Plastic Poople

So last week I popped down to London on Thursday for a bit of,what turned out to be,tricky treating. Plastic people was the destination for an intimate ALFOS soiree among the like minded appreciators of heads down,get yer shuffle on chugthiasts.What started out as a standard but welcome sound increased the pace and went quite house with a garage (old housey garage) flavour.Only spoiler on the night was having to use the loo to discover a lack of loo roll,cue me waddling to the ladies and excusing myself whilst I grabbed some clubland tracing paper and waddled back to the solitary cubicle queue in the mens (not being able to find the flushy handle didn't help either,turns out it's all infra red hand waving based flushy). Crisis averted the night was a resounding success and we ambled back in no direction finding people and losing others, for me to eventually curl up on a friends floor and drift off til the sun struggled to break the blanket of grey.

ALFOS at Plastic People,31st Oct 2013.

If you squint you can just about make out no one.

On the Friday it was back to Manchester for HomoElectric at ,what is hopefully,it's new residence at Antwerp Mansion just outside of the city centre.Moving to a venue outside of a standard clubbing hub is a gamble outside of the capital but it worked well as the run down/falling apart setting is a natural progression from the former rave caves of Legends (wipes tear from eye).Rooms were to the standard scenario of Jamie Bull opening and closing either side of James & Jim Horsemeat Disco,however the tunes were far from standard fare from all those playing.Downstairs Chris Massey opened up with a slightly differing sound for the night but fitted in perfectly overall and did a perfect job of warming up for Dan Beaumont,the second of the secret guests.Will Tramp closed the room perfectly,all in all the venue has a lot of potential,fingers crossed for many a good night in the future.

 Treasure Hunting Volume Two is the second,yes really,compilation release via the Astro Lab label from France. This release sees a more varied selection style wise from volume one,mixing dark brooding tracks with more cosmic melodies whereas the first compilation was much more a 4 to the more techno affair in style.Featuring production from artists like Jokers of the Scene,Eskimo Twins,Deadstock 33's and other newer/lesser known talent  it's very much a statement of how proud they (Astro Lab) are in being able to bring you these tracks as opposed to just trying to sound current or fashionable.

tracklisting:

CD1:
1. Canyon Cosmos - Fear Of Plastic (Pilooski Remix)
2. Hiem - Tokyo Night
3. Rodion & La Royale - Chamorro Tomorrow
4. David Shaw And The Beat - Sex Gang
5. Carreno Is LB - Pitch Housing
6. She Lies - Needed You
7. Remain - Noses, Claudine & Horses
8. The Deadstock 33's - Reverse The Role
9. Jimi After - Looking Glass Feat Gina Olafson
10. Red Axes Vs Moscoman - Wire Conflict
11. Vosper - Interstate
12. Javi Redondo - Lonely
13. VoX LoW - I Wanna See The Light (Ivan Smagghe Version)

CD2:
1. Capablanca Vs La Mverte - Distortion
2. Mar Pinol - The Fix
3. Offset - Milky Polar Bitch
4. Eskimo Twins - Skraeling
5. Morgan Hammer - Moonshining
6. Club Bizarre - What Is That About
7. People Get Real - Blurred Vision
8. Crackboy - Ride
9. Jockers Of The Scene - Jots Silencio
10. Monoblok & PSLKTR - Spooky

Available now on double cd.

 A recent release on Leng is Auf Togo's latest works,Old Models/Waiting For Beggi. Old Models drives along with an air of Adriatic sunshine in its step,making you want to get off yo ass and shimmy even if you've been skulking in a corner for the first half of the night.Waiting For Beggi is equally as chilled but strangely able to lull you into a focussed groove with it's deceptively simple percussion and lazy hazy sweeping synth sounds.A worthy purchase if you can find it!

End Of Year Riot! This was announced last week,as you ought to know it is an institution in Manchester post xmarse and pre new year to get merry and indeed messy or even just celebrate the drawing to a close of the year gone by with a killer line up.This year is set to be a good one with guests as solid as Horse meat Disco,Chris Duckinfield,Justin Roberston,Il Bosco,Joes Bakery and the Unabombers of course. What grabbed my attention was that one Derrick Carter is commanding one room all night long,6 hours across the board!Cannot wait for that,as good as he is I was getting bored of him "doing disco". The venue is of course The Factory FAC251,so those leccy types follow in the tradition utilising spaces sought out by its cuz HomoElectric,which is no bad thing. Tickets are available from Skiddle as well as in paper flavour from Piccadilly Records and Electrik bar next week.