Pedestrians ‎– Commuter Fantasy

Here's a rare littlel Italo-esque number that The Beat's Stephen Hodgen snook into his cosmic set last night at the Lock Tavern. From Canadian one-hit-wonders 'Pedestrians', this was reissued on a very limited run that you can still snap up over at Piccadilly.

Pedestrians ‎– Commuter Fantasy

The Visitation

On Tuesday 29th May, the Beat DJ collective will be gathering to put on a very special audio-visual extravaganza as part of The Lock Tavern's 10th birthday celebrations.

Revisiting our sets from The Visitation, we'll be playing slo-mo disco and space music all night to a barrage of specially prepared visuals.

The celebrations start at 8pm and end at midnight - full event details can be found here. Hope to see you there. x

Light Asylum - Dark Allies

Coming on like a pure-grade ecstasy tablet with a picture of Billy Idol's face on it, this B-side to their In Tension ep, resurfaced on the truly great Body Request compilation and stunned me from the first listen. It's listed on Boomkat as Skull Fukt, but a bit of research has shown it to be called 'Dark Allies'.


Echoed out sounds reference Belgian New Beat, the Sisters of Mercy and New Order synths at their most primal. If you made a compilation of music to play in that red light club in Terminator, This would feature.


Light Asylum - Dark Allies





They have an album just released on the Mexican Summer label, which sets to improve on the earlier EPs with ten tracks of uncompromising body work. They should be over to the UK in the summer and you tube clips show them to be as good live as you would imagine.
Album details and Mexican Summer shop here.

The best £7 you will spend this Friday 14tracks.com: Body Request.

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Helen - Zanzibar (Afro Mix)

Inflatable guitars at the ready, here's some Balearic (Italo? Afro-Disco?) goodness from 1985 in the form of 'Zanzibar (Afro Mix)' by Helen. 

Helen - Zanzibar (Afro Mix)

Murphy Jax (Clone) - Be In 1983 Mix

Keen followers of the No More Pop blog may have picked this up at the beginning of 2011.

Clone's Murphy Jax takes us on a whirlwind tour of 1983 (think Windows 1.0) via the medium of crackly old vinyl. It's a mix full of minimal wave, new wave, cold wave, synth pop and 80s rarities fanatics.

Go find more at No More Pop.

Murphy Jax (Clone) - Be In 1983 Mix

1. Aerial FX - Servitors
2. EMAK - Ohne Titel
3. AWOL - Robotics Return
4. Plastic Bertrand - Tout Petite la Planete
5. Ceramic Hello - Sampling the Blast Furnace
6. Zoom Lens - Waxworks
7. EMAK - Filmmusik
8. Experimental Products - Mannequin
9. Turquoise Days - Gry Skies
10. Deux - Europe
11. This Fish Needs A Bike - The Drone
12. Space Opera - Space Opera Theme
13. Grauzone - Film 2
14. Experimental Products - Work the Beat
15. Programa - Programa
16. Ceramix Hello - A Pale View of Hills

Debbie Jacobs - Don't You Want My Love

Think big. Here's the massive 1979 club smash from Baltimore's Debbie Jacobs. Apparently 'big in Chicago' on it's release, make it this weekend's floor filler in your own front room. Over 9 minutes of amped up action.

Debbie Jacobs - Don't You Want My Love

DMX Krew - Turing Test

The hugely influential Ed DMX is bringing the sine waves again. Strictly limited to 500 copies, The East Side Boogie EP is electro-boogie at its finest - all vintage drum machines, vocoder, and synths with that trademark DMX ideal: that it could actually be a lost classic from the 80s.

We've been given the more club-orientated flipslip for your listening pleasure but head to Voltaire Records if you want to get your mitts on the whole thing.

DMX Krew - Turing Test