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Losing an Hour in a Weekend Chocca Full of Parties

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 | Event Preview | No Comments

Its pretty straight forward for party selection this week with a distinguished set of nights and days to fill every minute of the weekend despite the clocks going forward.

Warm at Plastic People (Buy Tickets)

As the club’s existence swings in the balance, Warm are continuing to make the most of what little time could be left for Plastic People. Berlin’s Sebo K will be joining Marcus Worgull for another Friday shindig of sublime house music. Get yourselves down to show Hackney council how important this club really is. And if they don’t take notice, vomit in the street to slowly take them down with street cleaning bills. › Continue reading

Tags: 1Roof, Ben Sims, Burnski, Cable, CJ Mackintosh, Craig Richards, Dean Mushin, Dubfire, Fabric, Frequency 7, Giles Smith, Guy Williams, Headspace, Josh Wink, Justin Drake, Kenny Dixon Jnr, Luciano Esse, Marcus Worgull, matter, Moodymann, Nic Fanciulli, Peace Division, Plastic People, Public Life, Sebo K, Shaun Reeves, Surgeon, T-Bar, Villalobos, Warm, Yousef

The Mother of All Weekends is Upon Us!

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | Event Preview | No Comments

When most people think of Easter they think the second coming of Christ, Easter eggs, fluffy bunnies and daffodils. For a select few it’s all about Easter weekend and how to run your mind into the ground for four days and nights. I’m in the latter camp.

This year the options seem to be bunched around key days. Thursday night has an all mighty clash. In one corner you’ve got your scenster nights. Secretsundaze do their annual thing at the coronet theatre which will see Ame, Dixon and Henrik Schwarz combine forces to create some ableton improve amalgamation live set where they be as one together. No its not some gay love in between the quartet, it’s actually their new project Critical Mass. The whole thing sounds pretty interesting, especially if its anything along the lines of their recent Granfather Paradox mix. After the live session, Dixon and Ame will be dropping a dj set or two along with the SS and Horse Meat Disco ressies.

However if Secretsundaze all sounds a bit too complex with the live sets and you just want to go and party your ass of to some party tunes, then maybe Disco Bloodbath is for you? They’re celebrating their 2nd birthday and to help them they’ve brought in their Scottish mentors Optimo who have been playing party tunes for countless years. Todd Terje will be headlining the main room for the Bloodbath along with the residents, whilst Optimo residents Twitch and Wilkes will be keeping a handle on things with Gucci Soundsystem.

If that all seems a bit to fashionista and you just want raw big room stuff, then you want to be heading towards Koko or matter. Old Coxy is doing a party at the former with Nic Fanciulli and Yousef, whilst Diggers is doing his Bedrock thang at the latter.

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Tags: A Critical Mass, A:rpia:r Soundsystem, Ame, Brothers Vibe, Bugged Out, Carl Cox, Disco Bloodbath, Dixon, East Village, Fabric, Giles Smith, Grandmaster Flash, Greg Wilson, Henrik Schwarz, Horse Meat Disco, Innervisions Orchestra, James Priestley, Jazzy Jeff, John Digweed, Ketoloco, Lightbox, Linkwood Family, M.A.N.D.Y, matter, Mulletover, Nic Fanciulli, Noze, Optimo, Reboot, RPR Soundsystem, Seager Storage Units, Secretsundaze, The Granfather Paradox, The Old Queens Head, Tobi Neumann, Todd Terjre, Twitch, Wilkes, Yousef

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