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Heres a wee post to brighten up your Monday, this is a video of David Byrne performing on the Jools Holland show back in 2004 with a Talking Heads classic.

February at Nightflight and 2009 is already seeming like a great year, this week we’ve a legend of the scene taking on the Button Factory soundsystem, here comes the story….

Derrick Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the best DJs in the world. With innovative productions, flawless technical skills and an effortlessly joyful attitude of rocking a crowd, his influence has infiltrated throughout the spectrum of dance music.
Although known as one of the key players of Chicago’s house music wave in the ’90s, Derrick Carter began DJ’ing at the age of nine, spinning disco records at family reunions. Raised in the western suburbs, Derrick was into music from a young age; during his teens Chicago’s house scene sucked him in for good and before long he became a strong presence in the city’s underground dance scene. “When I got my driver’s license at 16 my sneak ability was validated,” he laughs. “I was a fierce bedroom jock for a long time. After you mix for the love of it for six or seven years, you get it pretty tight and you can take it on the road.”

He got by working at dance-music specialty stores like Gramaphone and gigging at parties, later landing regular DJ stints at Shelter, Foxy’s, and Smart Bar; though he doesn’t often spin locally, his unannounced appearances at friends’ parties leave people
queuing around the block.

Derrick’s sets are rooted in house, but he freely travels outside conformative club tastes, seamlessly incorporating old-school disco, soul, jazz, and whatever else catches his fancy to jack the beat and rock the party. By refusing to accept conventional standards and instead choosing to simply do his own thing he has built a worldwide reputation as one of the underground pioneers, becoming a major celebrity among dance-music aficionados. “So many people come up to me and say, ‘Man, I had the worst day. My girlfriend left me, I locked my keys in my car, but you turned me for two hours, and that made me able to get up in the morning.’ That’s the best thing going.”

Since then the pioneering, innovative tracks and consequent critical acclaim have marked Derrick out as one of the most important players in dance music – most notably through his releases on Classic, the label he founded with Luke Solomon. Derrick’s first release was as Rednail with ‘I Think of You’, followed by ‘Nu Pschidt’ and ‘Hope’ under his own name. ‘Nü Pschidt’ combined woven scatting with sleepy minimal beats on ‘Dreaming Again’ and skillfully cast his own low, sexy drawl over his trademark Carter grooves to form ‘Boompty Boomp Theme’ – a name which has become synonymous with Derrick’s sound since his mom’s critique of his music reached the press! Seminal EPs such as ‘Where U At?’ and albums ‘Squaredancing In A Round House’,alongside guest compilations for the best underground house labels have consolidated his standing as one of the legends of scene.

Hi all. I hope you are enjoying this very cold and snowy beginning to an action packed February !

To start this week here is a mix by our good friend Mark Le Tough for you to downland….. enjoy !

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5280127401e79db4/

Tracklisting :

1 acid pauli – euphorium 25
2 sven weisemann – slices (boris hotton remix)
3 mark august – just like that
4 matthias meyer – salt city
5 mymy – everybody’s talkin
6 catz n dogz – confused
7 goldwill – one bill (sascha dive remix)
8 johnny d – requiem of a dream
9 eleny – le noir (radioslave remix)
10 ame, dixon henrik schwarz – D.P.O.M.B (version 2)

The first Nightflight label night showcasing some of our favorite labels across Europe features Germany’s Cécille Records. Representing the Mannheim imprint are two of its rising stars; Ray Okpara & Nick Curly.

Nick Curly biography says he’s arguably the hottest up and coming producers in Europe at the moment and who are we to disagree!. As one of the main protagonists behind the so-called Mannheim sound, Nick has exploded on to the scene in 2008 with a string of releases on Cecille, 8Bit, murmur and Supernature – with the recently released ‘Dubnoise’ EP and ‘Television’, in particular, proving absolutely huge with DJ’s around the world.

Not content with simply making great music, as the owner of the Cecille and 8Bit labels, Nick has developed a talent as a taste-maker and overseen an amazing year for his labels as releases from the likes of Johnny D, SiS, Markus Fix, Robert Dietz, Lemos and Kreon have propelled many of these artists on to the global stage.

His work on his own labels as caught the eye of many and as a result the next months hold in store output on Liebe*Detail, Get Physical, Mobilee and murmur.

Part two of our Cecille double bil; Ray Okpara began DJing back in 1999 while he was living in Mannheim and quickly succeeded in becoming a local icon. He was resident DJ at the Loft Club in Ludwigshafen for three years.

Since then he has had monthly sets at the Zoo Club in Mannheim and he has played in nearly every large city in Germany. Ray typically works with loops, often his own. He describes his own sound as deep bumpin’ electronic tech-house.

In the six years in which he has been active as a DJ, he has played alongside names like John Aquaviva, Tiefschwarz, Ian Pooley and Moonboutiqua. In March of 2005, Ray moved to Berlin, where he now often commutes between his old home and his new one.

Ray and Nick are taking over Nightflight for the whole night so it get down early for a showcase of the Cécille Records sound this Friday at Button Factory.

Nightflight in association with The Gaiety School of Acting & Scratch present:

Maskquerave Ball (A Royal Variety Show)

Nightflight have something a little different lined up for your amusement…

We’ve assembled a sweet selection of talented Irish Live acts from three completely
different genres. All have been brought together by their unified Quality standard.

First, we’ve enlisted the help of Dublin-based, whiskey-soaked Blues Rock outfit, THE HOT SPROCKETS, whose timely blend of grit-of-the-soul bluegrass and warm, buttery funk has been charming crowds home and away all year.

Half-band/half-machine, LE GALAXIE, return to Nightflight, following a storming Synth Eastwood performance in which the Dublin fourpiece strummed, snared and sequenced their way into our cold robot hearts. This is a well advised viewing for a late crowd.

“ADEYHAWKE” aka Ciaran Bryne is an Irish producer making waves in the blogworld and enjoying heavy support in France. His music has been described as “Valerie” meets “Boards of Canada”.

Throughout the evening we have the musical selection of Nightflight’s LOUCHE, Corkman SHANE BREEN and International man of Mystery SHANE MANNION.

But Finally. Closing out this salacious salad of a line up is FUNBOI, one of the cities finest jockers. Specializing in percussive techno, deep houses groove excursions and cunning mustaches.

This night is a chance to reveal your creative side by donning your best mask or brave the elements and one will be supplied. Offering a bucketload of the best music around. Packed with prizes, surprises and fun galore.

A Masquerave Extravaganza!

Ps: This event will be recorded to Broadcast Quality by the Gaiety so you may be asked for your tupence worth throughout the night. Smart answers optional.

Here is the lineup:

- Room 1 -

Hot Sprockets
Le Galaxie
Adeyhawke (laptop set)
Aidan O Connell
Shane Breen

- Room 2 -

Shane Mannion
Louche

www.myspace.com/adeyhawke
www.myspace.com/lemusicgalaxie
www.myspace.com/thehotsprockets

Coming up in March we have a new favourite here at NightFlight, Graeme Clark, AKA The Revenge.

Graeme began producing in his early teenage years, making a skewed blend of electronic music using a couple of his dad’s old drum machines and a sampler. Influenced by his parents collection of rock, soul and funk as well as eighties daytime radio and the burgeoning rave scene, he began the process of dissecting and re-imagining the music. As a means to get some of these productions out, Graeme set up label Five20East in 1999 with brothers Scott & Ross Langley as an outlet for their own productions.

His own productions for Five20East and his DJ-only edits for L.E.S.S. Productions have had across-the-board support from scene heavyweights including Danny Krivit, Jimpster, Radio Slave, Prins Thomas, Fabrice Lig, Todd Terje, The Unabombers, Karizma, SWAG, Dan Ghenacia, Gilles Peterson, Ashley Beedle, Domu, Kissy Sellout, Joe Claussell, Stuart Patterson, Atjazz, Bill Brewster, Phil Asher, Tim Sweeney and more.

DJ work over the years has included spots with Jimpster, Joe Claussell, Domu, Mark E, Mad Mats, Seiji, Yousef, Jeff Mills, Jazzy Jeff, MAW, Sinden, James Lavelle and more.

Graeme has also provided his engineering experience to several projects over the past few years and has recently mastered Harri & Domenic’s 20 Years Underground / Sub Club mix for Soma aswell as new material for Mark E, Jisco and Fine Art Recordings. His other collaborative projects currently include Deportivo Street Team, OOFT!, Cronk Family Enterprises, 6th Borough Project and The Hong Kong Micros.

New projects for 2009 include releases on his new vinyl-only label Instruments Of Rapture, a release with Craig Smith on Jimpster’s new label and on Soul Heaven, a remix for Phonica’s new imprint, the debut single with Harri on Raoul Galloway’s (Faith Fanzine) label alongside new material on Five20East.

To get you a little more acquainted with The Revenge, here is his latest mix for you to get your download on :

http://www.mixedbizness.co.uk/sounds/therevengehangonintheremix.mp3

For our first guest in 2009 we have another top-notch Live performance in the shape of another of our favourite producers, Bangkok Impact.

Bangkok Impact aka Sami Liuski jets in this Friday from Finland, to unleash his Live show on Dublin once more. Since his first release on Creme Organization in 2001, Sami has gone from strength to strength playing live all over the world, from London to Detroit and to Australia. Along the way adding to a very impressive catalogue of releases, which include numerous records on Creme Organization, I-f’s Viewlexx label and Rotterdam’s killer Clone Records. Not to mention his array of remix projects for top producers from all genres of electronic music.

Alongside his impressive solo work he is Putsch 79, along with Pauli Jylhankangas. These two outstanding producers have combined their skills to present us with a sort of disco funk in the vein of Metro Area or Daniel Wang which never fails to get the dancefloor moving…and expect Bangkok Impact to have the nightflight dancefloor hopping this friday..

On support duty this month is Nightflights Benway and Lunar Disko’s Andy Doyle with their bags of disco and funk, so try get down early to hear these two lads mix up all things disco, italo, electro and chicago.