Firefly: Jesper Dahlbäck, Ivan Smagghe

  • This is going to be a rather jolly knees up we're planning for January the 22nd. Whilst youre all stuffing your faces with Turkey and Mulled Wine, then no doubt partying your way into 2011, we’ll be plotting away for a mammoth event in January at the Garvey…….. We're very very pleased to be able to bring none other than Jesper Dahlback to Nottingham for the first time. Jesper is a tech house and techno DJ/producer who emerged at the same time as Adam Beyer and Cari Lekebusch as part of the Swedish techno scene. He patented a harder, percussive sound style of techno on early Drumcode releases under the name DJ Lenk before switching to a deep-tech-house hybrid in the late nineties on his rated album 'Stockholm' as The Persuader. Jesper is one of Sweden's most prolific producers with a slew of aliases and has released on labels such as Tigas Label - Turbo, Output, Slams Label - Soma, Mad Eye, Adam Beyers Label - Drumcode, DK7 and many many more. Recently, he has been collaborating with younger cousin John Dahlback (as Hugg & Pepp and Dahlback & Dahlback), and with Mark Sullivan (as DK7). The latter team produced his biggest single to date 'Murder was the Bass'. If you aren’t sure what that is, then listen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUGvsK05so – and don’t have the bass turned up too much or you may upset the neighbours…… Supporting Jesper on the night were very happy to have French Electro/Techno God Ivan Smagghe back at Firefly for the first time in nearly three years. As Ivans own Biog tells us….. He is France's most wanted radio host and selector, Ivan Smagghe stands at the crossroads between glamorous parisian hype and musical integrity. His Test radio show and compilations imposed a new vision of leftfield electronica on Radio Nova and his programming for the two past years has been a faultless example of quality eclecticness. Though Smagghe hails from the early days of the Parisian underground - both through his connection with the defunct Rough Trade record shop and remixing contributions on various formats - he came back to music production in 2001 by launching his own Set imprint. He was originally known as Ivan Rough Trade, after his job in the Rough Trade record store in Paris. His musical style has been described as electro house and minimal electro. Smagghe's Death Disco compilation was a key release in the electroclash genre. He went on to form Black Strobe in 1997 with Arnaud Rebotini but left in 2006. Black Strobe used to describe their dark electronic sound as "frozen Balearic gay biker house". Ivan is also a member of the Volga Select project, with Marc Collin. So, in short, if you want to hear some glamorous Parisian frozen Balearic gay biker electro house, coupled with some Swedish tech-house & techno, then theres only one place to be on the 22nd January….. If you dont specifically want to hear that, but just want a jolly good rave and some big basslines and fun times, then you should probably come anyway……. go on…… you know you want to…….
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