Music : Jackin House, Electro House, Dirty House, Fidgit House and Tech House
SATURDAY 9TH MAY 2009
PERVERTED AUDIO & GLOSS
Due to Laidback Luke only having a handful of UK dates this event will sell out weeks in advance! Do not miss out! Either go direct to ticketweb.co.uk or by calling one of the ticket sellers at the bottom.
* UPDATE*
All early bird £15 tickets now sold out.
Standard £20 tickets still available
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LAIDBACK LUKE:
Holland’s beloved house music-loving homeboy, Laidback Luke, is on an international mission to rock clubs, win hearts and top charts. A producer and DJ with immense talent, tonnes of spirit and a steely determination to succeed, he has been on a worldwide search for the ultimate in dance floor energy since the mid-1990s. “Music is an amazing tool that can evoke powerful memories and emotions,” says Luke with a smile. “And I will not rest until I’ve given my best: I want to share as much music as possible with as many people as possible.” And with an incredibly impressive discography of 100+ recordings and a DJ diary that takes him from his studio near Amsterdam to clubs all over the world, it would seem that Luke is well on the way to achieve his goals.
Born Luke van Scheppingen in Manila, Philippines, he moved to the Netherlands with his family at the age of four. A wonder kid who grew up in a musical household, writing songs and learning the guitar, Luke was swift to start championing his own sounds. Passionate about hip-hop, he started out as a graffiti artist but became mesmerised by the addictive energy of house music at a high school party where Dutch DJ/producer Dobre (The Good Men, Chocolate Puma) was performing. Dobre was among the first to recognise the extraordinary potential of Luke, who was still in his teens when he started producing, adopting the ‘Laidback’ tag after hearing rapper Snoop Dogg’s bad boy drawl on the radio. Now most artists have ‘a sound’ but Luke has proven to have many. Deeply inspired by DJs such as Todd Terry, DJ Pierre and Carl Craig, and basically by artists everywhere who pushed the boundaries of electronic music, he was initially stirred into action by a cocktail of house, acid house and techno from New York, Chicago and Detroit. With his Loud Flava series in full swing on Groove Alert, Luke turned many more heads with his Act the Fool single, released on Touché in 1995. This was followed by a massive remix of Green Velvet’s Stalker, which garnered major support from techno overlord Carl Cox and plaudits from the UK press when it was released on Music Man Records in 1996.
The ‘Thriller from Manila’ started DJing professionally the same year (‘96) and was instantly hooked. In the years that followed, as he tore up venues across the globe, it was clear that Luke’s skills were way ahead of the pack. Whether rocking 150,000 people at the Park Pop festival in Holland or 150 at an intimate afterhours club, he wowed dance floors by giving 200 % and re-mixing the music live in such a way that always made sense to the crowd. In addition, his killer turntablist skills allowed him to cruise through a phase of breakneck transitions as he mixed up to 40 tracks per hour, from tech-house to electro-synth-pop and beyond. Luke is more relaxed with his programming these days, ever since he returned to his house roots, but even though he still found himself competing in a Dutch DJ battle called H2 in 2005 – even beating a Dutch DMC champ at his own game!
In 2006, the Swedish House Mafia came on Luke’s path with great success. Discovering that he shared many influences with Steve Angello, the two hit-makers first met on the laidbackluke.com forum in 2003, trading MP3s online before finally meeting face to face at the Miami WMC in 2004. They have remained buddies ever since and both Luke’s remix of Sexy F**k for Steve’s label Size and his cool collaboration with Steve titled Otherwize Then (unleashed on Sebastian Ingrosso’s label Refune) have been hammered by top jocks around the world.
2007 has brought nothing less than more of Luke’s special take on house music. Besides touring the globe, he still found time in his busy schedule to remix great songs for several artists like Juice String, Dragonette, Tom Stephan. International chart topper David Guetta asked Luke to do a remix of his smash ‘Baby when the lights’ and again for his follow up single. His remix for ‘Do you love me’, a track by The Dominatorz, topped the UK’s Cool Cuts Chart. And with the release of Afterdark 3, Luke delivered a stunning mix compilation yet again. Luke was chosen this time around by no other than the S- Man himself, Roger Sanchez, not only because of the hype surrounding Luke right now, but also because Luke’s sound complements both the and the sound of the S-Man. Included in the mix was the 2007 incarnation of ‘Rocking With The Best’, a sure floor filler that will stay in your ears for a long, long time!
www.laidbackluke.com
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Remaining line up:
* KANIO
* KIDS OF FUNK
* FILTH & SPLENDOUR
* NO ARTIFICIAL COLOURS (Ryan Ellis & Lewis Wright exclusive to GLOSS & Perverted Audio)
* DIGITAL NARCOTICS
* JON O
Room 2:
* KID COLA (Exclusive to Perverted Audio & GLOSS)
* WILLIAMS & DU BOIS
* SONS OF AUDIO
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* MATTER IS A NO SMOKING VENUE AND AS SUCH ANYONE FOUND SMOKING, OTHER THAN IN A DESIGNATED SMOKING AREA OUTSIDE, WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE
ESCORTED FROM THE PREMISES AND BANNED FROM FUTURE EVENTS *
Photography by Paul @ Vision7media.
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EVENT DATE / TIME: SATURDAY 9TH MAY // 10PM-7am
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