Just when you thought you might have lost it.

Kept The Faith-The Dead Rose Music Company by TheDeadRoseMusicCompany

 A selection of remixes from the wonderful “In Fields” (Kill Em All) for your friday lunch, don’t listen if you’re eating cheese, the two should not be thought of in the same context..ever.Incidentally, anyone ever tried stinking bishop? It’s fucking disgusting.The remix of flowers by Dalston superstars teeth (which you can get here on Rough Trade) is wonderful but its the Gold Zebra mix that’s making my nerve endings tingle this morning. Go check them out via soundcloud and harrass them to do more gigs!

Flowers - Teeth (In Fields Mix) by In Fields

Love, French, Better - Gold Zebra (In Fields Mix) by In Fields

What a glorious day.This is the first sun I’ve seen in weeks, (could do a Chilean miner joke here, but I like them, they deserve better.)Adding to the sunshine is Now in Stereo’s highly anticipated single “Away” out today on the wonderful Satans Circus records, featuring remixes from Polymath, Ghosts of Venice, Slaughterbrains (what a guy) and Irelands new export Aarvo. Get the full release now exclusively on beatport RIGHT HERE. We’ll leave you with my fave, the Polymath remix, which is already making huge waves and been picked up on by Canadian lord of the fairys and Turbo boss Tiga.

Now in stereo - Away (Polymath remix) by POLYMATH

This album is weird, but a grower.It grows on you, gets into your brain and plants subversive thoughts.

Great DFG rework of The Adventures of Pippi Longstrump by Fear of Tigers, this should have been up last week but we were busy with our night at Horse and Groom, big ups to everybody that made it! Anyway, this has been racking up the hits on soundcloud so get a free download while you can, and while you’re at it check out this seriously underrated remix for Louis La Roche free DL also, isn’t Pete good to you guys! Fear of Tigers - The Adventures of Pippi Longstrump (Digitalfoxglove’s Fearless Remix) by digitalfoxglove

Louis La Roche feat. Yann Destal - My Turn (Digitalfoxglove Remix) by digitalfoxglove

THE BREAKS (Hannah Holland Remix) from planningtorock on Vimeo.

The Planningtorock album is beggining to grow on me, it’s taken a little while as its absolutely mental.This brooding remix of the breaks from Hannah Holland is absolutely delightful, check out more of the Batty Bass Legend here.

I hope you’re all ready for this, after a bit of a mad week in london (for obvious raisins) I’m sure you’ll all want to let off a bit of steam this weekend so why not join us for a night of madness in the Horse & groom TONITE FRIDAY 12TH AUGUST 2011 (you can never be too careful). Quite a line up we have too. Gash digital boss and Bad Life Badman Pete Carvell will be spinning some earbending tunes for us, as well as Will Morris (Cheap Thrills/Just LDN), Slaughterbrains ( Satans Circus ),Matters residents Cologne, just back from Geneva to give us a lesson in Low slung Disco, and Luke Weaver who will be delivering some Super Fresh house….Super Fresh,never thought I’d say that. Here are some of our fave tunes at the mo, and you can expect to hear some of this tonite!

Bartellow & Ogris Debris - Till The End Of Time (short mix) by Ogris Debris

The Style Council - Promised Land (Drop Out Orchestra Unofficial Live Remix) by Drop Out Orchestra

Holdin On by Jacques Greene

Joe Goddard (featuring Valentina) - Gabriel by DFA Records

Oliver - I Need You by weareoliver

Maybe I’m Crazy (Azari & III Remix) by Monarchy

Hope to see you all there and remember its FREEEE before 11, so get down EARLY music starts around 9.30 and we’re on til 4 AM, we got a big concessions list so if you want in cheaper, email us or grab us at the venue. All info on the venue including directions can be found on their site here- Horse & groom

In the run up to Friday’s Matters of the Heart at the Horse and Groom We caught up with Gash Digital’s top dog for an old chinwag, check it out………

M: Can you give us a lowdown of what a typical day running Gash Digital involves?

P: Drinking lots of tea, eating cake and worrying about where my next pay cheque is coming from.

M: Has the “digital only” service worked well for Gash or do you still see a need for physical copies?

P: Gash has always acted as a bit of a launch pad for fresh artists in their early stages of development. The label has always operated on a limited budget and with limited resources and much of the business model relies wholly upon the artist development. Without satisfactory budget, resources and a timeless product to be working with producing physical becomes simply a labour of love. I say steer clear (Unless you’ve got a several thousand quid and a an exceptional team working it).

M: Who are your hotly tipped label acts for the rest of the year?

P: On Gash Digital this year Hybu, Jagerverb and Jukebox Collective have all been great additions to the label family and I suspect Coin Operated Boy’s output will continue to become increasingly popular as well, especially now he’s made the big move to London. I’m also working closely with a few more exciting house producers, Dan Neon being one of these producers that I’m prepared to tell you about at this stage. On the live act front, I’ve several new band signings in the pipeline as well. Keep your eyes on the Gash Digital Facebook and website for all the latest news.

Bad Life wise it has been a great start with TWR72 and Attaque now having been broken in the UK and around the world. They’re now both creating waves and achieving huge support from the likes of Erol Alkan, Tiga, A-Trak, Diplo, Fake Blood, Zombie Nation, Brodinski and many more major players. Even some of the big name trance and more underground house and techno DJ’s have started showing their support. 

Brighton legend’s Evil Nine’s latest offering has just come out on Bad Life and we also have some great new music on the way from Jean Nipon and NT89.

We’ve just signed our first live act to Bad Life as well, (If you ignore some band called Autokratz) a band that I’m hugely enthusiastic about called Dems. People have tried pigeon holing them as post dubstep, but let me tell you now… that is absolute bollocks. Their sound spans much further than that and they are much, much better than a genre that has been invented by producers that are simply embarassed by the fact that their sound has been destroyed by copycat shite lacking in any soul or true creativity.

Dems aren’t the last of the awesome bands we’ll be showcasing on Bad Life as the year progresses.

M: What is your involvement with Bad Life?

P: Bad Life is basically a team effort between Autokratz and myself. We launched the label back in March and are happy with how things have progressed to date. We’re hugely grateful for all the media and DJ support we’ve received so far and can’t wait to discover what the next year holds in store! Watch out for our first European tour in the Autumn and we’ll be back throwing a few more parties in London before the year is out as well.

M: Now that any Tom Dick and Honky can knock out a few tunes with the aid of a laptop ,who do you think is pushing the boundaries, and what sets them apart from the rest?

P: Whilst there probably isn’t a musician in the world that hasn’t sat down to write/produce a track without influence from somewhere, the best musicians are always the most original. They are the ones that have no qualms about stepping away from trends and making what they truely feel. Music that is a little part of them, rather than simply being a copy cat version or the latest Skrillshitz or Swedish House Muthafuckas M.O.S. worthy turd of the month.

In the words of Mike Skinner ‘Let’s Push Things Forward’.

When it comes to signing material for the labels my tastes have always been driven as much by fresh people as fresh sounds. If I can’t get enthusiastic about a record and it sounds like I’ve heard it a million times before it’s probably not for me. If I can’t get enthusiastic about the artist(s) behind the music then it’s definitely not for me. I turned down signing Modestep a year or so ago, and whilst they’re all lovely chaps the only thing that regrets that decision is my back pocket. 

M: Who is/are your biggest influences musically?

P: I grew up listening to a mix of indie, metal, big beats and hip hop. Back when I was a teenager my biggest influences in electronic music were the likes of Fatboy Slim, Midfield General, The Prodigy, Lo Fidelity Allstars, James Lavelle and Deejay Punkroc. Away from electronica the likes of Limp Bizkit, Mansun, Nirvana, Dilated Peoples, Three Colours Red and Elastica all played a huge part in my early musical education.

It is amazing to hear eclectic big beats creeping back into electronic music now, whilst my sound personally as a DJ is much tougher and I still enjoy throwing all kinds of techno, electro and house into sets, my favourite DJ’s in the world right now are the likes of Claude Von Stroke and the Martin Brothers. They really know how to find a groove that will get the ladies dancing without forgetting about the lower frequencies that make you want to pull your finest bass face. 

I also listen to a hell of a lot of indie, hence the odd guitar moment creeping into my sets and the work I do with the bands signed to Gash.

Fatboy Slim has been my biggest influence as a DJ. He is the reason I started DJing. I am yet to witness a DJ command the attention of a crowd like he did in his prime. He’s no technical whizz kid. With him it was always about his passion for the music and a great party. As it should be. Erol Alkan is the closest to receiving that kind of respect as a DJ from me these days. 

M: Can you give some advice to anyone planning to start their own label?

P: Be sure that you’ve got an extreme passion for your music and then want to share that passion with the world. Statistically, these days you are more likely to lose money on a record label than you are by divorcing a woman that you once thought was the ‘one’. So make sure you shower your record label with as much love as you should the ‘one’ in your life.

On second thoughts. I’m now on my second record label! I wonder what that says about me? Much like with relationships, you live and learn? Mind you, Bad Life is a pretty considerate new spouse, despite her more conservative, more settled and organised ways she doesn’t seem to mind in the slightest that I’m still enjoying a more open minded, passionate sex life with Gash Digital.

M: I’ve checked a few of your own remixes and they are not too shabby, do you plan on releasing any of your own stuff anytime soon?

P: I’ve planned on releasing loads of my material since I first started spending time on polishing my production skills during the past couple of years of my life. It has taken a fee, a very strict deadline or simply for someone to tell me ‘Ok, that’s great, stop right there’ before I finish anything. I’ve got so many unfinished projects on my hard drive I can’t remember what the majority of them sound like. I would like to put an EP under my own name out before the end of the year, but I said that last year as well, so I’m not making any promises.

M: And finally and maybe most importantly, if you were stuck on a desert Island with Professor stephen Hawking and Professor Brian Cox, who would you eat first, and how would you kill them?

P: Firstly I would take great pleasure in turning off Mr Hawking’s talkbox so that I wouldn’t have to listen to that horrendous punctuation-less monotone voice of his. However, both gentelmen have probably done more good for the world than I will ever do. I’d probably let them eat me and hope we got rescued before they nibble on anything too important to me. Being quite a geek I would die a happy and much wiser man if I could listen to Professor Brian Cox lectures on my death bed. I think I would be saying “Get busy lecturing Coxy or we’re going to have to feast on stringy Hawkings bacon”. I think I’d rather feast on one of my own testicles than that clever old codger.

Wasn’t that fun!! Don’t forget to make it down on Friday where you can catch Pete for Matters of the Heart at the Horse and Groom along with Will Morris (Cheap thrills) Slaughterbrains (Satans Circus), Cologne, and Luke “I see dead people” Weaver.

Dont forget to check out Bad Life and Gash Digital for the latest info on all the artists mentioned.

Well that was an interesting few days. London brought to a standstill by the “Yoof of today.” Well things seem to be getting back to normal and everyone can get back to the more important things in life, like how ironic their moustache is. Here is a very uplifting rework of Joe Smooth’s promised land by the Style council, remixed by dropout orchestra. Few downloads left so be quick!!..And while you’re at it, why not culture yourself and check out the original. The Style Council - Promised Land (Drop Out Orchestra Unofficial Live Remix) by Drop Out Orchestra

Joe smooth - promised land