Music : Electro House, Dirty House, Deep House, Progressive House, Tech House, Tribal House, Acid House, Electro, Big Beat, Breaks, Minimal Techno, Acid Techno, Hip Hop, Funk, Disco and Soul
When the likes of the mighty Slam just having graced the turntables at LOCO, some may consider maintaining a consistant quality of artists a tall order. We don’t……
Amerie, DJ Hell, Kylie Minogue, Carl Craig, The New Radicals, Gwen Stefani, Talking Heads and Sir Elton John. No, not an arbitrary list of musicians whose relevance to each other is governed by the fact that they all appeared in the previous sentence together; rather, eight artists lucky enough to have received a generous sprinkling of our next guest’s magical remix alchemy.
Some of you might know him from his first coming to prominence with the astonishing re-working of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. Attaching it to New Order’s Blue Monday was undoubtedly a stroke of genius.
With his talents as a remixer feeding into his own productions and vice versa, he is one of the hottest characters in dance music today. Yet don’t try and peg some fashionable hook upon him, his wildly varying skills makes it impossible for anything to stick.
LOCO presents
RADIO SLAVE vs REKIDS
Room1
RADIO SLAVE vs REKIDS (Rekids/Skint/NRK)
PAUL LORAINE
TRACY CALDWELL
Room2 sees the much awaited return of South Africa’s no1 breaks dj MR BONG.
Room2
MR BONG (TwoTwiggs – South Africa)
AWON (Monsterpiece)
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RADIO SLAVE
Amerie, DJ Hell, Kylie Minogue, Carl Craig, The New Radicals, Gwen Stefani, Talking Heads and Sir Elton John. No, not an arbitrary list of musicians whose relevance to each other is governed by the fact that they all appeared in the previous sentence together; rather, eight artists lucky enough to have received a generous sprinkling of Radio Slave’s magical remix alchemy.
Over the last decade-and-a-half remixes have had something of a chequered history. At their best – see Andrew Weatherall, David Holmes and even some of Paul Oakenfold’s early work – they are a legitimate, artistic skill. The deconstruction and reconstruction – creative sabotage if you like – of a piece of music can be worth its weight in gold.
At worst, they are a cheap and pointless exercise in excessive marketing; no better than cheesy and exploitative window dressing.
Matt Edwards resides firmly in the former camp. As Radio Slave – firstly with Serge Santiago and, for the last couple of years, on his own – he transforms tracks into something else: fresh and exciting pieces of music that urge of you only one thing, the compulsion to dance.
His background as an early acid house convert and graphic designer meant that his aesthetical ethos was geared towards manipulating sound: playing with it, toying with it. As a DJ his music tastes range from electro to techno by way of house and broken beat. But it’s his love of disco re-edits, the likes of which mastered by such ‘70s stalwarts as Walter Gibbons and championed by Harvey, that gives him his edge.
Radio Slave first came to prominence with their astonishing re-working of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. Attaching it to New Order’s Blue Monday was undoubtedly a stroke of genius and from then on, the offers never stopped.
Matt and Serge went their separate ways in 2003, but Matt has gone from strength to strength. As well as his incendiary DJ sets, also under the Radio Slave moniker, Matt has evolved into a man with many musical hats. His productions as Rekid, Matthew E, Quiet Village and Sea Devils range from spaced-out stoner funk to propulsive dancefloor monsters, and from intricate widescreen cinerama to blissful electronic pop.
With his talents as a remixer feeding into his own productions and vice versa, Matt Edwards is one of the hottest characters in dance music today. Yet don’t try and peg some fashionable hook upon him, his wildly varying skills makes it impossible for anything to stick.
To wit, consider the varying sounds of these following artists: Tiga, FC Kahuna, The White Stripes, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, X-Press 2, Ralph Myerz. We probably don’t have to explain their significance to each other now, do we?
MR BONG
MR Bong, dealing in sweet big beats, cracking breaks. This DJ, Singer/Songwriter, Qualified Sound Engineer, Musician also a founding member of the groove funk odyssey otherwise known as Caytie Marvelis, bends his vinyl around tripping breaks and smacking beats.
You may have felt his groove at Azzurris or during his residency at the Blue Chip Lounge, With tours to Greece behind his name playing at clubs like Mylo's and The Booze Club and events like Plenty and Zoltan Tribe , as well as tours to London and Bristol, playing at Nights like Loco at TIMBUK2. MR Bong has put himself on the globe.
MR Bong also has residencies at:
SENSE
BACK 2 BASS
OFF LINE
PRESSURE
KISS EVENTS
SELECT and hosts a breakbeat night called The Funky Thump at Red Cafe, Northcliff
Mr Bong has played at clubs like @115, 177 Hendrik Verwoerd, Transky and Carfax to name a few.
MR Bong has also played alongside big names like
Diesel Boy
Cargo 77
DJ Woody (ITF World Champ)
DJ Vadim(Ninja Tunes)
Tom Novy
Pendulum
and Freq Nasty.
He has also played at the Oppikoppi, Woodstock and Flux festivals as well as SABC YOUTH DAY CONCERT in Newtown 2005. Mr Bong has also been featured on 5FMs Vinyl Frontier as well as GO3 on GOTV and UBONA on Channel O and MK89. You can also catch him on Tuks FM, most Sunday mornings between 10am - 2pm on "The Electic Mix" with DJ Stav, exposing the breakbeat culture and promoting local South Africa producers and DJ's. MR Bong's also the one of founding members of the Two Twiggs Xperiment, who specialize in promoting/producing events as well as managing and developing artists and djs through there dj agency and are responsible for some of the biggest names in music coming to South Africa. Mr Bong and Two Twiggs helped launch SAs first breakbeat forum site www.breakbeat.co.za in the hope of exposing breakbeat in SA and beyond
This is the world of the musical pioneer, but MR Bong's pulsating your membrane with his personal ingrained insane melody floating around that beautiful beat.
DISCOGRAPHY Caytie Marvelis Perpetual Groove Motion
Mr Bong's track 11:59 was featured in the full length movie sound track to Sista as well as 6 x 9 on the sound track to A Man in The Street
Love Tape - The Pinkertones - Two Twiggs Remix - Mr Bong and MPI Project
bRoTheRmAn and Groove Assassins -The Universal Energy that is Groove
bRoTheRmAn and Groove Assassins - Incognito
Evil In Me - bRoTheRmAn Featuring Mr Bong
Saturday 7th April 2007
Doors open 10pm - 4am
£8 entry £7 NUS Timbuk2, small street, Bristol
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