tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57270551241404614232011-12-02T07:55:54.739ZDisco. Balearic. Deep House. Comsic Techno. Minimal beats. Dubwise selections. Broken beats. Soul food. Freaky funk. Eclectic treats for basement freaks.TRICKY DISCOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07335799339555524211noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125TrickyDiscohttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727055124140461423.post-24759428215509327212009-11-22T13:00:00.003Z2009-11-22T13:04:29.912Z2009-11-22T13:04:29.912Z

On Saturday 21st November, DC Recordings' highly regarded Kelpe came to Bristol to play a live set at the I Feel Space party at LAB Club. The set they played was superb - lively, energetic, tight and above all heavy. It had the LAB crowd going crazy.Tricky Disco was there and filmed some of the set for posterity. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

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Last Saturday night I guested at a fantastic party put on my friends from I FEEL SPACE and UFO, two of Bristol's best club nights. Boxcutter headlined with a fantastic set, and after a particularly heavy bass mix-up from local Bristol leg end ThinKing I got to finish the night off with some late night faves.I thoroughly enjoyed myself, got some great feedback from punters and really mixed it up

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As usual, we've been a bit slack in updating Tricky Disco lately. The good news is that we've got plenty of material to excite your senses with ready to whack up in the next few weeks.Look out for extended pieces on 15 years of 2020 Vision, the story of Bleep (20 years on), some fresh mixes and, of course, a bunch of random edits and remixes for your pleasure.Speaking of which, in honour of the

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Ey up! It's been a while since we've posted any new music (or articles, for that matter). Praise be, then, for this new mix offering from yours truly and Sean Kelly.A couple of years ago, when Sean and I shared a house, we recorded an 'off the cuff' mix which we called 'The Redfield Sessions'. It featured a mixture of wonky, dubbed-out disco, house, acid, techno, old skool electro and nu-disco.

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Just a quick heads up for you. Recently I traveled to London to meet up with a genuine electronic music legend… one Laurent Garnier.You can read my interview with Monsieur Garnier at Resident Advisor >>Expect more updates soon, including new mixes, edits and other random shizzle.

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Last Friday the curtain fell on our long-running best before: night with a blow-out party and a limited edition CD giveaway. That, 'The Final Version' featured a bunch of unreleased reworks and re-edits. Since only 50 lucky people got a CD, we thought we'd share some of those edits here. We've also included a couple of cuts that weren't on the CD. So, without further ado, here's a selection on

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When we decided to call time on our long running best before: party, we thought it would be good to mark the occasion with something extra-special. First, we decided that a bit of a farewell bash was in order, and secured the services of our old pal and regular guest Chris Duckenfield for the occasion. Then we started thinking about doing something special to giveaway - a mix CD or limited

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We've gone multimedia! Our promo video for the forthcoming best before: party at Native. Incidentally, the music is a special re-edit of a classic.

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We continue our TrickyDiscoMix series with another selection from yours truly, this time in a more downtempo style. I initially put this mix together as a valentines' pressie to my girlfriend Kate, but she liked it and said I should share it with the world at large. So here it is.It was initially inspired by the old mixtapes I used to make as a student DJ, where I'd mix some tracks together and

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Ever the upfront, tech-savvy types that we are, we've recently discovered the goodness that is SoundCloud.com. For the uninitiated, it's a Berlin-based music sharing website that aims to give music listeners (and, specifically, DJs/producers/labels) an easy one-stop place to share music. Think of it as a kind of MySpace/Facebook for music, but with 'private' functions that allow you to promo/

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The other night I was playing around with some reckuds and decided to record a mix ‘on the fly’. This is what I came up with – 80 minutes of bassline-heavy garage, house, proto-house and bleep techno. It kicks off with one of my favourite ever British garage records, the brilliantly wobbly BB Boogie version of Roy Ayers’ ‘Tell Him’, moving onto a classic record I’ve neglected lately – Todd

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Those of you in Bristol - and perhaps beyond - will be familiar with Tricky Disco's regular shindig, best before:. For nearly five and a half years we've been putting on parties in a variety of venues across the city, inspired by a love of great music - both new and old - and the sorts of 'anything goes' club nights that thrill, inspire, surprise and entertain in equal measure. It's been

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Myself and Five-Stylez have been holed up in the Bedmo Disco bunker a lot lately, working on some new Thumbs Aloft material - remixes, edits, original tracks and, of course, our long promised first mixtape. That, 'The Sound Of Bedmo', should be ready by February - our old pal MC Coherent is working on his parts, which we'll overdub and then master the whole thing.While we were faffing about in

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Tricky Disco crew member Christophe - one of Bristol's finest DJs, charity shop crate digger supreme, hardcore party animal and graphic designer to the stars - has launched his own blog. It's Called Love Tempo and it's rather good. For starters it features a hot array of mixes from Chris himself, which are always essential downloads. His latest mix is particularly good. There's also some mixes

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It wouldn't be Christmas at TD Towers without the obligatory "Seasonal Selection" from yours truly. These mixes tend to feature no Christmas-specific music of any description, instead offering a mix of the new and old, forthcoming bits and the odd unreleased gem. This year's effort is no exception. Like last year's mix, it was put together pretty much on the spot with no forward planning.

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Apologies to those who've been loitering around here recently, only to be met with the same content we uploaded back in October. This time we have an excellent excuse - Team TD were down in Australia sunning ourselves, playing records (thanks to Neil at A Disco Stole My Baby in Sydney) and generally enjoying life on the other side of the world. Now we're back and intend to make up for it over

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Back in January, Tricky Disco headed to New York City for a frenzied weekend running around the Big Apple, meeting as many DJs and producers as possible. Our task was to investigate the state of the NYC disco scene, which many had said was undergoing something of a renaissance thanks to the likes of Hercules and Love Affair. Whether it is or not is open to much debate - views differ amongst the

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We haven't treated the TD faithful to a new mix for a while, so we thought we'd share this one we were given from fast-rising Bristol duo VAST & BULBOUS.The pair are residents and promoters at I FEEL SPACE, a student-friendly disco, Italo and cosmic party that takes place at our regular best before: base, The Bank. They've also thrown parties at Native and will soon be making their debut at

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Last Friday Jim and James from Horse Meat Disco made their debut in Bristol, as best before: hosted the second room at Wonky at Warehouse. It was a terrific party - a wonderfully up-for-it and open-minded crowd, keen on dancing all night to quality disco records. Jim and James played a blinder, too. Here's some video footage we took on the night of the boys in action.

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This week, German house/techno producer STEFAN GOLDMANN released his debut album, a double CD set comprising the dancefloor-centric ‘Transistory State’ and experimental ‘Voices Of The Dead’. While the former conatins all the comforting club-friendly goodness we’ve come to expect from the man behind ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Lunatic Fringe’, the latter boasts something we’ve not heard much from

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This month Morgan Geist releases his first solo album in 11 years, 'Double Night Time'. Featuring vocal contributions from Jeremy Greenspan of the Junior Boys, it's the Environ Records lynchpin's attempt at a proper, grown up electronic pop album. We think it's pretty stunning, if truth be told, and thought it was about time we dropped MG a line to find out more. Below is the transcription of our

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As deep/tech house label Diynamic prepare to release their first compilation, we talk to co-owner SOLOMUN (right) about soul, deepness and the state of the house scene…We’ve always been fans of proper deep house here at Tricky Towers, so it’s nice to see the genre getting some decent props at long last. It wasn’t all that long ago that admitting a love of melody-driven, emotion-rich deep house

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Last year’s debut Hatchback single, ‘White Diamond’, was undoubtedly one of our favourite singles of 2007. Like mate Dan Judd (best known as Sorcerer), Samuel Milton Grawe makes magical music – star-gazing instrumentals that owe as much to Neu! and David Axelrod as they do to obscure electronic disco and classic European prog rock. With a debut album set to drop in September on Lo Recordings, we

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For a man who’s released some wonderful techno records over the last few years, Heidelberg’s David Moufang isn’t all that positive about the way the sound is heading. “Techno isn't very exciting to me these days, as to me it lacks depth,” he sighs. “It sounds to me like music just being made for purposes. This is why I and many others seem to be rediscovering deep house. You may argue that the

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We've got a bit of a treat for you today in the shape of a brand new bodypoppin' old skool mix from our very own turntable robots, The Kelly Twins. Those who've heard any of their sets in Bristol (where they are residents at best before: and Byte, as well as running their own UFO bash) Plymouth or at Dulo in Sheffield last Saturday will know what to expect - a booming selection of shit-hot old

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