Music : Jackin House, Electro House, Dirty House, Deep House, Progressive House, Tech House, Tribal House, Old Skool House, Acid House, Electro, Big Beat, Breaks, Dubstep, Electronic Body Music, Futurepop, Powernoise, Funk, Disco, Jazz-Funk and Soul
Empathy "Allnighter" @Motion
Friday 10th October
10 - 6am
Main Room - House / Techno / Progressive
PETE HELLER (Phela Recordings)
SPENCER PARKER(Rekids/Tsuba/Buzzin Fly)
JIM RIVERS (Empathy EP Release Party)
Richard Carnage (Tape)
Stuart Wilkinson
Sam Richardson
The Cave - Breaks / Funk / Beats
GENERAL MIDI (Distinctive/Hope)
Dave Kirik
Meadon (Dop)
Task (Dop)
Souq (Byte)
Weasel (Byte)
Terrace - Electro / Minimal / Techno
RPM Djs
Doog
Empathy is back! After a brief break over the Summer Season, apart from its soiree's in Birmingham and Cardiff we have a massive night planned at Motion. We will be pulling out all the stops for this huge allnighter with some amazing Djs excellent lighting and decor and 3 rooms of music.
headlining we welcome back one of the most influential Djs and Producers ever to come out of the UK, Pete Heller is having a break from co producing Faithless and Underworld's new album's and treating us to some of his new productions along with some of theirs. He had produced some of the biggest tracks ever to grace dancefloors worldwide. Alongside the oldtimer is one of the leaders of the nu skool with twisted techno gurn Spencer Parker his productions on Tsuba and Rekids have blown up and pushed him in to the big time.
As always Bristol's very own superstar Dj and Empathy resident Jim Rivers will be celebrating the release of the Empathy EP out on John Digweed's Bedrock label, Jim named the EP as the track is a true reflection of what Empathy is all about. This is a great opportunity to see Jim on home turf having taken a break from touring worldwide.
In support in the main room we welcome back Empathy Nu Breed winner 2007 Richard Carnage and Empathy head honch Stuart Wilkinson alongside ex Empathy resident Sam Richardson.
In Room2 we welcome back to the Empathy dreamboat,Hope Recording's and Distinctive breaks guru General Midi, hes taken a break from recording his second artist album to come back to his native Bristol for this special appearence. supporting its the 2 of the biggest nights in Bristol pushing showcasing their awesome residents, Byte and Detective of Perspective bring some of the biggest Djs to Bristol from Coldcut to Trevor Loveys to Kentaro... and they have some awesome residents in Design & Build, Task, Souq, Weasel and in flexing his muscles in support Empathy resident Dave Kirik with yet another box of bangers!
On the Terrace its the Rpm Boys hosting. The newcastle based night have some quality djs and host some of the biggest club nights in the Uk including Ministry of Sound in London and Digital in Newcastle.
This massive event over 3 spaces, with awesome sounds, projections, lighting, expect the best in progressive, tech house, minimal, electro, breaks and beats, along with the friendly crowd.
Pete Heller - Biograhy
From childhood marching bands to disc jockey and dance music producer: Pete Heller knows a good drum when he hears one. Boom-boom. Out go the lights.
Born in Brighton, Pete Heller was a music nut right from the get-go. The Clash, Psychedelic Furs, Jam and Madness as a kid and then discovering nascent hip hop at a Clash gig in London. “I was sitting at the back before the Clash and this band came on,” remembers Pete. “I’d never heard of this music before. It was very rhythm-based. It was Fab Five Freddy doing a hip hop show. I thought, ‘I’ve got to get into this’. Found out about Groove Records, went up there and the first import I bought was Davey DMX ‘One For The Treble’. It smelt different.”
Things were different in the 1980s before house arrived and shocked our system to its core. Dance music was a minority interest, like clay pigeon shooting or wine tasting. There were few magazines documenting it, and no-one wanted to be a DJ. It was like dreaming of being a gas fitter. But when Heller discovered clubs (thanks to an older sister), he was smitten. “There was no DJ culture then. They were just blokes who played records. But I found them intensely glamorous. That whole music and club scene was very other, then.”
At Manchester Uni, he got a break DJing and started to promote parties all the while travelling back to London where the early house/Balearic clubs were mu-Shooming out of from nowhere. “It was the maddest place I’d ever been to,” says Heller of Danny Rampling’s now-famous Shoom. “It suited my aesthetic completely, because all I did was take acid, and lots of it. I’d go straight to the dancefloor and that was it.”
Against the odds for such a young shaver, Heller was handed the warm-up slot when Shoom relocated to Busby’s. Aside from the instant kudos of playing at the hottest club in London, it was a satellite around which half of London’s club faces revolved. Introductions were made, friendships were sealed, including those of Terry Farley and the Boys Own crew. Heller worked in the studio on the first Bocca Juniors single (he played guitar) and somehow found himself producing The Farm alongside Terry and Madness’s Suggs (“We spent most of the time playing Subbuteo, although I did programme a little beat!”, laughs Heller)
When the cheque arrived for Heller’s contribution to Altogether Now, he bought studio gear and started making proper house music with Farley (as Roach Motel and Fire Island). Lots of records, one club hit after another. DSK’s What Would We Do: massive tune at the Sound Factory. Happy Mondays’ Stinkin’ Thinkin’: ditto. Eventually the records were big everywhere, remixes, original productions, funky, deep, guaranteed floorfillers the lot of ’em.
In the mid 90s, the pair had an unlikely crossover hit when a rejected remix, Ultra Flava, suddenly became the hottest track in Ibiza and went top twenty n the UK. Then, in 1998, Heller produced his biggest hit yet, with Pete Heller’s Big Love. “Terry went to see Chelsea in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Stockholm so I went in the studio on my own. I knocked it out really quickly. In a day. Actually 12 hours. After I’d done it, I thought it was going to be a demo so I edited it down to ten minutes and that became the final release.” It reached number 12 in the UK pop charts in May 1999.
Since then, he’s continued to produce more club monsters: Sputnik, Stylus Trouble, remixes of Cevin Fisher, Inner City… and endless list. And now - in the wake of JBO’s recent cessation - sees the launch of Phela Records. His own baby, though not literally. More music, big plans (well medium ones, but big eventually), a nice website, direct interface between man and machine and man (and woman). More stylus trouble, in fact.
Spencer Parker - Biograhy
Spencer Parker is one of Europe's leading dj's, his unique style of house music is in demand the world over and with his productions, remixes and re-edits being supported by such names as Radio Slave, Luciano, Laurent Garnier, Richie Hawtin, Ben Watt, Nic Fanciulli and Pete Tong, the future looks bright.
Spencer's style is simply best described as underground electronic house music. Preferred record labels range from the techno stylings of Oslo, Planet E, Liebe Detail, and Rekids through to the uber-cool house of Buzzin Fly, Ibadan, Tsuba and Objektivity. A set from Spencer would include minimal, electronic and acid house alongside some cool jackin' tracks and the odd trippy vocal. Spencer has held some highly successful residencies in his home town of London and continues to regularly guest at the capitals best clubs, including Fabric and The End, as well as being in demand worldwide, with recent visits alone including Russia, Germany, China, America, Australia, France, Italy and Romania.
In 2005 Spencer began his production career with the release of his debut single "Open Your Eyes", the track was snapped up by UK based label Cr2 Records and became one of their biggest selling singles to date. Pete Tong supported by playing several times on Radio 1, adding it to his Pure Pacha compilation cd and describing it as "hot hot hot!". In the autumn of 2006, Spencer unleashed his second single, the electronic acid house track “Beautiful Noise”, on Radio Slave's new Rekids label. Early copies garnered support from names such as Nic Fanciulli, Clive Henry, X Press 2, Ben Watt and, once again, Pete Tong, who described the track by saying "the new sound of minimal starts here". In addition to "Beautiful Noise" Spencer also released the much hyped single "Neon" in early 2007, on the London based Tsuba label. Already becoming an anthem for Nic Fanciulli after constant play at his Space (Ibiza) residency, "Neon" was supported by such names as James Zabelia and Laurent Garnier with both John Digweed and Hernan Cattaneo adding it to their latest compilations.
In addition to producing original material, Spencer often remixes or re-edits some of the hottest tracks around to give himself an exclusive secret weapon to play and make his dj sets completely original. Recent official remixes include "Freaky Bleepy" for Ben Watt's excellent Buzzin' Fly imprint, the DC10 anthem "Alcoolic" for Cr2 and the lead single from Nic Fanciulli's Skylark album, "All I See". Next up are Spencer's well received remix of Foremost Poets' "Moonraker" for NRK Records (already a featuring in Lucianos recent sets) and, although unlikely to see a release, more than a few people have been asking about his hot re work of Ricardo Villalobos' "Enfants" record.
For 2008, Spencer's production schedule is already hotting up. First out the gates was his collaboration with Diesel (as co.Lab) entitled "Music Box" on Satoshi Tommie's SAW Recordings label. Techno influenced but with a definite house sound, "Music Box" has already garnered support from Riche Hawtin, Luciano, Ewan Pearson and Radio Slave. To follow this, Spencer has a slightly deeper track entitled "e Lucia" on Tsuba, out now and "The Dreamer EP" and "Romantic" single, both due on Rekids. In addition to these singles, autumn will see the release of Spencer's debut production on Buzzin' Fly, "Chiho" (as played on Pete Tongs Essential Selection - 22 Aug) and the second co.Lab single, "Zanzibar", on Saved Records.
Spencer is an experienced and adaptable dj that knows how to warm up for big names intelligently as well as rock a main room in his own right, anywhere in the world. Now with his production and remixing skills developing at a rapid rate, the package is complete and 2008 looks set to be the year he truly breaks through.
General Midi - Biograhy
Paul Crossman a.k.a General Midi has always managed to master a more level crunching, dub flavoured and bass fuelled musical ride than his peers and it is this that has earned him his fast growing reputation as the source of a great night out when he's at the controls and as 'the producer's producer'.
Emerging from the backrooms of the Bristol Club scene his slick DJ ability and an ear for a great tune have given him regular appearances at breaks hotspots across the planet such as Fabric, Chew The Fat, Blow Pop, Sounds On Sundays (Sydney), Two Tribes (Australia), Zouk (Singapore), Budapest, all across the USA, Hungary, Spain, Serbia, China and Hong Kong. Teaming up with production partner Eelz, General Midi has been responsible for some of the most genre defining tunes in 'The Westoner' ('99) 'Daft Funk' ('01) 'Further' ('03) & 'You will Be Under' ('03), 'Entertainer' ('04), 'Bass Rockerz' ('04) & 'House of Funk' ('05).
Over the last few years General Midi's singles have been released on some of the most respected breaks labels including TCR (Rennie Pilgrims label) & Kilowatt (Hyper's label). All of this has led to his debut artist album 'Midi Style' released now on Distinct'ive Records.
With early support right across the board at Club (Timo Maas, Fergie, Plump DJs) and Radio (Zane Lowe, Annie Nightingale) it'll be well worth booking your seat for the ride, early!
First 50 people recieve free Jim Rivers Mix CD
Inc Big Mikes BBQ on the terrace...
Links
www.myspace.com/peteheller
www.peteheller.com
www.icametoparty.com
www.myspace.com/spencerparker
www.myspace.com/jimriversdj
www.empathyclub.co.uk
www.myspace.com/empathyclub
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