Sundazed Kittens

It's that time of year again- tomorrow is the Secretsundaze Opening Party, and whether the weather is ready or not, we're up for some daytime raving. Residents James Priestly and Giles Smith are joined by the delicious Deetron, newcomer AYBEE, and to mix it up they've thrown in Wbeeza. Arguably London's greatest daytime rave, secretsundaze know how to throw a good bash. Start the weekend as you mean to go on with this classic from Deetron...

There are still a few tickets left on Resident Advisor if you’d like to join us!

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TK meets MK

Deep and sexy would probably best describe the sound of Switzerland’s Matt Kay who caught our attention with his latest mix, In The End, below. He’s uploaded a very nice selection of mixes to his soundcloud and they’re downloadable via his podcast. We’ve really enjoyed listening to him, so have decided to introduce him to you. He kindly answered some questions we had for him…

How would you describe your sound? Difficult to describe in one sentence. I started playing years ago with a very housey, commercial sound. I then had a long techno period, playing very dark, massive sounds. Getting older and discovering more music, I really fell in love with deeper tech house sounds, something more sexy but always with a good groove. I love to play music that you can enjoy on the dance floor or something you can listen at home having sex. Like the lyrics of one of my favorite tracks, it must be something special, sexy wonderful. Love is on the dancefloor, isn’t it?

What’s your favourite track at the moment? There are a lot of tracks I’m totally in love with right now! What Maceo Plex is producing is just amazing, I love all of his latest releases, especially ‘Under The Sheets’. ‘Let Love Decide’ by Roland Clark (Art Department remix) is also great. I’m also enjoying ‘Something Special’ by Miguel Campbell and the Joris Voorn remix of Lana Del Ray ‘Video Games’. I also love playing Jan Blomqvist ‘I don’t think about you’, this track is a real bomb! And one more Amirali ‘Beautiful World’. There are a lot of tracks I love!

Have you considered producing as well as DJing? Well, that’s one of the question I keep asking myself every year (and that people are asking me a lot too)! I always answer, ‘Yes, this year I will put all my energy on producing my own music!’, but I don’t know... I cannot find the right energy to start doing that yet. I know it’s a good way to show to the people my personal touch but there is always something going wrong between the production and myself. Perhaps next year, who knows?

Finally, if you were a kitten for a day what would you do? I would love to be a kitten. They have a fantastic life, no? Everyone says you’re so cute and wants to stroke you. If I could be a kitten for a day, I would listen to my music on a sofa and ask for hugs all day long. What a beautiful life!

Check out Matt’s gigatools profile to see where he’s playing next.

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We Heart Mulletover: Album Giveaway

Last Bank Holiday weekend we celebrated Mulletover’s 8th Birthday in London by dancing the night away to the likes of Carl Craig, Maya Jane Coles and George Fitzgerald. To mark 8 years of brilliant parties, one half of the brains behind Mulletover and resident DJ Geddes has put together a mix to sum up the story of Mulletover so far. It’s a superb album with a sublime track selection that eases you in with laid back beats then picks up the energy with some seriously danceable tracks and a spot of old school house. We’ve picked the cheeky ‘Tech Noir’ below to give you a feel for the damn cool vibes we’re getting from this mix. In fact it sums up the Mulletover parties. It’s got us looking forward to the next one!

ALBUM GIVEAWAY Our friends at Mulletover have sent us two copies of this exclusive mix CD to give away. To be in with a chance of winning a copy, you just need to spread the TK love. Tweet about us, tag us on Facebook and share our posts over the next seven days, and from those of you that spread the love, we’ll pick two winners at random who will receive a free copy of this fabulous CD. The more love you spread, the more likely you are to win! We’ll announce the winners on Friday 11th May. So why not start with this post…?

If you’re not lucky enough to win you can buy ‘Geddes presents Mulletover: The story so far 2004-2012’ on beatport, Amazon and itunes.

We’re also looking forward to seeing the Mulletover showcase at BLOC Festival in 2 months time!!! Watch out for some BLOC special’s coming up on TK over the next 2 months as we gear up for what’s promising to be London’s best electronic music event ever!

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Mixing for Kicks

"Home of the legendary DJ mix series”, DJ-Kicks has certainly dished out some pretty tasty mixes over it’s time. The likes of Gold Panda , SCUBA, Booka Shade, Tiga and Carl Craig have all released a DJ-Kicks mix. And now it’s Maya Jane Coles’ turn.

This is Maya’s first commercially available mix CD, and we were excited to get our hands on it. She doesn’t disappoint.

Those who have heard Maya DJ before, will instantly recognise the MJC sound to this mix. The track selection offers deepness, vocals, melodies and bass that combine to produce a sexy, pumped up mix that you could be forgiven for thinking had been recorded from one of her DJ sets.

There are certain tracks in the mix that just scream MJC - “Money” (our favourite and the soundcloud player below), “All Alone” and “Guess Who” to name a few. But interestingly as the mix progresses it transforms into a spacey, bassy, DnB sound. We’ll let you listen to see what we mean.

Maya’s DJ-Kicks mix is available from Juno, Amazon and iTunes .

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Attaque the castle

This track from Attaque is MASSIVE. Every time we play it we get the urge to go out raving. One kitten was also especially pleased to discover that Mr. Attaque is from her home town of Colchester in Essex. Famous for its castle, feminist icon Boudicca, Blur and squaddies. So here's flying the techno flag for Colchester!

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If you like what you hear check out Attaques Soundcloud here.

Label showcase: Multi Vitamins

Multi Vitamins are a London based electronic music label who have caught our attention with their superb and eclectic taste. We love the way the label's neatly divided up into four projects mV = Vinyl 12', MVCD = CD, MVD = Digital releases (Minimal, Techno, Tech House) and muLti = Digital releases (Chill Out, Electronica, Trip Hop).

We have picked three of our favourite tracks which will give you a sense of the variety the label serves up.

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Sunday Night Kitten Video

It's been a great weekend of disco dancing but this rain is really starting to get our tails up now. Here's a reminder of why cats don't like water.

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