CO OP Returns for 2010 with Sasse & Dave DK

CO OP, easily one of the best new events of 09 returns for 2010 with Moodmusic head honcho Sasse aus Berlin! The Berlin underground man will be playing a 5 hour set at the Civic Underground so expect something along the lines of Vincenzo last time, which for all that was there was definitely a night to remember!

Sasse holds residences at two of Berlins most established clubs Berghain and Weekend club as and had produced remixes for the likes of Heinrik Schwarz, DJ T and Spirit Catcher. This will be undeniably DEEP!

Also joining the bill is Dave DK which is sure to turn some faces. The gig goes down 5th of Febuary and tickets are available at residentAdvisor.net
KEEP DEEP....

Henrik Schwarz (live), Mortor City Drum Ensemble and Reboot at Rooftop Parties

The last couple of weekends the techno and house scene of Sydney have been an absolute hive of activity. With International guests dropping in, it seems, every day there has be countless parties, encore performances and secret afterhours. Here is a selection of some of videos and photos of the artists I took, feel free to use them for personal use but you must email the blog for any commercial uses (ie posters/promo material).


Henrik Schwarz live highlights video. The future classic birthday bash was a great success with a packed civic floor keenly waiting upon Henrik. Once he started, the energy never let up with pounding re-edit, remix and original one after another in a style akin to Henrik live. Saving some of his more well known material too last, it definitely was one set that will stay in the minds of many for a while. Housey, funky, with that techno drive, it really did strike a chord with everyone in the room and theres no better proof then when the artist opts to play for an extra HOUR! Of course no one complained...

Reboot and Emerson, visiting our sunny shores after relocating to Europe, headlined the Top Notch Rooftop parties. Suuny, steamy Sydney afternoon on top of the famous Home night club next to Darling Harbour really set the scene for a afternoon well spent. Luckily this blog has the sets so stay tuned for streaming sets from the artists soon.

Motor City Drum Ensemble played an intimate gig, 2 if you count his afterhours appearance, to only a couple of hundred punters down in the Vault. Apart from some vinyl issues (apparently got locked in a hotel room!) he played a great 4 hour set that had the room heaving in and out. Granted he could only play off his CDs it was still a great set the featured some serious deepness.

Henrik Schwarz @ Future Classic 5th Birthday Bash

Click on the photos for album links and downloads

Gig Guide (4th-6th)

Its the Summer! This weekend sees another rather large and new festival hit town, or should I say the hills! Subsonic festival offers something a little different, carrying on from the last earth dance (watch out for my mini-review of that soon), with some great techno berliners Tom Clark and Daniel Dreier off High Grade Records as well as Jamie Jones for his second performance after last week as well as others. Spread over two days its a festival that comes highly recommended!

Also another gem this weekend will be young gun Danilo aka Motor City Drum Ensemble play and epic 5 hour set at an inner city warehouse on Pit street. Also Likes Of You hits town again with a great line up of tech and techno artists.

Sunday is definitely all about the aferparties, watch out for Jamie Jones at Spice and MCDE at Bunker!

Friday
Subsonic Festival Day 1 - Riverwood Downs Mountains - ft. Jamie Jones, Format B, Tom Clark, Alex Smoke, Daniel Dreier and more

Index ft. Clark UK - Civic Hotel

Thank Techno Its Friday ft. Claire Morgan - Copperlily Nightclub

System - Club 77 - The Weekly fri techno night continues at Club 77

Sat
Subsonic Festival Day 2 - Riverwood Downs Mountains - ft. Jamie Jones, Format B, Tom Clark, Alex Smoke, Daniel Dreier and more

Co-Op ft. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Inner city warehouse - MCDE to play an epic 5hour set

Likes Of You ft. Format B, Alex Smoke, Arnaud Le Texier - Civic Underground

Off the Beat ft. Simon Caldwell and guests - Melt Bar - Every Sat for deep disco, house and funk

Musik Matters - Favela - Dedicated to the true house sounds of Sydney

Club Club ft. Umek & Kidda - Chinese Laundry

Sun
Spice ft. Tom Clark & Ben Korbel - Kings Cross Hotel (4am)

The Bunker/CO-OP after party - From 4:30am Bunker Bar

bSide - Beresford Hotel - The new night hosted by fbi presenter Lorna Clarkson with an eclectic mix of local DJs

Apres @ Tilbury Hotel - Sydney Record Label Future Classic arfternoon sessions

Sunday Sessions ft. Ben Morris, Robbie Lowe, Culbert, and Tim Jirgenson - The Deck, Luna Park - From 3pm an afternoon by the harbour

Final Gig Guide up Thursdays.

Berlin Sessions - Fall of the Wall 20th Anniversary

If, at the end of this year, you are to look back on some of the landmark events of 09 Sydney record label, future classic's Berlin Sessions, would definitely be 'up there' as some of the best. Combing some of the best German and Aussie talent under one roof they are parties inspired by good music and aimed at exposing some of the artists pushing this music forward.

This November is no different with AME, Benji Frohlich and Move D headlining for a special party dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin wall and the creativity that spurred thereafter. Sydney locals playing will be Simon Caldwell, Nathan McLay, Murat Killic, Ben Korbel, Jad Lee and the Co-Op DJs.

Deep Dance Devience with Vogt tonight!

Matthias Vogt needs little introduction however to many the alias to which he works under MotorCitySoul will probably ring a bell. He is someone I have being etching to check out and he is playing the Spanish Quarter of Sydney CBD tonight for not 1 set but 2 sets with the other deep-disco (or as they say pitched-down house!) headliner The Revenge also playing two sets!

Its a bit of a concept party from the brain-childs of 2 Sydney nights A Disco Stole My Baby and Better Days with the idea that these internationals will showcase their respective sounds by playing slightly different sets in each room essentially warming up for each-other or as the CO OP guys put it Dance-Floor Spooning if you will. Also there will be Funktion One sound system installed for the night as well as limited capacity venue of only 300 so I highly recommend checking this one out.

If you had the dis-pleasure of missing MotorCitySouls RA podcast definitely download it here! It was on constant play during my Summer travels earlier on in the year. Matthias is also the man behind the revered RE:Jazz! series and last year under his MotorCitySoul moniker along with Christian ‘C-Rock’ Rindermann released their album Technqiue, which is a great deep-house number, definitely showing off their trademark smooth 'synth' sound very well.

Also check out this live set from The Revenge live at Soul City foun on the Soul of Sydney blog!

Goes down tonight at 53 Liverpool street however all pre-sale tickets have all but gone so get there early if you want to get in!