Merry Christmas

A very Merry Christmas to everyone!, Hope you all had a wonderful and special time. A big thanks for all the support, help and great friendships over the past year and beyond. 2010 has been an outstanding year for music with some amazing productions and labels breaking through, This look set to carry on well into 2011 with some great releases in the pipeline already. The coming year promises to bring some new exciting events and gigs so keep your eyes peeled. Many thanks, Much love and a very Merry Xmas.....

Hogmanay Ho'Down

December 31st see's Billy Woods (Supermax) and Craig Moog (Electrofunkdiscotek) join together for a disco meltdown at the Brunswick hotel in Glasgow's Merchant City for the end of the year Hogmanay Ho'Down. Billy's been busy during 2010 with some great events and gigs including Che Supermax, Party's at SWG3 and slots alongside Daniel Wang, Red Rack'em and Optimo's Jonnie Wilkes. Supermax party's have seen great attendance with people such as Christopher Kane, Tim Sweeney, Tim Goldsworthy, Jim Lambie, Geoff Ellis, Slam and Horse Meat Disco DJ's Jim Stanton & James Hillard dropping in to previous club nite's to experience the ride.

Craig Moog has played at some of the city's greatest party's this year including The Wee Chill Festival, Electric Frog and Solid Gold Safari with DJ slots alongside people such as Italy's Francisco (Jollymusic), Maelstrom (Solardisco) and Norway's cosmic disco master Rune Lindbaek (Paper Recordings). Craig also runs the the Electrofunkdiscotek nights at the Brunswick which see's him and Billy team up on a bi-monthly basis for Supermax.

Expect a taste of the decadent sound systems of New York's disco era, with local loudspeaker designer and acoustic engineer Bob Balmain on hand to deliver the sound with a super rare fully restored ‘D’ model Bozak and Urei rotary mixers for superior sound reproduction. Expect a soundtrack of Disco, Italo, Wild Style, Prog, Rock'n'Roll, Electric Muzik and Cosmic Sounds. They will also be joined by Glasgow's finest percussionist Martin Bongo on live Percussion, chimes and breaks.

The night runs from 8pm - Late over Two levels. Tickets are £10 and are available from The Brunswick Hotel. A great way to end the year disco children!, Not to be missed....

La Cheetah Club Presents Francisco

Roman party ignitor and master of all things disco, Francisco (Jollymusic), will be joining us in Glasgow for a pre Christmas shake down. Francisco is one of the most eclectic dance artists that has been working in the Italian music scene, especially because of his fresh and quirky sound made of Italo Disco, Funk and Old School Chicago House. So many DJ's from Italy and Europe had taken notice of his music just after the release of his first two solo records "Salvation" and "Fregna" both on Pigna records. Francisco's music has been featured on many compilations by people such as Dr. Electroluv or numerous ones issued by the famous British dance magazines Jockey Slut and DJ Magazine. Francisco is ready now to step ahead introducing newer tracks such as "Moon Roller" and a full length album named "Music Business". Both works showing that he represents the heritage of the purest Italo disco. His show is made of humor and groove, all based on a perfect mixing technique that has been acknowledged during the many experiences on the road thanks to his previous projects such as Mat101 and Jollymusic.

Francisco plays the La Cheetah Club (below Max's Kansas City) on Queen St Glasgow on Friday 17th December for a "Black Friday Disco Speciale" Support comes from The Wasp (Pest Control Records) and Craig Moog (Electrofunkdiscotek). Tickets £7 on door 11pm-3am. Black Friday just got a whole lot brighter......

Francisco - Wrong Era promo Mix by Slow Motion Records

Xmas Party W/The Revenge/Melting Pot/Slabs Of The Tabernacle/DJ Dribbler

Yorkhill Santa Caus is hosting a Christmas party at The Sub Club on the 15th of December in conjunction with Piggyback People to help raise money for Yorkhill children’s hospital charity.
They’ve put together quite a line up of Glasgow's Finest....

Slabs Of The Tabernacle, DJ Dribbler and The Melting Pot DJ’s will be cooking up a tasty brew of Italo, Techno, House, Disco, Funk, Soul, Electro, Jazz, Indie, Rock and more to get you prepped up for Christmas party frolics..
Finally they have special guest The Revenge (Instruments Of Rapture) who they are more than happy to announce will be headlining the night with a rare Glasgow appearance.
The Revenge has been treating the world to his own productions and some heavy duty disco remixes of late which we’ve been a particular fan off. His DJ work over the years has included spots with Jimpster, Joe Claussell, Domu, Mark E, Mad Mats, Seiji, Yousef, Jeff Mills, Jazzy Jeff, MAW, Sinden, James Lavelle and many, many more.

Mark this one in your diaries folks, it’s unlikely you’ll get bundle like this all in one pop again!
Tickets are only £4.00 on the door before midnight, £6.00 after. All proceeds go to Yorkhill children’s hospital Charity, which is a great cause I’m sure you would agree.
First 50 guests through the door are free!, You would be mad to miss this one....

Enzo Ponzio Reworks

One of our favourite artists over at Piece Together, Enzo Ponzio see's the release of a great reworks package with new mixes coming courtesy of Kid Who stepping up to rework "My 80's Funk" and Discodromo taking on "Italian Boy". The Sicilian artist started his career as a DJ in 1991. He worked for several years in parties and clubs in Sicily and then decided to move to Milan, where he soon started working as a composer and sessionman in productions of other artists. He published,with the label ‘Scenario Music’, his first solo album with the title ‘"Sopra la Soglia"’ creating thus a new project, ‘Ganesh’, founded by him. In the meantime he started collaborating with artists having a dance background and, above all, he started playing his dj sets. He became a resident Dj in several important lounge clubs in Milan, including among others ‘Roialto’. He produced several singles for ‘Scenario music’ and covered a lot of distance along the way. His sound is firmly based in electronic music,taking in Italo,cosmic disco and some spaced out electronica.

Enzo has had the support from artists such as Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, Aeroplane, Xaver Naudascher, Billy Bogus and Diskjokke to name but a few,and also great support from labels such as Eskimo Recordings, Internasjonal, Solardisco and Bear Funk, With most of his new releases coming courtesy of Pizzico Records. The Reworks come as a little tribute and celebration to Enzo's long view, Out now. Enjoy the sound....

Enzo Ponzio - My 80's Funk (Kid Who Rework) by Pizzico Records

Tiki Disco

Saturday 4th December see's Tiki Disco take place at one of Glasgow's newest bars. The Tiki Bar & Kitsch Inn on Bath Street is a welcome addition to the Glasgow bar scene, providing great Tiki inspired cocktails and a cosy vibe to shake of your winter blues. DJ Craig Moog (Electrofunkdiscotek) will be digging deeper to supply the soundtrack of the night covering Disco, Re-Edits, Cosmic Sounds, Electronica and Exotica. Kicks off at 9pm and entry is free...

Beatfanatic

Beatfanatic is just one of the aliases of Ture Sjöberg, a Stockholm based producer. Not only a crate-digger of epic proportions, Ture is also a prodigious producer of some of the most forward thinking disco around at the moment. He is also label manager for Soundscape Records, a label concentrated on releasing eclectic disco music. This year has seen him release an outstanding album (Beatfanatic 2010), EPs, some great reworks & remixes and some top class edits. He always manages to strike a great balance between his synth laden disco flavored dance tracks with more smooth midtempo Balearic groovers and some killer cosmic disco tracks all containing his amazing production values.

With new releases dropping in 2011 on labels such as Kodak Giant Sounds and Soundscape he is one guy to watch out for. The track "Zink Loyd" included here is taken from his new album and is available from Traxsource and Juno. Enjoy the music....

Beatfanatic; Zink Loyd (from the album "2010" scrcd006) by beatfanatic