What impresses me most about Vitamins, is the way they are totally bucking the trend for club nights in the city. Time and time again, the same nights come and go, playing the same selection of music in the same selection of venues. Vitamins were tired of that, and decided that after all, is there really anything stopping them pushing the boundaries? They launched 2 months ago with their own interpretation of what a club night should be – a massive party utilising two stripped out west end tenements, crammed full with the dance hungry and a host of top drawer DJs playing well past the bed time. The result, a baptism of gold granting them an enviable, highly impressive first impression, and a list of people craving for more.

Round two, and Vitamins are raising the game once more. This time to a secret location in a beautiful forrest in the Scottish countryside. Tickets are exclusive and extremely limited and the ONLY WAY you can get your merciless mitts on this gold dust, is by emailing vitaminsuk@gmail.com and pray for a call back…

So what’ll be there? They’ve invited some of their favourite Glasgow DJs and VJs to tear the field up. Fortunately, this isn’t some crusty free party with the tunes buzzing out of a selection of guitar amps and speakers from Victor Morris – We’ve got Cheesy and Zambo (soundsystem of choice for Subcity, Big Foots, Sunday Circus and Thunder Disco) in tow with a big rig, plenty of lights and a videowall to match.

The lineup, in true Vitamins style is a multi-genred beast of DJ sets, one off collabs and live performances to last from arrival to departure. Who’s that you cry? This is who:

Bigfoots Tea Party // Point to C // Bones & Money // All Caps // HaHaHa (live) // Shaun fae Solar // Chungo Bungo // Dommm (pest control) // Tarantism // Troutfish // Simon Bryan // Marco // Cheesy & Zambo // Visual AIDS … & other friends

£25 a ticket and that also covers your transport there and back. 21st – 22nd August, bus leaving at 4pm. You may want to bring a tent and sleeping bag (if you’re thinking of sleeping). There are strictly only a handful left and if you need more information, check out their Facebook event page.

To whet your appetite, here’s a lil mix from Bones & Money for Vitamins. Seriously, what are you waiting on?

BONES & MONEY present – IT’S A LOT! by vitaminsuk

Try and find something out about Vondelpark – it’s not going to happen. A very elusive band that don’t have a Myspace let alone a website, but surely, that makes it all the more treasured? I’m loving that woozy, two-step, downtempo melody paired with his strained and somewhat sinister sounding vocals – especially in the track, Start Life.

The debut EP ‘Sauna’ comes out this October.

Vondelpark – Jetlag

Vondelpark – Start Life (Be Side version)

Vondelpark – California Analog Dream

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Soooo, it’s that time again – second Saturday of the month IS One More Tune up the Art School. Tonight is the third birthday of this great night and to get y’all amped for the big night we have a tasty little mix prepared by OMT’s Matthew Craig.

Glasgow School of Art, 11pm-3am, £5 (free before 11:30 for all). With Jackmaster (Numbers) and residents Define Define . Patchwork rocking visuals + mad crazy
bday shit and Joe Crogan video documentation…

Be there.

Delinquent ft. Kcat – I Got U – [Spoilt Rotten]
Helixir – Convultions – [7even]
Gold Panda – Peaky Caps – [Ghostly]
Debruit – Soles Sweat (Reso Remix) – [White Label]
Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake Remix) – [White Label)
Big Boi - General Patton - [Def Jam]
Mono/Poly – Beatles Bitch – [Faces]
Megadeth – Set The World Afire – [Capitol]
DJ P.O.L. Style – Vampire Killah – [Nightshifters]
Clockwork – Airflow (Valerna Remix) – [White Label]
Brackles – Blo – [White Label]
The Dream – Love Vs Money – [Island Def Jam]
Minilogue – The Girl From Botany Bay – [Wir]
Marc Houle – Bay Of Figs – [M_nus]
French Fries – Senta (Emynd’s Mighty Quinn Piano Blend) – [White Label]
ESG – Dance – [99]
Retro/Grade – Pulsar (12″ Mix) – [Deconstruction]
!!! – The Hammer – [Warp]
Battant – The Butcher – [Kill The DJ]
Cubiq – Bor-Dom – [White Label]
Bent – Always (Mighty Mouse Remix) – [Godlike and Electric]
Warp 9 – Light Years Away – [Prism]
Naum Gabo – Black Lab – [Endless Flight]
6th Borough Project – Do It To The Max – [Instruments Of Rapture]
Local Natives – Airplanes – [Infectious]
These New Puritans – Hologram (Salem Remix)

OMT = 3 Mix

Dirty Basement – Talent by Association ft. MC Freeflow(HD Version) from Joe Crogan on Vimeo.

Video for Dirty Basement’s “Talent by Association” ft. Mc Freeflow by Joe Crogan. Enjoy the lasers.

Who wants a free ticket to Electric Frog Street Carnival? You have to work for it though, the person who adds as much wecanneverstop.com links to their Facebook page, gets to come party in the lap of luxury. Can it get any better? Pfft, yeah! You’ll also get a bottle of champagne and a well deserved pat on the back, chill out with Team WCNS (a true privilege), save yourself £35 which you can use to buy us a beer and have a DAM GOOD TIME!

If you’re competing email a link to your facebook page to info@wecanneverstop.com. So easy.

NO RULES – GOOD LUCK!

Planet Mu, once again, realise one of their canny A&R maneouvres with this debut long-player from prodigious youngster, Oriol. Taking things a step further, ‘Night and Day’ takes the futuristic technosoul of musical contemporary, Floating Points, and cross-breeds with the analogue-alchemy of pioneers such as Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Weather Report. Stunning. You gotta love that art work too.

Oriol – Coconut Coast
Oriol – Memories
Oriol – Night and Day
Oriol – 5 Bars

Photo: Robert Lochrie

Second installment in the WCNS Playlist feature. Not as large as the first, but the intention is that, they will be more frequent. Like the last, there is a stramash of different music and styles here which, we feel, deserve to be heard. From 70s Congolese psychedelic rumba beats to ghost pop in the form of Sleep Over, right round to looping foot tapping surfabilly revival music. We’re also happy to feature the polyrythmic tones of the Scottish band Forofo.

Enjoy

De Frank Professionals – Afe Ato Yen Bio
These New Puritans – Hologram (Salem remix)
The Samps – Peppergood
Keep Shelly In Athens – Cremona Memories
The Splinters – Blood on My Hands
Monster Rally – Palm Reader
Sleep Over – La rose
Fatima – Soul Glo
Forofo – Ha! Moose & Pidida
Dam Funk – Love Is Here 2nite

vanessabruno-Le Bel Eté-SS2010 from presse vanessabruno on Vimeo.

Great filming, great video, great girl.

It was made by Stephanie Di Giusto for French fashion label,Vanessa Bruno.

FLAIRS – TRUCKERS DELIGHT from 3rd Side Records on Vimeo.

WARNING If you are of a sensitive disposition and easily offended by extremely tongue in cheek 8-bit crassness, don’t watch.

I know this video isn’t exactly new, but very well done and it’s a catchy track to boot. Jérémie Périn (can’t find his site anywhere) made this for Flairs and you can now also get an iPhone app too.

The second instalment of, the exclusive WCNS mixes, is provided by one half of the RPZ outfit, Hushpuppy. His mix, Sunshine Pop Happening, has opted for an off-kilter, summer vibe using classics and rarities from the 1960s. He has also included a very interesting piece on his views of the movement, music and culture surround the 60s and our perception of it (see below the player).

I think it’s good to hear something different, especially when combining modern mixing techniques with music, totally not designed with that in mind. We hope you enjoy it and also be sure to check out the first in the series, Mathew Craig’s Synthia.

Sean & David – La-De-Da
Blades of grass – Just Aah
Beach Boys – Busy doin nothing
Sugar Shoppe – Skip along sam
Mama Cass – Long time lovin you
Free Design – Umberellas
The Association – Goodbye Columbus
The Groop – Jet song
Harpers Bizarre – Hey, you in the crowd
Sundae Train – Love affair of two happy people
Lovin Spoonful – Do you believe in magic?
Orpheus – Lesley’s world
Chris Montez – The face I love
Sagittarius – I’m not living here
The Buckinghams – Don’t you care
Claudine – My guy
Nino & April – You’ll be needing me
Roger Nicholls – I can see only you
The Group – A famous myth

Download Sunshine Pop Happening here.

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