So a few years back, myself and Swag partner in crime Richard Brown rustled up 3 EP’s of scandalously pilfered late 80′s Chicago style Jack Trax called HALF INCH JACK. We kept it kinda quiet at the time, pressed up a few of each one and just let them do their work, and work they did !
Anyway, much like the music which inspired them, they’ve aged remarkably well…so I thought it was high time this hat-trick of Acid Housery was available digitally, and thanks to those nice people / fiendish peddlars of mediocrity (delete as appropriate) at Beatport, you can now pick up all three EP’s and do all kinds of fun things with them, click below

TAKE ME TO THE HALF INCH JACK TRACKS ALREADY !

‘And jack had a groove, and from this groove came the groove of all grooves….’

Had a couple of weeks off to get over the Aussie trip, and boy did I need it !
Anywho, back with a vengeance at the end of the month for a long weekend of partying, firstly with the SUBJECT crew in Dublin on the 27th Nov, then the following night in Manchester with the DISCO OUTCASTS !

Heading off to a land down-under for the 11th Birthday celebrations of the best party in Sydney ! MAD RACKET.

Really looking forward to this one, and a couple of other parties in the neighbourhood (Including some post-Racket Sunday weird & wonderful wonkyness at the Beresford for the excellent B Side)

Also done 50 copies of an exclusive after-hours CD, which I’ll be dishing out at Racket as a thankyou to the wonderful Racketeers who make the party so special

Here’s a snippet of some recent Warehouse action to warm those legs up a little:

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As luck would have it our good friends The Popular People’s Front are also in the area this weekend, so be sure to check them @ the Good God Small Club for some Discolated debauchery ’til dawn !

Hot off the press – A trio of new Duckbeats cuts destined to see the light of day on ace new label from North of the border called HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC.

Their first release (on their Myspace page linked above) is a monster from THE REVENGE, with new material from Eddie C also in the works.

With a current return to raw, no frills sample-house, it seemed fitting to pay homage to some masters of the genre like Prescription Underground, Natureboy & Mood II Swing. So, the plan is to release these three tracks across two 12′s, with the fantastic ANDY ASH on remix duties for ‘Loni’s Groove’

DUCKBEATS_HOUSE BACK HOME PART ONE

MUSIC (DON’T STOP)

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REPEAT PRESCRIPTION

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DUCKBEATS_HOUSE BACK HOME PART TWO

LONI’S MOOD

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OK, back in the Steel City this weekend for the WARP20 shenanigans. Kicking things off in true ’89 style with a secretive warehouse party deep in the former industrial heartland of the city.

You can find out a bit more  HERE &  HERE

Myself, DJ PIpes and Maurice Fulton will be dropping warehouse goodness from past, present and future. Sure to be road-blocked, red hot and proper !

Here we go again, third release on our EXTENDED PLAY digital-only label has just touched down !

‘LOVE DUB’ is the first of many collaborative efforts from label founders The Jet Project & Duckbeats and is a sonic journey into the early morning dancefloor undergrowth !

On Remix duty we have the classically trained Berlin B-Boy Siopis (check the releases on Get Physical, amongst others), and the rather wonderful Sei A (who has delivered a belter)
All that sits happily next to the hefty original and a warrior charge dub from yours truly…

You can rush over and buy it now from Beatport.

AND, being as you so regularly support our occasional output, here’s a big fat one hour slab of free DJ mixage, courtesy of the Jet Project, recorded live at their Stiff Kitten residency in Belfast

JET PROJECT_DJ SESSION_BELFAST_AUG09

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More original material and exclusive remixes on the way. Play on !

THE BIG CHILL

Coming up on Saturday the 8th August, I’ll be heading to the fantastic Big Chill Festival in Malvern, to do that thing I do in the Rizla tent, round about 11 until close. Kind of a late edition to proceedings, so not much of a heads up I know, but very much looking forward to taking it all in down there !

I know I’m pretty slack at updating this little blog/site of mine, and I’ll spare you the excuses (although parenting and record distribution are incredibly time consuming !). By way of apology, here’s a snippet from a recent gig for the crew over at Subject in Dublin:

SUBJECT BIRTHDAY MIX

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MAD RACKET !

Yes yes ! Last bit of news for this post – I’ll be heading over to my second home; Sydney, for the last two weeks in October.
A few tasty gigs lined up, including my favourite place to play in that hemisphere or any other, Mad Racket who’ll be celebrating their 11th year of party throwing par excellence, can’t wait !

More detailed gig info, barbeque ideas and didgeridon’ts in the next update…

A very big thank you to the Unabombers and The Garden festival team, not forgetting Pytzek, Sergej and the crew at Porat for an unforgettable Adriatic adventure last week.
Managed to get in a club gig, amazing Electric Elephant launch party (on a beautiful boat) and a very extended set in the second room in Porat.
All in beautiful surroundings, with a belly full of fine seafood and ale…It’s a hard life !

You still have time to get your Electric Elephant tickets for the end of August, last year was amazing and the line-up’s this year are serious !

The fantastic, indeed legendary WARP label are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, true to form they’re doing it in fine style, not only by throwing some huge parties in Paris, New York and Tokyo, but also by finishing the whole thing off in Sheffield, their hometown.

I’ll be playing and getting involved at some of the several events planned in the city throughout September, more details coming soon.

In the meantime, you have another week or so to pre-order one of the seriously tasty looking anniversary BOX SETS which, amazingly – given the calibre of their back catalogue – features a little track we did for the label back in ’95 under the RAC moniker. Raucous Electro business…I always thought ‘Nine’ on the flip was one of the best ones we did, but there you go…here’s a blast from the past_RAC_Double Jointed:

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Second release on our new EXTENDED PLAY Digital label has just touched down and is selling like hot cakes !.

It’s a cracking new cut from the Jet Project boys, and features mixes from the ever on form Worthy, Darius Syrossian & Nyra and Duckbeats !

You can rush over and buy it now from Beatport.

EP 3 is underway, and will be a collaborative effort from myself and the aforementioned Jetsters, oh and be sure to check their excellent debut album coming soon on Darkroom Dubs.