Spirits in the Snow House

A good DJ mix or podcast is a special thing. I've been making mixtapes and mixes for over twenty years so I'm no stranger to the things that are going to make a mix a bit more memorable than a simple collection of tracks.
In my role as podcast producer for Little White Earbuds I get to hear some amazing mixes, though to be honest, with the amount of music I try and listen to during the week - what with new promos and my own discoveries I come across there is usually very little time to listen to things that aren't somehow part of my work. Last week I came across a mix by Transounds and was instantly patting myself on the back for taking the time to listen to their latest mix, because it contained everything that - for me, makes a mix more than memorable, but something that you want to keep coming back to again and again.

For a start the scope of this mix, Spirits in the Snow House, is ambitious and pulled off with aplomb. It incorporates a bunch of tracks I know and artists I am familiar with, and then a bunch more I had never heard from artists I was unaware of. And that is part of what I have always loved about a good mix, the fact that it will introduce you to new artists. Anyways I could bang on about it some more, or you could just check it out and see for yourself.
If you want to hear more from Transounds, you can check out their monthly podcast for London Fields Radio http://www.londonfieldsradio.com/shows/transounds/

Contact:Reply Mix

Every so often I get a hankering. Actually every so often I get crazy and end up going out for three days. When the mind has had enough but the body isn't ready to call it quits just yet I sometimes take to the studio and put some records together. This is a new mix of mine made under these exact circumstances. Have a listen, download and share with a loved one.

That Feeling

One of my favourite movies ever is Paris, Texas. It's expansive and haunting and its simple emotions are in plain sight of all who watch it. Never mind that someone as wizened and gnarled as Harry Dean Stanton could have gotten even close to the gorgeous Nastassja Kinski, it's a beautiful story. The dialogue in the peep show scene is a real heartbreaker, and I've always wanted to make a track about it. So I did. Here's the result

Danske Møbeliser

Where I grew up there was a pretty shitty furniture company called Danske Møbler. It means Danish furniture - amazing huh. Anyways, they ran a lot of ads on TV so most people of my generation growing up where I did knew about them. After a DJ gig the other night a friend jokingly dubbed me the Danske Møbeliser. Funny DJ name but one I'd tire of too quickly. So I made a track and called it that instead. Aren't you glad you got that back story?

Quadratic Harmony

Here's my latest track, a heavy Silverbeat remix of a Mirrorcube track that has been formulating for some time and now ready to unleash. I just got a few crazy new pieces of kit too, so expect to have more and more finished tracks coming your way real soon. In the meantime check this out.

A Straw for the Drowning Man

This is my latest track under my Dalston Pils handle. A nice, late night slice of floaty, dreamy house. That surly looking geezer in the pic is Joseph Conrad who wrote some amazing novels, perhaps most notably Heart of Darkness. Though the title for this track is taken from one of his most accomplished books, Lord Jim, which also includes this amazing line: The desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Yeah, anyways, have a listen.

Love Is The Function Of Death

Here's a new techno track from me. It's inspired by reading Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian masterpiece 'We'. Cold steely techno for your pre-programmed brain - have a listen

Per Bojsen-Moller - Love is the Function of Death by Per Bojsen-Moller

The Baby

Here's a brand new cut I just finished today. It originally started as a project for a short film, but it took a very different direction. Have a listen... Daslton Pils, The Baby by Per Bojsen-Moller

Podcast for Little White Earbuds

I write for the Little White Earbuds blog, which is an indispensable source of what's going on in the realms of house, techno and affiliated quality music musings. I also just compiled and mixed their latest podcast for them, two hours of damned fine house and techno, which I highly recommend you check out. http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/curators-cuts-18-per-bojsen-moller/ 

Some new cuts from the Mirrorcube

It was a pretty productive week in the Mirrorcube and I managed to finish off a couple of tracks, both of the deep side but with some blah blah blah blah... just have a listen Mirrorcube, Remote Trading (Silverbeat's Hazy Dub)

Dalston Sunday Club with Doudou Malicious & Mirrorcube

Last Sunday's Dalston Sunday Club got treated to the wonderful sounds of Mr Doudou Malicious, head honcho and all round nice guy (despite his name) of Multi Vitamins records. First up was the Mirrorcube boys with a couple hours of back 'n' forth business, busting out new tunes and old, whilst Doudou was warming himself up in the corner with a series of finger crunches and snacking on vinyl biscuits.

Mirrorcube at Dalston Sunday Club 19.06.11 from Mirrorcube on Vimeo.
Then Doudou stepped up and took over for the last two hours. I mean, it wasn't a takeover like in the movie rockers where Dirty Harry and Horsemouth storm the DJ booth and relieve the disc-jock of his limp disco nonsense

It was just some real nice techno business for two hours featuring plenty of his own Multi Vitamins back catalogue. Check it out below...

Doudou at Dalston Sunday Club 19.06.11 from Mirrorcube on Vimeo.

New track from Dalston Pils

I've got a veritable swagbag of different aliases I've used for writing and such. The latest is a new musical alias, Dalston Pils - came to me after seeing some staggering geezer trying to stuff fake money down a girl's jeans at a rave, all the while cradling a precious can of Holsten Pils. Anyways I digress, here's the latest track I've made under that moniker, it's called Exabachay, taken from one of my favourite movies of all time, Dead Man.

Dalston Pils - Exabachay by silverbeat

Five hours of Dalston Sunday Club

Dalston Sunday Club 24.04.11 from Mirrorcube on Vimeo. If you missed the most recent edition of Dalston Sunday Club, then you can play catch up here. Five hours of house, techno, and in-between deliciousness with Mirrorcube and Jean-Robert Saintil. Enjoy!

Dalston Sunday Club

The Mirrorcube boys are now providing you with audio and visual treats each and every Sunday to massage away any lingering tension from the weekend and to soothe you into a new week. We are streaming each Sunday around 6:30pm GMT on ustream. House, disco, techno, dubstep and more with special guests popping by to drop crucial sides and the latest heat for Dalston Sunday Club. Check us out here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dalston-sunday-club

New from the Mirrorcube

Here's a little something that we've been working on in Mirrorcube studio. After a lot of back and forth with making tracks this is our first we've truly collaborated on at the same time. MEMORY MODEL 7 (Beta) [UNRELEASED] by Mirrorcube

Clubland September

Johannes Heil is one of those rare bread of producers who can wake up one morning and discover he's accidentally penned another album in his sleep. Since his debut in 1995 the German stalwart has notched up more than fifty releases, including an impressive nine albums and a bucket-load of remixes. His skills are transferable across many different genres; as at home crafting brutal, skull splitting techno as he is at etching out elegant, graceful electronica. 

Clubland Jan/Feb

The mnml explosion wasn't particularly kind to hard techno. As the cleaner, reduced ethos of the music proved more popular the harder geared sound fell out of favour for a while, prompting certain labels to go into hibernation or dissolve completely. The pendulum has certainly swung back the other way of late and one of the stalwart labels of hard techno, Blueprint re-emerged this year after a good five years of dormancy. Paul Mac, a vanguard of techno for nearly fifteen years didn't suffer the same fate as some of the record labels, but for the past couple of years his releases have almost exclusively been limited to digital format. His latest excursion under the new moniker of Valmay on Blueprint strikes another win for the label this year and finds Paul Mac in top form.

Shackleton 3 EPs

Even at Sam Shackleton's most kinetic moments of dub-based munitions deployment, there has existed a fervent experimentalism in everything he has undertaken. Whether it has been the laissez faire approach to making his productions palpable club successes or a casual disregard for the very structures of what may deem a track to be called dubstep, it has been obvious from the first that inherent in Shackleton is to forge his own unique path through his music. Shackleton has been instrumental in turning on many techno heads to the charms of dubstep via some of the hybrid, cross genre pollinations on his Skull Disco imprint, but what sealed it was Ricardo's two part epic remix of “Blood On My Hands”.

Simian Mobile Disco

The purveyors of big room mirror ball house are back with Temporary Pleasure.

First came the anthemic remix by Justice, then from the ashes of Simian stepped James Ford and Jas Shaw under the new guise of a mobile DJ unit. Their debut album was heralded as one of the best in modern dance culture, garnering critical praise and spawning a handful of recognizable hits, rare for an album of its genre. After intense touring and both members lending their production skills to other projects they are back with Temporary Pleasure, the instrumental album chock full of vocals.

Clubland July

If you figure in Holger Zilske's release history as Smash TV, Mindlab and Acrid Gain then his debut solo album has been a long time in the incubation chamber. For the past two years Zilske's productions under his own name have focussed on the meeting points between subtle, deftly crafted techno and house. “Mes Yeux”, the first single from the album backed with”Metrodancer” appeared just two weeks before the LP and as a foreteller of what was to come was exciting news.