Gatecrasher & Club NME Launch Project

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GATECRASHER & CLUB NME
LAUNCH ‘PROJECT'​

ALEX METRIC, REVEREND SOUNDSYSTEM, VALVE SOUNDSYSTEM, DJ YODA, STANTON WARRIORS, PLUMP DJS AND MORE.....​

Leading club trailblazers Gatecrasher and Club NME have joined together to launch a historical series of events under the banner of PROJECT . Both brands have pulled their expertise to come up an exciting new club night featuring an alternative musical mash up featuring the best up and coming producers, DJs and live events that the world has to offer.
PROJECT launches on the 1st of October at GATECRASHER NOTTTINGHAM with main room DJ sets from Alex Metric and Lee Mortimer. Club NME hosts room two with the mighty Revered Soundsystem (Reverend and the Makers) and room 3 is hosted by HORSE PLAY with the WARP records emerging talent Eskmo playing live.
Gatecrasher is renowned the world over for breaking the biggest and most cutting edge DJs, bands and producers of all time, acts as diverse as The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Green Velvet, Paul Oakenfold, Roni Size and CSS have all cut their teeth at Gatecrasher club and live events. Similarly since the Kaiser Chiefs declared it open in 2004, Club NME has been THE place to catch the hottest new bands at the very beginnings of their careers. Klaxons, The Gossip, Foals, Glasvegas - they've all carted their gear through the back doors of a Club NME before hitting the big time. This unique collaboration will develop an exciting new club night spanning many genres of musical preferences with emerging talent and big name acts across all rooms.
The explosive birth of a new era of has arrived..... PRJECT will push the club experience to new limit creating an electrifying fantasy playground programmed across 4 rooms. Across Autumn and Winter PROJECT will showcase an eclectic and riotous range of genre-smashing musical pioneers including ALEX METRIC, REVEREND SOUNDSYSTEM, VALVE SOUNDSYSTEM, DJ YODA, STANTON WARRIORS, PLUMP DJS and more....

Full details available on www.gatecrasher.com

Club nights confirmed so far as follows;
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1st October 2010
Main Room:
Alex Metric
http://www.myspace.com/alexmetric
Alex Metric has gained quite a name for himself over the last year through his numerous EP releases and his flurry of remixes for bands such as Hard-Fi, Alphabeat, Reverend & The Makers and The Infadels and, more recently, Ladyhawke and Phoenix. Alex Metric's grinding electronic output is hugely pop-centric – quirky, offbeat vocals backed with fuzzy, cracked-at-the-edges synths and huge, sing-along choruses. 　His ethos is to throw together the best bits from his favourite sounds and influences – Eighties synth-pop, filter disco, big beat and indie.
Lee Mortimer
http://www.myspace.com/leemortimer
Lee Mortimer is fast becoming the hottest DJ of the moment with his unique take on bass-fuelled house music. Some call it fidget house, a label which accurately describes this heavy sound but as Lee is keen to point out ‘anything sleazy, electronic and above all else, BIG(!) will make it into my sets!' These sets are getting bigger too with jaunts around the world playing clubs as far a field as Singapore (Club Zirca) and Australia (HQ/Revolver) where he will soon be an underground superstar. He also played most of the UK festivals last year with a storming turn at Bestival which had the crowd going mental in the middle of the day!
Tunnel: Club NME in association with Boxfreshers Tour 2010:
Reverend Soundsystem
http://www.myspace.com/reverendmusic
Jon McClure may be many different people. A poet. A gob****e to his enemies. A genius to his friends. An armchair detective. The bloke working in the Sheffield Steel factory with the Trotsky pamphlets in his back pocket. The bloke who sets to save the world with a mouse and a blogspot account. A 25-year-old pop revolutionary. Yes, a friend of the Arctic Monkeys. And now, a top ten pop star. The Reverend, and with his band The Makers, he's just made 'The State Of Things' - possibly the greatest album in the world. ever!
"It's my duty as an artist to provide a dissenting voice, because there aren't any dissenting voices anymore are there?" Jon McClure
Ocelot [Live] www.myspace.com/ocelotmthrfckrs
Union DJ's www.myspace.com/uniondjs

　
　
Club NME DJ's
Arkade: HorsePlay presents:
Ben UFO
http://www.myspace.com/freshben
Ben UFO is a London based DJ and co-founder of the record label Hessle Audio, alongside Ramadanman and Pangaea. He's on the radio every other Thursday night on www.rinse.fm from 11PM-1AM. A talented singer in his own right, Ben provided the vocals for Pangaea's ‘Router'.
Tickets: £6 Early Bird, £8 Standard, £10 on the door
Doors: 10pm – 4am, Age: 18+
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October 8th
Project presents… Valve Sound System. Valve is the brain child of legendary drum and bass producers Dillinger and Lemon D. A wall of sound will take over the main room, this is a night not to be missed. Skeletons play live at Club NME and Heavyfeet are the first act that local brand GuGu bring to the party.
Full event info:
Main Room
Valve Sound System
　www.vlvmusic.com
The Valve Sound System is a touring sound system specifically designed for the playback of drum and bass music. Created by UK artists, Dillinja and Lemon D, the system has a total power output of 96kW. The system consists of 52 subwoofers (designed and built specifically for the system) as well as Mid-High cabs made by Funktion One. The full system is not used in smaller venues. It was designed exclusively for drum and bass acoustics and as such is the first of its kind. The inspiration for the system came from the reggae sound systems which were popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing up in the 80s, Dillinja was turned on by the reggae sound through the systems of such artists as King Tubby of Jamaica and Jah Shaka of the UK. Later, as a DJ, producer, and music label boss, he came to be frustrated at the lack of quality at many of the club sound systems when DJing around the UK and abroad, particularly with respect to the deep bass sounds often present in drum and bass. Today, Dillinja refuses to play even 'standard' club systems believing them to be inadequate to fully reproduce the bass frequencies to his levels. The whole system has to be carried around in three 7.5 tonne lorries and is generally arrayed as 6 speaker stacks, each around 18 feet wide and 9 feet high.
Notable appearances The Valve Sound System, which made its debute at London nightclub Fabric in 2001, has toured the UK extensively, completing a six-month residency at Brixton's Mass in 2003. Given that the venue (the former St. Matthew's Church) was not designed specifically as a nightclub, a crew of no less than fifteen was needed just to get it in and out of the building, those carrying equipment having to negotiate four flights of winding stairs. Around this time the Guinness Book of Records showed an interest in the system and wanted to test it for the "Loudest Sound System in the World" category; this sparked additional public interest, even though, when asked about the Guinness Book of Records, Lemon D indicated his opinion that "it's not about being the loudest, it's about being the best."
Dillinja and Lemon D were invited to bring the system onto Channel 4's popular "The Big Breakfast" show, but when they discovered they would have to haul the sound system into the show's garden at 4am, with inadequate protection from the weather, they politely declined. The Valve Sound System provided the sound for the drum and bass tent at the huge annual Gatecrasher festival in June 2002. Months of hard work was put in to ensure the sound system was ready for this big event, but the British environmental health authorities stopped the system from being played at full power. Nevertheless, the tent was still the most popular at the festival.
Line Up:
Dillinja
www.myspace.com/dillinjavalve　
Lemon D
http://www.myspace.com/lemonde73
N-Type
http://www.myspace.com/djntype
Plus very special guests to be announced
Tunnel: Club NME presents…
Skeletons [Live]
www.myspace.com/skeletonsandtheemptypockets
"....Never all all my born years have i seen such an energetic band that kept their cool and style, while at the same time going completely off the wall."
"....forcing 10,000 volts into this Sheffield five-piece would barely muster the power for the keyboard, never mind the rest of the group!"
"Skeletons wield a staggering blues rock foot stomping sound whilst remaining within the realms of their Sheffield background"
"I truly believe if you're reading this article hoping to find a new favourite band, you don't have to read much further. The band are a rock n roll force to be reckoned with, the live domain is theirs!"
Club NME DJ's

　
Arkade: GuGu presents
HeavyFeet (Stamp! Beats)
www.myspace.com/heavyfeet
Effortlessly combining a party rocking blend of house, garage, breakbeat, ghetto flavours and drum ‘n' bass, HeavyFeet are at the forefront of the bass music phenomenon. As the duo continue to roll their ever-evolving sound out through a string of bass-heavy releases on some of the coolest indie labels around, Party Like Us, Nightshifters and Passenger, as well as leaders in the game, Skint, Trouble & Bass and Bingo, 2010 is looking like their biggest year yet, with remixes dropping for the likes of Zinc, Drop The Lime and Deekline, as well as the birth of the own label. Watch this space, the bass is coming!
GuGu DJ's
Tickets: £6 Early Bird, £8 Standard, £10 on the door
Doors: 10pm – 4am, Age: 18+
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October 15th
Project presents… DJ Yoda Magic Cinema. DJ Yoda, what more needs to be said about this weeks headline artist. The emerging talent from Southgate Wild Palms play this weeks Club NME. The NME wrote "Wild Palms could be the start of a whole new mixtape" And the bands debut single went top 3 in the NME chart. Room 3 this week is hosted by Deckadance and the legendary Doc Scott brings a special element to Gatecrasher.
Full event info:
Main Room
DJ Yoda Magic Cinema
www.myspace.com/djyodauk
Between 1995 and 1998 he studied English and American Literature at the University of Warwick. During this period he began performing at Mojo, a popular Warwick Hip hop and Soul night until he graduated. After he left university he began releasing underground demo mix-tapes to small music shops. Through the popularity of these tapes, Antidote Records asked him to create an official mixtape, from which ‘How to Cut & Paste Mix Tape Vol.1' was released. During his career he has won a DMC DJ of the Year award in the Scratch DJ category (2001), and was one of 6 nominees for best UK hip-hop DJ in the UK Hip-Hop Awards. He has also been nominated by Q magazine as one of the ‘Ten DJs To See Before You Die', has released a series of mix-tapes and has toured the globe with the likes of Goldie and the Scratch Perverts.
He is currently the hip-hop correspondent for Sleaze Nation, The Face, and IDJ magazines, and also writes the DJ page for Hip Hop Connection magazine. Yoda is currently a resident DJ at London club nights Spread Love, Step Up Front and The Xfm All City Night. He has been one of the DMC DJ World Finals judges for the last 3 years. In addition to releasing his own material, he has also performed scratches on Danger Mouse & Jemini's Ghetto Pop Life..
Tunnel: Club NME presents…
Wild Palms (Live)
www.myspace.com/wearewildpalms
"Wild Palms are your masters you will obey"　 Clash
"Wild Palms could be the start of a whole new mixtape"　 NME
Club NME DJ's
Arkade: Deckadance presents…
Doc Scott (31 Records)
www.myspace.com/31docscott
After seeing Grandmaster flash on a news report on TV at the age of 11 im 1980, coventry born doc scott knew what he wanted to do. Having a love affair with music for as long as he could remember, seeing someone controlling music, urban music, live, was fascinating to scott.
A year later aged 12, scott bought his first record (Street sounds electro 2) and saw the sci fi classic Bladerunner. His life was changed forever and set him off on a path into 80's hip hop, electro and film soundtracks. Aged 14 he had his first pair of turtables and started banging out mixtapes for his friends at school.
Mash up elctro/hip hop/ mixes to breakdance to, earning him the nickname 'the doctor' which has stuck to this day.
"People used to say it was like going to the doctors to get a pescription when they used to come to my house for a new tape and it kind of stuck"
Deckadance DJ's
Tickets: £6 Early Bird, £8 Standard, £10 on the door
Doors: 10pm – 4am, Age: 18+
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October 22nd
Project presents… Stanton Warriors (Live) Stanton Warriors are the breakbeat duo Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley. They are a DJ and producer team of Breakbeat, a style of electronic dance music. Originally from the West Country, the pair now play high-profile sets at internationally-renowned clubs such as Fabric and Sankeys Soap in the UK, and travel the globe extensively, with international acclaim in Europe, Canada, America and Australia. Their style is sometimes described as a fusion of electro, breakbeat and 2-step UK garage. Their name was taken from a hexagonal shaped manhole cover, made by Stanton Ironworks, based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire which seemed fitting with their style of underground, cutting edge style of music. The name is also a reference to Stanton DJ products. London lads Flashguns play this weeks Club NME and Trent University rave society ‘Rave Trent ‘ host room 3 with DJ Krust is the co-founder of Bristol's Full Cycle crew (with Roni Size, DJ Die and Suv) rocks up for an exciting 2hr set
Full event info:
Main Room
Stanton Warriors (Live)
www.myspace.com/stantonwarriors
Stanton Warriors are the breakbeat duo Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley. They are a DJ and producer team of Breakbeat, a style of electronic dance music. Originally from the West Country, the pair now play high-profile sets at internationally-renowned clubs such as Fabric and Sankeys Soap in the UK, and travel the globe extensively, with international acclaim in Europe, Canada, America and Australia. Their style is sometimes described as a fusion of electro, breakbeat and 2-step UK garage. Their name was takenfrom a hexagonal shaped manhole cover, made by Stanton Ironworks, based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire which seemed fitting with their style of underground, cutting edge style of music. The name is also a reference to Stanton DJ products.
The Stanton Warriors' third mix album was released in the UK on October 27, 2008 entitled Stanton Session vol. 3, which is their best seller to date and received a rare and coveted 5 out of 5 from iDJ. This was also released in a Limited Run, Deluxe-Edition Stanton Warriors manhole cover tin pack. The graffiti style artwork, (and their SW logo) seen on many of their releases and merchandise is the work of several renowned graffiti artists, SheOne and Rough, the latter of which won a design award for the artwork on the Stanton's single, Da Antidote.
The Stantons have been known to release free to download promo dj sets through their websites where there is also live video footage of their gigs. Now based in London, they run a successful record label (Punks) out of their West London recording studio and are currently touring and working on their second artist album, due for release 2010
Tunnel: Club NME presents…
Flashguns (Live)
www.myspace.com/flashguns
Flashguns are a three piece rock band from London. They formed in 2007. They have toured heavily over the last two years (support for Jamie T & Bombay Bicycle Club). They are currently recording their debut album with producer Luke Smith. Influences include Nirvana, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, Talking Heads and The Cure.
Club NME DJ's
Arkade: Rave Trent presents…
DJ Krust (Rebel Instinct)
http://www.myspace.com/fullcyclemusic
DJ Krust is the co-founder of Bristol's Full Cycle crew (with Roni Size, DJ Die and Suv) and is much noted in the DnB and Jungle underground scene for his push-the-envelope productions both alone and in collaboration with Roni Size.
Rave Trent DJ's
Tickets: £6 Early Bird, £8 Standard, £10 on the door
Doors: 10pm – 4am, Age: 18+
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October 29
Project presents… Plump DJ's are a DJ and producer team in electronic dance music. Early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in electronic music, the Plump DJs have diversified in recent years to incorporate new styles such as electro, house and bass music. Their sound is still widely thought to maintain a breakbeat aesthetic, but their productions and DJ sets have become stylistically broader. Throughout the 2000s, they released a string of singles and remixes of well- known dance music names such as Fatboy Slim, Orbital, Deadmau5 and the Stanton Warriors. This weeks Club NME see's Tantrums play live. A Birmingham five piece made up of four boys and one girl who love Guitar Pedals, Strange Time Signatures and generally just Playing Music. They will release their first EP, ‘Champloo', on Bigger Than Barry Records in Spring 2010. Room 3 is hosted this week by rising Dubstep & Drum and Bass brand Hype with Roksonix headlining.
Full event info:
Main Room
Plump DJ's
www.myspace.com/plumpdjs
Plump DJs (Lee Rous and Andy Gardner) are a DJ and producer team in electronic dance music. Early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in electronic music, the Plump DJs have diversified in recent years to incorporate new styles such as electro, house and bass music. Their sound is still widely thought to maintain a breakbeat aesthetic, but their productions and DJ sets have become stylistically broader. Throughout the 2000s, they released a string of singles and remixes of well-known dance music names such as Fatboy Slim, Orbital, Deadmau5 and the Stanton Warriors.
Their first release together, "Plump Chunks/Electric Disco", came out on Finger Lickin' Records in 1999. When they released the "A Plump Night Out" album – basically a live DJ mix featuring their own original music – they really began to achieve international notoriety.
The Plump DJs were asked by dance music culture magazine Mixmag to mix their February 2001 cover CD, which they called Elastic Breaks. Soon after, in May, they released a two-CD mix compilation called Urban Underground and in February 2003 they produced the eighth album in the FabricLive series for the acclaimed London venue.
Their artist album Eargasm was released in July 2003 and featured synthesizer pioneer Gary Numan and Lamb chanteuse Louise Rhodes.
Tunnel: Club NME presents…
Tantrums [Live]
www.myspace.com/tantrums
Tantrums are four boys and one girl from Birmingham who love Guitar Pedals, Strange Time Signatures and generally just Playing Music. They will release their first EP, ‘Champloo', on Bigger Than Barry Records in Spring 2010.
Club NME DJ's
Arkade: Hype presents…
Roksonix (Circus Records)
www.myspace.com/roksonix
Nasty, atmospheric, bouncy and dark are a mixed bag of adjectives used to describe the music of ROKSONIX, two 25 year olds from Milton Keynes fresh on the DUBSTEP scene. They have a broad sound and listening to their music it is clear they are influenced by many genres of music. However new sounds from the boy's are getting grottier with tracks pumped full of Relentless Raspy Basslines and Massive Slapping Drums quenching the thirst of all you dubheads.
Hype DJ's
Tickets: £6 Early Bird, £8 Standard, £10 on the door
Doors: 10pm – 4am, Age: 18+