NIGHT FANTASY | FRIDAY MARCH 06TH | KRAAK GALLERY MANCHESTER

Looking forward to plating here on Friday March 06th, here's what they say:

Busting out of Kosmonaut to a back-alley near you, Night Fantasy bring their plates of peak time biker disco, tripped out electronics and throbbing analogue grooves to KRAAK for a night of certified dancefloor destruction.

Joining us for this evening of high-class entertainment will be a selection of some of Manchester's finest sleaze-bags who will be mounting the decks at various points during the night in a display of intensely erotic sonic behaviour.

So buckle-up, this ain't gonna be pretty.

Lou Lou (Dance Lady Dance)
Lego (aA / Loffel / VisualS0und)
Josh (Thinking Out Loud)

+ Night Fantasy Residents

  FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT.

Friday 6th March
Kraak, 11 Stevenson Sq, Manchester
11pm until 4am
Facebook event here
RA listing here 

@_nightfantasy / @kraakspace
Night Fantasy Spundcloud

 For a sense of music to be played, hear this...

 

 

STILL... | PSYCHONAUTS ESSENTIAL MIX 1996 | MO WAX

Just remembered then found this.., the Psychonauts 1996 Essential Mix..full tracklisting below

It's pretty much the most 90s set ever... 

Trans AM - "Firepoker" (City Slang)
11.59 - "TG" (Ticking Time)
Cheif XL - "Last Stop" (Mo' Wax)
Marxman - "Sad Affair" (Talkin' Loud)
Peanut Butter Wolf - "Lunar Props" (2 Kool)
Abyss - "Shadow" (Sec)
Nine - "Promo" (white label)
Beastie Boys - "Bohisattua Vow [instrumental]" (Mo' Wax)
Major Force - "Last Orgy" (Major Force)
Stereo MCs - "What Is Soul [instrumental]" (4th & Broadway)
DJ Shadow - "Mutual Slump" (Mo] Wax)
Ultramag. MCS - "Chorus Line [instrumental]" (Next Plat)
Needle Thrashers - "Ill, You + Me = Naughty" (promo)
Wild Bunch - "The Look Of Love" (4th & Broadway)
Major Force - "Zenguin In Action" (Major Force)
DJ Krush - "KRB" (Mo' Wax)
Indho - "Love Will Be On Your Side [Photek Mix]" (Mercury Music)
Rebel Crew - "Serpent" (promo)
DJ Krush - "Only The Strong Will Survive [Attica Blues Mix]" (Mo' Wax)
The Root - "Clones" (Geffen)
Stereo MCs - "Devils Claw" (4th & Broadway)
Pressure Drop - "Back 2 Back" (C & P Big World)
Beatnuts - "Are You Ready [instrumental]" (bootleg)
Fed - "Cut Ridge" (Randall)
Major Force - "untitled" (Major Force)
Sven Can Hees - "Freak Ysthan" (Royal)
Love Corporation - "Cathedralls Of Glitter" (P & C Creation)
Nuphonic - "untitled" (white label)
Coldcut - "Beats & Pieces" (Big Life)
Howie B - "Undercover" (Polydor)
Massive Attack - "Sly (String Section)" (4th & Broadway)
DJ Cam - "promo" (Sony)
Automator - "Sleep" (Unbiquity Music)
Lewis Parker - "Rise" (Bite It)
Co-Flow - "promo" (white label)
DJ Shadow - "DJ Shadow Theme (solesides)" (Mo' Wax)
DJ Shadow - "Midnight" (Mo' Wax)
DJ Shadow - "Hardcore Inst. Hip Hop" (Mo' Wax)
DR Octagon - "Bear Witness" (Mo' Wax)
DJ Krush - "Meiso" (Mo' Wax)
DJ Shadow - "Lost + Found" (Mo' Wax)
Blackalicious - "Swan Lake Instrumental" (Mo' Wax)
DJ Krush - "Duality" (Mo' Wax)
Real Deal - "Headless Horseman" (Botchit & Scraper)
Massive Attack - "Daydreaming Inst." (4th & Broadway)
Smith & Mighty & Kelus & Lynx - "Clash Of The Beasts" (3111)
Juc Force - "Strong Island" (Boy Boy)
Gangstarr - "untitled" (Chrysalis)
Jazz Grooves - "Huh" (B Balls)
EPMD - "So Whatcha Sayin" (Sleepin Bag)
Major Force - "Guess What" (Major Force)
Wost Wanted - "Calm Down" (Sutra)
Lamb - "Goreckt" (Fontana)
The Amalgamation - "Eric" (Filter)
Renegade Soundwave - "Phantom" (Mute)
Nicolette - "Waking Up" (Shup Up & Dance)
Local Zero - "Airbag" (Filter)
DJ Shadow - "The Numbers Song" (Mo' Wax)
Beastie Boys - "Flute Loop Inst." (Mo' Wax)
Bjork - "I Miss You (Dobie Rub Pt 1)" (One Little Indian)
Gutter Snirfs - "Trial Of Life Inst." (Libaty Grooves)
Unkle - "Berry Meditation" (Mo' Wax)
Air - "Casanova 70" (Source Lab)
Brand Nubain - "Love Me Or Leave Me Alone" (Elektra)
Automator - "A Better Tommorrow" (Ubiquity)
Dust Brothers - "Save Me" (promo)
Roni Size - "Down" (Talking Loud)
DJ Die - "Stone Love" (promo)
Oasis - "Wonderwall" (Creation)
Major Force - "Return Of The Original Artform" (Major Force)
DJ Mink - "Hey Can You Relate" (WARP)
Stetsasonic - "Hip Hop Band" (Tommy Boy)
Tru Funk - "Early Beat" (3 Stripe Music)
Carlton - "Do You Dream" (ffrr)

MIXTAPRE REUP | HEARTBEAT VOLUME TWO | 2011

Found this on an old Soundcloud account, 'HEARTBEAT VOLUME TWO' - Volume One seems to be lost but this lives on...

JAY Z / DEADBOY / STEEL DRUM SOUND / AFRO / GARAGE / REWINDS etc

PARK LIFE | WHITWORTH GALLERY & PARK REFURB PHOTOGRAPHY | FEB 15TH 2015

The Whitworth Art Gallery, & adjacent Victorian park, reopened this weekend after a 3 year & 15 million pound refurb. As you would expect, it's spectacular, both building & contents. Worth a few of your early Spring hours.

A few photos of both, below:

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker

Peter Blake 'The Beach Boys' 1964

WAVES OF MODERNISM | PRESTON BUS STATION | PR1

Visited the above on Saturday, the central bus station of the city of Preston in Lancashire, England. It was built by Ove Arup and Partners in the Brutalist architectural style between 1968 and 1969, to a design by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership with E. H. Stazicker [ more here ]

It was due for demolition up until to last year when the campaign to save it was successful & the building was listed to Grade II.  Definitely a good thing - it's very much a late 60s time capsule - design heavy, tonnes upon tonnes of brutal concrete but super photogenic too:

 

There's a great cafe located on the ground floor of the terminal, well worth popping into for a Brutalist breakfast...

Brutalist breakfast

 This short film about Preston Bus Station, produced by Andrew Wilson and Paul Adams in 2013, defines it perfectly:

Preston Bus Station isn't the only modernist / Brutalist building of note in Preston - there's also the Guild Hall:

LOFFEL LIVE RECORDING | THE SPOON INN | JANUARY 25TH 2015

Live recording from an afternoon at Loffel, at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton, Manchester...

Tracklisting below...

MIX BY JEFFO [ EIGHTY SIX ] & @VISUALS0UND

A LIVE MIX [ PLEASE EXCUSE THE LEVELS / DISTORTIONS / WHEN PEOPLE KNOCKED THE DECKS ETC ] OF NEW AGE, FOLK, DUB, ELECTRONICS, JAZZ, DISCO NOT DISCO & MORE...

 APPROX TRACKLIST...

/HOUR ONE/
@jonnynash - A SHALLOW SPACE
@clint-mansell - MEMORIES (SOMEONE WE’LL NEVER KNOW)
@phil-france-the-swimmer - THE SWIMMER
@farbrorresandemac - VYKORT
SEAHAWKS / @squonjax - HOT SPACE (JONNY NASH COSMIC FANDANGO MIX)
JESSICA PRATT - NIGHT FACES
WARPAINT - BOY
SPECK MOUNTAIN - BACKSLIDER
SPECK MOUNTAIN -BACKSLIDING
@mind-fair- FIND ME AT THE FAIR
@coloramasound - HAPUS?
CIAN CIARAN - NO MORE
@apiento & CO - THE LIGHT MACHINE
 
/HOUR TWO/
SKETCHES FROM AN ISLAND - KITASAKU [ @international-feel ]
GIGI MANSON & TEMPELHOF - SESSION ONE [ @throneofblood ]
GAUSSIAN CURVE - TALK TO THE CHURCH [ @music-from-memory ]
SKETCHES FROM AN ISLAND - VOL 02 A1 [ @international-feel ]
ANDREAS VOLDENWILDER - HANDS AND CLOUDS
??
LETS GET LOST VOL 17 - B1
DOS PALOS - I'VE BEEN AROUND [ @nunorthernsoul ]
??
NAUTIC - FREEDOM OF THE FLOOR [ BULLION MIX ] [ @deekrecordings ]
@bonnie-klein - CARINA
 
/HOUR THREE/
@horsebeach - MIDNIGHT
STEPHEN STEINBRINK - A SIMPLE ARMATURE OF YOUR IDEAL WORLD
PURE BATHING CULTURE - SILVER SHORE’S LAKE
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - WALK YOU HOME
MATTHEW E. WHITE - ONE OF THESE DAYS
JESSICA PRASS - MY BABY DON’T UNDERSTAND ME
JANE WEAVER - DON’T TAKE MY SOUL [ @finderskeepersrecords ]
LAMBCHOP - NASHVILLE PARENT
INCARNATIONS - I SHOULD’VE KNOWN
@stevemasonkbt - A LOT OF LOVE
@coloramasound - I CAN’T GIVE YOU MORE THAN EVERYTHING
THE BEES - ANGRY MAN
@nevcottee - OSLO (RUF DUG MIX)
GLEN CAMPBELL - WICHITA LINEMAN
LOS PORCOS - JESUS LOVES YOU BABY
 
/HOUR FOUR/
TOPANGA CANYON - LOVE YOU [ @wonderfulsound ]
JOHN PHILLIPS - TOPANGA
@mind-fair - ??
JEAN CARN - DON'T LET IT GO TO YOUR HEAD
@lenleise - PHANTOM VOYAGERS
THE SUPREMES - IT'S TIME TO BREAK IT DOWN
@takenbytrees - MY GIRLS
@BEGIN - ELATE [ 33 RPM MIX ]
THE CREPES - EBB TIDE
@nite-jewel - WEAK FOR ME
@zombie-zombie - THE BEACH [ @bido-lito ]
BRENDA & THE BEACHBALLS - COOLIN' IN THE RYE [ @aficionado-recordings ]
BIBIO - OLD FRIENDS [ @warp-records ]

The Spoon Inn

LARRY DAVID'S JUICE CREW NOD | SEINFELD SEASON 4 EPISODE 18

So Newman is spotted carrying a Cold Chilln 12" in Seinfeld season 04, episode 18 (the same episode that Sergio Mendes gets dissed) 

The sleeve looks like it could be an early promo from Cold Chillin, their later ones were like this:

The record Newman is carrying looks a lot like this though: Marley Marl's 1989 classic 'In Control, Volume 01'

Nice hip hop nod, by Larry David...

LÖFFEL JANUARY SESSION | THE SPOON INN | SUNDAY JANUARY 25TH

Löffel returns to The Spoon Inn in this coming Sunday, January 25th, for an afternoon of low winter sun soundtracking. Expect folk, electronica, soul, new age, that kind of thing. 

Plus The Spoon Inn's always excellent food & drink menu. Very much recommended. 

DJs are Jeffo [ Eighty Six ] & me.

We'll start around 2pm and run until a bit later on, past the sunset. 

As a guide, here's a few hours soundtrack from a Löffel back in 2013:

Löffel

A LOW WINTER SUN SOUNDTRACK... 

Sunday January 25th

The Spoon Inn

364 Barlow Moor Road

Manchester M21 8AZ

 

FROM aA BLOG | KIM FOWLEY 1939 - 2015

Duplicate of aA blog post...

We were sad to hear this morning that Kim Fowley, the Sunset Strip scenester, maverick genius & world class raconteur, had died at his Los Angeles home. He was 75. 

 From Rolling Stone:

'Fowley was born in 1939 to Singin' in the Rain actor Douglas Fowley and actress Shelby Payne and grew up in Los Angeles and around southern California. After a bout with polio in 1957, he began a career in the music industry, producing his first single – the Renegades' "Charge" – in 1959. In the Sixties, worked with Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Seeds and Gene Vincent, among others, as well as launching his own solo career; his 1968 LP Outrageous, Fowley's third, was the only one to chart in the U.S. Fowley closed out the Sixties by MCing John Lennon's performance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, where he asked the audience to hold up its cigarette lighters, arguably starting the concert fad.

The Seventies found Fowley working with the Modern Lovers, Blue Cheer and Helen Reddy. He also co-wrote songs on Kiss' hit Destroyer and a "Escape" on Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare. Fowley and the Runaways severed their ties in 1977, after which he set out to find another group he could market as a novelty. Although he worked with a few groups over the ensuing decades and continued to put out his own solo LPs, none reached the success or notoriety of the Runaways.

In the 2000s, he tried his hands at experimental film, and in 2012, he won a special jury prize for innovation and audaciousness at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his films Golden Road to Nowhere and BlackRoomDoom. In 2014, Fowley made an appearance in Beyoncé's "Haunted" video.'

We did a show with Kim at In The City 2003, 'Rocket To Stardom'. We said at the time:  "legendary singer, songwriter, producer, blagger & all round music genius is coming to town, to show us how to put on a real show"

As he himself described it over many early morning LA to Manchester phone calls, "Rocket To Stardom will feature the return of the American Syd Barrett STEVEN T & I'm also promising drag queens, midgets, dancing girls, dwarfs, very special guests & famous friends..."

  We'll post some photos and, if we can find them, reviews from the night later on. Click here for an interview with Kim on Spectropop that was done that weekend.

SoftPreist was a big Kim Fowley fan & often played his tracks, especially this one: 

UPDATE: Just found this page on Kim Fowley's own website that documents his trip to Europe in 2003 - visiting Manchester, In The City & of course aA...photos below:

  

The Bodyguard & Stevie T

Kim at aA

Kim's In The City pass

Kim and Charlie outside aA @ Gardens Hotel 2003 

RIP Kim