If you’re coming down to tomorrow nights SOCIETY with Marshall jefferson get ready for a storming set from Dan Beaumont- we won’t warn you twice!
We asked Dan to select five tracks you may well hear him drop tomorrow – have a listen. You can officially get excited…now…
We’re now able to reveal the location for Friday’s SOCIETY warehouse all-nighter:
FAIRCHILD CAR PARK, Fairchild Place, Shoreditch EC2A 3EN
Entrance to the venue is on Plough Yard an alley way just off Bishopsgate on the left of the drunken monkey bar. It will be clearly sign posted.
- walking distance from Old St and Liverpool St stations – map here.
Fairchild Car Park, generally used by those grey commuters on the daily grind, looking for somewhere to store their motors… Not this Friday, that longing for the oh so short weekend is nearly over and our party crew are transforming it into an amazing venue for our SOCIETY Summer happening with none other than Acid House legend Marshall Jefferson over from Chicago IL; complete with Funktion One sound, lasers, smoke and 500 party people. Also, for the first time ever we’ll have the SOCIETY record store in effect! Bring your pennies, we’ll be selling original presses of Acid House trax and all manner of wonders and oddities that found their way pressed onto vinyl. This night will be fully licensed.
The lineup in full:
MARSHALL JEFFERSON – Chicago, IL
ANDY BLAKE (World Unknown/Dissident)
DAN BEAUMONT (Jam Factory/Dalston Superstore)
CLASS OF 808 DJs (Society Residents)
WE ARE NOT A ROCK BAND DJs (Society Residents)
Other attractions:
Funktion One sound / Original decor influenced by the Acid House scene
Projections, lasers and atmosphere straight from 1989 / Friendly security
Fans (installed on the ceiling to keep you cool) / SOCIETY record shop
Smoke Machine / Smoking Area / Cloakroom / Chill out area
**** PRE-PARTY ****
Join us upstairs at the Griffin public house, Leonard St (just 1 minute from the venue) for pre-drinks from 7pm-11pm – a pre-party meet-up like the olden days…DJs Craig E.Pierce, Neil Lion and Class of 808 DJs playing acid house, sheffield bleep, minimal electronics and new beat in a traditional boozer – come down and we’ll lead a conga at 11 to the venue! Free entry.
Need some tunes to get you in the mood? Then check out the latest Juno Records Club Podcast put together by our residents Class Of 808!
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1234 festival returns to Shoreditch park saturday 9th July, for another day of forward thinking, alternative rock and dance. 1234 has established itself as the foremost vehicle for profiling new bands and local music scenes and are excited to announce their new collaboration this year with Noisey.com, the acclaimed new music discovery platform that launched earlier this year.
Headlining the Noisey stage are the inimitable and much-anticipated Black Lips, who will be joined by their label-mates The Raveonettes, both of whom are signed to Vice Records, plus post-punk pioneer Lydia Lunch as well as a host of other diverse and challenging acts across four stages, including The King Blues, The Chapman Family, Zombie Nation, Rainbow Arabia, Becoming Real and Damo Suzuki of krautrock band Can.
Want to win tickets? Well we’ve got a pair to give away to one lucky reader, all you’ve got to do is answer the following easy question…
Which band headline the Noisey stage?
A) The Black Lips
B) The Black Nips
C) The Black Tips
Once you’ve done that just email your answer to info@wearenotarockband.com with ‘1234 Competition’ in the subject line. Closing date for the entries is Tuesday 5th July 2011 @ 12pm. Winners will be picked at random and notified by email.
Not feeling lucky? Well all is not lost, to celebrate the new partnership between THE1234 and Noisey.com, Noisey are offering a limited release of discounted tickets, available via See Tickets at £17.50, while stocks last. Included in the ticket price is free entry to a series of after-show parties around Shoreditch. At the Noisey after-show party venue The Old Blue Last, there will be live performances from Brown Brogues, Joseph Coward, The Revolutionary Spirit and Replicas, and DJ sets from Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, Hatcham Social and Rope residents. Elsewhere there will be DJ sets from Zombie Nation, Autokratz and Stopmakingme at XOYO, Hannah Holland and Dan Beaumont at Dalston Superstore and much more.
For the full line up details of the festival and after parties head on over to the official site now!
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Not long to go now til our next SOCIETY warehouse party and to say we’re getting excited is a bit of an understatement! This time around we’ve got in Chigaco house pioneer, innovator and all round legend Marshall Jefferson who will be making a rare appearance in London for this special one off show.
Joining Marshall on the decks will be; Andy Blake, the main man at Dissisdent recordings and also promoter and DJ at his ‘World Unknown’ party in Brixton. Dan Beaumont formally of ‘Disco Blood Bath’, now one half of ‘Jam Factory’ and Class of 808, our residents and co-promoters for SOCIETY who have put together the hour long mix below which features only tracks produced, written or arranged by Marshall Jefferson (track list is after the jump).
Want to win tickets? Well we’ve got a pair to give away to one lucky reader, all you’ve got to do is answer the following (ridiculously easy) question…
Which city does Marshall Jefferson come from?
A) Amsterdam
B) Barcelona
C) Chicago
Once you’ve done that just email your answer to info@wearenotarockband.com with ‘Society Competition’ in the subject line. Closing date for the entries is Monday 27th June 2011 @ 5pm. Winners will be picked at random and notified by email.
Class Of 808 - All Marshall Jefferson Mix
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This Friday sees Dalston dive The Victory taken over for a Birthday Basement Rave extravaganza consisting of 2 floors, 3 birthday girl hosts, a wildly ecletic mix of music and a pub full of trashbag revellers. And the best bit? It’s all absolutely free. There are also apparently 2 secret acts scheduled to perform and, despite being one of the aforementioned birthday hosts, they are so secret even I don’t know who they are!
Personally what I’m most looking forward to are the DJ sets from We Are Not A Rockband’s very own Hazmat, and Potty Mouth Disco stalwart Ben Scales. These boys know how to get me dancing! So if you’re not at Glastonbury Festival and you’re kicking about East London, pop in and say a happy birthday hi.
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Were you too poor (like me) to go to Sonar this year? Did your friends (like mine) jet off to Barcelona today? Are you going to be feeling sick (like me) with jealousy for the next few days? If you answered yes to any of these questions then The Big Chill Bar is on hand to help cheer you up!
Now in it’s second year ‘Só Not Barcelona’ returns to The Big Chill Bar from tomorrow for another three nights of cutting edge sounds, featuring a selection of the most exciting electronic artists on the planet right now and the best thing is… it’s all free! This years event features sets from:
Jon Convex / Andrew Hung (Fuck Buttons) /
DJ Crabbe b2b DJ Haus / Bad Autopsy / LOL Boys / Mister Sushi
/ Kwistax/ The Monitors / DJ Love’s Tru Flavour
Check out the promo video below, then hit up the official Big Chill site for the full details! It’s Só Not Barcelona, but no ones gonna stop you pretending that it is…
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It’s now my firm belief that there is no friendlier night in London than Trouble Vision. It’s so rare to go out and experience an evening where your drinks stay unspilled, your toes stay un-stomped and you don’t get barged past in the bogs. I chatted to people in the queue to get in, outside having cigarettes, at the bar and even inside the club bang next to the speaker. Literally everyone I spoke to was nice and welcoming and proper sound. The atmosphere the Trouble Vision crew create is something quite unique for London, and actually something special.
Combine this with their consistently good lineups and what you get is a loyal following of regular goers. Being a Trouble Vision virgin myself, I was totally unaware of this and, in all honesty, with it being at Corsica Studios, was expecting a pretty standard Elephant-And-Castle level of crazy attitude. So glad to be proved wrong.
The night is somewhat of a blur in all honesty. I know what I saw was really good, even if I can’t tell you exactly what tracks were played. What I can tell you about is that warm fuzzing feeling you get after a fantastic night out. What I can say is that it’s one of the best nights out I’ve had in a while. What I can do is recommend that you get down to Trouble Vision and find out for yourself how awesome it is.
If that glowing reference doesn’t satisfy you then I’d advise you to head over to Tensnake’s Official Website and signup to download his latest free mix. It’s really rather good. I’d also strongly suggest you give Lee Foss’ latest podcast a whirl. He claims it was delivered to him by “B6 the Backwards Motion Robot” and mixed by a future version of himself at a Hot Natured Party on Saturn in the year 2082. There are so many standout tunes on this mix, from Luca C & Brigante feat Ali Love – Morals (Clockwork remix), to Slowhands – Belle Of The Ball and to the superb moment that Agoria’s remix of Inner City’s Big Fun kicks in; you can see why he’s said it was an extra-terrestrial “classics set from the early 2000’s”. Download it now for instant lushness.
Lee Foss - Modern Amusement Podcast 01
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It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of The Death Set, in fact their latest album “Michel Poicaard” may just be my favourite release this year. I’ve been wanting to see them live for ages so was pumped when I saw they would be playing London back in April. However, (much to my dismay) their flight over was delayed meaning the show could not go on. To make up for it the boys kindly put on a free gig the following night but I wasn’t able to make it – MEGA SAD FACE ensued. So you can imagine my excitement when I found out they’ll be returning to London July 21st to play The Macbeth!
Anyway, the third single from the album – ‘Can You Seen Straight?’ dropped this week on Ninja Tune accompanied by a brand new video which features much galivanting around Paris and Brooklyn, along with a Jean Luc Godard inspired intro. Check the video out below then grab yourself a copy of the Moombathon remix by Nadastrom. The new tour dates are after the jump!
The Death Set - Can You Seen Straight? (Nadastrom Moombathon Remix)
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If you’ve been following the blog this week you might be aware that producer of the moment – Tensnake, is in town this weekend and will be playing at Trouble Vision saturday night. What you might not be aware of however, is that he’ll also be dropping into Phonica Records earlier in the evening for a special in-store live set to celebrate the release of his new limited edition vinyl ‘Tensnake Live +’.
The collectors item vinyl has been limited to 1000 copies, with artwork and design by Dutch collective Droog, 2 brand new 12” tracks, plus 3 specially commissioned edits and a 60 minute Tensnake live mix. The previously unreleased edits come courtesy of Tensnake, Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco and fellow pioneering electronic producer Lone.
‘Tensnake Live +’ is available to pre-order now exclusively from www.vfeditions.com. Estimated shipping date is 13 June, 2011. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide.
Price: £35
Tensnake plays his live set this saturday 11th June at Phonica Records 6pm – 8pm.
In other Tensnake news, he released his new video for ‘Something About You’ this week. A great tune, which has summer anthem written all over it and features a bunch of hipster kids out clubbing. Check it out below…
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Romanian artist The Model has teamed up with My Favourite Robot to produce such a standout track and accompanying video, that it’s kicked off some intense geek-excitement in me. Still In My Heart is this haunting ‘80s synth number that record label Crosstown Rebels has described as “a vampish feast of 80s proto-house”. Which is frankly awesome. If that description doesn’t sell it to you alone, then there’s probably something wrong with you. It’s okay though, because the video is definitely going to win you over. It somehow fits perfectly even though the retro sci-fi concept isn’t the first thing you’d imagine upon hearing the actual song.
I’ve absolutely fallen head-over-heels in love with this video. Part original Battlestar Galatica, part Voltron with a hint of Neon Genesis Evangelion and a hefty dollop of vintage Japanese monster movies. It’s worth watching a few times over, it’s that good. If the video’s not doing it for you then chances are you’re not a massive geek like me so just head over to Crosstown Rebels’ SoundCloud page to check out samples of the remixes they’ll be releasing alongside the original version.
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