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06.06.15 Club Rez: Field Day Afterparty

Bok Bok — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:25:05 +0000

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07.08.2014 – Fade to Mind ∞ Night Slugs, NYC

POL — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:50:35 +0000

Verboten, NYC – Friday 07.08.2014

Fade to Mind ∞ Night Slugs present

PHUTURE [LIVE - NYC DEBUT]
L-VIS 1990
KINGDOM
PRINCE WILLIAM

22:00 ~ Late

$10 ~$20

http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/643663“>Earlybird Tickets >

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GIRL UNIT – Club Rez – RIZZLA’s Club CECILE Bootleg

Bok Bok — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:00:25 +0000

introducing Club Rez – a new experience from Night Slugs!
2 launch parties:
24.07.14 LONDON
&
26.07.14 GLASGOW

to celebrate we are giving away RIZZLA‘s bootleg of the GIRL UNIT track that gave the new club night its name:

NSFM001 – DAT Oven – Icy Lake

Bok Bok — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:02:49 +0000

Originally released in 1998, Icy Lake is one of only three recordings by Dat Oven, a NYC-based house duo. Championed by house legend Junior Vasquez and rediscovered on Youtube by Total Freedom, the song was embraced by the Night Slugs and Fade to Mind family. A forgotten classic of the weird school, the crew heard a reverse-time capsure in Icy Lake, a message to from an Eski future to the Tribal House scene of 90s NYC.

After making contact with Dat Oven’s Jeffery Gratton, L-Vis 1990 was inspired to create a series of remixes, resulting in this full reissue with additional mixes by DJ Rashad & NA (Teklife / Nguzunguzu) and Total Freedom. Icy Lake is the first in a series of collaborative releases from Night Slugs and Fade to Mind.

Icy Lake is, in Jeffery Gratton’s words, “extremely controversial club,” the result of “a decadent decade of partying.” The iconic vocal sample was a voicemail left for Gratton by a friend on Christmas Eve, a sardonic reference to a terrible encounter with a soon to be ex-wife and her family. Based on their dark sense of shared humor, the voicemail’s morbid joke of ending it all in a nearby lake took on new life in the studio. Gratton and production partner Shunji Moriwaki created a devastated final note, accentuating the desperate voice with the stuttering of a dead connection. Renowned DJ Junior Vasquez was given an early pressing, rinsing it exclusively at iconic nightclub Palladium in the final summer before it’s closing in 1997. Soon after the official release in 1998, Gratton and Moriwaki left the music industry and went their separate ways.

Total Freedom encountered Icy Lake in a video of a night at Palladium, immediately sensing the new life it could achieve on today’s dancefloors. L-Vis 1990 tracked Gratton down, also via Youtube, and brought him into the studio for a remastering of the Original Arena Mix. “There is no other track like it. The extended intro, the ominous drone and the haunting vocal – it uses a different logic than most club music.” says L-Vis 1990. The track was motivation and connection, a rare bridge between old and new club culture. “I was blown away by Icy Lake the first time Total Freedom played it for me, the track plays out like a film” says NA of Nguzunguzu.

Alongside the Original Arena Mix, are two takes from L-Vis 1990: the minimal, grime tinged Remix and the shuffling industrial slam of the Fire Alarm Remix. The Rashad & NA Remix flips the up to 160 bpm, matching the signature atmosphere of the original track with the frenetic pace of footwork. Finally, Total Freedom summons a club demon, accentuating the already tense atmosphere with moans from the abyss.

Kingdom talks to Benji B – Fade To Mind special on BBC Radio 1

POL — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:09:38 +0000

Kingdom, founder of Fade to Mind, speaks to Benji about the label, its artists and upcoming releases.

Listen on the BBC website >

Tracklisting:
Nguzunguzu – Timesup (Kingdom Remix)
Kingdom – Timesup (VIP Dub)
Kingdom – That Mystik
Terror Danjah – With U (feat. Shola Ama)
Kingdom – Pang
Mike Q. – The Ha Dub Rewerk’d
Gremino – Lush
Massacoryman – Dead Long Time
Fatima Al Qadiri – Hydra
Kingdom – Corpse
Kingdom – Bank Head (feat. Kelela)
Na – Bstorm
Na – Xtreme Tremble
Kelela – Cut 4 Me
Kelela – Floor Show
Mike Q. – Werk’d It
Nguzunguzu – Break In
Nguzunguzu – Harp Bell
Nguzunguzu – Foam Feathers

FADE006 Kingdom – Vertical XL OUT NOW!!

admin — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:34:03 +0000

Vertical XL is Kingdoms 5th EP, a personal body of work made during his first years living in Los Angeles. The seven tracks chart a wide emotional terrain, connecting recent developments in Kingdoms production with seminal darker influences. Drawing its stories from moonlit rural isolation and dissonant moments in club vortexes, Vertical XL is a definitive insight into Kingdoms journey as an artist, steeped in elements of grime, jungle, and R&B. On the euphoric / cathartic lead single “Bank Head (featuring Kelela)”, Fade to Mind’s new vocalist Kelela completes Kingdoms new vision of R&B, marking the first release in a series of upcoming collaborations between the two. From love to loss, the fresh romance of “Zip Line” gives way to the dark rap mortality of “Corpse”. The grime-influenced “Viper Lash” is designed to rattle the club, an abstract dancefloor weapon with ominous bass explosions and spattered percussion. Completing the EP are “Takedown Notice”, a slow-grinding bedroom ballad and the anthemic build of “Viper XL”.

Buy digital on iTunes / Juno / Boomkat

Buy 12″ vinyl at Fade To Mind (US) / Rub-a-dub (UK)

23.03.13 Night Slugs ∞ Fade to Mind (LA warehouse party)

admin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:39:50 +0000

Secret location will be announced via email day of event!

Limited advance tickets & RSVP here

FADEMIX003: Bok Bok

Bok Bok — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:38:22 +0000

FADEMIX003: Bok Bok
Download from Soundcloud

01 – (unknown) – (unknown) [Night Slugs Club Constructions]
02 – DIVOLI S’VERE – What I Want Ha (Ckunt Diet Remix Instrumental) [Qween Beat]
03 – BOK & TRAGO – Work This Pussy [Night Voyage]
04 – JAM CITY – (unknown) [Night Slugs Club Constructions]
05 – DIVOLI S’VERE – Giddy Up Ha [Qween Beat]
06 – L-VIS 1990 – Ballad 4D VIP [Night Slugs]
07 – RUSHMORE – Couture [Trax Couture]
08 – DJ SLIINK – Follow The Leader
09 – BOK & TRAGO – Hole Driller [Night Voyage]
10 – DJ SLIINK & MIKEQ – Werk’d It [Fade To Mind]
11 – KOWTON – F U All The Time bootleg
12 – JEREMIH / JOE / WILEY – (AKITO bootleg)
13 – JAM CITY – How We Relate To The Body (HELIX bootleg) [Night Slugs]
14 – JACQUES GASPARD BIBERKOPF – For The Women
15 – IKONIKA – Backhand Winners [Hyperdub]
16 – DAT Oven – Icy Lake (L-VIS 1990 Refix 1) [Night Slugs / Fade To Mind]
17 – BOK BOK – MJT (LOL GURLZ Black Nail Polish bootleg) [Night Slugs]
18 – KINGDOM ft KELELA – Bank Head [Fade To Mind]
19 – JAM CITY – Love Is Real (MOKONA bootleg) [Night Slugs]
20 – 151 FEVA GANG – Shaking My Dreads

Night Slugs ∞ Fade To Mind @ SXSW 2013

Bok Bok — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:03:05 +0000

13.02.13 NS # 31 @ East Village

Bok Bok — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:08:17 +0000

with special guest LA’s DJ TOTAL FREEDOM representing FADE TO MIND

plus Night Slugs residents JAM CITY b2b GIRL UNIT

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