It’s the end of the week and favourite record label time again. This time it’s all about Dance Mania.
This is one of my favourite releases on the label. I don’t think there’s many words to describe this track so sit back and soak it up and enjoy the weekend.
Heads up, we have a little bit of extra special news to announce this week. Metro Area will be our last party for 2008 and so far our line ups have been pretty much as good as they get:
THEO PARRISH (Sound Signature/Detroit)
LOUD E (Ambassadors Reception) & BEPPE LODA (Typhoon Italy)
ROLAND APPEL (Sonar Kollektiv)
METRO AREA (Morgan Geist & Darshan Jesrani, Environ NYC)
Not a bad string of parties over 4 months!
We’ll be back in 2009 after the Christmas break and after much discussion at Cutloose Towers we will be leaving Spektrum behind and going back to what we all like best. Think…intimate basement location below the streets of Manchester where once a month throughout 2009 we will be rolling in our own huge thumping sound system and turning the lights down low for a run out of some of the finest guests we can think of. Theo Parrish will be back in the new year without doubt and we already have the fantastic Sound Stream lined up to play for our first party back in February with more guests to be announced soon.
Spektrum is a fantastic venue though we felt it wasn’t the right platform for the guests and the parities we wanted to put on. We sat back and thought of all the amazing venues around Manchester and the same name kept cropping up, the same venue that always has an incredible atmosphere and a superb mix of people.
As of the Friday 20th February 2009 our new home will be the Roadhouse. We can’t wait!
We hope you can join us on Friday 5th December for our last party at Spektrum. Both Morgan Geist & Darshan Jesrani will be joining us all the way from New York City. Early bird tickets have sold out and the remaining advance tickets are flying out. Get yourself down to Junk in the Northern Quarter for tickets with no booking fee or buy online from Skiddle. Last time these guys were in town it was an absolute road block so don’t hang around.
We’re throwing a FREE festive soiree over the Christmas period with the Cosmic Disco guys on the 27th December with special guest Mark Seven (Juswax/Sweden) – late license until 4am, Cheap Beers, Funktion One Sound System all happening at a secret Manchester basement location, not the Roadhouse or Deaf Institute.
Rekids getting plenty of airtime, in no particular order. Seasonal warmers galore.
With the Metro Area gig just round the corner and that Friday feeling running through my veins I thought I would it only right I post an absolute stomper today.
Italo Disco, some people still think of it as eighties music with ridiculous cheesy vocals, listened and produced by only north Italian philanderers with huge ego’s and bad hair, basically music that would not survive the eighties.
Amin Peck was George Fyron, Leonard Parker, and Max Marne a group of top dog Italians who had a long string of Italo hits under their belts. This one is for sure still alive and got recently got hammered by Metro Area at this years PS1 in New York.
Its a nice instrumental track with a drenched slap bass and cosmic synth line, pitch it down slightly and it just sounds absolutely incredible on a big system. Anyway, courtesy of YouTube.
My favourite ten pieces of the black stuff for November 2008.
Our good friends over at Northern Nights spoke to Roland before he made his Manchester debut. Here’s what Roland had to say
Nu Groove Records is one our favourite labels at Cutloose. In terms of house music in the mid to late 80s the releases didn’t come much better than The Dynamic Duo – In the pocket. The 1989 Tommy Musto production includes hip shaking percussion, quirky bass like sounds coupled with Sylvester samples that all come together to create a track that encapsulates for me what the Nu Groove sound was about.
That said we could probably cherry pick many more.
Back in 2007 DJ Spun’s offshoot label Tu Rong re-edited the track with Ray Mang on duty. They included the Hip House version which is here for your listening pleasure. If you can’t find the original then pick up the Tu Rong release. You won’t be disapointed.
Some musical partnerships seem to require a leap of faith or a suspension of our collective disbelief; others progress come along so naturally that the synergy almost seems fated, their work resolutely undeniable. Brooklyn-based Metro Area (Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani) is of the latter group without doubt: a beautifully harmonious relationship wherein the duo push and pull in all the right directions without compromise.
Although both listened to pop RnB/electro of the mid 80s growing up in quiet pockets of the East coast (Darshan in Poughkeepsie, New York and Morgan in New Jersey), they independently found themselves drawn to synthesizers and the techy side of producing long before they discovered one another.
As Morgan and Darshan migrated towards equally remote areas of America for college (Darshan staying in the east coast and Morgan relocating to the Midwest) and gradually coaxed releases from the closed confines of their dorms (Morgan even started his label, Environ, in his dorm room), they simultaneously lived their formative years feeling somewhat misunderstood and somewhat misplaced musically.
It’s a sentiment that’s rung true from when they met each other on email lists in the days before internet forums through their early days when the two first teamed up as an avant-garde, creatively unbound production/DJ team.
“It’s a really mixed bag of music, but it’s all really groovy stuff. There’s some not so obvious disco, there’s some sort of really spare and weird NY house tracks – we had to figure out how to make it cohesive. We did a few of our own custom deep tracks and made some little drum tracks and little mixing utilities to throw in there as well… We’re trying to not put in the classic records that we’ve played forever. We wanted to explore an area that’s not mined so heavily, but still have an emphasis on the older disco stuff. So we thought we’d do a mid 80s sort of thing, which is kind of a neglected time period but there’s some really nice records from then. With fabric mix CDs, it can sometimes be so homogenous; it’s like this perfect, classy, very coherent single thought. But that’s not how we DJ, so I think we decided we’d try and touch on a lot of different things, almost like a party mix.” – Metro Area
Fabric 43, an artistically arranged and brightly coloured journey through Metro Area’s vast record collections, remains as reflective as it is forward-thinking. Metro Area deliver a peerless jam-packed mix of Easy Street dance classics (World Premiere’s “Share The Night”) through to 80’s club hits (“Work For Love” by Ministry), with a generous helping of disco and boogie anthems and electropop output from the likes of Premiere Class. Infectious, retro and yet timeless, Fabric 43 dazzles with uplifting dancefloor gold.
The brainchild of veteran producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani, Metro Area was born out of the pair’s somewhat dichotomous love for both the old moods of R&B, disco and boogie and the more cutting-edge sound of innovative house and techno. Metro Area brings back the soulful experimentation of the early club classics – mixing live and electronic instruments. Simultaneously, the mood and minimalism of more recent dance music forms creep into the mix: Detroit’s cold futurism, Chicago’s abstract track-modes, and the warmth of New York and New Jersey’s deep house.
After over a year of late-night sessions in New Jersey and Manhattan – Metro Area burst onto the scene in 1999 with their self-titled debut 12″ featuring the cult smash “Atmosphrique.” With an angular bassline underpinned by a grungy 4/4 disco beat and the most distinctive claps this side of 1977, “Atmosphrique” sounds futuristic and retro at the same time, and spawned myriad heated debates concerning the record’s production date. Then came the simply amazing ‘Caught Up’ which left both DJs and dancers wanting more.
Currently staying busy with continued touring, solo remixes from Morgan and Darshan, new studios in Brooklyn, solo and side projects and the imminent release of a new Metro Area album and their new Fabric mix CD the music world can rest assured that Metro Area will continue to rock theories of time and space at Spektrum.
Friday 5th December
10.30pm – 05:00am
Spektrum
Radium Street
Manchester
M4 6AY
£8 advance
£10 on the door
You can buy advance tickets online from Skiddle
http://www.skiddle.com/events/11253633/
You can visit our friends at Piccadilly Records and Junk to pick up tickets with no booking fee.
Read more about the event on Facebook and don’t forget to tell us you’re coming.
http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/20/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Metro+Area
http://www.myspace.com/metroarea
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