>> On March 5 Secousse continued its musical rampage across the globe to bring you the world's biggest tropical and electro ghettobass night as Radioclit and the Secousse Sound System were let loose thereafter for more joyous, bass-driven and downright dirty tropical beats (watch out: those air-horns are set to stun!)

Secousse will be back again on Friday April 2 (it’s not called Good Friday for nothing!) but there’s another chance to catch Radioclit’s Etienne Tron De Bouchony this month, as he is launching Secousse Paris on March 25. It’s at the Institut de Bonté, 75 rue des Martyrs, in the 18th arrondissement, near the Pigalle Metro. Find out more at their Facebook page here

Don’t forget that you can stream Radio Secousse around the clock at http://secousse.org and you can still download the Radioclit/The Very Best album here

Secousse Sound System

>> Secousse Fri 5 March and Fri 2 April // 7pm-2am // free before 8pm, £6 before 11pm and £8 after

>> See our exclusive interview with Radioclit here

geisha dancers at Disco Geisha

>> Disco Geisha // Sunday 21 March. 4pm-1am, £5 before 8pm, £7 after (free before 6pm)

>> decks: Tomoki Tamura, Eightbitrate, Naoki Shimizu and SUPERMETHOD (deep disco)// live: VERSUS n°1 + Common Deflection Problems + Dobly

>> ‘I can let you in on a secret: he’s human after all!’ a lovely girl told me at the Communion night on February 7. Robert Pattinson, heart-throb star of the movie vampire movie Twilight (you must have heard about it?), had come along to the night to see ‘a mate’s band’ and I’m told that the mood in the ladies’ loos was all a-flutter, with the gossip all about him. It was ever-so-slightly noticeable that when he moved around the club he was trailed by a train of women, but the girl I spoke to wasn’t overly impressed. ‘He wouldn’t let me take a photo with him,’ she sniffed, adding ‘that was a pity, as I might have got some money from Heat magazine.’

Communion was back on February 28 for a special one-off party to launch their new compilation. It was really packed, which is hardly surprising given the all-star nu-folk line-up for what is an equally special double-album.

In a four-star review of the night in The Independent Tim Walker wrote ‘You’d expect the capital’s most fertile ground for new musical acts to be somewhere hip like Camden in the north or Dalston in the east. But right now it’s the comfortable south-western enclaves of Barnes, Wimbledon and Fulham that seem to be producing the goods. Thus the first Sunday evening of every month sees dedicated followers of the district’s folk scene descend the stairs into the Notting Hill Arts Club for Communion…’

Communion returns once gain on March 7 (and April 4) for events showcasing a typically wide range of rock, indie, alternative, folk and acoustic performers. Which reminds me of what Kevin Jones said in his interview on this very site: ‘We like to really jam-pack the line-ups, we don’t want to put just a couple of bands on per night, we want to give people value for money so if you are paying a fiver to see six or seven amazing bands that’s pretty good.’

‘Pretty good’ is an understatement. No wonder that Communion have used the model of their night here at the Arts Club to expand to co-host Communion events in Brighton and Leeds and even Sydney too. On Sunday March 14 there’s a new Communion opening at Mr Wolfs in Bristol and two weeks later it launches in Dublin too. Find out more here.
Golly, are there more opening up after that? ‘Oh, no,’ said club host Kevin Jones. ‘After that we’ll need a rest.’

Vadoinmessico

>> Communion // Sun March 7 (April 4, every 1st Sunday of the month) // 6pm - 1am, £7 // live: Look, Stranger! + Bloody Nose + Vadoinmessico + Lulu and the Lampshades + Alexander Wolfe + Lail Arad // decks: Chess Club, DJ Jam, DJ Big Mac

>> See our exclusive interview with Kevin Jones here

>> yOyO // March 18, 7pm-2am; £5 before 11pm, £7 after //advance sales only, no tickets on the door // Please bring ID!

>> with: Kasha and No Fixed Abode play live // Guest DJ Sam Ronson

>> Many DJs, despite their (sometime) reputation as leaders of underground youth culture, are actually fairly conservative. They’re known for a particular style of dance music and that’s what they deliver, often claiming that this is because the crowd will leave the ‘floor if they veer too off-message. Gringo Da Parada is not like that. The Favela Chic main man who hosts the monthly mash-up that is Disorder and Progress loves music too much to be hemmed in by genre barriers.
Monsieur Da Parada successfully mixes samba, funk, reggae, jazz, punk, electro, drum ‘n’ bass, fox-trot, mambo, opera, techno and more into a monthly musical merry-go-round which is like a truly diverse iPod selection played on Shuffle. Anybody can throw on a load of different records, but it takes a special DJ to make them make sense together, or to juxtapose them with such contrast that the crowd go “Wow! Here we go; something completely different!”

That is how it has worked up to now, but on 27 March D & P gets more disorderly and progressive with an injection of Mucho Mucho, the DJ partnership of Gringo Da Parada and Tchiky Al Dente.
'It'll be more eclectic and even more crazy,' promises Gringo, laughing, 'a bit like the stupid guys on MTV, Beavis and Butthead, playing tricks all the time, living life on super vitamins...'
Tchiky Al Dente also revels in mixing it up, inspired by his own Franco-Brazilian background and a musical career in which he has been a top international house DJ, Europe's leading baile funk producer, a leading remixer (from Gotan Project to Les Negresses Vertes) and ardent fan of drum 'n' bass as much as Brazilian beats.
The Musical Director of Favela Chic Paris has DJed at the Love Parade in Paris and Berlin and hosts the Clek Clek Boom parties and the thriving website and blog www.clekclekboom.com, which is where we found his biography which states gleefully: 'his sets are eclectic and he won't hesitate to mix the improbable.'
So, apart from noting that there will probably be more dirty dance music (baile funk, B-more, techno-trippin' hip hop?) all we can say is expect the unexpected.

You've heard that line before, but this is no idle boast, as Disorder and Progress makes the improbable possible; it proves that chaos theory can be successfully applied to nightlife. And it makes you dance like a loco...