There is something quite special about a Friday frolic & of late nowhere better in our books than Play>Time at Lo-Profile, but when you then add the incredible D.J. ingredients in Steve Pitron & Zach Burns, it is no wonder that it has made DM’s pick of the day, the detail on tonight’s event a [...]

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It’s the middle of the week, which can only mean one thing, yes it’s time for some more dirty disco dancing & debauchery as Gigolo goes all “Stud” on tonight (Wed 9th May) at the Shadow Lounge in Soho, thus making it to DM’s pick of the day, the event detail a banner click away [...]

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It may be May, but Disco Matt looks back to Easter in choosing his Podcast Of The Week, as he picks Elof de Neve’s “La-Leche” set mix, download/stream options a banner selection away opposite or an image click below, while DM exudes on the excellence of Elof beneath.     With the letter E dominating [...]

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With an eye on the coming weekend, Disco Matt casts his picks net in an international direction, as he reaches out to Rome & Muccassassina’s hat party, which takes place this coming Friday (4th May), as his pick of the day today, all the detail a banner selection away opposite or an image click below, [...]

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With music very much in mind, Disco Matt combines his pick of the day & podcast of the week choices into one, as he looks into the emerging talent that is Adam Turner, his April 12 mini podcast getting DM’s backing, download/stream options a banner selection away opposite or an image click below, while DM [...]

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Making Monday a double day for picks, Disco Matt heads over to Europe to find both his “Pick Of The Day” & his “Podcast of The Week” choices, landing on Berlin & the brilliant beats of DJ/Producer Eduardo De La Torre, his “On The Mix” April podcast packed with uplifting vocal tech, progressive & tribal [...]

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Having reformed & refocused his mind on the magnificent muse that is music, Disco Matt plucks from a lengthy list of potentials, a select few that, without doubt, fall into either the “Premier” or “Protégé” category and who, having been moving & shaking his musical world with their productions &/or sets of late, fit the [...]

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Regardless of  the topsy turvy times & the rollercoaster ride twists & turns that have become part & parcel of our lives lately,  being charmed by a creative compilation, passionate about a prolific podcast & titillated by a terrific tune means that music always seems to be the answer. And in finding that answer to [...]

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Well, it’s been a long time coming, but Disco Matt gets back into the D.J. groove with the first in a regular release of focuses, this one looking at marvellous Milano man Marco Gee. With a detailed picture of his production pedigree, along with links a-plenty to both podcasts & tracks, see why we rate [...]

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We have covered our track chart, published our podcast picks, so it just remains for us to share our sets of the year in this, the third part of our music review of 2011. So the wait is over as we countdown, from ten to one, our most prolific players & their scintillating sets, revealing [...]

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Having heard the preview, seen the track listing & viewed the artwork, Disco Matt, through the excitement, the emotion, & the euphoria of its release, reviews the most anticipated podcast production since the summer of 2011, as Steve Pitron’s “Jan 2012 Session” goes live to an adoring audience.    When it comes to the passions [...]

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From prolific to protégé players, 2011 has proven an interesting podcast production playground, some new faces making it big, while a flood of familiar ones captivated us with their compilations. But the choices have been made & from a listing that reads like who’s who, we have chopped our champions down to just ten. But [...]

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Disco Matt, having  procrastinated, cogitated & deliberated, while fending off floods of requests since the year end, cannot hold back anymore, as he delivers the results of who & what made it into his fabulous forty and which towering tune made it to number one in his track chart of 2011.   Well, what a [...]

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Having been pretty all encompassing with our last few newsletters, we thought it time to divert back to our original feature format & focus on just a handful of what we have called our “Protégé Producers & Players”, a select few that are either internationally based stars that we have seen develop & progress, or [...]

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With September slipping away before our very eyes, we thought it high time we delivered to on our promise to put out another music newsletter, in fact one of two this month that aim to pick up on those D.J.’s/producers that have been busy in the recording studio either pressing podcasts or serving up singles [...]

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Having formed a fulfilling friendship back in January when Guy Scheiman visited London, playing out for both Salvation & As One, we could feel, even at this tender age in our relationship, that a special bond would develop between us, a fabulous five days in Barcelona for the Delice Dream festival in April, very much [...]

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Having set about catching up on lost time incurred during April & May with a series of four newsletters,  for the eagle eyed in you, this fourth newsletter in that catch up series has been a long time coming, virtually two months to be exact, this in itself meaning we have catching up on catching [...]

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In all the years that we have been rocking & rolling across the capitals clubbing scene and in more recent times when, as Disco Matt, we have been devoting written attention to D.J.’s & their music, we have been very lucky to have come into contact with so many stars of the scene, both here [...]

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          There is little or no doubt that Spain has had its fair share of say on the music of the capitals clubbing scene in recent years, brands Matinee SuperMartXe, Space & now WE Party, very much the overseas invasion of London that has, along the way, sported some real stars, [...]

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With our focus on all things music right back where it belongs, we are speeding our way through the colossal catch up that we promised we would complete by the end of this month, although for chapter three of four, we pause to take a slightly self indulgent look at the music from our most [...]

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Welcome to the second chapter in this colossal composition catch-up and with the bit between our teeth, it’s all steam ahead as we delve into some of the European D.J.’s that are doing it for us and making magnificent music. But we will also be taking a trip across to the Middle East, giving some [...]

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Having seemingly had our musical head in the clouds over the last few weeks, it seems to have taken the serious accident we have just suffered to plant our feet back firmly on the ground and in so doing, alerting us to the realisation that we have a colossal amount of catching up to do [...]

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Just last weekend we were still taking in the wonders of Rome, the Coliseum, the Spanish Steps, the Forum & the Pantheon, but were moreover still savouring the magnificence of Muccassassina & the spectacular set from one Danny Verde, this terrific talent having been tipping our musical scales for a good four years now and [...]

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Of the scores of D.J.’s that we have come to know through our writing, we can count so many as friends, plenty of those as good friends, but just a handful that are close friends, individuals that we have strong associations with and whom we have spent some special moments with, both in & out [...]

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It would be fair to say that the last few weeks have seen us go through a wide range of emotions, some truly terrific, others pretty upsetting, the last few days testament to the continual rollercoaster rides we have been on, many that would put the biggest rides at Alton Towers to shame. And right [...]

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With March drawing to a close (actual of going to press its 7th April, oops) and with so much music still to catch up on after our European & South African adventures, it’s time to cut to the chase with this, out third music newsletter of the month, simply entitled “Three’s Company”, but one that [...]

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Being back in blighty and with our feet under our most creative spot in the world, our own study desk, we are revving up our motors with a whole host of reviews to celebrate our trip away in unforgettable sunny South Africa, but before all that, we had to try and get back up to [...]

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With the days of February coming & going quicker than we could say month 28 times, March is already steaming along at break neck speed, although up to now we have been engrossed in South Africa & Cape Town particularly, plenty of extracurricular duties precluding us from devoting time to our writing duties.  Yet as [...]

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Welcome back, once again, to this very special tribute marking Alan K’s retirement from the D.J.’ing clubbing circuit and having covered “the man & his mixing” in part one, then following it up with “the man & his music” in part two, now we toast a fond farewell to this multi mixing master with a [...]

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Welcome back to this very special tribute, marking the retirement from the D.J. clubbing circuit of the multi mixing master that is Alan K. In part one we covered the man & his mixing, honing in on just what is this superb skill he posses, yet there is so much more to the man through [...]

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Having given you a taster of what is to come in a specially produced three part special music post in our prologue (direct link ) it’s now time to crack on with our devotion to this multi mixing master that will definitely be missed on the scene when he hangs up his boots on 13th [...]

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There could have been no-one more shocked than us when the news came through that Alan K was hanging up his D.J.’ing boots and disappearing into the disco sunset, the news of his departure from the scene leaving us pinching ourselves to make sure we were not dreaming. But sadly, the reality soon dawned that [...]

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Having always planned to produce a special music report to mark our mini European tour, the idea was to create this nod to a handful of talents that we were to touch during our trip to Paris, Brussels, Antwerp & Amsterdam, while we were there enjoying it all. However, having been caught up in the [...]

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With a blink of the eye we find ourselves already deep into February and the day of love already escaping us, yet we couldn’t let the moment pass without our own special devotion to the day, deciding to do so with our “Love To Love The Music” special post, With a handful of hot off the [...]

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With our musical hat firmly back on and having laid out the new direction of our music posts in our report, “Music Is The Answer” (direct link http://discomatt.com/web/2011/01/dm-reports-music-is-the-answer-music-d-j-services-update-friday-28th-january/), its time to crack on with the first in our new series of “Music & D.J. Focus” reports and one we are really excited about, as this [...]

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Having launched our one-stop website back in December, the reaction has been reasonably encouraging, many of you saying the new look & format is much better than the old, the main benefit being that ALL our reporting can now be found in one place and by one or two simple clicks. So, with our feet [...]

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Just when we thought we could get our feet back under the table & to our regular D.J. focuses, up come a veritable feast of compilations & tracks, which have kind of forced our hand (in a good way of course) into filing another newsletter, not two weeks after the last. Indeed, with a pretty [...]

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Over the years (and it has been more than a few!) we have been very fortunate to have met & be-friended a whole host of D.J.’s, some encounters stretching back to the early days of Trade, when we first hit the clubbing capital, others nurtured during the magical years when Crash ruled the underground club [...]

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Well, it seems quite a while since we put our music hat of, well apart from our year end round up of course, a mammoth project & report that ended acknowledging over 100 D.J.’s, compilations & tracks, from a staggering 500 plus that got coverage in our posts throughout 2010, making the decision who to [...]

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As much as our bar, club & event yearly round-up reviews have become a tradition, our look back at any year would not be complete without our full on reflection of the music & the D.J.’s that have made our year, indeed, without the music and without the D.J.’s, the bars, clubs & events would [...]

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It feels absolutely fabulous to be writing on a Saturday morning again and writing about our biggest passion, music & D.J.’s. Yes we adore our clubbing & yes we delight in our dancing, you only have to catch the craze that is spreading across the dancefloors of the capital’s gay scene, “Doing The Disco Matt” [...]

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WE Party launched in London on Sat 4th Dec to amazing accolade, iLondon Events & WE Party’s Spanish team proud as punch with just how well WE went down in the capital, D.J.’s D’Johnny, Steve Pitron, Manuel de Diego & Carlos Gallardo all turning up the musical heat & delivering delightful dance music all night long. [...]

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On this momentous day in Disco Matt land which has signalled the launch of our new look website, it seemed highly appropriate to also get back into music mode by issuing our latest in the developing series of newsletters, designed to bring you bang up to date with the compilation & track releases from a [...]

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Now, before you wonder and ask, what are we up to?, and what is this take two? Well, if Strictly Come Dancing can do it, so can we (oh that little word is going to be used a lot isn’t it…WE that is), so, “Wonderful Ensemble” take two it is, as despite having pretty much [...]

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There is no doubt that WE parties have been the talk of Europe this summer, the brand, which was established by artistic creator & club promoter, Victor Pallas, just a year ago, has very much captured the imagination of Spaniards, Italians & Greeks, with scores of successful parties across Spain (including Madrid, Barcelona & Ibiza), [...]

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In advance of our latest DM Does The Music News post, entitled “Big Guns & Baby Boomers”, due out later this week, we thought we would whet your music appeties with a special  devotion to all things Lovechild, the club brand that marked one year at its current home Fire, back on Saturday 13th of [...]

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Having been consumed by all things house music since the early nineties (yes we are talking last century), much of our music devotions from previous years in our lives have all but faded from our playlists, even our most recent times whizzing around London’s roads listening to music as we do, reserved for a select [...]

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With life over the last few weeks being topsy turvy to say the least, while we have been holding our own with both reviews & preview (weekendrts have taken a back step. But with there being a relentless amount of new music out there, we thought we would get back into gear with not one, [...]

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“BLIGHTY BASED BOYS” DM DOES THE NEWS (PART ONE) – SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER MUSIC IS THE ANSWER With life over the last few weeks being topsy turvy to say the least, while we have been holding our own with both reviews & preview (weekend) posts, our much beloved Music Is The Answer reports have taken [...]

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