With Russ Davies project; Cinnamon Chasers he seem to have what is known as a ’slow hit’ on his hands with single ‘Luv Deluxe’. It is one of those tracks that seems to have quietly found universal popularity without going through conventional channels.

The promo, directed by Saman Keshavarz is too slowly bubbling under. Its a darker take on the road movie format with a first person perspective similar to Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up. Luv Deluxe was recently voted best music video at this year’s SXSW Festival. Here’s the video in full.

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Sly & The Family Stone – Underdog
The Temptations – Psychedelic Shack
The Jackson Sisters – Miracles
Budos Band – Up From The South
The Seeds – Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
Smog – Bathysphere
Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World
Syl Johnson – Different Strokes
The Doors – Changeling
Coke Escovedo – (Runaway) I Wouldn’t Change A Thing
Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street
Idris Muhammad – Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
Pointer Sisters – Pinball Number Count
Brian Protheroe – Pinball
Earth Opera – The Red Sox Are Winning
Frank Zappa – Sharleena
Black Mountain – Angels
Muddy Waters – Tom Cat
The Beatles – Helter Skelter
Graham Nash – Chicago
Ohio Players – The Funky Worm
Map Of Africa – Bone
Johnny Jenkins – I Walk On Guilded Splinters
Brain Ticket – Places Of Light
Azitis – The Prophet
Ugly Ducklings – Gaslight
Poppy Family – There’s No Blood In Bone
Yo La Tengo – Nuclear War (Version 2)

Slagsmålsklubben are one of the more interesting electronic acts to emerge over the last few years. Not quite Transmission Intro material as they’ve three albums and numerous Ep’s already under their belt, including the recently released single; Brutal Weapons on Kitsuné. Slagsmålsklubben’s Björn had a sit down with Transmission. Here’s what went down…

You originally started off being in a punk band, why the dramatic change to the current sound?
Back in the 70’s in Sweden all the enlightened environment people played in prog bands, progg being short for progressive. They tried to make a better Sweden by writing songs for Chile and wearing clothes of wool. That wave generated some kind of ironic response called ‘idiotprog’, which was basically what we took up thirty years later. For shits and giggles. Shits and giggles doesn’t really last in the long run. But that’s how we came in to music making and playing instruments. I guess it’s just your everyday evolution from doing something for fun to doing something for life.

With the band members spread over different countries over the last few years how do you write your music?
At the moment we all live in a big house in Stockholm. We moved in round Christmas. Basically because we want to stay under the same roof, making music. We did the same thing when we recorded our last album. Making music spread out in different countries works fine, but for an album we need some kind of theme or universal thought/sound, and that’s kind of hard if you don’t have at least one studio where you can team up at any time. We still have one guy living in Berlin right now, but he’s expected back in a couple of months.

Performing live as a electronic act is a poison chalice with a lot of acts not being able to recreate the studio on stage in front of a crowd. Having witnessed you perform at the Filthy Dukes Kill Em All night in Fabric and Oya Festival in Oslo during the summer this doesn’t seem to be problem for you, do you spend a lot of time rehearsing your live show?
I don’t know. I guess it’s very much instinctively, since we almost never rehearse. Mainly because we don’t have a rehearsing studio. Usually we go round playing enough so we don’t have to rehearse. If we add a new song to the set we make some kind of temporary studio somewhere and we learn how to play that song in our sleep and then that’s that. I guess our setup is just very suitable for the stage. And, we’ve been doing it for a long time.

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Quite a neat little video idea for Vitalic’s Second Lives. This is the uncensored one that you can’t see on TV but then who even shows music videos on TV any more? Directed by Julien Henry

Hello All,
You may have noticed our site updates have slowed to a crawl. This is because we have been working on the new version of our site with many improvements. so Welcome to Transmission’s second web incarnation, put together for us by Johanna Schoeffert
Check out more of her work right here.

The site will be updated regularly from now & and will have more features added soon.

Dancing In The Shadows by Haido

You’ve been making music on and off for the last X number of years. What has it taken to finally arrive at the sound you’re making now?

Paul: A combination of boredom with the direction of lot of dance music was going in and whatever technology we use. The one factor that has remained the same over the years is that we create music that we’d like to hear but never do… if that makes sense. Back in the 90s, we wrote a lot simply because we couldn’t afford to buy records and we wanted something to listen to. Come 2003, we stopped producing as music had become much more accessible and life in general got in the way. Plus, we were using a studio set-up that consisted of ancient, unstable hardware (Amiga A500, Akai S900, knackered old FX unit, mixing desk with faulty connections, etc) so producing had become virtually impossible. It was quite a miserable time, looking back, as I still had a compulsion to write but just couldn’t.

Three years later, out of boredom, I tried a demo of FL Studio and discovered that not only could I write using only a computer, but that I still loved doing it. Of course, having avoided clubs for a few years, the early Shadow Dancer material (and a lot of Golden Traxe) doesn’t follow some of the conventions of dance music like 16-bar run-ins and outs, for which we’ve had plenty of criticism. The more recent stuff is more club-friendly as a result of the last three years of gigging and absorbing what we’ve seen and heard.

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Basement Jaxx – Kissalude
The XX – Night Time
Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
James Yuill – This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Sneaky Edit)
WhoMadeWho – Keep Me In My Plane (DJ Koze Remix)
Mock and Toof – Underwater (Demo Version)
Miike Snow – Animal (Mark Ronson Remix)
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Redemption Song (Band Version)
Nouvelle Vague – Blue Monday
José Gonzales – Too Long
Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance
Phoenix – Embuscade
Air – Highschool Lover
Leelou – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Dusty Springfield – I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today
Neon Heights – Walked Out This Morning
Nouvelle Vague – Dancing With Myself
Scissor Sisters – Take Me Out
Inga – Together In Electric Dreams
Vangelis – La Petite Fille De La Mer
Dennis Wilson – Lady

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The XX – Crystalise (Lorcan Mak Remix)
Mom & Dad – Judas (Lorcan Mak’s Betrayal Remix)
Lorcan Mak – Grace of God (Original Mix)
Lorcan Mak – Hooo! (Original Mix)
Lorcan Mak – Brass My Ass (Original Mix)
Saeed Younan – Yeah Ha (Original Mix)
Riva Starr – Black Cat White Cat (Original Mix)
Nick & Danny Chatelain – Baila Baila (Ralvero & Bassjackers Remix)
De Bos – On The Run (Ralvero Get Down Remix)
Lorcan Mak – Freeze (Original Mix)
Jorn, Bassjackers – 16 (Original Mix)
Sidney Samson – Riverside (Ralvero Remix)
Sir James – Special (Bingo Players Remix)
Laidback Luke – My God – Guns On Demo (Tom Stephan Remix)
SonicC – Stickin’ (Original Mix)
Lorcan Mak – 4 The Love (Lorcan Mak’s Manky Mix)
Mat Cant, Scattermish – Hornbo (Sticky K Remix)
Boris Dlugosch – Bangkok (Original Mix)
Lorcan Mak – Gypsy Bum (Original Mix)