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Today british Jozif brings us into the streets of Chicago with his wonderful track “Chicago”. The london based producer delivers here an outstanding track with filtered disco samples and a looped female vocal that will make your hair stand very soon. The track also include a glorious breakdown of gorgeous piano (played by jozif himself) and beautifully evocative strings. “Chicago” was released in April 2010 on the american label Wolf + Lamb. Enjoy this epic chicago ride… CHICAGO FEVER

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Music the quickening art.

An old man who has been lifeless in a nursing home for the past ten years reacts to his old love music.

“Music gives him the feeling of love of romance.. of  dreams”

” I figure right now the world needs to come into music”

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The Morning After A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there.  Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images. http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html I love the picture of Robert Johnston. Ox The Morning After A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there.  Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images. http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html I love the picture of Robert Johnston. Ox The Morning After A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there.  Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images. http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html I love the picture of Robert Johnston. Ox The Morning After A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there.  Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images. http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html I love the picture of Robert Johnston. Ox The Morning After A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there.  Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images. http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html I love the picture of Robert Johnston. Ox The Morning After A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there.  Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images. http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html I love the picture of Robert Johnston. Ox

The Morning After

A couple of German Students named Andre Giesermann and Daniel Schulz liked the idea of taking photos of clubs after the party and decided to start a photography project.  They wanted to take photos of well know German nightclubs after everyone had spent a heavy night of dancing, drinking and partying. They were inspiried by the true form of the space in a nightclub which is often hidden to clubbers dancing in the dark (who probably don’t even remember half of there night anyway). They also wanted to show that even though the club is empty the photos still bring viewers an image of the night before. By just looking at the photos one knows something happened there. 

Click the link below to discover more of these beautiful bold images.

http://andregiesemann.com/photography/work/vom-bleiben/15.html

I love the picture of Robert Johnston.

Ox



Posted 1 month ago
Ethyl & Milton Jackson We catch up with Milton Jackson and Ethyl ahead of there appearance this Friday. Read on to find out what there plans are for the summer, get some tips for budding producers and if the music industry is all they expected it to be. When did you first start DJ’ing, how long has taken you to get as far as you have got right now and has it been hard work? Milton: Very hard work! 10 years on and off. I started releasing records at 19 and had quite a lot of releases in those early years, then drifted out of it. Started back in 2006 and never looked back! Ethyl: DJing always came first for me. I got my first set of turntables when I was 13 and have been collecting records since (perhaps with a brief hiatus when I couldn’t afford to feed myself) but it hasn’t been a straight uphill slope to where I am now.  There’s never been a grand plan and I’ve been EXTREMELY lucky along the way.  I’ve been given ample chances and opportunities by a lot of very kind people, perhaps undeservedly so.  It’s certainly not been hard work, I enjoy every minute of it so it never feels like work.  I’m convinced if you’re pushing too much, you’re doing something wrong.  I’m not a fan of these people who consciously timetable their day and spend hours and hours on a beat because they know they have to.  Yeah a lot of these guys get to the dizzying heights of opinion polls but at what price. AT WHAT PRICE?!   In your opinion, what’s your best release? Ethyl: Crikey, can’t say I’m overly enamoured with a whole lot of them.  You won’t catch me playing my own stuff out unless it’s in the making and I want to see how it sounds, but by the time it’s hitting the shelves I’ve more often than not had enough of it.  I’d have had enough of any record if I’d heard it as much as I hear my own stuff.  I can only apologise to the people who ask me to play an Ethyl track but the truth is I don’t even have them with me, unless I’m bringing a copy to give to someone.  The tracks that just seem to happen and are done in an afternoon are the ones I can bear and for that reason maybe Paisley Riffs on Quintessentials or Shelter on secretsundaze, both of which I did with Flori.  Aybee’s remix of myself and Huxley’s Reflexions on Tsuba was dynamite! Milton: I like the latter day Freerange stuff, Probably the Crash LP I did for them.    Where the best place you have played in terms of atmosphere/vibe? Milton: Loads of good places, I enjoyed womb in Tokyo, Goa in Madrid is always good. Sometimes you get smaller venues though, I had a great time in Grelle forelle recently in Vienna and a boat in Lyon which were Great.  Ethyl: A friend of mine owns a bar in Cleethorpes which for those of you that are unaware is near Grimsby on the east coast.  It’s a quiet seaside town where I’m sure I’ll be forgiven for saying, not a great deal happens.  I played down there not long ago and the place was absolutely rocking.  There’s a bit of a history of house and techno there, I’m told; at some point over the last twenty years, they’ve played host to Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig and the like, unless someone was pulling my leg. I’ve also got to mention Freerotation in Wales. We played and attended for the first time last year and that place is just unparalleled. Although we were on early (opening the main room on the first night) the vibe was great. Really pleased to be on again this year - more than anything can’t wait to see the rest of the lineup!   What’s your plans for summer? You playing Ibiza? Ethyl:  I have a few friends on the island who are very good to me so I will have at least one date out there which I always look forward to, whether it’s the pomp and splendour of Space or an ad hoc party in some undisclosed location, it’s always a hoot. Milton: More of the same really, got some releases out on Tsuba, Morris audio and a new track for Neurotraxx which is quite a mad one! Not sure about Ibiza yet…   Who is your favourite DJ/Best performance you have seen? Even though you’ve probably got countless ones try and pick one special one please haha? Milton: I saw Ben klock on a Thursday night in sub club in Glasgow. He played a lot deeper than he normally does I think. I really enjoyed that, it was the perfect balance.  Ethyl: This is really difficult.  I’m going to make it easier for myself and say the best in the last couple of years and I’m going to have to refer back to Freerotation.  There were some stellar sets from Jane Fitz, Miles Sagnia, XDB, Steven Tang, Chicago Skyway, Levon Vincent played a stormer, Steevio, the organiser’s live modular live set was great but the one that took the biscuit was Fred P on Sunday night.  He absolutely killed it.   Is the DJ/Music career all you expected it to be? Why? Milton: There’s a lot of hustling sometimes for little reward! You have to take the rough with the smooth, obviously it’s different in that Luciano/Sven vath bracket. We’re kind of in the deep house trenches here! Those guys are the 4 star generals :-)   Ethyl: I really didn’t have any preconceptions of how it would be but I’m enjoying myself. Some months are good and some months are difficult but I’m definitely not going to complain. What is your DJ’ing set-up i.e. Turntables, CDJ’s or Laptop and why do you have this preference? Ethyl:  play about 99% vinyl and the odd promo on CDR.  The reason I choose to play records is two fold.  If the set up is right, it really sounds so much better and secondly I’m a collector.  A hard disk of music just feels too transient, it doesn’t feel like mine but my shelves of sleeves and artwork does.  It’s one of those impalpable emotional things.  It must be the same reason people still buy books even if they’ve got a Kindle.  If I get sent a promo digitally and I like it, I will definitely go out and buy the record when it’s available. This said, I’m in the process of making a ‘reliable’ set of a few CDs at the moment because I’ve had too many bad experiences with jumpy needles and decks feeding back.  It can really ruin the vibe in a room if the record keeps skipping and it prevents you from playing what you want and the way you want. Milton: Traktor with the vinyl controllers. I like the vinyl control with the ability to have loads of tracks on the computer. I run a lot of tracks off vinyl purchases Into the computer.    What is your current Studio set up? Milton: Logic/ableton>soundcard>summing mixer. Oberheim and various old samplers.  Ethyl: I work mainly in the box - I have a few sound modules, some external effects and a dusty old synth that I found abandoned in Shoreditch (I know, right?).  I used to have a lot more hardware and I sold a lot of it when I didn’t have the space and was feeling the pinch so I’m sort of recouping some of that.  Got a lot on my to-buy list, but I think I always will. Can you please go through your processes of creativity when it comes to production? Ethyl: Every punt’s different. I don’t approach any two tracks or remixes in the same way but loosely it’s about finding that one sound or idea from which everything else follows.  If it’s a remix it can be from really mangling up a part from the original or it can be from the mightily embarrassing ‘ideas’ recordings on my phone where I talk myself through ideas that have occurred to me.   Milton: Trial and error/hair tearing/despair/elation. Sums it up.    Any tips you could give budding producers? Milton: Learn some chords, maybe try using an mpc or something a bit different equipment wise to spice things up a bit and differentiate yourself from your peers.  Ethyl:  Take your time - find your sound. Any upcoming releases you would like to talk about? Milton: Nice one coming up for Tsuba (vinyl only )plus the mad Neurotraxx one called breakdowns and the Morris audio I mentioned. Prob another track for Freerange as the recent one DSI Has done pretty well Ethyl: I have a few exciting remixes coming up for labels that I have a lot of time for but I can’t talk about them in any detail.  I’m not taking on any more remixes after these are done because the main thing for me is getting some original solo material done this year. Ethyl-We see you have played in Manchester a few times before. What are your experiences of Manchester and do you like playing here? Like any city of a reasonable size, each time has been different depending on the size of the club, the time of the day and the party I’m playing for but what I have noticed is the people are up for it.  Worryingly so!  Even the clued up heads seem to go bananas which makes for a great party so I can’t wait to get back up there. Thanks for your time look forward to seeing you both at the weekend :) Ox Ethyl & Milton Jackson We catch up with Milton Jackson and Ethyl ahead of there appearance this Friday. Read on to find out what there plans are for the summer, get some tips for budding producers and if the music industry is all they expected it to be. When did you first start DJ’ing, how long has taken you to get as far as you have got right now and has it been hard work? Milton: Very hard work! 10 years on and off. I started releasing records at 19 and had quite a lot of releases in those early years, then drifted out of it. Started back in 2006 and never looked back! Ethyl: DJing always came first for me. I got my first set of turntables when I was 13 and have been collecting records since (perhaps with a brief hiatus when I couldn’t afford to feed myself) but it hasn’t been a straight uphill slope to where I am now.  There’s never been a grand plan and I’ve been EXTREMELY lucky along the way.  I’ve been given ample chances and opportunities by a lot of very kind people, perhaps undeservedly so.  It’s certainly not been hard work, I enjoy every minute of it so it never feels like work.  I’m convinced if you’re pushing too much, you’re doing something wrong.  I’m not a fan of these people who consciously timetable their day and spend hours and hours on a beat because they know they have to.  Yeah a lot of these guys get to the dizzying heights of opinion polls but at what price. AT WHAT PRICE?!   In your opinion, what’s your best release? Ethyl: Crikey, can’t say I’m overly enamoured with a whole lot of them.  You won’t catch me playing my own stuff out unless it’s in the making and I want to see how it sounds, but by the time it’s hitting the shelves I’ve more often than not had enough of it.  I’d have had enough of any record if I’d heard it as much as I hear my own stuff.  I can only apologise to the people who ask me to play an Ethyl track but the truth is I don’t even have them with me, unless I’m bringing a copy to give to someone.  The tracks that just seem to happen and are done in an afternoon are the ones I can bear and for that reason maybe Paisley Riffs on Quintessentials or Shelter on secretsundaze, both of which I did with Flori.  Aybee’s remix of myself and Huxley’s Reflexions on Tsuba was dynamite! Milton: I like the latter day Freerange stuff, Probably the Crash LP I did for them.    Where the best place you have played in terms of atmosphere/vibe? Milton: Loads of good places, I enjoyed womb in Tokyo, Goa in Madrid is always good. Sometimes you get smaller venues though, I had a great time in Grelle forelle recently in Vienna and a boat in Lyon which were Great.  Ethyl: A friend of mine owns a bar in Cleethorpes which for those of you that are unaware is near Grimsby on the east coast.  It’s a quiet seaside town where I’m sure I’ll be forgiven for saying, not a great deal happens.  I played down there not long ago and the place was absolutely rocking.  There’s a bit of a history of house and techno there, I’m told; at some point over the last twenty years, they’ve played host to Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig and the like, unless someone was pulling my leg. I’ve also got to mention Freerotation in Wales. We played and attended for the first time last year and that place is just unparalleled. Although we were on early (opening the main room on the first night) the vibe was great. Really pleased to be on again this year - more than anything can’t wait to see the rest of the lineup!   What’s your plans for summer? You playing Ibiza? Ethyl:  I have a few friends on the island who are very good to me so I will have at least one date out there which I always look forward to, whether it’s the pomp and splendour of Space or an ad hoc party in some undisclosed location, it’s always a hoot. Milton: More of the same really, got some releases out on Tsuba, Morris audio and a new track for Neurotraxx which is quite a mad one! Not sure about Ibiza yet…   Who is your favourite DJ/Best performance you have seen? Even though you’ve probably got countless ones try and pick one special one please haha? Milton: I saw Ben klock on a Thursday night in sub club in Glasgow. He played a lot deeper than he normally does I think. I really enjoyed that, it was the perfect balance.  Ethyl: This is really difficult.  I’m going to make it easier for myself and say the best in the last couple of years and I’m going to have to refer back to Freerotation.  There were some stellar sets from Jane Fitz, Miles Sagnia, XDB, Steven Tang, Chicago Skyway, Levon Vincent played a stormer, Steevio, the organiser’s live modular live set was great but the one that took the biscuit was Fred P on Sunday night.  He absolutely killed it.   Is the DJ/Music career all you expected it to be? Why? Milton: There’s a lot of hustling sometimes for little reward! You have to take the rough with the smooth, obviously it’s different in that Luciano/Sven vath bracket. We’re kind of in the deep house trenches here! Those guys are the 4 star generals :-)   Ethyl: I really didn’t have any preconceptions of how it would be but I’m enjoying myself. Some months are good and some months are difficult but I’m definitely not going to complain. What is your DJ’ing set-up i.e. Turntables, CDJ’s or Laptop and why do you have this preference? Ethyl:  play about 99% vinyl and the odd promo on CDR.  The reason I choose to play records is two fold.  If the set up is right, it really sounds so much better and secondly I’m a collector.  A hard disk of music just feels too transient, it doesn’t feel like mine but my shelves of sleeves and artwork does.  It’s one of those impalpable emotional things.  It must be the same reason people still buy books even if they’ve got a Kindle.  If I get sent a promo digitally and I like it, I will definitely go out and buy the record when it’s available. This said, I’m in the process of making a ‘reliable’ set of a few CDs at the moment because I’ve had too many bad experiences with jumpy needles and decks feeding back.  It can really ruin the vibe in a room if the record keeps skipping and it prevents you from playing what you want and the way you want. Milton: Traktor with the vinyl controllers. I like the vinyl control with the ability to have loads of tracks on the computer. I run a lot of tracks off vinyl purchases Into the computer.    What is your current Studio set up? Milton: Logic/ableton>soundcard>summing mixer. Oberheim and various old samplers.  Ethyl: I work mainly in the box - I have a few sound modules, some external effects and a dusty old synth that I found abandoned in Shoreditch (I know, right?).  I used to have a lot more hardware and I sold a lot of it when I didn’t have the space and was feeling the pinch so I’m sort of recouping some of that.  Got a lot on my to-buy list, but I think I always will. Can you please go through your processes of creativity when it comes to production? Ethyl: Every punt’s different. I don’t approach any two tracks or remixes in the same way but loosely it’s about finding that one sound or idea from which everything else follows.  If it’s a remix it can be from really mangling up a part from the original or it can be from the mightily embarrassing ‘ideas’ recordings on my phone where I talk myself through ideas that have occurred to me.   Milton: Trial and error/hair tearing/despair/elation. Sums it up.    Any tips you could give budding producers? Milton: Learn some chords, maybe try using an mpc or something a bit different equipment wise to spice things up a bit and differentiate yourself from your peers.  Ethyl:  Take your time - find your sound. Any upcoming releases you would like to talk about? Milton: Nice one coming up for Tsuba (vinyl only )plus the mad Neurotraxx one called breakdowns and the Morris audio I mentioned. Prob another track for Freerange as the recent one DSI Has done pretty well Ethyl: I have a few exciting remixes coming up for labels that I have a lot of time for but I can’t talk about them in any detail.  I’m not taking on any more remixes after these are done because the main thing for me is getting some original solo material done this year. Ethyl-We see you have played in Manchester a few times before. What are your experiences of Manchester and do you like playing here? Like any city of a reasonable size, each time has been different depending on the size of the club, the time of the day and the party I’m playing for but what I have noticed is the people are up for it.  Worryingly so!  Even the clued up heads seem to go bananas which makes for a great party so I can’t wait to get back up there. Thanks for your time look forward to seeing you both at the weekend :) Ox

Ethyl & Milton Jackson

We catch up with Milton Jackson and Ethyl ahead of there appearance this Friday. Read on to find out what there plans are for the summer, get some tips for budding producers and if the music industry is all they expected it to be.
When did you first start DJ’ing, how long has taken you to get as far as you have got right now and has it been hard work?

Milton: Very hard work! 10 years on and off. I started releasing records at 19 and had quite a lot of releases in those early years, then drifted out of it. Started back in 2006 and never looked back!

Ethyl: DJing always came first for me. I got my first set of turntables when I was 13 and have been collecting records since (perhaps with a brief hiatus when I couldn’t afford to feed myself) but it hasn’t been a straight uphill slope to where I am now.  There’s never been a grand plan and I’ve been EXTREMELY lucky along the way.  I’ve been given ample chances and opportunities by a lot of very kind people, perhaps undeservedly so.  It’s certainly not been hard work, I enjoy every minute of it so it never feels like work.  I’m convinced if you’re pushing too much, you’re doing something wrong.  I’m not a fan of these people who consciously timetable their day and spend hours and hours on a beat because they know they have to.  Yeah a lot of these guys get to the dizzying heights of opinion polls but at what price. AT WHAT PRICE?!
 
In your opinion, what’s your best release?

Ethyl: Crikey, can’t say I’m overly enamoured with a whole lot of them.  You won’t catch me playing my own stuff out unless it’s in the making and I want to see how it sounds, but by the time it’s hitting the shelves I’ve more often than not had enough of it.  I’d have had enough of any record if I’d heard it as much as I hear my own stuff.  I can only apologise to the people who ask me to play an Ethyl track but the truth is I don’t even have them with me, unless I’m bringing a copy to give to someone.  The tracks that just seem to happen and are done in an afternoon are the ones I can bear and for that reason maybe Paisley Riffs on Quintessentials or Shelter on secretsundaze, both of which I did with Flori.  Aybee’s remix of myself and Huxley’s Reflexions on Tsuba was dynamite!

Milton: I like the latter day Freerange stuff, Probably the Crash LP I did for them. 
 
Where the best place you have played in terms of atmosphere/vibe?

Milton: Loads of good places, I enjoyed womb in Tokyo, Goa in Madrid is always good. Sometimes you get smaller venues though, I had a great time in Grelle forelle recently in Vienna and a boat in Lyon which were Great. 
Ethyl: A friend of mine owns a bar in Cleethorpes which for those of you that are unaware is near Grimsby on the east coast.  It’s a quiet seaside town where I’m sure I’ll be forgiven for saying, not a great deal happens.  I played down there not long ago and the place was absolutely rocking.  There’s a bit of a history of house and techno there, I’m told; at some point over the last twenty years, they’ve played host to Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig and the like, unless someone was pulling my leg.
I’ve also got to mention Freerotation in Wales. We played and attended for the first time last year and that place is just unparalleled. Although we were on early (opening the main room on the first night) the vibe was great. Really pleased to be on again this year - more than anything can’t wait to see the rest of the lineup!
 
What’s your plans for summer? You playing Ibiza?

Ethyl:  I have a few friends on the island who are very good to me so I will have at least one date out there which I always look forward to, whether it’s the pomp and splendour of Space or an ad hoc party in some undisclosed location, it’s always a hoot.

Milton: More of the same really, got some releases out on Tsuba, Morris audio and a new track for Neurotraxx which is quite a mad one! Not sure about Ibiza yet…
 
Who is your favourite DJ/Best performance you have seen? Even though you’ve probably got countless ones try and pick one special one please haha?

Milton: I saw Ben klock on a Thursday night in sub club in Glasgow. He played a lot deeper than he normally does I think. I really enjoyed that, it was the perfect balance. 
Ethyl: This is really difficult.  I’m going to make it easier for myself and say the best in the last couple of years and I’m going to have to refer back to Freerotation.  There were some stellar sets from Jane Fitz, Miles Sagnia, XDB, Steven Tang, Chicago Skyway, Levon Vincent played a stormer, Steevio, the organiser’s live modular live set was great but the one that took the biscuit was Fred P on Sunday night.  He absolutely killed it.
 
Is the DJ/Music career all you expected it to be? Why?
Milton: There’s a lot of hustling sometimes for little reward! You have to take the rough with the smooth, obviously it’s different in that Luciano/Sven vath bracket. We’re kind of in the deep house trenches here! Those guys are the 4 star generals :-)
 
Ethyl: I really didn’t have any preconceptions of how it would be but I’m enjoying myself. Some months are good and some months are difficult but I’m definitely not going to complain.

What is your DJ’ing set-up i.e. Turntables, CDJ’s or Laptop and why do you have this preference?

Ethyl:  play about 99% vinyl and the odd promo on CDR.  The reason I choose to play records is two fold.  If the set up is right, it really sounds so much better and secondly I’m a collector.  A hard disk of music just feels too transient, it doesn’t feel like mine but my shelves of sleeves and artwork does.  It’s one of those impalpable emotional things.  It must be the same reason people still buy books even if they’ve got a Kindle.  If I get sent a promo digitally and I like it, I will definitely go out and buy the record when it’s available.
This said, I’m in the process of making a ‘reliable’ set of a few CDs at the moment because I’ve had too many bad experiences with jumpy needles and decks feeding back.  It can really ruin the vibe in a room if the record keeps skipping and it prevents you from playing what you want and the way you want.
Milton: Traktor with the vinyl controllers. I like the vinyl control with the ability to have loads of tracks on the computer. I run a lot of tracks off vinyl purchases Into the computer. 
 
What is your current Studio set up?

Milton: Logic/ableton>soundcard>summing mixer. Oberheim and various old samplers. 
Ethyl: I work mainly in the box - I have a few sound modules, some external effects and a dusty old synth that I found abandoned in Shoreditch (I know, right?).  I used to have a lot more hardware and I sold a lot of it when I didn’t have the space and was feeling the pinch so I’m sort of recouping some of that.  Got a lot on my to-buy list, but I think I always will.

Can you please go through your processes of creativity when it comes to production?

Ethyl: Every punt’s different. I don’t approach any two tracks or remixes in the same way but loosely it’s about finding that one sound or idea from which everything else follows.  If it’s a remix it can be from really mangling up a part from the original or it can be from the mightily embarrassing ‘ideas’ recordings on my phone where I talk myself through ideas that have occurred to me.  
Milton: Trial and error/hair tearing/despair/elation. Sums it up. 
 
Any tips you could give budding producers?

Milton: Learn some chords, maybe try using an mpc or something a bit different equipment wise to spice things up a bit and differentiate yourself from your peers. 
Ethyl:  Take your time - find your sound.
Any upcoming releases you would like to talk about?

Milton: Nice one coming up for Tsuba (vinyl only )plus the mad Neurotraxx one called breakdowns and the Morris audio I mentioned. Prob another track for Freerange as the recent one DSI Has done pretty well
Ethyl: I have a few exciting remixes coming up for labels that I have a lot of time for but I can’t talk about them in any detail.  I’m not taking on any more remixes after these are done because the main thing for me is getting some original solo material done this year.

Ethyl-We see you have played in Manchester a few times before. What are your experiences of Manchester and do you like playing here? Like any city of a reasonable size, each time has been different depending on the size of the club, the time of the day and the party I’m playing for but what I have noticed is the people are up for it.  Worryingly so!  Even the clued up heads seem to go bananas which makes for a great party so I can’t wait to get back up there.

Thanks for your time look forward to seeing you both at the weekend :)
Ox

Posted 2 months ago

Nicolas Jaar Presents the Prism

Nicolas Jaar is literary thinking outside the box and bringing back tangibility to music in the form of a aluminium cube ornament.

 This little innovative box works as a playback device which houses mostly unreleased tracks from Clown and Sunset artists including a few from Nicolas himself. The Prisms features two headphone jacks for shared listening a play, stop and volume buttons.

The intent of the Prism is to prompt the reconsideration of the relationship between listener and music and foster intimacy between listeners. 

On top of all the relationship building it will simply make a nice little feature in my living room which I can revert to again and again.

You can buy it here.

http://www.csa.fm/#

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Oxymoron Presents Milton Jackson (Freerange & Planet-E) with support from Ethyl (SecretSundaze & Cecile) Come join us next Friday @ south to catch these two behind the decks. OxOxymoron Presents Milton Jackson (Freerange & Planet-E) with support from Ethyl (SecretSundaze & Cecile) Come join us next Friday @ south to catch these two behind the decks. Ox

Oxymoron Presents

Milton Jackson (Freerange & Planet-E)

with support from

Ethyl (SecretSundaze & Cecile)

Come join us next Friday @ south to catch these two behind the decks.

Ox

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Ricardo Villalobos Interview I recently came across this interview of Ricardo Villalobos from 2009 and found it very interesting. Although it was taken a while ago what he speaks about still remains true to dance music today. He  discusses the politics of music and the struggle to come to terms with recent popular music production programmes such as Ableton and Reaktor. He also talks about how exciting it is for him to be consistently working with and d’jn beside other current musicains. P.s the photo attached is a room belonging to Ricardo, lovely no T.V just set up purely to relax and listen to music. Check out the interview here. http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1128 O x View Larger

Ricardo Villalobos Interview

I recently came across this interview of Ricardo Villalobos from 2009 and found it very interesting. Although it was taken a while ago what he speaks about still remains true to dance music today. He  discusses the politics of music and the struggle to come to terms with recent popular music production programmes such as Ableton and Reaktor. He also talks about how exciting it is for him to be consistently working with and d’jn beside other current musicains.

P.s the photo attached is a room belonging to Ricardo, lovely no T.V just set up purely to relax and listen to music.

Check out the interview here.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1128

O x

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Oxymoron Mix

Ch Ch Check out our resident Greg Purnell deep n groovin mix.

Catch him this Thursday warming up for Kris Wadsworth @ idiosync.

O x

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Magic Market - Original Mix - Martin Buttrich from Fire Files

Pick of the week.

what a perfect name for a perfect tune if a magic market actually exsited I imagine this is what it would sound like very funky, dark and mysterious.

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Iz & Diz - Love Vibe ( Brett Johnston Mix)

 A nice little tune for ya on Vday

Ox

Posted 3 months ago
Audiojack Interview Oxymoron caught up with Gruuv records bosses Audiojack ahead of their Manchester appearance. Their recent productions and DJ sets have made Audiojack the stand out performers in  a year dominated by the Deep House sound. We find out how they achieve their sound, who their favourite DJ’s are and obtained some well placed advice for budding producers…… Hi. Hope things are well. You recently played Fabric. How was that experience? Where is your favourite place to play in Britain and why?   Fabric was awesome, it was a 2020 Vision party and we were opening the room before Ralph Lawson, Julien Chaptal and Simon Baker. We were a little perturbed by this at first as we thought we’d be playing to an empty room, which we were for about 10 minutes and then for the rest of the night it was packed so we were really pleased. We also had a massive posse of mates come out and support us too including one of our best friends who flew in from Boston (MA) to surprise us and then flew back the next day, no change of clothes or hotel, just himself and his passport, Legend!   As great as fabric was our favourite place to play in the UK is probably Basics in Leeds, the atmosphere there is up there with DC10 and we always see lots of friendly and familiar faces. It’s going to be interesting playing in the new venue at the Warehouse this year.     Favourite Abroad and why?   There are a few regular ones that are amazing like Vibe and D-Edge in Brazil, Fabrika, Madrid, End up in San Francisco as they tick all of the boxes, sound system, crowd, atmosphere etc but the ones that really stick out are the crazy unexpected one offs like we played in the bottom of this cargo ship in Hamburg, on a hotel roof at someone’s apartment at WMC or an abandoned interior design studio in Paris. They always have an added excitement that really makes them special.   Are you boys doing Ibiza this season? Have you been before/ What’s your favorite club and why?   Between us we’ve probably been more times than most people have had hot meals. We’d like to go every year, 5 times but nothing is booked in for this year yet, it’s a little early. Our favourite club is and always has been Es Paradis, the Twice as Nice nights there are so bling… no only kidding, DC10 hands down J   What’s your current set up? Decks/ Computer e.t.c.   The studio has a custom built PC with FL Studio / Ableton / Plugins, a Korg Triton synth and a midi keyboard. To be honest though it really is the ear not the gear, we started out with naff all and still managed to make tracks, having a bit more fancy gear these days is just a bonus.   The decks set up at the moment is CD’s and we’re starting to use Traktor a bit too.   Has recent technological advances in software/hardware helped mould your sound or do you use ‘old school’ gear?   As above, you can get good results with any gear really, the only thing that moulded our sound into our sound was us, whether we’d been using a £1m studio or wooden spoons and dustbin lids, your sound is moulded from what comes from your soul which was in turn moulded by all the experiences you’ve had and music you’ve been into growing up. (Deep shit huh?)   Big question- - Who’s your favourite DJ or best performance you have ever seen? (You have to answer ha because nobody ever seems to)   Jamie: My favourite one of recent times was probably the Chems in Space discoteca a couple of years back, I was of my rocker though ;)   Rich: Sasha’s Essential Mix from around 2001 is probably my favourite mix of all time but I wasn’t actually there. He’s probably been my longest serving favourite DJ if you know what I mean?! I’ve been listening to his music for nearly 20 years now although admittedly have lost touch with what he’s doing the last few years…   Producers your loving at the moment?   Huxley, Maceo Plex, FCL, Waifs n Strays, Eats Everything, Chris James   Your favourite tune on your label/you have produced?   The last one we made or signed are usually our favourite at that time.   Any future releases from you boys you would like to talk about?   Well our latest EP which has just come out and is already flying is Stay Glued on Gruuv which features vocals from our good friend Kevin Knapp from San Francisco with remixes from FCL, Gorge & Waifs & Strays, you can check that our here.   http://www.beatport.com/release/stay-glued-ep/856426   We’re currently working on EPs for 2020 Vision, Get Physical and Leftroom so all labels we’re already familiar with but the ones we feel are best suited for our music.   What do you do in you spare time/ when you dont do music or is music all you live for?   Both keen cooks, play basketball, service the women, normal stuff really   Is the DJ career all you hoped it to be. Any regrets?   Never learned to read or right… ;-)   Tips for budding producers/ DJ’s?   Quality not quantity. Don’t jump at the first label that offers you a deal, getting a good release on a good label can be the difference in a career break or falling back into the endless sea of mediocrity.    The best ‘Dance tune ever made? David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over. That is if you believe sales equals popularity which equals ‘best’ anyway. On a similar topic have a read of this http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus Something deemed ‘best’ is doomed from the moment it’s classified. Do MacDonalds made the best burgers? Do H&M make the best t-shirts? There will always be people out there who are prepared to mass produce crap in order to make money, we should just consider ourselves fortunate that we have the ability, mindset and opportunity to be different and decide what we like for ourselves.  See Audiojack with Oxymoron @ South Nightclub, Manchester February 14th View Larger

Audiojack Interview

Oxymoron caught up with Gruuv records bosses Audiojack ahead of their Manchester appearance. Their recent productions and DJ sets have made Audiojack the stand out performers in  a year dominated by the Deep House sound. We find out how they achieve their sound, who their favourite DJ’s are and obtained some well placed advice for budding producers……

Hi. Hope things are well. You recently played Fabric. How was that experience? Where is your favourite place to play in Britain and why?

 

Fabric was awesome, it was a 2020 Vision party and we were opening the room before Ralph Lawson, Julien Chaptal and Simon Baker. We were a little perturbed by this at first as we thought we’d be playing to an empty room, which we were for about 10 minutes and then for the rest of the night it was packed so we were really pleased. We also had a massive posse of mates come out and support us too including one of our best friends who flew in from Boston (MA) to surprise us and then flew back the next day, no change of clothes or hotel, just himself and his passport, Legend!

 

As great as fabric was our favourite place to play in the UK is probably Basics in Leeds, the atmosphere there is up there with DC10 and we always see lots of friendly and familiar faces. It’s going to be interesting playing in the new venue at the Warehouse this year. 

  

Favourite Abroad and why?

 

There are a few regular ones that are amazing like Vibe and D-Edge in Brazil, Fabrika, Madrid, End up in San Francisco as they tick all of the boxes, sound system, crowd, atmosphere etc but the ones that really stick out are the crazy unexpected one offs like we played in the bottom of this cargo ship in Hamburg, on a hotel roof at someone’s apartment at WMC or an abandoned interior design studio in Paris. They always have an added excitement that really makes them special.

 

Are you boys doing Ibiza this season? Have you been before/ What’s your favorite club and why?

 

Between us we’ve probably been more times than most people have had hot meals. We’d like to go every year, 5 times but nothing is booked in for this year yet, it’s a little early. Our favourite club is and always has been Es Paradis, the Twice as Nice nights there are so bling… no only kidding, DC10 hands down J

 

What’s your current set up? Decks/ Computer e.t.c.

 

The studio has a custom built PC with FL Studio / Ableton / Plugins, a Korg Triton synth and a midi keyboard. To be honest though it really is the ear not the gear, we started out with naff all and still managed to make tracks, having a bit more fancy gear these days is just a bonus.

 

The decks set up at the moment is CD’s and we’re starting to use Traktor a bit too.

 

Has recent technological advances in software/hardware helped mould your sound or do you use ‘old school’ gear?

 

As above, you can get good results with any gear really, the only thing that moulded our sound into our sound was us, whether we’d been using a £1m studio or wooden spoons and dustbin lids, your sound is moulded from what comes from your soul which was in turn moulded by all the experiences you’ve had and music you’ve been into growing up. (Deep shit huh?)

 

Big question- - Who’s your favourite DJ or best performance you have ever seen? (You have to answer ha because nobody ever seems to)

 

Jamie: My favourite one of recent times was probably the Chems in Space discoteca a couple of years back, I was of my rocker though ;)

 

Rich: Sasha’s Essential Mix from around 2001 is probably my favourite mix of all time but I wasn’t actually there. He’s probably been my longest serving favourite DJ if you know what I mean?! I’ve been listening to his music for nearly 20 years now although admittedly have lost touch with what he’s doing the last few years…

 

Producers your loving at the moment?

 

Huxley, Maceo Plex, FCL, Waifs n Strays, Eats Everything, Chris James

 

Your favourite tune on your label/you have produced?

 

The last one we made or signed are usually our favourite at that time.

 

Any future releases from you boys you would like to talk about?

 

Well our latest EP which has just come out and is already flying is Stay Glued on Gruuv which features vocals from our good friend Kevin Knapp from San Francisco with remixes from FCL, Gorge & Waifs & Strays, you can check that our here.

 

http://www.beatport.com/release/stay-glued-ep/856426

 

We’re currently working on EPs for 2020 Vision, Get Physical and Leftroom so all labels we’re already familiar with but the ones we feel are best suited for our music.

 

What do you do in you spare time/ when you dont do music or is music all you live for?

 

Both keen cooks, play basketball, service the women, normal stuff really

 

Is the DJ career all you hoped it to be. Any regrets?

 

Never learned to read or right… ;-)

 

Tips for budding producers/ DJ’s?

 

Quality not quantity. Don’t jump at the first label that offers you a deal, getting a good release on a good label can be the difference in a career break or falling back into the endless sea of mediocrity.

  

The best ‘Dance tune ever made?

David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over. That is if you believe sales equals popularity which equals ‘best’ anyway. On a similar topic have a read of this http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus

Something deemed ‘best’ is doomed from the moment it’s classified. Do MacDonalds made the best burgers? Do H&M make the best t-shirts? There will always be people out there who are prepared to mass produce crap in order to make money, we should just consider ourselves fortunate that we have the ability, mindset and opportunity to be different and decide what we like for ourselves. 

See Audiojack with Oxymoron @ South Nightclub, Manchester February 14th

Posted 3 months ago
Accurate Rumours ? Is Fabric Closing Down??? Rumour has it that our beloved fabric is closing down, due to the high percentage of young people unemployed in London and because of MATTERS bad effect. Does anyone know if this is true? If so would they have not drop their prices hmmm. O xAccurate Rumours ? Is Fabric Closing Down??? Rumour has it that our beloved fabric is closing down, due to the high percentage of young people unemployed in London and because of MATTERS bad effect. Does anyone know if this is true? If so would they have not drop their prices hmmm. O xAccurate Rumours ? Is Fabric Closing Down??? Rumour has it that our beloved fabric is closing down, due to the high percentage of young people unemployed in London and because of MATTERS bad effect. Does anyone know if this is true? If so would they have not drop their prices hmmm. O x

Accurate Rumours ?

Is Fabric Closing Down???

Rumour has it that our beloved fabric is closing down, due to the high percentage of young people unemployed in London and because of MATTERS bad effect.

Does anyone know if this is true?

If so would they have not drop their prices hmmm.

O x

Posted 3 months ago