hatchback

hatchback mix by samuel milton grawe (113.30mb, 81:41mins)
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anyone for californian cosmic krautrock disco?

hatchback is samuel milton grawe, californian native whose debut album 'colors of the sun' hits at the end of september on good old lo recordings. spanning neu-like motorik grooves, sunny disco moves, epic ambient journeys and downtempo funk head nodders, this is such a perfect summer album. the album also includes last years 'white diamond' that was awesomely remixed by prins thomas and featured on ewan pearson's mix here last december.

whilst you wait for the album to drop you can bask in the glory of this extended mix by mr grawe. put your shades on.

coyote - laid back (windsurf's no shame dub)
batteaux - high tide
richard schneider jr. - hello beach girls
goblin - amo non amo
antonio adolfo - venice
minako yoshida - tornado
johnny hammond - star borne
cerrone - rendez-vous
the beat broker - beach beards
baffo banfi - quelle dolce estate sul pianeta venere
space art - welcome to love
leon ware - don't stay away
rollmottle - the storyteller
vangelis - theme from antarctica

Field Day Ticket Giveaway!

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED

those of you living under a rock may be unaware that this saturday see the second installment of field day festival take place in victoria park, hackney, london.... once again they've assembled a fantastic lineup of bands / artists of every musical persuasion, some favourites here at allez-allez towers include our good friends mr james holden and the field (playing live with his new full band) plus other talented types such as wild beasts, jeffrey lewis, dan deacon, foals, benga and heartbreak plus loads more.

luckily the kind folks at the festival have given us a brace (AKA two) of tickets to the allez-allez reader with the quickest finger - that's right! all you have to do is send an email to allezallezclub [at] googlemail.com, the first entry wins the tickets!

for all those of you who don't win, or who are already going, and looking for something to do when field day shuts down at 10:30pm - why not come over and join us over at the hoxton pony until 2am, we'll be DJing with border community's luke abbott playing live (we just played with him in glasgow, and believe us when we say his set is pretty damn amazing!), and now the best bit - it's ENTIRELY FREE TO GET IN!

mystery mix and samurai

no mix on the site this week but as ever we never leave you empty handed. if you head on over to samurai fm on the front page you kind find the latest in our series of guest mixes exclusive to samurai. this time its from thomas bullock under his new guise of way of the ancients. if you like what you hear make sure you get down to disco bloodbath tomorrow night to see the man in action for a rare london gig.

and we were very honoured to be asked to contribute to the excellent mystery mix section of the essential dj history site. sam put together a mix of some overlooked gems that you can find here. see how many of the tracks you can name.

and heads up for next saturday the 9th; we're playing in shoreditch for the first time in ages alongside luke abbott and j saintil. check out the details here.

live @ fabric

allez-allez recorded @ fabric 3rd may 2008 (54.30mb, 59:16mins)
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this week we're giving you the first hour of our set we played in room 3 at fabric way back in may. if you want more then we recommend you subscribe to fabricfirst where you can hear some more of the set streaming along with lots of other great sets and much, much more.

this saturday we're hitting glasgow (for definite this time) with our buddy luke abbott to play at the men and machines night. if you're about come down to stereo and dance the night away.

also, we've set up a new myspace account to showcase our allez-allez original material / remixes which you can find HERE - load up your boombox with our new track 'defeatist' and remix of high places' 'head spins'...

lots of stuff

quite a few bits of business this week.

first up, londoner's tomorrow night get down to dalston for sam's set alongside padded cell and the freak at suspiria: "a psychedelic celebration of horror and disco dance". all details are in the flyer above

sadly due to forces out of our control steve's appearance at death disco in glasgow on saturday has been postponed for now. a shame but glaswegians fear not, you can see us play at men and machines @ stereo with luke abbott next saturday the 26th.

click HERE to check out / download allez-allez's very own sam's forthcoming remix of brooklyn 2 piece high places' 'head spins' as bigged up by the mighty pitchfork! although we're not too sure about the 'electro house' tag ourselves...(if you have any problem downloading it, let us know and we'll provide you with a link to get it).

also, sam has managed to find time to record an exclusive mix for our brothers-in-arms over at 20jazzfunkgreats, (on which high places also feature) which you can find HERE

sam says: "juan, steve and the rest of the 20JFG team are a massive inspiration to us with their passionate, lurid prose on the weird and wonderful music from the fringes of the internet, so it was an honour to put together a mix inspired by them, for them and to do something a bit more unhinged than usual... i hope you like it! PS - you also get to here my unreleased remix of sons & daughters (first track) :)"

sons & daughters - this gift (sam's allez-allez remix)
harmonia - dino
D.A.F. - der mussolini (conny plank mix)
yo la tengo - sugercube
glenn branca - light field (in consonance)
animal collective - chores
high places - head spins
guided by voices - my valuable hunting knife
spoonich - laserdance
luke vibert & jean jacques perrey - moog acid (jackson mix)
DHS - house of god ($50 mix)
menomena - wet and rusting

and finally this thursday the 24th please come down to the flea pit in hackney if you're about the beaterblocker cd launch where we'll be playing (click here for the flyer).

beaterblocker is a 15-track experimental mixed genre compilation, available for £7 as of thursday 24th july. ALL proceeds go to the homerton hospital, london. created in aid of the ACU and lamb ward at the homerton hospital, hackney, london.

ed godden had a heart attack last year at the age of 21, and the album is a thank you to everyone who looked after him. mastered at abbey road studios and pressed in a limited first edition, beaterblocker will be available to buy from boomkat, rough trade east, pure groove, norman records, phonica (in store – soho) or direct from the website www.beaterblocker.com

strike a pose

strike a pose mix - by steve (allez-allez) (34.70mb, 30:19mins)
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trouble funk - chillin' with tee-bone (live) (harmless) BUY
guru guru - izmiz (revisted) BUY
woolfy - the warehouse (rong music) BUY
fred wesley - house party (back black)
funkadelic - ret hot momma (westbound) BUY
holger czukay - cool in the pool (revisited) BUY
trouble funk - pump me up (harmless) BUY
en vogue - my lovin (you're never gonna get it) (east west) BUY
egill saebjornsson - my engine (smekkleysa) BUY

summer hours

with summer here (some of the time) we're taking our foot of the pedal slightly for a while and going fortnightly. so no new mix this week but we'll be back next thursday.

to fill the gap come along tonight to the tippex wedding festival. heaps of great bands and love in the air. full details here