We're back...
First new releases out late October:
Banshee - Hannah Holland w Mike Mike Monday
BS Connection - Worthy and Yankee Zulu w Andre Crom remix
July 15, 2008
June 11, 2008
Two Armadillos on Italian website (in Italian)
May 07, 2008
King Roc / Two Armadillos interviewed on beatportal
One of its members is the promoter of a trailblazing London club night Secret Sundaze, globe trotting DJ, expert in all things deep and housey, and occasional music writer of some repute.
The other is knob twiddler and studio boffin extraordinaire, better known as synthy tech-house purveyor King Roc.
Together, Giles Smith and Martin Dawson are Two Armadillos, and luckily for us, their busy schedules have still found time to squeeze out a run of slinky, sensual deep techy goodness that’s earned them something of a name on the underground scene. [INTERVIEW].
April 30, 2008
dub KULT features on Richie Hawtin's 100th anniversary podcast for Resident Advisor
Tim Sheridan on "the best club in the world" - DC10, for DJ mag top 100 clubs feature
April 25, 2008
Playing away - Tim Sheridan's tips for Ibiza
April 22, 2008
Sebastian Roya interviewed on klubbers.com (article in Spanish)
April 14, 2008
Riva Starr interview in IDJ
Riva Starr's La Conga - "2008 is his year - 5/5 Top tune - IDJ
Clubzone interview with Riva Starr for Chinese tour (NB: In Chinese)
Tim Sheridan v Mike Monday - interview for Back2Basics back-to-back set April 19
Two Armadillos new single on Buzzin' Fly - IDJ
"Juddering, Cabaret Voltaire-like complexities" - the Independent on Richard Seeley's Juicy Vermin (out on VVWI Recordings)
April 10, 2008
King Roc interview by inthemix.com.au for Australian tour
April 09, 2008
Riva Starr's LA CONGA top 10 on beatport - plus new mix on Disturbed Beats blog
With bugger-all promo, RIva Starr's new track on Dirtybird, La Conga, has still gone top 10 in the tech house chart.
Plus a new Riva Starr mix on Disturbed Beats blog
March 13, 2008
Four stars for dub KULT's "the fly" on veryverywrongindeed
Riva Starr - Scratch'n'Itch - "in the ascent" - IDJ
First release NO! records - King Roc Liquid EP - "Superbe!" - Only for DJs (article in French)
KING ROC 'Liquid EP' (No ! Records 01) **** 'Liquid Perspective' est une longue plage qui joue sur le relief et le contraste. Avec une âme deep et housy, caractérisée par de jolis petits claps, tout se passe en fait au niveau des synthé et de la basse. Des nappes atmosphériques sont surclassées par des montées épisodiques d'un clavier plus électro. Une version deep à souhait de 'Tirades Of ENV' conclut ce maxi sur une très bonne note. Superbe ! (LU)
Tommy Four Seven's Contact - "a pitched down, brooding weapon" - Mixmag
February 22, 2008
Tim Sheridan on cynicism in the music industry - Ministry of Sound blog
I think I was a bit scared for a while, maybe 10 years, where all the hostility of the more leftfield element of the scene - the bitching and the fracturing of everything - it was a bit demoralising. It used to be a bit more fun, or maybe I was just younger! In the larger picture you have to make a living, not everyone is looked kindly on if they had some success in the past. So you have to reinvent yourself and win people over and that can take years. There is a lot of negativity to overcome. So I'll see how this goes...
(There's also Part 2 and Tim is also mentioned in the MoS interview of Paul Oakenfold.)
February 21, 2008
Tim Sheridan on the glory of Radio Slave's remixing...
February 18, 2008
Raveline - Andre Crom: "is there a doctor in the house?"
February 15, 2008
Remute: TRACKS versus SONGS (and the Shooting Elvis launch at tbar Feb 23)
Ahead of his gig at Tbar for the Shooting Elvis launch, Remute answers a few questions...
In the beginning of my career I strongly separated my two approaches regarding making-music :
One day I woke up and was into doing live-arranged, raw and technically stripped down TRACKS.
As this process was more a kind of emotionally controlled automatism I decided to call this project after my real name DENIS KARIMANI.
Another day I woke up and was into doing completely arranged, highly extraverted and sophisticated SONGS.
As this process was more systematic and a kind of invention of a new side of me I decided to call this project REMUTE.
But lately I've noticed that these two approaches are getting closer and closer to each other.
I don't feel these "rough cuts" anymore when i wake up in the morning.
What I am doing now is something in between my two sides and I am going to consolidate them finally sometime this year on my own label called REMUTÉ.
I will try to achieve an optimal balance there, but will also leave some space for unexpected fluctuations as they are keeping the essential thrill alive!
1a. And secondly, if the two personalities ever had to fight to the death, who would win?
--->
Draw!
Next round!
Draw!
Next round!
Draw!
Next round!
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2. Why is this only your second time in London?
--->
We (myself and my manager) were focussing more on Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Italy throughout the last years as we felt that my sound has a strong basis there within the scene and the promoters.
But perhaps we were criminally careless about UK, because now I strongly feel that musically lots of cool developments are happening!
New labels with fresh sound, many wicked clubs with excellent soundsystems, many up-and-coming protagonists, massive crowd.
UK and especially London are right now an absolute necessity for us to focus on and I hope that I get the chance to play and to spin more often over there!
3. You've worked on a number of ubercool labels: Traum/Trapez/MBF, Areal , Dial, Weave or Liebe*Detail, and now Num, Smallville, Kompass, Curle and Einmaleins ... who's going to change the world next? What label have we not heard of that we need to know about, and why?
--->
REMUTÉ will change the world of course. ;)
Besides concentrating on scheduling and planning stuff for my own label, which will hopefully make the world a better place with the help of a wild and explosive mixture of cut-up-disco-techno-madness I will continue doing releases within this year on some of the labels I've already worked with.
Amongst others there will be another Liebe*Detail release called "Decubatio" (remember "Incubatio" ?!) , a new track on Curle called "Melted" (yes... nomen est omen!!!) and also brandnew work for Areal, Sender, Perc Trax and Tresor...
And there will be lots of new remixes too including work amongst others for Chris Fortier, Tiger Lou, Isomer Transition and Tommy Four Seven, who is coming up with his Shooting Elvis label.
4. Detroit or rave?
--->
Detroit-Hamburg-Belgrade-DISCO-Rave².
+ Uncompromising passion.
+ A sackful of madness.
And never ever forget :
It's all about love³.
5. The T Bar in London is an - er - unique club. What have you heard about it?
--->
All people I've asked about the T-Bar had a very special, keen smile on their face while answering my questions.
I've also heard about some excellent line-ups they had in the past and that the atmosphere is quite familiar and euphoric.
That was sign enough for me to make a decision. :)
So I'm looking very forward to play a special liveset at T-Bar!
See You!
February 12, 2008
"Deliciously sideways" - VVWI warehouse party a smash, says DJ mag
February 11, 2008
Acquaviva interviewed in Ireland's Star newspaper
February 08, 2008
Riva Starr: on a roll
"Riva Starr seems to be on a roll of greatness at the moment ... how many songs are based around three notes these days, but sound fresh as?"
Read more: Scatterblog, including a preview of Riva's new track on Southern Fried, Scratch'n'Itch...
February 01, 2008
Riva Starr: exclusive mix on discobelle
Tracklist and download link for new exclusive mix on discobelle to go with the release of Scratch'n'Itch on Southern Fried.
January 28, 2008
Video - Riva Starr live at China Doll, Bejing (and Claude von Stroke doing the Bubble...)
And also Claude von Stroke playing Bubble at a San Francisco Dirtybird party (lovely weather)
That set is available as a podcast. Subscribe: iTunes | RSS / download directly
January 26, 2008
Strix EP - "fucking good stuff" - Perc
Shooting Elvis release one out on vinyl from Neuton mid Feb. To order, daniel at neuton.com.
LISTEN - STRIX EP - TOMMY FOUR SEVEN & JAMES KRONIER
A1 Strix - Original | B1 Strix - Remute remix | B2 Wraith - Original
"Fucking great stuff" - Perc.
"Fierce" - Chloe.
"Wow" - Thugfucker.
"Excellent" - Ewan Pearson.
"Love them both" - Tom Pooks.
“Great release!!! Bravo!!” - Daschund.
"Been playing Wraith a lot lately" - Laurent Garnier.
“That original mix is sick, I love it! However the Remute remix is my fav because of the funk it has going on, my cup of tea for sure" - Paul Hazendonk.
"Playing ‘Wraith’ and the Remute remix for sure.” - Mark Henning.
“Strix is my secret weapon the last few weeks. Response is amazing!” - Darko Esser.
"A very good 1st release.”- Mark O'Sullivan.
"All 3 Tracks are excellent" - Alex Flatner.
"Digging the low slung moody vibes of wraith" - dub KULT.
"This release is what the word 'proper' was invented for" - Mike Monday.
"Digging Strix. Deep and dark with a pumping groove" - Joel Mull.
And the Thugfucker quote in full... "Wow!! An auspicious first release from the young Tommy Four Seven & James Kronier. Shooting Elvis will no doubt make a big splash with the talent of señor quatro-siete behind the wheel. Strix definitely brings back the tech-house, blending minimal techno with a balls to the wall dark industrial vibe that hearkens back to the rave days of the early 90s. And in all the right ways. Our favorite is the original that is sure to be the soundtrack to many a pan-sexual late night encounter in the darkened corners of clubs worldwide. Bravo. A bright, dark future indeed for the new label.”
January 23, 2008
Podcasts R Us
We've finally got our heads round the technology: podcasts from Agency X acts now available!
Subscribe via: iTunes | RSS / download directly
January 21, 2008
Tommy Four Seven January mix
After DJ mag's prediction that Tommy Four Seven is "primed to blow them away in 2008", here's his first DJ mix for 2008.
01. Ekala – Zombie - Kult
02. Hatzler – Quarterpounder - Dimmer
03. Worthy – Mu (Mike Monday remix) - Om
04. Dinamoe - Lostin (Ludovic Vendi Remix) - Minisketch
05. Jonas Kopp – Distero – Weave Music
06. Tommy Four Seven – Contact (Mark Broom remix) – Shooting Elvis
07. Hardcell – Boiling Point - Drumcode
Tommy Four Seven bio, press shots and bookings .
January 17, 2008
Faith versus Tim Sheridan
Registration may be required, but it's worth it...
This piece originated as a light gentlemanly online challenge to the Faith Boarders for topics for Tim to write about at Terry's request as he had blank canvas syndrome at the time and was "scared shitless of moody, sarky Faith Boarders". Here is the full unedited Q & A session ;
Being faithful to the cause but obviously not yet earning my full Faith stripes ; as requested by boarders, recklessly and without the advice of my crack (smokin’) team of feral lawyers or indeed a safety device of any kind... here is some words as suggested by the mob of ne’er-do-wells and misfits that “associate” on this “space”.
Don’t take my apparently carefree use of punctuation for sarcasm. Real men don’t need it. But without the aid of a steely gaze or wry turn of the lip it’ll have to do. Take it or leave it. I am many things, some are good but many are bad. Like, I have discovered, being easily hated, like all righteous fuckers rightly are. But I am honest. Which duly annoys the fuck out of everyone I’ve ever got to know for a sustained period.
The full, unedited text of the Tim Sheridan interview in Faith (note: includes "sarky Faith boarders" in full historic flashback mode).
January 10, 2008
King Roc long interview on 4clubbers.net - "what is the mutual society?"
King Roc's new mix also now on the Inhale website.
December 29, 2007
DJ mag predicts: "2008 [will be] the year King Roc claims his crown"
DJ mag predicts: "Tommy Four Seven primed to blow them away in 2008"
When it comes to deep underground techno, there can be something of a collective inferiority complex regarding homegrown talent. But precocious production talent Tommy Four Seven is primed to blow them away in 2008...
December 27, 2007
New King Roc mix: live in Rio, Dec 07
A new King Roc mix: King Roc live in Rio, Dec 07.
Olivier Giacomotto and friends @ Redlight, Paris
December 20, 2007
Top Tune: "King Roc's best EP yet," says IDJ
TOP TUNE. Gather round groovers, I will say this only once... this could easily be King Roc's strongest EP. I kid ye not, the second part of Roc's 'Chapters' concept is choc full of emotive wonder that will stop you dead in your tracks. There's four tracks in total, the highlight being the breakbeat-driven 'Pocket full of prose' - if that doesn't get you moving you've got no soul whatsoever. Be sure to check this. It's King Roc's strongest EP. Ever. D'oh - I've said it again. LN. Five stars.
December 19, 2007
New press photos: King Roc, Olivier Giacomotto, Tommy Four Seven, John Acquaviva
And new press photos are no use if people don't know they're there... So in order of newosity...
PLEASE USE PHOTO CREDITS AS PROVIDED. Click on photos to show full set.
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TOMMY FOUR SEVEN
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December 06, 2007
Big Daddy's new project - raves for playtime versus electronic in londonpaper and dj mag
The londonpaper:
DJ mag:
December 05, 2007
John Acqauviva's Electronic launches on Proton Radio this thursday 6 Dec
John Acquaviva's new Proton Radio show starts this Thursday 6 Dec, 8PM GMT/UK time - mixes from John and Olivier Giacomotto in preparation for their party with Playtime at a London warehouse on Sat 8th.
December 04, 2007
Olivier Giacomotto interviewed at beatportal and front and centre of beatport
Interview with Olivier Giacomotto at beatportal: What makes good electro?
And he's also front and centre of beatport today, alongside another X act, King Roc - half of Two Armadillos...
TNT previews electronic v playtime this sat
December 03, 2007
dub KULT asked to contribute to "play my tape" mix archive...
New Catz mix online
PS did you see the great reviews for the Catz + Graeme Lloyd's "Candiru" on Playtime?
Now available on beatport...
December 01, 2007
IDJ on Riva Starr's "WTF?"- 5 stars
Shooting Elvis in IDJ - "Will shock those who think they know Tommy Four Seven's material"
November 23, 2007
Catz - four stars for straitjacket
King Roc in Two Armadillos...
November 22, 2007
A whole new bunch of playtime tracks on beatport: Catz Candiru + Smorgasbord remix sampler...
"How did your path diverge from Richie's" - John Acquaviva radio interview Nov 07
Slightly bodgy sound quality of an interview recorded in Eastern Europe. But some entertaining questions: "How did your path diverge from Richie? Why did you change style to this electrofied stuff?"
November 16, 2007
Playtime v Electronic Xmas warehouse party Dec 8, London
Tim Sheridan - the DSI inquisition
If someone could ask you a question that you'd never been asked before and also give you the answer... what would the question be? And would you know the answer already as you always seem to?
November 13, 2007
TIm Sheridan, clubbing subversive
Catz - the movie! Live at the Cheshire St sessions...
800 people at the key on a friday night? Not bad...
Tommy Four Seven Kill Brique party @ Tbar - first UK gig for Mark O'Sullivan in a long, long time...
November 09, 2007
Veryverywrongindeed warehouse party - full lineup
4 stars for Lunaris - twice!
November 06, 2007
dub KULT interviewed on DJ download
October 30, 2007
King Roc launches new label - IDJ
October 27, 2007
Richie Hawtin plays Andre Crom
Richie Hawtin @ Tribehouse, Neuss 27.10.2007
October 24, 2007
John Acquaviva in the DJ mag top 100 again
October 17, 2007
A fragrant ibiza breeze in the uncivilised and rotting corners of London
for we are collectively overwhelmed to announce
A VERYVERYWRONGINDEED WAREHOUSE PARTY
to infuse a gentle and fragrant Ibizia breeze throughout the
frankly uncivilised and rotting corners of London...
(not recommended for those of a patriotic or sensitive disposition)
A warehouse? Well, how long would one expect veryverywrongindeed to remain locked down in clubs? It started as a free beach party in Ibiza, via nastydirtysexmusic and part of the sinister organiser's longstanding mischevious desire to doing everything under the cultural radar. So fucking all that off, VVWI has been at Ministry and Turnmills - once both on the same night - and it's well-known as the night that turned Ministry around when it was terminally uncool. It's toured DC10, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, more free beach parties, and at one point ran simultaneously on Sundays across London, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester and Brighton. It's even inspired a new label of "afterhours music", veryverywrongindeed recordings - too weird for the minimalists but way too late-night for the mainstream, and described by IDJ as "really freaky shit".
As Metro put it, "VVWI's ethics and twisted take on techno has inspired a younger generation to reinvigorate acid house's renegade spirit". And as Danny Tenaglia said, "It was only yesterday I did 3 back to back interviews for the UK re Ibiza and someone asked me who made the most impact on me - and I said :) Tim Sheridan".
SAT DECEMBER 1.
(Holy shit)
Another four star review for the Catz
24 hour party people: Tim Sheridan "one of the UK's most irrepressible party promoters..."
October 10, 2007
dub KULT - Beatport front page selection Oct 07
September 21, 2007
Tim Sheridan on Ibiza 07
September 13, 2007
In the bag - John Acquaviva picks his favourite tracks for DJ magazine
September 11, 2007
Mike's Monday's cooking class
Acquaviva in Sao Paolo Sep 07 (article in Portuguese)
September 07, 2007
4clubbers: a veryverywrong interview...
September 04, 2007
King Roc's new label...
First reviews of VVWI tracks are in - 4 stars
IDJ goes on the road with John Acquaviva
September 01, 2007
Tommy Four Seven recommends his favourite track in DJ
August 30, 2007
VVWI launch in DJ mag
Catz one of DJ mag's fantastic four (and 4 stars for Candiru)
August 23, 2007
Coming up...
August 17, 2007
Playtime at Ministry Aug bank holiday...
Concessions on facebook
August 01, 2007
Nic Fancuilli loves Candiru
July 06, 2007
Return of the Cheshire St Sessions - and launch of the new Catzmuzik label
It's finally here - the Catz new label Catzmuzik, launching with first track "word problems", a collaboration with Ibi Beginnerz. And Fri Jul 27, it's also the return of the party in which the Catz first made their name - the Cheshire St Sessions.
It started as a little thing - a "house party" for "a few friends". Just a few well-buzzed parties later, it narrowly escaped being shut down NYE 04/05 when 1500+ people crammed into four houses spread across the same Cheshire St roof terrace. So they moved to the Rhythm Factory - and found even the editor of DJ banging on the door with 699 other people trying to get in an insanely crammed night... Now it's back, for the first time in almost two years, the Sessions will be held Jul 27 at the key - with special international guest Oliver Giacomotto, the man who is #1 in the beatport chart today with his remix of Gail in the O by John Acquaviva...
CHESHIRE ST SESSIONS @ THE KEY, FRI JUL 27
PLEASE NOTE: Entry is free, but only people who've preregistered will get in - through www.cheshirestreetsessions.com or by email to dan at cheshirecatz dot com.
Room 1 -
Oliver Giacomotto (Definitive / France)
Cheshire Catz
Adam Creger
Room 2 - every other type of music you can imagine, lah.
June 13, 2007
Playtime's 5th - the night that started it all turns five...
A lot of Racing Posts have died to get Playtime this far. It started as a little thing for 120 in tiny bar off Regent St - a mixed night for male and female princesses, playing this newfangled wonky house stuff with the slogan "look normal, they must suspect nothing". Now Playtime has grown up to become the first club to bring new sounds like Claude von Stroke, Abe Duque and Mason to the UK, and a record label described as "label of the moment" by One Week to Live and "one of the best labels to come out of 2005".
In between, there's been some killer releases - little did we know that Mike Monday's 'what day is it?' was huge in Berlin when every UK producer would have killed for success there. And some astounding gigs (Abe Duque's live set with a bottle of whiskey in one hand, very early UK appearances from Sebastien Leger and Oliver Huntemann, and the insane party for the release of Mike Monday's Smorgasbord, not to mention the Fear and Loathing night with Hunter S Thompson on the door...)
But now Playtime is five, and we're ready to move on. June 22 will be our last date at the key, and Playtime moves to the Ministry main room with John Acquaviva's new night Electronic later in 2007 ... But in the meantime, who else should a mixed-up night like Playtime get for its fifth birthday but one of the most mixed-up, ambisexual, fast-talking acts around at the moment...?
May 01, 2007
Introducing: Electronic
It's the new club from the man behind:
Plus 8 Records
Beatport
Final scratch
Definitive Records.
#22 in the world’s top 100 DJs.
Total club audience so far:
1m people, 2500 gigs.
And now - Electronic - the best of Europe’s new electronic producers, handpicked by John Acquaviva...
It's the joy! - as the Beastie Boys said. This year John Acquviva launches his first huge club promotion in quite some time. The man behind Plus8, the label that launched Ritchie Hawtin; the guy behind Beatport, Final Scratch, Definitive Records, and five Beatport top tens in 2006, not to mention a longstanding mentor of many smaller up-and-coming producers in the electro scene ...
This year his new project is the touring club Electronic.
It's an ambitious promotion. The best of the new breed of electro producers, drawn from big underground labels like Definitive, Great Stuff, Playtime, Fresno, and Brique Rouge. One club rotating across a minimum of five locations - regular warehouse raves in the UK, clubs in mainland Spain, Italy and Germany, and a continuation of John’s weekly night in Ibiza.
The focal point is John, of course - #22 in DJ magazine's top 100 poll, a huge draw across Europe, the US and Latin America, and a DJ who has played to more than 1 million across more than 2500 gigs. But following the raging first-season success of his weekly Ibiza night last year, Acquaholic, Electronic is John's way of assembling the best of the established and up-and-coming house generation.
Bigger names like Germany's Karotte, Holland’s Mason and Britain's Mike Monday and also new, lesser known names: the UK's Cheshire Catz, Tommy Four Seven and Big Daddy, Italy's Remo, Spain's Fresco records crew and Olivier Giacomotto of France.
What's new about these guys? Every single one of them is a killer DJ, handpicked by John from the best in Europe. But more importantly every single one is a producer selling tons of records on beatport - the fastest way, these days, to judge which DJs are about to break into the big time. Electronic is your chance to bring through a room of crack DJs who have serious recognition among music fans - even before you consider that the headliner has the pull of John Acquaviva.
First night will be at the Rex Club, Paris, June 28.
Bookings: James Bullock, Elite
April 25, 2007
"I smoked Hendrix" - Tim Sheridan in NME Apr 07
We're not even going to comment on this piece from the UK's NME, except to point out that Tim also used to be in a Hendrix tribute band and can do a mean "foxy lady" - even, as we can confirm, while driving full speed up the M1 on the way to a gig...
The full piece:
April 05, 2007
The Catz go to Avignon...
A trip to Avignon? It's those little scamps the Cheshire Catz in DJ mag... Their next collaborations Candiru and Music Box, with Graeme Lloyd and Mark Sun repectively, out on Playtime Recs any second now...
Full text ...
April 01, 2007
Acquaviva in France (article in French)
dub KULT - great review for Living release 3 on Resident Advisor
More dub KULT on Resident Advisor
March 15, 2007
Tim Sheridan on the state of music and the UK in DJ magazine
March 01, 2007
Tim Sheridan - high priest of WRONG in mixmag
February 01, 2007
Acquaviva in Austria Feb 07 (article in German)
Acquaviva in China (article in Chinese)
If any native chinese speakers could get in touch, please let us know if we have the text the right way around. Thanks.
January 20, 2007
Cheshire Catz profiled in One Week to Live
January 05, 2007
Tom Mangan in DJ (again!)
Want to know what Tom Mangan is playing? His new track I am digit is out any second now on Playtime - no, really it is, we mean it! And he got a whole page in DJ this month...
There's also an interview with Mike Monday on inthemix.com.au, the huge Australian clubbing website.
PS if you're ready for the next Playtime the club - with some "electronic music that's not afraid to scare people" with Arnaud Rebotini from Black Strobe, then start your engines here...
December 30, 2006
The playtime family strikes again
Two of Playtime's extended DJing family, Tommy Four Seven and Justin Martin, made IDJ's "talent to watch" in 2007...
Justin's back to do GEEK on April 6 and Tommy is also playing fairly soon - and we've just got in his remix of Ode to Jack for Mike's upcoming remix album. It's a corker, as is the Mugwump retraxion of Late Developer.
Meanwhile - also great reviews for Playtime's next track, the stomping re-release of Playtime's What Day is it? on Brique Rouge with two great new remixes, and also of Black Russian's release on FAKT, run by Playtime mates the Cheshire Catz.
December 20, 2006
Veryverywrong at the key in TimeOut
December 01, 2006
Mixmag on Tommy Four Seven's Invisible EP
Tommy Four Seven profile - One Week to Live
Tommy Four Seven "Invisible" in Bent mag
Tommy Four Seven's "Invisible" in i-D
November 28, 2006
Smorgasbord in IDJ's albums of the year - and Mike Monday a player of the year.
Been quite a year for us, and now IDJ has said that Smorgasbord is one of its albums of the year, and Mike Monday one of its main players. Thanks guys!
November 22, 2006
Mike Monday - top 10 in electro | Tom Mangan - one to watch
Two surprises for Playtime labelmates in Mixmag today: Tom Mangan is "one to watch out for" and Mike Monday is one of the "top 10 electro names to check" alongside "The Wanted" AKA Deepgroove, whose new track Never You is out on Playtime real soon now...
November 07, 2006
The Wanted - Never you
Back then it was a secret project. One of the UK’s best-known DJ duos taking a new, more electronic style for a walk - and finding they really liked the trip. It was a change that worked for Playtime, too, with this new, stripped-back style slotting nicely into our existing roster - especially with a jackin’ french-style David Duriez remix on the flip.
So, we thought, it’ll be a fun quiet little secret release for “The Wanted” - or Deepgroove, as they’re usually known.
But then Deepgroove got big. They’ve just put out a hugely successful compilation Solo on Underwater that was DJ mag’s compilation of the month. They’ve finished a run of singles on labels such as Harlem, Slave, Tight and Kingsize. And one of the duo, Grayson Deepgroove, has moved to London, where he has single-handed formed his own half-cut roller-skating afterparty scene in Shoreditch.
So here you are - The Wanted’s “never you”. Cat PLY008. Photos here. Out late Nov, closely followed by Tom Mangan’s “I am digit / hamburger” and Mike Monday’s “Smorgasbord remixed” ...
www.thewanted.info | www.deepgrooveworld.com | www.myspace.com/deepgroove
Initial plays from Funk D'Void, Greg Vickers, John Acquaviva, Sebastien Leger, Wollian, Tom Novy, Dave Picconi, Kamishake, Oliver Lang, James Talk, Montana, Wandy, King Roc, plus a little feature in EQ mag - not bad given that we've not actually sent out press copies yet.
November 01, 2006
Tommy Four Seven in AXM
October 13, 2006
Are we on a sinking ship?
From Notion magazine:
October 01, 2006
German reviews of Smorgasbord now in
Raveline article and review.
Groove.
Partynews.
De-Bug.
September 25, 2006
4clubbers.net and a rave from uk-dance
A lucid interview with M Monday on 4clubbers.net. And even uk-dance, which I have to admit I've seen as a fairly meanspirited bunch of naysayers in the past, likes the album
Playtime profiled in one week to live
September 21, 2006
Another review in OWTL - 7/7
Even the sven vath fans at mixmag like it - not to mention the hippies at the big chill!
The lovely hippies, we mean, at the big chill.
And the mixmag review is a 4/5...
As well as great reviews in Nuts and Touch. Wah-hey!
September 14, 2006
One Week to Live profiles Mr Monday - and DJ mag says who should win the DJ top 100!
Playtime the club is being profiled next week, btw...
And who do punters think should win the DJ mag top 100 award? (Thanks nico!)
Mike also played at the launch party for the DJ mag awards...
Bhalobashi still top #10 in the DJ mag hype chart!
September 07, 2006
smorgasbord is IDJ's album of the month!
Whoo! Album of the month!
Readable text below as always...
Smorgasbord sampler - 5/5 stars in IDJ!
And a review in the eclectic and leftfield section as well!
And 4 stars in DJ mag as well...
September 01, 2006
Wrong catches on - Tim Sheridan in Mixmag
Tim Sheridan / veryverywrongindeed DJ mag cover CD
August 30, 2006
First reviews in for Smorgasbord - and they're storming!
Lead review in One Week to live - "you know you're listening to a classic".
4/5 stars in DJ mag - and then they sneakily upped it to 4.5/5 stars when they decided, the fortnight after their original review, to make Smorgasbord one of their "LPS WE CAN'T LEAVE ALONE". Readable text below...
Plus DJ mag...
We're promised, incidentally, that the IDJ four-page feature coming out Sep will also be a rave review...
Mike Monday's Bhalobashi doing exceedingly well
Now this is actually on someone elses' label - Will Saul's Simple - but as it involves Mike we thought it was worth covering. 2000 copies on vinyl in the first week, #10 in the DJ mag hype chart for Bhalobashi, Mike's first track on that label. It's doing particularly well in Germany with fans like MANDY and Phonique.
August 20, 2006
Cass and Mangan - Caper - "Deranged electro of the highest order"
And you know what? We ARE thrilled. Out on vinyl 4 Sep (ish).
It also appeared on Tom Neville's mixmag cover CD.
August 10, 2006
Cheshire Catz favourite tracks in DJ mag Aug 06
July 21, 2006
Early smogasbord previews - Mike monday "about to reach critical mass"
Mike Monday about to reach critical mass, says mixmag in their people to watch this month...
Original piece:
Plus Mike did the "in the bag" piece for DJ mag this fortnight (readable text below):
June 08, 2006
A late late update - and a definite date for Mike's album
UPDATE: It's official! MIke Monday's 1st artist album, smorgasbord, will be out 1st week sep on Intergroove. He's keeping it all fairly mysterious at the moment but we can confirm it will have two of our favourites of his new pieces, Thing and Late Developer, a radically detroit update of Tooting Warrior as well as old favourite What Day Is it and a surprising number of not-really house tracks. YA! RLY! Launch will be a very extended set at Playtime Fri Aug 25 ...
May 12, 2006
Tim Sheridan launches new club - veryverywrongindeed
The invite -
And the press - IDJ
DJ mag
TimeOut
The Independent
Plus online press:
Ibiza voice | 4clubbers.net | IDJ | UK-CL
April 01, 2006
A hat trick of great reviews for Boondoggle...
Amazing reviews for Boondoggle: a sureplayer and 4.5/5 in DJ, 4/5 in IDJ and 6/7 in One Week To Live! Hat trick!
Can't read that? It says ...
"You'd better savour this one 'cos it's the last twelve to come from Mike Monday for a while. But don't panic, he's got an album arriving in a month or so. Longplayer or not, this should keep your box occupied - a rather odd slice of Playschool electro-house that bangs away with a groove as adult (and filthy) as a Jenna Jameson film but with a childish vocal. It honestly sounds like nothing else around - quirky but powerful - showing that Monday has really found his own territory (JK)."
Meanwhile...
And in case you missed it, Playtime rocked at our first 2006 gig at Ministry. Thanks to our guest Tomboy who played an absolutely superb soup-to-nuts deep-to-techno set...
February 04, 2006
Mike Monday and Tom Mangan "two of 2006's key players" - DJ mag
DJ mag has given L-O-V-E four and a half stars, describing our man Mike Monday and L-O-V-E G-O-D Tom Mangan as "two of this year's key players". IDJ gave it four out of five but also said Playtime was "one of the finest labels to come out of 2005". Result!
The track is now on beatport by the way and will soon also be on DJdownload.
Meanwhile, promos have just gone out for a secret Playtime track that is being sent only to DJs on the promo list who've been good with their reactions ... It's called Boondoggle (b/w Boondubble - see what we did there?). It's a Mike Monday track and it's being pressed now for very quick release in early March - to clear the PR decks in advance of the upcoming Mike Monday artist album (well, 8-track) due in May.
Which means there's going to be a lot of non-Mike stuff between now and mid-year. He's always going to be the main artist on Playtime but as Playtime head honcho Big Daddy points out, we've also got three killers from the Insignificant Others, Cass and Mangan and the Wanted - plus a King Roc remix and a David Duriez remix coming up as well.
January 04, 2006
A full page of L-O-V-E in DJ mag!
December 31, 2005
Acquaviva in Brasil NYE06 (article in Portuguese)
September 21, 2005
Tommy Four Seven - "gotta be big"
June 12, 2005
Pacha magazine on the nastydirtysexmusic renegades
M8 covers the opening of nastydirtysexmusic
June 01, 2005
DJ mag on Cheshire Catz / At Night
January 01, 2004
dub KULT in Groove magazine's best of 2003
Sure it was a while ago, but Groove is still one of Germany's biggest techno mags...
