it was mainly her eyebrows that went up because her hair was in braids and pulled back from her face. Luckily she was totally hammered and seemed to soon forget about it.”
One of the first music journalists to start seriously championing acid house and techno, Push started his career with then hugely indie music magazine Melody Maker, setting up the newspaper’s first dance section in the early 90s. From Melody Maker, he left to become founding editor of Muzik, which he edited from its launch in 1995 until the end of 1998.
Notable for taking dance music and its fast-growing global culture seriously, the magazine was instrumental in launching superclub brands such as Cream and popularizing Ibiza yet also covered underground club culture and issues,successfully campaigning for free drinking water in clubs and warning of the dangers of tinnitus in one of its earliest editions.
It also created a new caste of fledgling superstar DJs, in putting then relatively unknown producers such as Deep Dish, Brian Transeau, Slam and Josh Wink on the cover, most of whom were then booked at the same nascent superclubs and festivals.
“I’m so proud of Muzik. It was a terrific magazine and a very successful magazine,” says Push, “It won several awards and sold over 50,000 copies a month during my time there. My personal greatest achievement was getting through the first year. I’ve never worked so hard in all my life.”
“I think the magazine’s single greatest achievement was giving dance music a sense of identity that it had never had before in the music press,” he continues.
“We took all those supposedly faceless DJs and musicians and presented them the same way that Melody Maker and NME presented rock and pop stars, and I think that was exactly what was right for the dance scene at that point in time.”
