This article is about Mixmag: Night and Day @ Egg in London (UK), Sat 23 May 2009
Ottawa's Jokers Of The Scene made the leap from party DJs to producers simply by working with what they knew best: the most mind-meltingly intense parts of dance music throughout history, from ecstatic big room house buildups to hyper-distorted electro basslines and the lighthearted samples of 90s techno, all thrown in a blender at 130 BPM.
Yet on the Jokers' follow-up Acid Bagg EP, the duo has decided to take their sound much, much deeper. "Acidrod" is a refined (though no less ravey) take on their signature club collages, meshing crowd pleasing breakbeats with subtle tech house bleeps and hypnotic synths. "Baggy Bottom Boys" is their most ambitious track to date, a multi-part rave epic that DJs from Diplo to Erol Alkan can't help but play out through every single peak and piano breakdown. And if these two massive originals weren't enough, remixes from Brodinski, Destroy Disco and Canadian dubstep upstart DZ nicely round out the EP.
You can catch Jokers Of The Scene on their next UK gig at Mixmag's MASSIVE Night & Day Party, a 16 hour rave that sees the Jokers share deck space with the likes of High Contrast, Cyantific, Pier Bucci and Poney Poney amongst others.... but before all that we hit the boys with Mixmag's BIG QUESTIONS...
1. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Clowns.
2. What’s the worst club you’ve ever been too?
Hooters Casino in Las Vegas.
3. What’s been your worst job?
University Pub Janitor.
4. What are you obsessed with?
Skymall Catalogue
5. And what do you hate right now?
Craigslist.
6. How would you introduce yourself to someone who’d never heard of you?
“Toronto’s finest mash-up djs”
7. Have you ever been arrested?
Yes
8. What’s the best record ever made?
Arthur Russell “World of Echo”
9. What’s the coolest thing in your house?
The air conditioner
10. What’s the best advice you’ve ever had?
“Sell your guitars and buy turntables”
11. What’s your vice?
People watching
12. What were you doing at 2pm last Sunday afternoon?
Flying to Chicago from LA
13. What’s your answer to everything?
“Fair enough”
14. On a scale of 1-10 how good are you in the sack?
6 drunk, 7 sober, 11 high.
15. What’s your prized possession that you’ve still got from when you were a kid?
Foreskins
16. Have you ever had a homosexual experience?
Everyday
17. What do you spend your money on?
Big treats.
18. What was your last big treat?
Clean underwear
19. What’s your drug of choice?
Weed
20. What would you change about yourself if you could?
Toss up between maximum strength and invisibility.
21. What’s the worst item of clothing you’ve ever worn?
Snowmobile suits.
22. If you had a tardis, what time would you go back to?
4 weeks ago before getting scammed out of an apartment on Craigslist.
23. What’s your lamest claim to fame?
Cast as extras in the Rolling Stones’ “Streets of Love” video.
24. You’re playing at our party on May 23rd at the Egg so what do you have in-store?
Big treats!
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JOKERS OF THE SCENE AND HEAR THEIR LATEST TRACKS AT: myspace.com
THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT, BUY TICKETS ASAP AT: ticketweb.co.uk
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