Its been a year of good times and amazing tunes from some of Sydney's best up and coming underground talent and we want you to come join us in celebrating a year (round about) of Thursday night madness with the last Space Cadets of 09.
Guest DJs will be Zushy Woolstone and Chris Leffers both of whom always deliver with quality music as well as being space cadets regulars. While residents Nic Scali, Alex Caminer and Jamie tek will take it home to some time in the early hours of friday. Our resident VJ LayerOne will also be providing the visuals that have added that bit extra too the night.
From 9pm, Bunker Bar in Kings X.
Free entry if you RSVP on facebook otherwise stay tuned for a recap of the thursdays and the songs that made it as well as sets, recorded from the night.
Newly found underground night, House Inspection, will be taking over the Civic Underground to show case some of the latest and greatest in house and techno from Garry Todd and upncomer DJs Alex Caminer, Nic Scali, Chris Leffers and Harris James.
This month Garry Todd is the guest, fresh of the boat (or plane rather) from Europe he will no doubt be showing off his latest tunes and funky house style. Keep a look out for his new release on 20:20 Vision under his new alias, Acid Mondays. I have mentioned Mr todd before in previous post as he is definitely a Sydney artists to watch over the coming year.
$5 entry which is cheap and chips for a night like this. Anyone who has being to Space Cadets will know that the residents are quality.
Friday night 25th Sept $5 Entry, Civic Underground from 10pm
Its up! Took me a while to get working but Space Cadets now has a podcast which will feature one stand-out set from the night. So if you're lucky enough to be there or just cant go out Thursdays, you can now check what went down through itunes or whatever podcasting software you use.
What about the other sets you ask!? As usual all sets will be posted on the blog however only one will be selected for the podcast after each night.
Welcome to the Space Cadets Podcast! After each night a set, recorded live at Space Cadets, will be selected for the podcast showing off the awesome music and DJs who sweat it out each Thursday night.
To do the honours Space Cadet resident DJ Nic Scali delivers this epic set which had the place pumping till close sometime on Fri morning. Expect the chunky and slightly quirky house and techno stylings Nic's known for.
Sets from Space Cadets 13-08-09 (Stream of click-through to download)
Mitch Crosher warm-up @ Space Cadets 13-08 After HUGE sound problems with the venue, Mitch got on the decks to deliever a great tech-house set. Scoring gigs all over the place Mitch is becoming known for his funk tech stylings. Ash Le Rouge @ Space Cadets 13-08 Having already played at many other parties Le Rouge combined his disco edits with some minimalish tinged house before pushing it up a notch close to the end. Definitely one of the more pop-ier sets at Space Cadets
Alex Caminer @ Space Cadets 13-08 Alex jumped on to take it deep down into warped-house land. If you havent heard him already and you read this blog then your missing out.
Finally got these sets up! Sorry for the delays. I recommend to anyone coming by/reading this blog to definitely check out these sets. Even if you dont know what 'Space Cadets' is (its a clubnight!) or wasn't there these recorded sets show some of the great students DJs on the Syd underground. In particular our past 2 guest DJs Jeremy Nothman and James Burman both whom played really good sets and both of whom have being added to Space Cadets 'rotating- residents'. (yeaha!)
Click on links below to Download directly Space Cadets on the 7th of May (In chronological order starting from 8pm): James Burman @ Space Cadets 07-05-09: This is one superb funked up mix. Its a great show of talent to this once more 'commercial' DJ but luckily he has come to the 'dark' side.. Some of the latest house and tech-house tunes combined with James's great mixing creates a great flow and is a mix Ive had trouble stop listening too! Trust me you will be hearing more of this DJ in the future.
Nic Scali: Space Cadet resident jumped on after to deliver the late-night goods with some slaming tech, techno and progressive tracks. So, "Why do we dance?"...
Chris Leffers: Chris jumped on after Nic (around 12:30pm) to deliver some twisted electronic-discotecha! He seriously impressed us last time around with his great track-selection, effortlessly progressing through genres of electronica so we had to get him back for another. Its a great moody mix which kept the dance-floor buzzing until 2am, not bad considering it was a Thursday night.
Space Cadets club night 23rd April Jeremy Nothman is perhaps the only DJ, so far, we have had the pleasure of putting on that insists on playing only-vinyl. And it is a welcomed thing to see these awesome deep-house tracks blare out through there analogue grooves. I believe if your to play only-vinyl, then it should be reflected in some quality lesser known tracks and that's exactly what's happened here. Have a listen, its great mix for chilling out (it was the first set of the night!).
Zushy Woolstone is a DJ who likes his long slots (I blogged on his 3hr mixtape while back) which is kind of why we gave all the DJs one and half hour slots for this night. With this guy you can hear the clear progression of tracks from the laid back-house at the begging to some proper techno at the end. A very nice mix.
Jamie Tek A little mix from myself with a collection of some new minimal stuff of the past few weeks and songs Ive being playing out over the past few months. Feedback always appreciated! Alex CaminerSpace Cadet resident Caminer drove home the grooves with this closing set. As always gold tunes in here.
Easily our most successful Space Cadets since starting this little night a few months back. Musically the sets by everyone were seriously top-notch! I heard some amazing new tunes as well as great mixing by all. Have a listen to the sets, you'll not be disappointed.We had packed dance floor throughout the night right until closing time at 5am! If it wasn't for the Easter Friday laws (every pub and club must close at 5am for some reason, argh) we would of gone on for longer!
A Huge Thank you goes out to Robbie Lowe who played an excellent set taking us through some great new progressive and house tunes as well as Dane Austin who treated us with a live set (check the video below) with the deep, techy and even a little dubstep sounds of Mr Austin. Also our headlining VJ Darko showed us 'how its done' with a great array of colourful, trippy and bizarre visuals and graphics, however words really cant do justice for VJs so definitely come and check him out at a future Space Cadets if your around the area.
Other DJs on the night were myself (Jamie Tek) managing to bash out some Audion, the new Reboot new track Ronson, which was extremely well received, as well as some Daypyk and some awesome new Tom Clark & Daniel Dreier tracks. Unfortunately my recorder lost its 'juice' halfway through my set so consider it a littler taster of what happened in those early hours. Also after my set Timmy Maxwell dropped by for a 'surprise' set with me, Timmy and Alex playing tunes until close.
Chris Leffers started the night out with some extremely funky minimal house tracks that were perfect to get the groove going, after which Nic Scali took over to give us a good dosage of some of the lastest tech-house and minimal tracks going around right now. Alex Caminer warmed up for Robbie Lowe with a great moody techno track selection that had the floor heaving. Think italoboyz and Radioslave latest monster Koma Koma.
Download Set Links: (or right-click on player above)
Next Space Cadets goes down this Thursday 23rd of April with some new DJs and residents Alex Caminer and Jamie Tek. Stay tuned for full details early next week!
Space Cadets return again this coming 5th of March for REVENGE OF THE ACTION HEROS! - I know the poster is terrible (yes I did/attempted it) BUT you can expect a little action figure madness as we deck out the Bunker in usual Space Cadet style....
As always there will be 2! happy hours for your drinking pleasure = $3 tap beers & house spirits!
New DJs on the night will be 'epic-prog/Tech' man Element and King James B2B with Jdub, for some techno madness! Support from minimal/deep residents Jamie Tek (Shorty!), Nic Scali and Alex Caminer.
Live Visuals will be orchestrated by rising VJ star and friend of this blog (he was one of the first followers!) Darko(known for his awesome visuals at the Technique & MITC parties) as well as resident space cadet LayerOne, responsible for the great visuals laste time around.
Also King James runs a weekly music show online with the latest tunes and a guest mix from a local or international artist check it here
SET TIMES (May change): 8-9: Alex Caminer 9-10: King James B2B Jdub 10-11: Jamie Tek 11-12: Element 12-1am: Nic Scali 1-Close: B2B
Space Cadets is held at The Bunker which is underneath The Bourbon in Kings X, here in Sydney. A seriously chilled out, small venue with an intimate atmosphere perfect for Thursday night shenanigans...
Come down for a great night and support the local talent!
Also if you are a VJ wanting to try our your visuals or a DJ playing minimal/techno/deep/electronica looking for sets email sydneylovestechno@gmail.com+ come down and say hi (Jamie Tek).
Check out the great sets last time in the player below;
Space Cadets on 12th of February was another great instalment of this new Thursday night and I have the audio, pictures and videos here to prove it!
All DJs played excellent sets but don't take my word for it check them out in the brand spanking new audio-player I'll be using from now on! With a little help from my friends at Yahoo as well, and to download the sets RIGHT-CLICK and select download ;)
Also all pictures were taken by good friend DMS who has a great eye for photos, check out his awesome collection of pics at his flickr photos stream here
Andrew Myers - Warmed up the night bringing out some big techno tunes early but definitely set the mood of the night with more 'intense' tunes. Unfortunately I forgot to hit the record button but check him out with Alex Caminer below. Looking forward to his next set for sure!
Jamie Tek - http://www.mediafire.com/file/tmziqmmdchm/Jame Tek 12thfeb.mp3 I took over and played a great set, if I dont say so myself. Minimal techno was the order of the day with some brand new Luciano remixes of Loco Dices album, Stimming & Solomon songs that were EP only releases as well as some up n comers taken direct out of Richie Hawtins mix CD, Sound of Can Elles.
Living Room DJs - http://www.mediafire.com/file/eoyymvzu2oj/LivingRoom-DJs-12thfeb.mp3 Played a banging set of techno and Prog-house which really got the peeps dancing, the set flowed through nicely with some sasha remixes, I beleive, making there way through as well as some other techno that I can remember now. It was not too overwhelming (as prog can sometimes be ) but not to mellow so fitted well with the mood at that point, in other words a great set!
Zushy Woolstone - http://www.mediafire.com/file/2imtzvglyod/Zushy Woolstone 12thFeb.mp3 3hr mixtape man jumps on to take us back into the tech-house/minimal-house direction of the night with some funky tunes to keep everyone dancing. He definitely was building it up towards the end as Zushy prefers long slots to DJs so next time he'll get it! Have a listen above as there are some seriously good tunes to be heard.
Alex Caminer & Andrew Myers - http://www.mediafire.com/file/mnomncihdej/Alex Caminer and Andrew Myers.mp3 Alex Caminer, resident space cadet!, played half a set before going B2B with Andrew myers. They played a great techno set with some so-hot-right-now tracks, think Steve Lawler - Kalimba, as well as some great underground tracks.
LayerOne - Space Cadet resident VJ kicked things off with great visuals all night, my highlights included the dancing girl (check youtube vid below), space ship (above), cubes and many other random objects. Be sure to come check him out next time as well!
