Filthy Dukes--The Radio Sessions - Electronic Beats On Air, 2009-04

Name any legendary party that’s happened in the past three years, and the chances are DJ-promoter-musicians Filthy Dukes have had a hand in it. From stages at Glastonbury and Bestival, a Fabric residency in London, an NME tour with The Rakes and forays into the European clubbing scene, Tim and Olly have been there. Mashing up any genre with a party heartbeat, their "electro-acid house-new rave-twisted disco-punk funk" DJ sets have seen hell-bent club kids rinsing their last reserves of serotonin onto sticky floors everywhere.

As DJs they spun regularly for Dazed & Confused. As promoters, they’ve hosted free warehouse raves, boat parties on the Thames and co-promoted renowned London new music orgy Adventures In The Beetroot Field. They’ve killed pretty much every summer festival. In short, they’ve been everywhere. Their busy hands were also behind some of the best remixes of last year. From The Maccabees´ "X-Ray" to The Rakes’ "22 Grand Job", their niftiness with a laptop has seen clubland blessed with some huge tracks. And their Kill Em All night has been the rock-rave backbone of London, filling Fabric to capacity each month with DJs and white-hot new bands. Bloc Party, Justice and Shy Child: all of these and more got their first exposure at Kill Em All.

And now they add yet another string to this overcrowded bow, and present Filthy Dukes the band. Olly and Tim have joined up permanently with their long-term producer Mark, and have been quietly working away at their own tunes in any spare minutes they can find over the past year. The result is the brilliant "Nonsense In The Dark", their debut album of 100% original material.

Enjoy their brand new mix featuring both filthy own tracks and works of The Rakes (remixed), Fan Death or Late Of The Pier. Also, be sure to check them out at the Electronic Beats Festival Cologne (http://electronicbeats.net/Press/Press-Releases/Electronic-Beats-Festival-Cologne-23.05.2009) on May 23rd.