SASHA

WHERE: The Metro Theatre
WHEN: Saturday 26th January, 2013

This is one DJ that needs no introduction.

Sasha has been one of the worlds top DJ's for over 20 years now and is still top of his game. 

Join us this Saturday 26th Jan at the Metro for a 5hr masterclass.

Supported by;

Robbie Lowe

Ben Korbel

Matt Ticehurst

Rodskeez

Mesan

Sam Arellano

Dave Stuart

Presale tickets are available from;

http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2013/01/26/sasha

Or if you want industry price tickets email me and ill let you know details;

shrug.nights@gmail.com

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TOGETHER

WHERE: The Abercrombie

WHEN: Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Christmas is traditional a time for family’s to come together and share their love & happiness for one another. As we like to think that Sydney’s underground music scene is a family, we want to invite you to all come TOGETHER on Boxing Day to celebrate the festive season as part of our extended musical family.

Come and join a musical CO-OPerative that celebrates a MAD RACKET of 4OUR/four beats of DEEPER SOUNDS & SUBSONIC frequencies. With all our friends together on Boxing Day in the garden of the Abercrombie, it will be a sun filled PICNIC of tasty beats, even with the odd BAD APPLE in attendance. The like minded CHEMISTRY of crews involved will make it one of those awesome events that will go off without any GLITCHes, dancing till you LOOSEn your KABOOSE! 

Boxing Day 2012….can you think of anywhere else you’d rather be? *SHRUGs* I cant either…..

TOGETHER will run over both rooms of the Abercrombie, resplendent with its newly upgare Funktion 1 systems both inside & out from 2pm on Boxing day 26th Dec 2012 until sunrise the next day…..all for the yuletide special price of $10.

Don’t be a turkey leftover…..get it together!

Full line up;

Alphatown LIVE

Jimi James (Mad Racket)

Pocket 808

Peret Mako (Future Classic)

CO-OP DJs

Matt Aubusson (Glitch)

Marcotix (Subsonic)

Jordan Deck (Chemistry)

Trinity (Loosekaboose)

Dave Stuart (Shrug)

Kate Doherty

Magda Bytnerowicz (4our)

Kali (Picnic)

Bad Apple DJs 

Mesan (Deeper Sounds)

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Vladislav Delay

WHERE: Civic Underground, Sydney

WHEN: Friday, November 16, 2012

He has been described by The Wire magazine as “electronica’s omni-musician”.

He creates experimental dubby minimalism as Vladislav Delay.

He makes hyper real house as Luomo, collaborating with vocalists such as Cassy, Robert Owens, the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, Roisin Murphy and Apparat.


He indulges his choppier techno proclivities as Uusitalo and Sistol.

He is also part of electronic supergroup The Moritz Von Oswald Trio, working alongside the Basic Channel man and Ricardo Villalobos collaborator Max Loderbauer.

He has been remixed by Ricardo Villalobos & Martin Schopf (as RicK Y Martin), Stimming and Ian Pooley.

He is just about to release a new album, Kuopio, on Raster-Noton.

He left Resident Advisor with more questions than answers in their 4.5/5 review of his album of “beautifully deformed pop songs”, Paper Tigers:
- ‘What to make of someone who says ‘I don’t go clubbing’ then comes to Tokyo’s Liquid Room and virtually fucks his laptop in front of everyone?
- What to make of an artist who produces what is regarded as a ruptural, revolutionary album (‘Vocalcity’) and then calls it a ‘failure?’
- What to make of a musician who works in the space between arrhythmia, silence and narcotic mania and then votes Massive Attack’s ‘Blue Lines’ as his desert island album and cites Timbaland and MeShell Ndegeocello as desired collaborators?

He was chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they curated in May 2011.

He is playing an exclusive live show replete with visuals in a special event presented by Shrug and Deep Impressions.

He is: Sasu Ripatti-Luomo-Vladislav Delay-Sistol-Uusitalo & 1/3 Moritz Von Oswald Trio.

“I don’t produce music for the clubs,” he says. “It’s just too homogenous and restricted formula with all the rules and expectations, for me it really kills the music… I don’t fully understand why it all has become so boring and uninspiring and why DJs wouldn’t play more interesting music.”

Do not miss a live performance from one of the most uniquely talented, diverse and prolific proponents of electronic music of the past fifteen years.

Presale tickets available for $15 (1st release) and $20 (2nd release) athttp://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?420610:


Support from:

Simon Caldwell (Mad Racket)
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=181

Dave Stuart (Shrug)
http://soundcloud.com/dave-stuart

Chris Honnery (Deep Impressions)
http://soundcloud.com/chris-honnery

Thomas William (live, Astral People)

Thomas was a recent finalist in FBi Radio’s Northern Lights competition, whose album Deccan Technicolour attracted comparisons to Flying Lotus and was praised for being “at once genuinely eclectic and totally coherent; full of lopsided beats, glitchy grooves, ingeniously butchered samples, and woozy, psychedelic soundscapes”.
See http://thomaswilliam.bandcamp.com/ for more

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Strange Fruit

WHERE: The Abercrombie Hotel, Sydney

WHEN: Saturday 13th of October 2012

LINE UP:

ALPHATOWN (LIVE)
TRINITY (MOOD MUSIC)
DAVE STUART (SHRUG / TECHNO WARRIOR)

JORDAN DECK (CHEMISTRY)

Our Ethos:

To deliver fresh and ripe for the picking .......a weekly event synonymous with the good, the renegade and the wickedly beautiful........a lavish celebration of life, music and the individual. This is an environment where anything goes so you can take off your work collar and experience who else you might be. In the midst of a timeless now filled with music and laughter....with the sight of your friends, old and new, feeling the energy and the love.....you suddenly realize this is it, these are the priceless moments we all cherish so dearly. Like brilliant specks of gold dust through the hourglass so are our Saturday nights.....and in the spirit of what's been said, we are inviting you to join us for FREE!

NO cover charge, NO guest list and most certainly NO Bullshit!

*FUNKTION 1 SOUND SYSTEM*

Resident Djs on Rotation (2 Hour minimum Sets) + Guests

Including:

Simon Caldwell (Mad Racket)
Ben Korbel (We Love Sounds)
Jamie Lloyd (Future Classic)
Jimi Polar (Future Classic)
Glitch Djs ( Minimal Fuss)
Carlos Zarate (Thuug Records)
Trinity (Loosekaboose)
Dave Stuart (Shrug)
Loin Brothers (Future Classic)
Marcotix (Subsonic)
MSG (Subsonic)
Kali (Picnic)
Gruzman (Aztec Warrior)
Chris Honnery (Deep Impressions)
Mike Witcombe (A life Less Ordinary)
Matttt (That's four t's)
Raffi Lovechild (T- Quest)
Franchi Brothers (Beats n Pieces)
Le Brond (Int man Of Mystery)
Mesan (Deeper Sounds)
TNA (Sonunda)
Nick Belshaw (Chemistry)
Jordan Deck (Chemistry)

Much Love
Strange Fruit

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Steve Rachmad

WHERE: One22, Sydney

WHEN: Saturday, October 27, 2012

Joining forces in a techno union this October the dedicated techno heads from Disconnected and lovers of all things deep & melodic Shrug bring you one of the worlds most influential techno artists who’s been at the forefront of the art form for longer that most of you have been filling dance floors.


Correlating a following in his European homeland of the Netherlands for his European take on Detroit techno Steve has cemented himself in Techno annuals of history.

In 1995 Sterac aka Steve Rachmad released hi
s first album 'Secret Life of Machines' on Amsterdam imprint 100% Pure. A composition of nine beautifully sultry tracks from the melodic techno flow of ‘Axion’ to the sheer brilliance, beauty and soul of ‘Astronotes’. It was hailed as a defining highlight in Techno history.

17 years later, Sterac has reached back to that classic milestone in Detroit Techno’s heritage and has given it a whole new lease of musical life for release on 100% Pure in June.

Sterac adds “I still own the equipment that I used back then, so I remade a selection of the tracks with my studio machines - a Roland TR-808, R-8m, U-20, Juno 106, JX 8p as well as my Yamaha TX-81z and FB-01."

Following the remastered release in June on 100% Pure, Steve delivers his own remix treatments, then we bring the heat to the summer with a massive rollout of headliner remixes in August by Ricardo Villalobos, Joris Voorn, 2000 and One, Christian Smith, Joel Mull, Heiko Laux, Marc Romboy, Samuel L Session, Vince Watson, Klartraum and Nadja Lind.

Supported on the night by;
Defined By Rhythm
Dave Stuart
Ben Dunlop

Tickets available from
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?404653
1st release - $15.00
2nd release - $20.00
Door - $25

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ECHOES SV1.0 – Experiments in Dub

Where: One22, Sydney 

When: Saturday 29th of September 2012

ECHOES SV1.0 – Experiments in Dub

One22 (rear of 122 Pitt st), Sydney
Sat 29th Sept – 10pm-5am


$10/$15 entry

Line up;
Echo Inspectors (Live - Pinksilver/Melb),
Dave Stuart,
Ben Ashton,
Andosound,
Gabriel Fernandes.

Following on from a year of dub heavy beat nights in Melbourne town we’re excited to bring the Echoes – Experiments in Dub events to Sydney starting Sept 29th.

This night celebrating the influence of Dub in electronic music, from its Jamaican origins to House, Techno and Dubstep.

Dub, developed originally on the late sixties focusing on the rhythmic parts of a Reggae recording, grew to be a genre on its own right that has literally shaken the world ever since. It was a powerful experiment that has pushed the use of the mixing desk as an instrument and gave greater control to the sound engineer as a producer. It set the blueprint for much of the dance music that has followed.

ECHOES will take you on a bass heavy journey from Kingston to Berlin via Detroit and London.

For the Sydney launch party of ECHOES we have a very special treat from Echo Inspectors, the new live project from Melbourne lads & Pinksilver music bosses; Mark Baumann and Lance Harrison.

Echo Inspectors:
The Echo inspectors is a new project from Pinksilver Records Lance Harrison & Marcojux that explores their love for all things dub.

Seeking out vibrations of the malevolent and identifying spectres have been the Inspectors past goals. It is now their task the help punters caught in Techno purgatory to cross over and experience all things spatial.

Echo Inspectors will take you on a musically journey form the deep and dubby to the dry and textural, all intricately sculptured in the moment.

Two minds controlling multiple layers of sound and efx. A musical experience with a lot of depth, tension and rhythm.

Local Sydney supports on the night come from some the underground Dub-lovers spanning from a rare deep dubby reggae start of the night from Dave Stuart, through some lush dub techno & house from Brazilian import Gabriel Fernandes, Bad Apple’s Ben Ashton will take things deep & dark after the Echo Inspectors live set, and ending with a exploration into bass culture with Worldwide Favorite; Andosound.

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