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While you have been biting your nails waiting for the next post, I have been enjoying myself in the darker parts of London. Saturday saw me visiting Mulletover, an underground party that feeds the hype by keeping its locations secret and publishing it through viral channels only a couple of days before the event. The highlight there was Dixon, who unfortunately entertained the carnival-masked crowd only two hours until 2AM, which is when Sebo K took over. His set was quite a disappointment, simply because of the mostly dull music. He had a couple of moments though, to give him justice. Dixon played out a couple of records that are quite certainly going to be big once they get released, such as the new Laurent Garnier on Innervisions or the Henrik Schwarz remix of Bill Withers or a track from the new Loco Dice album.

The album altogether is brilliant and quite house-y. Which gives me confidence in saying that House is making a small comeback and conquering back territory from his skinny weird-hairstyle brother Minimal. Another indicator of that have been the recent Radio Slave records, which I have liked quite a lot. And I don’t recall a minimal record from the recent months that would have moved me very much.

But just go ahead and listen to the sweaty beat of “Tight Laces”. It’s really something, isn’t it?

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There’s a party coming up near our end of the civilization. It’s named Lustwaffe, which is sort of clever flirting with inappropriate, depending on your sense of humour and knowledge on war history. It’s going to be featuring your humble hosts as well as a veteran DJ from the Land of Nokia and Santa Clause, Mr A. Beware, the homepage of the party is written in a made-up language, apart from international labels such as “house” and “techno”. The page also features a mix to promote the party, which is what I’m planning on linking here now. Go ahead, take a peek and see if you want to join the event (just 2 days away now, so you countless fans from Australia may have to find another place to crash!).

Listen/download the Lustwaffe Promo Mix.

Here’s the tracklist:

Camille – Ta Douleur (Al Usher Remix) – EMI
Spencer Parker – Beautiful Noise – Rekids
DJ Mbuso Feat. Shembe – Ukukholwa Kuwe (To Believe In You) – Innervisions
Jerome Sydenham & Dennis Ferrer – Timbuktu (Ame Original Mix) – Ibadan
Mrk – Donnie – Unreleased
Stateless – Bloodstream (Henrik Schwarz Remix) – !K7
Argy – 1985 (Sydenham & Rune Remix) – liebe*detail
Sian – Wear Your Scars Like Medals – Aus Music
Martin Buttrich – Stoned Autopilot – Planet E
Sueno Latino – Sueno Latino – Ibadan
Deee-Lite – How Do You Say…Love (A Delicious Pal Joey Dub) – Elektra

Klang Elektronik – KLANG 132

It took me a while to settle into this epic overflowing madness. Everything’s shrinking to minimal these days, so it’s hard for a modern house music consumer not to be blown away by such large storm of sound. Even Carl Craig has recently shown more of his ‘spartan’ style of composing. So the remix of Gary, as well as the original, is like enjoying a nice Russian Cheburek (a pie filled with grease, basically) after a long fibre diet. By the first taste of it, I couldn’t quite digest it. But once I got my thinking set to the right context (think Gary Numan and maybe a bit of Kraftwerk), it started to grow on me pretty fast.

In this context I’d even prefer the original over Carl Craig remix, with its robust drum programming and more exciting variation on the bassline. But would I spin it on a club night? Honestly, it’s a pretentious track with such strong character that it would definitely need some serious fitting into my usual playlist. So I’d be careful about this, but probably would take the chance. Especially while focusing on some 80s stuff.

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A: Original Mix
B: Carl Craig Remix

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