Socialeyes Presents memory box The Acid House years with Justin Robertson

Friday 29th March 2013

10pm – 6am

Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB

Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle

Tickets - £6.00 from: http://bit.ly/WI5z7O

Room 1

memory box: acid house 1986 – 1996

Justin Robertson, Robin Ball & friends

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Room 2
Deep house & techno: Modulate FM v’s Isolater

Acid can conjure up two thoughts: House music made with that lovely squelchy Roland TB-303 acid sound that emerged from Chicago in the mid 80’s; and the U.K acid house culture of the late 80’s / early 90’s warehouse parties from which dance music as we now know it was born and the hazy loved-up freedom of expression that came with it. We will be embracing both of these at memory box at Corsica Studios on the Friday 29th March. Selecting quality tracks you would have heard if you walked into an acid house party between 1986 and 1996. Lead by acid house legend Justin Robertson who will be showing us what’s in his memory box from this era.

From early Chicago heroes like DJ Pierre, Marshall Jefferson, Fingers Inc, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Fast Eddie and Trax Records through to next generation U.S artists like Joey Beltram, Josh Wink and the Relief Records roster. Alongside the early UK sound of A Guy Called Gerald, Baby Ford, Renegade Soundwave, 808 State; early Warp records artists like L.F.O and Nightmares on Wax; Outer Rhythm Records who launched the career of Leftfield and FFRR who discovered Orbital. Not forgetting important European labels like Harthouse and R&S Records. This just tips this iceberg on a whole host of artists, labels and inspiring electronic music that makes up the acid house scene that a lot of the quality music in clubland today takes a strong influence from. So for this night let’s doff our hats to these artists!

In contrast to this, Socialeyes Parties host room 2 with upfront deep house and techno from Modulate FM and Isolater  - two crews on the London underground scene.

Modulate FM brings you some of the world's best underground DJ's, hand picked by them for your listening pleasure! Alongside their residents, you will find a selection of special guest DJ's, interviews, exclusive mixes and features, all streamed 24 hours a day, every day of the year! They're ad, sponsorship, commercial free and not for profit. They do this for the love of electronic music. If you can't be in the club, tune into Modulate FM!

Dj's
Pete Cosby
Manuel Morales
Seamless
www.modulatefm.com

Isolater is renowned for showcasing the toughest Deep and Tech-House with a buzzing party atmosphere. Isolater is a Record Label, Clubnight, and general hub for cool stuff. Set up in 2012 by The Jester, Buzza and Josh West, the label boasts a monthly Sub FM show, nights around London, and regular party takeovers.

Dj's
The Jester
Buzza
Josh West

www.isolater.org

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Socialeyes presents Robin Ball & the Groove Pleasure Soundsystem

Eye eye party people, please come and join Socialeyes as we travel to West London for a spring warm-up in what is fast becoming West London’s best venue for underground dance music, the Raving Buddha.

Robin Ball, captain chief of the brilliant Socialeyes parties is treating West Londoners to a semi-live performance with his Groove Pleasure Soundsystem.  Debuting at Corsica Studios back in January, he and his skilled crew of tech-house, disco, jamming wizards perform live to the backing of Robin’s deft DJ skills. 

The Raving Buddha, which boasts the favourite sound system of choice, the Funktion One system, is a small new venue, launched recently by London event promoters Proactive, responsible for the recent Drumcode and Cocoon warehouse parties.  With everyone from Luke Solomon to the Freestylers playing there, it provides the perfect spot for Socialeyes and a Saturday evening drink with a backdrop of tech-house grooves.

Time for the Advent

Ahead of his live UK gig @ Corsica Studios on the 5th November techno legend The Advent discusses how he started out in music, the state of the scene today and his inspirations and ambitions in music.

Q: As a true ambassador for techno what is your opinion of the techno scene in 2010?

A: MMMM, good Question! I think techno as it's true pure form, for me has been diluted into to many sub genre's which is a shame, I hear a lot more known djs & artists playing deeper "tech house" rather than the more pumping techno from the past, which for me is lacking in the energy that techno originally brought to the club, of course it depends on the artist & release. Some new artists are maintaining that energy that I personally call techno, like Legotech. Sash Carassi, Spirakos & Steen, Len Faki & Audio Injection to name a few, so there are a few that I am into and would play their music, but most of the other known artists & labels I’m not really into these days. Hopefully in 2011 that energy "wake up call" will return back into techno.

Q: At the beginning of your career you studied sound engineering at college and then moved on to work in a studio. Has this been a big influence on the way you make music?

A: This was my introduction into the music industry! Starting as an assistant sound engineer and working my way up the ladder was a good way to start working with a lot of artists, mostly rock music for the first year but the second year I got more involved with the early house artists and from this point (1987) I was completely hooked on house on techno. I learned a lot between 1986 and 1988 from some of the early pioneer's of Chicago & Detroit like Finger inc, Adonis & Derrick May, TO MENTION A FEW!!

Q: Do you get time to listen to other music and if so what music do you take inspiration from?

A: Yes I do get the chance from time to time to listen to promos but they don't inspire me to make music, usually what gets me ticking is a good weekend playing in front of a 500 club or a 30,000 festival, and seeing how the crowd react to my music, this inspires me to make music the following week, it's my Addiction! 

Q:  What else in life gives you inspiration to make music?

A: Life itself of course, you know sometimes you have a good day and sometimes you have a bad day so the music has it's ups & downs as well, all good inspiration is from life!!
 

Q: If you were going to have a night off and go out to a club which artist / dj would you like to hear?

A:  That’s a hard one as I haven't been to see a dj in a long time, for the last 15 years I’ve been back & forth from London so on my days off I’m usually spending time with my kids and the other weekends I’m always away Performing at events, if I’m on the same line up as another artist / act I haven't heard for a while I usually stay a few hours at the event, as a posed to going straight back to the hotel, the last people I heard were Dave Clarke and the Space DJ'z at Nature One in Germany.

Q: You have recently had a release on Advanced Intelligence, is this your label?

A: Yes it's a new label I started with Ricardo AKA Industrialyzer, for our deeper & slower side. In today’s scene I think it's good to expand your variety in music production, it doesn't always have to be one sided, so the label "AI" is to focus on another side of our music styles.

Q:  What projects and releases are you working on at the moment?

A: Recently I have finished quite a few projects some are actually out in November: 

Pig & Dan "Addiction EP" The Advent & Industrialyzer remix and Tom Hades remix on his "Rhythm Convert-ed" label. Also I just completed an EP for label "1605" which is one of UMEK's and there’s a new Kombintaion Research release on the way "KR034" The Advent Vs Minimalrome which has two nice electro tracks on there. There’s a new CodeWorks & Advanced Intelligence release "Jonestown EP" which was a concept we had about the Jones town Massacre". In 2011 there will be a lot more projects to look out for!

Q: In the past you have recorded a more house sound under the name G Flame, is there any chance we will hear more house style releases in the future?

A: MM, Good question. Well after leaving our contract with London Records / FFRR me and my ex production partner Colin Mc Bean decided to move to another label also run by the same A&R that signed us to FFRR, now he was based at BMG/Metalbox, which for us was a great way to start something New: "GFlame & Mr G", this was a time before tech house exploded, so we used Elements from house into techno and vice versa, unfortunately after 6 12'" EP's and one Album we decide to stop, only a few months later Colin wanted to carry on as Mr G as he had departed from The Advent, so I helped him

with his label "Phoenix G" first 6 or 7 releases, which helped him get into the scene with a new alias. I did start a label for G Flame releases from NYC Called "Alpha Recordings", I had 4 to 5 releases, then stopped to carry on The Advent as Techno is my first option in Music, so who knows, maybe sooner rather than later you might see a G Flame release!!

Q: Do you prefer a day in the studio or playing a live gig?

A: I could never choose between these two! It has to be both. I prefer in the week  to be in the studio and then at the weekend I like road testing the week's studio work. It’s hard to choose as these days I like to be in the studio and performing as much as possible. 

  

Q: What are your ambitions for the future?

A: To discover new Talent with that desire and drive that I had back in the day. There are a few good new names to watch out for; Hugo Paixao and Jason fernandes are two young producers that I have been working with in the past year, we started a new label

S.T.G. and they also have new releases on Kombination Research. So there’s still a lot to for fill and accomplish!!

Q:  What makes a good party for you?

A: First the Sound and PA has to be very good and loud, a good Line up, A LOT OF DRINKS, and whatever’s your poison, then the rest is a blur I think... burp!!!

Interview by Robin Ball

The Advent plays live alongside Ben Sims and Mark Broom in room 1 with Justin Robertson & Colin Dale in room 2. Socialeyes and Tilted Disco @ Corsica Studios London, Friday 5th November 2010. Click here for tickets

SATURDAY 29TH MAY, SOCIALEYES AT CORSICA STUDIOS......

Just incase you didnt get all the information from here, facebook, twitter etc - here's all the info you need to know about the next Socialeyes party taking place at Corsica Studios this Saturday 29th May.

Justin Robertson / Max Cooper / Colin Dale / Robin Ball play the Groove Pleasure Room where you'll hear the finest in techno, electro and tech house.

Meanwhile Elite Force / Bar9 / Rob Sparx / Robin Beats play the Groovepressure room selecting dubstep, breaks, beats and bass.

Doors open 10pm till 6am

Advance tickets are £10 - get your tickets now from HERE
Tickets will be £13 on the door.

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Robin Ball talks Socialeyes

Hello I’m Robin Ball creator of and resident dj for the Socialeyes parties. And i thought you might like to know a little more about me and the ideas behind Socialeyes.  

I have been involved in the dance music industry since the early 90’s and have worked on all sorts of music events from small clubs to big festivals but I feel that the best surroundings to hear great dj’s in is in an intimate space with a solid sound system, a relaxed vibe and a vibrant atmosphere, so I made it my goal to start a night with that concept, and in May 2006 Socialeyes was born!

Since then there’s been many great nights, the best for me being the five boat parties, the most recent holding host to Justin Robertson who went down a storm!

Up until now the parties have been kept low key and promote on a word of mouth system but now it’s time to let more people in on the vibe, which brings us to the first party at the excellent Corsica Studios in London! Corsica was recently voted “Best Small Club” in DJ Mag and just this month was voted “41^st best club in the world” in DJ Mag! It’s the perfect venue for Socialeyes for many reasons, firstly it has two rooms so we can push our eclectic music policy on lovely Funktion One sound systems, also it has good lighting, an old skool warehouse vibe, and it’s run by a forward thinking management with a good attitude to music! Come and find more reasons your self on 29^th May.

The Socialeyes concept is a strong eclectic dj line up of the best underground talent playing for an alternative crowd who want to have fun and let go to a sound scape of diverse well programmed electronic dance music. I believe strongly in good music programming so the night flows well and I put a good deal of thought into that. For the opening night on 29^th May in one room we will be covering techno, techouse, electro, Detroit, acid house and anything in between, played by myself alongside legends Justin Robertson and Colin Dale and one of house and technos brightest hopes Max Cooper, the other room will be a mix of dubstep, breaks, beats and bass with myself under my new alias Robin Beats alongside two of dubsteps best names, Bar9 and Rob Sparx, plus the mighty Elite Force who is on top form at the moment riding high in the Beatport charts and ripping up clubs wherever he goes. This is a line up I am very proud of and it’s going to be a treat!!!

Watch out for forthcoming interviews and mixes from the other djs playing on the 29^th May.