18th Jul 2009 - Nylon Icons, The Egg
200 York Way, London N7
This party is going to be so PHAT!!! Abe Duque, favourite party Playtime, and great DJ buddies Plastiq Chic, Big Daddy and Dan Cat, ooh, and it’s at my favourite London club Egg - er, HELLO! This one is going to be utter debauchery!!! Egg have only just finished repairing the place since Plastiq Chic and I smashed it up back in April!!
Here’s the deets;
Abe Duque is one of techno’s most inspiring and often unsung heroes, and on Jul 18 at Egg he’ll do the UK launch of new album DON’T BE SO MEAN.
He started as a resident at New York’s notorious Limelight, back in the days of Michael Alig and the club kids and the excess of “Bright Lights Big City”. Since then, he’s wound his own unique path through production and DJing.
Abe Duque has just released his third album - Don’t Be So Mean. Raveline in Germany said “watch out - the Duque is back!” and Tsugi in France called it “Brilliant”. Agoria called it “amazing amazing amazing” and it’s had raves from Tiga, Oliver Huntemann, Marc Romboy, Luke Solomon, Ewan Pearson, Simon Baker, Tocadisco, Nic Faniculli, Garnier, Hannah Holland, De:Bug and Groove, and DJ mag likes Abe so much that they’re run a competition for budding producers to win a day in a Hackney studio with him. With remixes coming from DJ Hell, techno legend Joey Beltram, Jay Haze, the UK’s own King Roc and ubercool European Tigerskin, the album takes elements of acid, Abe’s years of playing live everywhere from the US to Japan to Europe to South American, darker house and deep vocals - join the list at abeduque.net to get some early mixes, free tracks and updates…
POPCOX AND PLASTIQ CHIC
The empress of the dance floor and the embodiment of all things mind-blowing, Popcox is on a mission - a musical awakening to set the world free of the tiresome and the mundane. Sitting like a glace cherry atop a Bakewell tart of fantastic music; with over a decade’s DJ experience under her spangly belt, POPCOX is an utterly dragfabulous re-incarnation of a shall we say ‘more traditional’ DJ act. This weekend at Egg she’ll be going head to head with Liz Cirelli as Plastiq Chic - a new identify born out of a passion for uplifting French house, nu-disco and of course 80’s-influenced synth-driven full-on party music. When you hear her blend of infectious tunes, you just won’t be able to stop yourself from dancing…
DAN CAT (CATZMUZIK)
Back when the Catz were a duo, DJ mag called them “globe-trotting house/techno/minimal hotshots”. Now the Catz have disbanded, Dan’s just spent 10 months out traveling, recording, remixing techno classics like Andre Crom’s Notaufnahme for release on Veryverywrongindeed Recordings, and fiddling with basslines in preparation for the return of the Catzmuzik label – first track, Winterslow, out June with an amazing Max Cooper remix…
BIG DADDY / PLAYTIME
It’s “the club that whacks you on the arse with the racing post and calls you princess!” One of Egg’s earlier and stranger nights, Playtime was described by DJ mag as “one of clubland’s finest inventions”, by TNT as “the best mixed club in the capital” and by the Guardian as “terrific ... one of the last truly mixed parties left in London”. Now it’s back at Egg for one night only with founder Big Daddy - the party that gave the first-ever London slots to now pivotal figures like Claude vonStroke and Mason, and started a record label that now features wonky names like Riva Starr, Andre Crom, Worthy and Yankee Zulu and London’s own Hannah Holland - not to mention the hugely critically acclaimed debut of Mike Monday, Smorgasbord - an IDJ album of the month and a UK classic in its own right.
