With June just around the corner and the academic year coming to an end, its time to announce our annual Closing Party at the Beaver Works before we all head our own ways for the Summer! Joining us in the courtyard will be Irish party-starter, Krystal Klear with Hamish Cole on warm up duties. In the Red Room, we will be treated to a pair of long-awaited Leeds debuts, from the acclaimed Moodhut founder, Jack J, and rising Australian talent, Mall Grab. In the basement, we are proud to present the legendary techno DJ, DVS1, as well as one of this year’s most talked-about producers, Avalon Emerson, also making her Leeds debut.
Tickets //
£8 - £18 online
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HEADLINERS //
DVS1 (Klockworks, USA)
Zak Khutoretsky, also known as DVS1 is an American DJ and techno producer based out of Minneapolis. He has toured extensively, headlined international music festivals such as Decibel and Dekmantel, and played along the likes of techno pioneers Jeff Mills and Robert Hood. Khutoretsky was born in 1978 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. He moved to the United States at a young age, where he shared his time between New York City and Minneapolis. His parents divorced early on and he spent a good deal of his adolescence in and out of trouble, switching schools several times as a result. Khutoretsky credits eight years of piano lessons and synthesizer-based radio music as his earliest musical influences. After a teenage initiation into the Midwest rave scene, Khutoretsky began throwing his own underground parties at the age of 20. These parties would be where Khutoretsky first made his name in the scene, overseeing virtually every part of each event from promotion, to sound, to logistics. The parties quickly grew in size and popularity, often hosted in unofficial warehouse venues around the city. After a brief stint behind bars, Khutoretsky went on to open his own club in Minneapolis (where he continues to reside), a first step towards a more legitimate music career. DVS1's first release came in 2009, on Ben Klock's influential Klockworks label. To date, he has 8 official vinyl releases and over two dozen remixing credits under his name. In an interview with DJ Times, he stated that he considers himself a DJ first and a producer second. DVS1 launched his own imprint, HUSH, in 2011. In 2013 he announced the launch of a new sub-label, Mistress Recordings, showcasing "house, techno and everything in between." He described the purpose of the label as a way to release the "secret weapons" of his DJ bag. Regularly touring all over the world, DVS1 makes relatively frequent appearances at the legendary Berghain nightclub in Berlin, where he plays six to eight times a year. Between his time touring, working in the studio, and preparing sets, he continues to host parties in his home town of Minneapolis, which are held in underground venues and not publicly advertised. An avid vinyl collector, Khutoretsky has over 30,000 records in his personal collection.
Jack Jutson, aka Jack J, is one half of Pender Street Steppers and a mainstay amongst Canada’s finest house collective of recent years – Mood Hut. For a number of years the Vancouver-based label built a reputation as consistent purveyors of sun-tinted and optimistic house music. In 2014 he struck out on his own for the first time, though did not turn his back on the Pender partnership which remains as strong as ever today. A succession of subsequent releases, featuring tracks such as ‘Looking Forward To You’, ‘Something (On My Mind)’, and ‘Thirstin’’ catapulted Jack into the spotlight, receiving huge numbers of international plaudits for his sumptuous, groove-laden productions. He was ever-present in track of the year summaries in both 2014 and 2015 and remains a key one-to-watch for any discerning collectors. We are delighted to welcome Jack on his first trip to Leeds.
Combining a love affair with disco boogie, new jack swing, and 90s house into a concoction of danceable heartbreak, Krystal Klear waltzed onto the connoisseur club scene in late 2010 with releases on Cooly G’s Dub Organizer label, All City Records, and Manchester’s Hoya:Hoya, the label / club night he co-runs with fellow Academy alumn Illum Sphere. The Dublin-bred producer has since continued to make waves throughout the globe based on his lush chord progressions, springy bass lines, and boogie rhythms. His high-energy DJ sets and knack for pulling out floor-filling anthems have kept crowds enraptured on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile his remixes for the likes of Marina & The Diamonds and Sky Ferreira, as well as the immaculate euphoric house craftsmanship of his own More Attention single, are sure to keep the home fires burning for plenty more sweaty nights to come.
Avalon Emerson is from the desert. While she currently lives in Berlin, the music she produces comes from the dreamlike expanse and abstract textures of the Sonoran landscapes of Arizona. Her journey has taken her from that sunbaked state to the contemporary dance music mecca via a long stint in San Francisco, where she cut her teeth as a DJ in the city's storied warehouse party scene. In her DJ sets and productions now, she offers a timeless narrative that reflects a passion for the sound design of new wave, the futurism of techno, the soul of American house and the exuberance of rave. Though she's built up steam in 2015 from multiple sets at Panorama Bar, and globetrotting all around Europe and North America, she's just getting started, and continues to outdo herself with original productions released on Whities, Shtum, Spring Theory, and Icee Hot, and her own DJ tool edit pool, the Cybernedits series. We are very excited to offer Avalon her Leeds debut.
Jordon Alexander, aka Mall Grab, shot to notoriety online via his YouTube hit ‘Can’t (Get U Outta My Mind)’, a rework of Mala’s dubstep classic ‘Alicia’, which samples the soothing vocals of Alicia Keys. But to set his online reputation to one side, he has been building a more traditional name for himself with a succession of acclaimed 12” releases through a number of respected labels. Perhaps chief amongst these was his release of ‘Elegy’ on Vancouver-based label 1080p. His sample-heavy style, which manages to remain often melodic and emotionally textured but with enough of a raw and distorted style to ensure it packs some punch, marked him out as an up-and-coming producer to keep an eye on. We are privileged to welcome him to Leeds for his debut, on one of his first trips to the UK.
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