dothedu
11-11-2006, 06:36 PM
Do the Du
LAUNCH NIGHT@ Medicine Bar, Shoreditch, London EC2
Friday 24/11/06
Chris Duckenfield (Swag/Odori/Tonic)
The Janitors (Primitive/Housekeeping)
The bit about the DJ
To say someone needs no introduction would be just plain wrong, circumventing the entire exercise of the garbled passages you’re about to peruse.
So then what of these bracket-appended words adorning the end of alleged record spinners names? With Mr Duckenfield we’re barely scratching the surface, but now we’ve a few to be going on with, and hopefully your undivided attention, let’s read on.
Swag: His partnership, spanning more than a decade, with studio stalwart Richard Brown. A partnership that has brought us two stunning and original long-players, a seemingly endless catalogue of distinctive remixes and a dance-floor annihilating ‘Decks & Gadgets’ live show.
Odori: Chris’ own outstanding imprint (that’s music speak for record label) that’s achieving exactly what it set out do: forever pushing the boundaries of the house music genre whilst achieving worldwide acclaim.
Tonic: Or ‘a bit of the other’ as Chris and his pick-me-up quaffing partner, Pipes call it. A unique and sometimes bizarre look at music and revelling that brings us intimate feel-good parties and arguably the best two hours of internet radio you’ll hear, every month.
But can he play records? His reputation for putting records together ‘on the job’ stretches back as far as 1989, from world dominating uber-clubs to the back room of Steel City boozers. And with a record collection enabling him to be equally at home playing house as he is down-tempo, disco and classics, I should bloody think so.
The other two characters
Chris Hammond and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, AKA The Janitors have a mutual hankering for soul-touched dance floor rhythms, which spawned the long-running ‘Housekeeping’ parties at Sheffield’s Interval café in 2003.
Despite having day jobs to contend with, they’ve also had a three-year stint residing at Farringdon’s hip Fluid bar co-running Primitive, a raucous anything-goes basement disco alongside artists including Rob Mello, Jamie ‘Jimpster’ Odell and the aforementioned Mr Duckenfield. Can’t be bad.
And The Janitors launch the first of hopefully many intimate basement shindigs to come, at Shoreditch’s iconic Medicine Bar: a venue packing a formidable punch of awe-inspiring sound and a sickeningly consistent reputation for hosting some of the City’s most breathtaking parties.
The bit about the night
Do the du. Ooh-ooh-ooh. How to sum it up, without sounding like the gazillion other parties
that have vied for your hard-earned at the end of the week.
It's about music; it’s about soul. It's about house, disco, garage, hip-hop, broken beat, electro and anything else that feels good.
It's about for – even just a split second - forgetting who you are where you've been or how you got here.
It’s a party for girls; a party for geeks, doing it, bouncing off the walls; wind it up and let yourself go. Fall right off the bandwagon. This is THE SHIT, quite frankly.
Info:
Do the du @ Medicine Bar
Medicine Bar, 89 Great Eastern St, EC2A 3HX
Friday 24/11/06
9pm - 3am
£5 before 11pm, £7 after
Nearest tube: Old Street
http://www.swag-uk.net
http://medicinebar.net
Obligatory myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/chrisduckenfield
http://www.myspace.com/dothedulondon
Contact/mailing list:
dothedulondon@gmail.com
http://i13.tinypic.com/2z3w67l.jpg
LAUNCH NIGHT@ Medicine Bar, Shoreditch, London EC2
Friday 24/11/06
Chris Duckenfield (Swag/Odori/Tonic)
The Janitors (Primitive/Housekeeping)
The bit about the DJ
To say someone needs no introduction would be just plain wrong, circumventing the entire exercise of the garbled passages you’re about to peruse.
So then what of these bracket-appended words adorning the end of alleged record spinners names? With Mr Duckenfield we’re barely scratching the surface, but now we’ve a few to be going on with, and hopefully your undivided attention, let’s read on.
Swag: His partnership, spanning more than a decade, with studio stalwart Richard Brown. A partnership that has brought us two stunning and original long-players, a seemingly endless catalogue of distinctive remixes and a dance-floor annihilating ‘Decks & Gadgets’ live show.
Odori: Chris’ own outstanding imprint (that’s music speak for record label) that’s achieving exactly what it set out do: forever pushing the boundaries of the house music genre whilst achieving worldwide acclaim.
Tonic: Or ‘a bit of the other’ as Chris and his pick-me-up quaffing partner, Pipes call it. A unique and sometimes bizarre look at music and revelling that brings us intimate feel-good parties and arguably the best two hours of internet radio you’ll hear, every month.
But can he play records? His reputation for putting records together ‘on the job’ stretches back as far as 1989, from world dominating uber-clubs to the back room of Steel City boozers. And with a record collection enabling him to be equally at home playing house as he is down-tempo, disco and classics, I should bloody think so.
The other two characters
Chris Hammond and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, AKA The Janitors have a mutual hankering for soul-touched dance floor rhythms, which spawned the long-running ‘Housekeeping’ parties at Sheffield’s Interval café in 2003.
Despite having day jobs to contend with, they’ve also had a three-year stint residing at Farringdon’s hip Fluid bar co-running Primitive, a raucous anything-goes basement disco alongside artists including Rob Mello, Jamie ‘Jimpster’ Odell and the aforementioned Mr Duckenfield. Can’t be bad.
And The Janitors launch the first of hopefully many intimate basement shindigs to come, at Shoreditch’s iconic Medicine Bar: a venue packing a formidable punch of awe-inspiring sound and a sickeningly consistent reputation for hosting some of the City’s most breathtaking parties.
The bit about the night
Do the du. Ooh-ooh-ooh. How to sum it up, without sounding like the gazillion other parties
that have vied for your hard-earned at the end of the week.
It's about music; it’s about soul. It's about house, disco, garage, hip-hop, broken beat, electro and anything else that feels good.
It's about for – even just a split second - forgetting who you are where you've been or how you got here.
It’s a party for girls; a party for geeks, doing it, bouncing off the walls; wind it up and let yourself go. Fall right off the bandwagon. This is THE SHIT, quite frankly.
Info:
Do the du @ Medicine Bar
Medicine Bar, 89 Great Eastern St, EC2A 3HX
Friday 24/11/06
9pm - 3am
£5 before 11pm, £7 after
Nearest tube: Old Street
http://www.swag-uk.net
http://medicinebar.net
Obligatory myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/chrisduckenfield
http://www.myspace.com/dothedulondon
Contact/mailing list:
dothedulondon@gmail.com
http://i13.tinypic.com/2z3w67l.jpg