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To celebrate the release of Optimo's great new "Dark Was The Night" mix album the duo are returning to the Sub Club tonight (Friday 31st Jan) for their first residency date of 2014. Though Jonnie Wilkes and Keith McIvor have done scores of commercial and free mixes down the years, Dark Was The Night rivals any of their previous selections in terms of diversity. Across 21 tracks, the techno of Terrence Dixon and Silent Servant mingles with Scottish '70s punk band The Freeze, New York minimal wavers Jeff & Jayne Hudson, Kode9 & Space Ape's new-school dub and experimental cuts from the likes of Nurse With Wound, Hieroglyphic Being and Carter Tutti. The title of the mix is a nod to Blind Willie Johnson, whose song "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" was one of the 27 pieces of music taken on the Voyager space flight in 1977 (known collectively as the Voyager Golden Records). Despite this, Johnson died penniless of malaria ...

This month sees the release of of Boston based DJs/Production duo Soul Clap' s debut album titled EFUNK. The highly anticipated debut will be released on April 20 th via their long term associates Wolf and Lamb and will feature a whole host of guest stars and is expected to be an amazing journey through electronic funk. Soul Clap have become a popular duo to watch with an increasingly growing fan base due with their highly original productions and their infamous vinyl only dj sets. They pride themselves on their dj ability claiming they have mastered every element of the DJ including "mixing, programming, performance and experience".  They feel they are travelling on a journey to master the strange worlds of new music. Stream and Download the link here In anticipation of the new album Fact magazine has re released a mix made exclusively by Soul Clap in 2010 and only given to a small number of lucky individuals at a party and through phonica records.  Now you can g...