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EarPipe’s Things We’ve Liked and Are Looking Forward To

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | Event Preview, Event Reviews | No Comments

Sorry for being a bit slow on the posts front recently. Its mainly down to me being found at weekends crawling around the floor of darkened rooms playing repetitive electronic music. That said I want to tell you about a few of those excursions.

Firstly way back at the end of February we got invited to the launch of Nic Fanciulli’s Saved Sessions at matter. The brand spanking new club was ideal for the heavy weight line up that Nic had brought in. Nic Fanciulli himself played a brilliantly judged tech house to techno set, whilst the the comedy techno antics of Green Velvet blew the socks off many a bewildered tourist clubber. The New York legend Francois K then smashed it home leaving only the lovers of techno to revel in the ridiculous bass that the matter sound system pumps out. Hopefully this is the start of a beautiful residency. Judging by the next Saved Sessions it sure will be. Derrick Carter vs DJ Sneak, Dennis Ferrer, Theo Parrish, Jerome Sydenham and Will Saul!?!?!?!?!?!?Surely i’ve died and woken up in US house heaven?

Fast-forward a couple of weeks and we’re down at East Village where Prologue had brought in Norman Jay for a bit of Good Times magic. I was worried whether Norman Jay was a one trick pony with his chesse-a-thon sets as seen at Carnival. However I was happily proved wrong as he dug out some great house music to have the basement turned up to gas mark nine. › Continue reading

Tags: Cobblestone Jazz, Dennis Ferrer, Derrick Carter, DJ sneak, East Village, Francois K, Green Velvet, Hector, Jerome Sydenham, Laurent Garnier, Layo and Bushwacka, Mountain People, mUmU, Nic Fanciulli, Norman Jay, Prologue, Rederico Molinari, Saved Records, Saved Sessions, Secretsundaze, Shake It, Theo Parrish, Will Saul

BLOC Book The 13th-15th March It’s BLOC Weekend Baby!

Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | Event Preview, Events, News | No Comments

BLOC Weekend looks set to return after last year’s sell out success. Taking place on the 13^th – 15^th March weekend, this year sees the early spring weekend move location to the Butlins “mega-resort” in Minehead near Bristol. It boasts the largest water park in the South West with a water slide that can spit you out at up to 40mph. Definitely what you need after a night of jaw breaking techno and Aphex Twin’s microphone in a blender trick! But it’s not really about the luxury settings of the holiday resort its more what’s on. And judging by this year’s current line-up it could be held down the local sewage works without deterring anyone.

So who’s on the bill? › Continue reading

Tags: Afrika Bambaataa, Aphex Twin, Appleblim, Beardyman, Ben Sims, Benga, BLOC, BLOC Weekend, Carl Craig, Digital Mystiks, DJ QBert, Frequency 7, FSOL, Future Sound of London, Green Velvet, James Ruskin, Kode 9, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Metro Area, Modeselektor, Peverlist, Qbert, Redshape, Robert Hood, Skream, Surgeon