Matt “Watkins” Thomas (of King Unique) and his
apprentice/drug monkey/stalker Steve Mercer
(of no fixed address) invite you to get your Merkins on.
Curfew are proud to bring you the tech-dirt sounds of
Merkins ‘I Sleep In Sellotape’ and ‘Nesk’, the latest
instalment on King Unique’s Curfew imprint.
‘I Sleep In Sellotape’ is like Daft Punk doing minimal
with Brian Eno adding the whooshy bits. Thunderous
walking bass and a nasty nasal sliding little synth line
that sounds like you’re being bullied at primary school
(it makes sense when you hear it). Dry and tracky as
you like – until the icy chords come in and the whole
thing trips out in a Kupon style.
And ‘Nesk’ is more of the same - but backwards.
Blackpool Refugee, cycling fiend and house
music-machine Magik Johnson joins Curfew for
obviously his finest piece of music ever. Imagine
DJ Sneak, Switch and Jesper Dahlback all kept
hostage in a small room under orders to make
something really good or be shot.
Yes, it’s that good!
Early rotations from Adam Beyer, King Unique
and Nic Fanciulli, this is set for release in September.
of that bollocks - just six hours of underground house
in the heart of London. On the first Friday of each
month we crank up the Turnmills sound system,
unscrew most of the light bulbs and invite along our
favourite DJs and producers so that we can nick
all the CDs out of their wallets...
graced by the presence of work-shy acid house skivers/DJs such as Paolo Mojo, James Talk, Serge Santiago, Funk d’Void, Audiofly, Demi, Rui Da Silva, Pete Heller, Neil Quigley, Col Hamilton, Scott Bradford, Leon Roberts, Steve “I-Put-The-‘Mer’-In-Merkins” Mercer,
Tim “Smolder” Richards, and The Man From The North -
Scott “Habit” Udberg.
King Unique
Spencer Parker (Rekids)
Neil Quigley
King Unique
Ricky Ryan (Argentina)
Jim Rivers
their cult radio mix series, King Unique Broadcast 9.
One hour of all that is latest and greatest in the
underground electronic scene – reedited, remixed,
dubbed out, chopped up, chewed thoroughly and
spat out by the two Matts.
Bodzin & Romboy to Beck & Ricardo, the Martins
to the Merkins, Kiko to KU, taking in tracks from
Funk D’Void, Boards of Canada, Pitch & Hold,
Samuel L. Sessions – we even got beat-boxing and
the ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape’ soundtrack in there
for f**k’s sake. New King Unique remixes of
Tracey Thorn and Gabriel & Dresden plus sneak
previews of this summer’s releases on Curfew from
Merkins and Majik Johnson.
