- Andy Blake (Dissident London, Black Editions)
- Joe Hart (Body Hammer, Bloc)
- very special live guest TBA
Acid house, proper electro, new beat, EBM, cold wave, synth pop and more...
November 6th
11pm - 5am
Secret location, Brixton, London
£5 before 12 and £7 after.
Email
mail@worldunknown.co.uk for address and £5.00 guest list all night
Hot on the heels of Brixton's debut World Unknown party - ram packed and rocking 'til the close with no publicity whatsoever, November 6th 2009 promises to propel London's worst kept secret into a cool, surreal scene unparalleled since John Cooper Clarke and Nico lived together round the corner in the 80s.
World Unknown is a monthly session bringing back a tougher, more physical, emotional and cerebral synth-based take on dance music to London's musical landscape.
The soundtrack takes in elements of Belgian new beat, jacking acid house, cold wave, synth-pop, techno and italo, and hangs out somewhere in the territory inhabited by Ron Hardy's wild, kinetic take on house in its prototype form at Chicago's legendary Muzic Box circa '83-'86 and the sound of Belgian clubs Boccaccio, Carrere and Ancienne Belgique in the mid to late 80s. Naturally Andy and Joe bring things bang up to date with their own unique take on things, digging deep into their expansive, labour-of-love record collections for those gems that nobody else is playing...yet.
The intimate, unique and somewhat strange secret venue in Brixton is perfect for this dance experiment. Away from the trend-hungry hipster hordes of Dalston and Shoreditch, World Unknown is indeed just that.
Andy's brief guide to potentially confusing sub-genres from the 1980s which will feature heavily at World Unknown:
cold wave: vaguely scary European synth pop and experimental instrumental stuff. Imagine Depeche Mode records sung in Polish by bands you've never heard of, and you're getting there.
synth-pop: imagine Depeche Mode records sung by Depeche Mode, and Blancmange and countless others including Simple Minds before they were shit.
italo: electronic disco from Italy, often with out of tune vocals in badly sung English
jacking acid house: nuff said - surely?
techno: kids from Detroit trying to make Ultravox b-sides.
electro: quite like techno but instead of going bmm, tsch, bmm, tsch it goes bmm, tsch, bmm, bmm, tsch
Belgian new beat: a far wider selection of musical styles than most usually take it to mean. Often takes the form of industrial and European synth pop slowed down to 33rpm to accentuate the groove and low frequencies
Andy Blake is the driving force the much-loved record label Dissident Distribution, described in his own words as releasing 'freestyle analogue electronic dance music'. In just 2 years, Dissident have put out over 60 vinyl-only singles, three CD compilations and absolutely no digital downloads. Andy considers the MP3 to be a pox on mankind.
Releases include Andy's own pure analogue acid house remix of Alexander Robotnick's 'Obsession', The Horrors' synth laden remix of 'Akin To Dancing' by Heartbreak, 'Spessivtseva' by Naum Gabo (aka JG Wilkes from Optimo) and the leftfield dance anthem 'False Energy' by Binary Chaffinch, alongside the debut releases by Gatto Fritto, Cage & Aviary, Brassica and a host of other soon to be household names.
Andy also records as one half of Invincible Scum, Control Voltage and S.C.S. and has just released his debut solo single, Terror International, a pounding 18 minute industrial monster of a track that fits perfectly into the World Unknown soundtrack.
In the last few months he has DJd at the following clubs and parties among countless others across Europe:
Panorama Bar - Berlin, Secret Sundaze, Horse Meat Disco, Garden Festival - Croatia, Dattera Til Hagen - Oslo, Melting Pot 8th birthday - Glasgow, Disco Bloodbath, Fabric, The Big Chill, Bestival, As One - Ibiza, I'm A Cliche - Paris, Death Disco - Glasgow, Dig We Must - Lisbon, Razzmatazz - Barcelona, Cocadisco, DJ History, Forever Heavenly, Macho City - London, Yuria Festival - Athens, Bloc Weekend, Matter, ICA (with Heartbreak and Little Boots), East Village, Cargo, Death To All Culture Snitches, Drop The Bomb, T Bar.
Joe Hart has an obsession with 80s dance music. He is heavily influenced by radio shows WBMX and HOTMIX 5, plus other pioneering DJs of the era. Joe was a resident at the Brighton based Bloc nights which led to a residency at the now legendary Bloc weekender. He also runs London club night Body Hammer, a good old fashioned Chicago jack party. Joe's involvement in World Unknown gives him the chance to play records with a darker industrial sound, reminiscent of tracks played in the European clubs that house didn't quite reach.
World Unknown is extremely easy to reach by public transport 24 hours a day.
Brixton tube is a 5 minute walk and the 35 bus runs all the way from Shoreditch to right outside the venue. Many other buses from all over London stop nearby.
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