Bicep ¦ Rise

There's a lot of posts of Bicep's tracks on here, but this is definitely our favourite. Fast paced, yet slow building "RISE" from the recent "The Stash" EP is the gift that keeps giving from around the 2:42 mark.

Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide From Yourself (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend)

This boogie cut from Dmitri From Paris is as infectious a tune you'll hear anywhere. The 8-odd minute number will have any floor on it's feet for sure. 

Free Downloads ¦ The Golden Boy

Dominic Hammonds is a producer from Birmingham who, after making music from a young age, has finally started to break through with a series of 2013 releases that have caught the attention of those in the UK house and bass scenes.

After really focusing on The Golden Boy project over the last year, his sounds first made it onto a host of mixes and sets of DJs, until people started taking note of the man behind the music and his popularity burgeoned.

Now having secured an EP release with the Ministry of Sound, the boy has made his name onto listings throughout the UK for the summer as labels and club nights clamber to have him tied to their names. His new EP, Higher, epitomises the effort Hammonds has put into The Golden Boy, showcasing the biggest basslines and filthiest chords in a three track set that has already been causing a hype.

3 Free DL's available below

Tambi ¦ You Don't Know (HMD Remix)

In a follow-up post to the announcement to our first event, we have a tasty track (and also free give-away download) from Horse Meat Disco.

A mid-tempo chugger, constantly builds and has an epic drop at the mid way point.




Get the download here

Event ¦ HORSE MEAT DISCO

We've been looking to set the bar high for our first night, and we're delighted to announce that we'll be joined by the lads at Horse Meat Disco.

We like many others we have been kept dancing to the distinct sounds of HMD. Though years of crate digging, party starting and boat pulling their now legendary party in London basically runs itself and has an avid army of fans who'll swear by their ever-impressive ability to read a dance floor and react accordingly. Fueled by early soul, and funk records the lads are well known for mixing it up.

Now approaching their tenth year of existence, the four-man DJ outfit have continued to lead the way in the disco field with packed residencies at their aforementioned HQ in Eagle London, various venues in New York, Prince Charles in Berlin and Silencio/Wanderlust in Paris.

Having held off for a few weeks to confirm the warm-up DJ's, we've decided that the Lowendisko boys will provide the perfect soundtrack with their low-slung, mid-tempo, deep-house bangers. We're told that Bee will be playing a few gigs with future guests & friends of ours from down south, Get Down Edits, in the near future so it also made sense to get the lads on board as they know the direction we're taking musically, and could hopefully be a solid fixture at Q&D. They've been apart of the Derry scene for some time and we're delighted to get them in.

Jonny Boy will host the back bar along with the Q&D residents.

The event will take place on Saturday 13th July at The Nerve Centre, Derry.

£6 / £8 / £10 OTD

LINKS:
HMD Soundcloud
Q&D Soundcloud
Jonny Boy Soundcloud
Lowendisko Facebook





Horse Meat Disco Live On Ch4 House Party 2012 from Sean McCann on Vimeo.


Check out this interview with James Hillard from HMD on where the idea of this party came from, and why it's still standing strong today.

Feature ¦ Ian Dury - The Last Champion of Pop Music

The music industry is nowadays such a prohibitive place for artists. Acts and bands are ‘chosen’ by the powers-that-be and there is often little choice from the public about who succeeds (commercially) and who flops...

Daft Punk ft Pharrell & Nile Rogers ¦ Lose Yourself to Dance

 Lose Yourself to Dance ft Pharrell Williams

Queen & Disco ¦ Session 004

Queen & Disco ¦ Session004 by Queen & Disco on Mixcloud

Feature ¦ Sir Alex Ferguson

As an avid supporter of Manchester United and of course Sir Alex Ferguson, the question that every peer wants to know after just announcing his retirement at he end of this season - what was the key to his longevity and success?

Drop Out Orchestra

I've been keeping tabs on Drop Out Orchestra for a fair while now, and it seems as though their hard graft may be paying off after all these years of doing re-mixes and the like with no real recognition. They are currently subject to a lot of radio play on stations like BBC 6 music due to their recent re-edit of Daft Punk's Get Lucky. It's being heralded as the best edit about at the minute, and that's no mean feat. Without taking too much away from the track, they still manage to leave their own footprint with the addition of violins and synths at equally telling points within the track.

This is another one of my favourite tracks of theirs...

FEATURE ¦ Greg Wilson - The Scene Thorugh his Eyes, and Through Ours

""Disco wasn’t the name I would have personally chosen as the term for what I play now. I felt it came with too much baggage, given previous associations and prejudices, and besides, I was drawing from a much wider palette. However, now it has been named as such, I fully embrace the term in its original spirit – not as a specific genre, but, as I said in the sleevenotes, as music made to be played in clubs and discotheques, in all its splendid diversity, and spanning an entire history."" 

Known initially for his DJ'ing in Merseside and Wigan Pier, Greg Wilson crafted out a reputation as being one of the fore-running UK DJ's playing electro sets with predominantly black origins. This was at the time gaining more popularity leading to Wilson being handed the Reigns at legendary Manchester club, The Haçienda,  and the wheels were firmly in place for Wilson to go on to big things.

Flight Facilities ¦ A Fifth of Beethoven (FF's Edit)

We've been liking Flight Facilities stuff of late, and this edit jumps into life at around the half-way point.

Rhye ¦ The Fall (Maurice Fulton Alt Mix)