Cutloose present Gerry Rooney – Resident Advisor Photos

Cutloose present Gerd Janson – Resident Advisor gallery

Morgan Geist – of Metro Area / Environ / Unclassics fame – dug deep into the recesses of what must be a record collection the size of a mountain to weave together this dustily beautified journey through abandoned early 80s NY. Geist’s selection of late 70s / early 80s electronic tracks exquisitely captures a moment in time when the prevailing disco sheen hanging hazily over the city was being overtaken by the throbbing pulse of murder, drugs, and dirt that ran a heavy current underneath. All in all it’s a mix that captures a certain brand of austere beauty. If that all sounds a little too ‘grown’, we’re almost 100% positive that Mr. Geist threw in some chopped and screwed Arthur Russell for the new jacks towards the very end.

You can go download the mix from their website.

We Make It Good Volume 10 – Moragn Geist Mix

Enjoy.

Samuari FM mix

Check out the mix over at Hyptyo

Deephousepage.com mixes

There’s some classics here. Download or listen online.

We’ll post some more favourites in the run up to the party.

Elektrik Dred – Butter Up [Sounds Of Florida Records] 1983

Jimmy Bo Horne – Is It In? [T.K. Records] 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYWKNiLWeY

The Brothers – Didn’t Wanna Hurt You Like That [RCA Victor] 1976

War – Slippin’ Into Darkness [United Artists Records] 1971
www.youtube.com/watch?v=–tUyzUyUU4

Salsoul Orchestra – You’re Just The Right Size [Salsoul Records] 1975
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcRUlrF8Yg

New Birth – Deeper [Warner Bros. Records] 1977

Time Bandits – I’m Only Shooting Love [CBS] 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dttw3Ma2Jo0

Manchester’s healthy club scene is offering a broader range of music than ever before. Yet since the spirited, eclectic Electric Chair finished, nobody has stepped up to take the mantle; perhaps its melding of disco, house, hip-hop, reggae and soul seems less revolutionary almost 15 years on. Along with Naive Melody, relative newcomer Cutloose is spanning some of the breach. The latter’s playlist concentrates on house, techno and both vintage and modern disco, but with its location at the Chair’s original venue, the residents’ enthusiasm, plus good guests – such as Friday’s Balearic-tinged disco scientist Mark 7 – a similar vibe is on display.

Words – Marc Rowlandos

Who said the Midlands had no je ne sais quoi -  local produce is often the best tasting – definitely worth checking out some of Chamboche’s productions starting with Ipso Facto.  

More : http://www.myspace.com/chamboche
 

Tensnake – Can you feel it

Hamburg producer Tensnake continues his good work, shifting from his early techno roots to eighties disco. 

More : http://www.myspace.com/tensnake

Glenn Underground – Precious Rain

Cracking production by Glenn Underground – deep house music at its best! 

More : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5yU7Ccez1o

Bogdan Irkuk – Dreams of New York

Producer Bogdan Irkuk aka Bulgari reins supreme with this disco electronica ditty as featured on the Epic Disco compilation released by Swedish Rollerboy Recordings. 

Soulution – Givin’ it all I got 

Amazing piano house record, glad to say I have this in my collection 

http://ultraastrum.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget he makes his Manchester debut at the Roadhouse on April 17th. You can read about the party here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/12/friends-family-room-237

Don’t forget you can still buy tickets online before Friday. See you there!

The tunes were completely mastered by Reeno at spazzoid studios nyc. The group’s first release got a great approach that hints at more sophisticated soul styles, but which is still firmly in charge of those bass-driven grooves that made the late 70ies disco, early 80ies funk years so fascinating to funkheads all around the world. Originality is the ruler of the set, and most tracks here vamp around in a very smooth modern soul style of groove. Lots of chord progressions jumping around irresistible rhythms, a reduced but effective ensemble arrangement style, and not to mention an armada of synthesizers help keep things clean and mean.

From the smooth midtempo tune ‘all because of you’ to the more uplifting gem ‘it’s yours’, you can’t help but smile. Groove & move to the debut lp from this Germany/Mannheim based funk group, delivering a long lost goodtimesfeel along with the side-dishes of boogie and modern soul. Read about the guys involved and download the complete album for free here, what do you say…

http://www.latenightaudio.com

Mark Seven, passionate music lover and proprietor of the superb www.juswax.com, is no stranger to good quality underground music. His involvement goes back to the early 80′s where he organised all night parties and illegal raves all over London. He now resides in Stockholm, Sweden where he runs his own record shop Juswax on a daily basis yet taking regular time out to travel the globe in search of stock for the shop and obviously those extra special picks for his own record bag.

Mark played for us back in December when we threw that much talked about ‘free’ Christmas party with our good friends over at Cosmic Disco. Mark is one of the most exciting Dj’s we have had the pleasure of down at Cutloose and if you were down at Bookbinders that night you would no doubt agree with me, his record selection and ability to so many genres of music together are incredible, whilst always keeping everyone locked to the dance floor. You can view the pictures here.

His real strength is his ability to go out and dig for those special records and while most people will just be happy compiling tracks from other peoples play lists or buying the regulation well known classics, Mark is listening through piles and piles of records from the most unlikely sources in search for that next little gem. Buy the CD and you can enjoy 12 of them in the comfort of your own home, there are only 1000 so be quick. Out now on Claremont 56 Records…

• Stars n Bars – Stars n Bars
• Mr Monday – Daybreak
• Blind Boy – I Dream
• Joker – African
• Gareth John – Whizz Kids
• Cities Of Foam – Last Man Standing
• The Dynamic Hepnotics – Hepno Beat
• Nicky Robson – Stars
• Joe Montana – Five Stars
• Swayzak – Stronger Love
• Clay – My Unknown Love
• Louis – Pink Footpath

Mark Seven is back at Cutloose on Friday 15th May. You can buy tickets online from Skiddle.com

Scroll down to read about our debut at the Roadhouse where we showcase Soundstream.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/12/north-clubbing-deaf-institute

Unfortunately I haven’t spend as much time as I wished in studio in 08, I hope 09 will be more productive for that. If it were up to me, I would lock myself up in my studio and lose the key but between gigs and other responsibilities it isn’t really possible. But to answer your question, I am more a production guy than a performer, I enjoy the stage and playing live, however I love to produce tracks.

It seems clear to me anyway that your productions are inspired by a range of musical influences house, disco and techno, what were your early influences as a youth growing up?

I grew up mainly with black music, soul, disco and then later house. Detroit and Chicago have always influenced my music. But also the early Berlin rough techno left its mark. I try, through Soundstream / Soundhack to produce a deep, sometimes dark, everlasting sound.

Have you any new productions in the pipeline?

I have so many unfinished tracks, I would like to bring some of them out in 09 but it will depend on my schedule.

People are looking forward to you playing in Manchester – what is your perception of the city and its nightlife?

My Manchester experience has been mostly through smith’n’hack, which was great fun, the Manchester crowd was great and I hope to give them as fun a night as they have given me in the past.

Did you make any New Year resolutions?

Oh yeah…. More time in studio

If you’re still with out a ticket then head over to

http://manchesterparties.eventwax.com/mark-7

and register your interest ASAP!

Hope to see you there!

THEO PARRISH (Sound Signature/Detroit)
LOUD E (Ambassadors Reception) & BEPPE LODA (Typhoon Italy)
ROLAND APPEL (Sonar Kollektiv)
METRO AREA (Morgan Geist & Darshan Jesrani, Environ NYC)

Not a bad string of parties over 4 months!

We’ll be back in 2009 after the Christmas break and after much discussion at Cutloose Towers we will be leaving Spektrum behind and going back to what we all like best. Think…intimate basement location below the streets of Manchester where once a month throughout 2009 we will be rolling in our own huge thumping sound system and turning the lights down low for a run out of some of the finest guests we can think of. Theo Parrish will be back in the new year without doubt and we already have the fantastic Sound Stream lined up to play for our first party back in February with more guests to be announced soon.

Spektrum is a fantastic venue though we felt it wasn’t the right platform for the guests and the parities we wanted to put on. We sat back and thought of all the amazing venues around Manchester and the same name kept cropping up, the same venue that always has an incredible atmosphere and a superb mix of people.

As of the Friday 20th February 2009 our new home will be the Roadhouse. We can’t wait!

We hope you can join us on Friday 5th December for our last party at Spektrum. Both Morgan Geist & Darshan Jesrani will be joining us all the way from New York City. Early bird tickets have sold out and the remaining advance tickets are flying out. Get yourself down to Junk in the Northern Quarter for tickets with no booking fee or buy online from Skiddle. Last time these guys were in town it was an absolute road block so don’t hang around.

We’re throwing a FREE festive soiree over the Christmas period with the Cosmic Disco guys on the 27th December with special guest Mark Seven (Juswax/Sweden) – late license until 4am, Cheap Beers, Funktion One Sound System all happening at a secret Manchester basement location, not the Roadhouse or Deaf Institute.

Although both listened to pop RnB/electro of the mid 80s growing up in quiet pockets of the East coast (Darshan in Poughkeepsie, New York and Morgan in New Jersey), they independently found themselves drawn to synthesizers and the techy side of producing long before they discovered one another.

As Morgan and Darshan migrated towards equally remote areas of America for college (Darshan staying in the east coast and Morgan relocating to the Midwest) and gradually coaxed releases from the closed confines of their dorms (Morgan even started his label, Environ, in his dorm room), they simultaneously lived their formative years feeling somewhat misunderstood and somewhat misplaced musically.

It’s a sentiment that’s rung true from when they met each other on email lists in the days before internet forums through their early days when the two first teamed up as an avant-garde, creatively unbound production/DJ team.

“It’s a really mixed bag of music, but it’s all really groovy stuff. There’s some not so obvious disco, there’s some sort of really spare and weird NY house tracks – we had to figure out how to make it cohesive. We did a few of our own custom deep tracks and made some little drum tracks and little mixing utilities to throw in there as well… We’re trying to not put in the classic records that we’ve played forever. We wanted to explore an area that’s not mined so heavily, but still have an emphasis on the older disco stuff. So we thought we’d do a mid 80s sort of thing, which is kind of a neglected time period but there’s some really nice records from then. With fabric mix CDs, it can sometimes be so homogenous; it’s like this perfect, classy, very coherent single thought. But that’s not how we DJ, so I think we decided we’d try and touch on a lot of different things, almost like a party mix.” – Metro Area

Fabric 43, an artistically arranged and brightly coloured journey through Metro Area’s vast record collections, remains as reflective as it is forward-thinking. Metro Area deliver a peerless jam-packed mix of Easy Street dance classics (World Premiere’s “Share The Night”) through to 80′s club hits (“Work For Love” by Ministry), with a generous helping of disco and boogie anthems and electropop output from the likes of Premiere Class. Infectious, retro and yet timeless, Fabric 43 dazzles with uplifting dancefloor gold.

Tracklisting

• Babla’s Disco Sensation – Ghar Aya Mera Pardesi [Intro] [Babla's Disco Sensation]
• World Premiere – Share the Night (Breakdown Mix) [Demon Music Group]
• Ministry – Work For Love [Dub Mix] [Arista]
• The Disco Four – Move To The Groove [Instrumental] [Enjoy Records]
• Skratch – You Should Have Known Better [Instrumental] [Passion Records]
• Barbara Norris – Heavy Hitter [Dub Version] [United Performers/Nelwin Records]
• Gary’s Gang – Makin’ Music [Dub Mix] [Radar Records]
• Voyage – Souvenirs [GTO]
• Five Special – Why Leave Us Alone [Long Version] [WEA]
• Ray Martinez – The Natives Are Restless [Importe/12 Records]
• Dreamhouse – I Can Feel It  [United Sounds Of America]
• Mascara – Baja [Instrumental Dub Version] [Oh My! Records]
• Play By Numbers – Cloud Nine [Ready Mix] [Ice Water Records]
• Midway – Set It Out [Funky Breakdown Mix]  [Personal Records]
• Heaven 17 – Penthouse and Pavement [Virgin]
• Data – Blow [Remix] [WEA]
• Atmosphere – Swede’s Scandal [Superradio]
• Wiretap – X-Rated Man [Blue Stripe Records]
• Plez – Can’t Stop [Acid Rainforest Mix]  [Plezure Records]
• Baby Oliver – Feelings 2 [Environ]
• Jean Luc Ponty – Open Mind  [WEA]
• Première Class – Poupée Flash [Première Class]
• Devo – Freedom Of Choice [Virgin]

Us clowns at cutloose have plenty to say for ourselves at the best of times so thought it would be nice to give you the opportunity to fire some questions in the direction of NYC and find out more about Metro Area.

To leave your question, post in the comment box below and we’ll do the rest.

The best question wins two guest list places to our December party, tea at Jenko’s, a cashmere jumper from Mark and a trip on the log flume with Wes.

This subtle change in direction was brought about because he was sick of DJ’s in the same line up as him bringing the same records to the party. So he decided just to play the playable stuff he found at flea-markets, dusty secondhand stores and in the 1 euroboxes at bog fairs – sound!

Loud-e can be heard playing alongside Alexander Robotnick, Marco, Tako, Dave Clark, Suburban Night amongst others and has had recent releases of his own productions on Ambassadors Reception and Objects of Desire.

Discography

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Loud-E

Interviews

http://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk/2008/07/30/late-night-audio-with-loud-e-steve-kotey/

Mixes

http://robotdj.net/?dj=Loud-E

Video

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=loud+e

Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/djloude

When he’s not DJing Beppe is a brilliant producer, a respected consultant and a refined record studio sound engineer. Beppe has remixed over 60 tracks of other artists and produced over 200 different dj sets with every kind of music.

Beppe often says “What pushes a true DJ to sacrificate himself while all the others enjoy the party?

It’s simple. The love of music.

Discography

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Beppe+Loda

Interviews

http://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk/2007/03/09/typhoon-legend-beppe-loda-exclusive-mix-interview/

http://kosmonautenschule.blogspot.com/2007/12/beppe-loda_3732.html

http://tropicalcomputersystem.com/loda/beppeloda_interview.html

Mixes

http://www.robotdj.net/?dj=Beppe Loda

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScsKwOPUF9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBy9wMGrzA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_rljj1-QU

Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/beppeloda

As you are all probably aware we have a Mr. Theodore R Parrish playing in September and we are delighted that he has agreed to play our opening night. Without being over evangelical about Theo; there is something for every music lover ranging from Hamilton Bohannon to the likes of Mike Huckaby and Omar S, notwithstanding his own productions.

Each set is carefully put together like a piece of renaissance art. That alone should be incentive to get Manchester cats down to Cutloose and see Theo at work!

This diverse blend of musical influences is never better shown in Theo’s project Rotating Assembly with house tracks which range from sweet vocals and soulful instrumentals to gritty, repetitive loops. This loose Detroit outfit evolves around 21 people, who exchange talents and energy. All tracks are written and produced and masterminded by Theo, who has given them his (sound) signature sound.

Artists included in the band are: Genevieve (known for vocals with Recloose), Maat Lo (aka Billy Lo), Marcellus Pittman (3 Chairs), Rick Wilhite (3 Chairs), Warren Harris (recorded with Dan Curtin) and Andres. Also newcomers such as Karen Bosco (vocals) John Dougalas (trumpet), King Sunshine & Trent Mitchell (double bass) put in incredible effort to make this release a top Sound Signature title. This variety is never more apparent in the two productions below.

Productions

A jazz flavoured episode: Rust organic

Slow grooves and drums: Stomp

Playing over the majority of the night fusing, soul, funk, disco, house and techno this a night every cat should be present.