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01-27-11

DETROIT GARAGE DOES DETROIT TECHNO

The Dirtbombs have knocking around for an absolute age, peddling the kind of filthy garage-rock that got them swept up in a wave of über-hype around the turn of the century along with bands like The White Stripes and ADULT. Having been residents of Detroit for quite some time, it seems that they have picked up an ear for the city’s other main musical export -TECHNO.

This fascination has led to The Dirtbombs throwing a batch of Detroit classics into a melting pot, stirring them around (rather haphazardly) and touring them out onto the dance-floor.

The results are ‘Party Store’ which is chock-full of some seriously filthy punk-funk bangers, fire yourselves down to your local independent record emporium and get yourselves a copy.

TRACK LISTING
1. Cosmic Cars
2. Sharevari
3. Good Life (Basement Roots Mix)
4. Strings Of Life
5. Alleys Of Your Mind
6. Bug In The Bass Bin
7. Jaguar FREE DOWNLOAD
8. Tear The Club Up
9. 謎 のミスタ-ナイソ (Detoroito Mix)

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

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?!?

12-03-10

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

12-01-10

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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11-23-10

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

10-26-10

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

CONTORT YOURSELF & NOW WAVE Present: “DEATH”

A Hallowe’en special
Friday 29th October – 10pm until the Death,
Joshua Brooks, Princess Street, Manchester

The second coming of “DEATH” sees Now Wave & Contort Yourself locked in an unholy unison, forming a two headed behemoth once again, bewitching your soul with the promise of a horrendous bounty… Resident Djs from both teams will be filling the venue with a horrific sound track of spine tingling electro, terrifying disco and blood curdling bass.

OVERALL PRIZE FOR BEST COSTUME:
£100 cold hard ca$h
Lifetime guestlist to both Contort Yourself & Now Wave events
Some really cheap champagne!!!

* PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS *
£250 Worth of American Apparel For Best Dressed Boy & Best Dressed Girl.

* PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS * PLUS *
American Apparel Goodie Bags for the first 100 in on the night.

£5 advance, £6 before 11pm, £7 after

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM:
http://contortyourself.com/index.php/tickets/

07-28-10

OLDBOY TOP 10

OLDBOY treats us to what’s currently floating his boat this month with a round up of his top 10 tunes… Judging by the Disco heavy selection he’s been digging deep for his forthcoming appearance at FREITAGS this Friday. Get down to Common on Edge Street form 9pm and show your love…

Martin Brothers – Steal Drums
Jamie Jones – Ruckus
Robin S – Show Me Love (Todd Edwards Remix)
Hot Chocolate – Cadillac (The Revenge Edit)
Spandau Ballet – True (The Revenge Rework)
Electric Jones – Nasty’s Party
Big Boi – Back Up Plan
Richard Dinsdale – Boom Boom
Gyptian – Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix)
Gepy & Gepy – African Love Song

PEACE.

07-18-10

MEGAMIX RETURNS

THE MEGAMIX IS BACK!!! I’m sure you all know the drill by now, but for those of you new to the concept here’s how it goes:

Each Night/DJ gets a 30 min slot to burn out the purest heat, all killer no filler, sweep the floor and get the party juiced in good style. The final hour results in an every man for themselves, Back 2 Back, No Holes Barred, All Holes Plugged…Megamix!!!

We’ve lined up another cracking night filled with Manchester’s premier disc jockeying power:

NAÏVE MELODY: This year has been epic for NM, with some bookings that can only be described as that of “legendary” status…. Smagghe, Weatherall, Twitch & Wilkes, Baldelli, ooooft! Anyone putting together parties like this knows what’s up so we don’t need to tell you that they’ll crush it proper!

EAT MY BEAT: Batty Bass, Wonky House, Tropical Techno, whatever you want, these boys can bring it… if there’s a party that needs starting they’ll be sure to do the job reeeeeeaaaaaaaaal nice!

TRAMP!: Tramp was one of our favourite Manchester Nights ever, but since its death William has gone on to make a name for himself in his own right as one of the best djs in Manchester, and deservedly so. Regular bookings alongside the biggest boys in the business has seen him tearing into the biggest clubs and even taking over the reigns of the world famous OPTIMO for the night and also warming up for some guys called 2ManyDjs!?

NOWWAVE: These boys know their stuff… they’ve put on pretty much every band that is cool and even those that didn’t even know they were cool yet. They’re so far ahead of the curve one of them once managed to high five an apparition of himself from 2 weeks in the future? Needless to say they can handle themselves behind the wheels of steel, (Especially when asked to stand in for Scratch Perverts on the main stage of Parklife?!?) so get set for some serious party throbbers.

STOP MAKING SENSE: Every time I see these lads play they smack it… Tropical Dubs to Spaced out Techno to Pumping Disco, these boys’ will be heating it from the depths of their collection for you dancing pleasure.

CONTORT YOURSELF: Yeah that’s us… we’ll be going in strong and fast jackin’ out the house party rhythms and durty disco thumpers.

SATURDAY 7TH AUGUST 2010
11:00 till 3:00 at the Roadhouse, Manchester
£4 b4 11.30 / £5 ADV or W/FLYER / £6 After

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

07-13-10

SAYTEK LIVE – THIS SATURDAY!!!

In the second of our summer Co-Pro’s we’re teaming up with another Manchester institution MICRON for a one off special back in the 3rd Saturday slot! Last year we clubbed together and brought NOOB down to the cave for what was one of THE PARTYS OF THE SUMMER and this one shapes up to eclipse that!

Saytek has gained a reputation for many as the most exciting and innovative live act to emerge from the UK house and techno scene in recent times. setting himself aside from the click ‘n’ play masses, Saytek’s fully improvised live shows see him get hands on with a Roland MC909 , a Kaoss Pad , synths, a sampler, Ableton and FX to create a unique deep intelligent dance floor orientated journey that combines cutting edge grooves with Detroit soul, jackin acid and tribal percussion garnished with intricate melodies, left field jazz and Latin flavours.

His talent as a live artist Has gained him headline bookings at Fabric, Sankeys, mUmU, The Zoo Project Ibiza, Cafe De Anvers Belgium, Patent Blua Berlin as well as countless clubs and festivals across the globe .Fresh from the release of his second accliamed & massively popular Zoo Project album Saytek is working with Partner Cubism records who are re-editing and sourcing top remixers for his live work to create monthly series “Saytek Live
Remixed” the first of which is out now and already gained the support from the likes of Richie Hawtin , Anthony Collins , Steve Lawler and Laurent Garnier …

ALBUM REVIEWS:::

“Excellent” – 4.5/5 DJ Mag
“This is one all aficionados of techno and house should be reaching for, post-haste.” – 9/10 iDJ Magazine
“dieser wunderbare Live-Mix von Joseph Keevill entstanden” 5/5 Rave Line Magazine (Germany)
“Recorded at Ibiza’s legendary Zoo Project, this album shows why Saytek is one of the hottest live acts” – 8/10 Datatransmission.co.uk
“A jaw dropping insight into on the fly creativity” 8/10 Till Late Magazine

LIVE SHOW:::
“A live show not to be missed” – Manchester Evening News
“The music Saytek creates is consistently amazing dance floor gold dust” – tilllate.com
“Saytek Has gained a reputation as one of the most
exciting and innovative live acts around”– Beatportal.com

Check out his Highly Acclaimed “LIVE FROM THE OTHER SIDE” mix recorded live using a MC 909, ABLETON 8, FL STUDIO, NOVATION ZIOSYNTH, KORG KAOS PAD3, AUTOLOOP MODULE + DJM 800

SAYTEK  - “LIVE FROM THE OTHER SIDE” – ZOO PROJECT RECORDINGS (Full hardware live performance) by SAYTEK

06-07-10

PARADISE FOUND

Copson Street & Pumping Iron team up to bring you a sizzling sleazy tropical disco party at Hula Bar in the Northern Quarter this Wednesday evening…come rain or shine we’ll be raising the temperature and enjoying coca cola ice floats all night long.

Cop a hold of this free taster mix via Soundcloud!

Copson Street Presents SLEAZY TROPICAL DISCO DANCE by Copson Street

TRACKLISTING
Missy Elliot – The Rain (Douster Tropical Mix)
Sade – Soldier of Love (Kastle Remix)
Iyaz – Replay
SWV – Right Here (Human Nature Remix)
Pras – Ghetto Superstar
Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancing
Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam – I Wonder If I Take You Home
Little Jinder – Youth Blood
Vampire Weekend – Ottoman (Bass ill Euro Remix)
Jay-Z feat Pharrel – Excuse Me Miss (Mano Remix)
Midnight Star – Midas Touch
Jermaine Stewart – We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Pase Rock – So Fucking Disco
Krystal Klear – Tearing The Back
Uffie feat Pharrell – ADD SUV (Armand van Helden Remix)
Felix Da Housecat -Ready 2 Wear (U-Tern’s Evening Wear Edit)
Carmen – Time To Move
Ignition – This Love Is War
Fergie feat Ludacris – Glamorous
Egyptrixx – Everybody Bleeding (Kingdom Remix feat Shyvonne)
Rupert Holmes – Pina Colada
HeavyFeet feat Jenna G – War (Kastle Remix)
Olive – Not Alone (Synamatix Remix)
LTJ Bukem – Atlantis (I Need You)
Peshay – Piano Tune

04-15-10

Girls, girls, girls, girls… Then some more girls.

Gaggle are an occasionally 22-strong, all girl “alt.chior” and described by themselves as “AN ALTERNATIVE TO BURLESQUE, SHIT TV AND BAD BOY BAND WATCHING“. As alternatives go, that’s certainly one we’ve all been waiting for.

As far as the music goes expect mind-bending, feet-moving songs about Crows (Crows), Liars (Liar) and the excesses of society with the utterly spectacular I Hear Flies). The video for which you can find below.

You can get the extremely limited 7″ of I Hear Flies/I Like Cigarettes on the quietly mighty Transgressive records HERE

Scott YEAH

01-24-10

This Dance In No White Mans Business

Was doing some digging through some old records and came across this Filthy Filthy Stomper… if you dont know about Material then start diggin.

11-23-09

Manicured Noise – Metronome (Cousin Cole Remix)

We’ve every excited to bring you this classic slice of Mancunian Punk-Funk reworked by Brooklyn’s very own party start extraordinaire Cousin Cole… sent from the lovely people at Caroline True Records. Nameing the clubnight after the seminal James Chance hit Contort Yourself its not hard to work out that I’m pretty obsessed with the whole Punk-Funk / Mutant Disco / No Wave sound outside of what i play in the clubs, so this is why i love this track. Cousin Cole takes the original blueprint for Punk-Funk on a magic carpet ride through Manchester’s infamous club the Hacienda, to the 21st Century dancefloor of New York City where Cole and crew man Pocketknife regularly rock the lofts of Brooklyn and beyond.

Staying true to the original sound Cole takes the sturdy bassline for a workout, thumping out the groove against a hypnotic sax line and chopped up vocal that punctuates the track later on. Somehow he gives this number that oh-so-cool tropical / tech house sound thats all over the show at the moment while making it sound equally relevant against the output of modern day dance funk outfits ala Friendly Fires… superb!

Manicured Noise – Metronome (Cousin Cole Remix 5-2)