Hold Tight Radio - Dec - Part 1

The Bee Gees. The Alan Parsons Project. Stevie Wonder. Elvis Presley. That's right, it must be the "Hold Tight Best of 08 Round-Up" show. Over the last 12 months I've discovered some truly amazing music- much of it old. It being December though, I decided to put together some of my favourite records from 2008. Turns out it was a pretty good year, as i could have doubled the length of the show and still not fit everything in. Although a number of the tracks here are edits of of old tracks, almost everything on the show was released in one format or another in 2008. Apart from the ones that havent been released at all. Damn it - it's just some music I've been enjoying this year.
It'll be interesting to see where the edit scene goes next year as it's hugely saturated right now, but when there's still incredible records like "Night Flight" and "Make Dance" getting released, and producers like Pilooski doing weird and wonderful things to highly unlikely material (elvis?), there's still life in the old dog yet. Plus it's great to see this stuff only getting released on 12 inch, in some small way keeping vinyl alive and kicking.
Not to forget 08 produced some absolute belting "original" records, a few of which grace this month's offering. Hats off to Mugwump, Max Essa, Emperor Machine and Stevie Kotey's enormous Free Disco remix. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the show, see you in 09. xxx

Tracklisting:
Make Dance- Golf Channel
Not You- Alan Parsons Project (Messalina edit)
Pillow Talk - Quiet Village
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees (Cole Medina edit)
Paper Planes- MIA (DFA mix)
Dead Acrobat - Max Essa
Can't Be Beat - Quiet Village
All These Things - Kuniyuki - (Theo Parrish dubstrumental)
Nights Over Memphis - 6th Borough Project (Revenge Edit)
Love Love Love - Low Motion Disco (Aeroplane mix)
Boutade (dub)- Mugwump

Hold Tight Radio - Dec - Part 2

tracklisting:

Night Flight - The Revenge
The Feeling - Toby Tobias (I Cube mix)
Slap On- Emperor Machine
Plastik - Simon Baker (Todd Terje terraturk mix)
Baby's Band - Tele Music - (Leo Zero edit)
The Rose - Laughing Light of Plenty
Hold On - Holy Ghost (mock & Toof mix)
Hippie Can't Dance Boogie - Free Disco (Kotey mix)
Spectacle Wins!- Only Fools And Horses (Holy Ghost mix)
Crawfish - Elvis Presley (Pilooski edit)

Hold Tight Live in Berlin, and December show

On Saturday the 13th December i'll be playing at the rather smashing Stereo 33 in Fredrichshain, Berlin. Its right on Boxhagener Platz, 24 Krossener Str. I'll be in the ace little club section at the back, playing some serious basement boogie, deep disco, and general left-field groovers, from 10 til very late. Plus, the Sunday the 14th will be the December Hold Tight show, live on Loud FM. Ill maybe do a little "Best of 08" round up....

bis dann....