Spektrum in September - Manchester, UK

Tags: 2008, birthday, Events, listings, manchester, sankeys, september, spektrum

Rumours have been filtering through the nocturnal clubscape of Manchester for some weeks now that something nuclear is about to detonate on Radium Street. We are in a position to confirm those rumours, by detailing that a new club will indeed open its doors on the first weekend of September 2008. That club is Spektrum.

The team behind Sankeys know how to put on a party. And that’s putting it mildly. The club was recently voted 17th best on the planet in DJ magazine, and what made that special was the fact it was voted for by DJs and music industry professionals. The esteemed Canada-based website The Fresh Page went one better by putting Sankeys firmly in the top 10, as its impact resonates across the…

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Blank & Jones - The Logic of Pleasure

Tags: 2008, blank, blank and jones, jones, the logic of pleasure

Blank & Jones materialised as recording artists in 1997 with a single called Sunrise and since then, as a combination of DJ’s and musicians, travellers and dreamers, party planners and thinkers, movers and shakers, businessmen and pleasure seekers, chill-out emperors and rave gurus, lo-tempo sweethearts and energetic pop masterminds, trance specialist and dance heroes they have had numerous hit singles and albums in their home country of Germany and success in the UK with the anthems Cream, After Love and The Nightfly.

Blank & Jones, loving to work with great singers and other minds from different musical worlds, have made, mixed and arranged electric mood music in collaboration with such individual talents as The Cure’s magical Robert Smith, the uncompromising poet provocateur Anne Clark, the hyper emotional Canadian singer Sarah…

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Saytek Interview

Tags: 2008, interview, Joseph Keevill, london, saytek, zoo project

There is simply no other house & techno live act quite like Saytek. A man who has gained a reputation for tearing up Europe’s most legendary dance floors with his impressive improvised shows. Saytek’s obsessive love of hardware see’s him rocking up at clubs with groove boxes, synths, Ableton, Kaos pads and various other noise mangling gadgets and weaving together a seamless mix of floor shaking electronics. He arranges, re-samples, tweaks filters, layers effects, triggers samples, mutes parts and mixes everything together on the fly.

He takes eager fans on a unique off the cuff musical journey that not only defies genre but is emotive, spontaneous and intellectually pleasing. Armed with 1000’s of loops and patterns he has created, Saytek can literally take his performances in any direction he chooses from…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Interview with Sarah Main & GoldFish

Tags: 2008, goldfish, ibiza, interview, pacha, pure pacha, sarah main

Hello guys, thanks for taking the time to talk to us. You have your new album out at the end of the month, tell us about it?
Sarah: I just mixed disc 2 of Pure Pacha alongside Goldfish who did disc 1. I think this year’s album reflects the new feeling of Pure Pacha. Goldfish mirrors the sound they are famous for at their Pure Pacha gigs and mine reflects a set that is similar to what you what hear on your average Pure Pacha night. It’s a party night, as you can see by the awesome line up, and this is the vibe that is captured in the album.
Gold Fish - Dom: We’re super stoked to be a part of the 6th Pure Pacha release. It’s Pacha’s flagship disc and…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 1:45 pm

Global Gathering 2008 Compilation

Tags: 2008, album, compilation, Festival, global gathering, godskitchen

Set in the lush green surroundings of Long Marston Airfield near Stratford Upon Avon, Global Gathering 2008 gets set to dazzle clubber’s senses once again with two days of inspired programming and on-site entertainment to make the biggest electronic music weekender in the world!

To accompany this outstanding event, the world’s best party promoters in the know unleash their fourth album aptly titled ‘Global Gathering 2008’ featuring the biggest festival tunes and hands in the air summer anthems set over two CDs.

CD1 starts off the Global Gathering festival vibe, featuring a remixed chart favourite ‘Stop Me’ by Mark Ronson ft. Daniel Merriweather and the Freemasons ft. Katherine Ellis ‘When You Touch Me’. These sit alongside current biggies from dance legends, Underworld ‘Ring Road’ and also the excellent Hervé Remix of ‘Licky’…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Max Graham Interview

Tags: 2008, cycles, interview, max graham

Max Graham on ‘Cycles’…

Firstly could you tell us a bit about the mix?
I love it! Haha, it’s a classic progression of mine… always starts more techy and teases for a while, then gives the full on main room vibe on the second disc.

What were you looking to put across with the mix?
Basically a true representation of how I DJ; my sets are always a minimum of 3 hours, 4-5 hours is perfect for me. It gives me a chance to capture peoples attention and lead them somewhere they might not have expected to go, rather than just bang out hits for 90 minutes.

Is there any studio trickery involved in the process of making the CD or was it a traditional ‘decks and mixer’ affair?
I used Abelton for it. It…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Falko Brocksieper Interview

Tags: 2008, falko brocksieper, interview, london, Podcast

Falko Brocksieper is founder of hot Berlin based Sub Static label, and boasts recent firm seals of approval from the likes of Craig Richards, Jay Haze and Mike Monday to name but a few. Falko, who is very rarely in London, stops off at Platinum, Shoreditch this Sat (19 July 2008) furing his worldwide tour for a special EBM (Electronic Body Movement) party, playing alongside key homegrown and now globally in demand talents JB (Retox), Darren Roach (EBM), the Lasermagnetic crew (Neil Thornton & Johnny Hiller, the Reverso 68 boys (Pete Herbert & Phil Mison), Asad Rizvi (Reverberations) and Jay Pearce (Affected Music).

Falko brings with him a deliciously playful, deep analog funk based sound which is functionally driving, with a definite melodic sensibility to keep things moving and fresh. Falko…

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 11:18 pm