Music : Electro House, Dirty House, Deep House, Progressive House, Tech House, Tribal House, Old Skool House, Big Beat, Breaks and Techno
Empathy 8th Birthday part2 @ Basement 45
Empathy presents Tronic
Thursday 9th April - Easter Bank Holiday Weekend - 10-4am
Room1 techno / electronic / house
CHRISTIAN SMITH (Tronic/Bedrock/Sci-Tec/Intec)
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TOM BUDDEN
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STUART WILKINSON
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Room2 - deep / minmal / house / breaks
JACK THE RED (Aka Puffin Jack)
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JACK2FRONT
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WEASEL
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DAVE KIRIK
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Theres no more historic date in the clubbing calendar than the Thursday of Easter Bank Holiday weekend, Empathy first kicked off on Thursday 29th March 2001 at Bar Latino, now based at Basement 45 where we host part 2 of our 8th Birthday.
Christian Smith, one half of Smith & Selway is one of the biggest producers making huge waves throughout 2008 and his more recent production "Total Departure" out on Bedrock and forthcoming releases on Sci-Tec and Renaissance and his global tour schedule theres no wonder he has 2 homes, Barcelona and Sao Paolo.
In support we welcome to Bristol James Zabiela's protoge in Tom Budden, hes been lucky enough to of been warming up for him and Nic Fanciulli all over including the recent show in Miami and also James Positronic night at the new Matter superclub in London.
With a great selection of music in 2 rooms in this great new club.
With support from some great local talent in Jack The Red and Weasel from Byte.
Also our crowd busting residents Stuart Wilkinson, Jack2Front and Dave Kirik.
Christian Smith - biography
Born in Stockholm, the DJ/producer has spent the last decade working relentlessly to bring his amalgamation of funky house and tribal techno to a global platform. Although Swedish by birth, Christian spent much of his youth in Frankfurt, Germany.
Christians earliest DJing experiences played a definitive role in his future work, as he first met regular collaborator John Selway in 1993. Selway, who was playing the same rave circuit as Christian at this time was also working in New Yorks renowned Satellite Records store, the place where Smith, who was still based in Washington, would order his tunes from. John and Christian connected musically and therefore decided to hook up and make some tracks and the Smith and Selway sound was born.
In 1994, Christian set up the Tronic label, and, despite releasing three well-received records, put the label on hold until three years later, in 1997. Christian put the label on hold, as he was still a full time university student in Washington. By '97 he felt really inspired by DJing and the music that this prompted him to get working seriously with his label TRONIC. However, on completing his studies, Christian started to go to New York more frequently to collaborate with John Selway. Subsequently putting out collaborative EPs on Dave Angels Rotation label and Primate, Smiths own 1997 release, Goldrush the fourth release on Tronic also caused a serious reaction, this was the point everything took off. Tronic became a popular label and Goldrush got licensed all over the place. It was a really hard disco house tune that DJs like Sneak picked up on and it was also the first time a lot of people reacted to one of his releases. DJs like Carl Cox and Dave Angel, people who were my idols in the early days really supported it. It did so well that every month Christian had to press up more copies!
In an interesting parallel development to Christians heightened profile, the latter part of the nineties saw Swedish producers like Adam Beyer, Joel Mull and Cari Lekebusch also attain an international following. From 1997 to 1999, the Swedish sound was really hyped.
Despite his newfound success, Christian didn't rest on his laurels, and, for rest of the nineties, he focused on DJing, producing and remixing as much as possible. Releasing more EPs on Tronic, Intec and Primevil, the Swedish DJ says that though one of his releases, Vanguard caught the attention and support of BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, he had to keep working as hard as ever. The really big crossover records like Move!, on Intec and the releases on labels like Rotation and Intec opened up his work to a lot of people.
Christian very much enjoys Asia and Eastern Europe as his favorite new places to play in. On a recent South East Asia tour, successful dates were achieved in South Korea, Kuala Lumpur and Ministry Of Sound in Bangkok. Japan is a place were Christian has a large following due to the rocking sets at Womb in Tokyo.
Christian was most inspired by Carl Cox and Laurent Garnier. Although both DJ's are quite different what Christian saw in Carl was the ability to mix continuously between three turntables, and create that musical fusion.
Tom Budden - biography
DJ and producer Tom Budden is a multi-talented artist whose diverse yet distinctive style of music has gained him the respect of his peers and has seen him play alongside major artists such as Steve Bug, Steve Lawler, James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli and Sven Vath.
Holding residencies at High Tide and Release in Southampton, Tom also has regular sets at London and International clubs such as Jaded at AKA, Cocoon at The End and Kristal in Romania.
His monthly radio show ALiVE on internet based Proton Radio broadcasts on the last Friday of every month and features a 60 minute mix from Tom and in addition to a guest mix, which in the past have included Paul Woolford and James Zabiela.
2008 saw Tom set up ALiVE Recordings as a vehicle for his own music as well as signings from other like minded individuals.
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Basement45, Frogmore Street, Bristol, BS1 (formerly Mandrake, Frogmore St.)
£6/£7
Tickets available from - Bristol Ticket Shop, 26 Union Street, Bristol, BS1 2DP
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Event info – 07799745870
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