Jonty Skrufff News
2012-04-21 09:00
Matriarchal Women Dominate Happy Go Lucky New Men
A new study of mobile phone use patterns of 3 million people has revealed that women ‘drive the formation of romantic relationships’. Study co-author Professor Robin Dunbar told the BBC analysis of phone calls and texts showed that ‘pair-bonding is much more important to women than men.’ “It’s the first really strong [...]
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2012-04-20 15:45
Broken & Uneven- London Rules (interview)
“House and techno is the cornerstone of London club-land and is such a broad church that I cannot see that ever really changing. In fact, many of the fleeting new-genre led media obsessions you refer to (dubstep, post-dubstep, drum & bass) broadly fall under that banner anyway.” London club promoter Ajay Jayaram [...]
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2012-04-20 10:30
Alisson Gothz’ Sao Paulo Reports- Vegas is Dead! Long Live Vegas!
Alisson Gothz: “Vegas is dead! Long live Vegas! It’s a sad day when a club dies. Especially one which was responsible for not only many emotions and memorable moments, but also to change the complete landscape of a region. Yes, because the (in)famous Rua Augusta in Sao Paulo can have its history [...]
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2012-04-20 09:45
Gee Moore: Bora Bora is me and I am Bora Bora; Music, Heart and Soul (interview)
Launching daytime party club Bora Bora in ‘an old run down empty beach bar’ in Ibiza in 1996, Gee Moore is famed for routinely playing 12 hour sets each day throughout the summer season, gradually transforming it into one of the wildest- and best- party spots of the whole Ibiza scene. Squeezed [...]
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2012-04-19 13:30
Pioneer new headphones (HDJ-1500s- for €189)
We very rarely do this, but being heavy Pioneers fans generally (we love CDJ200os and USB sticks) we’re giving a pure plug for the new Pioneer headphones. Click below for the full (press release) blurb: - Pioneer launches the HDJ-1500 – Professional DJ headphones [...]
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2012-04-19 12:45
Skrufff Top 5: Skrufff Top 5: Pleasurekraft/ Agraba/ Charles Ramirez/ Adam Beyer & Joseph Capriati/ Tim Xavier
Pleasurekraft - Anubis / Great Stuff Agraba – iMerica / Highway Records Charles Ramirez – Insane / Hall of Fame Records Adam Beyer & Joseph Capriati – Rubicon / Drumcode Tim Xavier – Modus Operandi / Kling Klong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M04252GU7o
Jonty Skrufff News
2012-04-18 16:30
We Love’s Mark Broadbent on Pete Tong, EDM & Americans (interview)
“I really can’t see ‘hordes’ of Americans coming to Ibiza myself. I do hope a good few thousand come but come on, the ‘hordes’ you’re suggesting don’t even have passports, mate.” Chatting to Skrufff this week about the upcoming season of Sunday night parties at Space, We Love main-man Mark Broadbent [...]
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2012-04-18 12:45
Danny Tenaglia- I Resign
DJ Danny Tenaglia has announced he is taking an indefinite break from DJing, via a statement posted on Facebook in which he spoke candidly about being deeply unhappy. Admitting he had long been ‘yearning for something new and different besides music’, the 51 year old New York star said he decided to [...]
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2012-04-17 08:15
Barefoot Doctor Bit: Does it Ever Make Sense to Suppress a Natural Desire?
Barefoot Doctor: “It’s always OK to give into temptation though equally there are always consequences and as long as you are sure you’re up for handling the consequences, whatever they’ll be, however extreme, then go ahead. By and by, with enough experience of the various consequences for the various temptations you’re prone to, [...]
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2012-04-15 12:45
Mason Reinvent the Remix
Dutch tech duo Mason are releasing a compilation featuring ‘non-dance music’ interpretations of tracks released on their label Animal Language, combining the ‘refurb’ versions delivered by producers including In Flagranti, Hatiras and Sam Sparro. Unveiling the release this week, the pair were typically blunt about the logic behind the release. “So [...]
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2012-04-14 23:15
Millionaires Snap Up Doomsday Missile Silos
Four apocalypse-aware investors have purchased underground luxury bunkers being built in abandoned missile silos in Kansas, the Daily Mail reported this week, spending over US$7million on their soon to be impregnable Atlas F silos. The paper suggested many ‘doomsday preppers’ are concerned about solar flares, economic collapse and global pandemics though [...]
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2012-04-14 13:30
Coachella’s ‘Dumb & Thumpy House’ Headliners’ Mocked
LA Times’ pop music expert Randall Roberts criticized Coachella’s superstar DJ headliners David Guetta and Kaskade for producing ‘dumb and thumpy . . . anti-thinking’ house music’ this week and said their presence ‘suggests to many that Coachella has lost sight of the dance music vanguard’. In a somewhat confused piece, however he [...]
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2012-04-13 15:45
Jonty Skrufff (& Steve Aoki) Live (Video) on Tape TV Tonight
Tonight (Friday April 13), you can watch me and Steve Aoki spinning one hour DJ sets from Tape TV’s new studio in Pankow (the Berlin area made infamous by all the Downfall parodies) Aoki spins from 21.00-22.00 CET (WARNING Not safe for anyone who doesn’t love US style EDM!!!!!!!!), I’m on from [...]
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2012-04-13 14:15
Alisson Gothz’ Sao Paulo Reports: Charm School for Drag Queens is a Hit
Alisson Gothz”: Sashay, shantay!! Since last March, the city of Santos (located in the south coast of Sao Paulo and famous for its beaches), is being the set of a – let’s call it that way – “Charm School for Drag Queens”. The course started as an idea from actor and dancer [...]
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2012-04-13 12:45
Skrufff Top 5 (565): Jamie Anderson & Louis Osbourne/ Pleasurekraft/ Kidnap Kid/ El Nino Andres/ L3D
1: Jamie Anderson & Louis Osbourne – NOHO / Made to Play TUNE OF THE WEEK 2: Pleasurekraft – Carny (Jaceo Remix) / Great Stuff 3: Kidnap Kid – Be More / Black Butter Recordings 4: El Nino Andres – Cegado Por Las Luces / Hija De Colombia 5: L3D – Wavelanght (Toy Remix) [...]
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2012-04-13 10:30
‘Beatport Sales Needed’ Plan Goes Viral
Scottish underground techno pioneers Soma have exposed a Beatport chart rigging scam, prompting over 1,700 ‘shares’ on their facebook page. The help wanted ad on British site Freelancer.co.uk offered applicants £300 to legally purchase ‘between 50 and 100’ downloads a week, though said people should apply ‘only if you have done [...]
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2012-04-12 09:45
Louis Osbourne- EDM Is ‘Just Pop Music Bollocks’ (interview)
“Come on, let’s be frank, all the stuff that’s massive over there is shit! All this EDM stuff; it’s bollocks. It’s not really trickling through to underground dance music either.” Chatting to Skrufff this week from the bowels of Jamie Anderson’s South Wales studio, tech-house type Louis Osbourne laughs as he confirms [...]
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2012-04-11 16:30
Defected Chief’s Vocal Plea
UK house guru Simon Dunmore praised new producers including Solomun, Deetron and At Jazz for ‘bringing the soul into clubs these days’ though issued a pointed warning to instrumental obsessed veterans. There’s still massive need 4 vocals &soul within House music,” the Defected Records founder and globe-trotting DJ wrote on Twitter. [...]
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2012-04-11 09:00
Barefoot Doctor Bit: Why is the Thrill of the Chase Better than the Catch?
Barefoot Doctor: “It’s all to do with internal drug cocktails – the chase triggers adrenalin, which is highly addictive and thrilling to feel in the body, whereas the endorphins released through the contentment are not sensational enough to hold your interest for that long, hence the drive to go chasing again as soon [...]
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2012-04-10 17:15
Mick Finesse- Perc Trax, Denver & Nuclear Armageddon (Interview)
“My next EP on Perc Trax looks at mental disorders and psychotic episodes through the lens and language of a nuclear holocaust. Two topics that are very interesting to read about when entirely removed, but that are scary when it’s a reality you’re faced with.” Chatting to Skrufff in advance of [...]