A quick note about KMA w/Nick Craddock, 17/02/12, i.e. our party next Friday. Sadly the council have imposed restrictions on Life Bar’s musicmaking capabilities, so we have had to decamp at least for now. For my own part I can only hope Kota and the rest of the staff at Life can win the council over because it would be a big loss if Life as a club is finished. It’s a great space with a clear soundsystem (rare these days) and we’ve had several very good nights there over the past year or two.

In its absence, the next KMA will now take place at the Questionmark Bar, 129 Stoke Newington High Street. This is a pleasantly decorated basement space with good sound, a classy mixer and, importantly, big sofas. It also has a licence that means the party will go from 9pm-4am.

Though the venue change means we can’t throw a free party, we are doing our best to avoid charging if we possibly can, so entry will be free as usual before 11pm and only £3 afterwards. Our guest Nick Craddock will make the most of the longer opening hours by playing an extra hour, while Bleimann will be responsible for the warm-up. Sandra 12″s at the ready.

Nick has recorded a mix to give you an idea of what to expect if you didn’t already know (house, techno and unmitigated gall) – right click to download:

Nick Craddock – Crad Me Again, 02/02/12

Tracklist in the comments. Til Friday…

Time for another KISS ME AGAIN at our favourite Japanese bar-by-the-barbican, Life on Old Street. Joining us this time will be Nick Craddock, resident at the old Süd Electronic parties and a regular both in front and behind the decks at Bleep43, Plex and most of the other parties worth going to in London.

It’s on Friday 17 February. It’s free entry. It’s til 2am. It’s CRAD ME AGAIN.

To tide you over until then, check out the latest Dance Sister radio show with KMA residents Andrew, Gwenan and Joe Delon somehow managing to hold it together for 2 hours of house, garage and one particular new favourite…the MAN MACHINE.

As we all recover from winter vomiting virus, big thanks go out to JANE FITZ for doing it again at Life Bar on Saturday, and especially for playing probably my favourite Gemini tune. Thanks also to our GWENAN, who as you can see got us off to a seriously vibey start. Our next party will be in February 2012 – more details as they become clearer.

In other news, there is a new mix up from our own resident Australian JOE DELON on the new and improved website of our holy trinity TOTHEBONE – check it out here.

We are back. Back to Life. And back with Jane Fitz. On Saturday 10 December. We hope you can join us to belatedly but wholeheartedly celebrate our third birthday and the tenth window on your advent calendar. It’s free entry so you can spend the remainder of your party budget on shochu cocktails and Asahi beer.

During the pause since the last party, we’ve all been busy (new jobs, new towns), not least our resident shapeshifter Joe Delon, who has started a fortnightly radio residency named Dance Sister on deepfrequency.com. Latest installment is broadcasting this evening; you can download the previous episode with special guest Bleimann here. Expect more of the KMA crew to drop by in weeks to come.

Sadly we have had to cancel this party due to a double booking with someone else. This might be the end of our relationship with Life, but it’s been good while it’s lasted. Keep an ear to the ground for news of What KMA Did Next…

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It’s our 3rd birthday and to celebrate we are doing the same thing we do every year…try to take over the world. To do this we have enlisted the host of our last birthday – Jane Fitz. Look at her soundcloud for archives of her weekly radio show (Mondays 10pm GMT on myhouseyourhouse) and come to the party on Saturday 24th September at Life Bar from 9pm-2am. It’s FREE.

Our Gwenan will be warming up with a very special 15 years of Marco Carola set.*

*Maybe.

Thanks to all who made it down for Steven Tang at our pre-rotation special a couple of weeks ago. Steven laid down a great mix, as he did two further times that weekend at freerotation alongside KMA favourites (and past guests) Jitterbug, Jane Fitz, Lakuti, Miles Sagnia and Ben UFO in some serious Welsh summer heat. Good times.

After a relatively quiet summer we’ve got big plans for the rest of the year which we’re polishing off AS WE SPEAK. To tide you over until September, man of manifold monikers and KMA resident Joe Delon has spun up some fit choons for the Bleep43 website: get “on that shit” right here. Whilst the meaning behind the many names Mr. Delon goes under may be as much a mystery as those of Wolfgang Voigt, we also discover a rare biographical fact: apparently he’s Australian.

Final call for our ‘Pre Rotation’ party at Life this Thursday 21 July with Steven Tang aka Obsolete Music Technology. This is mostly a post published in order to highlight Silke‘s amazing poster, so after you’ve viewed its inspiration, continue your evening’s televisual entertainment by watching a recent interview(!) that she conducted for Red Rack’Em to talk about her artwork for his label Bergerac. You might notice a wee mention of your favourite club night too. See you on Thursday, and probably also the next morning on the bus to Free Rotation, hungover as the Queen Mum.

Given Steven Tang has only released 10 or so records over the past 13 years, I’m slightly ashamed to admit I know just two or three of them. Worse, those I do know – the huggable bassline on ‘Cadence‘ (on -6 at least) from his 1998 debut, or the workouts on his recent Relapse EP for Hakim Murphy’s upfront Machining Dreams label – are strong enough to demand the effort of further research. More fool me for not making that effort.

His appearance at the next Kiss Me Again on Thursday 21st July should provide the necessary impetus. It’s a pre-Freerotation PRE-ROTATION party at the usual place, Life Bar near the Barbican. The price is a meagre £3 on the door.

If you haven’t yet discovered the pleasures of KMA’s particular brand of house, techno and TOTAL MASSACRE, you can download an approximation of the last hour or so of our May party here. For those who like that sort of that thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

We’re taking a month off in June to relax, refuel and relight our various fires. To fill the radio silence, KMA’s BFFs Sue & Giles have taken to the airways to bring you the latest in house, garage house, harthouse, microhouse, many other types of house and, uh, covers of The Three Degrees.

And some DJ Slip.

Check out the damage here:

Meanwhile, plans are afoot for some hot fun in the summertime…watch this space.

It seems mere days since our last party with Ben UFO, which saw* such minor celebs as Giles Coren and Fern Britton paying £5 for the privilege of getting down to the finest Midway-sampling UK Garage from the turn of the millennium.

All of a sudden it’s only 54 hours until the next Kiss Me Again party at Life, at the Barbican end of Old Street, and this time our guest is freeki MPC f*cker Juergen Junker. Arty is on warm-up duties from 9ish, with Juergen playing live for the main race from midnight; Joe Delon will be directing the post-event warm-down and stretching routine until the security guy gets tired and decides to go home (just past 2am).

Spring sportswear encouraged.

*Unverified eye-witness accounts only.