Archive for September, 2010

Matt Johnson & Ben Terry – In Conversation

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Tirk Records has hosted El Salon at a monthly residency over the summer 2010. Now the last party has come – for this year anyway. Ben Terry from Tirk Records has had a chat with his colleague Matt Johnson.

So… its finally here: This Sunday marks the last We Love party of the season at Space. We’ve had a great summer on the white Island and i chatted to Matt Johnson, Director of The Pool about Ibiza and how the season has gone for him:

Ben Terry: Well Matty, its a busy weekend for The Pool, with a double We Love header looming large. We’re kicking things off at Ministry of Sound on Saturday with Maurice Fulton, looking forward to that one?

MJ: Well with We Love hosting London’s original juice bar it should be quite a night! Im looking forward to hearing Maurice play, that is always a joy. Dom Chung from Future Disco is also a long time friend so nice to be in the same time-zone as him, as usually he’s away globe-trotting!

Ben Terry: After that its straight on plane for the We Love Closing party at Space: The Pool have been busy hosting El Salon this summer, how did the hook up with We Love come about & how’s it all gone from your perspective?

MJ: Woosh… yep that’s it. I met Mark Broadbent (We Love) via a good old friend… Phat Phil Cooper. Phil’s one of the Chibuku faithful… a soulboy from Chester. He helped us join the dots really. Mark’s also a Snowbombing regular so we often connect in the mountains in the spring. The collaboration has been a real labour of love from our-side. Programming some of our favorites to play under the Ibizan skies on a Sunday night at Space, for We Love… how could it not be? We have been enjoying trying to twist a few clubbers minds and most importantly their… rear-ends all summer. The El Salon is a beautiful room, abit like a secret boudoir. A perfect spot for a good late night party.

Ben Terry: Richard Sen & Phoreski are over with us this month, both quite different styles I’d say but nice to see them over in Ibiza to provide a slight different flavour?

MJ: Yes, two incredibly under-rated DJs in my opinion. Phoreski is from the new wave so to speak. Check out The 4 Skins to get a feel for where he’s coming from. Richard Sen has been on the scene for years as Bronx Dogs, Heavenly Records resident and more recently as one half of Padded Cell. Both have very interesting styles and a great range of influences… Punk, Nu Beat, Psychedelia, Italo, early Electro, Punk-Funk… etc etc etc. Phoreski has this incredible energy and works the mixer really hard. In quite a Techno way, if that makes any sense. Which I really like for someone playing the sort of music he plays.

Richard’s skill is being equally at home playing alongside Derrick May in a more massive room, as he is dropping a more mixed bag in a backroom. He does both perfectly. His Padded Cell project also has some brand new material coming soon so hoping to hear some of that! I heard the first single had an afro feel but don’t know alot more than that. Maybe I got confused and Richard is growing an Afro!

Ben Terry: What are your general thoughts on the island this season, in terms of the crowds, the music and the types of artists being programmed over there?

MJ: To me the island always has a magic to it. Time passes, crowds and fashions come and go but that never really changes what’s there. The same spirit which helped kick start acid house, lives in those hills. Which is why I deem it to be such an important part of the club circuit. I think We Love are the largest party outfit that are on the cusp of booking the more progressive styles over there. I love what they do in a programming sense. Seeing Prins Thomas on the Terrace back in June was incredible. I know that was a new booking for them. Greg played the same spot a few years back to a great response. Carl Craig, Aphex Twin, Derrick May, Disco Bloodbath, Chemical Brothers, DJ Hell, Grace Jones, Alfredo… week in week out. The list goes on. They also support and nurture interesting upcoming acts like PBR Streetgang who have become recent residents. And help labels like Tirk reach a larger audience. All while operating like one big happy family, so I have a huge admiration for them.

Ben Terry: You might actually sneak in a couple of days in the sunshine this time i hear!? with an Ibiza Sonica radio show being on the cards for next week. Can you fill us on when that is and what to expect?

MJ: Lets hope so! Infact this time last year there were massive thunderstorms so must’nt count our chickens! Im going to do a little radio show for Sonica. A guy called Andy Wilson who works with Jose Padilla, run’s the airwaves over there. So Im going to pull out a few favorites for him on Monday. Catch the vibe so to speak… tune into those lay-lines!

Ben Terry: Finally – what’s your number 1 weapon of choice for this weekend? new or old

MJ: The new Locussolus and a pack of Trebor extra strong mints for the flight.

Thanks to Matty for the thoughts, and we’ll see you in El Salon on Sunday… adios.

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Interview with 2020 Vision’s Ralph Lawson

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

By guest writer Jonty Skrufff.

The one man stag-do


“It’s all about new ideas. Those with the best ones will win.”

Living his entire adult life in club culture and chatting to Skrufff just hours after finishing a three day long Balearic bender, 2020Vision chief Ralph Lawson might be expected to be more than a little grumpy though fizzing with enthusiasm and élan, he’s both energetic and remarkably lucid.

“The weird thing is I have always been able to stay up,” he chuckles. “I have massive adrenaline levels, in fact, I have far more problems going to sleep than staying awake.”

His latest trip to Ibiza has been to headline 2020Vision’s closing party for We Love Space, his last in a season of bashes that have seen him packing out the main dance-floor of the legendary Ibiza superclub each month. After each event, he’s handed out free We Love Space 10 / 2020 Vision mix CDs and label compilation he’s mixed with tracks from 2020Vision signed artists including Crazy P, Simon Baker and Audiojack.

The idea for the giveaway came from We Love (‘I jumped at Mark Broadbent’s offer for the We Love CD’, he admits) and is one of the new concepts he’s hoping will help his label prosper as music sales continually shrink.

“We pressed 11,000 copies and have around 1,000 left still to give out this week and next,” says Ralph, “For a comparison, in 2007 I mixed Fabric 33 which did 12,000 so it’s about the same in terms of numbers. Compilation sales five years ago were in a different league but those days are gone. Mix CDs are lucky to sell 2,000 (units) now. Why would people buy them when they can get podcasts for free? But you have to move with the times rather than get angry about it. It’s like King Canute ordering the sea to go back, it’s not going to happen,” he predicts.

“I gave out a bunch more after my set finished last Sunday and people were biting my hands off for them, if anything I could have done with more,” he laughs.

“I suppose we’ll only start to see the full effect over the next year and see if I am suddenly the next Luciano and We Love is bigger than God. Joking aside I have had amazing feedback both personally and on the internet so I am just glad if people are happy and have a memento of their night to keep for ever.”

Skrufff: What’s been your impression of Ibiza 2010 compared to earlier years?

Ralph Lawson: “I must say I have really enjoyed this summer. I have been lucky to have the monthly We Love residency and every single one has been great although June was perhaps slower due to the World Cup. Personally I love September, my favourite gig was my last one. The crowd are the real deal by this time of year, the hardcore. I went out to DC10 and Cocoon on Monday afterwards and both were packed, with good music as well. I ended up at Ibiza Rocks on Tuesday which was sold out for their closing party. I also played at the Underground in the summer which I love and we did a 2020Vision label show at Zoo Project which went great. So I think overall it’s still very positive for the Island.”

Skrufff: The last time we chatted in 2006, you talked about scaling back from 3 day marathon after-parties (“People don’t realise how much it takes out of you, when you’re partying, time is a different thing, hours pass like minutes and before you know it, it’s fucking Tuesday, then it takes you two days to recover, then it’s the fucking weekend again’): 4 years on, how much does it remain a temptation to get lost in party adventures? When was the last time?

Perfect vision

Ralph Lawson: “Ha Ha, it’s a bad day to ask me as I did go for a full three-nighter this week but hey it was my personal closing party. And yes I feel terrible today. I have been a good boy recently though and mainly concentrating on my work. I have a lot to do in the week. Everyone goes to Ibiza to let their hair down and I’m no exception, if there’s anywhere I will fall off the wagon, it’s there.”

Skrufff: How much has being work focused and less known for being a party animal changed the way people treat you? Have you ever felt not in synch with revellers: or uncomfortable by people caning it around you?

Ralph Lawson: “I think it’s hard to get rid of your reputation, my nickname in Ibiza is ‘stag-do’; because I’m the quiet one who is actually the worst when let out to play. Music keeps me very high. I still love it. As soon as I’m playing music, I’m in the zone and people know that, I don’t have to prove myself by taking every drug on the planet. I know which ones work for me and they are all the mellow ones. I need calming down not revving up. I really don’t mind what anyone else does at all though. The only thing that bothers me is if people try to shove stuff down your neck and get offended if you refuse. People have to respect personal choices.”

Skrufff: Talking about when you were DJing in the early 90s living in a farm outside Leeds, you recalled finding Hopefield Farm when you were homeless, splitting it between 3 of you for £400 in the 90s: sounds like you were quite happy despite being nearly penniless: how broke were you and how long did it take you to turn DJing into a lifelong career?

Terraza

Ralph Lawson: “I would never be so glib as to suggest being skint is fun. It’s not at all. We happened to get a great deal on the place at the time and made the most of it. I have definitely missed out on the big money some of my contemporaries have made as I’ve always been a resident at Basics where we started getting £30 a week and trying to get it up from there. I don’t think I’ve had a pay rise for over 10 years there. I think I was naive as to what other DJs were getting paid as I just wasn’t in that scene. Of course now I get paid OK when I guest and can’t complain. I have never had to work outside music since 1991 and I don’t plan to so it’s a constant hustle. Maybe I’ll finally be in the big money in the coming years, I actually believe I deserve it, especially when I hear some the guys who get paid up to 10 times more than me.”

Skrufff: What was the closest you came to quitting music and getting a straight job (was it ever an option you seriously considered?)

Ralph Lawson: “Yes I did consider this at times over the years though never for very long. Usually on days like today.”

Skrufff: What do you see the key role of 2020 Vision is these days: how much is it about marketing- and branding your acts as opposed to selling physical units (digital or otherwise?)

Get it while it's hot

Ralph Lawson: “Our key role is to put out great music. Our job now is to find ways of doing this that still create a revenue stream for the artist. For me it has become more about playing live shows and gigs as that is the only place people can’t steal your work. It’s you up there, doing it. Your experience, your skill, your music. There has always been bootlegging since records were invented but now we have a format that is so easy to copy it has got out of control.

It is possible that in the future someone will invent a format that is harder to copy but right now it doesn’t exist for public use. Until then we are focusing on building 2020Vision live. We recently did a sold out show at Village Underground in London for 1000 people with 300 unable to get in outside. That’s gotta’ be a wake up call that I am heading in the right direction with a good crew of artists.”

Skrufff: How much do you see yourself as a brand?

Ralph Lawson: “I was always uncomfortable with brands as such. It reeks of marketing jargon. I also think kids can see through companies that are all about their brand with no substance. Of course you have to build your name but substance has to come first. I prefer to look at it that way.”

Skrufff: How much do you believe in visualising success? Do you (and have you always) been- and felt- lucky? Well? Do you?

Ralph Lawson: “I was lucky at the start because I was in the right time at the right place with the right records. Everything since then has been hard graft. As I grow older I am more and more believing in the visualising idea you suggest. But what’s more important is not thinking or talking about it but doing it.”

Skrufff: What’s been the greatest mistake you’ve made?

Ralph Lawson: “Not signing Trentemoller when I had the chance. That still pisses me off. I should have listened to my instincts which were right and not the track he sent which was wrong.”

Skrufff: And what’s been the greatest obstacle you’ve overcome?

Ralph Lawson: “The deaths of my girlfriend and DJ partner in 1993.”

We Love Space Sundays 10 / 2020Vision summer 2010: mixed by Ralph Lawson is available from various outlets in Ibiza (and almost certainly at We Love’s closing party this weekend (Sunday September 26th).

If you are not one of the lucky ones being in Ibiza for the closings you can get the cd on beatport as well.

Ralph Lawson DJ Profile

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11 Questions – Bill Brewster

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Frank and Bill


Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton founded DJHistory.com in 2000 as a way of promoting their book Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. Since then it’s attracted a loyal following of hirsute DJs and record collectors and become a support group for vinyl-related Aspergers sufferers. In 2008 they relaunched the site with a shiny coat of paint, a music shop and a slightly more professional approach. Their aim remains the same as always: to document the rich history of dance music and to collect and share knowledge about fantastic music.

Despite growing up in Lincolnshire only several cornfields apart, Bill and Frank met on the corner of Bond and Broadway in New York in 1994. Within a week they’d decided to write a book together on New York disco, having spent several nights trading club stories collected from Sound Factory veterans, Roxy drag queens, and a couple of ancient gay truckers from Jersey. Thanks to guidance from Doug Young at Headline, this idea greatly expanded its horizons and became 1999’s Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, the first book to trace the entire history of DJing.

In the wake of their magnum opus, Bill and Frank’s partnership led to further books, including best-selling DJ manual How To DJ (Properly), and a long-running series of professional house parties known as Low Life. As well as their long-toothed experience as music journalists and magazine editors, both are DJs; Bill is also an experienced producer, remixer, chef, and catalogue consultant, and Frank has been known to be a senior digital creative in the world of advertising. Today Bill is moonlighting as our interogatee ahead of his birthday takeover of El Salon.

Skill Bill

Is there one book that you have read that has been life-changing for you?

Bill Brewster: Yes. Mrs McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie. It was the first book I’d ever read for pleasure rather than schoolwork. I was stuck indoors one summer after I left school suffering badly from hay fever, found this book and started reading it. At the end of that summer, I’d read about 20 Agatha Christie novels and was hooked.

Did your parents encourage you to work in music?

Bill Brewster: They did, yes. I played E flat clarinet in the school orchestra, but I was lazy and stopped playing regrettably.

How did you begin to work professionally in music?

Bill Brewster: I was originally the singer in a band (back in 1981) and we got a record deal with a semi-trendy label, put a few singles out, toured a bit and then it all collapsed into recriminations and all that mallarkey. We were Grimsby’s answer to Tower Of Power. Anyhow, that gave me the thirst for it, but I started DJing because I couldn’t be arsed having arguments with the bass player about how loud his amp was. As a DJ, you’re a dictator, which is probably my natural inclination.

Viva la revolution

How do you apply your past experiences to what you do today?

Bill Brewster: I think everything you’ve done in the past inveitably flows into what you do now. It’s a natural process. But, I suppose, what is advantageous to me is having been buying music regularly since the early 1970s and keeping up with current trends, it’s easier to recycle and revive older records when a particular sound is in vogue.

Where is your current studio and what is it like?

Bill Brewster: I don’t have a studio, but I’m working with Alex Tepper on a project, Hotel Motel, which we’ve been doing since last November. Alex used to be in Futureshock and he works with Steve Lawler, Nic Fanciulli and loads of other house chaps. We’ve got stuff coming out on Under The Shade and Home Taping. We’ve got our capes and leather long johns ready for the forthcoming Top Of The Pops appearance.

How much have you had to consider marketing issues since embarking on your career and how has that affected your creativity?

Bill Brewster: Ha ha. I’m absolutely shit at marketing myself. I didn’t even have an agent till a year ago despite DJing for 25 years. My wife’s always mithering me for being a bit of a div, but there you go. So I can honestly say marketing issues have never affected anything I do. I tend to jiust go with what I want to do and hope that people are digging the stuff that I do, whether it’s writing books, faffing about on websites or DJing and throwing parties. It’s in my blood to get up and do stuff, and I can’t see that changing.

Four Bills

How would you describe your work?

Bill Brewster: Eclectic. I have a very low boredom threshold, so as soon a I get competent at something, I want to stop doing it and do something else. Not good for marketing but good for sense of self and well-being.

Who were your teachers?

Bill Brewster: Roy Bainton, who used to run a musical instrument shop called Gough & Davy in Grimsby in 1970s, was the person who first introduced to me a wide variety of music; John Peel, a saviour for people growing up in shit towns in Great Britain; Danny Tenaglia, my mentor when I lived in New York.

feat. lots of Bill's old DJ mates

Your home is burgled but fortunately the culprits are caught and your possessions returned to you. What would you deem a suitable punishment for the burglars?

Bill Brewster: I’m a Marxist and, as the philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon argued: Property is theft. Mind you, if he touched my records, he’d get a good stomping.

You have to make one species of animal extinct. Excluding insects, which species would that be?

Bill Brewster: Cats. I don’t like the way they look like they’re plotting against us.

If you could spend one week in any period of history, which period would you choose?

Bill Brewster: May 1971. Grimsby Town won the Fourth Division championship under Lawrie McMenemy. I was there when they did it, but I was too young to appreciate how great it was and in our present straitened circumanstanes it’s hard to see it ever being repeated.

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Guy Williams; Black Rabbit, Disco and Over-zealous Party Police (interview)

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

By guest blogger Jonty Skrufff. Find Jonty on facebook here.

Starting his career at the Hacienda’s legendary queer night Flesh in 1983 in Manchester, Guy Williams has gone on to become a fixture of both the gay and straight global club scenes, holding high profile residencies at the likes of Ministry of Sound and DTPM and more recently at Ibiza’s We Love mega-parties at Space. Focusing primarily on house, he’s also re-embraced disco’s latest renaissance, playing predominantly classic tracks at his monthly Black Rabbit parties at We Love.

“Personally I’m really happy that disco has become big again because my musical roots are based in 80s music and disco and it definitely still is big today,” he enthuses.

“There’s also loads of really good nu disco being made which is more musical and warm and through these hard times we’re living in right now people need that. Though I still love good deep house and tech house as well.”

He’s also firmly attached to the concept of playing quality disco and house music loud, judging by a recent angry message he posted on Facebook hours after returning from spinning a high profile slot at London’s Lovebox Festival.

“Lovebox Nazi sound police take note- it’s a MUSIC festival!” he stormed, hours after the event, adding for good effect, ‘Dickwads’.

Today he’s decidedly more chilled describing the East London outdoor event as ‘an overall good experience’ and one he hopes to repeat next year.

“In general it was a good day at Lovebox but the Art Against Knives/Jezebel sound system where I was playing at kept being told to turn the music down,” he explains. “They even closed it down a few times and it really wasn’t that loud.”

Sound quibbles aside, he’s a no-nonsense, knowledgeable interviewee, reflecting his 17 year career working as a DJ, party promoter and experienced dance label executive, who though continuing to travel extensively, remains based in London for much of the year.

Skrufff: What’s your assessment of the health- or otherwise- of London nightlife right now; how does it compare to 3, 5 and 10 years ago?

Guy Williams: “Well as most people will know, partly due to the recession and partly due to people going to more live gigs and festivals and web related events quite a few clubs have closed down and nights finished in London. Three years ago was especially tough because three of the nights I’d played at for a resident for a number of years all finished, pretty much simultaneously. But there are still some great nights and parties on and a lot of pubs have become cool places to go with good DJ and cheaper prices so people will always want to go out and dance.”

Skrufff: I’ve read that many gay pubs are closing because people are meeting over the internet and via web 2.0/ mobile phone apps: how much do you see a difference in the strength of the gay scene compared to straight clubs?

Guy Williams: “I’ve long thought the gay scene has been a little on the slide for quite some time due to both the reasons you mentioned and also because of the fact that being gay is no longer underground and has become almost predictable. Though there are still great parties like Horse Meat Disco and various warehouse parties, thank God.”

Skrufff: You grew up in the Manchester suburb of Cheadle Hulme: what were you doing between school and starting DJing in 1993?

Guy Williams: “I left school in 1986 and after leaving I went straight into a telesales job which I did for a few mind-numbing years before landing a manager’s job at a clothes shop aged 19 which I did for five years. I started DJing in 1993 and when that started to really take off in 1994 I left the clothes shop job and concentrated on DJing. I also then started working for PWL – Pete Waterman’s company looking after promo for Eastern Bloc records, his dance label, before moving to London in 1997.”

Skrufff: You became a resident at the Hacienda’s legendary night Flesh in 1993: how did you land the first gig?

Guy Williams: “I had been going to Flesh since the very first one in 1990 so when I started DJing in 1993, Paul Cons, the promoter gave us a slot. When I say ‘us’ I used to DJ with a guy called David and we went under the name of Planet Janet. It was definitely one the highlights of my DJ career as Flesh was such a seminal night.”

Skrufff: Peter Hook’s recent book on the Hacienda (‘How Not To Run A Club’) is full of tales of hooligans and gangsters packing out the club and regularly causing chaos, how much did you have to navigate/ interact with those kind of characters?

Guy Williams: “I started going to the Hacienda when I was just 16 years old and it was very much a student / indie kind of club until 1988 when dance music started creeping in, as did the gangster element. I used to go to a Wednesday night called Hot, Fridays called Nude and sometimes on Saturday as well; all of them straight nights and by end of 1989 it was definitely getting rougher. The gangsters eventually started appearing at Flesh too, which was a gay night. To be honest, the gangsters ruined Manchester’s club scene. By 1993 loads of venues and nights were closing down simply because it was just too dangerous, and that was partly the recent I left and moved to London after experiencing a few dry years.”

Skrufff: Danny Tenaglia booked you for a couple of his renowned Be Yourself parties in New York 2002, how did that happen and much difference did his support make to your career and profile?

Guy Williams: “Danny was a bit of a DJ hero to me in the early nineties and I basically became friends with him and his manager Kevin. When they first asked me to play it was one of the most flattering and daunting opportunities I’ve experienced though luckily a group of friends accompanied me to New York and the gig in the event was amazing, Danny came into the booth about an hour before he was due to play and asked if I would play for longer. And to get invited back a second time was ace.”

Skrufff: Do you ever go back to your hometown of Cheadle Hulme or any old school reunions?

Guy Williams: “I never really go back there but have driven past my old house, which I loved a few times. And there have been a number of reunions which I thought about going to but didn’t quite make it.”

Guy Williams – Soundcloud

Black Rabbit – Myspace

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Label Launch… Loop Recordings

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Loopity loop

Ready for some Loop Recordings?

In and out of the mayhem that is Ibiza, two We Love… Space residents have been preparing for a winter musical onslaught. There has been a lot more going on than ‘just’ performing at what they consider to be the best party in the world.

The story started with Ian.C being invited by Martin ‘Smut’ Wood (also a We Love regular guest) and Jem Haynes to “come and have a jam in the rave cave with us”. Tracks were already in progress and a new label Loop Recordings was in its embryonic stage. The rave cave turned out to be a very nicely equipped studio in the countryside of south east England and with no outside distractions (or windows) to stop them, a series of many long, experimental and purposeful sessions ensued. Eight months later a bold new label is on the verge of being launched.

“All three of us bring something different to the table both live and in the studio. Martin plays guitar, Ian the drums and I am from a DJ and producing background,” says Jem. With that broad scope in mind, Loop Recordings makes total sense and actually came together pretty quickly. “We have the first 6 releases scheduled, (many of them road tested on the hallowed We Love dance floors by Jem) the first of which ‘Baby Come Back’ will be released in October after the We Love summer madness has ended.” To celebrate the end of “phase one”, Jem Haynes Sunset Terrace performance on the 12th of September will be joined by Ian.C before he performs with Alfredo. “We have all put in a great deal of effort and had a lot of fun creating the Loop sound”, says Smut, “it’s fantastic that new label tracks can be tested somewhere as special as We Love.”

Click flyer for more info

As a pre-emptive strike to what is to come, the guys have given us a taster of their forthcoming sounds with a cheeky little audio / video remix of Gorillaz – Dirty Harry, which you can download here, and check the video below.

Set to be a stormer

Jem Haynes – DJ Profile

Smut – DJ Profile

Ian C – DJ Profile

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This Is Music Villa Party

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

A little bit of retrospective PR here. As if a headline residency at We Love Space in Ibiza wasn’t enough to live the Balearic dream for Simian Mobile Disco. Their friends at This Is Music put on a before and after party with a session at We Love sandwiched in-between. We couldn’t put up the flyer before-hand for obvious Guardia / Policia related reasons, but felt we had to share this kaleidoscopic vision of Es Vedra with you.

Es verdad

The address has been pixellated, but if you were there you would know all about the face painting and spider baby antics. Check the video below to see Tensnake talking about using Windows XP on an Apple Powerbook, crazy guy!

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We Love Space 2010 – Closing Fiesta

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

The end is nigh! There’s still time to book flights from wherever you may be for this party of epic proportion. The line-up speaks for itself, including an Ibiza debut from Aphex Twin in the Discoteca and a return to the venerated Terraza with Basement Jaxx. Big up to David Tazzyman. See you there! x

We Leviathan Space



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Chew The Fat! 13th Birthday THIS Saturday!

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

From the Fat! Club blog.

Wow. We’re 13!

This Saturday (September 4th) we are having a big birthday bash at Cable, London Bridge and you are invited. Advance tickets are available here and we’ll make sure there are plenty of tickets on the door.

Room 1

Surkin, Yolanda Be Cool, Foamo, Redligt, Purpl Pop (Live), Tony Senghore, JP

Room 2 Bullet Train Volume One Album Launch

Marco Del Horno, Warrior One, The Living Graham Bond, Last Japan, Koodikki

£10 Advance & Students / £13 On The Door
Address:
Cable
Bermondsey St. Tunnel
SE13JW
London

Click here to buy tickets

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Chew The Fat! 13 Tracks For 13 Years

13 years since founder Paul ‘Trouble’ Arnold started his weekly party at The Bug Bar in the crypt of St. Matthew’s Church, Brixton Chew The Fat! remains synonymous with fresh parties, cutting edge music and good, honest, unpretentious fun. In Paul’s own words… “over the 13 years we have grown a little, continued to evolve musically and still manage to have plenty of fun”.

This collection of 13 tracks, including some of our favourite Fat! Records releases from over the years (the Apollo Kids track was the earliest mp3 we could find), originals and remixes from artists playing at our 13th birthday party and a few exclusives, is our birthday present to you. Enjoy!

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PBR Streetgang – The Cutting Edge Of An Evolutionary Dead End

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

DJ and production duo PBR Streetgang have recorded a mix that despite its title is pretty pioneering in bringing various strands of forward thinking dance and electronica under their home-grown banner of digital disco. They’ve been giving it away to friend and foe alike during their summer residency on the hallowed terrace here at We Love Space, and is a decent representation of what you could have heard from them there. Like last year, the boys tend to hold off producing too many mixes and prefer to put out only two or three maximum per year. This means it’s all about the sound and less about banging out fresh tunes. It’s as perfectly suited to cruising round the salt flats of Salinas at sunset in a Land Rover as it is to boogieing around a swimming pool at dawn with vodka limon in hand.

Darwinian Disco

You can download the mix below, but if you want a copy including this lovely artwork you’re gonna have to show up at one of their shows and ask nicely for the strictly limited promo only copies. We questioned them earlier on the usual stuff… time travel, animal extinction, etc… give it a read while you listen. Enjoy!

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