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Guys, this is gonna be the most awesome party I've ever thrown, with one of my favorite DJs spinning. Danny needs no introduction. The man is a legend! I've been trying to set this event up for quite a while now. Danny graciously agreed to do a 5 hour set for us, which is quite a rarity for Washington, DC. If you guys haven't been to Club Ibiza yet, it's a great venue, with great sound and a great crowd. As with any of our events, there's no bullshit at the door and I'll personally take care of anyone if they have any issues at all throughout the night. GET ON THE GUESTLIST!!

Gonna be one helluva shindig!

Tronic Treatment w/Christian Smith @ Sullivan Room: http://bbs.clubplanet.com/new-york/332432-10-27-gr00vanauts-halloween-party-w-christian-smith-sullivan-room-nyc.html

Saeed is going head to head vs Ivano Bellini at Element on 1/19. Should be a good one! Here's the event info: http://bbs.clubplanet.com/nyc-party-promotions/319731-fri-1-19-07-saeed-younan-ivano-bellini-element.html

Awesome party! Thanx to everyone her who came. Pics: clickity-click

Austin Leeds will be doing an in-store appearance Friday 3/3 from 6pm - 8pm at Satellite Records. Free Vodka Rebulls. Giveaways by Tweek’d Records, including promo’s, CD’s and t-shirts. Satellite Records 259 Bowery New York, NY 10012 212.995.1744

Here's the event info: clickity-click

Best club in NYC, hands down! Here's my full review, along with that of some others on GN: clickity-click

Sullivan Room 218 Sullivan Street, NYC 11pm to ?:??am 21+

Just uploaded a bunch of pics from the night: click-clack

here's a full review: clickity-click

There's an afterparty on the roof @ Shelter: http://bbs.clubplanet.com/showthread.php?p=2808302

I still pop in from time to time

Groovanauts.com Presents: Bedrock Records Release Party for Pole Folders's Zero Gold @ Remote Lounge DJs: Pole Folder Dany Veltri George Macys Joe Papeo $3 beers 10pm-12am Remote is located at 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets on the border of two lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the East Village and Noho. It's a short strut, saunter, or stroll from SoHo, the Lower East Side, the West Village and the Flatiron District. Nearby Subway stops: - the 6 at Bleecker - the F and V at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue - the B and D at Broadway-Lafayette - the N and R to 8th Street or to Prince Street www.remotelounge.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLE FOLDER: "Pole Folder is one of the most consistent and talented producers I've heard over the years. As far as the first ever artist album on Bedrock goes, he was the natural choice as there's been a link since we signed 'Apollo Vibes' after opening my GU: Los Angeles album with it, right through 'Dust' on MMII to the outstanding production you'll hear here. This album is a really broad soundscape of music with feeling; downbeat building records, driving, urgent breaking tracks and mind blowing cinematic scale and production…all with a thread running through it. He's a genuine talent with a passion and a vision behind everything he does. Zero Gold is a brilliant reflection of that talent." -JOHN DIGWEED John Digweed is proud to introduce the first artist album ever on the revered dance music label Bedrock Records - Pole Folder 'Zero Goldâ€.' This album has been a long time in the coming and after two years in the studio, the wait is finally over. Pole Folder 'Zero Gold' straddles the line between a cinematic soundscape and the heady exploration of the sonic atmosphere. The melancholic lyrics are sung beautifully throughout by guest vocalists Kirsty Hawkshaw (who is well-known for her previous work with BT, Hybrid & Orbital), Shelley Harland (Junkie XL, Ferry Corsten) and Belgian songstress Sandra Ferretti. Pole Folder started out his musical career at the age of 5, starting out by learning to play the trumpet and guitar before later learning the art of composition that lead him to perform within a symphony orchestra, also playing in brass ensembles on regular occasion. As Pole grew, so did his musical diversity and at the age of 15 he discovered rock music, channelling his musical energies into rock bands and by the age of 18 he had formed his first band, 'Dirty Slip' where he added song writing and to his fast growing repertoire, further band ventures seeing him play live and tour around his home country of Belgium. Not one to rest on his laurels, Pole Folder soon became influenced by the thriving techno scene being developed between clubs like Le Boccaccio and La Rocca, becoming influenced by the electronic sounds made famous at these venues, which pushed him into a direction utilising electronic sequencers. Ever curious, Pole wanted to push this curiosity further and with long time friend Alain Bultot, they set up a professional studio where their group Ragged Life was formed. Several tracks were created, the most notable of which, 'I'll Be Right Here' becoming a massive anthem in the Belgium club scene and grabbing the attention of Sony Records Benelux, who realising the untapped potential that Pole Folder had, signed not only the track, but Pole Folder himself to a publishing deal, which quickly developed into a production role for many artists that Sony were dealing with. One of his first production jobs for Sony was in co-operation with an artist called Petra on the track 'Angel' which became an underground club anthem once more. Pole Folder was also in tune with the fast rising global dance scene and after discovering the sounds of DJs Sasha and John Digweed soon moved into a deeper direction under the name of Pole Folder. His first release, Apollo Vibes, was quickly signed to John Digweed's record label, Bedrock and since then two further singles have been released, in addition to the 'Moon In A Blue Sky EP' on Sunkissed Records. John Digweed, researching all of Pole Folder's work over the years soon signed Pole up to an album deal, one of few artists to be offered a deal on the Bedrock imprint, and now the next chapter in the career of Pole Folder is about to unfold as he works towards creating an artist album, a venture that within the sometimes restrictive world of dance music looks set to rewrite the rules. [From www.bedrock.org.uk] Pole Folder's critically acclaimed album is out now on Bedrock Records. Featuring artists Kirsty Hawkshaw, Sandra Ferretti & Shelly Harland, Zero Gold is not simply a dance album. It is a carefully crafted work, grounded in timeless musical concepts, stellar production and genuinely felt artistic presence. It acknowledges its influences without parodying them and is ultimately an expression of the artist’s endeavor played out through the use of modern technologies and musical techniques. Eflyer: Listen & enjoy: www.bedrock.uk.net/flyer09 Buy CD: http://www.bedrockuk.net/moreinfo.asp?id=433 Download: http://www.bedrock.uk.net/moreinfo.asp?id=434 Watch a promotional video here http://www.bedrock.uk.net/polefolder/polefolder.wmv Dany Veltri and George Macys: Dany Veltri and George Macys will always consider themselves fans of EDM above anything else. Before ever knowing what a DJ did, these native east coasters spent every possible moment at clubs soaking in as much music as they possible could. It was this passion for the music that inspired them to start DJ’ing. Theor style blends tribal, tech and progressive house with elements of trance and breaks. Not limited to genres, Dany and George hold themselves to only one rule – if you love it, play it. Having spun at 340, Alphabet Lounge, Happy Ending, Hook, Sullivan Room, Seho, and Voodoo Lounge in 2004, 2005 promises to be a busy year as Dany Veltri and George Macys start a new monthly residency at Remote Lounge NYC, where they will be playing alongside the likes of Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost, Pole Folder and DC’s EMC Crew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remote Lounge: Remote is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists. Telepresence Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consolesâ„¢. The Cocktail Consolesâ„¢ also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote. Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property. Design The "telepresence" capability, along with the retro-future stylings of the Cocktail Consolesâ„¢ themselves, evokes a 1960s vision of the future - part Jetsons, part 2001 A Space . Furthermore, TV screens over the bar and along the walls pick up random camera channels to create a richly textured funhouse mirror effect, where the physical arrangement of the lounge itself and the people in it are fractured and re-presented in a complex, constantly-changing, multilayered way.

clickity-click Be sure to check out Pole Folder's NYC debut this Saturday, the 11th @ Remote Lounge: details

Hey Dave, can you please fix our event listing on the WMC Insider? Here's the correct info: http://bbs.clubplanet.com/showthread.php?t=260369

Of course I'm biased but... 3/22: Groovanauts.com WMC Party: 17 Hours of Mayhem @ the Fairwinds Cafe DJs/Performers: Dr. Kucho, Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost, Groovefire, Joe Mama & Mike Swells, Eli Wilkie, Dennis Rodgers of 112 Crew/Robots, Nick AC of Robots, Hisham Samawi, Kai of Chris & Kai, Panagiotis, EMC (Mike Haddad, Royce Haven & Alex Haje), Samio, J-Punch, Alex Pearce, Adam Dunlavey, Noel Sanger, Rich Webb, Holmes Ives

Video/Lighting by the same guys who'll be doing their thing at Ultra: Dijjital Ambiance (www.dijjitalambiance.com) VJs: ADD ILLume Alexis Beatfix Phi Visualanti Karen Lane – camera op. Roil – camera op.

bumpity-bump.

Groovanauts Party @ Remote Lounge DJs: Ben Lost Dany Veltri George Macys Joe Papeo $3 beers 10pm-12am Remote is located at 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets on the border of two lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the East Village and Noho. It's a short strut, saunter, or stroll from SoHo, the Lower East Side, the West Village and the Flatiron District. Nearby Subway stops: - the 6 at Bleecker - the F and V at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue - the B and D at Broadway-Lafayette - the N and R to 8th Street or to Prince Street www.remotelounge.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEN LOST: "YOUNG PARISIANS feat BEN LOST - Jump The Next Train" is currently burning up the charts! Ben's musical career began in the early 90's playing in a local rock band called Candi-Snatch. A few years later the band (then known as Charlie) had secured themselves a record deal with London Records offshoot, Laurel. During this time Ben discovered the pleasures of playing other people's records and began playing at various bars and clubs, experimenting with anything from Hip Hop and Electro to Ska and Punk. It wasn't until a night out in 1997 at local club 'bubble', that Ben fully appreciated the effect of dance music - especially the new sound of Trance that was making waves at the time. Tracks like Cafe Del Mar, Greece 2000 and Perfect Motion introduced Ben to a melodic yet funky side of house music that really appealed to him. After a brief spell in the limelight, the band disbanded in 1999 leaving Ben free to move to London to work at Pinnacle Distributions dance department. It was at this point that Ben really got into clubbing, spending time at The Gallery (Turnmills) and Gatecrasher (Sheffield), and being heavily influenced by sets from DJ's such as Paul Oakenfold, Dave Seaman and Paul Van Dyk. After 2 years at Pinnacle, Ben moved to the A&R department at Hooj with a view to establishing Hooj's Trance offshoot Lost Language. During his time there, Ben A&Red over 30 releases (and still counting) including tracks such as Solar Stone's 'Solar Coaster' and 'Seven Cities', Accadia's 'Blind Visions', Energy 52's Cafe Del Mar and Lustrals' Broken. As the Lost Language label has grown, so has Bens profile as a DJ - and in the past year it has earnt him bookings at both The Gallery and Gatecrasher - and taken him DJing around the world, including Japan, Israel, Finland, Germany and the US. Ben's sound is reflective of the records released on Lost Language. Melodic, well produced, and always with an element of funk. He also continues with his singing and song writing with London based act Ashtrax (www.ashtrax.com), with the track Digital Reason getting licensed to Paul Van Dyk's Politics of Dancing album and the Ministry Of Sound Annual 2003. Dany Veltri and George Macys: Dany Veltri and George Macys will always consider themselves fans of EDM above anything else. Before ever knowing what a DJ did, these native east coasters spent every possible moment at clubs soaking in as much music as they possible could. It was this passion for the music that inspired them to start DJ’ing. Theor style blends tribal, tech and progressive house with elements of trance and breaks. Not limited to genres, Dany and George hold themselves to only one rule – if you love it, play it. Having spun at 340, Alphabet Lounge, Happy Ending, Hook, Sullivan Room, Seho, and Voodoo Lounge in 2004, 2005 promises to be a busy year as Dany Veltri and George Macys start a new monthly residency at Remote Lounge NYC, where thet will be playing alongside the likes of Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost and DC’s EMC Crew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remote Lounge: Remote is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists. Telepresence Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles™. The Cocktail Consoles™ also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote. Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property. Design The "telepresence" capability, along with the retro-future stylings of the Cocktail Consoles™ themselves, evokes a 1960s vision of the future - part Jetsons, part 2001 A Space . Furthermore, TV screens over the bar and along the walls pick up random camera channels to create a richly textured funhouse mirror effect, where the physical arrangement of the lounge itself and the people in it are fractured and re-presented in a complex, constantly-changing, multilayered way.

updated lineup: Dr. Kucho, Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost, Groovefire, Joe Mama & Mike Swells, Eli Wilkie, Dennis Rodgers (112 Crew/Robots/Dirty Gringos), Nick AC (Robots), Hisham Samawi (Dirty Gringos), Kai of Chris & Kai, Panagiotis, EMC (Mike Haddad, Royce Haven & Alex Haje), Samio, J-Punch/Hook the Captain, Alex Pearce, Adam Dunlavey, Noel Sanger, Rich Webb, Holmes Ives

Groovanauts Party @ Remote Lounge DJs: Steve Gerrard Dany Veltri George Macys $3 beers 10pm-12am Remote is located at 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets on the border of two lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the East Village and Noho. It's a short strut, saunter, or stroll from SoHo, the Lower East Side, the West Village and the Flatiron District. Nearby Subway stops: - the 6 at Bleecker - the F and V at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue - the B and D at Broadway-Lafayette - the N and R to 8th Street or to Prince Street www.remotelounge.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STEVE GERRARD (Wrecked Angle / Filta): "Steve Gerrard is another DJ who is making a name for himself by delivering great sets everywhere he goes. He always rocks it at Bedrock when he plays." - John Digweed Steve Gerrard is a name that, if you follow progressive music, you will be hearing plenty of this year. Hailing from Chester, he now lives in Birmingham, UK and got his first taste of house music in 1994 when he was given a copy of the first Renaissance album. He recalls hearing the track "Song Of Life" by Leftfield and it completely changed his ear for music and his life today. In 1998, Steve won Muzik Magazine's Bedroom Bedlam competition, and 2 years later won the Ericsson Award for Best Bedroom Bedlam DJ. Since then his career has gone from strength to strength. With influences that range from the Sasha and Digweed, Nick Warren and Danny Howells to Adam Freeland and Hybrid and the technical skills of Anthony Pappa, he has developed a unique style. Which is: deep, progressive house mixed with breakbeat, building steadily and creating a set which is more than the sum of its parts. All the while keeping in mind that it is his job to make people want to dance and keep on dancing. These days, Steve's living the life that many aspiring DJ's dream of. He gets to travel all over the world, meet new people and play great music. "If you're lucky", he says, "this job allows you to do all of those things, and that's something I'm very grateful for." Although we know it's more than just luck that will take you places. Some of Steve's notable accomplishments include: Winning the Ericsson Muzik Award (best bedroom bedlam DJ 2000), starting his own successful club night in Birmingham called Subspace and headlining at some of the world's greatest clubs. He also produces as one half of both Filta and Wrecked Angle. Now with a full DJing schedule, Steve has been invited to play around the world at clubs like Bedrock, Home (London), Nikita (San Francisco), Giant (LA), Spundae (WMC Miami), Limelight (NYC), Skysound (Mexico), Fluid (Hong Kong), Code (Birmingham), Ministry of Sound, The End (London), Passport (Moscow), Gas Club (Sydney), El Campo (Argentina) and Trance Buddha (Amsterdam), as well as being picked by Steve Lawler to be resident at his Midweek Session night. Steve's played alongside the A list of DJs, and his broad musical tastes saw him invited to appear as the support DJ for Oasis at Wembley Stadium in front of 93,000 people!!! Steve's mixes have been featured on such infamous dance radio shows such as Pete Tong's Essential Selection and John Digweed's Kiss FM show in London. He also mixed a CD for the cover of Muzik Magazine (December 2000). As if the life of a jet-setting wasn't enough, Steve's now also focusing on production. He and studio partner Russell Pearce have released tracks and remixes under the names Wrecked Angle (breaks) and Filta (progressive). With releases on Minimal, Intrinsic & Choo Choo, plus remixes for the likes of Baroque, Navigation and 3 Beat. John Digweed, Sasha, Nick Warren, Anthony Pappa, Steve Lawler, Hybrid, James Zabiela and Danny Howells have all been supporting their tracks. Xpander called Steve "one of the most impressive upcoming DJ's in the world", and Chris from Hybrid said in Muzik magazine that "Steve is one of the best up and coming DJs I've heard in a long time. He has very similar tunes in his box to me, actually - deep, progressive tracks that aren't too shiny! I walked into a club recently and he was playing most of the stuff I was going to play... God knows where he gets all those tunes!" If you're looking for new talent this year, look no further... Dany Veltri and George Macys: Dany Veltri and George Macys will always consider themselves fans of EDM above anything else. Before ever knowing what a DJ did, these native east coasters spent every possible moment at clubs soaking in as much music as they possible could. It was this passion for the music that inspired them to start DJ’ing. Theor style blends tribal, tech and progressive house with elements of trance and breaks. Not limited to genres, Dany and George hold themselves to only one rule – if you love it, play it. Having spun at 340, Alphabet Lounge, Happy Ending, Hook, Sullivan Room, Seho, and Voodoo Lounge in 2004, 2005 promises to be a busy year as Dany Veltri and George Macys start a new monthly residency at Remote Lounge NYC, where thet will be playing alongside the likes of Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost and DC’s EMC Crew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remote Lounge: Remote is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists. Telepresence Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles™. The Cocktail Consoles™ also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote. Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property. Design The "telepresence" capability, along with the retro-future stylings of the Cocktail Consoles™ themselves, evokes a 1960s vision of the future - part Jetsons, part 2001 A Space . Furthermore, TV screens over the bar and along the walls pick up random camera channels to create a richly textured funhouse mirror effect, where the physical arrangement of the lounge itself and the people in it are fractured and re-presented in a complex, constantly-changing, multilayered way.

Just added Holmes Ives to the linup