Music : Electro House, Tech House, Acid House, Bassline House, Electro, Minimal Techno, Detroit Techno, Acid Techno and Electro Techno
Eclectric presents....
Bank Holiday Friday - May 2nd
Carling Academy Oxford
ALTER EGO (Live)
JESSE ROSE (Playing Around Tour)
+ Eclectric All Stars
11pm-4am // Afters 4am-8am
Join us at the start of may bank holiday maddness along with techno pioneers Alter Ego - performing a live set - and one of the most exciting djs of the moment, Jesse Rose!
Get your tickets early, available from the academy box office and via these websites: ticketweb.co.uk
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JESSE ROSE
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Regarded as house music’s most forward thinking producer of the last years alongside the likes of Switch & Claude Von Stroke, Jesse is responsible for twisting up the template of house music as we know it today.
Learning his trade as a dj with regular slots at Fabric and visits over the pond in Europe, Jesse now holds residency at his monthly Made to Play night at the Panorambar in Berlin and tours the world for fifty-two weeks of the year. To date Jesse has recorded for the likes of Classic, Get Physical, JBO, Simple, his own Made to Play and Front Room imprints and is currently signed to Dave Taylor’s Dubsided label. If you need a dance-floor remix Jesse is the guy you turn to, lending his skills to artists such as Hotchip, Armand Van Helden, Underworld, Simian Mobile Disco, Layo & Bushwacka!, Claude Von Stroke amongst others. While all of this had been going on Jesse still managed to put away a collaborations album (‘More Than One’) and the highly respected ‘Body Language 3’ compilation on Get Physical.
Two thousand & seven seemed without doubt to be Jesse’s year of recognition, featured in every international dance music publication, nominated alongside four others for ‘Best British DJ’ at the DJ Mag best of British Awards, number four in IDJ players of the year & fourteen in Mixmag’s best DJ’s in the world 2007. Jesse finished a triumphant year playing in Sydney to 15,000 people on the main stage at Field Day.
If it looks like things couldn’t get any better for Jesse, 2008 sees him release his first solo album, a remix album, an album tour for the first made to play compilation and more releases as ‘Content’.
ALTER EGO
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“When I think of Alter Ego, I think of two guys who have definitely got a screw loose, who have dedicated themselves to electronic music, techno and pop culture for more than two decades in a certain way that not only the buttons feel dizzy. And they still haven’t had enough”.
Alter Ego are the longstanding duo of German techno veterans Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke. Although the pair have been recording together since 1994, as Alter Ego and under aliases such as Acid Jesus, Sensorama and a host of others, it wasn’t until the release of their massive 2004 single “Rocker” that they managed to brand themselves upon this decade’s club circuit in any major way, earning themselves a strong run of remixes in the process. In many ways, the barebones simplicity of “Rocker,” with its electro underpinnings and heavier-than-thou synth lines, helped push the lector house movement into more mainstream clubs.
Over the years they have remixed; The Human League, Primal Scream, Chicks on Speed, The Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode. Ricardo Villalobos, Tiefschwarz, Ewan Pearson, Eric Prydz, Robag Wruhme and Isolee, to name but a few, have remixed their tracks.
Their latest offering “Why Not?” was released to critical acclaim in October 2007, showing off their skills with a hard hitting album of standalone tracks in the same vein as Rocker. If you like techno and electro then these are the boys to see.