Celebrate this St Patrick’s Day with POWER FM in the basement of Hogans.

St Patrick or Magonus Saccatus Patricius (DJ name) did his best to convince the Irish of a better way of life!!

We believe he had a point and know that you will have one heck of a night out with us where some of the best deep house, disco and even some funky techno will be drawn out of the bags of the following DJs from POWER FM :

6-7.30 Paul Grant
7.30-9 Anto O Brien
9-10.30 Jon Pierce
10.30-12 Claire Roche
12-2.30 Eddie Quinlan

SLEMISH is all things to all people so come along and get downstairs to dance your national holiday into oblivion!

*SLEMISH – tradition holds that Saint Patrick, enslaved as a youth, was brought to this area and tended herds on Slemish, Ballymena, County Antrim.

During this time he found God AND Power FM!

POGO & Delicious Mix Sessions pres. John Daly (Wave Music) @ The Twisted Pepper

Saturday 27th Feb 2010

Adm: 10 Euro

John Daly returns to the POGO Basement and begins a ‘guest-residency’ for 2010. Support comes from Bodytonic stalwarts and Delicious Mix Sessions (Power FM) DJ’s Michael Black & Eoin Callanan.

Power FM will be broadcasting live from the Twisted Pepper for this event.

Event of the month and a toast to the BAD CAKE label launch held at a rather secret location on the north side of the city. A rather large electronic heart was felt beating rapidly in the city with 2 rooms heaving with party people and the odd nut cracker!

Top Dj’s all round with Lil Dave and Marquis D’Alton making it all sound sweet. Congrats to all involved for providing a well needed and perfectly organised whopper of a party. We hope there is more in store for Cake lovers in Dublin.

One finely cooked party

Sitting back listening to the latest Renaissance album by Gui Boratto I reminisce about all those lost summers of events in the early 90’s. Released on the 12^th Februay it is a pleasant collection of 29 house tracks. Soft and slow BPM’s to start that will sooth you into the bassier and more melodic beats. Loaded heavily with vocals on many of the tracks and classis from last year such as Paul Kalkbrenner’s ‘Azure’ and Mathew Jonson’s ‘When love Feels like Crying’ The first cd is a chilled intro to the second which is the normal procedure with the Renaissance collections. Boratto is following your journey through the night and you can now do it all day too if you so desire.

Working hard for the Renaissance

‘Selfish’ is Hard Ton’s debut 3 track EP for Gigolo Records, an artist in the true sense of the word, and one that appears to follow the same lineage as previous label mates Fischerspooner, Tiga et al. Hard Ton, the biggest disco queen of the XXI Century. With a body that can only remind us of John Waters’ muse, a voice that confidently pulls-up to Sylvester falsettos, all set to a soundtrack that hops between accelerated beats and shameless acid sounds.

Disco Simplicity ! Hard Ton

Recorded and mixed in Bologna and Venice the writing process has no rules

‘we can start from a bass line or a vocal line, but we can also start a track just from thinking of a costume we want to make for a show, or a picture we would love to do, or for a cover for a single or a magazine. Visual, music and lyrics, they all come together.’

Using, exclusively, analogue and vintage gear from the 303, 606, 707, Oberheim DMX, Korg Monopoly, MS20, Prophet V5 the list goes on and is a calling card to any gear-nerd.

But the music never becomes stiff or contrived; in fact it always remains fun!Selfish is Available March 2010 on Gigolo Records

Tune to pull back out of the bag and give it another whirl this time round is the Spanish rifted track featuring smack bang in the middle of Ellen Aliens Watergate mix. Push it back out in the clubs – Nicone and Sasha Braemer – Nur Mal Kruz ! Bring the summer into your spring!

Ed Devane’s album launch ‘Molten Membrane’ is taking place in association with Earwiggle on Saturday March 6th,  at the Underground @ Kennedy’s, Westland Row, Dublin 2

Ed has appeared on a plethora of edgy bass-enthused labels like Touchin’ Bass, Spacebar Sentiments, !Kaboogie and Mantrap Recordings – the latter being home to this, his debut longplayer. Also appearing on the night are Kachanski (live), Thatboytim, Eomac and Noid The Droid – all ready to get stuck in.

Doors are at 10.30pm, admission is €10, and we’re also throwing in a free copy of the cd album (a month in advance of its full release!) for your troubles

Change more than your clothes..

Fashion and music go hand in hand how ever you decide to do it! The way forward is to embrace ethical clothing where and when you can.

Re-dress proudly presents ‘FASHION EVOLUTION’, Ireland’s third ethical fashion week. 

May 4th – 8th Fashion Evolution aims to re-vitalise the spirit of the Irish fashion industry, with a schedule of exciting events catering for consumers, producers, retailers and supporters of fashion alike. Check out the website form more details www.re-dress.ie

Decks and the City is back soon www.twitter.com/claireroche , www.laundrydublin.com

By Claire Roche

Barry Donovan & John Mahon will be playing the tunes..

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Maurice Fulton. In a word: different. An abridged run down of his aliases, alter egos, groups, protégés, collaborators and remixees (one who’s work has undergone Mauricification) is exhaustive. So let us surmise that if you walk into a decent record shop anywhere in the world you are likely to find at least a handful of records gracing his name. If not his name then one of his aliases, alter egos, groups…

It is important to note that Fulton has had a profound influence on dance music since leaving his hometown of Baltimore for New York in the early nineties (he had a hand in programming the percussion on Crystal Water’s smash hit Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) back in 1991) and that he has seemingly managed to remain relatively unknown whilst doing so. Fulton rarely, if ever gives interviews due to a bad experience in which he was misquoted as dissing his friends. Information about him online is scarce. He is on Myspace but anyone with record label Tigersushi in their friend list ‘will NOT be added’ and he also has a facebook page but those eager to find out what is on his mind will be disappointed. It is fair to say then that there is a vague aura of the troubled, misunderstood genius about him though anyone who has seen his RBMA tutorial video will know him to be charming, funny, chilled and above all supremely talented.

It is testament to his talent that one struggles to pin down exactly what he is. He has been DJing since the age of 13 and all those years of practice have seen him get pretty good at it. He regularly gigs around the world and audience feedback is overwhelmingly positive. A prolific remixer, he will be the first to admit that a Fulton remix is not a remix but an entirely new track in itself. It is not uncommon for the end product to retain little more than the original vocal track with a new melody and rhythm laid down as the foundation.

He is a gifted musician with skills on keys and drums and is so good on bass he has managed to forge a sound all of his own. The unmistakable, flanged mutant slap bass he has been layering over tracks for the last few years has had househeads and disco enthusiasts alike wiggling and bumping on dance floors from Sydney to New York and everywhere in between. It is because a lot of his recent work is so accessibly funky that those only recently introduced to Fulton might blanche at some of his more leftfield output.

Herein lies the key to his longevity: Never compromise!

He has a penchant for working with female vocalists, mostly noveau soul singers and always head turningly attractive. A series of monthly podcasts offers the chance to hear him go wild on the decks and catch glimpses of material one suspects will sadly never see the light of day. That material which has already been released is plentiful and surprisingly for an artist so adroitly committed to playing by his own rules is mostly available online, though the less said about the infuriatingly rare Alice Smith remix the better. Recordings of his DJ sets get the pulse racing and have surely gotten many a bleary eyed clubber through the Monday morning commute to work whilst his home mixes are usually episodic journeys that will take your mind far away from the trials and tribulations us mortals have to deal with on a daily basis.

Nightflight (Dublin) and It’s Music (Cork) have invited Maurice back to Ireland to play the Button Factory (26th) and Bru Hostel (27th) respectively for what will be two memorable nights of soulful getting down.

If you are not already convinced just read this response to a question regarding the idea for his track Paris Hilton : ‘The making of that record, I wanted to create something to make people dance and laugh at the same time, while they’re dancing. When someone told me that they’d never laughed so hard and danced at the same time it was a big compliment to me. It’s a really big compliment to me. I think dance songs, you should have fun and laugh and have a good time while listening to the song.’

You have been warned.

Tune into the Box Deluxe show 1900 – 2100 hrs Saturday 20th for a Maurice Fulton Special here on PowerFM

Nightflight

It’s Music

M. MUSIC
A. ARTS
S. SIGHTS
S. SOUNDS

MASS @ HOGANS EVERY SUNDAY!

Kicks off at 7PM and goes till late.

Power Fm DJS  on rotation.

Free in.

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Hi All,

This week I have Max and Antonio from deepintothebowelsofhouse with me in the studio who will be playing an hour long mix of music as well as a 30 min mix of their own productions.

The lads play weekly on Thursdays and the last Friday of every month in the Turks Head bringing a mix of local talent and international guests. Boris Werner and Kasper, Barry Dempsey, David O’ Connell and Cookiie guest in March.

Cheers

Eddie

Get your remixes on

For all budding DJ’s out there we felt you may be interested in this from the Berlin Institute

Full Information can be found a www.berlin-mitte-institut.de/

Hello everybody, just as promised we are adding a remix competion to the track, whichFlorian Meindl produced live during two 4 hour lasting WebTV shows @ Berlin Mitte Institut. In his early production time Florian used to be a big fan of these remix competitions too, so he is very happy to host one with us. The two best remixes (or even more, if there are really good ones) will be released on FLASH Recordings together with the original, maybe even as a 12″ vinyl release. Depends on the quality of the remixes. The judging jury will consist of Florian Meindl, Kandel and Fresh Meat. Florian will be the uber-decider. Let your creativity flow, for us it does not matter which genres it will be or even more experimental. Can be a groovy clubtrack, or listening only. We dont care, we want good music !

Here are the rules:

• Start: 22.02.2010, end: 22.03.2010 12pm CET. Until 5th of April 2010 we will decide for the two winners
• You produce a remix (Wikipedia) using the material Florian provides with the material from his track – it must be noticable, that it is a remix of Florian’s track.
• On the 22nd of February we will release the remixing files here on the blog
• Once finished, upload your track to the extra created Soundcloud group (Disable downloading, do not upload your remixes anywhere else. We will approve them to the group and add them on the blog!)
• Label the track as follows:
  BMI_Techno_Seminar_(Remixer_Name_Remix_Name_Style)
• In the comment field of the Soundcloud link, answer the following questions:

1. Which hardware / software did you use for the production ?
2. Which parts of Florian’s original did you use and how did you use it ?
3. In producing the general structure and aesthetic of the track, what were your main sources of inspiration ?
4. How did you break with these inspirations to be more original ?
5. Which parts of your remix do you like most and why ?
6. PS: You are very welcome to answer these questions in a short video instead. Video quality doesn’t matter, use your (build-in) webcam etc. You attach this video to your uploaded track on Soundcloud and post the link into the track description.