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)

xxxy is a Manchester based producer and DJ who’s been taking discerning dance floors near and far by storm of late

With a sound that takes in all the best bits of garage and early house and a DJing style that combines fluidity as well as fun, the local boy has really been floating the Contort Yourself boat of late.

Try to catch him on one of his regularly fantastic excursions on U-Stream and cop his recent release Ordinary Things / You Always Start It on Ten Thousand Yen the a-side of which featured on our Winter’s Heat mix.

You Always Start It (master) by xxxy

BONUS BEAT
Radiohead – Videotape (xxxy’s Straight To Video remix) DOWNLOAD

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)

You know I’m swag. You know I love bassline. Burgaboy takes me from rainy Manchester to heaven and back for 3 minutes and 35 seconds….

Why does this guy

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?!?

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

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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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)

“BOWSKI: a PR Blurb” – by FAKE BLOOD

Bowski. How good is he.
His intricate melodic techy numbers have a mischievous bump that gets the shoulders going. You can’t help but start twitching and jerking about like a clockwork Dracula. And his productions have proper finesse. Skills that hopefully will do more than pay his bills, but buy him vulgar cars and quadbikes and shite jewellery with which he can annoy his village neighbours.

I came across his MySpace page a good while ago. There were about 2 songs on there, and very little info. But one of those tracks was ‘Hooves’, which I instantly loved and played out loads, eventually licensing it for my Wax:On mix CD earlier this year. He seemed quite bemused and surprised by all this, being the humble chap he is; so I thought I’d make it even more baffling and ask him to release some tracks on my label, Blood Music. So here we are… Hope he likes doing all this, cos I reckon he’ll be at it for a while.

‘Leggings’ starts off sounding like a game of hide and seek in a church. Lots of oohs, tapped pipes, and wooden thumps, before a melodic breakdown that reminds me of puppets tumbling around in some kind of baroque instrument. “Reminds” might be the wrong word, as I’ve never actually witnessed anything like this. Then deep voice pulses and chords bring it rising to the point of anticipation – and we’re off – with a bass sounding like two massive toads arguing, over a tight and bouncy techno drum. A pause, then they go at it for a second round, with toad 2 a little more worked up this time, until he resorts to chasing the other around with a dentist drill. But it’s all quite restrained and in very good taste.

I asked Bowski for this version, based on various earlier incarnations of the track – to take the best bits of those draughts and combine them into a new edit. This time the toads are singing a nice question and answer session, before the arguing starts up in earnest. Dancing ensues throughout.

‘Talkbox’. A guy booms and pahs a tune to himself, before the we are transported into some kind of 80’s haunted house Nintendo game. Lots of hopping and chopping through various chambers, big laughing bats swoop around you and bits of the ceiling fall on your head, while the drums roll and skip along, and the subs keep you warm. A male choir imitates the peals of the church bell for the melodic crescendo, and you’ve completed the level. This will sound great in a big room or a sweaty basement alike.

Anyway – I hope you enjoy them

BONUS BONUS!
How do, Scott YEAH here.

Bowkski is also responsible for this tidy little remix of Yello – Bostich which could have been found on my mix from January.

Yello – Bostich (Bowski remix)

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:

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