ost & kjex

allez-allez mix - by ost & kjex (158.80mb, 66:10mins)
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we're back this week, one day early, with a wonderful selection from norwegian cheese aficionados ost & kjex.

rightly famed for their pop influenced sound that takes in electro. funk, disco and house, ost and kjex also do a wonderful side line in some of the best titles in the dance world. many will be familiar with their previous album 'some cheese but not all cheese comes from the moon' (which won them a nomination for best electronica album at the norwegian grammys) and their left field hit 'how not to be a biscuit'.

now they have returned with their long player 'cajun lunch' brought to you by the still cutting edge diynamic label. keeping on a house tip but mixing in influences from the bayou and contains one of the pop gems of the summer in previous funked up single 'continental lover'. go get it here after you've relaxed in this wide ranging influences mix from the guys. suggested cheese for listening: gruyere.

atom TM - welle und felder II
between - devotion
lars myrvoll - departure
nina simone - my man´s gone now
paranda (various artists) - túmari tibarimu
jorge ben - por causa de voce, menina
group soontoon chairoogruen - rice farm girl
gonjasufi - love of reign
captain beefheart and his magic band - trust us (take 9)
talkin heads - this may be the place
anon - srey no (lady named NO)
soft cell - seedy films
eurythmics - take me to your heart
yello - swing
buffalo daughter - cold summer
monolake - infinite snow
atom heart - planters punch

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we're just getting everything ready for croatia as stop making sense festival is upon us. we look forward to seeing a lot of you there by the sea. we're doing the friday night boat party and then the main stage on the saturday evening. see you there. we can't wait.

pvt

allez-allez mix 2010 - by PVT (62.90mb, 52:23mins)
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this week we're very happy to welcome the brilliant electronic post-rock band pvt to our club in the ether.

formed in australia the guys have been growing steadily over the past 10 years and many of you will be familiar with their last album 'o soundtrack my heart' released on warp when they were still trading under the name of pivot. they are back this month with a more concise moniker and a new opus going by the name of 'church with no magic' - a wonderful synth fleck powerhouse that has been picking up rave reviews all over. you can pick it up from here.

we were very impressed with the pvt dj skills when they played for us a couple of years ago and this has been furthur underlined by this mix they've put together for us which takes in a vast number of allez-allez touchstone acts. dig in and check out the bands myspace for info on where to see them live in the coming weeks.


black dice - earnings plus interest
ike yard - ncr
nine circles - twinkling stars
john maus - do your best
suicide - tough guy
hallucinator - red angel
jan jelinek - music to interrogate by
delta 5 - mind your own business
pil - careering
silver apples - you and i
pvt - window (dorian concept mix)
depeche mode - condemnation
gas - konigsfort 3

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we thought we'd take a little bit of time this week to point you in the direction of a couple of things that are floating our boat right now.

first up is the news that mountain man are about to embark on a uk tour. their album 'made the habour' is one of favourite records of this year containing 13 tracks of delicate modern folk held together by the beautiful harmonising of the three members. we're sadly going to miss there london gig at st giles in the fields church as we'll be winging our way to croatia for stop making sense but we strongly recommend you get down and check this beautiful music in the flesh. check here for full details. we'll have more to come from mountain man in the coming weeks so stay tuned.

and secondly our good friends seahawks (who made the majestic space weather sounds mix for us back in january) are offering up a chance to snap up some rare copies of their first 12" "omega beach/keep on growing" from their website. these have all long gone from the shops so if your in the mood for some unique cosmic disco rock sounds go here whilst you can.

the blessings (luckyme)

allez-allez mix- by the blessing (luckyme) (74.00mb, 53:50mins)
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another thursday comes to pass and another fine mix for you with this week selection coming from two of the men behind the luckyme phenomenon in their newly minted artist guise - the blessings.

luckyme is the glasgow based label that grew out of an amazingly fertile collective of artists and musican who in 2002 coalesced with a pipe dream to "make hip hop in a place that was not on the map for hip hop." fast forward through the decade and after many storming luckyme music.art.parties at the glasgow school of art and those involved have seen their music held up as some of the most exciting sounds to hit the electronic world in years reaching the stunning pinnacle of the luckyme presents stage on the saturday night at this years sonar.

and now label managers dominic flannigan & martyn flyn bring you the blessings - a project which in their own words is "a melting pot of 90's kid influences: new jack swing, post punk, garage & deep house all getting processed by the innovative new beat sound of hip hop." their debut 'galaxy high' ep is soon to drop on nod navigators and is a gorgeous laid back pot of beats and sweet synths which can be ordered here and sampled on their myspace.

this mix they have put together lays bare some of the inspirations that led them to this place and is a fine, fine journey.

mileece - formations
lil wayne - i'm single
shadowfax - angels' flight
jacques green - what are you feelin?
loosefingers - lamentation
cubic zirconia - black and blue (bim marx mix)
i forget
teedra moses - for alifetime
twista - pimp like me
ultravid - clan of wow (kingdom mix)
jam city - in the park
mike slott - snow birds (ambient version)
clarence g - cause i said it
tiago - numbersss
miles goodman - boof
vanessa marquez - good girl

perc

psychic animal bandwagon mix- by perc (114.60mb, 47:44mins)
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today we bring you something really rather special from one of techno's new leading lights, perc.

ali wells has rapidly moved up the electronic ladder over the past few years with stand out releases for many of the key players in todays scene including cuts for ovum, drumcode, a couple of stand out speicher releases on kompakt extra as well as a constant stream of releases for his own perc trax imprint. his impressive productivity has made ali a very busy young man with most weekends seeing him entertain dancers across the globes with his lacerating live and dj sets.

next up is the monad v ep on stroboscopic artefacts which you can pick up here. you can sample the ep's closing track 'bozo' on this weeks psychic animal bandewagon mix - a brilliant atmospheric creation draws from many of the industrial inspirations that helped form the perc sound and those modern acts still carrying the torch. it really is quite something.

twins of evil ost
broadcast & the focus group - you must wake
cabaret voltaire - fourth shot
factory floor - solid sound
piano magic - shepherds are needed
wicked man ost - intro medley
akira ifukube - godzilla vs king ghidorah
throbbing gristle - still walking (carl craig remix)
throbbing gristle - six six sixties
takayuku hattori - godzilla vs space godzilla
cabaret voltaire - kneel to the boss
perc - bozo
john leyton - johnny remember me
donor - rhetoric
hate - submariner
crystal castles - celestica (thurston moore remix)
factory floor - a wooden box

george demure once more

allez-allez podcast 2010 - by george demure (52.50mb, 36:27mins)
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this week we’re going all the way back to almost the beginning with the return of the man who was our first ever guest on the allez-allez podcast, george demure.

in november 2006 (blimey!) george made a mix for us that set the template for other guests to live up to – a delightful melange of pop, funk, doo-woop and his own dulcet tones. and now he’s back on the mike for this weeks podcast channelling the ‘play misty for me’ delivery he remembers from the radio of his youth.

george has returned this year with a new album ‘the drifter’ – a great collection laced with his unmistakable velvety tones and featuring original material and stonking covers of the smog classic ‘cold blooded old times’ – an allez-allez favourite – and the stranglers peerless ‘golden brown’. george has been kind enough to offer up the latter as a free download which you can get here.

you can pick up the full album here and do take time to visit george’s website which is choc full of music and videos and his own excellent podcast series ‘demure’s diaries’.

but for now relax and enjoy the smooth sounds of dj george demure on KWAA – smooth.

southern culture on the skids - meximelt
lcd soundsystem - drunk girls
mos def - quiet dog
moebius - light my fire (light sounds dark maxi edit)
180 gs - car bomb
george demure - liza
django reinhardt - blues en mineur
the cynics - creepin'
philip glass - the three consorts of dracula
yukihiro takahashi - extra ordinary (edit)
king creosote - klutz
el guincho - palmitos park (english version)
bonnie 'prince' billy - i am a cinematographer

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the stopmakingsense lauch party at cable is almost upon us. you can still pick up tickets here and to whet your appetite there is an exclusive dj mix over on the sms blog from headliner juan atkins. its going to be a hell of a night.

see you saturday.

jimmy edgar

live @ berghain - by jimmy edgar (108.00mb, 74:58mins)
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oh jimmy jimmy. its very rare for us to move away from our tried and tested mixtape format but when one man electro funk sex machine jimmy edgar comes to us with an amazing live set recorded at berghain we want to share and so that is what we bring you this week.

jimmy edgar is still only in his mid twenties but due to his amazingly early development he feels like somewhat of an elder statesman already. most closely associated with warp records who took him onboard at age 18, jimmy has spent the past decade bringing the funk to the dancefloors of the world. this year he has teamed up with !k7 records to produce what in a sane world would be the biggest selling POP! album of the year. XXX is a joyous record building on his previous work and buffing it up with a sheen that reveals jimmy to be a natural heir to prince. that good.

you can pick up the lp here and but right now revel in this throbbingly great set.

jimmy edgar - yulanao (unreleased)
jimmy edgar - b there
jimmy edgar - hot, raw, sex
jimmy edgar - slaphard
jimmy edgar - yeah uh yeah"* (unreleased track made especially for magda's dj set)
jimmy edgar - function of your love remix
jimmy edgar - for trash" *remix of bitcode
jimmy edgar - tell it to the heart
jimmy edgar - my beats

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tickets are selling quickly for the stop making sense launch party at cable on the 7th august.

the party, with a brilliant line up that includes juan atkins, matias aguayo & ourselves, is not one to miss. you can still pick up some early bird tickets for the crazy price of £8. so do that.

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you can get another mix from us elsewhere on the net this week. this time we've contributed to the french telerama podcast with a mix that takes in luke abbott's single on amazing sounds, the vaselines, sten, oni ayhun and an interview where steve reveals a worrying tendency to upspeak. get it below.

allez-allez telerama mix

op:l bastards - deal
ricardo miranda - black acid
luke abbott - honeycomb
osborne - wait a minute (arto mwambe remix)
it’s a fine line - never go with a hippie to a second location
the vaselines - you think you’re a man
sten - more stash
nooncat - yoji (matthias schaffhaeuser remix)
oh no ono - eleanor speaks (caribou remix)
alexander robotnik - problemz de amour (carl craig remix)
donnacha costello - colourseries orange a
oni ayhun - oar003-b

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and finally its field day on saturday which means a walls live set on the xoyo/lock tavern stage. there's still a few tickets left here.

marcos carbal

like summer mix - by marcos carbal (93.10mb, 64:40mins)
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this week we welcome on board disco house warrior marcos carbal known throughout the universe as one half (alongside old chum jacques renault) of the exemplary duo runaway.

marcos has come to us with a marvelous mix that he knocked together to celebrate some of the new releases on his and jacques on the prowl imprint. until now the label has focused on the boys own production work backed by some top notch remix work from the likes of brennan green, tbd and cosmo vitelli but otp6 sees the release of corrine's tonight ep which delivers some authentic yet modern day latin freestlyle.

you can check out streams of the two most recent releases (the fire below remix collection and the corrine ep) on the front page of the on the prowl site but we suggest you track down all the on the prowl releases here including the two ace party breaks ep of top class re-edits.

tevo howard - everyday
fingers inc - distant planet (distant mix)
konfusion kidzz - remember
anorak trax - do it anyway
kerri chandler - yellow +
omar s - blown valvetrane 02
hunee - raw silk
taster's choice - instant coco
marcos cabral - lonely
east river rituals - goddess of the sea
jump chico slamm - jazzical
marcos cabral & shuz - lifetime groove

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and in this weeks stop making sense festival news - we've put together a mix for vice magazine to celebrate what IS going to be the event of the summer. you can get it over here along with a chance to enter a competition to win a pair of tickets. the answer doesn't seems to hard to guess. here's the tracklist for the mix.

allez-allez vice mix

kid congo and the pink monkey birds - bobo boogie
bruce peninsula - crabapples
james luther dickinson - o how she dances
dollkraut - precious fool
my life with the thrill kill kult - sexplosion
joakim - spiders (the algorhythmz remix)
tiago - motorcycles
peter digital orchestra - jeux de langues
missing linkx - got a minute
john talabot - matilda’s dream
joe - claptrap
prince - bob jones
dj koze - the gekloeppel continues
hirnsalbe - strandspaziergang
allez-allez - weird science
kindness - swingin’ party