Good ideas are like buses

You don't see one for ages, and then everyone tries to get on the same one at once. Still, it's nice to see an article about a modern day 'beef' in the music biz. Maybe my old friend Jim would be the ideal referee for our Fight Night on December 21st? But as I said to him earlier, "Keane are just China Crisis with guitars - when attacked they curl up into a ball kicking their legs and crying 'mummy'. Setting (the frankly risible) Kasabian on them is the klind of mismatch Frank Warren can only dream about."

Another Side Of...James Holroyd

Friday November 23: Music Muziek Musique presents

Another Side Of...James Holroyd
(Chemical Brothers tour DJ, Bugged Out [not Bugged Out], Back to Basics)
...Expect the unexpected. But expect to dance.

Plus your eclectic residents: DJ Jammer & The Phantom

Doors: 21:30
Entry: 6 euros (free before 22:30 - open late)
Smouss Cafe, Rue du Marche au Charbon 112 Kolenmarkt, Brussels 1000

Important - change of dates

Hi, the eagle-eyed among you will have noticed a couple of changes to our upcoming shows section:

Fight Night, previously scheduled for Friday November 30, will now take place on Friday December 21 at Windows.

On Friday November 23 we have added an extra show at another venue, the Smouss Cafe on Rue du Marche au Charbon. And we are very pleased to announce an extra special guest...Mr James Holroyd (see next post for details!).

Entry both nights is 6 euros (free before 10.30 pm). Doors:9.30 pm - open late.

A quick note on the visuals

Visuals last Friday came courtesy of Brian Eno and his 77 million paintings, and from a DVD entitled The 70s Dimension (a collection of US TV ads from the decade that taste forgot, as well modern reinterpretations by the likes of People Like Us).

A big thank you also to Jodie at JDC Design in Durban for her fantastic logo and flyers. In case you were wondering, here's the brief we gave her: "We'd like you to try and design something that is a bit like a Victorian Circus poster, a bit like a 1960s West Coast Psychedelic poster, but slightly futuristic and very now." I think she's done all that admirably!

DJ Jammer number 1

Getting ambient early doors...

Cluster - Grosses Wasser
Sun Electric - Northern Lights
The Irresisible Force - Waveform
Massive Attack - Protection (Eno Mix)
Megans Present - Khonnor.

The return of DJ Jammer

Game, second set and match...

Talking Heads - Life during wartime
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Bjork - Declare Independence
LFO - What is House?
M.I.A. - Bidflu
Neneh Cherry - Inner City Mama
The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
The Doors - Strange Days
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
New Order - Confusion
Rockers Revenge - Walking on sunshine
Melle Mel & Duke Bootee - Message II (Survival)
Tom Brown - Funkin' for Jamaica
Howard Johnson - So fine
J Walter Negro and the Loose Joints - Shoot the pump
Joe Smooth - Promised land
The Orb - A huge ever-growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the Ultraworld.

Phantom playlists (part two)

And here's the uptempo stuff:

Intro (Ludus - Mistresspiece / Joe Meek & The Blue Men - Glob Waterfall)
New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
The Chemical Brothers - All rights reversed
Telex - Moscow Diskow
Number # - Hit Pop (radio edit)
Daft Punk - Harder, better, faster, stronger
Dragonette - I get around (Midnight Juggernauts remix)
Ready for the World - Oh Sheila
Northend - Happy Days
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Junior Boys - The Equalizer
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
DJ Lapell ft QD - Drinking Chardonnay
The Shamen - Make it mine
The Whip - Divebomb (short edit)
808 State - In yer face
Disco Inferno - When the story breaks
Yppah - Again with the subtitles.

Phantom playlists (part one)

Here's the running order of The Phantom's first set on Friday night (music from and influenced by Jamaica):

Massive Attack - Safe from Harm
Colourbox - Baby, I love you so (12")
Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys meets Rockers Uptown
Jackie Mittoo - Totally Together
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy (12")
Justin Timberlake/The Bombist - My Love (My Love riddim)
Saint Etienne - Only love can break your heart
Sean Paul - Shout (stret respect)
Jiva ft. Sguqa - Dub Masters
Mad Professor, Ruts DC and Zion Train - Weak Heart (12" vocal mix)
Jamie T - If you got the money (radio edit)
Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop
Mattafix - Big City Life
Dr. Alimantado - Born for a purpose.

Ta very much!

Thanks to everyone who helped make the second Music Muziek Musique such an enjoyable evening! Here's a little video - not sure what was going on!!

Hope to see you all on Friday November 2nd, when our guests include the very cool Gijs Ramboer, who'll be showing there's more to him than listeners to Radio Limburg or fans of Kimburg realize (yes, it's time for another Another Side Of... slot).

Gijs will be followed by the very excellent Tapedeck DJs from London, organizers of the legendary BOSH and remixers par excellence (Klaxons, Kate Nash, Good Books, Jack Penate).

It all promises to be another great night!

Your eclectic residents,
DJ Jammer & The Phantom

A night in Beijing

Check out The Phantom's new piece for Fact magazine on nightlife in the Chinese capital.