theWizz

disco wizz loves fidget yeah?!

2008-08-19T23:59:00.005+01:00

Looks like it n all...!

Hey hey kids! It's that time again!

You know me. I love that electrohouseghettodiscofidget shizzle. I'm a fiend.

This is as good as it gets people.

Despite claims to the contrary, Fidget House is a real genre. It's all about the wonk.

The bossman in these parts is the legendary Switch. Less than surprisingly, He features heavily in this mix. Ya boy Sinden and partner in grime Herve also put in a good shift here.

But of course, close to our hearts are the Italiano crew, Crookers. Always delivering on the mix up. A must see live.

Anyway gotta get some shit together, watery fields and messy days aplenty this weekend!

See you on the flip. Yeah man!

DiscoWizzFidgetAug08

Bump (Switch Remix) - Spank Rock Feat. Amanda Blank
Bossy (Crookers Unofficial Remix) - Kelis
Divine Gosa (Switch Remix) - Radioclit
Bad Runner (Crookers Mix) - Brodinski
Knobbers - Crookers
Snake Charmer - Hostage
Walking Down The Street (Count Of Monte Cristal Remix) - Ron Carrol
Beeper (Fake Blood Remix) - Sinden & Count of Monte Cristal
Body Baby (Count Of Monte Cristal & Sinden Remix) - Pharoahe Monch
Get Low Club Action (Scattermish Timid Fuckup Edit) - Herve & Yo Majesty
Wassup (Crookers Remix) - Rye Rye
Hideaway (Switch Remix / Diplo Edit) - Mystery Jets
Ghetto Bitches (Sinden Remix) - Count Of Monte Cristal
Roll On (Malente Remix) - Hostage
The Salmon Dance (Crookers' WoW Remix) - The Chemical Brothers
To Protect Entertain (Crookers Remix) - Busy P
Mars - Fake Blood
Blood Splashing (Fake Blood Theme) - Fake Blood
I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood Remix) - Armand Van Helden
I Want Your Soul (Crookers Crunk Remix) - Armand Van Helden
Lick My Lennon (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) - Crookers
Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi
Face (Switch Mix) - The Black Ghosts
I Believe (Switch Remix) - Simian Mobile Disco

Eek!

2008-07-17T22:32:00.002+01:00

In the past month I have:

- Passed my finals
- Graduated
- Been to Paris
- Been to Leeds
- Finally seen Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Been sick in Leeds Station - classy
- Been sick on the transpenine express - extra classy

Daisy
x

DiscoMix #2

2008-06-18T20:17:00.004+01:00

That's right kids. It's that time again.

Serving up some of those party bangers for your listening pleasure.

'Ave this. ThisIsSickMix.

Genesis - Justice
Every Second Counts (Switches Remix) - OCELOT
Wearing My Rolex (Pirate Soundsystem Bassline Mix) - Wiley
Krack - Soulwax
& Down- Boys Noize
Bad Runner (Crookers Mix) - Brodinski
Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Second Remix) - Surkin
Hideaway (Switch Remix / Diplo Edit) - Mystery Jets
Backfire at the Disco (South Central Remix) - Wombats
Let There Be Light DJ Funk Remix - Justice
Paris - MSTRKRFT
Is You (Optimus Grime Remix) - D.I.M.
Penis VS. Vagina (Shank's Killer Mix) - Party Shank
C.L.A.W.S Theme (Passions Remix) VBR - C.L.A.W.S
Human After All - Daft Punk
Any Way (Fake Blood Mix) - The Black Ghosts
Black & Gold (Phones As Hard As Diamonds Radio Edit) - Sam Sparro
This Is Sick - Solid Groove
You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Death From Above 1979
Suck You Dry - Mudhoney

Eclectrific.

Some absolute chooooons in there! Some recent favs, the Noize has been an obsession of late, hot on the heals of an total mental night @ Manchester's now deceased Paradise Factory. The Black Ghosts were also throwing it down that night, loving this at the moment.

Passions, Party Shanks, Justice and Daft Punk will always find a way in these mixes, one way or another.

Everyone and their mum is all over Rolex at the moment. Bassline mix here is filth. Still bouncing round in my head after last night's frivolities.

A Switch/Diplo combo on the remix of tune originally produced by Erol. Can you say "dream team"???!!! Sweet as.

And to finish off, some head bangers of a slightly different kind. No one's ever put Mudhoney in a disco mix before surely? Check them skills!

Big up yourself!
x

Boyz with mad skillz Pt.1

2008-06-11T15:50:00.002+01:00

I like boys that dance a bit awkward, here are some examples

Tom Vek – Music Television

If you’ve seen him live, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about, and have probably re-enacted his moves in the clubs, I know I have

Clor (R.I.P) – Outlines

Not only is the song awesome but the video is pretty fricking sweet too. Barry makes hands on hips dancing look geek-hot (like shit-hot, but geekier), the little routine is pretty sick too.

Best bits 1:38 – 1:52, 2:36 – 3:11, actually it’s all dancing gold, watch it all, especially the end where he bounces about like a pogo stick.

Clor (R.I.P) – Love + Pain

The routine bit in this is funny too

Friendly Fires - Paris

Ed oldschool moves are timeless perfection
He has a necktie on too - eek!

DiscoMix #1

2008-05-27T21:19:00.009+01:00

Thats right kids. On the back of mega-mega-mega bank holiday weekend fun (can you say WAAAASTED???!!!!!), something productive took place. Miracles happen, yes they do.

Hope you had a megatronic weekend too. I think I nearly cried seeing Tiga @ Warehouse Project on Saturday. It was everything I'd ever wanted. EROL was class , as always. Bring on Crookers!

Anyway. Please share in my proudest moment ever.

Disco Mix May 08

Tracks:
You're So Gangsta - Chromeo
I Am Somebody (Switch Remix) - DJ Mehdi
The Whistler (Diplo Remix)- Claude VonStroke
Bump (Switch Remix) - Spank Rock
Licky (Herve Goes Low Remix) - Larry Tee ft. Princess Superstar
Gimme More (LAZRtag Remix) - Britney Spears
Don't Stop the Music (LAZRtag Club Remix) - Rihanna
À Cause des Garçons (Riot In Belgium Remix) - Yelle
Numanoid - Feadz
Knobbers - Crookers
Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi
Flex (Dave Spoon Reflex) - Dizzee Rascal
Back Up Your Ass (Trashtalk Remix) - Maral Salmassi
Pardon Garçon - AutoKratz
Emergency (Radio Edit) - Passions
Club Action (Shanks Bootleg Mix) - Partyshank vs Yo Majesty
Save - Kap Bambino
Superheroes - You Love Her Coz She's Dead
CYOA (Flosstradamus Remix) - Heartsrevolution
Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles

Yes mate.
Disco.x

Daisy's Most Listened to This Week: Dutch Uncles (née Headlines)

2008-05-27T14:42:00.006+01:00

Dutch Uncles are an ace little band from Manchester. They played eurocultured this weekend and were very impressive indeed. The lead singer (Duncan?) is also quite an entertainer with pretty awesome dancing skills. 'Face In' is a shit hot track, great sweeping yet downbeat vocals+poppy guitar melody = sing-a-long heaven.

They're supporting Pete+ the Pirates on June 6th (my last day as a student for a while) at Night and Day (manchester) So I will hopefully be popping a long and so should you.

xLOVEx

Disco ♥'s Mixtapes

2008-05-19T22:58:00.008+01:00

Ok. Stating the obvious yeah. However, this is important. If you're not already a fan, No Love Lost Records rule! You sign up, on FB or MySpaz, and delivered straight to you with out even so much a a google search, you have a brand new mixtape. And this happens several times a week. And sometimes you even get 2. It's like Christmas, but better. Much better.

It's a great way to find out about new DJ's and producers and see (or should that be hear?) what they're all about. As well as that, it'll get you into a whole bunch of new tunes and before you know it you're drowning in all the dirtiest 'lechy-techy-dubby goodness.

This week they released their 56th mixtape, so they're obviously doing alright aren't they?

Past guests have included BRODINSKI, MAT PAYNE, OCELOT and CHEWY CHOCOLATE COOKIES to name just a few.

You'll soon be enjoying tunes the like of...

Primary 1 - Hold Me Down (Foamo Remix)
Mixtapes 054 by ON SNAP!!, 053 by CAP’NHARRY, 047 by FOOD SOUNDSYSTEM, 029 by DESTROY DISCO....

Crookers - Knobbers
Mixtapes 036 by STEREOHEROES, 039 by ZOLTAR (SPEAKS), 017 by TRONIK YOUTH....

Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Dave Spoon Mix)
Mixtape 036 by STEREOHEROES

So what you waiting for? Get on it!

Disco.x

8 Bit Necrophilia

2008-05-18T19:46:00.010+01:00

YOU LOVE HER COZ SHES DEAD are a band. From Bath apparently. They make shouty, bleepy noise and are good. It would also be lazy to talk about Crystal Castles in the same sentence, so we won't. Anyway...

They're coming to a town near me soon. Which I like.

Check this live version of Lions In Soho.

They've already won Best Electronica Act at the Indy Awards and made it on to a Kitsune Compilition.

They've even done some quality reworkings of Foals and Dizzee.

Not bad huh?

Stand Up Tall (YLHCSD Remix) - Dizzee Rascal

Electric Bloom (YLHCSD Remix) - Foals

Disco.x

Let's take it waaay back...

2008-05-14T00:03:00.001+01:00

Well back to the early 00's

This video taught me how to dance

Daisy. x

Skip to the beginning....

2008-05-13T21:59:00.004+01:00

Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you didn’t make all those stupid decisions that you did? Has everything you’ve ever done been a mistake? Ever wished you could go back and start over?
I’m not going anywhere with this by the way. Just a thought. One of those days.

Ah nostalgia.

So anyway. Here’s something from back in the day. The sadly missed and fondly remembered Grandaddy. Emotional n that.

And something likely to occupy my eardrums more recently. Also a total chooooon. Check this RMX of Purple Crush. Though you might want to disregard the vid. Bit odd.

Laters DiscoWizz. x

Mmmmmm....

2008-05-12T23:48:00.002+01:00

Laura

Marling

is

hot

Daisy x

OH MY GOD, IS THAT FRIENDLY FIRES? yes, yes it bloody well is

2008-05-12T23:34:00.000+01:00

just as i thought today was the worst day of my life - 8hrs in the library is not fun, a little, well a massive ray of hope was thrown my way, when i saw friendly fires sitting on a bench outside uni, knowing that the only words that could come out my mouth were "OH MY GOD I ACUTALLY LOVE YOU!" i decided not enter into a conversation with words, but rather with eyes, best... conversation... ever.

i am a fangirl, i can't help it, but this isn't infatuation, its love. just for ed though, lovely ed and his awesome dancing...ahhh back to revision i guess :(

The University of Manchester is a Massive knob

2008-05-12T23:16:00.003+01:00

exam + LOADS of may gigs = sad daisy

missing ff + cc
missing nasty fest - loads and loads of good people
missing the shoes and primary 1
missing jeremy warmsley
missing johnny foreigner
missing the great escape festival - incredible line up
plus lots more but i'm too frustrated to think about them all now

and i don't even like my course, what bollox

Daisy's Dream Team directors: team STUSH

2008-05-08T18:54:00.003+01:00

I've always been into music video and their directors, always been more interested in them than films. I'm a big fan of vetran directors Michel Gondry (best vid: Fell in love with a girl - The White Stripes) and Spike Jonze (best vid: Y Control - YYY's) but its the 'new' kids on the block team STUSH that have got me really excited.

team STUSH are a collective of super-talented directors based in London, their videos are exciting and different. They've done videos for Good Shoes, Klaxons, To My Boy, The Noisettes, The Young Knives, SMD, Foals to name but a few. The collective includes the incredible Saam Farahmand, Ollie Evans, Chris Cairns, Dan Lowe and Anthony Dickenson. As tempting as it is to fill this post with every single video they've done i'm just gonna pick my favourite favourites.

team STUSH

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong - Lucio Starts Fires
(Mainly for Joe Lean's skinny skinnies)

Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow

Good Shoes - The Photos on my Wall

Foals - Hummer

Saam Farahmand

Good Shoes - All in my Head

SMD - Hustler

Dan Lowe

To My Boy - I Am X-ray

Oh and before I forget...
Can't be arsed to do another post, but Kinga Burza is also awesome, she did this...

The Teenagers - Homecoming

DiscoWizz superstar DJ's of the week...

2008-05-06T23:42:00.006+01:00

...let me take a moment to breathe here as it's not everyday you get blown away by a new tune. But what was mainly a fairly poor day was spectacularly turned around at the last minute by yet another top draw partybangin' crew outta LA, the magnificent LAZRtag.

Mixes to date include some mega mega mega reworkings of Crystal Castle's Crimewave , Britney's Gimme More and last week's tune of the week HEARTSREVOLUTION's - C.Y.O.A..

These are all solid gold I'm telling you that right now.

It doesn't end there either. There's more treats to track down, with mixes of M.I.A., Justice and Aussie popsters Sneaky Soundsystem all keep the quality flowing.

DiscoWizz is visably devastated to find that the LAZRboys were on the same bill last month as gods among men Partyshank. What a night that must've been. Gutted. (Was in LA mind, bit of an ask...)

But never fear. I've saved the best for last. For this, there are no words. Pure decent mate.

Check this.

In a bit yeah... x

and here's the tune. Have it. Love it.

Revision...

2008-05-06T23:34:00.004+01:00

...is WHACK
Been staring at the above for about half an hour and still have no idea what it's about, bring on 2nd June!

DiscoWizz got grey skinnies...

2008-05-06T23:27:00.001+01:00

...LOL

Geting over Paris

2008-05-06T08:35:00.002+01:00

For a quite a good while one song has been guarranteed to get DaisyWizz insane excited and up and dancing within a matter of seconds. The band is Friendly Fires and the song is Paris.

The degree of DJ bullying and level of excitement on hearing the first few bars built over months leading to quite a climatic performance in London at PUSH in February, spinning around in circles and running laps round a club may not seem like the best dancing, but my god it was a quite a sight. Maybe it was the anonotomy of London but such scenes were never witnessed again. Sitting it out on Saturday at Smile appears to be the beginning of the end.

Daisy's Most Listened to This Week

2008-05-06T07:51:00.006+01:00

I should probably re-phrase something I said in the first post, while DiscoWizz may bring the lastest in electro/fidget/techno whatever, I'm just gonna talk about what's hot for me at the moment. Also I'm not gonna pretend I can write about music like DiscoWizz...just gonna give a few thoughts like.

This week i've gone a bit fangirl for Lets Bitter Cinema.
Not a new band, but that's not important. Hailing from Sheffied, they started out as a solo effort by Chris Hutchinson but are now a threepiece and a very good one at that. Am really hoping to catch them live soon after missing them Feb when they played London club PUSH and my favourite shop Beyond Retro a few weeks ago.

I'd give 'Oh Vienna' a good listen if you like a good shout, 'Take this act down' Also pretty much does the same.

Oh Vienna - Lets Bitter Cinema.
Take This Act Down - Lets Bitter Cinema.

eurocultured by DiscoWizz

2008-05-06T07:44:00.002+01:00

The hotly anticipated street festival hits Manchester again on the spring bank holiday weekend. Kicking off the start of summer. Here at Wizz Towers we can't wait. Last years event was a quality event, the pinnacle surely being Datarock on the main stage under the arches. A cracking stage pressence that really got the crowd up for it. This years line up looks to be skewed toward the evening's events. And with some of Manchester's finest clubnights currating, you'd hope so too!

The day time has an array of bands and street shenanigans with some of the city's hottest DJs dropping the tunes.

When the sun goes down, the fun will really start.

Contort Yourself will be spreading their Midas touch over the Pure triplex, and that's likely to be where you'll find DiscoWizz, no suprises there. With guests of the quality of Autokratz, Yuksek and Shadow Dancers alongside the CY residents, a good time will be guarenteed for fellow disco addicts.

Other initial standouts from the line up include the DFA backed Prinzhorn Dance School, Who will be playing the Bring on the Dancing Horses stage. Not what anyone expected to be on the support at a LCD Soundsystem gig, their crooked lo-fi is sure to be a treat. Another eye opener has got to be the MCR's finest crew Broke n English, ripping up an Italian restaurant on a Sunday evening. Not to be missed. Also gracing the Horses stage are Parisian electonic outfit Poni Hoax and mental Scots DANANANANAYKROYD, which is where you're most likely to see DaisyWizz.

Get your afterhours tickets now. They're a fiver at the moment. So it's cool if you're poor innit?

The only minor downside will be the hangover that will surely follow Tiga and Erol bringing the party to the Warehouse the night before. But that's what bank holiday weekends are made for aren't they?

Party on! x

The line up and all info

AutoKratz - Pardon Garcon MP3

Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader (live vid)

Daisy's YouTube Video of the Week: Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles

2008-05-05T23:03:00.001+01:00

Some may say it's boring, but it's been a while since a music video has really given me the drive/inspiration to want to direct again. Even if it is boring Alice looks hot.

x Peace Out x

theWizz is here!

2008-05-05T22:38:00.000+01:00

Welcome to theWizz!

A place to release pointless thoughts and ideas to everybody on the internet.

Founded by me - Daisy Wizz with the help of Disco Wizz. Expect to see posts from everything and anything from the lastest music to what subway Disco Wizz had for lunch to how many skirts Daisy Wizz whore last night.

P.S. I can barely write english and type quite excitedly so don't expect award-winning writing

x L O V E x