Music : Electro House, Deep House, Progressive House, Tech House, Tribal House, Old Skool House, Acid House, Electro, Big Beat, Breaks, Detroit Techno and Chillout / Leftfield
PLAYTIME FRI MAY 26
ROSEBUDS OF MAY? HEE HEE - HE SAID "ROSEBUDS" ...
It's another Playtime long weekend ... plus the first UK gig for the H-Man Oliver Huntemann in '06!
How much spanking with the Racing Post and calling you princess did we have to do last month to get covered in the Guardian, One Week To Live and TNT? Well, here it comes again as we've got two very special guests - Tom Stephan, who rumour has it is launching a new album soon after the gig .. plus the first UK gig in '06 for Oliver Huntemann!
PLAYTIME FRI MAY 26
Tom Stephan (Superchumbo)
Oliver Huntemann (H-Man)
Stretch (Sucker DJs)
Warmup Francisco (Throb)
RESIDENTS
Mike Monday and Big Daddy
(Quarterly David Duriez + Supa DJ Dmitry)
It all started at the sound factory in New York with Tom Stephan's first exposure to tribal but it ramped up quickly after that. Having determined - after that first hearing of Xpress2 and DJ Pierre - that he wanted to be a DJ, Tom's first official gig was warming up for Danny Tenaglia's first ever appearance at Ministry of Sound.
Unsurprisingly it picked up from there. Residencies at Substation and Crash, a gay club in Vauxhall reminiscent of the clubs in New York's meat-packing district, then a residency in room two of Turnmills that grew to take over the entire club - Tom's own night Roach, an infamous London night that ran monthly until Jan 2003.
Tom is now one of the hardest working dj’s in the industry, playing clubs the length and breadth of the world. He juggles his DJ commitments with his production and remix work and his own albums while heading up his newly established label ChumboMundo. That launched in February 2005 and the first two releases were both were voted Tune of the Month” by IDJ.
Bremen based producer Oliver Huntemann is one of the activists who's held a torch for new combinations of techno and house. His first exposure to music was the massive wave of rap, break dancing and graffiti in American movies like Beat Street and artists like Africa Bambata. That drove him to spin records - a process only interrupted by six years in the navy but restarted when acid house invaded Germany in the late 80s.
Organizing his first own techno parties, he started producing darker, emotive electro - created his own label Confused Recordings, and has released as Huntemann, H-Man, Kaycee and Rockford on pivotal labels like Gigolo or Giant Wheel and his own Confused Recordings.
This year he's released a well-received album Feiber - plus there's an upcoming collaboration with Get Physical's Chelonis R Jones. In his view electronic dance music is and will always be about renewal - styles, influences and the unique and special touch of each producer - regardless of whether they produce house, techno, electro, ambient or minimal.
PLAYTIME FRI MAY 26
10PM-6AM, £14 or £12 with SMS/e-flyer at www.playtime-club.com. At Egg, 200 York Way, Kings Cross N7. 020 7609 8364. Email us at guestlist at playtime dash club dot com for concessions. Official recovery at Meet, next to Fabric.
SEE YOU SOON, PRINCESS!
LOOK NORMAL. THEY MUST SUSPECT NOTHING.
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