A big thanks to everyone who came along to join us for our 15th Birthday celebrations.
A great time had by all! Might make it an annual summer party if the weather improves a bit in this damn country.

View the photos on Facebook or see below…

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A quick reminder that we’re having Blu Mar Ten’s birthday party this Saturday (21st Aug) to celebrate 15 years of knocking out incredibly niche electronic music, and everyone who’s ever bought, pirated, played, laughed at or otherwise enjoyed our little tunes is invited along too.

WHERE & WHEN
The weather forecast is favourable right now, so assuming there’s sunshine we’ll be on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath from 14:00 until whenever.

If you don’t already know it, Parliament Hill is where everyone goes to fly kites and overlooks the whole of London. See it on GoogleMaps HERE.

If it’s raining, we’ll relocate to The Garden Gate pub, which is just a couple of minutes away in South End Green. See directions from Parliament Hill to the Garden Gate HERE.

TRANSPORT
It’s really easy to get to Hampstead Heath. To give you an idea, this is the route from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Hill

Trains
Hampstead Heath or Gospel Oak overground stations bring you pretty much directly to the location and connect to several other lines across London.

Tube
Nearest tube stations are either Belsize Park or Hampstead, both on the Northern Line

Buses
Several buses stop at South End Green which is next to the Heath.
The 24 bus runs through central London, (Charing Cross Rd / Tottenham Court Rd / Camden etc..), and terminates at South End Green so you can’t get lost if you hop on that.
The 168 bus also terminates at South End Green and comes from Central London.
The 46 bus comes from Farringdon, (going through Kings Cross / St Pancras / Camden and passes through South End Green.
There are a few other buses that go through South End Green, but I can’t remember what they are. Anyway, once you’re at South End Green you’re just a few minutes walk from the location. Map HERE.

FOOD / DRINK
We’ll provide a bunch of drinks, (or put some money behind the bar at the Garden Gate if it’s raining), but we’re not *that* rich and some of you drink pretty heavily, so if you’d like to bring some additional alcohol / soft drinks / snacks then please feel free.

So yeah, hopefully see some of you there.

Visit the Facebook event page if you want to see who else is coming.

Email us if you get stuck. We’ll be picking up messages all the time.

We must say a big thank you to the ShahDJs in Vancouver, Lanny, Liam & all their crew in Edmonton, Slim Pickins in Calgary and most of all Capro & Wendy in Toronto for organising the whole visit and making it run so smoothly.
Thanks also to all the nice people I met at all the shows along the way; A whole new bunch of friends I’m sure we’ll see again some time in the future.

We’ll put up more photos and video soon, but in the meantime here’s a selection from the Toronto party featuring a host of nutters from that hive of villainy Torontojungle.com.

If you have photos or video from any of the parties feel free to drop me an email with the links.

Click below for the full photoset…

All photos courtesy of Bace.

Thanks also goes to Nookie for organising the night, Doc Scott, Stray, DV8, Deezim & Five Alive for providing the evening’s entertainment, and Andrew Attah for the photos

Click below for the full gallery…

Doc Scott
Nookie
Blu Mar Ten
Stray
DV8
Deeizm
Five Alive

Thursday 12th November
9pm – 2am
Free before 10pm, £5 thereafter
@ The Last Days of Decadence
145 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JE
See on Google Maps

Launch party Facebook page

The Producers Conference, Guildford, UK

When:
May 9th, 2009 from 12 noon to 5pm

Where:
The Electric Theatre at the Academy of Contemporary Music
Onslow Street
Guildford
Surrey

This interactive learning session is only £15 per person. Tickets are available from the Electric Theatre box office: 01483 444789
www.electrictheatre.co.uk

Further information regarding the event from UK distributor Sound Technology on 01462 480000, www.theproducersconference.co.uk

CONFERENCE FEATURES

Remix Masterclass with
A GUY CALLED GERALD

Where do you start with A Guy Called Gerald? A hidden gem, the gateway between Chicago house / Detroit Techno and the UK dance music explosion in the late 80s. He is the first UK acid house producer and probably the first producer to have two instrumental dance tracks in the UK charts at the same time. In 1988 he co-founded 808 State but left the band early on. His collaborations stem from Frankie Knuckles, Goldie, Finley Quaye and Derrick May through to Herbie Hancock, remixed for David Bowie, Lamb, Stone Roses, Black Uhuru, Can, Tricky, Roman Fluegel and The Orb and toured with New Order, Tricky and Bebel Gilberto.

Official home page:
www.guycalledgerald.com
A Guy Called Gerald on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/aguycalledgerald

Production Masterclass with
BLU MAR TEN

Blu Mar Ten’s first track to be released was ‘The Fountain’ / ‘Lunar’ in 1996 on Way Out Records. The track appeared on numerous compilations and was named by Fabio as his ‘tune of the year’. This was closely followed by the Blu Mar Ten remix of Erykah Badu’s first single ‘On & On’ for MCA Records, which reached the mainstream top 10 music chart. Blu Mar Ten tracks have been played by DJs as diverse as Tom ‘The Jedi’ Middleton, Pete Tong, Chris Coco & Rob da Bank, Felix da Housecat, Bobby Friction, Ben Watt, Carl Cox, Lee Burridge, Erol Alkan, Howie B, Nerm & D-Code and Mary Anne Hobbs.

Official home page:
www.blumarten.com
Blu Mar Ten on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/blumarten

ReCycle Masterclass with
DJ ALEX BLANCO

In over 15 years of professional DJing and production, spanning the underground to the mainstream, he has worked with, produced, and remixed such names as Seb Fontaine, Simon Dale, Just Jack, Simply Red, Gabriella Cilmi, Out Of Office, Jon Carter, Oliver Lang, Deepgroove and far too many more to mention. Working as himself or under one of his many pseudonyms, his encyclopaedic knowledge of music from the 50s to the present day lets him draw on influences spanning soul to pop, reggae to rock, house or hip-hop – giving him a funky edge that’s as comfortable on the radio as it is in the clubs.

DJ Alex Blanco on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/djalexblanco

Mix/ Mastering Masterclass with
GARY BROMHAM

Gary began his production/writing career in Iceland where he co-produced the Eurovision entry (nil points we hear you say!), made an album with jazz-funk band Mezzoforte and worked with the now infamous artist, Bjork. Since then Gary Bromham has worked with, or written for, a string of internationally successful artists including Sheryl Crow, Editors, Lemar, Kylie and Dannii Minogue, Tina Arena and Andrew Ridgeley

About the Academy of Contemporary Music

The Academy of Contemporary Music is one of the world leaders in music industry education.

Over the past 12 years ACM has developed some of the most innovative music industry education currently available anywhere in the world and offers full and part time courses in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Music Production, Creative Sound Design and Music Business.

www.acm.ac.uk

Recorded in Gent, Belgium in 2006 the mix features the talents of MC System and is packed to the gills with classics to get you in the mood.

Download the set here

And don’t forget, on March 27th all roads lead to HUB for the Atmosphere Old Skool Session. See you there…..

I’ve deliberately cut right back on DJ work in the last 8 months or so in order to concentrate on writing the album, and when you’re stuck in a studio for months on end it’s easy to forget there are actually people out there who really, genuinely get something out of the music. So it was incredibly encouraging and affirming, (ugh, I hate that word..but it’s the right one), to meet these people face to face and be reminded how worthwhile this strange activity of music writing can be.

Massive massive thanks to everyone in Poland for showing us such a great time. Also a big thank you to Ros and Wiosna for looking after us, and of course to Nookie for organising the shows in the first place.
I’ll put up some photos etc when I get them.

Remember this Friday and Saturday sees the second half of the tour touch down in Szczecin on Friday night and Sopot on Saturday

Soundcheck before the club opened. Track playing is ‘If I Could Tell You’

..and Ros playing the same tune at the end of his set

Blu Mar Ten…Tracks playing are ‘Vanishing Point’ by Ulterior Motive going into ‘Jungle Music’ by Logistics

…and here are some photos…Thanks to everyone for makign us so welcome. We had a great night

Supporting these godfathers of the scene on March 27th will be Blu Mar Ten, Nookie, Big Bud, DJ Shine, Deeizm & MC Mojo

Join the Facebook Event Page to be kept up to date on the event, and make sure you invite your friends to witness this extremely rare line-up.

27th March 2009
@ Hub (tube: aldgate east)
10pm – 4am
£3 before 11pm, £5 after

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Details of Part 2 coming very soon….