Gig Guide (15th-17th)

Gig Guide! Up every Thursday. Email your events to the blog address below and get some underground luv.

Friday

Loosekaboose ft. Christan Vance and Mr Deepchild Live! - Civic Underground - Loose brings a star studded local line up. Definitely get down there!

Suspect ft. Telefunken - Henry Afrikas - The night that proves quality underground electronic shiz is on the North too...

Sat

Picnic Warehouse ft. Love Fingers - Warehouse location der!

Bug In The Bass ft. Robbie Lowe - Copperlilly Hotel

--Regulars--

Wham - World Bar, Kings X - Top floor techno mayhem in this famous town-house

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

Club Club - Chinese Laundry - Every weekend hear some of the best in techno, prog and house in the Cave

Sun

Spice ft. Christian Vance - Kings Cross Hotel (4am) - The last spice in the kings X

The Bunker afterhours - From 4:30am Bunker Bar

--Afternoon--

Apres - Tilbury Hotel - Future Classic Afternoon sessions.

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

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.

Send your event info sydneylovestechno at gmail dot com

Future Classic 5th Birday Bash

Future Classic are one of the leading electronic focused music labels in Sydney and Australia, also a blog favourite, but tomorrow night they will be celebrating 5 years of music, parties, design and the local and internationals artists that have catapulted the label which is now recognised all around the world.

Joining the celebration will be Inversions man Henrik Schwarz who's live sets are stuff of legends. Although I personally have never seen him live, I have been told numerous times by friends and press that it is always something special! Using his laptop he creates organic and complex live sets often combing new and old material. Musically, he is one of the most creative artist in dance music today having a wealth of original material and remixes for artists like Carl Craig, Underworld, Bookashade and DJ hell among many others. An highly rated artist that will be performing live. Definitely one not to miss.

Also on the bill is Chateau Flight from Paris which consists of Parisian DJ/producers Gilb'r and Nicholas Chaix (I:Cube). With careers spanning back to the nineties both are synonymous with the Paris underground scene having set up the Versatile record label in 1996 which featured one of Daft Punks very first remixes as well as producing advant-pop with members of French group Air and Depeche Mode. There appearance tomorrow have a lot of people excited.

Also on the local side we have some of Australias' and Sydneys best, a line up thats actually deserving in its self! Jamie Loyd recently released an excellent album after an Australian tour which has many people talking. Deepchild who is back from a recent tour all around the world and has a wealth of new songs out now, will be gracing the decks and no doubt both will be playing some of their latest material. Also joining them will be Nathan Mclay, Jimi Polar, Peret Mako, Loin Brothers, Simon Caldwell, Bryan O'Callagan, Mike Redfern and The Scientist.

To celebrate, Future Classic have been releasing a song a day from one of the headliners on their soundcloud page.
5 Years Future Classic // 1 new song a day by future classic
more info

Gig Guide ( 25th-27th)

Sorry for the lateness however as usual check the side bar for the final gig guide up now!

It seems Fri and Sun are the nights with a sleuth of local nights dedicated to great locals! House Inspection, Sideways, Fresh Meat and/or newbie Club 77 (with not so newbie locals!). Sat sees Earthdance bring in the goods (check prev post) while Sunday sees the new night bSide take over with an awesome lineup. Deepchild (possibly first gig back from europe!!!?), Loin Brothers and more!

Some new beats

Just some of the new music on my radar, much of it Aussie! Have a listen. Some pretty, sweet tracks below. Please feel free to add any other Aussie releases in the comments;

Australian net-label Pinksliver just digitally released a EP from Sydney duo Trinity and Beyond. I was lucky enough to receive an actual promo copy so I can tell you its a great release and considering this is the first EP from the duo it shows some great potential. Both artists have being involved in the music industry with DJ Trinity being at the forefront of the house and techno scene in Syd and Australia since 2002.

The release consists of three tracks each quite different from each other. Beyond Musique is first up and can be described as a rolling techno tune with a industrial edge. Hearing it at home didn't do it justice as I recently heard it played out in The Cave (@ Chinese Laundry) and that bass line really does roll-over everyone to form quite the catchy tune. The Fat Man comes next and shows off the duos synthy sounds. Slightly progressive but quite warm, its a real winter-tune in my opinion. Last comes And Nothing Else Mattered and for me this is my favourite of the three. Glitchy pads with pulsating pitched vocals combine to form quite the dark tech tune. Really looking forward to the duo's next release. They also have some new tracks up on their myspace check it here

1. Beyond Musique
2. The Fat Man
3. And Nothing Else Mattered
Complete Download @ Pinksilver.net

Sydney/Czech imprint BEEF Records have being on-fire recently with a string of great releases. Sitting well on the beatport tech-house section Jack The Freak is Shades Of Grey and Syd DJ RifRaff's latest track and it definitely does not disappoint. Jazzy samples, great break-down and loose bass lines drive the two tracks. Production wise I found the tracks a little flat, however this doest deter away from there overall effect has being sitting well on the beatport tech-house section. To spice things up a minimalish house remix from one of my favourite Berliners Hirtenfellner but best use of jazz-samples definitely go the House of Cards track, check below;

Now this is a record I COMMAND you to get. Seriously I don't know why I more people aren't playing this. Blog fav Deepchild's latest release on BEEF is a killer, it encapsulates Deepchilds techy-quirky production but where the release really shines is the Garry Todd remix. Its an epic interpretation of the track taking the original funky rhythm and twisting it into a driving deep-house remix. I have played this track out a few times now and every time it doesn't fail to impress. My only problem with track is that its way to short sitting around the 5min mark! Anyway Garry Todd is taking over the famous Lady Lux club here in Sydney as musical director later this year with some big plans as well being recently signed to 2020 Vision. Someone to watch for 09. Buy It HERE

Deepchild - Claps (Garry Todd Remix)




Looking further down south we have one of Melbourne's techno stars Darrius Bassiray (one half of Rollin Connection) and Paul Beynon on their massive release, Jeebuz Champ. With remixes from Jamie Stevens, Audio Soul Project and Necatrious there's something for everyone ranging for the tech, techno to the progressive. This will be quite the tune for the next few months due in part to its great vocals, have a listen here

Also from the man himself check out this live recording of Rollin Connection, live @ Darkbeat in Melbourne. Its a great set and one haven't being able to stop listening to over the past week!

Rollin Connection - LIVE at Darkbeat - 14-06-2008 by Darius Bassiray

Also a new label is hitting town, Cresent Music, presented by the organisers of Midi In The City, one of Syd largest live electronica nights. The label will launch with Dane Austin's release Swampy EP. launch night will be at The hive bar with quite the eclectic line-up. Check here for more details.

Thats it for now, more tunes to come soon

Deepchild On The Move

Love the spelling of Sydney!

If you don't know already, music man Deepchild as an awesome little blog going HERE where he rants on/talks/discusses about many a interesting topic as well as putting up videos from his tours around the world. Currently his latest video is like a mini-doco of his night in Manchester before heading to Germany. I think he could easily combine these countless tour videos to some epic doco of his times both in Aus and overseas...
Deepchild has being on tour for the last few months taking him across America and its cities, up to England and now through Europe.

Love the accent...

Muppet Grind

Muppet Grind is Deepchild's latest EP release out now on BEEF records.

Its quite a dark gritty affair that as the name suggests conjures images of evil muppets having a 'grind'. Well at least thats what I think...then again maybe it just me.

Deepchilds mix, although labelled techno, is by no means a strict techno track. It bridges on dark-pop with a banging 'gritty' kick drum and smooth talking vocals (pitched down of course and by the man himself in one of his 'looser-moments' apparently!) the whole way through it. As with many of Deepchilds tracks bass seems to warp in and out, accentuated by keyboard stabs that create that dance-floor edge. Expect to see this little number poping up in many peoples sets as it would work just as well with fulor elektro as it would with techno.

Jamie Stevens, the man behind Infusion, then graces the EP with a funky tech-house style number. It gets rid of the edgy kick drum in the Original mix and replaces it with something much smoother while the vocals are pitched back up with a driving bass line to keep up the pace. The remix does have a slightly 'warmer' feel that could be said to make it slightly more accessible, either way its a great remix.

Remixes also done by Weki and Syd-underground duo Shades of Grey who take it back to its techno roots to create a 'lighter version' of the original that will fit nicely into any tech-house set.

However if were to use 2 words to describe the release, I think the man himself said it best on his blog, "Gutter-Funk" my friends...

ALSO the official EP launch will be happening at Looskaboose in Sydney next week, 20th of February, with Christian Vance and Deepchild headlining!

Deepchild - Donut Hound music video! (filmed @ nevermind)

Great Music video of a great night, simple, slow motion & effective + its an awesome song. Heres the interview I did after Deepchilds set;

Aftermath rantings from W/E + New International for Lucaino concert

Deepchild playing live @ nevermind....twas well epic! Loving the midi controller anyone know what brand it is?

The weekend was a hektik one, my ears were exposed to some great new tunes all weekend. Deepchild = awesome cant wait to listen to his new album + Mark Callander = funky, like seriously nice grooves from one of Australia's best would love to see more of him in Syd...

Videos of the night will be uploaded soonish + did an awesome interview of Deepchild after the gig!!Another film crew on the night also filmed it (barstards!) so expect it to be in an upcoming edition of InTheMix TV but dont worry, you'll see it here first ;)

ALSO! interesting stuff I hear another new International has being announced for the Lucanio concert happening this December, offically:

GREG WILSON (20:20) - 4 hour Set

Born and raised across the river Mersey from Liverpool, England, Greg Wilson is one of the key figures responsible for the development of the early 80's Electro-Funk scene in clubs across the north of England before its spread throughout the country. Borrowing from formative experiences at an early age in England and Continental Europe, Wilson introduced British club audiences to the revolutionary Dance music sounds coming out of New York City.

Both reviled by traditionalists and praised by those hungry for something new, Greg Wilson helped shepherd the evolution of Black Dance music in the UK from the Soul and Funk sounds that dominated the 70's to the emergence of House and Hip Hop in the late 80's. He retired from DJing at an early age in 1984, but has returned to DJ work in recent years and received the hero's welcome befitting his role in the history of Dance music.



VENUE: STARSHIP, KINGS STREET WHARF
DATE : 6 DEC
TIME: 11am SHARP

TIX: - First Release – SOLD OUT
Second Release – NOT MANY LEFT