Music : Jackin House, Electro House, Dirty House, Deep House, Progressive House, Tech House, Tribal House, Old Skool House, Minimal Techno and Detroit Techno
Empathy Boat Goat Party
Saturday 7th July
7 – 10pm
Jay Tripwire (Nordic Trax, Vancouver)
Jim Rivers (Saw /Saved Recordings)
Stuart Wilkinson
Jay Russell
This years Empathy Boat Party welcomes from Canada producer/dj Jay Tripwire, its not the first time he will be showing the Bristol scene what he can do, this time hes here for his regular appearances at Fabric and Stealth in Nottingham.
Celebrating over 50 releases with over a hundred thousand records sold on some of the finest labels underground house music has to offer, with his music featured on commercially released mix CD's by artists such as Slam, Nick Warren & Danny Howells, Chris Fortier,George Morel,Tyler Stadius, Onionz & Joeski, and charted by everyone from John Digweed to Terry Francis to Fred Everything, Jay's music has a vast range of appeal, crossing the boundaries between deep house and tech house, even pulling progressive DJ's into playing house.
The boat party has a distinctive theme this year, it’s the Goat Boat, with the theme being goats any Goat attire will do, not only that there might well be a chance to see some goats as the boats sets sail down the river avon towards Bath.
The Boat will be decked out with a killer soundsystem, theres a well stcked bar on board and the residents will be on warm up duty ready for the arrival of Mr Tripwire.
Jay Tripwire - Biography
"A full pelt wavering between tribal moments, hard-funking electro synths & more modest slabs of Detroit-inspired soul.
The crowd respond at every turn." - Steve McLay, DJ MAG
]So now that the word is out, it's about time to catch up with the man himself: Vancouver-based DJ, producer, remixer and robot collector, Jay Tripwire has come a long way since the stand out 2001 release of ''Mastakilla'' (Lunar Tunes uk/bluedaze in USA) & his massive remix of the classic monster "Nervous Acid". Jay's productions now prove to be essential to any dancefloor!
Celebrating over 50 releases with over a hundred thousand records sold on some of the finest labels underground house music has to offer, with his music featured on commercially released mix CD's by artists such as Slam, Nick Warren & Danny Howells, Chris Fortier,George Morel,Tyler Stadius, Onionz & Joeski, and charted by everyone from John Digweed to Terry Francis to Fred Everything, Jay's music has a vast range of appeal, crossing the boundaries between deep house and tech house, even pulling progressive DJ's into playing house.
Jay has played in numerous cities across the globe at some of the finest clubs the world has to offer such as regular apearances at Fabric, Subterrain@The End,Blond@AKA, Propoganda in Moscow, Bedrock@Heaven, The Bomb, System, OTV, Ottozutz and beyond from Moscow to Japan, and London to Barcelona.
Jay has recently joined forces with Chicago's heavyweight Mazi (Audio Soul Project, Studio Nova) to form a duo by the name of "The Clones". They have had numerous successful gigs already, and have begun production together under the Clones moniker, with their first release set to drop on Jay's Spaced Out imprint after WMC 2004.
We know there are plenty of choices out there, but when it comes to naughty basslines and dirty grooves there's only one name: Jay Tripwire.
"Jay Tripwire is ahead of everyone else." - MUZIK
"Delivers on the Promise..." - International DJ
"A fantastic standout." - VICE
"Essential."- MIXER
"Really deep and funky" - Ministry
"Plenty of twisted pyrotechnics" - XLR8R
"With Jay Tripwire on the mix, expect something a bit special." - M8
"Jay Tripwire's productions are a DJ's dream packed with the finest tools from the trade." - URB
'When it comes to tech-house, Jay Tripwire is pretty much unbeatable right now." - MUZIK
"Responsible for some of the most exciting underground house music to come out of North America in recent years." - DJ Magazine
Ticket Details
Meet at E-Shed, Watershed, Bristol @6pm
£15 tickets includes entry to Afterparty @Soho
Contact empathy_bristol@msn.com or – 07799745870
Tickets will also be available from outlets listed below.
• Bristol Ticket Shop, The Galleries, Bristol
• Rooted Records, Gloucester Road, Bristol
www.empathyclub.co.uk
empathy_bristol@msn.com
Info – 07799745870
Links
http://www.myspace.com/jaytripwire
www.jimrivers.co.uk
http://djstuartwilkinson.moonfruit.com
Jay Tripwire downloadable mix
http://www.felinephonix.com/music/jaytripwirelowereastside/jaytripwire-lowereastside.mp3