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  6. Just got home from Roxy

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    Originally posted by alexx

    Well that would be the only reason I think you would say he was good. Yourself being a dj im sure you heard how bad he fucked up the mixes on 4 different occasions. It was the 1st time I ever heard him spin, and I think he needs to learn how to beat match, cause his mixing was horrendous.

    I never said he was flawless wed. night, it's entirely possible that he may have made a few mistakes. Shit happens. Eddie's not known for train wreckin, so I'll get over it. You should too.

  8. Just got home from Roxy

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    Originally posted by alexx

    Dont say he was good just because you are friends with him, anyone who was there knows what im talking about.

    I would hardly consider myself friends with Eddie. I was simply stating my opinion as were you. No need to get all shitty and what not.

  10. Just got home from Roxy

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    Hey Legend we just got home now. Seriously, what a great fuckin party. Got in at 10pm left at 6:30am. All the djs represented to the fullest. Sheldon, sorry to hear about that cd player blowing out during your set.

    To everyone that chilled out with us tonight, we thank you. Had a fuckin blast.

    See ya for Johnny Vicious real soon!

  21. I Challenge DJ Domenick Capello

    in Useless Blabber

    Posted

    Originally posted by domenickcapello

    i usually dont write back to mindless posts but i figured i would like to set some things straight:

    do me a favor ok, grow up and come out of your basement and come and talk to me in person when you know what went on...

    lets talk bout the facts of the night...

    you like to comment when :

    i play a total of LITERALLY 5 songs the spread out through the whole night at a party i was trying to run and dj at the same time..

    why dont you write i was running around like a madman with my partner trying keeping shit in order..

    why dont you talk bout how the sound system was fucked up and the cd player was skipping cause we were on stage basically on top of a bass bin...

    how bout that we had no monitors..

    how bout that we needed to use the efx for when the cd player would shut off in the middle of no where...

    why dont you talk about how there was too much bass response on the turntables that we couldnt even use them without a massive hum...

    you like to talk a lot of shit when you dont know whats going on.

    i am sorry but i am not going to play records on a pair of turntables that are generating bass feedback.

    and unfortunately the efx was needed for the nite considering the circumstances with the cd player.

    also, what are we in the wild west, you are calling me out?

    if you want to CHALLENGE me, go ahead, i will meet u in front of the town saloon and we can have a duel.

    come talk to me when :

    1. you have a clue about what happened about the event you are talking about.

    2. when i play an actual SET and im not trying to run a party running back and forth off the stage

    lots of people like to talk bout djs when they dont know the circumstances that they are working under. there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that you some people obviously just dont understand.

    its pretty stupid to make most of these comments , and a good amount because of ignorance , not stupidity, but ignornace which basically means you dont know or understand.

    if you want to talk , pm me, ill even let you come down and play and experience what we had to work with.

    also thank you to all those who support and have a clue.

    thank you.

    dom

    Sounds like you bit off more than you could chew. Sounds like poor planning or lack there of and mis-management.

    Promoters should never dj and djs should never be promoters.

    Do one thing and do it well. Hope you learned your lession because clubland as it is today doesn't need another cluster fuck night club.

  23. KingUnique with Bill Pettinelli, B.Original Nov 23rd

    in Music & Media

    Posted

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    King Unique

    King Unique is the production team of Matthew Roberts and Matt "Watkins" Thomas, long-standing collaborators who decided to join forces full-time at the start of 2001 and make some 21st century noise. The result has been a series of diverse remixes and productions mixing funky and techy house elements, tied together with head twisting production.

    From obscurity to four Essential New Tunes, a couple of Buzz Chart No. 1s and a pair of bona-fide Ibiza classics in twelve short months. Chuck in the solo releases and remixes as Mainframe,UBU and Watkins, plus live decks and FX sets at dozens of clubs (including Cream, Renaissance, Code, Ministry, Elements) and it’s not hard to see why the two Matts are a) happy and B) knackered.

    Their drugged-up remix of Mutiny’s ‘The Virus’ seduced and battered clubbers in equal measure, making it one of the big club tracks of the summer. On a more soothing level the chilled yet hooky remix of Baz ‘Believers’ sound tracked more than one Ibiza sunrise. Meanwhile a quick name change and a killer vocal sample yielded ‘Dirty’ by Dirty, an Essential New Tune and Single of the Week in 7.

    Highlights of the year include making Steve Lawler play Madison Avenue at Code; getting the chance to remix tracks like Chocolate Puma’s ‘I Wanna Be U’, Stylus Trouble’s ‘Sputnik’ and Foremost Poets’ ‘Moonraker’; doing the Essential Mix; hooking up with the Junior posse to make dirty (and Dirty) tracks. And then there was Cream in Tokyo – early morning earthquakes, Afro-Ken frenzy, tiny techno bars, pissed pole-dancing and the very first KU stalker - “93!-93!-93!-93!â€.

    Rounding the whole thing off, the countdown to New Year set at Tribal Sessions.

    Twelve more months like that please…

    Matthew Roberts

    Matthew Roberts got the house music bug at the age of 15 whilst supposedly studying for his High School exams. A rather more useful education was gained by taping Manchester’s Key 103 house show every week, and he soon became wise in the ways of house (while failing most of his grades). As soon as he looked about old enough, he visited the now legendary Hacienda, staying with older brother Leon who was working in a Mancunian artificial limb unit at the time. Things got pretty twisted, but there was of course, no going backFor the next couple of years, life pretty much revolved around The Hac every Friday, with a Thursday weekend warm-up at a small club in Chester, where Matthew cut his DJ’ing teeth. The main crew there included fledgling decks-wizard DJ Lottie, a clothes shop assistant called Darren Hughes who would later start some club in Liverpool called Cream, a gang of blokes with a drum machine who were thinking of calling themselves K-Klass and various other social misfits and deviants. The excitement and hedonism of that period was so intense that Matthew even got a normal job for a short time to get the cash necessary for the Friday night out. The horror of 9-5 life quickly led him to the realization that he just had to make music for a living. One of his proudest achievements is the fact that he has not had a proper job since 1989.

    After Manchester went gangster-city, Leon moved back to Wales. Both brothers spent every penny on vinyl, being connoisseurs of finest US house, silly Italian party music and elusive mutant Hac tunes. Unsurprisingly they soon found themselves being turfed out of the parental home to “make that bloody racket somewhere elseâ€, thus commencing a long career of vinyl hording, music obsessing, and weed smoking. Matthew’s initial hook up with cheeky ticket-tout James Barton’s Olympic label spawned some innocent DIY house mostly made under the Bottom Dollar name, very much influenced by the heroes of the day such as Todd Terry, MAW, Kevin Saunderson, MK, and Slam. These were good times.

    In 1996, after 3 years of spinning at Olympic records little offshoot club, Cream, Bottom Dollar became Funk Force. Leon had come on board, and the brothers’ studio skills had developed nicely. Increasingly bored by the corporate sound of the UK record labels, the brothers set out to subvert the cause, greatly inspired by the almost punky attitude being dished from Chicago label Relief and the then on-form Armand Van Helden. Their first tune, “Mind Games†was a dark n’ sleazy Twilo throbber signed to Ultra Records. This picked up support from dark house DJ’s of the time such as Terry Farley, instantly dispensing with the Bottom Dollar vibe. They remixed for the likes of Jay Williams (Testify), U2 (Mofo), Way Out West (Ajare),Olive (You’re Not Alone), and the Sneaker Pimps (Post Modern Sleaze). The Funk Force brothers were now getting cheeky and more creative, making everything in their own crappy little studio, and soon scored a biggie with Revival 3000 “The Mighty Highâ€. This was a dirty, raw and ruthless cut up of The Mighty Clouds of Joy’s “Mighty Highâ€, a 1975 down-home gospel LP track. They cut a slate, and passed it on to Doc Marten who broke the record all by himself.

    So, those were the good old days. Now it’s 2002, and Leon has decided that he’d rather live in San Francisco, where the weather is warm and the KFC actually tastes of chicken. Matthew is now spending all his time making records and DJ’ing with Matt Thomas as King Unique and Dirty, and with Leon as Ubu.

    Matt Thomas

    Matt 'Watkins' Thomas is a studio junky who has spent the last few years releasing dirty tech-house under the Watkins name, and tougher more progressive tracks as Mainframe. 1999's Watkins 'Heavyweight EP' found favour with Pete Tong, DJ Dan and Norman Cook (who was still playing it 18 months on at his Brighton beach bash). More recently Nick Warren, Deep Dish and Pete Tong championed the eponymous Mainframe single on Fuju, and the Mainframe remixes of Stylus Trouble 'Sputnik' led to howling, screaming and gibbering in clubs across the globe. Any attempt at providing an organized, coherent personal history is doomed to failure, due to the disorganized and incoherent events that have made up Matt's career to date.

    However, the following may help:- Matt entered the glamorous world of showbiz when, shortly after discovering a corpse in Leicester, he spent his entire year's rent on a synthesizer. His first taste of success came providing the music for an animation shown on BBC children's TV classic Take Hart. He still hasn't received any royalties.

    He spent the best part of the 90s working in various Liverpool studios where he helped nine million identical sub-Las guitar bands record nine million identical jangly guitar tracks. In his spare time he kept his underground house credentials intact by not setting foot in Cream even once, little knowing he'd eventually be booked to play there. Shortly after catching a final ferry across the Mersey and moving out into the wilds of Wales he acquired the Watkins name, taken from both a 1950s tape-echo and from a small furry cat known as Mr. Woo. In addition to his Watkins and Mainframe alter egos Matt releases collaborative tracks under a variety of different guises including King Unique, Fatty Acid and Headhuntaz. He has also worked as a programmer and engineer with various remixers, adding his unique 'bonus bleeps' to dozens of releases. He has more recording gear than he knows what to do with, but wants more. Matt Thomas can also occasionally be found damaging eardrums in good, honest northern clubs with his live filter-abuse sets.

    For the KingUnique Discography click here:

    http://www.discogs.com/artist/King_Unique

    For the KingUnique website click here:

    http://www.kingunique.com/

    For more information on B.Original the show click here:

    http://newyork.metromix**********/forum/thread-view.asp?threadid=525&posts=46&start=1

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