Event ¦ HORSE MEAT DISCO

For our first night we've been looking to set a standard, and in the first of our 2 part summer series, we're delighted to announce that we'll be joined by the lads from Horse Meat Disco.

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We like many others have been kept dancing to the distinct sounds of HMD, though years of crate digging, party starting and boat pulling the HMD crew have an extensive knowledge of everything soul, motown, disco, and funk.

Now approaching their tenth year of existence, the four-man DJ outfit have continued to lead the way in the disco field with packed residencies at their HQ Eagle London, various venues in New York, Prince Charles in Berlin and Silencio/Wanderlust in Paris.

The event will take place on Saturday 13th July at The Nerve Centre, Derry.

More details to follow on residents and back bar support DJ's..





Horse Meat Disco Live On Ch4 House Party 2012 from Sean McCann on Vimeo.


Check out this interview with James Hillard from HMD on where the idea of this party came from, and why it's still standing strong today.

‘It comes from a headline in a newspaper that was concealed in a stack which was about to be thrown out. The headline was: Horse Meat Discovered in Salami but it had been partially obscured to reveal Horse Meat Disco. It was like a eureka moment! A great name that made no sense but conjured up many good and bad images in my head. To this day people have different reactions to the name. All are valid and mostly filthy.’ --James Hillard

 

Feature ¦ Ian Dury - The Last Champion of Pop Music

The music industry is nowadays such a prohibitive place for artists. Acts and bands are ‘chosen’ by the powers-that-be and there is often little choice from the public about who succeeds (commercially) and who flops...

Daft Punk ft Pharrell & Nile Rogers ¦ Lose Yourself to Dance

 Lose Yourself to Dance ft Pharrell Williams

Feature ¦ Sir Alex Ferguson

As an avid supporter of Manchester United and of course Sir Alex Ferguson, the question that every peer wants to know after just announcing his retirement at he end of this season - what was the key to his longevity and success?

Drop Out Orchestra

I've been keeping tabs on Drop Out Orchestra for a fair while now, and it seems as though their hard graft may be paying off after all these years of doing re-mixes and the like with no real recognition. They are currently subject to a lot of radio play on stations like BBC 6 music due to their recent re-edit of Daft Punk's Get Lucky. It's being heralded as the best edit about at the minute, and that's no mean feat. Without taking too much away from the track, they still manage to leave their own footprint with the addition of violins and synths at equally telling points within the track.

This is another one of my favourite tracks of theirs...

FEATURE ¦ Greg Wilson - The Scene Thorugh his Eyes, and Through Ours

""Disco wasn’t the name I would have personally chosen as the term for what I play now. I felt it came with too much baggage, given previous associations and prejudices, and besides, I was drawing from a much wider palette. However, now it has been named as such, I fully embrace the term in its original spirit – not as a specific genre, but, as I said in the sleevenotes, as music made to be played in clubs and discotheques, in all its splendid diversity, and spanning an entire history."" 

Known initially for his DJ'ing in Merseside and Wigan Pier, Greg Wilson crafted out a reputation as being one of the fore-running UK DJ's playing electro sets with predominantly black origins. This was at the time gaining more popularity leading to Wilson being handed the Reigns at legendary Manchester club, The Haçienda,  and the wheels were firmly in place for Wilson to go on to big things.

Flight Facilities ¦ A Fifth of Beethoven (FF's Edit)

We've been liking Flight Facilities stuff of late, and this edit jumps into life at around the half-way point.