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02-09-11

CANBLASTER? YES HE CAN!

If you’re the same as me you’ll have 100’s of podcasts random mixes and just general waste clogging up your hard drive. In an attempt to spring clean my computer the other day i was going through all my podcasts and deleting out the rubbish, and checking out the stuff that had recently downloaded that i’d not got chance to listen to yet.

Boy OH Boy did i miss a trick by not getting onto this one sooner… its an absolute BURNER!!! Honestly, first time i ever wheeled up a podcast (?!?) when he drops his forthcoming French Fries remix (Video Below)! This mix is properly refreshing and he’s onto some serious future business, i know we always say it but this guy is one to watch and if no one books him to play manchester soon then we might just have to come out of hiding to do just that! Download the mix from the link below and visit XLR8R to find out more info… we’ve also included a cheeky little bouns for you which is another of our favourite tracks from the mix.

Canblaster XLR8R Mix

Bouns Beat: Drop The Lime – Hot As Hell (Canblaster Remix)

01-28-11

WINTERS HEAT

1) D/R/U/G/S – VELODROME 2 (testmixx)
2) Idiotproof – Sandwiches [Disturbed Beats]
3) El Prevost feat D. Ham – Do You Remember (KiNK Remix) [Eleveation recordings]
4) Joy Orbison – BB [Doldrums]
5) Magnetic Man – Getting Nowhere feat. John Legend (Yoruba Soul mix) [Columbia]
6) The Detroit Experiment – Think Twice (The Countach’s Friendly edit) [CDR]
7) Kommune 1 – ksmchldn [WHITE]
8) Julio Bashmore- Battle For Middle You [PMR]
9) Amerie – One Thing (French Fries remix) [WHITE]
10) Tom Demac – Crewcuts & Curls (Jamie Jones’ Water Cooler Remix) [Murmur Records]
11) James Blake – CMYK (Eldoko remix) [WHITE]
12) xxxy – Ordinary Things [Ten Thousand Yen]
13) SBTRKT – Colonise [Young Turks]
14) Falty DL – Phreqaflex [Planet Mu]
15) D1 – Pitcher (128 mix) [Dubpolice]
16) Jesse Rose – You Know It (Jesse’s Made To Play edit) [Made To Play]
17) Johnny Dynell – Jam Hot (Tensnake remix) [Smash Hit Music Co.]

ScottYeah-WintersHeat by ContortYourself

Alternative download:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/8582613346a6fce2/

01-20-11

MY HOUSE

Awesome new track and video from the ever throbbing Hercules & Love Affair taken from their new album due out at the end of this month….

…plus this ace remix from StopMakingMe will be featured on the single release…

BONUS BEAT: Hercules & Love Affair – My House (Leo Zero Remix)
Unsure whether this is an official remix or he’s got hold of the acapella and done his own re-rub, what ever it is it’s all over the internet and its an absolute burner so sure they wont mind us sharing it.

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01-19-11

THINK TWICE THINK TWICE

good friend of COYO The Countach has re-upped his DJ friendly re-edit of Detroit Experiment’s Think Twice… we though that if you missed it the first time then you best be quick and get you hands on it now as its a proper late night burner!

The Detroit Experiment – Think Twice (The Countach’s DJ Friendly Edit) by The Countach

While you’re here check out his recent mixtape for the Circus Dj Competition for which he scooped up fist place with ease and will be opening up business for Seth Troxler and John Digweed at said Liverpudlian institution next month… Plus it ends with one of our favourite tracks of all time!

Circus DJ Competition Mix by The Countach

01-18-11

MIXTAPE TRIO

YO! Sorry we’ve nto been updating the site for a while we’ve been too busy having new age fun with a vintage feel… never the less we’re back and here three absolute corkers for your listening pipes. They’ve been on heavy rotation here at COYO towers and we’re pretty sure you’re gonna dig them too!

Find out more and that my clicking things and stuff…

JOAKIM’S BEST OF MUSIC YOU CAN DANCE TO IN 2010 by Joakim

KRL – Fill Yer Boots Guest Mix Five by Fill Yer Boots

The Best of 2010 Mixtape by White Girl Lust

01-10-11

THE LOVE QUADRANT

It makes me sick to think this guy is only just out of his teens and yet he’s churning out some of the most forward thinking, blissed-out, cosmic boogie and electronical doo-woop going… peep his AWESOME “The Love Quadrant” video below and FACT mix from the start of last year. I know this mx isn’t the newest but for sure gives you a real flavour of what this guy is about with a whole host of his own productions in there. If you’re after something a little more up to date then get involved in his Resident Advisor mix from the beginning of November last year.

Download the mix HERE

Find more from SDC on Hype Machine

12-27-10

THE BEGINING OF THE END

Dear Contortees.

Its with a heavy heart that we must inform you that Contort Yourself as you know it will be no more as of 2011.

As a famous man once said “We’ve had a good run”… and we thank everyone who’s ever played or attended any of our parties. It’s all of you that have made Contort Yourself so special to us over the past four years, so Thank You.

We’re going to go out in true style with our NYE party at Night & Day this weekend. As you know the door price is LOW and there’ll be plenty of drinks offers on the night to help loosen your boots. We’ll also have a whole host of friends joining COYO residents on the decks to see things out proper. SO if you’ve not made plans as yet we’d love to see you and help us celebrate the special night.

For more information and ticketlinks check the event page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149187165128421

Big Love.

Team CoYo.

PS. We’ll still be running our blog with free mixes and party vibes dished out on the regs as well as ruining other peoples parties when given the opportunity as guest djs… who knows there could even be a few one offs every now and again?!?

12-21-10

DOUBLE BAGGED

Check out this great mix from the antipodal Bag Raiders.

Knight Moves – Gonzales
Sometimes (Gloves Extended Dub Mix) – Miami Horror
Party Over Here, Party Over There (Shir Khan Mix) – Joyce Muniz
House Feeling – Pirupa
All Night – Voltage
Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix) – LCD Soundsystem
Percolator (Riva Starr Remix) – Cajmere
Eastern Ensemble – Dan Castor
Snake Charmer – Bag Raiders
History (Jono Fernandez Dub) – Groove Armada
Kambute – Lazaro Casanova
Into The Night (Prince Language Remix) – Azari & III
Drop The Lime (Generiks House Remix) – Drop The Lime
Difficult (Azari and III remix) – Uffie
Canoa – Gregor Salto & DJ Gregory
Can’t Stop Singing (Solo remix) – Mowgli + Tara Macdonald
I want to be with Two – Adam Bozzetto
It’s Time To Start The Weekend – Jesse Rose & Riva Starr
Way Back Home (Alternate Club version feat Duane Harden) – Bag Raiders
Girl – Moonchild
The Sound of Violence (Cosmo Vitelli Remix)- Cassius

JJJ Radio week 4 more house mix by bagraiders
Lovely!

12-16-10

NOBODY JACKS FASTER

Massive BRAPS to Jackmaster who won DJ Magazine’s “Best Breakthrough DJ Award” 2010 (we voted for you!). If you came down about this time last year to see him play at COYO you’ll know why he scooped the gong. We knew we were in for a top night when we got a very cryptic phone call from the man himself earlier in the day saying “Do you boys like to party, you know, really party”. This was one of my personal favourite nights we ever had in the cave, so in honer of this check out the first Numbers Podcast that takes you From Paris to Baltimore via Detroit!

#001 From Paris to Baltimore via Detroit (Mixed by Jackmaster) by Numbers

12-16-10

SHINY DISCO BALLS

You love big gay disco balls spinning, rotating, gyrating, thrusting all over your face and body? If the answer’s yes then this is the compilation for you! Shiny Disco Club is a Label based out of Lyon, and they’re offering this Hefty compilation of Millenium Disco for nishmans! Weighing in at a mighty 29 Tracks (all of which are 320kps we might add) there’s a lot to stomach here… but once you’ve separated out the wheat from the chaff there’s a pretty sturdy wedge of heat here, plenty to get any party started.

SHINY DISCO CLUB (SDCR 001)
FREE COMPILATION – “MILLENIUM DISCO”

Download it :

Part 1 : http://www.mediafire.com/?r3cw9wchyika1gq

Part 2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?3g6zc5okhu9ohg4

12-03-10

CONTORT YOURSELF AND FRIENDS NYE DISCO!

Contort Yourself takes the reigns of the good ship Night & Day for one special night, seeing off the old and ringing in the new with a back to basics NYE Party!

The Contort Yourself crew will be joined by Friends from some of your favourite Manchester nights dishing out Cosmic Disco, 8-Bit Balearia, Jackin’ House and Wonky Techno in true style. With a SUPER low door price (£5 Early Birds), drinks offers at the bar and maximum disco vibes, not many can rival this as number 1 choice for your NYE celebrations… Keep your eyes on here for announcements soon on the full line up!

Night & Day Cafe 10pm – 3am
£5 Early Birds / £8 Standard Adv / £10 Doors

Tickets Available From:
http://contortyourself.com/index.php/tickets/
Skiddle.com / Ticketline.co.uk / Seetickets.com / Night & Day Bar

12-02-10

JAAR JAAR JAAR

Its no surprise that we’re massivly info Azari & III but fast becoming another of our favourite producers is Nicolas Jaar. This remix of the aforementioned Canuck’s latest single has got to be close to perfection… this is a serious contender for the top of the tree when it comes to a lot of people’s tracks of the year…

What’s more the lovely people at XLR8R are giving it away free… so grab it up from the link below.

Azari & III Into the Night (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
FREE DOWNLOAD

12-01-10

PICTURE HOUSE GOT THE LOVE

Picture House just sent us this tasty little nugget, that as you’d guess from the title is a cover of the ubiquitous Candi Staton number of the same name. I cant help but think there’s been a little Christmassy influence in here, well at least that or he’d been glugging a few Gluehwein’s whilst putting this together, because although the original remains true as a stout underbelly there’s a festive ping alongside the acidic pop twist that he’s created.

Check it out for yourself, i think you’ll rather like it, and while you’re here why not get involved in his recent mixtape as he gets down and dusty with a collection of his favourite records from all over the place recorded live… yeah live, on them spinny things.

Picture House – You’ve Got The Love (Picture House Mix)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2jkpln

Mix:
http://soundcloud.com/picture-house/playing-favourites-podcast-vol-1

1. Joey Negro presents Kola Kube – Why (Hot Toddy Club Mix)
2. The Temper Trap – Rest (Picture House Remix)
3. Trujillo – Baby You’re Still The Same (Social Disco Club Sexual Flashback mix feat. Lucy Walker)
4. Sister Sledge – Lost In Music (The Revenge Rework)
5. Bonar Bradberry – Siula Grande (Pete Herbert Remix)
6. Space Ranger – Costa Verde
7. Ilija Rudman – See (Martin Brodin Remix)
8. Runaway – The Fire Below (The Revenge Remix)
9. Tornado Wallace – Twirl & The Beanstalk
10. Jacques Renault – Pleasure
11. Soundstream – Live Goes On
12. Kim Ann Foxman – Creature

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12-01-10

DECEMBER MIXTAPE

Scott Yeah back at the helm and rounding things off for 2010 with blissfull mix of dreamy pop, cosmic disco and chugging house to warm those wintery toes and get the blood throbbing through those veins again… Enjoy!

1. Aeroplane – Without Lies (Breakbot Remix) [Eskimo Recordings]
2. Maserati – Inventions (Justin Vandervolgen Remix) [Temprary Resistance]
3. Dual Shaman – Ocean Breeze [Wltd]
4. Dj Godfather – On Da Flo’ (Djuma Bootleg) [Get Physical]
5. Azari & Iii – Into The Night (Prince Language Remix) [Scion Av]
6. Brass Connection – Happy People [Pol_on Edit]
7. Stopmakingme – K & Big V (The Deadstock 33s Remix) [Kill ‘em All]
8. Maxxi Soundsystem -criticize [Maxxi Soundystem]
9. Caribou – Sun (Midland Edit) [Domino]
10. Siriusmo – Blaue Sonne [Monkeytown Records]

Mixed By: Scott Yeah

DECEMBER MIXTAPE by ContortYourself

Itunes Podcast:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/contort-yourself/id335159744

Alternative Download:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/8336059192382042/

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11-26-10

LEGGINGS

If you dont know about BOWSKI get to know cos he’s doing BIG things. Signed up to Fake Bloods imaginatively title “Blood Music” label his EP nestled in resently and has been making some serious waves. We’ve got no idea where to put his sound, it just new and fresh, which in todays climate is no mean feet. Im not gonna waffle on anymore if you waanna read more there’s the official word from the aforementioned label boss, but check out what all the fuss is about and pick up his EP from the link below and a cheeky bonus remix of one of our favourite tracks of the year.

Pick up the EP here: http://boomkat.com/downloads/344569-bowski-leggings-talkbox

BONUS TRACK:
Caribou – Sun (Bowski Remix)

Read more…

11-25-10

YOU DONT HAVE TO THINK TWICE… TWICE!

The lovely people over at Traveller sent us a promo of the latest Kojak Giant Sounds EP from Brighton’s Maxi Soundsystem on which the lead track “Criticize” is an absolute corker. The more astute of you may have realised that its a edit of the monster Alexander O’ Neal club jam of the same name, but dragged kicking and screaming up in to a 21st century disco, complete with a throbbing 80s power bassline,  housey keys and punctuated by those trademark soulful vocals. We’re so into this it hurts so expect it to get a serious wheeling out at the Mega Mega Mix next weekend.

Maxxi Soundsystem – “Criticize” by Kojak Giant Sounds™

Due for release before the end of the year you can pick up this and a load more over at Juno Here.

And for those of you not familiar… the original:

11-24-10

HAVE A NICE DAY

We’re big fans of Keytars & Violins and this new mix that they posted up the other day is an absolute corker!

Tracklisting.

1. Hardway Bros – Relaxer
2. Rah Band – Clouds Across The Moon (Kasper Bjorke Intergalactic Dub Version)
3. Matt O’Brien – The Gauntlet (KiNK Remix)
4. Hunee – Like That
5. JR Seaton – Azklementyne (JR Seaton’s Humdrum Dub)
6. Awanto 3 – I Am Cumming Baby
7. Soundstream – All Night
8. Mag & The Suspects – Erection
9. Dorisburg – Mima
10. Relict – Digital Curved Sky
11. Adam Marshall – North At Night
12. Recloose – Land Of The Lost Dance
13. Chicago Damn – Hold On
14. Cisco Cisco – If You Want Me (Jay Shepheard Remix)
15. Michael J Collins – Relaxtion Electric
16. Kelpe – Age Concerns

go check out their blog… its lots of fun: Keytars & Violins

11-23-10

A HOYA THERE MATIES!

Now i know most of you probably ran out to Piccadilly Records the day this bad boy dropped and scooped up a copy for every member of your family in an “Getting all my Xmas shopping done early” frenzy, but for those of you that dont own one of them spinny things its now been released on digital through Boomkat.

Here’s the blurb: “Manchester’s Illum Sphere and Jonny Dub present the debut release on their newly minted Hoya:hoya imprint named after the much acclaimed Manchester club night of the same name. By far the highlight of the release is Lone’s ‘Let The Music Play’, a unique sounding disco track with a thumping kick drum and distorted vocals layered to great effect before a rugged synthline takes everything down a notch. Illum Sphere, meanwhile, deploys a killer slowed down take on UK Funky which starts off with a trademark ambient wash and thudding drums before a synth reminiscent of his recent Titan 12″ on 3024 takes over and the whole thing collapses back in on itself. Rounding off the twelve is Krystal Klear with a very 80s sounding piece of modern boogie complete with handclaps and those apt crystal synths. A seriously heavy twelve and a perfect start to what promises to be a label to watch.”

at £1.95 for all 3 tracks you might as well treat yourself even if you got the 12″

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11-23-10

GETTIN’ DOWN AND DUSTY

Lifelong Contort Yourself friend, all round nice guy and co-founder of Charity Shoppe; John & On has just dropped somewhat of a bomb on our laps. After putting together a mix for a friend that strictly adhered to the CHARITY SHOPPE MANIFESTO he thought it only right to share it with the rest of us. The mixtape is very synthpop and kind of darkwaved-tinged and, as you’d expect, done live on a very shoddy mixer with plenty of crackling and buzzing to boot.

THE CHARITY SHOPPE MANIFESTO:

• ALL RECORDS PLAYED MUST HAVE COME FROM A CHARITABLE OUTLET, FLEA MARKET OR FOUND FORLORN ON THE STREET.
• ALL RECORDS PLAYED MUST HAVE COST THE OWNER NO MORE THAN TWO ENGLISH POUNDS.
• ALL & SUNDRY ARE WELCOME TO BRING ALONG THEIR OWN CHARITY SHOP GEMS TO BE PLAYED (SUBJECT TO A LAX VETTING PROCESS).
• CHARITY SHOPPE IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITIES EVENT, NO GENRES OF MUSIC ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.
• MARVIN GAYE IS GOD.

ALL MUSIC, GOOD AND BAD, WAS LOVED ONCE BY SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE

To find out more about CHARITY SHOPPE check their Facebook Page

1. Tomita – Somersaults in Space (Debussy – Snowflakes are Dancing)
2. Yazoo – Winter Kills
3. Japan – Life in Tokyo (Theme)
4. Techno Twins – Donald and Julie Go Boating
5. Soft Cell – Facility Girls
6. Human League – Being Boiled
7. Landscape – Shake the West Awake
8. Heaven 17 – Come Live With Me
9. Depeche Mode – Shake The Disease
10. OMD – Georgia
11. Yazoo – State Farm
12. Visage – Mind of a Toy
13. The Fun Boy Three – Summer of ‘82
14. Bow Wow Wow – El Boss Dicho!
15. Magazine – About The Weather
16. Heaven 17 – Are Everything
17. Erasure – Don’t Dance
18. Blancmonge – See The Train
19. Bronski Beat – It Ain’t Necessarily So

Download the Mix HERE

11-22-10

MEGA MEGA MIX

Not only will this be the last Contort Yourself of 2010 but it also heralds the last Contort Yourself in our current format… With the New Year on the horizon, we’re taking a brief sabbatical over January returning back in Feb 2011 (same dates, same venue, don’t worry) but in an altogether different guise. We’ll leave it at that for the time being, but be sure to watch this space for more info early in the new year… so to celebrate the end of this year we though it only right to get stuck into everyone’s favourite the MEGA MIX, but with a little added MEGANESS!

The best Djs from Manchester’s Most awesome nights weren’t available, so we scrabbled together this bunch of idiots to get a bit too drunk and play totally awesome music right down your listening holes.

Dan English (Naïve Melody)
Oscar Wildstyle (Everywhere)
The Countach (Jupiter Rooms)
Benjamin Yourself (CoYo / Freitags)
S’il Vous Plait
Oldboy (Eat My Beat / CoYo)
Natalie Esquire (Murkage / Super Super)
Scott Yeah & GezMagus (CoYo)

We cant think of a better way to see off the end of the year and this chapter of Contort Yourself, so we hope you can join us for what will prove to be an unforgettable night!

SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER
11PM-3AM THE ROADHOUSE, MANCHESTER
£4 b4 11.30 / £5 Adv or Flyer / £6 After.

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS