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Felix Dickinson ‘Heads Down’ Interview

cutloose — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:08:57 +0000

December’s guest, Felix Dickinson and Cynic Records head honcho and all round disco fiend aka Foolish Felix talks to Heads Down’s Christopher Tubbs.

Mark Seven At Cutloose

cutloose — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:28:33 +0000

No special touches. No hype. No flying tickets. Just a good old fashioned no frills party with like minded souls, electric atmosphere, lights down low and the music turned up loud! All happens again in March with Mark Seven! You can buy tickets here http://cutlooseclub.com/tickets/

Rahaan at Cutloose video

cutloose — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:02:14 +0000

Rahaan returned to Manchester to play our June party down at the Roadhouse. Here’s what you missed.

Moodymann – Henny & Kenny

cutloose — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:26:03 +0000

Rollerball enigma and silhouetted man-on-the-mic Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann is one of the most enigmatic and charismatic figures that house music ever bred. Despite his refusal to give interviews and play the press-and-promo game, Kenny’s voice has been clearly amongst the loudest, when it comes to preserving the rich heritage of Afro-American music, while fighting the music industry powers that be. Blessed with an immaculate way of sampling, he takes stems from blues and soul, and respectfully takes them onto the next level – just check his Tribute (To The Soul We Lost) ode to Marvin Gaye for proof. From his dark and dusty deep house tunes on Peacefrog, Planet E and his own KDJ label, to his more recent outings on the R&B-drenched Mahogani Music imprint as well as his 2009 sure-fire anthem Freaky MF, Moodymann’s fingerprint has stayed unmistakable. Even a so-called techno tune like Dem Young Sconies sounds like nothing and nobody else on this planet. You can’t kick this feeling when it hits!

Firecracker Recordings sleeve art screen printing

cutloose — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:47:38 +0000

The sleeve artwork on the Firecracker Recordings record bag is some of the finest around. Jony Lyle produced this short film documenting the process of hand screen-printing 1000 vinyl record sleeves in an art studio in Edinburgh, Scotland during April 2009 for Firecracker Records. It’s processes like this that still make records worth collecting.

Theo Parrish shakes the basement of the Roadhouse

cutloose — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:47:12 +0000

Amin Peck – Coda

cutloose — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:12 +0000

With the Metro Area gig just round the corner and that Friday feeling running through my veins I thought I would it only right I post an absolute stomper today.

Italo Disco, some people still think of it as eighties music with ridiculous cheesy vocals, listened and produced by only north Italian philanderers with huge ego’s and bad hair, basically music that would not survive the eighties.

Amin Peck was George Fyron, Leonard Parker, and Max Marne a group of top dog Italians who had a long string of Italo hits under their belts. This one is for sure still alive and got recently got hammered by Metro Area at this years PS1 in New York.

Its a nice instrumental track with a drenched slap bass and cosmic synth line, pitch it down slightly and it just sounds absolutely incredible on a big system. Anyway, courtesy of YouTube.

The Dynamic Duo – In the pocket

cutloose — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:11:29 +0000

Nu Groove Records is one our favourite labels at Cutloose. In terms of house music in the mid to late 80s the releases didn’t come much better than The Dynamic Duo – In the pocket. The 1989 Tommy Musto production includes hip shaking percussion, quirky bass like sounds coupled with Sylvester samples that all come together to create a track that encapsulates for me what the Nu Groove sound was about.

That said we could probably cherry pick many more.

Back in 2007 DJ Spun’s offshoot label Tu Rong re-edited the track with Ray Mang on duty. They included the Hip House version which is here for your listening pleasure. If you can’t find the original then pick up the Tu Rong release. You won’t be disapointed.

Hamilton Bohannon – Cutloose

cutloose — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:26:34 +0000

Cutloose is the absolutely incredible first track on Hamilton Bohannon’s 6th LP released on Mercury Records back in 1979. This track was the main stimulus behind our Cutloose disguise and without doubt sits firmly as one of our all time favorite Bohannon tracks.

Hamilton Frederick Bohannon grew up in Atlanta where he was quickly snapped up by Stevie Wonder as the lead drummer in his touring band. He eventually moved to Detroit in 1965 and began working for Motown where he became a band leader and producer for many of the labels top acts. Motown finally moved from Detroit in 1972 but Hamilton stayed put and formed his own band leading to a record deal with Brunswick Records where he released his first four LP’s.

He then signed to Mercury Records in 1976 where he had huge success with ‘Lets Start The Dance’ which literally blew up all over the world.

Going back to the record, Cutloose keeps the classic heavy, thudding bass accents and aggressive rhythms which is trademark on any Bohannon record. Here is the whole 7 minutes and 54 seconds courtesy of you tube. Sound.

Theo Parrish – Spektrum Opening party video

cutloose — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:21:49 +0000

Here’s Theo Parrish doing his thing at the opening night of Spektrum. The fact that this was around midnight is something else. The club was still starting to fill up and from here on in Theo smashed it.