Download: Loose Fit 'Caribbean Girls' remix

Specialising in tripped out house, disco and funk, Loose Fit are headlining our Stop Making Sense London party next Thursday night at Favela Chic, a taster for their show at our festival later in the summer.

To celebrate, we've bagged an exclusive free download from the duo, a suitably sun-kissed Loose Fit remix of their track 'Caribbean Girls'.

Download: Loose Fit 'Caribbean Girls' remix

For more details about our party check the post below!

And check back here tomorrow for another free download from another SMS party starter, Rob Pollinate, who'll also be spinning at next week's Favela Chic party...

SMS party @ Favela Chic!

A boutique festival without the mud or fairy wings, Stop Making Sense brings you all the music heritage in a stunning location with guaranteed sun.

And next Thursday, July 29th, we're bringing you another chance to sample the delights that await in Croatia a little closer to home, at Shoreditch's Favela Chic...

The live act on the night is Loose Fit, purveyors of tripped out house, disco and funk. Drawing inspiration from New York, Detroit, Cologne and Manchester, with remixes from Greg Wilson and Tom Taylor on their newly released EP, Loose Fit are primed and ready for one almighty 2010..

DJs on the night are Rob Pollinate - the man behindPollinate Records and one half of the Silky Boys - who'll be dropping the next generation of global bass beats from kwaito, cumbia, reggaeton to bashment, funky, bassline & more - plus tropical disco hero and SMS resident Madera Verde.

Be there, or be gutted you weren't...

STOP MAKING SENSE PARTY
THURSDAY 29th JULY
@ FAVELA CHIC
LIVE: LOOSE FIT
DJS: ROB POLLINATE + MADERA VERDE
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am
www.favelachic.co.uk

HAUS music...all night long

Brick Lane may lack the crystal blue waters of the Adriatic but the sun is well and truly here and tomorrow night we'll be bringing more than a little Croatian magic to London's East End as we touch down for a Stop Making Sense party special at 93 Feet East's monthly HAUS night.

Headlining the night are the Mercury and Brit nominated FRIENDLY FIRES. Now generally when bands make an appearance in the DJ booth, we make our excuses and leave, Friendly Fires though are a different proposition altogether. From their very first release featuring an inspired cover of house classic 'Your Love' it's been clear that dance music is in these boys blood, and over the years the band's DJ sets mixing up techno, house, disco and electro have kept them in high demand at clubs all over the world.


Joining them are some of the other highlights of the festival including the criminally good blogging/DJ'ing/label owning duo ALLEZ-ALLEZ, GIRLCORE's Naomi, Brighton's LEON LACE, the SLUTTY FRINGE chaps and a live set of squelchy Balearic acid dub from LOOSE FIT. 



SLUTTY FRINGE PRESENTS: HAUS - A STOP MAKING SENSE SPECIAL
FRIENDLY FIRES [DJ SET] + ALLEZ-ALLEZ + LOOSE FIT [LIVE] + LEON LACE + GIRLCORE + SLUTTY FRINGE
7:00PM - 1:00AM
FREE BEFORE 8PM / £5 AFTER
93 FEET EAST
BRICK LANE




SMS London party this Thursday!

We'll be bringing a little more heat to central London this Thursday, July 9th, when we takeover The Social bar on Great Portland Street with a truly sun-kissed showcase of some of the bands and DJs playing our very first Stop Making Sense festival this summer.

Live duties fall to latin funk punks Longjon La Flecha manage to mix intricate rhythms, heavy bass, wonky synths and Fall like vocals into a hypnotic experimental maelstrom that shouldn’t work on paper...but in practice delivers every time!

DJ support comes from club slut and disco-lover Slutty Fringe, tropical dude Madera Verde and Rob Pollinate, who'll be dropping next gen global bass taking in the gut-wrenching sounds of kwaito, cumbia, reggaeton, bashment, funky, bassline & more!

Stop Making Sense party
Thursday 8th July
LIVE: LONGJON LA FLECHA
DJS: SLUTTY FRINGE + ROB POLLINATE + MADERA VERDE
The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, 0207 636 4992
Nearest Tube: Oxford Street
6pm – 1am
FREE ENTRANCE ALL NIGHT
www.thesocial.com

Party time: SMS bring the beach to London!

You can't say we're not good to you...following on from roadblocked SMS parties back to back in East and West London earlier in the year we're back, bringing another sun-kissed taster of what you can expect from our first festival in Croatia this September.

On Thursday 24th June we hit Favela Chic with lives bands Rogue Nouveau - the jazz-hip-hop-soul brainchild of sassy singer/MC Natalia Sheppard (pictured, above) - and Hannah and the Heartbreak, whose previously toured with Martina Topley-Bird and is part of North London's vibrant warehouse scene. Support on the night comes from SMS favourite cumbia-championing world music renegade Russ Jones and resident Madera Verde.

The night after, on Friday 25th June, we return to Notting Hill Arts Club with an all-out electronic affair headlined by secretsundaze resident Giles Smith with special guest Lakuti of sud electronic fame. Expect cutting edge house and techno with a distinctly cool, continental flavour.

See you 'pon the floor...

THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
@ FAVELA CHIC
LIVE: ROGUE NOUVEAU + HANNAH AND THE HEARTBREAK
DJS:  RUSS JONES + MADERA VERDE
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am

FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
@ NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB
DJS: GILES SMITH (secretsundaze)+ LAKUTI (süd electronics)
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
Nearest tube: Notting Hill / Tel: 020 74604459
Free entry before 8pm, £6 before 11pm, £8 after / 7pm – 2am

Stop Making Sense presents...East vs West

Get a flavour of the musical anarchy and sun-kissed freewheelin' spirit of Stop Making Sense next week at our East meets West double-header of sure-to-be riotous London parties.

On Thursday 29th April, SMS mix stars (download below!) Latin Dub Soundsystem and Movimentos' Cal Jader will be bringing their cumbian-latin-dancehall-dubstep soundclash to the good people (er, that's you) at Favela Chic.

The following night, on Friday 30th April, SMS hits the Notting Hill Arts Club with super-talented teenage flamenco troubadours Fran and Josh, who are bringing their genre-trashing musical fusion to our first festival in Croatia in September.

Join us!

Thursday 29th April
LATIN DUB SOUNDSYSTEM, LONGJON LA FLECHA, DJ CAL JADER & SEBILIO @ FAVELA CHIC
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am

Friday 30th April
FRAN AND JOSH, LONGJON LA FLECHA & DJ RICHARD NORRIS @ NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
Nearest tube: Notting Hill / Tel: 020 74604459
Free entry before 8pm, £6 before 11pm, £8 after / 7pm – 2am