Xray Horse @ Tramlines 2010

Here it is; the lineup and flyer for The West End on Saturday 24th July hosted by Xray Horse!

19.30 Xrayhorse Djs
20.15 Seize the Chair
20.50 Roman Android
21.30 Black Cat White Cat
22.15 Wot Gorilla?
23.00 These Monsters
23.45 The Gentlemen
00.30 Electric Tape Recorder
01.00 Xrayhorse Djs

Tramlines 2010

Tramlines - Sheffield's music festival is back for it's second year 23rd-25th July.

For those that don't know Tramlines is an urban festival spread across 50 venues and 3 outdoors stages in the steel city and the whole event is free.

Last year saw over 35,000 people attend the festival and organisers are hoping to double that this year! Acts including: Simian Mobile Disco, Mystery Jets, Annie Mac & Blood Red Shoes will be featuring alongside Sheffield's own Toddla T, 65 Days of Static, Joe Carnall & The Book Club & Lords of Flatbush plus many, many more for the most up-to-date list check out the Facebook page here.

Xrayhorse Music will be putting on a showcase of hand picked amazing unsigned bands from Sheffield and Leeds as we curate the whole of Saturday night at the intimate West End venue as part of the festival.

Expect this xray party to include fizzy-punk upstarts ‘Seize the Chair’, scuzzy jittery-drone rock from local legion ‘Roman Android’, psychedelic blues rock from ‘Black Cat White Cat’, high fidelity noise from Leeds bands ‘Wot Gorrila?’ and ‘These Monsters’, some tainted sonics from ‘Electric Tape Recorder’, and some real-deal audio punching from festival favourites ‘The Gentlemen’.

Should be one hell of a show. Hope to see you at the West End or at other sites over the weekend

It's Been A While

Hello Again,

So its been a long time since my last post, i have been a busy boy since then.

I've got myself a new laptop, a new mixer, the full version of Traktor pro, put on another show at the Harley as part of Xray Horse and been working hard in my day job!

I have had an operation this week, so I've got some time off work. I will be updating the blog over the next few days with the intention of updating on a more regular basis

Im currently working on a new mix, a bootleg remix and of course hammering the Xray Horse promo.

check back for more posts and music very soon!

Xray Horse 1st Birthday and Acoutic Shave Magazine Launch Party

Xray Horse celebrated its 1st birthday and the launch of The Acoustic Shave magazine with a move to The Harley on 20th February.

The Line up was:

Roman Android
Kicked things off with a tight, up-tempo set showing musical maturity beyond their years. One to watch for the future.

Nephu Huzzband
Mixing punk spirit with a clever art rock style and pounding pace. I didn’t get to see much of the set as I was taking cash and stamping hands on the door! Sorry boys, nice t-shirt though!

Elephant Keys
Formerly The Dodgems, this Sheffield based 3 piece played a confident well rehearsed set of Indie Pop with Tom G switching between keys and strings. Great stuff from a band that doesn’t take themselves too seriously and seemed to enjoy themselves as much as the crowd watching them. Catch them on BBC Radio Sheffield’s Raw Talent show on 16th March.

The Legend of the 7 Black Tentacles
Xray favourites delivered again! As the staff frantically re-set the stage to accommodate the experimental hip hop 8 piece. The crowd gathered with an excited anticipation. From the epic intro to the xray horse dedicated hip hop medley all 8 members were on top form. Simply awesome!

Baron Von Badd
7BT plate spinner returned to play a well mixed selection of hip hop that got people dancing after the bands had finished and set the tone for the remainder of the night.


Xray DJ’s

More dance floor distortion from the record bags and minds of Tom H (ex Dead Delta) Emil K (Hooded Greek) and myself (LU:CY?)

Here from Emil K are 3 tracks that Tracks that annihilated the floor at the recent XRAYHORSE 1st Birthday De-construction

Fat Boy Slim – Rockafella Skank (Riva Starr Re-chunk)
The C90s – 10:01 (Villa Remix)
Motorhead - Ace of Spades (Mustard Pimp Remix)

Decked Out 10th Anniversery

WOW What a night!
Erol Alkan and Xavier De Rosnay (1/2 of Justice) headlining in the main room! simply spectacular, When Erol played Roaxanne by The Police everyone was singing along - even he had stopped the track just before the chorus dropped!

Big shout to Aeroplane for a weird but wonderful set a nice fun tracklist before everybody crammed into the Main room for two of the biggest names in electronica to smash the Coronet

Coronet is a great location, an old theatre that has been converted into a club much in the Koko mould, with two smaller more initmate room above

Click Here for a video of Erol and Xavier dropping A-Track's mix of Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Click Here for more videos of Erol and Xavier form the night

Heavy Heavy, Guy!

As requested by my friend Guy, in the wee small hours after Decked Out's 10th Anniversary Show at Coronet in London (More on that coming soon)- Hot Chip's cover of Wiley's Wearing my Rolex taken from the Radio 1 Live Lounge on 7/5/09


Wearing My Rolex - Hot Chip (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)

XRay Horse - 10 Track CD

XRAY HORSE 1st release - the new 10 track XRAY HORSE COMPILATION CD - only £4!

Featuring tracks taken from some the hottest unsigned talent from Sheffield and beyond

To purchase direct click here or buy from the following record shops:

RECORD COLLECTOR 233 Fulwood Road Sheffield, S10 3BA, United Kingdom 0114 266 8493

RARE & RACY 164 Devonshire Street Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S3 7SG, United Kingdom 0114 270 1916

Boy 8 Bit

Just got a couple of Boy 8 bit’s Remixes and I’m impressed.
Signed to Diplo’s Mad Decent Label, the former 8bit only producer has followed up his festival anthem Baltic Pine – which went down a storm at Xray Horse back in November - with these remixes for Florence and the Machine and La Roux.

Enjoy:

Boy 8 Bit – Baltic Pine
La Roux – Quicksand (Boy 8 Bit Remix)
Florence and the Machine – Drumming Song (Boy 8 Bit remix)

Dub Step?

Been listening to a lot of Dub step recently, cant get enough of that trademark warble!

Here are a couple of tracks ive been hammering:

White Lies - Death (Chase and Status Remix)

Ellie Goulding - Under the Sheets (Jakwob Remix)

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)

Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions - (Joker Remix)

Up Coming Events

Some nights coming up that are set to be awesome!

22nd Jan - Fake Blood playing Club Pony in Sheffield

30th Jan - Erol Alkan, Vitalic, Capsa... playing Wax:ON in Leeds

5th Feb - Decked Out 10th Aniversry Party in London

20th Feb - XRay Horse V in Sheffield, featuring Legend of the 7 Black Tentacles & Elephant Keys

Teachers

Even the best recognise talent, so in the style of Daft Punk below are some of my Teachers:

Soulwax / 2ManyDjs, Daft Punk, Erol Alkan, Justice, Fake Blood, Diplo, Herve, Duke Dumont, The Chemical Brothers, Simian Mobile Disco, Boy 8 bit, Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, Groove Armada, Wu Tang Clan, The Smiths, Boys Noize, New Order, Foals, The XX, Tiga, Maximo Park, Skream, NWA, Carl Cox, etc, etc, etc...

The List is endless! But that should give you an idea of what sort of music i like. Got a track you think suits this style send it my way!

Set the Scene

Hello to Everyone!


This is the first one of these I've done so here goes:

With this I aim to bring you some tracks and artist that i like, nights i'm either going to, been to or would love to go to, some mixes and remixes from myself and friends and anything else that might be on my mind.

Enjoy!