It's 2 Kilos - in uniform...
Get your pigtails in and your tie straightened...
Feb 9th - The 2 Kilos School Disco with...
Aldo Vanucci (Cat Skills)
Jon Kennedy (Gran Central, Tru Thoughts and 2Kilos 2008 Resident)
Matt Wedderkopp
Buzzword
Room 2:
Mark Beesley (2Kilos King of Disco)
Taylor J (Traffic)
PJ Carroll and Andy Rowlett (Quartz)
Paul Dawson (Organic)
We like to party, and as our beach party, barn dance and 80's tracksuit party showed... we like dressing up like idiots and getting lashed. So we thought let's do the old uni favourite and have a school disco. It's a bit naff but we're gonna have a tonne of fun.
Get your crisp white shirt on, your old prefect badge polished (yes, i was actually a prefect) and come down for a boogie.
Bit about our Feb guest... Aldo Vanucci ..
Aldo Vanucci didn't get into music until he was 17, unlike all these djs and producers who apparently played sets at youth clubs! Lucky for Aldo though when he did get bitten by the clubbing bug it was 1987 so he would still hear everything from Ten City, to Little Kirk and this new fashionable acid music all in one night.
Since then he has become a music junkie, spending all his time working in record shops and djing, and now in much demand in Plymouth where he is now based running the busiest student night in town, Mixmag awarded it no 1 in the west, Wonkeylegs and guesting all round town.
This Brighton born, London native still plays regularly for Sancho Panza (check him out at this years notting hill carnival), Eclectic Breaks and various Shoreditch nighteries. He still finds time to be the oldest saturday boy in Soho's Uptown records and his day job of finding music for adverts for Jeff Wayne, the man behind the War of the Worlds.
Called an "obsessive vinyl junkie, like myself" by Norman Cook in Jockeyslut ( which he quickly made into a slogan for his t shirt ) and "one to watch" by Dynamo Productions in Update, his unofficial vinyl outings have been aired by the likes of GrandMaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Deadly Avenger and Andy Smith.
After being signed to Catskills he went on to remix the likes of Max Sedgely, Dr Rubberfunk, Jon Kennedy and Tummy Touch head honcho Tim "Love" Lee. He also supplied samples to Fatboy Slim for his latest album Palookavaille and will be receiving a remix by his idol on a later single.
He has forthcoming tracks featuring Ahmad, Ken Starr and a local singer songwriter called Jennifer McAteer which he describes as "a personal favourite" and others have called "gorgeous groove" and "exquisite".
In the UK he will be playing Groove Armada's Love box and Bestival festivals, as well as dj sets in Glasgow, Newcastle and quite a few in London.
He is also to be one of the first artists to have a guest mix aired on Fatboy Slims radio show Planet Fatboy to be syndicated on Sirius Satellite.
Click here for a mix by Aldo Vanucci
Jon Kennedy kicks off his 2Kilos residency this month... we're delighted to have the great man on board. If your not aware of him...
Almost certainly one of the 3 most talented men in all of Stockport. Jon Kennedy is a man on a musical mission. What the end result may be remains a bit of a mystery, not least to the man himself but rest assured it includes an enormous bag of breath-takingly beautiful tunes, copious rump-shakingly fine dancefloor corkers and a hatful of innovative ideas bordering on musical genius.
He's certainly a talented chap.
There's no excuse, come down, drink beer, dance to beats.
Smile
Tickets £5 from Recycled Records and Bottom Dollar Beats... more on the door.