Never thought I would see the day I would be playing pumpers to a room full of dancers in East Belfast. Big thanks to Ballyhackamore Working Men’s Club and to those that came down. Don’t think the £3 pints helped my mixing abilities though…

Sometimes a nice slice of well placed familiarity in a set can cause commotion. It’s that sense of I know this but I don’t know this version and can sit perfectly among the more obscure and brand new. Here are five covers that do justice or bring something new to the table!

Subway Records was a Belgian New Beat label. Like a lot of this stuff it was well patchy, but amongst the back catalogue are some amazing, weird, hypnotic one hit wonders. A lot of it is kind of balearic-ish or wouldn’t sound out of place in a Baldelli set, and some of it’s output are outright pumpers.

Weird label and definitely an influence for me at least on the new ‘originals’ me and Mr Bones are concocting.

If you do go down the discogs rabit hole, check the labels font. Nice!

Anyone else getting a big ESG meets MU vibe off that recent Chemical Bros Eve Of Destruction number?

If so check this little dubbed version we made to play in our club sets.

E.O.D (Black Bones DUB)

Also stay away from the obvious hits, below are five we dig from the CB/TDB vaults…

Jamal Moss, man of many aliases and purveyor of bad ass music. Through his sprawling archive there are many moments of genius. Screw all this polite, safe, paint by numbers dance music, Jamal is definitely not playing the game.

Like Ron Hardy if he had been kipping in a squat for a few weeks and had been given access to a load of old hardware and not much sleep.

We both adore those records that do everything with nothing, what they leave out as important as what they include. Version is one of those imprints that borrows heavily from a dub mindset, loads of delay, space and hypnotic rhythms. Orson heads things up by keeping with a brief that means all the output interconnects.

Check that Yak Mido for a sure fire percussive club no that always slays!

(No Dub of this on youtube but it’s great)

(Nevins putting a donk on it – don’t judge it until you play it out!)

Thanks to everyone who came down last Friday night, from our perspective we don’t feel it could have gone any better.

Great venue,  sound system, audience and the warm up was easily the best we’ve had to date.

Here are five we played that raised a cheer on the night!

This Friday night we are having a little soirée in one of our favourite new venues in the city (Blaklist) alongside the Never Never guys.

These two gents are currently introducing Belfast’s streets to great threads from around the world, as well as having amazing taste in music.

They have guest selection honours on the site this week before they kick off the music on Friday from 9pm.

Here are five sonic gems from never never hq and the reasons why…

Superpitcher – Snow Blind. Both of us are big Kompakt fans and who better to choose than Kompakt stalwart Superpitcher.

The Black Dog – Witches Ov. Was lucky enough to catch a rare live set in Fabric about 10 years ago. One of the best club experiences I’ve had.

oqbqbo – Linen Streams. Bit obsessed with Posh Isolation at the minute.

Tirzah – Devotion. Beautiful, imperfect pop, getting a lot of plays over past few months.

Milo – Failing The Stress Test. Fuck all that mainstream bollocks – this is proper modern rap.

So many (good) ideas. An explosion of styles and sound. I keep coming back to these songs for inspiration. A label that could house the brutal with the beautiful and make it work. To me like many ‘things’ the sweet spot is the early stuff. Records for the head, heart and feet.