Best Promos: Music Death Conspiracy Special

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I was going to write this post as a Music Death Conspiracy Special based on the amusing premise that Freddie Mercury was alive and well and living in the city of Bacolod with a handmaid. I knocked up a mock-up photograph of him and ran it through the Bigger, the Old HD and the Moustache filter in FaceApp. I sent the picture to my sister on WhatsApp and then screen-grabbed it for this blog. I was going to write about how the Mainstream Media (MSN) don't want us to see the photo because...and that's where I lost interest in it. This blog is purely for reviewing dance music and looking at all the latest dance music promos, the Best Promos, and that's how this blog shall stay/remain.

#Remain

Heavenly and Andrew Weatherall go together like a horse and carriage. You might even say they are like a marriage...a marriage made in Heaven(ly). Heavenly. I even overheard a bearded fisherman in a Brick Lane vintage clothes shop telling his trendy son that Heavenly and Andrew Weatherall are like two sardines in a pod. Inseparable.

They're not inseparable, though. ALFOS and Ivan Smagghe will tell you that, but they were always very good pals, and this week marks the week that during this week a new promo is raining down on all of the DJs of the world this week, and it's this one:

Andrew Weatherall remixes 1&2 Heavenly volume 3&4, no, hang on, sorry, Heavenly volume 1&2 Andrew Weatherall remixes 3&4. Shit, sorry. Bear with me. Sorry. Forgive me. Sorry. Hang on.

Heavenly remixes 3&4
Andrew Weatherall volume 1&2

YES.

Heavenly remixes 3&4 Andrew Weatherall volume 1&2 is out Friday 28 January 2022 and comes ramma-jamma full of wonderful Andrew Weatherall remixes of artists and songs in the Heavenly atmosphere/label. I just pre-ordered both digital albums (volume 1 & 2) on Bandcamp for a combined cost of only £1998! You really can't say fairer than that.

It's only money. You don't take it with you. You're a long time dead...almost as long as Weatherall's Flowered Up remix! LOL.

As entertaining as this new blog is, it's not as entertaining as pressing play on your MP3 player and getting out of your mind on beer to both of these volumes and trying to imagine how good it would have been to be dancing in a warehouse or Shoom to all of these remixes as new instead of swaying side to side in your back extension looking back blindly on an era you were too young and too far away to enjoy at the time, and for those reasons, I give both volumes an impressive 10/10

Pre-order Heavenly remixes 3&4 Andrew Weatherall volume 1&2
here: volume 1
and here: volume 2

I went to watch Teleman with a tall, old friend of mine last year and was impressed by their musicianship, by their promptness on stage, by their manners and by their fashion sense. Who said normcore was dead? The best dressed member of the band was the drummer. I enjoyed his cool way with fashion so much that the very next day, I went to Uniqlo on Bond Street and bought a pair of black cords and a white roll-neck, long-sleeved top. I then went to the Bandcamp shop and bought Autumn Colours. I then went to Muji and bought a pair of white cotton trainers, but they got ruined a few weeks later after going back and forth on the school run in the middle of winter. They're black now, so I bought a pair of Stan Smiths last week from Size?. I am finally happy with my look, and feel as though if someone saw me standing next to Hiro Ama from Teleman in a wine bar, they might think we were in the same band or club.

Hiro Ama's new EP is brilliant. It's called Animal Emotions and I'm basing its brilliance on the Autumn Colours song I bought last year, the Free Soul track you're able to stream on Bandcamp and Hiro's clothes. I'm giving it a whopping 10/10

Animal Emotions EP comes out on Friday 20 May 2022 (that's ages away!)

Pre-order it here: Animal Emotions EP

Klubikon · PREMIERE: Thakzin feat. Kitty Amor - Khoisan

I've never been to South Africa, but I do enjoy Bob Mortimer's South African stories on Athletico Mince, so I was overjoyed to see that one of my favourite labels was releasing an album by South Africa's best producer, vocalist and singer, Thandi Draai. Africa Gets Physical Vol. 4 on Get Physical comes out this Friday, and I caught up with Thandi in McDonald's on Ruislip High Street last night, and she had this to say:

"What a time for Afro Tech House, it’s alive and vibrating through the whole Universe right now. I am super honoured to be compiling this year's Africa Gets Physical Vol 4 and for the opportunity to work with such amazing artists from right across the African continent. I’m coming through unapologetic about our African electronic dance music. Camagu!"

Camagu indeed, Thandi. Thanks for the chat. I haven't had a Big Mac in a long time.

If I had to choose between giving this release a 1/10 or a 10/10, I'd have to give it a 10/10

Pre-order Africa Gets Physical Vol. 4 here: AWOOGA

Next time, I'll be looking forward to/promoting Erol Alkan and Ivan Smagghe's ALL NIGHT until 4am nightclubbing Easter rave at Studio 9294 in Hackney. Tickets are available here if you're not bothered about hearing what I have to say about it first.

Speaking of Bob Mortimer, it occurred to me last night that you could make an amusing dance music/Bob Mortimer-related t-shirt with the characters, 808 Mortimer, on it. Or any DJs who think DJ names like Jichael Mackson and Simmy Javile are funny could call themselves, 808 Mortimer, because 808 looks a bit like the name, BOB.