Let’s be honest most of today’s club music protagonists are as exciting as dead meat. Or if you wish to choose more friendly words, we agree that they are servants of an alternative entertainment industry. Frank Timm a.k.a. Soundhack alias Soundstream is the great exception to this rule. This boy serves cuisine instead of fast food. But before he reached that state, the true-school Berliner had to graduate from the city’s club boot camp. Awestruck by Berlin’s basements and industrial places, where techno was in its early-nineties prime, Soundstream was overwhelmed by Detroit’s beauty and Chicago’s roughness. Unsurprising, he soon agitated in the coordinate system of the world-renowned record store Hard Wax. An institution that also distributes his labels Soundstream and Soundhack. The first one takes care of Timm’s never-ending love for disco and refined house music (take the ear candy of ‘Love Jam’ for example), the latter is dedicated to cut-up and loop adventures that are better described with folly than the customary house and techno signs. Therefore the scalpel is one of his typical tools of the trade. He chops, dismembers, deconstructs and mills – until he drops. However, he never creates Frankenstein’s monster and does not fall for the risks of this mode of operation: Sophistication and consciousness, safe from harm and also from being nerdy. “DJ tools with an attitude”, as Dr. Dre would say.

The same goes for his ‘band’ Smith’n'Hack. Together with his peer and friend Errorsmith, Mr. Soundhack creates amazing long players like ‘Tribute’ that takes a bow in front of disco’s vast history or incredible remixes. Just listen what they did to Ricardo Villalobos’ ‘Easy Lee’ or Herbert’s ‘Moving Like A Train’. Stripes of italo disco in the one case and a future classic paint of gold in the other. On his own, Timm’s revisions for Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir, the Olympian Rhythm & Sound duo or Auto Repeat might be the most remarkable ones.

His appearances as a live act or DJ are also outstanding. A look into his box reveals lovely disco 12-inches, Chicago house, solid club classics and dew-fresh jams. All blended, mixed and sliced together with style.

Soundstream makes his Manchester debut at Cutloose in February 2009. This will be our first party at our new home The Roadhouse. See you there.

When, where and how much?

Friday 20th February
11:00pm – 03:00am

The Roadhouse
8 Newton Street
Manchester

£5 advance
£7 other

How to buy tickets

You can buy tickets online using Skiddle where it’s safe, secure and easy to do. Plus you get to see yourself a booking fee.

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Or you can buy from our dedicated ticket outlets Junk [Dale Street] and Piccadilly Records [Oldham Street] Plus we can always come and meet you and personally deliver tickets if you’re in the city centre and surrounding area.

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Mixes

Interviews

http://www.cutlooseclub.com/2009/02/03/60-seconds-with-frank-timms-aka-soundstream/

Discography

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sound+Stream

Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/s0undstream

To say thanks for all the support this year Cutloose and Cosmic Disco have decided to join forces for a special one-off party. We’ve trawled the clubs/spaces/derelict warehouses of Manchester looking for the perfect setting to install the best possible sound-system we could lay our hands on, fly over our favourite DJ and round up 200 of our closest friends for one last blow-out before we start again in 2009.

Mark Seven will be making his Manchester debut for what is going to be a very special Xmas party on Saturday 27th December.

Mark is quickly gaining legendary status within the underground dance community. A renown record collector he’s also responsible for buying choice cuts for the fantastic Jus’ Wax records, where he regularly flies across the pond to pick up the finest collections from a number of legendary DJ’s & producers to bring back specifically your spotting perusal.

Mark is certainly no stranger to the underground music scene as his involvement goes as far back as the early 80’s, from promoting parties such as ‘Bizarre’ on the then fledgling Balearic scene, in addition to being a regular at the Rampling organised ‘Shoom’ events. In recent years, Mark has co-promoted ‘The Lodge’ and NY Social parties where he has introduced the likes of Prins Thomas & Phil Mison to the US scenes.

If this wasn’t enough, Mark is also responsible for the excellent Divine Edit 12″s on Creative Use (’Higher’ being a classic ‘end-of-nighter’) and with further edits and original productions scheduled for release in 2009. To say we are excited to bring him to Manchester is somewhat of an understatement.

We really hope as many of you can join us on the 27th for what is going to be a serious 6hrs of underground disco, late night basement action.

When, where and how much?

Saturday 27th November
10.00pm – 04:00am

Bookbinders
Minshull Street
Manchester
M4 6AY

£8 advance
£10 on the door

This is a free party (donations on the night welcome) and all you have to do is register your interest via our Mark Seven – EventWax page and follow the 3 easy steps to get your email confirmation.

This is a limited capacity event so once the tickets are gone; they really are gone! For this reason we strongly recommend you get a ticket/invite and arrive early to avoid disappointment.