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These days, in the insulated world of electronic music, the cyclical journey from obscurity to oversaturation to insignificance (and, of course, back again) often happens in the space of a year. It’s all too easy to get numbed by minutae or otherwise lead astray away by the fickle whirlwind of hype. Rummaging through the 15 year discography of the unrelenting, steadfast techno legend Surgeon - and tracing the vast odyssey of his creative exploration - breeds a rare feeling of discovery. And genuine artistry. Surgeon (a.k.a. Anthony Child) stands tall as a true individual in the leagues of electronic music history, with seminal, landmark releases bounded only by raw passion and a transcendentally deep imagination.
 
“For me personally, I don’t go for heavily publicising projects, I just let things take their natural course and treat things with the longer term in mind. Over the years that I’ve been DJing I’ve seen the popularity of techno rise and fall many, many times but this doesn’t panic or concern me, I do what I do and if it’s more or less popular then that’s just the way the universe operates. But fortunately I’m still able to survive through DJing, so as long as that’s the case then that’s okay. So many times for so many years I’ve noticed people say, ‘Well everything’s been done that you can possibly do with dance music.’ It reminds of something I heard about how in Victorian times they decided that all scientific discoveries had been discovered and that was all there was to learn; it was as if science was a shut book. It’s a bizarre thing to say, and it’s the same with music. If your motivation is down or your inspiration is down, then maybe it’s just the case that you’re not looking in the right place. There’s always something there to discover or to motivate you.” - Surgeon
 
Growing up in Kislingbury, a small village outside Northampton, Surgeon’s first forays into music began with lessons in classical instrumentation. But it was his tape deck experiments, from a very young age, that brought to light his producer mentality: bending sounds and re-shaping ideas whilst creating dense, immersive soundworlds.
 
“I got hold of one of the old quarter inch tape reel-to-reel decks and started doing razorblade editing and setting tape loops and things. That was influenced by what I’d read about the way that the Beatles recorded. That was a bit of an entrance in to some kind of avant-garde stuff. There were aspects in their music that fascinated me, the sound collage and manipulation. That really fascinated me, the collage aspect of sound much more than the melodic aspects, because when I was young I knew I was interested in music but I assumed that meant I had to play an instrument. So I tried piano, violin, guitar and all these things and I got on to an extent – but with the piano, for example, I’d open the top up and start banging the strings like, ‘Ah yeah, I like that a lot better. It’s so boring learning these scales.’ Different things suit different people.” - Surgeon
 
Becoming heavily influenced by a wide range of sounds and sonic textures – from those of experimental musicians Brian Eno and Isao Tomita to the impassioned and raw industrial flavours of Coil and Suicide, Surgeon relocated to Birmingham to persue an education in sound engineering. It was here that he started a club night, House of God, with a close knit circle of like minded friends in 1993; even now, 17 years later, it still runs strong.
 
After his first release, the now legendary ‘Surgeon EP,’ and his other work on Downwards (which somehow landed in the influential record crates of Dave Clarke and Jeff Mills - itself no mean feat considering this was pre-internet file sharing), his connection with fellow Downwards artist Regis (aka Karl O’Konnor) produced their vibrant, industrial-flavoured work as the British Murder Boys. “We really thought about every detail: about how it would look and sound, and the titles and the way it was presented, and the performance. So it was like playing at the image a lot more and very much influenced by Throbbing Gristle’s industrial records and the like.”

From his edgy, powerful albums which each spun techno in an entirely new direction (‘Basictonalvocabulary’ on Tresor in ’97 and ‘Balance’ on Tresor in ’98, ‘Force + Form’ on Tresor in ‘99); to his boundary-shattering mix CDs (‘Counterbalance Collection,’ ‘This Is For You Shits’); to releases on his own innovative labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension; to his Frequency 7 project with Ben Sims (“It’s like listening to our musical banter. Ben’s style of DJing is very precise structurally, we can fit it together very precisely and very quickly and it just builds this thing - we don’t know what it’s going to do and it just goes all over the place. It’s really fun and exciting for us.”); to the endless list of his EPs and remixes...Surgeon’s work always contains an uncompromising devotion to a resolute vision. Similarly, it’s within his deeply focused DJ sets that give his ideas a gifted freedom, with productions coming to life enriched with energy, subtlety, frequency and power. His sets are a winding, mind-bending, colliding sonic voyage, propelled by an intimate and intense back-and-forth connection between himself and the audience.
 
“I do change the way I’m playing at different places. It’s having an awareness of what people’s expectations are, and then stretching the boundaries of that, while trying to incorporate different styles into it. There have always been far more experimental and avant-garde electronic artists than anything that I do, but I like to work as a kind of breach between the fringes of the avant-garde and the experimental stuff - I try and bring an essence and a flavour of that in, but try to use techno as a carrier wave, or a as medium, to sort of transmit these more avant-garde elements in. I bring it in but make it more palatable and try to bring it to a wider audience. That’s my method and for me, it’s a more effective way of introducing these flavours and sounds. It’s like testing out boundaries and figuring out how far to go so you don’t completely lose people. A lot of the time in my sets, if I’m in a place that might be more difficult I’ll definitely follow up with something easier. It’s like giving a reward.”
 
Flicking easily from the heavy, sheets of sound produced by his old school contemporaries, Surgeon fuses the old with the new on fabric 53, creating connections between the oppressing and the minimal that have never been as simply decoded. Honing in on the idea that a lot of ‘modern’ bass music harks back to rave and constantly re-feeds on its memory for inspiration, (“just this idea of the breakbeat, the broken beat; it’s got some echoes of rave, there are some elements of that somewhere in it”), he includes music from a veritable liege of young producers. Instra:mental’s rolling ‘Forbidden’ is used early on and adds the kind of quickened bass texture that has been carefully incubated over their workings as they slow down from 175bpm drum & bass and Starkey’s ‘Spacecraft’ is used brilliantly to juxtapose the rolling pressure of what comes before it, eliminating the 4x4 pulse and adding thicker, more leading bass tones.
 
“It really is a current snapshot, it’s changed even now. When I did the mix, I opened my current set and deleted a few things and this is what I was left with. This is the music that I am enjoying and I feel it represents me; and on the other side, there were some newer or lesser known artists that I really wanted to represent.  It’s about making people aware of different genres, to show the likeness. It’s taking T-Polar, Subeena, Ital Tek, Ancient Methods - and putting that next to Orphx, DJ Overdose and Russ Gabriel, and mixing them all up together. It’s kind of strange looking at the tracklist, but for me it’s very natural the way these things fit together. And really, to me, this is all techno. That’s the way I think of it; I don’t subdivide genres, the beats are just slightly different places in the bar. They all have different feels and textures, but I don’t differentiate, I just like all this music so I want to mix it together.
 
It’s another example of what I was saying about being caught up in the detail, and detail is important, of course, but you’ve got to be able to shift from this bigger picture down to detail and back up again and not just be caught up on one level of it.” – Surgeon
 
01 Location recording from Kuramae Subway Station, Tokyo, Japan  
02 Scuba - Glance [Hotflush]
03 Surgeon - Bad Hands (Drums Only) [Dynamic Tension]
04 Marco Bernardi - Giro (Exium Remix) [Dirty Planet]
05 Instra:mental - Forbidden [Apple Pips]
06 Forward Strategy Group - Applied Generics A [Forward Strategy Group]
07 Reeko - Agile Movement [Theory]
08 Surgeon - Bad Hands Part 2 (Drums Only) [Dynamic Tension]
09 Robert Hood - Superman [M-Plant]
10 Planetary Assault Systems - X Speaks To X (Al Tourettes & Appleblim Remix) [Ostgut Ton]
11 Ritzi Lee - Black Star Ritual (Ben Sims Remix) [Underground Liberation]
12 T-Polar - Crab People [Digital Distortions]
13 Ital Tek - Spectrum Falls [Atom River]
14 Surgeon - Klonk Part 1 (Drums Only) [Dynamic Tension]
15 Subeena - Picture [Opit]
16 Fran Hartnett - It Was Written In Vapour [unreleased]
17 Mark Broom & James Ruskin - Hostage [Blueprint]
18 Stephen Brown - Stress Free [Music Man]
19 Ancient Methods - AM04B1 [Ancient Methods]
20 Surgeon - Compliance Momentum [Dynamic Tension]
21 Greena - Tenzado [Apple Pips]
22 Starkey - Spacecraft [Planet Mu]
23 Starkey feat. Anneka - Stars (Slugabed Did A Remix) [Planet Mu]
24 Cari Lekebusch - Spindizzy (Luke Slater's L.B. Dub Corp Remix) [Mote-Evolver]
25 Surgeon - The Crawling Frog Is Torn and Smiles [Dynamic Tension]
26 Orphx - Threshold (Substance Remix) [Sonic Groove]
27 Gatekeeper - Blip [If Symptoms Persist]
28 Mark Broom & James Ruskin - No Time Soon [Blueprint]
29 Russ Gabriel - El Juan [We Play House]
30 DJ Overdose - What [Lunar Disko Records]

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Eastern Electrics catch up with the Dirtybird boss ahead of his EE label showcase...

I was there to witness you smash the last set in the main room @ sonar night this year. You also played at our kevin saunderson / inner city event last year. How does playing in the two environments - an enormodome and a sweaty east london warehouse - affect the way, style and feel of how you play?

Well for sure certain venues are more fun than others and lets just say dingy warehouses usually edge out giant airport hangers. Its also quite different to follow Kevin Saunderson 3 weeks after you've remixed one of his tracks as opposed to following 2many DJs playing queen mashups at 140 bpm with confetti cannons. wink wink. That all being said i don't change the sets toooo much. Of course there is an adjustment for a massive room but i like to bring my style to all the venues i play. I'm not there to play like everyone else. I'm being booked to be myself, to play dirty sluty bass, Claude VonStroke style.

In lots of your press shots you're often wearing an impressive array of different big chunky digital watches. I'm quite obsessed with digital watches myself, what's your favourite city you've played in around the world for big chunky disco watches?! i'll tell you mine if you tell me yours!

Well i get my chunky disco watches down the street in San Francisco so i guess thats my city for that, but i have a feeling a lot of these watches are getting made in Japan. My favorite brand is Nixon. Just clean, no xtra features. they only tell time. I wear them so i dont look like a douchbag checking my phone while i'm playing. Sometimes when i only have 90 minutes or 2 hours to play it is really important to check the time so i dont leave out any tracks i really want to play.

5 years of dirtybird eh? Seems like only yesterday i held/cherished the first release in my hands! I know it's a cliched question and you'll want to say 'all of them' but can you pick some highlights of the past 5 years for us... excluding your own stuff! :)

Excluding my stuff i feel like the Martin Brothers "Stoopit" was the first time we said something very San Francisco to the dance music world. I think everyone thought SF was only good for smooth vocal house and deep house records up until dirtybird came around, but bass music has always been big here. Also, our very first record "The Southern Draw" really set the tone for the label. It was a very strange record with bass, farm animals, fart noises, a rap lyric..everything was crazy about this record. And it got us a German distributor which was key to getting the label heard around the world.

I've just been looking at what you're supposed to give people for their 5th anniversary. Basically over your side of the pond people give silverware... over here we given wooden items for some reason?! We're also supposed to give you daisies on your 5th anniversary too. Without meaning to sound too weird, which wooden item would the dirtybird family most like to receive and why?

A cuckoo clock for sure. i always loved those things when i was a kid.

Your album 'bird brain' encompassed so many diverse aspects of dance music and beyond. can you tell us what it was like working with the legend that is bootsy collins?

When i thought of the idea i never actually thought it would happen. But it did and he was really easy to work with. We did it as kind of an internet collaboration since he lives in Cincinnati but i told him kind of what i was looking for and he did it way better than i expected.

Also, i've prob not read my press release for the album properly (i haven't read it at all, sorry!) but can you let us know how you constructed the track 'vocal chords'. I'm assuming it was built predominantly around the voice?

I had a guy come in who could sing 4 octaves and he went through all the different notes in all the different vowels that people usually sing. so he did all the notes of "eee" "aaa" "ooo" etc. through 4 octaves. then i put all of these into a massive sampler patch and then jumbled them around so they were rising and falling but changing the vowels at the same time...it gets even more complicated in the breakdown but ive probably already confused everyone enough.

There's (another) renewed interest in ibiza again from all corners. How's your residency @ we love... space been? they've certainly been booking a diverse line-up this year.

It's going really well. My first date was last week. We love is a cool party. you can see almost anything from dOP to Carl Craig Djing with a piano player to Aphex Twin. Ibiza is always commercial to a certain extent but you really have to respect a party that has been going so long with such strong line-ups. Something for everyone really.

You're not one to play it straight down the line in terms of what the records you play. At eastern electrics next month, Resident Advisor's 3rd room plays host to the likes of Scuba & Joy Orbison. Have you found these new producer's cross pollination of sounds creeping into what you play of late?

Well I haven't played any tracks yet by either of those particular names but I AM very interested in what they are doing and all this new stuff bubbling up. We have our own sort of crossover stars on db like Julio Bashmore who does a very 90's Good looking drum n bass style production but in a house format. I will always play a track i think is sick even if i have to totally stop the music and just play it at a totally different bpm.

Is there anything i should have asked you that you've always wanted to be asked? If so, what's your answer?

No but i'm glad we are bringing a full dirtybird party to London again. It's been too long. The first time we did one the room was like 45 degrees and the security was hassling everyone (but it was still packed!) but hopefully this will go even better, more like the original party in San Francisco goes off.

Eastern Electrics takes place on Sunday 29th August at Union Carpark.

In preparation for the Swiss house music take over next weekend in Kings X, Muak's Zaki caught up with one of the Drumpoet Community representatives, Quarion...


Hello, we are very excited to be welcoming both yourself and Soultourist along for a night of Drumpoet Community deepness. How did you guys all meet?

I’ve known Ron (from Soultourist) for about 5 years. My old friend Alex Dallas (from The Lost Men and co-owner of Drumpoet with Ron) introduced me to Ron and Tobi (Foster) saying they were great DJs and talented producers. Our friendship evolved naturally since then.


It seems some of the strongest brands today have become more like family’s. Does Drumpoet fall into this category?

Yes, I think so. I’ve known Alex since his days as manager of Straight Ahead Recordings. He was the first one to book me in Zürich and we shared a passion for the jazzier side of the music spectrum. When he told me he was setting up a new label, I gave him the first Quarion tracks and we started working together more often: sharing gigs in Europe, working on new releases and just having a great time with the whole crew.


How has Berlin been since you moved there? Has it reshaped your sound at all?

I think it reshaped my sound a lot when I arrived there 3 years ago: I was going out every week, discovering all these clubs and hearing fresh music. I think my music took a more “clubby” and “basic” turn around 2007-2008. I feel I’m going back to more musically-based tracks nowadays, I’m missing the jazzy aspect of House.


You have an extensive Jazz and Hip-Hop background. What other genres have you produced and are there any plans to carry on producing beats away from House, as well as delving into newer musical territories?

I’ve been producing Hip-Hop and various electronic genres since 1999 under the moniker “Ianeq”. My uptempo stuff was heavily influenced by Broken Beat, Jazz and Detroit Techno when I released EP’s on a few swiss labels (Mental Groove mostly). Nowadays, I still produce a lot of Hip-Hop beats that I hope will end up as a new project…we’ll see! I’m also now playing electric piano in a folk band and I starting producing pop-orientated songs with a multi-instrumentist friend of mine. In the end, I always feel that music is a journey and it wouldn’t make sense for me to stick to one genre my whole life…although I can say, after spending the last 15 years in its company, that I have a genuine passion for club music.


How has your studio set up changed since the rise of new technology? Do you still have a few pieces of hardware knocking around and what does your set up consist of?

I still kept most of my hardware and I’m totally getting back to it at the moment! There’s really something about hitting pads, playing keys or tweaking knobs in comparison to moving the mouse or touching a tablet… I use mostly Ableton but I get really tired of it sometimes, so I just turn on the MPC and try to do a song using only this machine.
 

What has been your favourite gig so far this year?

Hmm, this is always a tough one! I think DJ-wise, it was at About:Blank, a new spot in Berlin. The vibe was amazing and I think I played one of best set in years! A back-2-back session I had with Willie Graff in Cielo (NYC) was also a highlight so far. Live-wise, I have very fond memories of my first live performance for our monthly Retreat party (set in a small basement in Kreuzberg). I played with a laptop, a midi controller and a noisy analog synth, it was wild!


Your career has offered you the opportunity to travel far and wide. Is there a country or venue you still have on your to do list?

Indeed, at the end of the day, I’m very grateful that my passion allows me to visit all these breathtaking countries. I love travelling so I always try to do stay a few days if I’m booked someplace far away… I’m very much hoping to go to South America in the near future. I’d love to see Brasil, Argentina and Colombia.


Do you find more enjoyment from gigging or sat in the studio making beats?

I feel these are two complete different situations. Making music can sometimes be way more difficult, especially when you have a concept in your head but can’t concretize it the right way (which happens to me quite often). But when you know you’re onto something good, the excitement you feel is unrivalled. Performing brings more enjoyment in a shorter time lapse: you get immediate feedback and it fuels your creativity.


Which record to date are you most proud of?

Also a tough one… as far as my “Quarion” stuff goes, I’m very happy with “Karasu”, I think it might be the most perfect track that I produced… I’m also very proud of a Hip-Hop album that I produced for one of Switzerland’s best MC. And the Enterplay album also represents a life-defining moment for me.
 
 
Are there any new producers who have turned your ear recently in both House music and beyond?
 
There’s a lot of great new music out there! Within the house scene, I love stuff from Iron Curtis, Hunee, Kyle Hall and Floating Points, aswell as releases from Delusions Of Grandeur and We Play House. I also listen to a lot of Dubstep: Martyn and 2562/A Made Up Sound are killing me with each record!
 

What releases do you have forthcoming?
 
There’s a remix on Plak that just came out. Otherwise, I finished a remix for [sic!] coming out on meakusma and I just did a rework/remix of John Daly’s “Meltdown” that should surface sometime after summer. This one is a bit special because I’ve only used the MPC3000 to produce it… very, very raw! Otherwise, I’m focusing now on new material for Drumpoet, Retreat and Dolly.


Quarion joins fellow label artist, Soultourist, and DJ Le Roi at the All Friends party, Saturday 14th August at Egg.

Another weekend of festivals is on the cards this weekend for those looking to escape with the Big Chill, Boardmasters, and One Love taking place (details below). Here in London it's all about Saturday night with many mouthwatering discos setting sail. Make sure you head home after, rest and put on your Sunday best, as Sunday afternoon looks rather tasty too with some fresh disco injections... Check click here for our selected round up with links to full details, tickets, and guest list options...

Another musical melange of most excellent festivals sweeps across the country this weekend with Free Rotation (details below), Womad, and the Secret Garden Party as some of the choicer destinations. Here in the capital, there's more festival action too with the 1234 Festival taking place in Shoreditch Park (details below) and the ice cream duo taking over Clapham Common.
 
When evening falls, there are some pretty tasty discos taking place as well as a sprinkling of daytime terrace action to boot. Please click here for full details with links to the full info, tickets, and guest list options...

With his new album on Freerange Records now out, Pezzner is about to get a whole lot hotter. Prior to his gig at Muak on Saturday 10th July, we managed a quick Q & A with the man himself...

Q. Hey Dave, really glad to be having you over for 2 gigs. Excited to be heading to Europe???
A. Definitley. It's been years since I've done a longer tour like this. The last time I traveled out like this was with Jacob London, but its my first proper tour as "Pezzner" showcasing my solo material and doing live sets. I'm especially excited about making London my home base for the month of July. I've always had a great time in London.

Q. The music's obviously been well received. What more do you have lined up?
A. Thanks. I'm really happy with the support I've gotten over the last couple years, and extremely grateful that labels like Freerange, Om Records, Urbantorque, Strictly Rhythm, had given me the chance to share my music with the masses. Aside from my album, which releases this week on the 14th of June, Freerange will be following up later in the month with my first single off the album "Blacklist" featuring remixes by Stimming and Lusine. Next month Om Records is putting out a remix I did off Groove Armada's Blacklight album, the song "Paper Romance". I also did some remixes of tracks by Michelle Owen on Lost My Dog and Shiny Objects on Smoke n' Mirrors. I'm currently working on a remixfor Ian Pooley's classic hit from the late 90's "The Allnighter" and Luke Solomons forthcoming single on Leftroom. Its going to be a busy summer for sure.

Q. Some extremely revered labels have been picking up your work, any designs to begin your own imprint???
A. I'm not sure about that. Sometimes I think that perhaps that's the next step in my career - to start my own label... but I think about all the work these labels do to make it happen, all the promotion, working with distributors, stores, manufacturing. Its more than a full time job, as is being an artist, what with all the touring, managing myself, and of course, producing. I'm just not sure I'm ready to pick up another full time project.

Q. How is Seattle for house, are there any local producers that you think are making things work???
A. Absolutely. Seattle is bustling with talent, although I wish there were more artists making their careers in house music. Off the top of my head we've got Lusine, Lawnchair Generals, Chloe, Eva, Carlos Da Silva... as well as tons of local talent.  

Q. How extensive is your studio? Is hardware a mainstay???
A. Hardware used to be a mainstay back when Bob Hansen and I were starting out. We had a nice little array of rack effects, guitar pedals, a couple synths and an ASR-10. For the last 10 years however, I've been producing all in the box. I'm a pretty devoted Windows user. Now I'm on Windows 7 and I do all my music in Image Line's FL Studio DAW. Sometimes when tell people that I get some strange looks, but FL Studio, which only runs on Windows, is an extremely affordable program. $200 gets you the software and free upgrades for life. It also allows me to do some tricks and tackle some processes that I just can't do easily in any other program. I also use Native Instrument's Komplete Collection. The computer I use - thanks to the fine folks at Microsoft and Dell, they've recently given me a Dell Studio XPS1647 Core i5 with 8 gigs of ram, which is an amazing piece of machinery. 'The Tracks Are Alive' was produced on a more modest system, Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of ram, something most people have in their home. For live shows, I perform using Ableton Live 8, 2 Behringer BCF 2000 midi controllers, Focusrite Sapphire 6 audio interface, and a novation Launchpad.

Q. Away from music how is your downtime spent???
A. I spend most of my time with my wife Christina, and stepson Anthony, and we spend as much time as we can with our friends - mostly Bob Hansen (from Jacob London), his wife Betsy and their newborn girl Charlie. My wife also has a childrens clothing line called "Ricicli" www.riciclikids.com/ and on weekends we set up a booth at Seattle's Fremont Market, and various other markets selling and promoting her kids clothes. Pretty domestic stuff really

Q. Your partnership with Bob Hansen is well documented do you have any collaborations forthcoming???
A. Yeah we keep meaning to finish these projects that we've had on the table for a while, but what with new babies, and traveling and the projects that I've had, its been difficult for us to get together on a more professional level. Its like, since our time has been cut short by the hustle of regular life, we find ourselves spending our time together just hanging out and being best friends. I'm sure anyone who has kids would understand.??However we're seriously planning on some new projects as simply "Hanssen and Pezzner" and take a new approach to dance music that I think was difficult for us to take when we were the quirky Jacob London duo.

Q. What is your favourite piece of studio kit???
A. I'd say Native Instruments Battery. I use it in every song, and have used it for the past 9 or so years. Its sold as a drum sampler but I use it for everything from sampling chunks of music, to creating strange midi effects that I can only think of doing easily in Battery. I'll be doing some video tutorials later on in the summer so people can see what I'm talking about. ??Q > Do you play any instruments???Nope. I have a key controller that I use to sketch out ideas but I dont actually "play" it. Any solos that you may have heard in my music were mainly written using the pencil tool in FL Studio, or just loosley playing the notes as best I can and then manipulating them after the fact.

Q. Any good at cooking? What is you signature dish???
A. Good question and thank you for asking! I love to cook, and I can rock an omlette like no one else. Anyone who is lucky enough to eat my omlette will be floored.

Muak takes place at Egg on Saturday 10th July with Ian Pooley and DJ Deep also in the house.

After an absolutely superb Glastonbury adventure, we head back to London town for this weekends musicality's. It's a good one too with more festival action on the cards, plus several disco excursions on boats, roof tops, terraces, car parks, yurts, and even one at Trafalgar Square. Please click here for the essential selection with links to full info, tickets, and guest list options...

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Here's this weeks lowdown featuring events with Andrew Weatherall, Click, Macmillian's, Margaret Dygas & Glimpse, Shift, Faith, Stilnovo, Caligula, Tape, Blow, Becks Vier, Wiggle, M Plant, Colony, Village Disco, Doldrums, Plexi, Soundclash, The Loft, Half Baked, Modular, Diesel & Pollocks and more...

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Here's this weeks disco round up...
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Bring on the World Cup, we will be starting the evening here:

Have a great weekend,

All a w/m

Those not heading to the coast, countryside, or adventures on the White Isle and beyond this weekend, there's lots happening this Bank Holiday in the city. A stellar selection of special guests will be landing, and there are several alternate ways to spend the evenings and daytimes with friends and loved ones. Please click here for the selection and click for full info, ticket links, and guest list options...

This weekends disco radar is highly active with this lot unleashed upon London town... Derrick May, Andrew Weatherall, Ragga Twins, Skream, Chemical Brothers, Intergalactic Gary, Dopplereffekt, Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Solomon, James Preistley, Carsten Klemann, Troy Pierce, Alexi Delano, Alex Under, Vera, Faze Action, Serge Santiago, Peter Herbert, Crazy P, Geddes, Damian Lazarus, Jamie Jones, Shinedoe, DJ Three, Horse Meat Disco, Tom Trago, Billy Nasty, Toni D, Mr Scruff, Gavin Herlihy, Neverdogs and oodles more.
 
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We Fear Silence take over London Bridge club and announce diverse program…
 
Never really recovering from the closure of venues such as The End, The Cross, Turnmills and Canvas and with clubs such as Plastic People under threat the London clubbing scene is crying out for something fresh. London promoters, We Fear Silence have taken over the Saturday night program at Bermondsey based venue Cable and announced  a new start with a double header on the weekend of the 4th / 5th June, one year after it originally opened.
 
Mixing a forward thinking music policy with an intimate vibe, reworked lighting and a bespoke Nova sound system from Germany, the new format will answer the prayers of clubbers across the city.
 
The opening weekend looks like back2back madness with FACT Magazine hosting Friday 4th, pulling in talent from across the Techno / Dubstep / Bass-led divide they champion. The fun doesn’t stop there; Modular will be looking after Saturday 5th with a DJ set from Annie and live performances from Tensnake and The Swiss.
 
The line up for the following seven weeks of Saturdays reveals names such as Goldie, Toddla T, Ben Watt, Boy 8 Bit, and Emalkay will be making an appearance. Cable is destined to become notorious for its potent and eclectic programming.
 
Said We Fear Silence founder Ryan Ashmore ‘We've worked all hours since moving operations to Cable to ensure we deliver on absolutely every level. New lighting rigs have been installed, the already excellent sound system has been reconfigured and now sounds even more insane – we’re competing with the bigger, more established clubs.
 
‘Cable fills a middle ground, that intimate vibe people are crying out for - not just punters but promoters. Cable holds 800 people. Most large London venues are much bigger than this - since The End closed there aren't any mid sized venues’
 
Co-founder Ajay Jayaram commented “It’s rare to find promoters presenting a diverse a spectrum of music with forward thinking, cutting edge acts, artists, labels and collectives all under one banner - the ethos being about good music above all else…Hopefully exciting times ahead for Cable, We Fear Silence and most significantly London.”

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Please find this weeks collection of dancefloor activity that will be taking place on terraces, lofts, basements, and a turbine hall, as well as at several undisclosed establishments. Special guests include... Booka Shade, Killer Whale - Live, Yam Who?, Prins Thomas, Chateau Flight, Prosumer, Mr C, Rocky, Diesel, Terry Farley, Skull Juice, Kyle Hall, Floating Points, Losoul, The Horrors, The Mad Professor - Live, John Tejada - LIve, Andre Lodemann, Tony Lionni, Commix, Tobias - Live, James Priestley, Stuart Patterson, Thurston Moore, Eva Prinz, DJ Spooky, Shaun Reeves, AlexKid, Will Saul, Mark Asken, La Roux, and more... Click here

After the hugeness of the Bank Holiday weekend, things are much much quieter over the next 4 days. Today is of course the General Election and when the votes have been cast and the ballot boxes have closed, there are several musical options and alternative ways to keep updated with the results. There's little to excite on Friday night, although we have uncovered a few tasty options where you can laugh or cry. It's back to business on Saturday evening though with several high quality parties setting sail, and Sunday unfolds with a sprinkling of daytime dancing one-offs, as well as the usual options to see out the weekend...

Here's who's in town: Carsten Klemann, James T Cotton, Satoshi Fumi, Hideo Kobayashi, Wolf+Lamb, Guti, Linkwood, Ray Mang, Eddie Richards, Dave Mothersole, Mark Broom, Hugo, Jamie Jones, Richard Zen, James Zabiela, Geddes, Walls, Bearweasel, Mat Playford, Craig Torrance, Terry Francis, DJ T, dOP, Seuil, Craig Richards, Optimo, Elektro Guzzi, Motor, Mike Huckaby, Rick Wade, Norm Talley, Actress and more. Please click here for the full details...
 
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Hooray!, the first May Bank Holiday is upon us. Those of you not heading for the hills or venturing out of town, the Wild disco radar has detected a multitude of covert happenings and huge gatherings on land, water, and high up in the skyline. Boats, car parks, warehouses, gardens, roofs, and courtyards are transformed into dancefloor spaces, broadcasting a kaleidoscope of sound and colour around the Capital. There are events to take you back in time, make you change colour, plenty of dressing up options, some to keep you dancing for over 24 hours, and several discos where bands leave instruments behind and take to the dj booth.
 
Here's who's in town... Charles Webster, DJ Krush, Danton Eeprom, Gorillaz, Basement Jaxx, Konrad Black, Dinky, Matt Tolfrey, Mike Shannon, Roman Lindau, Friendly Fires, Razorlight, Ashley Beedle, Reboot, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Jon Carter, Mattias Mayer, Eurokai, Lee Jones, Sasha, Carl Craig, Matthew Dear, Michael Mayer, Seth Troxler, Tiga, Norman Jay, Juan Maclean, Ark, Einzelkind, DJ Sneak, Ellen Allien, Ivan Smagghe, The Revenge, Sancho Panza, New Young Pony Club, and lots lots more. Please see below for the full details...
 
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Have a super smashing weekend,
 
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After last weekends cancellations and last minute line up changes, it looks like this weekends proceedings will be unaffected by the volcano with a silly name, as normal service in the sky's resume. And it's a good job too as there are some pretty tasty parties in the pipeline.

This weekends music is served up with a side order of cinema, bingo, mind bending visuals, the seaside, birthdays, Berlin tours, a new venue opening, and performance art.
 
Here's who is in town: Carsten Klemann, Ikonika, Health, Chrome Hoof, Andrew Weatherall, Chris Cunningham, Cassius, Holy Ghost, Greg Wilson, 2 Bad Mice, A Guy Called Gerald, Appleblim, Aux 88, Bok Bok, Ceephax Acid Crew, Hardfloor, Jimmy Edgar, Joker, Luke Vibert, Matthew Herbert, Joy Orbison, Mock & Toof, Padded Cell, Derrick Carter, Luke Soloman, Cobblestone Jazz, Sandwell District, Echocord, Serge Santiago, Ben Fat Trucker, Benji B, Soulphiction, Lee Foss, Arnaud Le Texier, Danny Howells, Victor Simonelli, Asad Rizvi, Chris Woodward, Rebekah Aff, Danny Faber, Red Robin and lots more... See here for event info, ticket links, and guest list options.

London resumes normal levels of disco activity after the last two epic weekends. There's music for all, conjured by some exceptional guests, to ensure that the perfect balance of seriousness and stupidity prevails. Here's who's in town... Mika Vainio, Donato Dozzy, Terrence Parker, Ashley Beedle, Stereo MCs, The Bays, The Herbaliser, Tom Middleton, DJ Brun, Geddes, Bones, Francois K, Juan Atkins, Jerome Sydenham, The Revenge, Feral, Alex Under, Joris Voorn, Paco Osuna, M.A.N.D.Y. , Plaid, Neil Landstrumm, Simon Baker, Pendle Coven, Skream, Joy Orbison, H.O.S.H., Jon Carter, Billy Nasty, Lottie, and oodles of others......
 
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Hello people,

Here's the weekends w/t featuring parties & djs/live acts that include... Carl Cox, Greg Wilson, Dan Berkson and James What, Tim Sweeny, Morgan Geist, Brothers Vibe, Black Grape, Joey Negro, Snuff Crew, Wbeeza, Plastician, Argy, Chris Sullivan, Matt Tolfrey, Colin Favor, Dennis Ferrer, Sven Vath, Loco Dice, Cassy, Dan Bell, Robert Hood, Danny Krivit, Levon Vincent, I Cube, Zip, Marcel Dettmann, Martinez, Click birthday, Shake It, Disco Bloodbath, secretsundaze, ETA, Primo, Get Loaded, Hellfire Club, Atmosphere, ToTheBone, Transition, Outlook, Holic, Karaokecokey, Shock, Shoplifter, Month Of Sundays, Invisible College, Cocoon, Fabric, Muak, Lowlife, Underbelly, Prologue, mulletover, Trailer Trash, Circo Loco, WYS, La Dolce Vita, Zoetrope, tabula rasa, & Kubicle...

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Have a great weekend

W/M x

Here's this weeks sonic lowdown featuring parties and artists that include... Ricardo Villalobos, Surgeon, Doc Martin, Ali Love, Damon Martin, CJ Macintosh, Josh Wink, Kasra, Trevor Jackson, Alex Metric, Sebo K, Marcus Worgull, Mark Henning, Caspa, Skream, The Bloody Beetroots, Prime Cuts, Neverdogs, Giles Smith, Alex Arnout, Guy Williams, Andrew Weatherall, Kode9, David Mancuso, Simian Mobile Disco, Moodyman, Click, Double Gone Chapel, FWD, The Lonely Hertz Club, Warm, Make Me, Fabric, Together, Blow, Momo, Size Doesnt Matter, Caligula, Follow Me, Underground Rebel Bingo Club, Colony, Bestival, Ovum, 1 Roof, Spacebox, The Loft, Bloggers Delight, Disco Geisha, & T Bar presents... Please click here...

Tevo Howard, Tamo Sumu and Prosumer jet in for the Sud Electronic party on Saturday 10th April where they host a Chicargo special. Click here for details...

Brothers Vibe from Candenza Records gets the Easter weekend underway at the Primo party alongside Matt Tolfrey and more...

mulletover are inviting all friends and family to celebrate their 6th Birthday with them over the April Bank Holiday – don’t they grow up fast. For this momentous occasion they are treating us to 3 Rooms of underground house, techno, dub and disco with a few birthday surprises and a birthday present for the first 600 people who purchase a ticket. Read more and see full dteails here...

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Hundreds of mentalists will be descending upon the West Country this weekend, with good reason too. Kicking off the festival season, the Bloc Weekender rears its head in Somerset for its annual three day gathering, with Salt N Pepa, Model 500 - Live, Roots Manuva, Skream, Surgeon, Marcel Dettman, Flying Lotus, Ms Dynamite, and oodles of others ensuring that suitable musical mayhem prevails. The Sunday fancy dress theme is The Big Day with grooms, pageboys, mother in laws, brides, vicars, cakes and wedding singers all thrown into the mix. Don't feel left out though as the capital can match all of this, albeit minus the fresh air, starry sky's and sleeping in chalets.
 
Underground Bingo, the 1940's Blitz, dark circus themes, a gypsy caravan, flame throwers, and dancing in toilets are all possible occurrences this weekend in London as well as mystifying sounds served up by The Friendly Fires, Prins Thomas, Mylo, Claude VonStroke, Frivolous - Live, Franck Roger & Alix Alvarez, The Bays, Uner and Coyu, Daniel Sanchez, 6th Borough Project, Alexi Delano, Makam, Lee Curtiss, Giles Smith, 2ManyDjs, Matt Tolfrey, Will Saul, Daniel Sanchez, Ashley Beedle, Craig Richards, Zombie Nation, Sub Focus, MJ Cole, Louie Vega, Roni Size, XPress2, Robert Owens and lots lots lots more.
 
Here's this weeks HOT range of dancefloor...

Danny Krivit and his buddy Tony Smith, a proper New York disco legend who will be making his UK debut, to play back-to-back, all night long on Saturday 3rd April. Click here for info...

NYC legend David Mancuso hosts another of his 8-hour psychedelic trips on Sunday 21st March at The Light Bar. Details here.

Chillean star and house/technp pied piper will no doubt entice the masses to Fabric on Saturday 20th March. Full line up here.

Oodles of oomph this weekend...

Moodymann, Untold, Stimming, Matthew Herbert, Ed Banger, Sonar, James Holden, Afrilounge, Re:Boot, The Cuban Brothers, Fabric 30 hour party, Onur Ozer, Daniel Wang, Michael Mayer, Dan Ghenacia, Maurice Fulton, Norman Jay, Plaid, DiY, Misstake, Todd Terje, Rustie, Strip (and regular) karaoke, dinner with disco, burlesque, roller boogie, cabaret, love hotels, dressing up, musical instrument boxes, jelly, reiki, warehouse spaces, basements, theatres, concert halls, mansions...

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secretsundaze host their first London party of 2010 in conjunction with RBMA on Sunday 7th March, w/ special guest Todd Terje at Paramount. Click here for info

Jeff Mills makes a rare appearance at Fabric alongside a special Live show from Aux 88 on Saturday 27th March. Click here for full line up.

The capitals biggest Club, SE ONE, has finally closed its doors:
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The enforces of the law are putting pressure on small Shoreditch venue, Plastic People, to close citing reasons of Public Nuisance and Anti Disorder. Keep track of developments here:
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Planning permission for a residential build opposite the Ministry Of Sound poses a threat to the venues future. Check here for full info:
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Following on from Muak's immense January party, they return on Saturday 13th March with The 5 Beats featuring DJ / Producer trio Franck Roger, Mr V and Alix Alvarez. This visionary collective has quickly built an enviable reputation through their stand out parties in Paris, Miami, New York and Tokyo. London will get a slice of the action and another lesson in house music, click here for full details...

On Friday 19th February theres a few tasty happenings in East London. Steve Bug touches down at Plastic People for a 4 hour session at Warm, Metro Area's Morgan Geist and Maurice Fulton provide a late night sound track at The Camp, and Chloe arrives at the T Bar for another allnighter and the Old Queens Head celebrates their 4th birthday...

On Saturday 30^th January, Muak kick off their first party of the year and have enlisted very special US house heavy weights, OSUNLADE and RON TRENT, to take center stage. Not only that, the brilliant Charles Webster will also be in thee house. Check here for full details…

Check this weeks Wild Times for our New Years Eve and New Years Day hot picks and essential gatherings, here...

Surgeon touches down in London this evening to headline the excellent Bleep43 party at Corsica Studios.

To get you warmed up, here’s a recently recording of him in Spain; Deep, emotive, warm and explosive. Click here.

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The tabulal rasa people have announced details of their next secretive gathering that takes place on Friday 1st January from 2pm until 5am at a secret location. There will be a heated marquee area added and a new hospitality room. Check the full details here...

Very special guests Miss Fitz (Perlon/oslo/Berlin) & Glimpse (Cadenza/Planet E) join Matt Tolfrey and a selection of surprise guests for the 2nd intimate Leftroom Session at Sosho, on Sunday 13th December. Click here for full details.

Neverdogs at Cirque. Recorded at the Brickhouse, London, on Sunday 29th November.

Cirque is the new clandestine gathering for all things HOUSE. Special guests are invited to come and play more house driven sets for a refreshing party in East London...

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More of the same this Sunday 6th December from 6pm...

West Coast house maestro, Doc Martin, takes centre stage at the Egg's Winter Wonderland Xmas party on Saturday 19th December alongside NYC's Larry Tee & Tombstone for a huge festive fiesta. Full details can be found here.

The show preparations for 'Cut Out and Keep' are well underway and this afternoon Hang-Up took a visit to Alex Daw's Vyner St studio. We obviously cannot give too much away at this stage but the quality and breadth of work is amazing.

Alex has already seen his work displayed in the National Gallery in London and has developed a celebrity following having sold pieces to Bob Dylan and Playboy chief Hugh Hefner

The show which will be Alex Daw's first solo art exhibition opens on the 26.11.09. There is an exclusive preview party from 7pm with catering from Funthyme and cocktails from Havana club. This is a guest-list only event but there are limited spaces available click for more details.

Leftroom head honcho Matt Tolfrey hosts the first of his intimate Leftroom Sessions at supernova on Sunday 15th November, taking over the evening with a selection of label artists and friends. For Sessions #1 he's joined by fellow Cocoon & Leftroom artist, Inxec, and new recruit, Jozif (Vitalik). Full event info can be found here.

The dynamic duo, Luna City Express (Moonharbour/Berlin), have relesed a video for their laterst single 'Mr Jack' taken from their recenetly released album, Hello Planet Earth. They guys touch down in London on Friday 20th November at Bar 512 alongside Mic Newman. Full event info can be found here.

Very special guests Shaun Reeves (Wolf+Lamb/Raum...Muzik) & Inxec (Cocoon/Leftroom) join a secret afterparty crew at the supernova party on Sunday 25th October. Please see here for full event details.

In 1995 DJ Sneak's disco filtered sound revolutionised house music with inspirational sounds and rhythms never heard. These grooves became Sneak's signature sound and inspired others like Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx and Armand Van Helden.
 
Throughout his career Sneak has maintained his status as one of the Top 100 DJs in the world by staying true to his dynamic style - from furious banging Chicago tracks and Latin tribal beats, through disco filtered reworks of retro classics and melodic rhythms – with tracks selected to suit your soul and get you moving.
 
In 2009, the DJ Sneak vs. Herve release ‘Droppin Kisses’ reached Number 1 in Music Week UK’s official club chart and received BBC Radio 1 spins from Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Judge Jules, and Kissy Sell Out.
 
Putting the final preparations to what promises to be the hottest night in November’s clubbing calendar, organiser Zaki Lais said:  “With DJ Sneak as our birthday guest it’s going to be another special Muak night and one not to be missed.  Another year older, yes.  Wiser? Maybe.  See you on the dance floor.”

Muak 6th Birthday. Saturday 14th November at Egg, London. Full events details and updates please click here

Very special guest Ryan Crosson (m-nus/wagon repair) joins the supernova party this Sunday 11th October...

Ryan Crosson crafts techno and house tied to the historical precedent set in his native city of Detroit by classic artists such as Kevin Saunderson, Richie Hawtin, and Moodyman. Still, Crosson owes just as much to the constant exchange beween Detroit and Germany, equally taking his cues from artists like Pantytec, Ricardo Villalobos, and Thomas Brinkmann, to shape his own musical output.  

Situated loosely between these two organizing poles, as are many of his American peers currently living in Berlin, Crosson stands out from most of his fellow producers in two key respects:  delivering a fetishistic attention to programming and sound design, and embodying a ceaseless energy that carries itself from the studio directly into his live set and DJ performances.  

Ryan Crosson consistently chooses to steer away from the predictable circuit of so-called “underground” club hits, instead favoring a process of constant renewal and return both to early influential material and to emerging sounds that depart from hegemonic trends.  Likewise, Crosson’s production and sampling practices consistently depart from the world of electronic music by accessing histories of sound linked to militant black jazz, proto-disco, fusion, and west african indigenous music.     

After releasing acclaimed material on diverse and groundbreaking labels like m-nus, Telegraph, Trapez, and Wagon Repair, Crosson has fully given himself over to a life of touring and performance that keeps a steady focus on both the avant-garde aesthetics of and deeply emotional bonds to dance music subculture. Making the move to Berlin in 2007 has opened up residencies for Crosson at Alte Borse in Zurich, Arena Club in Berlin, and of course the notorious summer weekly party, Soulshower, at Club Der Visionaere

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Very special guests Luna City Express land in London for the Vertigo party at Egg on Saturday 10th October. This dynamic Berlin based duo have crafted an extremely slick and groovy sound that has won them plaudits around the globe. An intricate part of Mathias Tanzmann’s Moonharbour collective, their releases encumber the reignited tech house sound that is emanating across dancefloors. Their debut artist album Hello From Planet Earth has just dropped and it’s attracted much acclaim through its kaleidoscope of house, techno and atmospheric tracks. These guys have got the funk. We look forward to welcoming them this Saturday evening for their exclusive UK show! Accompanying the guys is the full Vertigo New Cycle crew featuring Julius, David Zeta, Max, and Micky Galliano. Expect this floor to go off… See here for full details

Very special guest Kabale Und Liebe will be heading to Sosho on Sunday 27th September as party of the Rhythmatic party at supernova. Recording on native Dutch labels Soweso, Remote Area & 100% Pure, he hit the lime light with his classic Mumbling Yeah?, a huge hit with the house and techno elite. He has remixes coming up for Tenax together with fellow country men 2000 and One and Lauhaus as well as recent collaborations with Julien Chaptal. Djing since the very young age of 12, this man has got the beatz. Event info can be found here.

Very special guest Roberto Rodriguez will be jetting in from Helsinki to headline the 4th tabula rasa terrace party on Sunday 20th September with an exclusive live show! Roberto encapsulates the house sound that has become synonymous with the party. He’s making waves amongst the underground house community with his sophisticated and deep beats. Recording on the likes of Plastic City, Compost, Freerange & Sonarkollektiv as well as producing under his other monikers as Future Beat Investigator, Track N Field, and Acid Kings, Roberto’s contemporary house sound has won him many plaudits. His live set is pure, deep electronic boogie; we can’t wait for him to serenade us with his deep tech funk on the terrace (Roberto will also be performing a dj set later in the evening at the afterparty, details to follow)! Check here for full party info.

We had a quick chat with him...

What are you working on at the moment?
I just finished a remix of a 90´s classic Marmion - Schoeneberg for superstition which will be released on Flying Circus. Some days ago i started working on a remix for Yoko Ono. Also doing some finishing touches for my next Compost release due out at the end of November. Another release that i´m finishing is a new mid tempo disco ep, but I can´t tell you the label just yet...

What is the scene in Helsinki like?
The scene in Helsinki is great but relatively small. Lots of great parties every weekend with great dj´s. In Helsinki there are three great clubs for house and techno and their lineup is always top notch.

Which new Finnish producers / djs are ones to look out for?
There is lots of good talent here. You have Juho Kahilainen, Samuli Kemppi, Jori Hulkkonen, Lil Tony, Jussi-Pekka Parikka for example. These guys have been doing this for a while but they are definitely something to mention.

What tracks are doing it for you at the moment?
These are some of my favorites at the moment:
Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream
Redshape - 2010
Wax - Wax20002
Lil Tony - Saturday Morning
Acid Pauli - Marvin
Andre Lodemann - Vehemence Of Sleep (Atjazz Perspective)

What has been your favourite party / event this year?
I´d say that the event I enjoyed the most this year so far was the whole Flow-festival here in Helsinki in mid August. Great atmosphere, good music & perfect crowd.

A snippet from the third tabula rasa terrace party with Matt Tolfrey closing out... Stayed tuned here for details of the next party or keep logged in to the tabula rasa facebook group or the wild music group for announcements...

Very special guest, Moby, appears at Sosho on Sunday 6th September at the supernova party for a rare UK dj set. Stay tuned here for full info...

Richie Hawtin premiers his Contakt documentary at the ICA, London, on Friday 25th September. Full details here.

Techno pioneer Dan Bell jets into the UK on Sunday 30th August to headline the Carnival carry on party at the Egg, London. See here for full event info...

Perlon head honcho, Zip, lands in London and climbs high above the capitals sky line to headline the next Superfreq party at Paramount on Saturday 12th September. Stay tuned here

London imprint, Sarafi Electronique head to Sosho on Sunday 30th August with label boss Arnaud Le Texier and SE artist & Kubicle/Zum resident, Toni D. Check here for full event info and click here for more info about the lable.

Pokerflat head honcho Steve Bug takes center stage at THAT club on Sunday 30th August alongside Doc Martin. Full event info here

Justin Martin released the very first two records on dirtybird and then went on an amazing production path, releasing tracks, mix cds and remixes on multiple labels like Buzzin’fly, Utensil, Om.

Claude VonStroke has been begging him to return to the nest for years and now he is back! Justin has re-joined the family in full force, dedicating himself to multiple new EPs and the raucous fun style that makes dirtybird special. Most importantly he is back with his good friends where he belongs.

Speaking of friends, this time Justin teams up with Claude VonStroke to deliver 6 minutes of pure dirtybird. Justin brought the almost finished track into DB headquarters claiming he was stuck and couldn’t finish it. Claude put it up on the system and decided it was too hot to throw it away. So they worked on it together for a few days and here we are with a new dirtybird bomber.

The track is based around a twisted vocal playing on the old school “Beat That Bitch with a Bat” vocal. But this bit of ADD house goodness could have also been called “The Chicken Trilogy” because it has three distinctive parts that are all different and all happy surprises for the dance-floor.

“Beat That Bird” will also be one of the tracks on Claude’s new album “Bird Brain” out in October and he would like to thank Justin for not throwing the track in the trash bin!

Justin Martin plays supernova on Sunday 9th August at Sosho

For all big chill goers wanting a sunday night fix, keep your ears to the ground for details of a secret supernova party that will be taking place at the big chill festival on sunday night. more info to follow...

On Sunday 2nd August the people from Wild Music, some of the Retox team, and industry friends and family, launch a brand new Sunday night adventure, supernova. Click here for the launch details!

This summer The East Room (Sosho's sister venue) will be running a pop-up version of The East Room in a field, backstage at The Big Chill. They will be catering for some of the food and all of the drinks needs of the artists, press and music industry guests...
 

tabula rasa is one of a few secretive gatherings that takes place around the capital. Full article, here

Very special guest, Justin Martin, touches down on Sunday 9th August to headline the supernova party at Sosho. Running the Dirtybird label with Claude VonStroke, his beats can also be found on the excellent Buzzin Fly label of which we have label representative Chris Woodward joining us too. Check our events section for full details and see below for a video of the recent Exit festival that Justin has recently rocked...

Stay tuned here for up to the minute information and announcements about secret guests and venues, future events and appearances, and more, from our network of friends and family...

w/m x