After our last non stop and intimately hedonistic night of hard dance indulgence, we're back with our biggest line-up to date.
A+D+A+M LAB 4 (The legend himself! 2 hr set)
BASS GENERATOR (Judgement Day)
KERRY JAMES (VICE club)
VICKY VEGAS (VICE club)
UNIT 13 (Judgement Day)
MICK LINDSAY/DAN HAWKINS (VICE club/GOODGREEF)
DANIEL JOBSON
It all takes place at our new home, and Newcastle's newest underground venue: ENIGMA. Complete with our custom made DJ stage, lights, lazers, and always up for it atmosphere. Entry is £8 on the door, and we run from 8pm - 4am.
ADAM LAB 4:
Lab4 were without a doubt one of the original pioneers of what is now Hard Dance having played their first gigs in 1994 at the Legendary Club UK in London for Universe along side the likes of Carl Cox, Josh Wink and Laurant Garnier. Mixing all styles of dance and electronic music together Lab4 bought a Punk element to commercial scene that’s often been imitated but never equalled. Labelled the ‘Ozzy Osbournes of the dance scene’ by Mixmag they lived up to the hard drinking non stop party monster behaviour that would earn such a description whilst gaining respect as one of the most professional and exciting live acts on the scene. Lab4 went on to win many ‘Best Live Act’ awards across the globe as well as high postions in ‘Best DJ‘ polls. Lab4 had over 60 releases in total including 4 double albums as well as 6 other compilations of previously unreleased material and live sets. They had more than 10 releases on Rectory Records under the names Drum, Hyperwave, Creed and Aura Z all selling 1000’s on the Techno scene from Detroit to Belgium between 1995 and 1997 . Lab4 were the first and only Hard Dance act to get asked to perform a live set on Radio 1 for John Peel on his live session show and were also mentioned in one of his ‘festive 50’ charts with Candyman.
Bass Generator:
Download link to recent live Dj mix from Bass Generator....
http://rapidshare.com/files/245202976/bass_alex.mp3
For the last few years Bass Generator sets have usually been 100% Hardstyle, only playing OldSkool on special occasions at 100% OldSkool nights, rave re-unions etc.
Yes Bass Generator's name goes synonymous with Hardcore and Rave from the 90's but Bass Generator had Dj'd professionally since 1987 where he played Acid house+Techno, converting to the rave scene in 1991 as it was the more popular genre.
When the UK rave scene died a death in 2000 he didn't Dj much as there were few events catering for that kind of music.
Another re-invention into a Trance Dj was discussed but decided against in favor of semi-retirement, marriage, kids etc.
The Hardcore scene in Scotland re-started in 2003 with mainly OldSkool events playing a little bit of the new UK Hardcore sound and some of the heavier Dutch Hardcore but these genres were not grabbing the amount of interest necessary to fully regenerate a scene.
Something new was needed.
Hardstyle has arguably been around for 8-9 years but at 150bpm compared to 170-180bpm Hardcore it was never going to break into the Hardcore circuit but stay at the harder edge of the Hard Dance/Hard House/Trance scene.
In 2007 Bass Generator made the decision to stop playing Hardcore (in all it's sub-genres) and convert to playing Hardstyle 100%, the tunes had started to become more mainstream and therefore commercially acceptable to a wider audience, especially the Italian releases.
At midnight at the 2007 Fantasylands Winter Festival Bass Generator put his dj'ing future on the line and played a 100% Hardstyle dj set to over 10000 ravers.
To say it went down a storm is an understatement.
The set blew the place apart and introduced the Hardstyle sound to a whole new audience.
CD sales of the set were 50 times more than previous ones and it was downloaded over 1000 times within 2 weeks.
Now Hardstyle is rapidly becoming the biggest genre in the Scottish Hardcore scene.
Ravers are now going to the Hard Dance/Trance events that have Hardstyle artists playing opening up a whole new sound to those who wouldn't normally go to those events.
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