The guys from our favourite online electronic music magazine Resident Advisor called in on Friday and photographed the evening. You can view the gallery in full on their website. Cutloose present Gerd Janson – Resident Advisor gallery

What better way to start off a brand new mix with some classic Theo Parrish mixes. I’ll let the music do the talking. Enjoy. Don’t forget; tickets are still available with no booking fee for Theo Parrish in July on our tickets page. Samuari FM mix Check out the mix over at Hyptyo Deephousepage.com mixes [...]

This Friday’s party makes the Guardian this weekend. Full support all round from our favourite broadsheet. We’ve printed the article below or you can go and read on the Guardian website. Manchester’s healthy club scene is offering a broader range of music than ever before. Yet since the spirited, eclectic Electric Chair finished, nobody has [...]

Excellent read with Mark E over at Beyond the Stars. Mark talks about how he got into DJing plus an insight to those amazing edits. You can read the interview in full here. http://ultraastrum.blogspot.com/ Don’t forget he makes his Manchester debut at the Roadhouse on April 17th. You can read about the party here.

Straight out of Germany, the long awaited First Touch debut longplayer is finally here. During a creative period of almost two years and several unexpected breaks and ups and downs, the two band members nanthara and jelly put all strength together and selected ten fine boogie tunes to please your thirst for authentic true 80′s [...]

What can I say…Claremont 56 have come up trumps with another blinding limited edition compilation in the Originals series. Following on from where Manchester’s very own Balearic Mike & Moonboots left us, Cult Leftfield Disco DJ Mark Seven lays down a sterling selection chuggy grooves and obscure disco nuggets for our listening pleasure. Mark Seven, [...]

You seem to be spending a lot more time in the studio at the moment, is this a conscious decision to concentrate on the production side of things? Unfortunately I haven’t spend as much time as I wished in studio in 08, I hope 09 will be more productive for that. If it were up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rard Laudy aka Loud-e began DJing in his late teens and was born in the Southern part of Holland near The Hague. He first started out playing acid and electro but true to form and very much in keeping with his chameleon like vibe he was always looking for something more along the funky and [...]

After a brilliant party at Spektrum with Theo Parrish we thought we should share what you miss out on. Musically he played right across the board from funk to soul to disco and house. The club had been open around an hour and he was smashing out the acid house. If you’re on Facebook you [...]

Sounds of the City, the first of these subsets, are “semi-documentary mixed with ideas.” The first features Detroit-based musician Theo Parrish, who goes through the city capturing samples of daily life to use in his music.