Music : Funky House, Electro House, Dirty House, Progressive House, Tech House, Tribal House, Acid House, Hard House, Hard Trance, Psy-Trance, Electro, Breaks, Minimal Techno, Funky Techno, Acid Techno, Electro Techno and Chillout / Leftfield
This is a daytime event (e.g. starts late morning or early afternoon - see below for times).
After their successful first ever gig in a big nightclub, when they put up RAVE – The International Indoor Festival last July at SEOne, ResistAnts had a deserved rest, but are now back, bringing to London one of the most influential psytrance acts of the world:
New Year’s Day with
Skazi Live!
at The Renaissance Rooms
With support coming from
Never Enough and
Antiworld,
ResistAnts’
Luis Santiago and
Helio de Oliveira are two Brazilian who started throwing house parties at their cosy flat in Brixton, in 2003. They used to lock the furniture up in one of the rooms and cover the windows with black curtains, transforming their home into a small club. Venue arranged, decoration and production came from countryman designer Miguel Carvalho – the same one who did Timbalada’s outfits for 2004’s Carnival in Salvador, whereas Portuguese mates DJ Vega and Rui M were in charge of the sound system. The neighbours were also invited, so no one disturbed the party, which went on all night long. At 10am next day, fire fighters turned up, though what was suspected to be smoke, coming out of the windows, turned out to be just an artificial effect.
From that day Luis and Helio realised they no longer could accommodate party-goers in a flat. After all these years, the next big step at
ResistAnts’ history was their first event in a proper nightclub. They dared to organise
RAVE – The International Festival, booking renowned artists such as Lab4, Proteus, Talamasca, Pixel, Domestic and DJ Murphy, to name but a few.
ResistAnts are ready for their comeback, and this time have prepared a storming New Year’s Day party: an impressive
12-hour gig, kicking-off at
7am and not finishing until 7pm. To welcome 2007, ResistAnts proudly present Israeli psytrance act
Skazi, voted TOP 37 DJ by
DJ Mag. Coming from a recent tour in Brazil, where they launched the latest work
"Total Anarchy", Skazi, B-Bass & Co. will play live and a DJ set at the
Psychedelic Room, supported by
Chemical Crew and
Antiworld. DJs
Kalimamboh,
Metaphase,
Fortu,
Simo and
Sutekh are some of the psychedelic mafia members.
Under the
Never Enough flagship, the second room is dedicated to progressive, dirty house, electro, breaks, minimal and techno, with sets from Brighton-based
Eduardo Herrera, Southampton’s new talent
Stu Cox, brazilians DJ
Paula,
Reaction,
Marcio Groove and
Lucas Datt, amongst others. For those in need of a faster and harder music policy, DJs
Vega,
Rui M,
Caballeiro and
M.A.N. vs Toxigen command the hard dance clubbers. Last, but not least, the chill-out room. Coming from Norway,
Bluebeat aka Moni & Askeladden, alongside
Danny Stamp,
Hemlock and
Hefty, plays anything from chilled beats to tribal and tech house.
This New Year’s celebration is definitely not for the faint-hearted! So bear it in mind and have a day-off on 2nd January!
(Words by Wagner Concha www.myspace.com/wagnerconcha)
SKAZI
The Skazi project is a myth within the psytrance scene.
Asher Swissa (guitar) and
Assaf B-Bass (synths) have been working together since 1998, producing a unique style of “trance, rock, cyber and punk” music – as they defined themselves recently for
DJ Mag. Asher began his career as part of Jerusalem punk rock band Sartan Hashad and three years later joined Rock Ba-Yarok, whereas Assaf has been involved with trance music since 1992, working alongside Yaniv Shulman (aka Mental Orange). Skazi also includes drummer
Tamir Bazilai and bassist
Guiladen.
The name "Skazi" was Asher’s nickname, given to him by his childhood friends. Their debut album,
“Animal”, launched in 2000, was revolutionary in its sound and direction, culminating with a huge worldwide success. With their influences coming from the punk and hardcore scenes, Skazi brought an innovative twist to psytrance by combining Asher’s live guitar riffs and Assaf’ storming synth-sounds. As a result, “Animal” became an overnight hit, positioning Skazi in the front row of trance creators in the world. The follow-up, “Storm”, came out two years later and kept Skazi on the crest of the ‘psy’ wave, setting out world tours and blowing away crowds in countries such as their home Israel, Japan, Germany, Russia, India, Switzerland and Brazil.
Between 2001 and 2004 Skazi compiled the
“Zoo” trilogy and
"Most Wanted” compilation, releasing over 100 tracks in innumerous albums worldwide, which made them to keep at the top of the sales charts for months. Skazi's iconic stage performance, featuring Asher's guitar-wielding rock-star poses, combined with a recent string of cheeky remixes of 80's and 90's metal and punk songs (including Nirvana's
"Smells Like Teen Spirit", re-launched as
“Smells Like Humos Spirit”; Metallica’s
“Seek & Destroy” and Prodigy’s
“Voodoo People” and
“Out of Space”) has resulted in some pained groans from the psytrance purists. Besides, Skazi have also remixed Benny Benassi’s
“Satisfaction” and Infected Mushroom’s
“I Wish”.
In 2005 they launched their first DVD, entitled
“Hit & Run World Tour”, with footages of their performances in Israel, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Japan. All Skazi’s productions have been released on their own recording company,
Chemical Crew, formerly known as Shaffel Records. The label has not only changed name, but also signed some new artists, under exclusive contracts, such as Void, Exaile, Paranormal Attack and Tube, among others.
This year, Skazi featured for the first time at
DJ Mag’s TOP 100 DJs poll, reaching the 37th place. To celebrate it, on 11th November 2006 Skazi did a one-off world jam in Brazil, performing live with Israeli MC Big Fish, Portuguese guitarist Xangai (Paranormal Attack) and Brazilian drummer Igor Cavaleira (Sepultura) at
XXXperience’s 10th Birthday party, in São Paulo. Skazi also released their latest album,
“Total Anarchy”.
1st MAIN ROOM
Psychedelic Trance
Supported by CHEMICAL CREW & ANTIWORLD
SKAZI (live + DJ Set)
KALIMAMBOH
METAPHASE
JAMES COMPRESSOR
FORTU
SIMO
SUTEKH
ZEUS
SARCHAS
PsyMan vs TOXIGEN
Dvi-X
2nd MAIN ROOM
Progressive,Dirty House,Breaks,Electro,Minimal,Techno
Hosted BY NEVER ENOUGH
EDUARDO HERRERA (www.djeduardoherrera.com)
STU COX (www.stucox.co.uk)
TERRY BRYAN
THE OLI
DJ PAULA
LUDGERO
DJ SI (with live Percussionist)
MARCIO GROOVE
LUCAS DATT
RODRIGO & PAULO
3rd ROOM
Hard Dance/Hard Trance/Hard House
DJ VEGA
RUI M
M.A.N vs TOXIGEN
MISH MASH
MATT GARDNER
DJ KITO
NRG EXUS
PABLO K
KIPER GABRIEL
DJ CABALEIRO
CHILLOUT ROOM
Progressive House/Trance/Breaks & Deep Tribal Tech House
BLUEBEAT aka MONI & ASKELADDEN (www.solidkiss.com/projects.html)
DANNY STAMP (Ableton Live)
HEFTY
HEMLOCK
TICKETS PRICES:
October 1st: SOLD OUT
November 1st: £20
December 1st: £25
January 1st: £30
CASH SALES:
72 Wells St - W1T 3QF - Oxford Circus Station
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here to see detailed map.
Call
MARIA on 07813684399 to collect in North of London.
www.resistants.co.uk
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