Dressed As A Girl

My original production Mod Freq has been snapped up and synced to a film! I recorded this track last year, with my own vocal and production but chose not to release it since it was recorded during a painful end to a long term relationship. But now I'm so pleased that the director of film decided to use the track and I was able let the fruits of my hard effort go to good use in their fabulous film! So far they've screened at the BFI festival and the Rio theater in London with more dates to announce soon. Its a brilliantly entertaining and relevatory "frock-documentary" with real life footage of London's Drag Artists. Expect colorful characters, dramarama and some surprising gritty, truly human, emotion.

Check out the reviews and trailer on the Dressed As A Girl Official Website

Freq Tube!

Here is some live footage from last month's Heroes! Thanks to everyone involved! I'm sorry that I've neglected this blog for too long, and so much has been happening. My bad. I pledge from now on to keep you up to date with all that is new and exciting. I will never stop chipping away at this dream, it's what I came here to do, and it will be done!!!

Check some new footage and please go and subscribe to my new YouTube channel! x

Heroes 2013

We're Back! And for me, not a moment too soon. January can be really kinda... meh, bleh. I've recharged, and I'm ready to kick off 2013 with a bag of considered tracks and some powerful, positive intensions for the year ahead. There will be NO January blues tracks or depressing vibes in my room! See you in the main room, 1-3 ; )

The RA Page for the night

The Facebook Event Page for the night

We Are Geisha

I'll be playing at Cargo in East London this coming Friday. This is a fairly new night run by DJ's Lottie and Suze Rosser. It's a night intent of showing off female talent and always seems to be hitting the right balance of experienced and up and coming names. There really are so many women turning their hands and hearts to this dark art and it's kind cool to celebrate this.

But you don't have to be lady to party. Everyone is welcome so get down there and show your support!

I'll be playing the closing set 1:30 to 3 am, and I'm expecting to go out in a Xmas Bash style.

Facebook Page for the night.

Resident Advisor page for the night.

The Last Heroes ( of the year ; )

Yes, it's the end of 2012 and the last heroes is upon, and we intend to go out with a boom! As you can see the line-up is massive, yet again. I'm playing the main room from 1 till 3am. ( which is a happy slot for me ; ) I'm home friday night right now sorting through tons of new fresh music to unleash. I feeling like the last set at heroes of 2012 needs to be well, a bit epic. Hope you can get down to join us! ✌

Get ticket's from Egg's site

The RA event page

The Facebook event page

Heroes Futuristic Birthday Ball

This Saturday is Heroes' 1st birthday since it's reincarnation at Egg lead by promoter Jim Warboy. I was made resident DJ in Dec 20011 and if you've been one of our regulars I think you'll agree that so much has evolved at the club, and the night, in just one year. I'll be playing a special birthday set in the main room from 1-3 and we will be joined by a truly wicked crew of guests to help commence into year two with style. Hot off the tours supporting Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks Zebra Katz will be performing live. Since I've heard nothing but phenomenal reviews on his multi-media-art-infused performances, I'll be sure to catch this. Techno don,Oscar Mulero will be playing his updated deeper sounds after me in the main room. And we have my long time good friend and LDN DJ Heroine Hannah Holland joining us fresh from a NY tour and launching her new imprint, NativeCity last month. I've also heard there will be vodka jelly shots served throughout the night by painted ladies/boys while you can get 'em!

This will be a massive night. Get down there if you can.

RA Page!

Facebook Page!

Playing The Heroes

I'm really excited about is month's Heroes. The city is buzzing with olympc fever, and positioned to prove that I'm a true sportswoman in my game, I'll be playing the headline set from 2:30 to 4:30 in the middle room at Egg. Joining us in the downstairs room this month will be Greg Threshor and one of my personal faves, Reset Robot. Friday night will host Felix Da Housecat, for which you can buy special priced 'weekender' tickets. We have an influx of international visitors (like you haven't already noticed!) and with this line-up tix are sure to be selling fast. It's going to be a massive weekend. Hope to see you there!

Resident Advisor page for the night!

Celebrating Bastille Day @ Heroes

Insert a very "drole" french revolution joke here. Yes, July the 14th is Bastille Day and we'll be celebrating at Heroes this month with Sebastian Leger joining as headliner and some other fabulous Frenchy guests. Hope to see you there mon amie. Bisous!

Get your tix from Egg's Heroes webpage here

Join us on the RA event page for the night here x

I've Run Out Of Hero Title Puns

For now anyways ; } ..........Yes, another night of Heroes is upon us. I'll be playing before Shadow Child from 12:30 to 2:30. Shadow Child is Dave Spoon's new guise. He has a pretty amazing discography behind him and his Rustic Chip/String Thing on Dirty Bird is currently, well, a bit of a massive hit. I'm really looking to this tonight, although it's normally a tough weekend for people to get out post bank holiday, it's the first sunny weekend we've had in aaaaages, and the much needed Vitamin D is raising spirits, hopefully the music will too ♥ ; }

RA Page for the night

Hero Worship

Massive line-up at Heroes this month. Not on the flyer, we also have my dear friend Xo Chic (one half of ex-Dollz At Play) joining us at the last min after playing the ridiculously big Superfreak 10th birthday bash at Paramount last Saturday. What more can I say? Last month you could not get in the room I was playing. Just get down there. Early. ; } ♥

Facebook Page for the night

RA Page for the night

I Need A Hero!

It's Heroes time again, this month it falls over Valentine's weekend (or as close as) so Egg are hosting a special pop up dinner! I'll be there playing 2-4am in the middle room. Last month was so much fun, the crowd had such a huge energy. Already well underway, I'm expecting to see more great changes at Egg this year. I hope to see you there. x

Resident Advisor Page for the Night!

We Could be Heroes

........Recklessly collide unique creative characters with high caliber musical talent and you directly challenge the established boundaries of clubbing. Big line-ups don't have to mean a faceless, generic club experience and glamorous events can have incredible soundtracks. This is the philosophy at the heart of Heroes, the latest multi sensory adventure in Partyland to hatch from maverick club destination Egg.............

I'll be playing this Saturday January 14th 2012 @ Egg, London 2-4am before the prolific Systematic label boss Marc Romboy (I'll have to remember to take all of his records out of my box before I play, it would be rude not too ;)

See you there!!!

Facebook Event Page

Heroes

I'm currently gearing up for a fab night this Sat. I'll be playing alongside Lottie and Waryboy @ Heroes.

Egg has undergone a few changes of late that are rather exciting, more to be revealed.....

If you would like to win VIP FREE ENTRY plus one, I'll be giving away 10. All you need to do is make a comment below about this blog entry, 'Like' my brand new JoJo De Freq (offical) Facebook Page and follow my Tweets

Get involved. Hope to see you there! xx

My Friends Electric

I'm playing at very special night this Saturday the 24th in Brixton, London.

It's the 'Grand Opening' party for one of London’s most historic venues. Not to mention an epic line-up choc-a-bloc with groundbreakers, rule-wreckers, and tastemakers, of which I'm rather proud to play alongside.

The clubs new title is Electric Brixton formerly know as the Fridge and the Ace. The Clash and the Smiths played at the venue when it was known as Brixton Ace, before it became the Fridge in the mid-80s. The Pet Shop Boys and Eurhythmics performed there during the 80s, Soul II Soul had a residency playing hip-hop and funk at the venue in the late 80s. And in the 90's, Grace Jones took to the stage, while the Fridge become seminal to dance culture. Named by many to become as one of London's infamous 'Superclubs' alongside Cream and the Astoria.

The former cinema has now been stripped back to its ornate 1912 neo-classical plasterwork, freshly painted in a shimmering gold (my fave!). The venue has undergone a huge £1m facelift.

So it's good day for London music land to finally have another big club to support our scenes (let's just pray the sound is sound ;)

Check the line up below; I shouldn't need to say much more. Hope to see you there!

I don't know how many tickets are left, but check their Facebook pop-up giveaways (there was one on this morning to win two tickets if you could name the city I was born ;)

Oh, and please come and support my new (official!) Facebook page. It's about time I sorted it out (shocking really, isn't it?)


JoJo De Freq Facebook Fan Page (official!)

Electric Brixton The Grand Opening Facebook Page

Cinema Of Dreams

It was a dream line up at London's classic cinema turned nightclub. Tickets were sold out instantly and rumored to be selling on the internet for about £80 (not to mentioned three different scalper's who tried to sell me tix on the way in, cheeky!) This night I played along side.....

Aeroplane, Busy P, Brodinski, Feadz, Dave Clarke, Xavier from Justice, Erol Alkan, Boys Noize, Mehdi, Crookers, Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo of The Bloody Beetroots, Rory Phillips, Mickey Moonlight, Justin Robertson, Midfield General, Glimmers, Headman, Vicarious Bliss....ahh sigh, the list is exhausting!.........

It was my booking agency's 10th anniversary and to celebrate they organized a massive charity-rave-up-disco-danfloor-destroyer-of-a-party. Because it was a charity and no one was being paid to play, I think it made for a very different dynamic at work; more play than work. And like the red velvet curtains still hung in the main room the love was flowing, the ravers eyes as wide as the two massive mirror balls shimmering from the endless ceiling. On the balcony the venue looked spectacular, and that is something rare to be said about a London venue. Although it's ambitious to fill, I hope people use will use the place more often in the future.

We only had short one hour sets to play, so I opted to freewheel my way around a set of new classics, oddities and heavyweights, free associating from Disco to Dubstep. Here is my set recorded live on the night:

JoJo de Freq’s Associative Freewheelin’ live dj mix
Recorded at Decked Out’s 10th Anniversary at the Coronet, London 5th of Feburary, 2010

Sebastien Tellier – L’Amour et Violence – Boys Noize Main Version (Record Makers)
Dustin Zahn - Stranger (To Stability) (Rekids)
Bobmo – (Institubes)
HiJack, Satiago & Bushido – Way Back – Santiago & Bushido Remix (Potty Mouth Music)
Riva Starr – Dance Me feat. Trim (Made to Play)
Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y. – Donut –Boy 8-Bit Remix (Get Physical)
Aberrant -Calisto (Rekids)
Shortsuff, Hyetal -Don’t Sleep (Punch Drunk)
Green Velvet ft. Santiago & Bushido – Turn It Up (Cajual)
Felix Da Housecat – Elvi$ (Nettwerk)
Vitalic – Poison Lips (Citizen)
Lindstrom – Grand Ideas (Feedelity)
Radioslave – RJ (Rekids)
Hot Chip – One Life Stand – Carl Craig PCP Remix

xxJ

Return Of The Mac!

After an unbelievable 6 weeks of painful computer withdrawals, the Mac is back! It's hard to believe that Apple could not figure out what went wrong with my machine. It was a freq case of Mac attack. My repair guy told me it was getting shipped strait over to the Apple development technicians -in other words the people who actually design the machines- so they could try to solve the mystery of my Mac....in the end they had to replace my entire machine....To credit Apple, they did give me incredibly fantastic customer support and genuinely tried resolve the issue, while reimbursing me for anything lost in the process (except precious time of course). I truly wish all the businesses I have to deal with with were so helpful. I still love Apple for all the genius stuff they produce. I've had 6 weeks to learn how everything I do completely revolves around my Mac, to say I'm happy it's back would be a massive understatement.......So after this little period of misfortune, now I can finally get back to blogging, being a digital DJ and of course my most beloved passion, making music.

On top of the Mac meldown, October had been one of my busiest DJ months of 2008. I played everywhere from Moscow to Madrid, from Nottingham to Newport. It's a shame I've not been able to tell you all about them.....but there are still many more to come.....that's one of the reasons I like to blog: the second you finish playing the experience just disappears into the cosmos, here I can at least document a little bit of the hard work and excitement that is unique each night.

To try to make up for my Mac attack and my resulting neglect of this blog, I'M OFFERING 10 HALF PRICE TICKETS ON MY GUEST-LIST FOR BUGGED OUT THIS WEEKEND at the End in London exclusively for De Frequencies' blog readers. So that means £8 tickets and guest-list cue. The first 10 people to email us here at De Frequencies will get 'em. It's gonna be a fabulous party will me and Miss Kittin ripping it up in the main room and loads of other hot guests, so get yourself down there, and if you're in London and you're a Freq HIT US UP!

The End of The End

ME @ THE END IN DECEMBER

Oh dear, it's true, I've not posted for almost two weeks now....but I really have the best (actually the worst) excuse! My laptop of over 4 years just died on me a couple of weeks ago, just like that poof, its gone but after that long, you start to expect this to happen, so naturally I had the entire drive backed-up. No major trauma. It just means until I can afford to replace it, I have to use my desktop computer -normally strictly reserved for making music with- to do admin tasks including blogging. But last week suddenly my desk top died! Can you believe a monster 8 core processor Mac Pro, basically the top Mac your money can buy, and less than a year and a half old, can breakdown just like that!? I can't, I wasn't expecting it, and it couldn't have happened at worse time. Thank god for my extended Apple warranty is coving it. Although it seemed way over priced, I highly recommend getting it if you're buying a Mac (you also get telephone support)....anyways, this is why I've not blogged. And not done a lot of things. I've come to realized my whole life revolves around my Mac. So borrowing my boyf's lappy, I'm writing a little update finally for De Frequencies until I get it back.....

If you haven't heard already, the news was out last week, London's legendary End club is going to be closing it's doors for ever in January. Really, it's like the end of London club venues en masse this year, it kicked off with the closure of the massive Canvas and the historic Cross, along with the slightly younger fab boutique disco The Key. Then, the long-time London clubbing institution Turnmills closed it's doors, and now one of the last standing credible 'proper' club venues, The End. The End was the first club I visited when I moved to London in 2001, it was one of the few, of the then massive number of big clubs, that appealed to me because of their great underground line-ups. Now I've played there, OMG, for like 5 years?! I'll be sad to see it go. So Bugged out will be looking for a new home, along with Erol Alkan's Durr club, two important alternative dance nights residing at The End. Where will we go??? If someone opened up a medium sized two roomed 1500 capacity proper night club with a killer layout and sound-system, they would absolutely clean up right now....I hope someone does, or else we're going to be forced to keep throwing parties with crappy sound systems in the car parks (well, alt least more than we already are!)

It's just coincidence, but The End website-zine asked me to do an interview with them the same week they announced their closure. It's quite in-depth because Bugged Out asked the questions, and I think the questions are spot on because they know me so well. You can check out my full interview for The End here.

Field Report

Me and Naomi// *Girlcore*



Crooker


Isa GT, Crooker & Friend


Modeselecktor on the mic


Brodinski & Matt Walsh


Richie Hawtin Eating some crisps


Richie on stage


Richie's techno-tastic-lightshow


Brodinski rocking it

I had the weekend off, and went down to check out the brilliant line-up in the Bugged Out tent at the Field Day festival in East London. It was the first time in as long as I can remember I went out to enjoy some music without thinking about playing myself! It was completely recreational. Strange, but nice. Nice to have the time to check out some some other acts, and socialize. The weather was crap and raining, of course, but then that just made it all the more a proper English festival. I met up with some friends in the crowd and met a few new people backstage. I had a really nice mojito and organic chicken burger...... and then just generally misbehaved......now, back to the studio with some fresh perspective........

In Da Bug

It was another great night. Packed with a responsive crowd. Felix payed the best I've heard him....and what character too, with that big cheshire cat grin, and swaying around with his big bottle of bling Tequila. And what about his spontaneous Ibiza-style go-go dancers (his girlfriend and her sister?!) going mad on the podium...er, booth. Brilliant.

I was a little wilted from this ridiculously humid weather we've had, as was everyone, so I eased into the night with some house-ier-disco sounds, before building up to the big-room-techy stuff.......and to my huge enjoyment (and relief!), the debut of my new remix went down a storm at about 2am........xxJ

Love Bug

I was in spain for most of last week. I was in Benicassim doing the FIB pre-party on Weds which was really really packed and fab. There were loads of familair faces from the festival last year...... Then hopped on Ferry over to Ibiza. A place I hadn't played for almost 6 years! To be honest, I never really liked playing there. I think the first time around, in 2002, Ibiza was not quite ready for the electro-non-conformity of De Freq....but a lot changes in 6 years......I played at Amnesia this time, in the main room. I really think it's the one of the best if not the best venues on the Island. It was Jade Jagger's Jezabel night, so I was glam-ing it up (at her stunning villa afterwards and at the club ; ), but I still kept the music underground and unashamedly upfront.....it was really a big success for me to see the crowd in Ibiza really going for all of it. A great night......

But now it's that time again!!! Bugged Out is on tonight at the End in London, and I'm playing the 1-3am set before Felix Da Housecat , whoop whoop! It's been at least a year since I've had this earlier-peak-time-ish set (normally I do the weird and wonderful graveyard, 4:30-7am), so I'm super excited and getting my tracks together for tonight......I've literally just finished my Man Like Me remix, and just done some DIY mastering so I can debut it tonight. It's turned out to be quite a peak-timer I must say, and quite a tricky one at that, so Bugged Out in the End's main room is surely the best possible place to test drive it?.....I'm also gonna drop Alter Ego's new completely bonkers discothequed-up version of Tiga's classic "Sunglasses at Night". I know what you're thinking, I too was a bit scared when I initially heard it was getting remixed, but trust me this will blow your camp-as-you-know-you-wanna-be mind. It is seriously fresh...........

Bugged Out is always a place where I really can play what I want to play, that being the most forward thinking, entertaining electronic club music. It's totally about music, listening to it, buzzing about it, but it's also just fun and and about letting go....serious, but without being up your arse about it.....It's really another great-line up tonight too. Hope to see you there!