London & Interview

A big thanks to everyone in London... well not everyone in London... but all the people who were part of or came down to Look.See.Here at East Village on Saturday night. Nice to dig deep and play some gems that had not been out of the cd wallet for a while. I got to catch up with loads of people that had not seen in ages which was cool, but I always forget what a pain in the arse doing anything in London is – either trekking for miles on foot to get anywhere, being crammed into sweaty tubes or spending a fortune to get a taxi 5 minutes down the road. It seems a lot of people are into bikes, especially fixed wheel ones with no brakes, which isn't particularly convenient to carry record bags around on. I suppose on the plus side it is always warm, people are generally more attractive and there's loads of stuff going on all the time (Manchester is lacking in all 3 of these at the moment). Whilst I was down I hooked up with long time friend Piete who runs the Zombi Space Bingo blog. If you are even vaguely interested in hearing about my thoughts on some things then head over to http://spacezombibingo.blogspot.com/

If you're not then here's a really old Feline 9 track
Feline 9 - Tail Ender (drenched002)

Look.See.Here - East Village

One of my djing highlights of last year was playing at a night called Spun at a random venue in Dalston in London. It was basically just like being in someone's house with all the furniture taken out and a massive soundsystem put in. All of the staff were mates of the promoters and I'm not sure if the venue was even licensed so, what was originally planned to be a 2 hour set turned into a 6 and half hour marathon. Anyway the guys behind that night are now doing a monthly night at the proper venue East Village in Shoreditch and have invited me to play in the upstairs room this Saturday (18th July). I think they've given me 4 hours this time, so looking forward to this one.

I've also done a promo mix for the night that you can download here...

Feline 9 - Look See Here Mix

.. and here's the tracklisting...

Talking Heads - Slippery People
The Cure - A Forest
Giorgio Moroder - Chase (Original Dance Mix)
Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning (Cut Copy Remix)
Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Grum Remix)
Foals - Olympic Airways (Ewan Pearson Remix)
Brett Johnson & DJ Heather - Everythings Electric (Mike Shannon Rewire Mix)
Radio Slave - Grindhouse (Dubfire Terror Planet Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - 10000 Horses Can't Be Wrong (Original Mix)
Michel Cleis - La Mezcla (Original Mix)
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Beggin' (Pilooski Re-Edit)
Lyn Collins feat. The JB's - Think (About It)
Mr Oizo - Two Takes It feat Carmen Castro (Original Mix)
Deadmau5 + Mc Flipside - Hi Friend! (Vocal Mix)
Elektrons - Get Up Feat. Pete Simpson & Soup (Herve Gets Down Remix)
Sinden And Count Of Monte Cristal - Everybody Rocking
Altern8 - Brutal-8-E
SL2 - Djs Take Control
The Fog - Been A Long Time
Hardrive - Deep Inside
Barrington Levy - Gimmie the Grass
Max Romeo and the Upsetters - Chase the Devil
The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning
Bent - Magic Love (Album Version)
Jamie Lidell - Multiply (In a Minor Key - Piano by Gonzales)

East Village, 89 Great Eastern Street EC2A 3HX 9-4

Zoom

I'll be playing at a new night in Manchester called Zoom this Saturday (11th July). It's in the centre of studentsville at Trof's new place called The Corner. I've not been inside the venue yet but from the outside looks like a cross between a sex shop and a brothel (not that I frequent either) with some bizarre looking mannequins hanging on the wall. I've heard loads of good things about this place so should be a good party. Nobody will be playing live, in the way that an act called Nobody will be playing live not that there is no one playing live, alongside Makshift and Tuco. Not sure what time I'm on but the night's on from 8-2.
In the meantime, to keep you entertained for the next few minutes, here's a nice deep track from a couple of years ago.

Feline 9 - Drip (drenched020)

Joris Voorn Balance CD

It has been a fairly quiet year for Drenched really, other work commitments has meant that not a lot of time has been spent on me producing new music for the label, so was with great surprise when I got an email from the people behind the Balance CD compilation series requesting to use Heavy by Feline 9 on Joris Voorn's forthcoming mix. To be honest I was a little confused as to why he wanted to use that track bearing in mind that it's not particularly new and is the most ridiculously minimal track that has ever graced the Drenched catalog. It then later all made sense when it came to light that this was no ordinary mix CD but included over 100 tracks and to use the marketing blurb was a 'painting with sound' concept. Sounds dubious, but the final mix is phenomenal (admittedly CD1 where Feline 9 does not feature is the better of the 2 CDs).
Other artists on the CD include Radiohead, through to Goldie, Leftfield, Jimpster, Aphex Twin, Dubfire, System 7, Minilogue, Cobblestone Jazz, Emmanuel Top, Joakim, Âme, Mood II Swing, Ricardo Villalobos, Radio Slave, Carl Craig, Flying Lotus, Marc Romboy, Robert Babicz, Tiger Stripes to name a few, so you can see that Feline 9 is the natural choice to sit along these small time producers.
Buy/download/borrow/steal it and you wont be disappointed - unless of course you don't like house and techno in which case you'll probably hate it.

Read the review on Resident Advisor

Here's the Feline 9 track without 3 other tracks over the top of it.

Feline 9 - Heavy (drenched020)

The Drenched Blog

Ok,  seeing as we are now nearing the end of the noughties (a phrase which I don't think anyone has ever really ever felt comfortable saying) I thought it was time that the Drenched online presence was brought up to date with this little blog. Hopefully I will find the time or be bothered to keep it updated, but bearing in mind I had lost all interest in developing the website (seeing as that what keeps me off the streets during the day) this seems a much more manageable thing to do. Does anyone even really care about websites that much anymore... Everyone seems to care about blogs: micro blogging, nano blogging, pseduo blogging, beige blogging and other types that haven't been invented yet. I don't think most people even care about words in blogs, just as long as there is free music that can be downloaded then that's all that matters right?

So... enough waffle - I'll post stuff about the label, DJing, exclusive tracks and other random bits of stuff that I think is semi-interesting/totally-uninteresting/both.

It seems fitting that the first post has a link to the first release by the label, so from all the way back in 2000 here is Mel with Deep Rising...

Mel - Deep Rising (drenched001)