Get your excuses in early... Yeah thanks Mum, gonna need to shoot off pretty early Boxing Day though ;)

C.O.R have been throwing legendary parties on Boxing Day along the South Coast in Southsea. Greg Wilson, Diesel, Graeme Park, Ashley Beedle & Alfredo have all joined the friendliest gang of disco reprobates you are ever likely to meet for some well organised debauches over the years. I'm a big fan and love their parties but have yet to make it along to a Boxing Day beano. This year it's gonna be different, plans are being made, excuses in early and a mid morning departure from the family should be pretty smooth. No Turkey sandwiches for me, I'm off to a Vintage Holiday themed H.O.U.S.E party! Tickets are available very shortly and the info you'll need is here FB EVENT By the end of play we can see a few of the crowd rolling out some Party Chat for the remaining post - Christmas telly sessions...see below!

Rough Around the Edges with C.O.R & Pablo Contraband - Friday 22 July

I'll be taking a ride down the coast on Friday night to join Disco Deviant's brothers in arms Civilisation of the Rough in Southsea. Great bunch of guys and a great night is always on the cards when they are out and about with their records out. They have a habit of booking some of my favourite DJ's and using unusual venues to throw the best parties possible. Take a look on the COR website and there are mixes and pictures from some of the previous parties. Admittedly this is a slightly scaled down affair in comparison to some of those BIG guest nights. Rough Around the Edges is their monthly session running during the summer months when things can be a little trickier with summer holidays and festivals taking precedence.

That being said don't expect anything less than a decent party for the musically discerning. I have a whole load of new stuff I'm looking forward to unleashing for the first time, plenty of great music to come from the COR guys too.
  Toddla T - 'Watch Me Dance (with Roots Manuva)' (Andrew Weatherall Remix) by toddla_t
It's a free entry gig at The Edge of the Wedge   the sounds good, the drinks are cold and the music is gonna be hot. Looking forward to it.

8pm - 2am
Edge of the Wedge
147 Albert Road
Fratton, Southsea PO4 0JW

Southsea Brothers in arms - C.O.R - Boxing Day Beano and Free Album

Just along the South Coast on our fair island lurks a place called Southsea. They have a skate park there I seem to remember and are neighbours with Portsmouth, a famous naval town.

Also amongst their ranks are a crew of music obsessives and DJ's collectively known as Civilisation of the Rough - COR for short. Between them they own some fine records, have partied with the best of them and generally keep the fire burning. The COR Parties have had some brilliant bookings (a few mirrored our tastes exactly here at DD) with Greg Wilson, Alfredo, Bill Brewster, Diesel and Michael Cook all having played for them.

Their next party is on Boxing Day and features another canny booking, Dave Jarvis (Faith) will join them and no doubt smash the floor. A founder of Faith Fanzine and the associated nights that have been an integral part of the dance scene and British club culture for 20 years.

I recommend checking the website out as it's jam packed with details of what the COR guys are all about and where & when the parties they throw will be.

LINK to details
http://www.c-o-r.co.uk/civilisation_of_the_rough/cor-soirees/cor-keeping-the-faith-on-boxing-day

They are a kindly collective and seeing as it's the season of giving they have supplied us with a couple of pressies. One is a mix by Mark Persaud linked to a new project they have, a night called caberet voltaire.
Again the selection on here is excellent and features a handful of tracks from 89 to now, I would and do play all of them so hat's off.

  Mark Persaud : Cab-Vol Mix #1 : Pt1 by Cab-Vol

  Mark Persaud : Cab-Vol Mix #1 : Pt2 by Cab-Vol

Not satisfied with that? Well they've spoiled us here so fear not you greedy lot. They put an album together a while ago and dished 100 copies out to their crowd at the launch party. This is the retrospective studio mix album of COR's best dancefloor 'moments', sequenced in Ableton and Cubase with a few disco sprinkles and cheeky edits chopped in for good measure. Each of the 7 residents chose their best tracks and Leon Windsor took them into the studio to try to glue them into a coherent whole. They gave 100 copies away in September, complete with beautiful artwork, sleeve notes etc. Here it is in free download version. Hope you like it.

  The Civilisation of the Rough - COR Moments Album by Leon Windsor

There you go that's a fair bit of love from the COR camp, however if you dig a bit deeper on Leon's SC page there are a couple of edits also up for grabs.

If you like what you hear you will be pleased to know I'm thinking of getting a couple of them down to play for DD in Brighton early 2011 so watch this space.