Freaky Dancing :: Stay Up Forever Showcase :: Fri 29th Sep :: Cosmic Ballroom Freaky Dancing Friday 29th September The Cosmic Ballroom £8 NUS /Members / All b4 11pm / £10 after 10pm-3am Main Room :: Techno Stay Up Forever Showcase Julian Liberator [Stay Up Forver :: 4x4 :: Artefact :: Ultrafunk] DDR [live] [Stay Up Forever :: Cluster :: Input :: Routemaster] Andrew Waters [live] [band-x] Pez Room 2 :: Breaks Entity [Fusetrax :: Combat Wax :: ET Breaks :: Viper] Pete Samplers Gareth Hocking [Curves] Lasers :: Visuals :: Fire Dancers
JULIAN LIBERATOR The free techno party scene that gained momentum from the early 1990s in London (and later spread to the rest of the UK and Europe) provided a ground for several distinct artists. The whole movement meant different things to different people. For Julian Liberator it provided a platform to experiment: sounds, structure, rhythms and styles. Julian's music and DJing has always tried to add a different twist to all of this. It would be unfair and misinformed to try to pin Julian's work under one comfortable title. Hard techno, funky techno, acid techno, wonky techno� he has done it all successfully. But even to call him a techno DJ wouldn't cover all areas. Julian also produces and plays both electro and drum and bass, and has even displayed punk/new wave, funk and disco references in his tunes. Julian LIberator was one of the key figures in bringing electronic music to the free party milieu. Together with Aaron and Chris, he formed the Liberator DJs in 1991. They went on to become stalwarts of that scene. Always after the next challenge, he was one of the first DJs from the London free party scene to push things away from the dominant acid sound towards a more percussive, techno edge. His label 4 X 4 has from the beginning, championed a more minimal, techno funk: dance floor driven, but always with an experimental twist. 4 X 4 has become a highly respected imprint in techno circles, with releases from Julian, Henry Cullen, Cristian Varela, Renato Cohen (his first European release), DJ Rush, Paul Langley, Leo Laker, Mark Verbos, Mara Bruiser, Sandy Warez and Robert Natus. Julian also started Artefact, a special picture disc series. The first, �Are U Jackin� was played by Bam Bam and Dave Clarke, who licensed it to his acclaimed World Service compilation as the A1 cut. In 2004, he began a new label, Ultra Funk, which does exactly what it says on the label - extreme funk with hard abstract sounds, including releases from Leo Laker and two collaborations with Camilo Rocha, the Brazilian DJ who remixed the City of God soundtrack. Julian is one of the founders and owners of the SUF Collective with Chris and Aaron Liberator. Apart from running eight labels of their own, the collective has gone on to nurture and financially back many an underground talent including Geezer, DAVE The Drummer, DJ Ant, Martin Hare and Alex S from Brasil. Julian is currently splitting time between the UK and Brazil. He has had a long-time relationship with the latter country. He was around back in the day, at the peak of S�o Paulo's legendary Hell's Club. He played at another historical SP club, Sound Factory, as well as some of the city's first raves. Julian has continually brought new music over and given support to the local DJ�s and radio stations. Renato Cohen's first international release and Anderson Noise's debut international gig happened thanks to Julian. He has worked with several Brazilian names such as Camilo Rocha, Embolex VJs collective and MC Gaspar, from hip hop outfit Z'�frica Brasil. Julian has traveled around the world with his music, including gigs in Russia, Japan, USA, Canada, Australia, Korea, Venezuela and most European countries. He has played at many festivals including Dance Valley, Glastonbury, Phoenix Festival, Megadog and many a Czech-Tech. DDR A twelve year veteran of the London underground dance scene, DDR has unleashed his own brand of techno / trance on many labels and at many parties / raves / clubs / festivals around the globe. A central player on the U.K. free party sound system scene, DDR could be found running rig's at parties and festivals by Full-On and Bedlam in the early nineties. Following on from this it was not long before he was bringing his fledgling studio out to these events to play music to the masses directly from the machines. A meeting of minds between DDR and the then newly formed Liberator DJ trio led to a first vinyl release for DDR on Stay Up Forever no. 2. A pioneer of what was to become the London Acid Techno sound, DDR was the first guest producer to appear on Stay Up Forever and he has had a hand in many of their most memorable releases and is still one of their most prolific artists. Through working with the Liberator DJ's as their studio engineer, DDR met with DJ Choci of Choci's Chewns and was soon roped in to run Choci's studio for him. A fruitfull eighteen months passed at the Chocolate factory seeing Choci and DDR rattle off a great many acid-trance stormers and numerous proto-hardhouse/nrg classics. Moving on from Choci's studio to start his own labels with current partner in crime Mark Kinetec of the Kinetec empire, DDR was seen getting his hands dirty designing and constructing a fully equiped, state of the art studio for Kinetec Records ( all those years of college and 'real' jobs paid off.....), of which he is still the manager. The labels Hazchem and COSHH were born from this effort and were the prototype labels for the Infectious Distribution offspring from Kinetec Records. During this time DDR had continued to produce records for a slew of newer labels such as Smitten, Cluster, Routemaster, Input, etc and also hone his skills as a live performer travelling to many places around the globe with his flight case full of equipment to entertain the hordes. More recently DDR has been involved in the construction of the vinyl mastering facility for Kinetec Mastering, continues to produce for all of his favourite labels and has married and spends much of his time in the States where he can be caught bringing the sound of the London techno underground to an event near you. Entity Entity is a musical collaboration between three drum&bass and nu-skool breaks producers / DJs, Dave Evans, Bill Brooks, and Andy Sloss. Entity specialise in creating tunes and then performing them in their natural environment the club. With its own unique style, Entity music is crafted for dancefloor destruction. Their recipe of punchy beats, booming and tearing bass and heavy melodic sounds, make their records stand out in the crowd. As DJs, they work the crowd with a combination of head, leg and booty shakers, and play regularly at big breaks and drum & bass nights around the UK & Europe
Hope a fair few of you will head down to the cosmic ballroom for this one... if you like your harder trance / techno / acid techno Julian Liberator and DDr are 2 of that scenes pioneers, and I'm pretty sure this will be their first ever Newcastle visit [waits to be corrected] We've also got a proper breaks party going on in room 2 with our first name breaks guest since we moved to the cosmic. This party sees the return of our fire dancers, lasers, visuals and decor coz we like putting on a bit of a show
This'll be the third time I've played Gav! Looking forward to hearing Entity... all their productions that I've heard have ben class.
Got plenty of new tunes to play... well looking forward to it. Will Pete be bringing his cdj for upstairs? I woulda thought so aye?
Top night! Took a while to fill up but got pretty rammed. Loved playing upstairs yet again, played for a couple of hours warming up for Pete but didn't realise quite how fast and heavy I'd got until he tried to mix his first tune in... bit of a stop and start again job! Thought Entity's set was class and they were all a sound bunch of lads. Gutted it finished at 3 when I thought we had another half an hour... had kept a few beasts back for the end of our b2b action. Didn't follow everyone on the rave-trip and just went to bed which probably explains why I'm the first to comment!
lol - was a blinder, I reckon they're still peeling people off the ceiling down there... it actually filled up really early gareth, just everyone was downstairs, maybe your djing was scaring them off upstairs - we'd had around 150 in before 11 the after rave went on for hours, I've vague recollections of me and julian doing a back to back breaks vs acid techno competition, I think I dropped them off at the station straight from the party.
Some quality pics... but 'Gareth and his admirer?' How the hell'd I miss her??!! More likely she was standing there for the fan above the stairs to be honest... although I'd like to think she just loved the beard!
