I bumped into RUFUS&Bambi – Elena Colombi to her mum – on a night out while rearranging my feet to some electronic weirdness by the DJ booth. We were both admiring the cabling as I recall. Some chinwags ensued, and it transpired Ms Bambi had been to one of our first parties. “Questa è una...

Well deck my halls! To pre-empt tomorrow’s festive flue delivery – and because you’ve been delightfully naughty this year – Santa Simon and his merry elf, Marcus (in that order – I’m the one writing this after all), have put together a jolly selection of alternative Christmas choons. There’s the odd flirt with tradition – how could we...

When he’s not picking off snipers and attacking dugouts armed only with a cudgel, Andy Blake is a connoisseur of fine electronic delights and acidic treats. The follicularly gifted man behind the sadly defunct Dissident label, nowadays Andy applies his Samson-like gift to running the ludicrously fun World Unknown night and his latest start-up Cave...

Dust off those shoulder pads and don some eyeliner, because Simon has transformed into some kind of twisted New-Romantic robot and put together a brilliant mix of obscure 80s beat records. He’s been crate digging for a while to prepare and even peppered it with a few exclusive re-edits. No wave, new wave, cold wave,...

Typically, the sun decided not to coincide with me posting this ‘ere new mix from Marcus “Ray of Light” Blunt, which would have been somewhat more ideal than the current drizzlefest outside my window. Fear not though – listening to this mix is the equivalent of adopting a small star cluster. Great for you, but...

Ah, Rob J – the man behind the man. The guy with the hair. The dude in the chequered shirt. Some say the J stands for “Jahouse”, others say he can lick his own elbow. None would dispute the real truth though – he’s a ruddy good disc jockey. Rob is one of the trio...

The next instalment in our Glittermix series comes from the big man himself, Glitterball patron and DJ extraordinaire Mr Simon Busby. Since kicking the series off with Glittermix 001 almost 2 years ago, we’ve not heard a peep from him as he’s been too busy doing mixes for people such as The Revenge and Cosmic...

George Pringle: musician, poet, sister, girl, person etc. At once a picture of beauty and a shining bastion of creative musicianship. Her Garageband produced music and Myspace success have made her something of an underground sensation. The broadsheets love her, the music mags love her, and le band Français, Air, loved her so much they...

There are occasions when Marcus and I will communicate with each other solely by way of the 4/4 house drum pattern, like a sort of simplified, emotive version of morse code. Just the other day, he sent over this house mix he’d done, the implication being that hidden between the beats was a love letter...