Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Time for the Advent
Ahead of his live
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
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, 15 October 2010
SOCIALEYES AND TILITED DISCO
SOCIALEYES AND TILITED DISCO
FRIDAY 5th NOVEMBER 2010
10pm – 6am
Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle
Tickets: Early Bird £8 Savers £10 / M.O.T.D
Available from www.corsicastudios.com
LINE UP: BEN SIMS, THE ADVENT (LIVE), MARK BROOM, JUSTIN ROBERTSON, COLIN DALE, STEVE STRAWBERRY, ROBIN BALL
Tilted Disco has breathed some much needed life into the capital’s electronic music scene since it began back in 2004. Over the past six years it has hosted parties all across
Ben Sims - Theory/Ingoma
Known as the '3 deck master', 'the human ableton' and 'the machine', Ben Sims is one of the UK
The Advent (live) - Kombination Research // Portugal
Advent – a coming, or an arrival; a coming into being or use. Quite an appropriate name for Cisco Ferreira, a man who has played a big part in the creation and development of Techno from the very beginning of this genre’s history. Indeed, his Techno CV is the stuff of legend. Cisco was producing Techno and performing live Techno shows years before the rest of the world had even heard of the genre. He released his first track in 1988, was a pioneer of the Live PA (or Live Public Address – performing Techno live in front of an audience using electronic music gear), and, if all that wasn’t enough, he even worked as the sound engineer on some of Derrick May’s, Adonis & Fingers Inc’s recording sessions!
The list goes on, and so does Cisco. Unlike other Techno pioneers from the early years, Cisco continues to produce with as much passion and frequency as he did back in the day. His releases on Labels Like Tresor, Rotation, Electrix, Kanzleramt, Dj Gigolos, Pure Plastic, Synewave plus many more is just another example of his ongoing pursuit to keep making music and pushing Techno to new boundaries.
Mark Broom – 2020 Vision
Former East Londoner now Norfolk based Mark Broom has always been a name that is synonymous with the UK
Justin Robertson – Bugged Out
Justin Robertson's tastes have always been catholic though in 2009 you would be hard pushed to find a musician working successfully in areas as diverse as techno, house, dancehall and art pop. Justin is a true modernist: he excels as a DJ of international repute; is a creator of bespoke techno; one third of New Pop band Thee Earls, a remixer for the likes of The Whip, Bjork and Felix Da Housecat and, most recently he has written and produced an album called Silent Life.
Colin Dale - Wildlife-am / Tilted Disco
To call Colin Dale "legendary" is no over-estimation here is an artist that has been one of London
Steve Strawberry - Sedition DJs / Tilted Disco
Steve Strawberry is emerging as one of the most passionate and talented young DJs around. Promoter and resident of Tilted Disco his enthusiasm and skill behind the decks have won him much support from both fellow DJs and clubbers alike. Don't be fooled by the light-hearted name either, this guy likes his music rough and tough, and has developed a fresh interpretation of the acid house blueprint.
Robin Ball - Socialeyes / Samura.fm
Robin has been djing since his early teens, he did his first club gig in 1992 and since then has played in clubs from the Uk to Australia
Gus Brown – Mixtape Records
Gus label owner and producer at Mixtape records will be warming up the main room with an alternitive set of Funk, Disco and House.
SOCIALEYES
Info: 07956 375 370 / socialeyesparties@gmail.com
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Silicone Soul - The Darkroom Dubs interview
Q: You are signed to the excellent Soma Records, and you have your own label “Darkroom Dubs”, do you release music yourselves on both labels or is Darkroom Dubs for other artists?
A: Darkroom dubs is there more to release work from other artists although we do like to put something out of our own from time to time and we get involved remixing some of the releases. We recently released "The Time Mariner's Mirrour" on the label which was well received.
Q: Soma Records has been a force on the electronic scene since the early 90’s, what positive benefits have you found being part of a family like that? Did you release music on any other labels before you signed to Soma?
A: For us it means a great deal to be signed with soma, we first were exposed to the music by Slam at the arches, the first records we bought were soma releases so it's really encouraging that they support us, I think when you are working with a label that has such a great, long running reputation it can only help when it comes to getting your music across to people. we actually started out releasing 2 records on our own “Depth Perception” label in the late 90s , slam were playing the tracks at their gigs and that was kind of the first step to us signing with them .
Q: There’s a really strong electronic music scene in Glasgow
A: For me the strength of Glasgow’s electronic scene can really be traced back to the guys that kicked it off – Slam / Soma and Harri and the gang at the Subclub, they’ve guaranteed that you can hear the best in electronic music in the city ever since.
Q: Do you get time to listen to other music and if so what music do you take inspiration from?
A: Yeah we both try to keep our home listening as varied as possible. We grew up pretty mad for rocky/punky 60s/70s music and to this day it's something we feel rubs off on the tunes all the time, obviously dub has had a big impact along with soul & disco sounds,
but in general it's impossible not to take something from everything you hear - even if it's " I don't want to ever sound like that ".
Q: What else in life gives you inspiration to make music?
A: Everything and anything from personal experience and emotional responses to books, movies, current events... Again I think if you're into music and making music, whatever you live through and come across will affect matters in some way .
Q: What projects and releases are you working on at the moment?
A: We are working on a bunch of remixes at the moment as well as starting to put together ideas for a new album. Next year is Soma's 20th birthday so there's going to be all kinds of exciting stuff happening with that .
Q: Silicone Soul is a duo but I believe you live in different countries? How do you work the production process?
A: These days it involves a lot of swapping projects by email, we both run the same daw so it's really easy. In many ways it helps because between us we're like an octopus now.
Q: At your gigs do you play records, cds or are you computer based?
A: I play with cds these days and Craig uses Traktor. I think a lot of folk get hung up on this but it's the noise that matters not what makes it.
Q: What makes a good party for you?
A: For me the important stuff is the people and the soundsystem. I enjoy playing so it's got to be quite a dire situation before a party could be anything other than good :)
Interview by Robin Ball.
SILICONE SOUL PLAY AT SOCIALEYES ALONGSIDE FUNK D VOID, JUSTIN ROBERTSON, ELITE FORCE, TAYO AND ROBIN BALL THIS SATURDAY 25TH SETPEMBER @ CORSICA STUDIOS. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
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Silicone Soul Mixes
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Silicone Soul Mixes
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
SOCIALEYES 25 SEPTEMBER @ CORSICA STUDIOS
On Saturday 25th September, Socialeyes returns to Corsica Studios for its third party of the summer with another killer line-up, merging the sounds of the new-breed with some of the best loved DJ’s on the circuit for a night of quality techno, electro, house, disco, dubstep, breaks, beats and bass.
Since 2006 Socialeyes have been running special one-off parties around London. This summer saw the first party at Corsica Studios back in May, followed by the 6th boat party down the River Thames. Always pushing open-minded, forward thinking electronic dance music on the best quality sound systems in intimate fun spaces. Corsica Studios is a favourite venue for Socialeyes, having been voted ‘Best Small Club’ in DJ Magazine, boasting two intimate rooms, both with Funktion 1 sound systems, and with its raw underground vibe it fits perfectly with the Socialeyes ethos.
Socialeyes is not restricted to one genre of music, the emphasis is quite simply on ‘good’ music. Created by Robin Ball, Socialeyes was born out of a passion for quality electronic music, a desire to hear big DJ’s on big soundsystems in small intimate spaces, and a place for friends old and new to just come and dance to music they love. Through Socialeyes, and a lot of hard work Robin is realising his dream.
So on Saturday 25th September, in the ‘Groove Pleasure’ Room you’ll find the brilliant Funk D Void, Silicone Soul and Justin Robertson, complemented by Socialeyes creator Robin Ball, all playing a sublime mixture of electro, disco, house and techno. While in the ‘Groovepressure’ Room is one of London’s favourite pioneers of breaks, dubstep and beats; Elite Force, alongside man of many musical talents; Tayo (known for his infamous Tracksuit Parties, and a long-serving residency at Fabric with his Cool & Deadly nights), plus Robin Ball in his Robin Beats moniker. This is one busy man!
The Groove Pleasure and Groovepressure rooms represent the different sides to Robin’s musical passions. They are also the names of his previous record labels and are currently used as titles to his radio shows on Samurai FM. Tune in here to check them out – www.samurai.fm/groovepleasure / www.samurai.fm/groovepressure
WEB LINKS FOR SOCIALEYES
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SOCIALEYES @ CORSICA STUDIOS
SATURDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2010
10pm – 6am
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB
Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle
Tickets = Early Bird £8 / Advance & Student £10 / On the door £13
Available from http://socialeyescorsica.eventbrite.com/
LINE UP: FUNK D VOID, SILICONE SOUL, JUSTIN ROBERTSON, TAYO, ELITE FORCE, ROBIN BALL
Friday, 20 August 2010
Socialeyes @ Corsica Studios 25/09 with with Funk D Void / Silicone Soul / Justin Robertson / Elite Force / Tayo / Robin Ball
This is the second event at Corsica Studios, the last night was a winner and I hope you’ll agree this line up is great!
Saturday 25th September 2010
at Corsica Studios
Groove Pleasure Room
Techno, House, Electro & Disco
Funk D Void / Silicone Soul / Justin Robertson / Robin Ball
Groovepressure Room
Dubstep , Breaks, Beats & bass
Elite Force / Tayo / Robin Beats
10pm – 6am @ Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB
Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle
Early Bird £8 / Advance & Student £10 / on the door £13
http://socialeyescorsica.eventbrite.com
AND ONE FOR THE MEMORY BANKS, WHO DOESNT LOVE THIS CLASSIC RECORD....
FUNK D'VOID 'DIABLA'
Friday, 13 August 2010
Terry Francis Interview
Q: You’ve been in this game a long time; please explain what got you hooked on the idea of being a dj?
A: I'd always collected records and loved music and this bikers bar I knew had a basement and decks and they asked me to do a night in there, it became really popular, then someone asked me to play on the South Coast, which lead to playing at Sterns and it all carried on from there.
Q: What dj’s were you listening to before you took up the headphones?
A: David Rodigan, Paul Trouble Anderson, John Peel, Kiss FM when it was a pirate station and Solar Radio.
Q: As a dj you are well known for your clean fluid mixing style, was this the way your heroes played and do your current favorites play in this style, or could you also be impressed by a more cut and paste, chop it up style?
A: I’m not really into the cut and paste style; I prefer music to have a bit more flow. I was going to listen to Eddie Richards and he blew me away, we had very similar taste in music at the time and he is still my current favorite today.
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: I'd go and see Sasse, Eddie Richards obviously, Andrew Weatherall, or I'd just go to one of my mates parties in London
Q: In 1997 you won Muzik Magazines ''Best New DJ'' Award” which I know changed things dramatically in your career, but I always remember when I was abroad dj’ing in places that Muzik Magazine wasn’t as well known, people knew you for a mix cd that you had released, I think it was on Pagan, can you tell us more about that release?
A: It was called ‘Architecture’. At the time most of the music out there was wishy washy disco loops or banging techno so I think it was different and went down well, it caught peoples imagination as I think there was need for something a bit different at the time.
Q: You celebrated 16 years of Wiggle parties this year! I remember going to an early Wiggle party and it sticks in my mind as being exactly what acid house was and is all about, a good sound system, dark warehouse and deep tech house sounds! How did the Wiggle parties come about and what is your favorite Wiggle moment?
A: At the time in the early 90's when Kiss FM had become a commercial radio station, they had taken over London
Q: There have been some releases lately by you and Klunk on Wiggle Recordings, is this a new partnership and can we be expecting more music from you soon?
A: Yes my partner Klunk and I have been making music under the moniker Klunk & Zilly. We have done a few remixes for various labels and we are starting up a label to release our own music and remixes we've done for other people.
Q: What’s your favorite thing about being a fabric resident?
A: I'm blessed to be able to play at fabric, it’s a forward thinking club musically and it’s in my home town - I also met my girlfriend Sassie there.
Q: All the rooms at fabric have a different musical and atmospheric vibe, which do you prefer to play in and why?
A: It’s great to be able to play different styles in different rooms which you wouldn't get the opportunity to do at many other places so I like them all really.
Q: Obviously having to be at fabric every Saturday means you don’t get to travel as much as you used to, do you miss the weekends away playing at different clubs around the world? Or is it nice not to have to spend hours in airports and hotel rooms?
A: I still travel every Friday and I take the odd Saturday out to play other places, I’m enjoying travelling at the moment.
Q: Obviously you are known for your house and techno sets but are there any other styles of dance music you like? Do you ever get to play an alternative set?
A: Every now and then I do a funk and soul set, but only if I’m asked by mates really.
Q: As a dj do you play records, cds or are you computer based?
A: At the moment I’m playing with cds as when I’m travelling its easier, but I still play vinyl at fabric sometimes and will be switching over to Traktor soon
Q: What makes a good party for you?
A: Good music!
A: Good music!
Interview by Robin Ball
Terry joins Justin Robertson and Robin Ball for the 6th Socialeyes Boat Party this Saturday 14-08-10 in
http://socialeyesboat.eventbrite.com
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