May ‘08 - Warm Up

May 9th, 2008

The sun is out, everyone is feeling good so what more reason do you need for a healthy dose of fresh and funky house, all mixed up by your resident DJ? Let’s get straight on with it…

Promotion

With it being Deaf Awareness Week, it seems appropriate to highlight the Don’t Lose The Music campaign. Being a DJ and huge lover of music in general, I am constantly aware of the dangers of losing my hearing, especially after watching the awesome movie “It’s All Gone Pete Tong” where DJ Frankie Wilde (played by the brilliant Paul Kaye) loses his hearing from over-indulging in the Ibiza lifestyle. The intention of Don’t Lose The Music is to raise awareness of playing your music safely, be it in a club atmosphere or on your iPod earphones. One Phat DJ strongly urges you to consider taking care of your ears, as well as bring awareness to those around you. Those of us who can appreciate music should not take it for granted - there are some people who aren’t so lucky. Give those people a thought too…

Don’t Lose The Music banner

With the serious issues said and done, it’s now time to cheer things up again and present to you Episode 46 of the One Phat DJ Podcast - it’s the May ‘08 Warm Up.

May '08 Warm Up artwork by Sam Hardacre

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Track Listing

  1. Pulse - The Lover That You Are (Marlon D & George Mena Club Mix)

  2. Michelle Weeks - A Purpose (The Jinks Classic Vox Mix)

  3. Mikkel Wendelboe & Sensual Soul ft J-Sun - Free Your Mind (Original)

  4. Michelle Williams - We Break The Dawn (Mr. Mig Remix)

    • Label: Sony BMG
    • Released: TBC
    • Exclusive!
    • Time: 00:16:45

  5. Morten Trust ft TeeBee - Everything (Original)

  6. Sound Famiglia - Need Me Want Me (Original Mix)

  7. UBP presents Michael Procter - Love Don’t Live - Part 2 (The UBP Classic Club Mix)

  8. Souldynamic ft Nicole Tyler - Meant To Be (Park Street Remix)

  9. Stefano Gamma vs Jenny B - Shine Into My Life (Sounds Of Life Full Vocal Mix)

  10. Knights Of The Round Tables - Saxed Up (DJ Spen & The Muthafunkerz Mix)

  11. Ricki-Lee - U Wanna Little Of This (Club Mix)

    • Label: Hed Kandi
    • Released: May 19th 2008
    • Exclusive!
    • Time: 00:58:16

  12. Winston & Yoddy ft Kyla Sexton - Disco Dynamite (Saming Mix)

  13. Licious K ft Saskia - All For You (Licious K ‘Soulsession’ Mix)

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Apr ‘08 - Crescendo

April 24th, 2008

With the first May bank holiday fast approaching, it’s unlikely many of you will be sitting in, “having a quiet one”. I’m sure the majority will be planning huge nights out with your mates, either out on the town or taking over the sound system in someone’s house for an all-nighter. Surely with all this partying, you’ll need the latest funky house tunes to get you in the mood, if not to get you through the night? Well, never fear, One Phat DJ is here with yet another mix for all you lovely, lovely people out there to throw on and enjoy.

Apr '08 Crescendo artwork by Sam Hardacre

Details

Episode 45 comes with a host of huge anthems from around the house circuit at the moment, some you may have heard, some you may not.

One Phat DJ regulars Miki Moto & Bobby Blanco kick of the preceedings with a fine remix of the 1997 hit “Keep Love Together” which features the ever sustainable vocalist Kelly Llorenna.

We then get a welcome return from our Brighton boys the Freemasons with their stonking remix of the 1995 classic “Disco’s Revenge” by Gusto, a track that seems to be getting sampled quite a bit lately.

It seems remixed classics are all the rage at the moment as its not long before Warren Clarke puts Utah Saints‘ “Something Good” through his sound desk to create a huge piano driven production sure to get you in the party mood.

We then turn the pace up a notch or two with ATFC’s awesome “Up To 11” remix of Mark Picchiotti and Basstoy’s rather aptly named “Turn It Up“, shortly followed by Robbie Rivera’s dirty number “One Eye Shut” and another remix from that Funky Chicken, this time in the form of Funkerman’s delightful “Speed Up“.

We’ve not heard from our favourite Swedish producer StoneBridge for a while - well, if he’s busy producing monster tracks like “You Don’t Know” and “Close To Heaven” in his silence, who’s to complain? Top work mister, keep the anthems coming!

Unless you’ve been under a rock for the best part of 2008, you may have noticed that it’s all about the big bassline this year. Everywhere you turn, you’ll hear that infectious bassline taking over the local club or nearest chav’s car sound system. One producer who is really making the most of the trend is Delinquent. If he’s not busy enough remixing every damned dance or RnB track to get a release this year, he’s also managed to sort out a few productions of his own. For your delight, The Wideboys have given “My Destiny” a bit of tweaking for the electro house scene. (Keep tuned to the podcast for a nice little bassline treat coming very soon).

It must be Summer if the last act are making a return - Max and Simon of The Shapeshifters fame have not only created an awesome double-A side in “Chime” and “Treadstone” but they’ve also been signed to one of the finest house labels in the world, Defected. Congratulations goes out to the boys - its the recognition we’ve all been waiting for.

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Track Listing

  1. Love To Infinity ft Kelly Llorenna - Keep Love Together (Moto Blanco Mix)

  2. Gusto - Disco’s Revenge (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix)

  3. Groove Division - Now Or Never (Extended Vocal Mix)

  4. Utah Saints - Something Good ‘08 (Warren Clarke Remix)

  5. Mark Picchiotti presents Basstoy ft Dana Devine - Turn it Up (ATFC “Up To 11″ Remix)

    • Label: Adhesive
    • Released: TBC
    • Exclusive!
    • Time: 00:22:48

  6. Robbie Rivera - One Eye Shut (E-Squire Mix)

  7. Funkerman - Speed Up (ATFC’s 0-60 Extended Mix)

  8. Stonebridge ft Kenny Thomas - You Don’t Know (Club Mix)

  9. Delinquent ft Kcat - My Destiny (The Wideboys Remix)

  10. Out Of Office - Break Of Dawn 2008 (Club Mix)

  11. Jesse Garcia - Off Da Hook (Original)

  12. StoneBridge - Close To Heaven (Club Mix)

  13. Shapeshifters - Chime (Original Mix)

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Apr ‘08 - The Warm Up

April 10th, 2008

A new month, a load of new tunes and a regular fixation to fulfil - here is Episode 44 of the One Phat DJ Podcast, namely “Apr ‘08 - The Warm Up“.

Apr '08 - The Warm Up artwork

Details

This month sees an influx of new material from WMC Samplers taking over. After an epic week in Miami, with it came a huge backlog of new material to check out and filter out the stuff that you have come to love on the Podcast.

I’ve also included some of my highlights from the latest Fierce Angels release, Fierce Disco II (which I’ve yet to review, apologies for that). There are some regular “faces” in there such as Moto Blanco and Bassmonkey remixes, as well as the insatiably talented Peyton wrapping up the mix.

We also have a (semi) exclusive appearance from an English producer who goes by the name of DJ Ruxpin. Collaborating with the taltented vocalist Scarlet, Ruxpin has created an infectious and corking funky number, full of bouncy basslines and remarkably hooky synth loops. This is an extremely early promo so I’ll update you when an official release is due.

There’s nothing more to say other than “download and enjoy”!

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Track Listing

  1. Torpedo Boyz - The Disco Song (Cabin Remix by The Pinker Tones)

  2. J Nitti ft Shirley Davis - Xplode (Original Club Mix)

  3. Groove Junkies ft Diane Carter - Dr Feel Good 2008 (DJ Meme’s Philly Suite Mix)

  4. Panevino - Freeze The Frame (Original Mix)

  5. Danism & Kathy Brown - Light Up My Life (Electronic Soul Mix)

  6. Akri Jr & Claudio Di Carlo with Michelle Weeks - Love 4 Love (Izzy Stardust Housesexy Remix)

  7. Hernandez vs DJ Tyo - About Us (Extended Classic Mix)

  8. Static Revenger ft Taj Bell - Everything Is Beautiful (Solitaire Remix)

  9. Marco Denmark ft Casey Barnes - Tiny Dancer (Moto Blanco Mix)

  10. Avalon Superstar ft Rita Campbell - What I Find (Bassmonkeys Remix)

  11. Cahill - Tripping On You (Extended Mix)

  12. DJ Ruxpin ft Scarlet - I’m Loving It

    • Label: Ruxpin
    • Released:TBC
    • Exclusive!
    • Time: 01:00:15

  13. Peyton - A Little Sensitivity (EK’s Angelic Mix)

All feedback is welcome as per usual - either leave a comment below or on the Facebook Group Wall, or even get in contact if you’re a little shy.

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Yahoo! are hiring Web Developers

April 4th, 2008

Some of you might be interested to hear that Yahoo! are looking for some new Web Developers.

Ideally, they’re looking for juniors so they can adapt to the company methods a bit easier but that’s not essential. As long as the candidate is passionate about Web Standards and can demonstrate their ability with some examples, that should be enough to land an interview.

For anyone who is interested or might know of someone who is, you can download the job description here.

From a personal point of view, this is a great opportunity. Yahoo! is a great company to work for (regardless of all the negative press lately) who are keen advocates of the Web Standards movement and adopting modern methods and technologies such as OpenID and the Semantic Web. As far as your personal development is concerned, there is a huge team of amazingly talented “Webdevs” for you to mix with while picking their brains and training packages (internally and externally) are fantastic too.

Give me a shout if you want in, sending me a CV with some example URLs.

I’ll also be at the next Multipack meeting on Saturday 12th April 2008 if you want to ask me any questions directly.

Yahoo! Junior Web Developer - Job Description

As the world’s number one Internet brand Yahoo! delivers news, entertainment, information and fun to over a half billion people every day. Our European web development team, based in London, is seeking standards-savvy front-end developers to work on Europe’s busiest sites.

You should be able to provide examples of your work showing use of progressive enhancement techniques (e.g. unobtrusive scripting), and clear separation of structure, presentation and behaviour layers.

Required Skills

  • Hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Solid knowledge of standards-based, accessible, cross-browser web development
  • PHP programming skills
  • User-level experience with BSD/Linux
  • Experience using version control systems such as CVS & Subversion

Desirable Skills

  • Client- and server�side performance optimisation techniques
  • Search engine optimisation
  • Experience in developing web applications with rich client interfaces using AJAX, drag and drop, and other DOM Scripting techniques.
  • Experience with JavaScript libraries, especially the YUI
  • Experience of Web Services (eg REST, SOAP, XML-RPC)
  • Knowledge of web site internationalisation issues and experience developing web sites in multiple languages particularly in Europe.
  • Use of the following technologies: XML/XSLT, Perl, Microformats, JSON, Flash/Flex
  • Experience developing functionality/applications by assembling existing code modules

Responsibilities

You will work closely with Information Architects, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to ensure that our web based products in Europe provide the best possible experience for our users.

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