Xfm Remix Night
Compiled by Jack Foley
XFM REMIX NIGHT: Friday, April 21, 2006
THE next Xfm Remix Night takes place on Friday, April 21, featuring indie punk band Vatican DC, the secretive but highly sought after Dead Kids and the awarding winning breaks DJ Krafty Kuts (Against The Grain), as well as Eddy Temple-Morris.
Vatican DC (pictured), a five piece, are fresh out of the studio having spent the last couple of months recording their debut album.
They spent last year writing and touring with the likes of The Prodigy (who are big fans), Bloc Party and The Rakes. The first single from the debut album Wow (Red Flag) is already picking up radio plays all over the place and having come out of the recording bubble, these boys are ready to unleash their sound on the ears of London. It’s fast, fresh and it might just blow you away.
Dead Kids, meanwhile, are the band that no one knows about. They do things their own way. With no website, no MySpace profile and, until April 2006, no public performances.
Carrying a clutch of dark disco songs and fierce with intent Dead Kids are Mike Frankel, George McFall and Seb America. Their sound is simultaneously retrogressive and futuristic.
Musical reference points are fleeting. Some suggest they’re a 21st century PiL on pills, Suicide on uppers or Michael Jackson fucking Devo in a sweaty basement while slugging on ‘Jesus juice’. Debut single Dead Wife Pills / Fear and Fluoride is out on 7” vinyl soon on Lavolta Records.
Martin Reeves, aka Krafty Kuts, can truly be recognised as a member of the breakbeat elite. Along with other high profile figures such as Adam Freeland, Rennie Pilgrim, Freq Nasty and the Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts has been instrumental in pushing the breakbeat sound to a world wide audience as well as being an awarding win DJ with winning ‘Best DJ’ at the Breakspoll 5th International Awards 2005.
The Xfm Remix Nights take place at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2. Entrance: £6 before 9pm then £10. Doors 8-3am