NYE

Johnny Chingas (Lasermagnetic) & DJ Alex (Voices Collective), two of London's longest standing disco and deep house promoters, join forces with Pearl Flash and Deepfrequency to bring you a New Year's Eve extravaganza. The event will be taking place at 'The East Room' members bar and Sosho over three floors in Shoreditch (East London). We will bring together iconic and cutting edge artists, careful programming, good sound, a diverse dance floor and crowd on each level, so there's something in there for everyone. Musically speaking, there will be Cosmic, Afro Funky, Italo, Euro and NYC Disco, Club Classics, Reggae, Rock & Eastern influenced sounds with a good measure of electronic music thrown in.

Line-up /
Daniele Baldelli (Baia del Angeli / Cosmic Club)
Casco (‘Cybernetic Love'/Italo Disco Pioneer)
Gerry Rooney (Black Cock Records)
Joel Martin (Quiet Village)
DJ Alex (Voices)
Johnny Chingas (Lasermagnetic/Spacemachine)
Pearlflash DJs (Fred Gazebo, Dj Casey, Bergas)
Deepfrequency DJs (Simon Halpin & Guillaume Chottin)

Tkts can be purchased here...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?132298

Morning Music

A great way to start the day...

one man & his bike

Big props to Marc for taking this photo today on the Southbank...

Meal deal? :-)

Bite Harder

The sequel to 1998's legendary library music breaks and beats excursion, BITE HARDER, is finally with us and is available at all good record stores and also straight from the source:

http://www.dewolfeshop.com/

It was compiled by myself and Warren de Wolfe and features 19 killer tracks from psych to steel band funk...

loads more nuggets from the De Wolfe archive to come! Watch this space for info

Swiss Special

http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/podcasts.php

Here is Joel's joints volume 2 for your listening enjoyment. All 5 of you...

Joel's Joints

http://deepgoa.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/gilles-peterson-worldwide-podcasts-»-joels-joints-vol-1/

New feature I'm doing with Gilles P for his 'Worldwide Podcasts'. This should be a weekly spot so keep checking the website!

Tappan Zee

And here is a great vintage snap of film music composer Joe Delia, who spent most of the late 70s thru to the 90s working alongside auteur Abel Ferrara scoring genre defining classics like Driller Killer, King Of New York, and Ms. 45 which i've just had remastered from original 1/4 inch tape (also pictured) and sounds heavy. This really is the ultimate New York grindhouse sleazer...coming soon on Moscovitch

It's Been A Long time...

so much for this being a regularly updated blog. but then there are only 5 subscribers!

Anyway, Just back from an extremely productive trip to NYC, researching more album projects. Here is a photo of me with one of the unsung genius's of the synthesizer (and porno movies), Walter Sear. So much incredible material to go thru now. Electronica, disco, classical fugues...watch this space :-)

Chuushoku

Met my friend Oscar Wilson (designed the Moscovitch artwork and is now working on the De Wolfe commercial series as well as being a mid-century British lamp master) today for lunch at a secret Japanese spot. Crispy Chicken set...

http://www.studiooscar.com/docs/work.php

I'm playing records with Cherrystones aka Godsy on Saturday night at this event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103689534718&ref=ts

This might actually be our first time as a dj 'duo' so it should be interesting to say the least...

Back in Blighty

pretty excited to find that 'Terror/Prey' is the record of the week at Manchester's finest - Piccadilly Records

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/index.php?url=http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/ver2/search1.php&new=1&search=Ivor+Slaney

The Eagle Has Landed

Matt & I finished 2 remixes today that are musically poles apart. The first is a version of Jonathan Jeremiah's 'Happiness' which is a very uplifting orchestral folk-pop track with vocals in the style of James Taylor. The second is our take on the as yet still unreleased Milky mouth Orchestra's 'Deutschland Cha Cha Cha' aka Gerry Rooney/Foolish Felix's 'Fist Club' which sounds like a satanic nightmare with Frank Booth on the mic.

You have been warned...

Movie Marathon

Back home from the all-day film festival. Wired & wet, but it was a pretty good day of celluloid.

The session included the following pieces of dirt in order:

Take An Easy Ride (complete with De Wolfe soundtrack that I should be including on a forthcoming comp of sexploitation scores)

The Brute - Julian 'Scaroth' Glover and Sarah 'Ursa' Douglas (the ultimate 70s posh bird) in forgotten 'wife-beater' melodrama

Death Weekend - the only movie that I hadn't seen before today and what a corker. Pure anarchy. Yet another De Wolfe ost I didn't know existed and using some cues from both 'Dawn of the Dead' & 'The Bastard Swordsman'...

Satan's Slave - Always a pleasure to see Norman J. Warren again and this beautiful 35mm print was uncut and included the harrowing sexually perverse naughty scenes produced purely for the 'Asian' market. Rough ost that will be forthcoming on Moscovitch...

Equinox - U.S. psychotronica par excellence. it's all about the 'Mountain' VHS though

Time for bed. Off to Berlin tomorrow (today) for a long awaited studio appointment with Rekid

Day of the Dead

On Saturday I'll be attending this all-day event of back to back movie madness with a bunch of other weirdos like my man lovely Jon (Jigoku), one half of Churchill's Leopard's Jon Burnip and Colin of Movie Grooves fame. There will be many other freaks in the house and I'm sure most will be especially excited to meet the master of British 70s horror, director Norman J. Warren, who will be signing copies of the latest Moscovitch release 'Terror/Prey' (see previous post) on cd AND ltd. edition LP. There will also be a screening on celluloid NOT a dvd projection, of his infamous gothic work 'Satan's Slave', the soundtrack of which is also forthcoming on Moscovitch next year alongside other John Scott compositions...

Right, I thought it was about time to get this baby on the road...

Please bear with me as the content will fluctuate in volume depending on how much time I have etc etc

First up is the brand new (and really the first official 'Moscovitch' album project - Norman J. Warren's 'Terror' & 'Prey' soundtracks (both unissued until now) and both composed and performed by the sadly deceased Ivor Slaney.

You can pick up your copy here:

http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=15761