Don't Call It A Comeback

We've been here for... well, a year i guess.

There has been a bit of a gap in the posts of late, which i am sorry about. The Electrique Boutique night on the Monday came to an end to be replaced by The Black Tooth Lounge, a rock night which is going really well. They had The Deathset playing the other week which was an awesome gig.

Electrique Boutique will now be run on Fridays at Snafu, which is a much better slot for it. Upcoming guests confirmed so far are Duke Dumont, Sinden and Herve, Crookers and Jojo De Freq, Andrew Weatherall, Erol Alken, Felix Da Housecat, Slam, Percy X and a load more i will keep you up to date with.

To get back into the swing of the blogging malarkey i have a mix from Kid Bell. I have played with him a lot in the past and always enjoyed his dj style and banter. I remember once djing with him and singing 'Brazilian Rhyme' into the mic whilst he mixed the original into my horrendous warblings. He also ran the Goodfoot night at the Tunnels which i used to love going along to get down to some soulful flavours. Their guests included Mad Matts (owner of Gamm records) Zero Db, Quantic, Monk One, Benji B, Domu and a few others i cannot remember off the top of my head.

Kid Bell - Tuesday Night At Seymours

Tracklist:
Detroit Experiment - Higher
Maspyke - No big deal
Viper Squad - Case closed
Dj Day - A Place to go
Soulphiction - Prison song
Inohs Sivad Feat. Diamondancer - Somewhere Else
Soultoursit - Side dish
Mark E - Scared
Linkwood -Piece of mind
Waajeed - Tron
Imagination - Just An Illusion (Lindstrom dub)
O Boogie - Paper Chaser (Tom Trago & Maximillion's Big Business Remix)
Metro Area - Pina
Steve and I - 96
Patchworks - Celebration (Amp Fiddler instrumental)
Christian Prommers Drumlesson - Rex Drums
Alice Smith - Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton remix)
Trusme - Working nights
Chic - I want your love (Todd Terje Mix)
Mark Murphy - Love is what stays (Henrik Schwarz remix)
Milton Jackson - Ghosts in my machine
Deetron - I Cling
Flying Lotus - Dance Floor Stalker
Thom Yorke - Eraser (Dixon edit)
Build an ark - You gotta have freedom (2 banks of 4 mix)

Bonus Ghettotech bootie

Skream - Midnight Request Line (Cutlass Supreme Remix)

If you are out in Aberdeen this week, come check me out, i am playing at Snafu on Thursday (filling in for Steven Milne) and Friday, 99 on Saturday and i am Back in Snafu on Sunday djing for this bartending competition.

Live from Electrique Boutique

So i recorded my set last night in the club and even though i am far from happy with it i am offering it up here for download. It's not bad by any stretch, just not as tight as i am usually.

Live at Snafu pt 1


Live at Snafu pt 2


Tracklist

Vincent Price and Michael Jackson intro (i actually stopped the music in the club to do this bit)
Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub
Benga - Crunked Up
Skream - 2d
Mala - Left Leg Out
Marc Houle - Techno Vocal (Dub)
Pirate Soundsystem - Scream if you wanna go rasta
Underground Resistance - Footwars
Smith and Mighty - B-line fi blow
Bok Bok - World Changing Dub
Blaqstarr - Shake It To the Ground (Claude Von Stroke Mix)
Hannah Holland - Crackney
Crookers - Para De Graasinha
Congorock - Exodus
A Hundred Birds - Jaguar
Danielle Baldelli - Safari
Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings Of Life
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
Nuyorican Soul - Nervous Track
Efdemin - Lohn and Brot

Part 2
Efdemin - Lohn and Brot
Isolee - Do Re Mi
Green Velvet - Shake and Pop (instrumental)
Jerome Sydenham - Timbuktu
Jess and Crabbe - Council
Jesse Rose - Wake Up
SL2 - Djs Take Control
Bassnectar - Yo (Speakerpunk Brazilian Rave Remix)
Bassment Jaxx - Hey U (Switch and Sinden remix)
Dr Evil - Mary Jane (Solid Groove Remix)
Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango
Ludacris - Roll Out
Radioclit - Divine Gosa
Elite Force - Used and Abused (Zodiac Cartel Remix)
Bell X1 - Flame (Solid Groove Remix)
L-vis 1990 - Mr Wobble
Twocker - Stitch
Sawtooth Sucka - Crazy
Pase Rock - The Motherfucking Rave Is Over
Bassment Jaxx - Nifty
Rod Lee - Understand
Pitbull - Move Shake Drop
Benni Benassi - Satisfaction (Mowgli Bootleg)
Duke Dumont - Lean and Bounce
Mattew Jonson - Followed By Angels

That is not a picture of me btw

Bulgarian Interview

The Bulgarian is a producer from (wait for it) Bulgaria, now staying in Cape Town. We are pretty big fans of his music under the names The Bulgarian and Mr Elastik over here at Electrique Boutique so we were pretty chuffed when he agreed to do an interview for us.


Electronic Boutique) So you have quite alot of respect for releasing records as Mr Elastik, what made you want to release the Bulgarian stuff as well? Most of the people who i know who play your Mr Elastik records kind of look down on the fidget house genre for not being very serious.

Bulgarian) Really? Haha, thought it was the other way round. ;) Actually mr. elastik and The Bulgarian came about at around the same time. I was really into all the minimal stuff but then I heard “A little bit Patchy” by Switch (the original dubsided release)... and didn’t really like it. But the flip-side was really dope. So i started checking this sound out and really got into it. Back then it still didn’t have a name so i was calling it ‘electrojack’... thank goodness someone thought of Fidget, much better name.


EB) Was there a record or producer that inspired the switch over of style?

B)I never really switched, rather expanded, but yeah, as I mentioned above it was “The Something Like” on dubsided 005, the flip to “A Bit Patchy”. That, and hearing Switch playing later that year at the Exit Festival in Serbia that sealed the deal for me. It was just a real breath of fresh air at the time!


EB)What other producers do you feel an affinity to right now?

B)I value the people more than the products and our personas are just that: products. So I’ll rather just mention some of the cats i’m getting along with at the moment that i think are cool; Bryan Cox, KiNK, my man Vlad Sokolov and also my Potty Mouth cohorts. I’m also on good terms with the Crookers, me and Phra have some funny msn conversations!

EB)Where have you found the Bulgarian sound goes down best? Are you booked to play alot as him in Bulgaria or South Africa for example?

B)Never actually played in Bulgaria! Hoping to change that soon, but i haven’t lived there for a long time and there’s not that much of an underground scene. South Africa is also a very tiny tiny fraction of the musical pie but it was where “The Bulgarian” was born so yeah, played here a bit. ;)

As to where the sound goes down the best... ... i’ll let you know! ;)


EB)Do you feel that the Cape town scene is particularly different from Durban or Jo'burg due to it's Cape Malay, San etc population - the sheer mix of ethnicities must make for some different vibes - the Cape Flats are a hot bed of kwaito right?

B)South Africa is a very colourful place in general and yes the cities are quite different, not least of which is their relative isolation from one another due to the sheer distances between them, JoBurg is about 1500Km from Cape Town and Durban is just over 1000 i think, so cross-pollination is hard, but Kwaito is definitely a national sound! In fact myself and my old studio partner Damien have been credited by some of the local media as having invented a new genre as the Tone Deaf Junkies: We call it Kwaitech, think electronic tech-kwaito. ;)

EB)It was your Discobelle mix that turned me onto Brabe, which in turn revealed Rene Van Munster and Bootlickers. How on earth did you discover him? I have tried looking for music i like on Myspace before and it is a soul destroying task.

B)I have a very time-consuming habit of checking out every single myspace page of everyone i get a friend request from as i think its polite and you never know what you might find. Of my nearly 2000 friends i’ve hand approved and looked at every single one of their pages Brabe and Rene were among those. So if your friend request is taking a few days to get approved its usually because im trying to find some time to get through a whole bunch of back-logged requests.


EB) Are there any other up and coming producers you want to big up right now?

B) While he’s been around for longer than me and is not really doing badly by any means he is still up and coming and so i have to give a shout out to the other Bulgarian. My man KiNK (on my top friends on my myspace page), the dude has talent, especially when you see what he works on!!!

The Bulgarian - Uptown Jack


The Bulgarian - Barnyard Dance


Remember to support the artists we feature here on the blog, if you don't they might not bother making the exciting music that you enjoy dancing to.
Buy his stuff.

Juno

Beatport

Once you enter my house it then becomes our house

This blog is actually here to advertise my night in Snafu, so i figure i should post some of the songs that get played on the Monday night mashup that is Electrique Boutique.

Recently it has started to get pretty busy again and i have been able to play slightly more aggressive, faster music. I have a theory that songs with big breakdowns or periods with no beats don't really work too well outside of massive clubs. However this Nacho Lovers edit of Laidback Luke and Steve Angello's possible summer anthem 'Be' blows that theory right out of the water. It actually got a cheer when it dropped into the break on Monday.

Laidback Luke and Steve Angello - Be (Nacho Lovers Edit)


Here is a cheeky bootleg that blends it with the Robin S fairground classic 'Show Me Love'

Laidback Luke and Robin S - Be (Show Me Love Blend)


Dubstep and 4x4 isn't really well represented up here in Aberdeen, which i feel is a shame as there is a market for it in my opinion. My biggest tune at new year was Benga and Coki's 'Night' and after i started spinning a few 4x4 tunes i had people coming up to me asking why there weren't more people playing this music. Admittedly 4x4 doesn't have the best reputation and hearing T2's 'Heartbroken' blasting out of the windows of lowered Vauxhall Corsa's doesnt do much to help belay this chavvy rep that it has. Here is the afforementioned dubstep tune and a slightly slowed down more dancefloor friendly version of the Burial classic 'Archangel' by Trouble and Bass's Boy 8 Bit.

Benga and Coki - Night


Burial - Archangel (Boy 8 Bit's Simple Remix)

Has It Really Been A Month?

It would seem so.














As a way of getting back into the 'blogging about music and stuff' thing i am gonna start with Martin Jay's Snafu podcast. He does the Mom The Video Broke night at Snafu and is one of the djs for the Mixtape night. It's a good mix of rock, pop, disco, boogie and loads of other stuff. Check it out.

Martin Jay Snafu Podcast

Back to the Boardroom

The Boardroom are a collective of producers out of London who make nice minimal electro techno. Their ranks are quite large, as is their output and they deserve to be a lot better known. A Boardroom member produced a Two Lone Swordsmen song from their latest album and the 'Bullet Catchers Apprentice' ep by Andrew Weatherall was produced in the boardroom. There is a definite air of mystique about them, you don't really garner much information from their website. Who are they? What have they come to teach us?

Who cares? The music is dope.

Board and Victorville - Nail Gun

ESC - Rage Signal

Le Sarge On Board - Dark Daze

Board and Victorville Myspace
ESC Myspace
Le Sarge On Board Myspace

Go to the Boardroom and check out all the associated bands as there is gold to be found.

I'm So Dizzy...

Local promoters/record label/nice folks Dizzy Storm are joining up with us for a special this coming Monday featuring New Zealand's So So Modern (Transgressive Records) and local 8-bit producer, Sabrepulse.

Having previously promoted the likes of Lightning Bolt, Dizzy aka Sharon has had a quiet time of recent. Snafu and the EB have shattered that, and now fans of music that veers widly to the left of usual listening habits can enjoy regular outings again. Forthcoming acts include The Chap (5th November) and Zombie-Zombie (sic?).

On another note, Modeselektor have had to postpone their November date with us, but fear not, we're looking at rescheduling real soon!

I Ain't Scared Of You Bro, Though I Am Of The Omen.

Yeah so i haven't posted anything for a while, to be honest i haven't really a lot to say. The other day i went to the opening of the new G-Star shop on Union Street. This taught me that i have a lot to learn about manners and etiquette.

On the way back to my flat to get changed for the party i was rushing and all of a sudden got a really dry mouth. I decided the best course of action was to spit into the gutter, as i pulled the screwface that you do when you are hocking phlegm into your mouth i noticed that a girl walking towards me was smiling as if she knew me. For some reason as my eyes met hers and she did the nodding-smiling thing i spat out all the stuff in my mouth. Whilst looking her dead in the eye and with my screw face still on. To make it worse when i realised what i had done she was walking past me and i muttered "nice one giles" to myself. She would have definitely heard it as well.

So i get home and try to forget that i am a sociopath and get ready for the party, forgetting to eat anything as i am in a rush now. Once at the party i have a cool time, G-Star have a dj up from Manchester playing in Dusk and it is a free bar with proper drinks. I proceed to get fucked up on Stella, cider, shots of posh vodka, long island iced teas and mohitos. This was my mistake i think, because by 11pm i am in the back of a plumbers van with some girls on my way to Snafu not really sure what is going on anymore.

Once at Snafu i make my way over to the dancefloor to watch the Kitchen Cynics, who was ace, and then quickly decide i am far too drunk to stay and make a move for the door. Once outside i ran into my girlfriend and i was swaying all over the place, as i slowed to speak to her i felt really nauseous and my mouth started filling with pre vomit saliva. I went to spit it out but what i hadn't noticed was that an older couple had been walking behind me and were in the process of overtaking as i pulled this maneuver.

I spat right into the womens face.

To make things worse i then started being sick everywhere, stumbling about the pavement as she froze in horror at what had just happened.

Anyway i have decided to stop spitting in the street from now on as it is a filthy habit that i only really do because i am from the country, used to ride bikes alot and because i am a mink.

Anyway this blog is supposed to be for the night that i do at Snafu so here's a nice Baile Funk meets Bmore remix of We Are Your Friends.

Simian - Never Be Alone (DJ Sandrinho Remix)

and that Mark Ronson remix of Bob Dylan's tune

Bob Dylan - Most Likely You Go Your Way I'll Go Mine

Underground Heroes @ Electrique Boutique, Snafu

Monday 30th July sees Underground Heroes play Snafu, joined by tour support The Steers and local outfit The Underkills. This gig is a collaboration with our sisterly night, The Dirty Hearts Club.

To save me the hassle of writing a bit about the headliners, I'm going to rip their bio straight from their Myspace:

Dubbed by the NME as “The Ordinary Boys Gargling Glass” or “The Jam if they'd read the Razzle instead of books on politics", Underground Heroes are currently the most talked about thing to come out of Chatham in Kent since the word ‘Chav’.
Influenced by their heroes The Specials, The Jam and The Clash, they describe their sound as ‘Chav Punk’. The sound of booze-sodden, crap fag smoking, concrete Britain. Lyrically they are inspired by the day to day life they know - the fights, night life, friends, birds - and the identikit town they live in.

Happy enough? Good, see you at Snafu on the 30th!

Underground Heroes // The Steers // The Underkills
Snafu
1 Union Street, Aberdeen
Doors open 8pm, early show

After the live delights of these three bands, Sir Giles Walker will be DJing till 2am.

Go 'SLKTR, It's Your Birthday!

Described wonderfully as "the 808-bashing boffins known for lacing techno's pulse with riotous hip-hop swagger", Modeselektor have announced that the release date of their new album on Bpitch Control will be the 9th September. Titled Happy Birthday!, the album features collaborations with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Warp artists Maxïmo Park, and French hip-hoppers TTC.

We can't wait, especially since they've just confirmed a live show at Electrique Boutique in November. We'll keep you updated...

BOOGYBYTES VOL.03

Take a ride on the electronic music time machine, remixed courtesy of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szarsy. Spanning several years of electronic music, Modeselektor’s addition to the Boogybytes mixes surely has something for everyone into electronica, Techno, IDM, Drum and Bass, et al. It’s all here, albeit with the odd addition here and there of Bronsert and Szarsy’s warped glitch-hop and grime beats.

- LEFT HIP MAGAZINE

Yes, we're a bit slow with this one as it was released in April but this blog has just started so we're excused. Soon to performing live at a Snafu near you, Modeselektor's first DJ mix will give you a creative insight into what makes these guys tick. Their forthcoming LP is eagerly anticipated...

In the meantime, ch-ch-check these:

Apparat "Holdon" (Modeselektor Remix) - MP3

Modeselektor Live -

Electrique Boutique Presents...Cagedbaby

Arriving at Snafu on June 11th, fresh from the shores of Loch Ness (or not so fresh if he hasn't slept or washed all weekend), is Brightonian Cagedbaby. Signed to Southern Fried (Norman Cook's label), CB has been busy since releasing 2005's debut long player, Will See You Now.

The culmination of a heavy DJ tour schedule (115 gigs!) and productive studio time has resulted in the eagerly-anticipated release of album no. 2: Something To Worry About. The album takes in all of his experiences of the last two years and has already been compared to the likes of Royksopp, Mylo, Prince and an electronic T-Rex. Good peers to be rated alongside but we feel Cagedbaby has sufficient originality to stand out. Plus, if you have Trevor Jackson and Erol Alkan spreading your gospel, then life ain't too shabby!

Cagedbaby - Hello There (Radioslave Remix) (Stoyan's DVJ Cut)


Cagedbaby "Hello There" (Presets Remix) - MP3

:: Electrique Boutique's Unofficial Rockness Afterparty :: Monday 11th June ::

We Are...

Electrique Boutique is a night of new wave, punk funk, electro, indie and trash-pop every Monday at basement venue Snafu in Aberdeen, Scotland.

So far, we've entertained and been entertained by: Filthy Dukes, Switch/Solidgroove, Uncle Buck and Colon Open Bracket, with other similar-minded acts scheduled soon.

Resident is Giles Walker who likes to play to himself a lot, but hey, people still come and dance so something must work!

If you would like to check us out, come down any Monday (check www.clubsnafu.com for listings) from 10pm. The drinks are cheap - all house spirits for £1.50, Apple Sourz £1 and Sambuca £2. Monday night raving y'all!!

If you'd like to guest at one of our nights, please email gomes@clubsnafu.com.

Rather than just shamelessly promote our night, we thought we'd blog everything that makes us tick. Here we present MP3's, music website links, far-out clothing, wack art plus any other random trash we come across...if we blog one of your MP3's and you ain't happy, then email above and we'll gladly remove it.