FEAT. ARNE WEINBERG (LIVE), ASUSU, FD, MB & CB
BASEMENT HOSTED BY GHETTO W/ ALI MACDONALD, SAMUEL PARIJ & GUESTS
9PM - 5AM @ THE RUSSIAN, 267 KINGSLAND RD, E2 8AS
FREE ENTRY BEFORE 11, £5 THEREAFTER
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Hot on the heels of a(nother) bone-crunching Rhythm Factory tear up, COLONY returns to the inimitable surroundings of The Russian for more late-night underground crossover frolics. This will be our last party for a while (got debts to pay/festivals to cruise), and as such, we've picked an extra special headliner for you, not to mention two fine young supporting selectors and, down in the dungeon, our good mates Ghetto.
Said headliner goes by the name of Arne Weinberg. A true champion of deepside club music, his singular take on purist techno has marked him out as amongst the planet's finest producers, in any genre. With a long catalogue of releases on labels as revered as Down Low, Styrax, Matrix and Echocord, a wonderful pair of LPs on his self-owned AW-Recordings, and forthcoming wares for Derrick May's Transmat Records (touch wood!), his pedigree is unquestionable, putting most so-called "techno" producers to shame. This will be his first ever London live show, and one which, for lovers of deep, emotive electronic music (be it house, techno, electro, electronica or whatever else), simply isn't to be missed. Support comes from two of the UK's brightest young things: Gloucester's Asusu and London's FD. Asusu has recently come to the fore with a stunning 12" for Bristol's Immerse recordings, building on impressive work for Project Squared and DubKraft, which has seen his brooding, hypnotic take on sub-aquatic 2-step played by everyone from Ben UFO to Perc. An excellent DJ in his own right, this will be his first appearance in a London club, and about bloody time it is too. FD, meanwhile, is no stranger to the city's soundsystems, having co-organised Plastic People's superlative Medium parties for the past three years, and garnered an increasing number of bookings on the back of an excellent collaborative 12" for Kasra's Critical Recordings. A DJ unafraid to cross genres and tempos (something his recent FabricLive promo mix demonstrates with aplomb), he'll be dropping a typically chunky selection of beats to get you moving, shaking and possibly even wiggling.
Residents MB, CB, Darkin and Foy will be filling the gaps with their usual barrage of cutting edge sights and sounds, whilst one floor below, Ali Macdonald and Samuel Parij - aka the minimalists - will be rocking things Ghetto-style - which means generous lashings of the rawest, funkiest house and techno played on vinyl and only vinyl (plus the odd special guest if you're lucky). Sounds like a party, right?
www.myspace.com/arne_weinberg
www.diametric-music.com
www.myspace.com/asusumusic
www.immerserecords.com
www.myspace.com/fdbeats
www.criticalmusic.com
www.myspace.com/vjdarkin
www.myspace.com/hoxtonghetto
www.the-minimalists.co.uk
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