So its time for another sporadic post on the Soul-Identity blog (really should stop calling it that, how about quarterly bulletin?). At least, you can’t argue that we indundate you with stuff and  I hope that when we do its something worth shouting about. Props to two certified blogs that do it right, and get checked on the regular on the Soul-Identity Google Reader – I’m calling out Put Me On It and FreshSelects – both worthy of your attention if you don’t know already (just check the latter’s recent Charles Hamilton post for some quality breaking news!).

We’re still here, and in a world where free audio rules and Spotify could be king, we’ve decided to renew the Live365 radio feed for a further year just to give  you loyal people something programmed to listen to during work time (We still do take requests, jut shout). Apologies for the lack of updates (we’ve been trying harder recently), but we’re still on some crazy upload limiting Vodafone service that makes it almost impossible to do anything of worth on the net (just waiting for it crash halfway through this blog…). Plenty of goodness about though. Definitely feeling the new Phlash & Friends “Deep Electronic Sound LP”, the Floatingpoints “Love Me Like This” finally gets a release (and sells out) on R2 (the Nonsense Dub is sick!), all the beats the One-Handed crew have been putting out and STILL rocking that Q-Tip album (No Feva on the vinyl though, which is damn shame). The London gig at The Roundhouse was mad btw but I guess you already heard that. Plenty of killer disco edits floating about on vinyl too (Loving the more housier of The Revenge‘s recent bits and pieces), some of  which you can’t purchase on MP3 (well I guess the original might be sourced) yet sadly more record shops seem to be going under. Is it now only a matter of time ?  Especially when most of the DJs I’ve caught this year seem to be rocking the Serrato / laptop look. Hmmmm. Still haven’t fully engaged with it. Still need the physical.

Anyhow, to the point of this post. We’ve got a little party coming up after a bit of an enforced Winter break and to be fair, it’s probably the thing I’ve been most excited about for a while. A week on Saturday (25th April), we have one of our favourite bruk/broken/future jazz *delete as appropriate producers guesting for us at a night we’ve called “Future Thinking” (I know a wee bit pretentious, but bear with us) – a man by the name of Dominic Stanton AKA Domu. Due to the wonders of the Internet, you can cop the flyer below.  Nice isn’t it? Props to my man Rob Wilkes from Giant for the design.

Future Thinking w/ special guest Domu (TrebleO/CO-OP) - Saturday 25.04.09

Now over the 5 years of doing this thing – the website, the radio, the occasional nights, I have to admit this man’s tunes  have been residing on too many of my playlists (the only others who’d come close I guess would be Louie Vega and Mark De Clive-Lowe, who both reside in the US, so no chance of a gig there). We caned both his Up and Down (“Last Time”, “Sail Away With Me”) and Return of the Rogue (“Arrival”, “Unfazed”) longplayers, and that’s not to mention his numerous productions, remixes, aliases and partnerships (Yotoko, Bakura to name but two) and general 12″ releases on some of the scene’s most respected labels (“Save It” on 2000Black is STILL the ONE).  So lets just say we’re pretty excited about having him down in London town. New to all this? then check this and this and seek out some education. On the night, expect him to pull out an eclectic selection of tracks ranging from house, to disco, to hip hop and broken beat and just general good music (okay so I’m biased).

Also on the bill for the night, we have another Soul-Identity favourite in the form of JC, label boss of Here & Now Recordings (see previous post for a run down of what we think of him), Myself (Rob Coley, just in case you didn’t know) and Hackney’s secret disco hound Stuart Dennis. Party starts at 9pm-ish and runs through to 3am-ish. The fee to get in? A simple £3 entry before 11pm and just £5 after. Sound good? It’s in the  refurbished basement of Cosmobar, about 10 minutes walk from Old Street tube / or a bus ride. Hope to see you there.

Other news. Well there is a second thing we’ve put together in the Winter months. A little bit about that later but if you can’t wait you may want to head over to our Facebook group or Twitter account (yes just like the entire US Hip Hop community, we also tweet occasionally!) for a few cues. More on that in a week or so.

Thanks for listening / reading.

It’s always appreciated.