WHERE: SuCasa - WollongongWHEN: 23rd Feburary 2013
You would affectionately know this venue as ‘Upstairs Glasshouse’, digitally remastered and renamed permanently as SuCasa (Spanish for ‘your house’). Being the only venue of its kind in the area to kick on until 4am, this will certainly inject life back into Wollongong’s club scene!
Every Saturday night ‘too&fro’ and SuCasa will be inviting Sydney’s premier underground house music DJs to join a fine selection local talent to energise your weekend. These artist’s currently lead the scene and are circulating Australia’s finest underground house music venues and now they’re all yours.
To begin this roster we have invited friends that are on high rotation at some of Sydney’s smoothest deep house music venues S.A.S.H (The Abercrombie) , Spice, One22, The Ivy, Chinese Laundry, ‘AND’(Bondi Junction) The Greenwood hotel, The Burdekin, Tatler and The Goldfish, just to name a few.
We have plenty to be excited about but to open, ‘too&fro’ and SuCasa have invited 3 guests to be supported by 2 upcoming Wollongong residents for a launch that will have us all digging deep.
SIMON CALDWELL - Syd (FBI Radio/ Mad Racket)
CLAIRE MORGAN - Berlin/Syd (Haul Music)
MAGIC BIRD - Syd (Chinese Laundry)
ALEX LUDLOW - Wollongong (This House Moves)
SIMON ROACH - Wollongong
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FREE ENTRY TILL 10pm
OPEN TILL 4am
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This is a fresh start to Wollongong's nightlife brace yourselves while your Saturday nights are reborn!
BIOS
SIMON CALDWELL
Simon Caldwell is one of a handful of DJ's whose name adds a certain integrity to an event. Playing since the early 1990’s to beer drinkers, bum shakers and radio listeners alike, he has managed to avoid the stifling 'style' classification so many other DJ's trap themselves into, keeping himself free to draw on his varied loves of deep, soulful house, techno, funk, jazz, electro, booty, hip hop and anything else which catches his ear. Simon has supported a list of internationals longer than your arm, from James Brown to Grace Jones to Derrick Carter and Moodymann. He currently holds down Monday Sunset on FBI Radio, and is resident/co-promoter of Mad Racket, a Sydney underground party institution.
Soundcloud Link - https://soundcloud.com/mad-racket/simon-caldwell-oct-2011
CLAIRE MORGAN
Claire is a vinyl junkie and music-maker who has spent the last decade gigging her way up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia and across the Pacific in New Caledonia. Establishing herself in Brisbane, she later moved to Sydney and then onto Melbourne and has held residencies, guested and headlined at most major clubs, parties and festivals in all three capital cities.
Claire graduated with a Masters degree at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, specialising in film scoring/composition. Outside of DJing she composes music for film and television and has written & produced everything from ambient electronic music through to orchestral scores. A remix on Melbourne's hAUL Music garnered favour and chart action from international luminaries and local DJs alike.
Both in the setup for an array of international house and techno elite or controlling the party at her own speed, Claire is a serious DJ, bringing an organic, soulful, melodic and groove-heavy heat to the party with her own unique selections and precision control at the mixer. To date, she has played with the biggest names on the planet, including Octave One, Carl Craig, Aril Brikha, Vince Watson, Efdemin, Fred P, Kirk Degiorgio, Rick Wilhite, Mathew Dear (Audion), Daniel Bell (DBX), Mathew Jonson, Derrick May, Miss Kittin and Joris Voorn.
Claire recently relocated to Berlin, where she has already started gigging locally and abroad in Czech Republic.
Soundcloud Link - https://soundcloud.com/claire-morgan/be-at-chapeau-rouge-prague
MAGIC BIRD
Inner Sydney local Dj’s Kingsley Leabres and Todd Smith come together to produce the underground sound of deep tech house. Influenced by the likes of Eats everything (dirty bird crew) and Huxley, Magic bird bring you a flavour all too familiar, with thick baseline grooves and cheeky drops.. Recognizing their sound as fresh and exciting, the local duo play as resident Dj’s at the infamous Chinese Laundry Club. Magic Bird taking flight, Definitely a group to keep your eye on.
ALEX LUDLOW
Founder of ‘This House Moves’ Alex has been DJing for eight years holding his residency at Wollongong’s biggest beer garden, North Wollongong Pub. After a long road of finding his sound adapting to any party or any supporting gig that came his way, he is beginning to find what really drives him to keep his feet firmly planted in the DJing industry, A concoction of deep soulful jazzy house sounds which can build to a more techier driving energetic house sound as the clock ticks closer to the early hours of the morning.
Alex is passionate about what he does and lives for the music and after all these years he has decided to share his knowledge of the house music industry and his love for music through his blog.www.thishousemoves.com. He also has been busy organising not only major underground house music events hosting international artists in various venues around Wollongong but is also the founder of the new brand ‘too&fro’ inviting some of Australia’s premier underground house music DJs to Wollongong to play along side his strong team of resident local DJs.
Alex has proven his ability to be host to high caliber acts in the industry evident by his most recent ‘This House Moves’ launch party with AUDIOJACK that reached venue capacity.
Over the last 2-3 years Alex has lived in 3 different cities and has found himself stomping round Europe from club to club researching the house music industry, favouriting IBIZA as his holiday destination. Alex is no newcomer to Wollongong but is garenteed to make a strong impact in months to come with the launch of ‘too&fro’ @ SuCasa
Be sure to Expect some more Quality Parties from ‘This House Moves’ and too&fro in the future.
www.thishousemoves.com
SIMON ROACH
Born and bred in the Gong, Simon discovered his love for house music and all things 4:4 at an early age.
Since then, his taste has matured and his technical ability on the one's and two's has followed suit.
Simons' skills have seen him score support slots for some of the biggest names in Aussie dance such as, Bass Kleph, The Potbelleez, The Aston Shuffle, The Bang Gang DJ's, Purple Sneakers, Tommy trash, The Stafford Brothers and Timmy Trumpet.
Simon has also had the opportunity to support several international acts including, Sharem Jey, Azzido Da Bass, Nadastrom and Peo De Pitte.
Simons' sets usually reflect the latest in contemporary deep house and tech, always keeping it tight, jackin and funky. He also has the ability and versatility to rock the main room when required.
Recently departing the sunny shores of the south coast, Simon now hails out of London, UK looking to take things to an international level both musically and technically. Hard working and creative, a start on the production of Simons' take on house music is looking promising and surely only just around the corner.
