The temperature sure has been plummeting over the last few days, but don’t let that keep you inside this weekend. Tomorrow night we’ll be turning up the heat at IF in Birmingham and you’d be mad to miss it. Sean Brosnan will be bringing the latest and greatest disco and house tunes, to make sure you’re dancing ‘til dawn and forget about the wintery world outside.
For more information visit http://www.ifafterparty.co.uk/ or check out the Facebook Event
If you’ve been following us on Facebook and Twitter you will have been enjoying our track picks of the week every Friday to get you ready for the weekend! We’ve just posted our latest addition to make this our 51st pick so make sure you get over to our YouTube channel and subscribe for plenty more picks and recommendations each week.
In 2011 disco became yet more engulfed into its musical siblings. Its intrinsic sounds were in a constant state of flux, typical of the ever-changing beast dance music. The new breed of disco brought the arrival of basslines from artists such as Maxxi Soundsystem and Maceo Plex and further merged it with contemporary house music.
‘Downtown Express’ is a celebration of this that goes the distance to champion the best releases from a sea of new talent to embrace the genre such as David August, Benoit & Sergio and Tiger & Woods, who were all equally as likely to break records on traditional disco labels as they were techno imprints such as Visionquest, Crosstown Rebels and Hot Creations in 2011. These records broke the existing rules, bringing samples and elements from disco roots with their own current interpretation, in line with the Future Disco established vision.
Future Disco has mapped the reemergence of the disco phenomena over its five year history. Garnering titles such as iTunes compilation of the year, it is a voice for anyone seeking knowledge, comfort and pleasure from a genre that has come to eclipse not only a style, but also a desire to dance.
Cat no: NEEDCD007
Distribution: Above Board
Released: Tuesday February 21st, 2012
Tracklist
Moon Boots – Off My Mind
Crazy P present The Syndromes – The Hit
Miguel Campbell – Something Special
Tensnake – Need Your Lovin (Tiger & Woods Remix)
Maxxi Soundsystem – There’s No Love
Cosmic Kids – Reginalds Groove (Classixx remix)
Bonar Bradberry – Lip Therapy (Maxxi Soundsystem Remix)
David August – On My Mind
TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos – Something Happened (Pitto Instrumental Remix)
Metronomy – Corrine (Mario Basanov Remix)
Benoit & Sergio – Principles
Mano Le Tough – Those Lights Are Lives
DJ T. – City Life feat. Cari Golden (Maceo Plex Remix)
The Gathering – In My System (Revenge Remix)
Mario Basanov – We Are Child Of Love (Mario’s ReDub)
Rewards – Equal Dreams feat. Solange Knowles
Joakim – Find A Way (Soul Clap Floating Mix)
Penguin Prison – Multi Millionaire (Prince Language Instrumental Remix)
A big thank you to FutureBoogie DJs, Sean Brosnan, Dom Chung and SlothBoogie for the end of year party… Most importantly a bigger thank you to everyone that came to our parties all around the world last year. Here’s to 2012! See you all soon!
Future Disco will be launching itself straight into the harsher winter months with a night of fun not to be missed! The Future Disco All Stars have been invited to the iconic London venue of Somerset House on January 13th for a one off ice skating disco party. Somerset House have turned their huge beautiful courtyard into an icy winter wonderland perfectly suited to a Future Disco Skate Party.
Future Disco fans can buy the last remaining tickets from the link below.
We would recommend buying your tickets as soon as you can as they will definitely sell out!
Tickets for Future Disco Skate at Somerset House
For more information visit:
www.somersethouse.org.uk
As we near the end of another year, you start to see the annual lists appear of the run down from the past year. It’s a look back to see who has stood out, shone and come to the forefront among so many others seeking the limelight. So not one to break with tradition, we at Future Disco have put together our own take on the ever popular yearly round up. This time we threw it out to you to tell us what you thought were the big records of the year on our Facebook and Twitter pages. We received great feedback and have included some top shouts as well as our most viewed record of the week for 2011. Give the show a listen and let us know if you agree and don’t forget to celebrate the end of another great year on Saturday for our Christmas party.
What is it about getting to the end of the year that makes us all want to celebrate? Really 12 months could start and end at any point but that build up to Christmas is like a sprint to the finish when you have just run a marathon. But it’s also the best time to have a party. So to celebrate what has been another amazing year for everything Future Disco we will be throwing a special party with friends and family on Saturday 17th December.
Sean Brosnan and Dom Chung are joined by FutureBoogie who have been impressive with their brand new record label this year and a long history of serving up the best house and disco on offer. It all takes place in the East end of London and everyone that has been involved in all the great parties is invited. That includes any one of the number of parties at Space in Ibiza, the boat party in Croatia, Ministry of Sound and numerous parties from Helsinki to Vienna. Come and wave goodbye to 2011 and get set for 2012 when things are about to get even better.
There’s a place on the internet that has been a guardian for all things disco and deep house for the past few years. This muscley outpost has been shrouded in mystery, surfacing only to remind us by way of MP3 of forgotten b-sides of classic nineties house or the latest disco cut that may have disappeared under the radar. It’s this attention to detail and dedication to the art that was once the reserve of record shops and their staff that today sadly don’t exist in the force they once did. So now it’s the turn of the blog to pick and choose, recommend and remind you of the one’s you may have missed, even let you know about the odd party jam you should be checking at the weekend. Bicep do it particularly well and better than most.
Then add to the fact they have started to flex their production muscle with fine edits and remixes arising in the past year and you have an what we call hot stuff. Recently they have been found on Wolf Music, remixing Toby Tobias and releasing full EP’s on New York’s Throne of Blood.
The love of old and new is a shared passion at Future Disco, taking the best bits of the past and creating the future so it seemed only a matter of time before we invited them to work out the Ministry Dancefloor. So on Saturday 19th November they join Sean Brosnan and Dom Chung for another all night session of house, disco and dancing. But first we wanted to find out who they actually were so we asked them some questions.
So first things first introduce yourself… Who is Bicep and how did it all begin?
Bicep is made up of the two of us(Andy and Matt), we’re both from Belfast and are living in London at the moment.
We’d both been djing for several years and decided that it was time to collectively make an effort at creating something ourselves. We’d been
dabbling with production for some time and thought two heads would be better than one!
We were in our friend’s flat, in East London and just got chatting about random ideas and what sort of vibe we wanted to go for… the name
Bicep just came up! It was really meant to be quite tongue-in-cheek and silly. We like mostly 80s and early 90s music and didn’t take ourselves too seriously…the name just fitted that whole vibe!
Feel My Bicep is your online home is it not? What got you into the bloggin’ game?
Yea FMB is defiantly our expression of music and artists we love, its pretty personal and think you can get a good vibe of our style from
the site alone. For us, it’s always been about just posting up stuff we like (although generally on the rarer side of our collection) not
what’s really popular or what we think other people will like. I suppose we’re just lucky lots of people seem to like what we like!
We also didn’t think the other music blogs out there were really up to scratch. Many of them had poor quality control and lacked a proper
vibe.
Do you think the trend for bloggers becoming producers and DJs a good thing?
Dunno we were producing and djing before we had a blog so cant really comment as we have done it the opposite way round. If you are a good blogger you will have good quality control and essentially select good tunes, learning to dj takes years tho so I could only comment on
individual cases. End of the day a good tune is a good tune, doesn’t matter if its made by a blogger or a Japanese 3 year old on an SP1200.
You’ve been running the site for years now… What doors has it opened for you?
Yea been running proper 3 years now I think, not that long in comparison to the other blogs out there. It has enabled us to engage
with a worldwide audience and make friends all over the world. I think when we got booked on 8 shows in China it was a bit of an eye opener
at the power of this thing.
What is the coolest freebie you’ve had through?
We don’t accept any freebie’s on the blog because we don’t want the music or quality to sacrifice for the sake of a quick buck or shitty
t-shirt. But music wise DJ Nature gave us a personal mixtape he did in 1993 before his record collection went into storage, it was full of absolute jamz and is still up on the blog.
Tell us some more about the Throne of Blood label and how did that link up come about?
I emailed James, the label boss, purely to tell him he loved the label and their last few releases and that struck up a conversation. After a
while production came up and we sent James some tunes. Next they were getting played on Beats in space! It was pretty crazy for us! He’s
been so awesome to work with!
You must get lots and lots of music sent through to you… Would you consider turning FMB into a label too?
Yea when we drop our own label we want it to be special and different. After a lot of deliberation now is just not the right time for us.
What has been your biggest DJ gig up until now?
Err I dono we played at PS1 WarmUp in New York this summer which was actually huge, that would defiantly be the biggest in size…but in vibe I would say Louche at the Mint Club in Leeds 
Are you looking forward to playing for Future Disco at Ministry of Sound?
Yea have been a big fan of the label and what they have been doing all over the world party wise. My crew in Ibiza swear by their room over
in Space, which is as big a compliment as any.
What tracks can people expect to hear form you on the night?
With that recent anniversary box set dropping on MOS I think it would be rude not to dig out some of my favourites. I think we will go old
school MOS- MK, Todd Terry, Kerri Chandler vibes mixed up with some sleazy disco.
What’s coming up with Bicep production wise? Can you give us any little exclusives?
Just finished a remix for Blondes planned for release next year on RVNG. In the studio this week finishing of collab project with our
N.Irish friend Ejeca, which will be more of a garage 2-step thing. Then we have a tonne of sample heavy house hopefully will have 2 EPs
of this signed off by the end of the year….finally we are working up a longer EP for our boys at Throne of Blood.
And finally we know you are obsessed with muscles and all things buff… In a fight to the death who would win out of Arnie Schwarzenegger, Silvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme and why?
I think we would say Arnie, he has probably the biggest muscles and is the poster boy for FMB so can do no wrong. Jean Claude would be too
busy stealing someone’s girlfriend and Sly would struggle to see the ring.
As the cold weather and lights turn low, fear not because if you are anywhere near Birmingham this weekend, Future Disco will be bringing the latest disco and house heat to our latest residency at IF.
Dom Chung has had a busy summer playing Future Disco parties in Croatia, Ibiza and regularly at Ministry of Sound and is the perfect DJ to begin what is a set to be a great series of parties at Birmingham’s IF. Dom will be leading the troops from midnight and will be riding right through into the early hours of Sunday morning. Alongside If residents Dom will make sure he brings the dancefloor bombs to ensure winter blues are swiftly shaken off and everyone leaves with a taste of the future.
For more information visit http://www.ifafterparty.co.uk/
Hi Tuccillo… Please could you introduce yourself?
Well, I’m a musician, producer and a DJ
We hear you’re an Ibiza native…
I came from Italy to Ibiza ten year ago and I’ve been here since, I can say I’ve been adopted by this magnificent island.
What’s it like living there all year round?
I love it, winter is totally peaceful.
Does it not get a bit too much?
Everybody knows how Ibiza is like in summer, it’s very extreme the change, maybe that’s what I like, I’m constantly making music so I spend a lot of time in the studio, as well as travelling playing in different parts of the world, I found its the perfect balance to my life style.
Being surrounded by so much dance music constantly must be great… What has influenced you most over the years?
The fact that all new releases are played first here and then to the rest of the world, it is the best way to see the reaction of people first hand.
You are a resident at Pacha in Ibiza, what is it like to play in one of the best clubs in the world, each week?
I’m honoured to be part of this big family, it is a pleasure to work in such a professional and organized environment.
What is your favourite place to chill on the Island?
Ibiza has a lot of magic… I like to chill in any nice, quiet place surrounded by nature… I’m surprised to find so much peace here.
Apart from Ibiza where else in the world do you like playing out and visiting?
Italy as being my home country, I love them and they love me, and NY, but there are so many places I still have to see and want to play at.
Are you looking forward to playing at Ministry of Sound?
Yes I’m definitely looking forward to it, Ministry of S ound is a legendary Club, I feel extremely excited, such an important place to be my first place to play in London and all this is thanks to Sean Brosnan owner of Needwant Rec. The Future Disco is a party made by him at Ibiza and the UK and I can’t think of better way to start my own promotion in the UK, hope to see you all the 8th of October at MOS in the 103!
How was it releasing your Mathematics EP on 2020 Vision?
A great experience, without knowing me they gave me all the freedom to do my work, I appreciated the trust they’ve gave me , and being so close to Ralph Lawson it’s has been absolutely positive, and feedback has been very strong .
What was your first big break in music?
Well, I think with an original track with Barbara TUCKER, the track “One Desire” for King Street Sounds … She is a great writer and performer, a legendary house Diva.
What have you got coming up in the near future, any secrets you can tell us?
I’m always at the Studio making music, as all musicians, I’m aiming to make a whole album, at the moment I’m working on EPs and remixes…Next release will be with a UK label , you’ll see.
Future Disco with Tuccillo at Ministry of Sound 08/10/11
Tuccillo on 2020 Vision
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