[BMTH] 26.10 - Delete 7th Birthday @ The Winchester Pub

[DRTY]

Tickets: http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?518467

1st release: £6 + BF (until October 18)
2nd release: £7 + BF (until October 24)
3rd release: £8 + BF (until party time)

As we edge ever so slightly towards some manner of maturity, it’s reassuring to know that Delete is still here to keep us youthful and foolish. Seven years ago we were definitely youthful, foolish, and more than a little clueless about how to run a party, and this far down the line we’re perhaps a bit tighter on the logistics, but the party itself remains the same size. You would think we would have grown to promoting stadium sized mega raves by now, but truth be told we can’t think of anything worse than soulless, impersonal “events”. When you stick to an uncompromising vision of what electronic music should be about, you tend to swerve the chance to make a few bucks and attract a few more bods through the door, but the trade off is a dedicated crowd, an intimate atmosphere, and that family union that makes each party mean something to the people present, from the guests to the bouncers to the clubbers to the bar staff to us hair-brained lot trying to put the thing together.

Anyway, enough of that philosophical waffle, there’s a party to get hyped up for. This one feels like we’re truly making an occasion out of our birthday, bringing down two guests who feel like they’ve been an intrinsic part of Delete since the early years, even if we never booked them before. Their Freerotation party has been a significant influence on us and Delete, from the friends we’ve made that have joined the family to the guests we’ve booked after witnessing life-affirming sets at Baskerville Hall, not to mention inspiring us on sticking to our guns and keeping the vibe paramount above all else.

All of that sidesteps the fact that they’re a powerful creative unit, forming an audio-visual partnership that raises the bar of what we’ve presented to you fine people in the past for Delete. Prepare to have your minds blown by a stack of modular synthesisers that look akin to a bank of telephone exchange operators getting their rave on, except instead of a gaggle of 50s secretaries at the controls it’s one man and the bumping, polyrhythmic techno abstractions he conjures from of his machines. Meanwhile his partner in life and crime will be twisting out her own impulsive magic, weaving the perfect visual accompaniment to the music as hand-drawn matter huffs and puffs, contorts and wobbles, locked tight to the groove on the screen behind. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re utterly chuffed to be presenting to you Steevio and Suzybee live.

Not only that, but bar their appearance at Freerotation back in the summer, this will be the only time they wheel out the full set up, packing down the mammoth array of studio equipment and spending no less than half a day putting it together for the gig. Needless to say we’re utterly chuffed and humbled to be playing host, not to mention brimming with excitement to present it to you all.

Meanwhile in the vault, we’re equally excited to be bringing back to the fold some brothers with whom we have deep history, the Dub Optic posse. Back in the days when the biggest bass promoters in town were starting out as Dubnium, we used to link up for some high-quality sessions back at Dusk Til Dawn (before that venue went royally tits up), and as it’s a birthday ting and we want to keep it in the family, the boys have very kindly offered to put together a special mission statement for the night that will see their spinners digging deep for the more experimental tones in their repertoire, able to swerve big room bangers and play it more on that tweaked out Delete tip. Needless to say, we don’t fully know what to expect and we don’t want to. We just know it’ll be of the highest grade in bass-testing business, and all done for the love.

Around that array of musical madness will of course be the Delete residents, AJ Reynolds, Dan Orchard, Sam Smith and BMO, who between them will form some kind of group huddle and work out a game plan that both weirds out the crowd whilst keeping them rooted to the dancefloor in that bittersweet push-me-pull-you way we’ve always aimed for over the past seven years.

The only other thing that needs chucking into the mix is you dear Delete family, so don you finest (sweat soaking) gladrags, do your stretches, and come down the front where the fan be blowing. It’s time for another one of those things.

Giddy at the thought of it all
Delete x

Room One - Hosted By Delete

Music - Techno

Steevio & Suzybee Lve Modular A/V Set (Freerotation/Mindtours)

Dan Orchard (Delete)
AJ Reynolds (Alt Recordings, Delete)
Sam Smith (Alt Recordings, Delete)
BMO (Schmorgasbord, Delete)


Room Two - Hosted By Dub Optic

A night of forward thinking experimental bass music from ...

Subfreq (Roots Of Dubstep)
Whittz (Garage & Bass Vinyl)
DRTY (130bpm Future Bass)
D-Tox & Dark Dean B2B (Early Breakbeat & Jungle Vinyl)