Anna Chocola at her sewing machine, by Anna

30-year-old French artist and designer Anna Chocola (Anna Orliac) has put together a lovely little France-meets-Brighton mix of all her current favorite tunes. The mix starts off nicely with  acid house influenced “White Night Two”, from Institubes babe Surkin, off his “Next of Kin” EP which came out exactly one year ago. It also includs firm electro classics, such as Daft Punk and Booka Shade, as well as new-to-my-ear D*L*I*D (dicklaurentisdead).

Anna currently works for Milliner Jill Corbett, creating original appliqué-embroideries on leather and tweed hats, but produces unique items for sale (on her site) and accepts commissions. Originally hailing from Agen, in the south west of France, Anna now lives in our cozy, seaside haven of Brighton, spending a lot of time on her sewing machine at home, creating quirky clothing, bags, hats, home furnishings and toys. She also working artistically in the visual art medium, producing embroideries, paintings, drawings.

Check out her zany world of wonky animals and on her deliciously handcrafted site and ebay shop, but in the meantime, enjoy the “mix” – and see below for an actual gooey chocolate desert recipe!

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Anna Chocola’s Birthday Cake Mix

Tracklisting

White Knight Two – Surkin
Next Of Kin (Todd Edwards Re-Kindled Mix) – Surkin
Jolie Coquine – Caravan Palace
Teachers – Daft Punk
Charlotte – Booka Shade
Newjack – Justice
Hey Boy Hey Girl – The Chemical Brothers
Under The Influence – The Chemical Brothers
Waters Of Nazareth – Justice
let’s make love and listen death from above – Cansei de Ser Sexy
Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun
Pro Nails (Remix) (Dirty) – Kid Sister ft Kanye West
Revlon – Walking Machine – Sebastian
g-punkt -pop circus- D*L*I*D
petit_déjeuner – D*L*I*D

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birthday chocolate pudding recipe

Serves 6.

ingredients
• 455g best-quality cooking chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
• 50ml hot espresso or good strong instant coffee
• 125g butter, plus extra for greasing
• 6 eggs, free-range or organic, separated
• 200g caster sugar
• 100g ground almonds
• 100g rice flour
• 1 small handful chopped hazelnuts, toasted

Melt 125g chocolate with the coffee, then pour into small ice-cube moulds and freeze until hard. Take 6 small 3 inch pastry rings, dariole moulds or cappuccino cups and grease well with some butter. Place in the fridge while you make your sponge mixture.

Melt the remaining chocolate with the butter in a bowl over a pan of boiling water, then in a separate bowl whisk the egg whites with the sugar until firm. Fold the yolks into the cooled chocolate and butter mixture, then add the almonds and flour. Finish by carefully folding in the egg white mixture.

Preheat the oven to 190ºC/375ºF/gas 5. Take your moulds out of the fridge and spoon a little mixture into each one, then push in a cube of the frozen coffee and chocolate mixture. Cover with the rest of the sponge mixture so each ice cube is completely enveloped.

Bake in the preheated oven for about 18–20 minutes, then remove carefully from the moulds while hot. Serve immediately sprinkled with hazelnuts.

[Nicked unashamedly from a certain person's website.]

Photos by Marek Richter

NikNikNik and Casper C (Bloggers Delight)

I’ve not walked down Audio’s stairs for what seems like ages, and being there again, I can safely say that I’ve missed the place. It did, after all, used to feel like a second home. Stompa Phunk ruled and every weekend was a sure hotspot for quality music with a likeminded crowd. But like all good things, it had to come to an end.

The guys put 10 years of hard work into the night and the venue needed a change. Last year Stompa Phunk packed up, and two guys with much control over the venue left. About three weeks ago, another of Stompa Phunk’s guys left, leaving Audio in a completely different situation. Sometimes a change is exactly what is needed. The guys who ran it before did a great job but possibly ran out of steam – it was crying out for something different, a new touch perhaps. On entry one of the bouncers mentioned, “The venue has changed, all for the better.”

With Audio management dedicated to getting the place back on track, I was thrilled to hear they had booked ex-Fusion contributor, old friend and current king of the blogosphere, Casper C. Casper is part of the ever popular bloggers group, the Fluo Kids.

He also hosts his own night, Bloggers Delight, which he runs alongside Ben and Alex from Skull Juice. Blogger’s Delight can regularly be found at the Lock Tavern in Camden, Fabric and all over the UK. Blogger’s Delight has featured DJ sets from a range of artist, often before they went on to bigger things, including: Justice, DJ Gorky, Duke Dumont, Kissy Sell Out, Simian Mobile Disco, Brodinski, Yuksek, DatA, Herve (Dubsided), Trevor Loveys (Speaker Junk / Dubsided), Knifehandchop, Radioclit, Sinden, Van She Tech, SebastiAn, Kavinsky, Surkin – to name just a few.

What you have here is a night dedicated to finding the newest and most cutting-edge talent without being spoilt by pretensions, sunglasses and the general twaddle often associated with club nights today. Expect to find a healthy mix of genres, ranging from techno to a spot of garage and to wherever next. There are no limits here and the aim isn’t fixated on any one craze or passing trend. It’s a concept with longevity working within a broad spectrum – the concept is open.

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Casper Clark – Live at Audio (040409)

Yann Solo – Borderline
Ed Davenport – Eyespeak (Kink Remix)
Livio & Roby – We Got E’s
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts – I Was On My Way To Hell
Abe Duque – What Happened
Kreon – Jauce
Tomas Barford & Fredski – The March On Swan Lake
Frankie – Brize
Okain & Thomas Mueller – I Tele U Bo
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts (Huntemann Remix)
Telefon Tel Aviv – The Worst Thing In The World (Gaiser Remix)
Audion – Snap Into It
Marc Romboy – Side FX (Konrad Black Remix)
Alex Cappelli – Bloody Notes
Green Velvet – Earthquaker
Cevin FIsher – The Freaks Come Out (Idiotproof Remix)
George Morel – Let’s Groove
Brother’s Vibe – Take It To The Raw
dOP – The Genius Of The Crowd
DHS – The House Of God (Martin Landsky Remix)
Gamal Kabar – The Highlander
Peaches – Lose You (Matt Walsh & Alex Jones Remix)

We caught up with Casper C, who’ll be starting Blogger’s Delight at Audio from May.

What should the crowds expect from Blogger’s Delight at Audio?

The new monthly at Audio will showcase the rawer, tougher end of the Blogger’s Delight spectrum, as befits a late night club session, as opposed to our Sunday all-dayers in London. You can expect the residents and guests taking in everything from classic disco, house and balearica, through to the latest and greatest techno, with inflections of our electro influences. We’re always trying to push the envelope into the past as well as the future.

What made you choose Audio rather than any other venues Brighton has to offer?

I’ve been guesting all over Brighton in the past year, and nowhere has been as pleasurable to play as Audio. The dancefloor is small enough to feel intimate and remain open-minded, the equipment is top notch, and the Escape (Audio’s previous incarnation) is actually the first place I ever took ecstasy, so how could it not retain a special place in my heart?

Where do you see Blogger’s Delight going in the future?

The past and present of BD has already been an incredible journey, from playing back to back with Justice at our first ever event, to hosting reguar events at Fabric and Paris Social Club, and even presenting our own stage at the amazing Field Day Festival. This May commemorates our third anniversary, during which we’re attempting to showcase the full BD musical rainbow from indie pin-ups Friendly Fires (Jack is a DJ with fantastic taste, if you weren’t already aware!), balearic/psyche kings Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, italo-disco pioneer Alexander Robotnick, the legendary Joakim and JD Twitch from Optimo, and the young bucks of techno, Noob and Matt Walsh. I just hope we can keep our minds open for many years to come, and try to open a few others along the way!

Blogger’s Delight is set to take place the 1st Saturday of every month at Audio. So there’s another date to ink in to your diary – see you at the launch night on 02/05/09! It’s great to see something worthwhile, on a Saturday night, at Audio once again.

FACT Magazine said:

In the space of one year, Blogger’s Delight has evolved from a noisy social for mp3 hounds and hustlers to a seriously tastemaking, even era-defining lil’ club night.

Sunday Times Style said:

A definitive electro club, along with Bugged Out and Durrr

Brighton Fusion – So Loud with L-VIS 1990

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Vicarious Bliss – Electroluxe
SebastiAn – Greel
Digitalism – TVTV
Duke Dumont – When I Hear Bass Music (It makes me dance)
Jesse Rose And Sinden – Me Mobile (Duckbeats Ringtone Riddim)
Magik Johnson – Scanning For Viruses (Claude Vonstroke’’s Coffee OnYour Motherboard Mix)
Trabant – The One (Para One Remix)
Basement Jaxx – Take Me Back To Your House (Speaker Junk Remix)
Freeform Five – No More Conversations (Switch Remix)
Andrea Doria – Yaoo (Original Mix)
Felix Cartal – Moss vs. Tree
Surkin – Kiss n Horns (Vengeance Edit)
Yo Majesty – Club Action (Chris Bagraiders Sailing to Baltimore Edit)
Herbert – Moving Like A Train (Smith N Hack Remix)
Mekon ft. Roxanne Shante – Yes Yes Yall (Sinden Baile Funk Mix)
DJ Blaq Starr – Shake It To The Ground
Claude Vonstroke – Chimps
Hostage – Gluttony
Les Petits Pilous – E Lec Tronic
P Diddy Ft Christina Aguilera – Tell Me (Switch Remix)