ROCK LA BIBLIOTEK - January

ROCK LA BIBLIOTEK! - a night of fresh sounds and library archives - continues into 2010. This month, I'll be teaming up with BATEMAN, reviving our PLASTIC SOUL moniker for a 2 hour back to back House Music all night long special.

The night also sees a return to the decks for TOBI ONE playing alongside resident librarians FRED & OLLIE and DARYL B

WHERE: The Hive Bar
ADDRESS: 11-13 Brixton Station Road
NR TUBE: Brixton (Victoria Line)
TIME: 9pm - 3am
DJs: Tobi One / Fred & Ollie / WNCL
SPECIAL GUEST: Plastic Soul
ADMISSION: Free!

LINK
THE HIVE BAR

UNIQUE 3 - Take This Love

UNIQUE 3's "Take This Love" is released by MUTATE RECORDS on January 30th. The West Norwood Cassette Library remix is included on an 8 track promo download package featuring the original LP track and remixes by Milanese, Si Begg, Cakeboy amongst others.

LINKS
MUTATE RECORDS

PODCAST - Warp20

20th podcast mixing up the first 20 releases on WARP RECORDS for last year's 20th anniversary. All the A sides except for WAP16 (TUFF LITTLE UNIT's "Inspiration") which appears to have disappeared from the library archives. And I never did like Moby's remix of LFO's "Tan Ta Ra" so I had the Mashed Potatoes instead.

LINK
WNPOD20_2010 WARP20

FREEDEM SOUNDS - Xmas Skank

FREEDEM SOUNDS, the South London party crew, are back to follow up their Bank Holiday launch night with a Christmas Skank down in Brixton on Sunday 27th December. They say...

"After our successful launch night down at Medusa, we've decided to take the party down the road to the Brixton Bar & Grill on Atlantic Road. This is gonna be the Xmas party to remember, with the Freedem DJ's and co dropping anything and everything from House, Dubstep, Grime, Jungle, Hip Hop, Ragga and more..."

I'll be joining them on the decks at midnight to play my favourite House, Dubstep and Minimal Techno records of 2009.

DATE: Sunday 27th December
VENUE: Brixton Bar & Grill
ADDRESS: 15 Atlantic Road, SW9
TIME: 9pm - 4am
PRICE: FREE B4 11 / £3 after

DJs: Sai / West Norwood Cassette Library / Sober / Collapse / Freedem DJs

Hope to see you down there

LINKS
FREEDEM SOUNDS MYSPACE
FREEDEM SOUNDS FACEBOOK
SAI (UPPER PLAYGROUND)

REAL SOON

It was a quiet night at ROCK LA BIBLIOTEK last night. Maybe it was one xmas party too many. Maybe it was the bleedin' snow. In any case, my eternal thanks to the fantastic dj's for sticking it out and playing to the bitter end.

TOBI ONE reminded us that the glory days of hardcore still cut it on a system and FRED & OLLIE, the closest thing to library residents, weighed in with an excellent blend of House and Jungle classics.

Particular thanks to PAUL HAMMOND for playing, as promised, an exclusive selection of beautiful music from his REAL SOON label. Particular highlights were the CHEZ DAMIER remix of KAI ALCE, new and old tracks from SESSION VICTIM and LEROSA and the latest release on the label from RISING SUN. So good I had to steal the lot as soon as he'd got off the decks.

It's criminal that more people didn't come to check this out so I'm hoping to get everybody back down again in the new year.

For lovers of real House music, check out the REAL SOON back catalogue here

ROCK LA BIBLIOTEK - December

THURSDAY 17th DECEMBER: Rock La Biblitoek!

It's time for another Bibliotek session down in Brixton

WHERE: The Hive Bar
ADDRESS: 11-13 Brixton Station Road
NR TUBE: Brixton (Victoria Line)
TIME: 9pm - 2am
DJs: Tobi One / Fred & Ollie / WNCL
SPECIAL GUEST: Paul Hammond (Real Soon)
ADMISSION: Free!

PAUL HAMMOND, previously of ULTRAMARINE fame, will be exclusively showcasing past, present and future trax from his excellent REAL SOON label. For those who like their House Music deep, you're in for a treat...

TOBI ONE, founder of the legendary FOR YOUR PLEASURE parties, with releases on the classic KULT and TAG RECORDS labels, will also be making a long awaited return to the decks

FRED & OLLIE will be returning to the library just in the nick of time to dust off more House and Jungle classics from the archive

I hope you can join us...

LINKS
REAL SOON
TOBI ONE

RADIO - Exotic Pylon Archive

Another chaotic-but-fun Pylon session. As usual, thanks to JONNY MUGWUMP for the opportunity to air some new and old Cassette Library dubplates.

Shame I opted to do a live mix and completely fluffed it then. Been a long time since I turned in such a sloppy effort at beat mixing - turns out that Lemsip, cider and dodgy wiring isn't such a winning combination after all

Excuses, excuses...

TRACKLIST
MATTHEW DE ABAITUA . The Dinner Party Wars (WNCL Extract)
WNCL . Get Lifted
SUNOSIS . Leap (WNCL Remix)
WNCL . Blonde on Blonde
UNIQUE 3 . Take This Love (WNCL Remix)
UNIQUE 3 . The Theme (WNCL Remix)
BEYOND THE WIZARDS SLEEVE . Bubble Burst (WNCL Remix)
WNCL . Theme To Street Knowledge
WNCL . Drop
WNCL . What It Is
DOCTOR J . Let's Rave (WNCL Remix)
WNCL . Up Periscope!
WNCL . Feeling Too Big To Dance

Download link below - worth it for WOEBOT's THE CROW mix, exclusive to the show and wisely pre-recorded!

LINKS
EXOTIC PYLON SHOW
JONNY MUGWUMP
WOEBOT
RESONANCE FM
PICS
(photograph by Will Thomas)

RADIO - Exotic Pylon

SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER: Exotic Pylon, Resonance FM

Jonny Mugwump has asked me to come down and play again, this time alongside special guest WOEBOT. I'll be playing another dubplate only mix of new and archived WNCL material plus some recently finished remixes. Keep it locked!

TIME: 9:30pm - 11:00pm
DATE: Saturday 5th December
WIRELESS: Resonance FM, 104.4FM
ONLINE: http://resonancefm.com

LINKS
JONNY MUGWUMP
WOEBOT
RESONANCE FM

WNCL - Diary

Some library shenanigans to put in your diary...

SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER: Rock La Biblitoek!

Hope to see you down in Brixton this Saturday for round two of the library's club night in South London's secret space-age cocktail bar

WHERE: The Hive Bar
ADDRESS: 11-13 Brixton Station Road
NR TUBE: Brixton (Victoria Line)
TIME: 9pm - 3am
DJs: Bateman / Daryl B / Fred & Ollie / Perdoni / WNCL
SPECIAL GUEST: Cherrie Flava (Sounds of the Universe)
ADMISSION: Free!

LINKS
CHERRIE FLAVA
SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE

SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER: Exotic Pylon, Resonance FM

Jonny Mugwump has asked me to come down and play again, this time alongside special guest WOEBOT. I'm hoping to have a bunch of new trax finished and cut to dubplate in time.

TIME: 9:30pm - 11:00pm
WIRELESS: Resonance FM, 104.4FM
ONLINE: http://resonancefm.com

LINKS
JONNY MUGWUMP
WOEBOT
RESONANCE FM

THURSDAY 17th DECEMBER: Rock La Bibliotek!

Back again for a Christmas knees up, more details to follow but watch out for special guest PAUL HAMMOND who will be showcasing releases from his ultra deep House label REAL SOON

Hope to see you soon...

PODCAST - Rock La Bibliotek

Thanks to everybody that came down to ROCK LA BIBLIOTEK! last Friday - the first in a series of nights at The Hive Bar, Brixton - it was good to see you all.

Special thanks to all the DJs that played a great selection of funk, boogie, house, dubstep and jungle throughout the night. Out to Daryl B, Bateman, Fred & Ollie.

Hope to catch you all at the next one on SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER. More news soon.

In the meantime, the latest podcasts leading up to the night are available to download
here

Enjoy, thanks again and see you soon...