Upcoming gigs for June & July – Kid Sublime and Al Kent

Kid Sublime – Friday 10 June

WAX MUSEUM RECORDS AND DR.CROFT PRESENTS…

DIRECT FROM AMSTERDAM

KID SUBLIME
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(REDNOSE DISTRIKT/ RUSH HOUR RECORDINGS / KINDRED SPIRITS/ DOPENESS GALORE)

BASEMENT SESSIONS OZ TOUR!

Innovator of modern soul. One of the first to flip beatdown sample based house on the Rush hour imprint well before blog driven abelton edits became the cool thing! From hip hop upbringings working at the dutch brand of the FAT BEATS record store (RIP) and holding down soul and underground RNB flavour for the KINDRED SPIRITS family. An original REDNOSE DISTRIKT member and man of pure,raw,original flavour!

Growing up in Amsterdam, Jacob Otten, aka Kid Sublime, started to play drums and piano at the early age of five. As a teenager he founded his first band with schoolmates, dedicated to hardcore punk, and short after was heavily attracted to skateboarding and hip hop. Hooked on Gangstarr’s ‘Step In The Arena’ video he found his new passion: scratching. He started practicing, won a Dutch scratching contest and landed a job in the Fat Beats record store in Amsterdam. Only 17 at the time he received local fame through his mix tapes, and got an MPC to enhance his mixes. A year later Jacob joined Dutch-Brazilian band Zuco 103 and travelled the world as their tour DJ. Short after he released his first solo tracks on Steven de Peven’s Zephons Mom label. The two formed their infamous Rednose Distrikt outfit and in 2003 released their highly acclaimed debut album ‘Iller Dan Je Ouders’ (Iller Than Your Parents) on Amsterdam’s Kindred Spirits imprint. Jacob went on to start his own label called Jahwell (in conjunction with Rush Hour Records), dedicated to soulful house music with a b-boy attitude. His first solo album as Kid Sublime, entitled Basement Soul, created quite a stir among taste making connoisseurs and featured guest vocals by the likes of Melodee, Lilian Vieira (Zuco 103), Nicky Guiland (Heavy), Alma Horton and Jneiro Jarel among others. Always looking to try something different, he followed his LP with Rappin’ Blak on Dopeness Galore, and his collection of ballads called The Alicia Beat Tape. Big!

+ SUPPORTS

INKSWEL
KIM DEZEN
RAMBL
KANO 172
BENNY BADGE

Al Kent – Saturday 2 July

MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS – WAX MUSEUM RECORDS AND PMJ PRESENTS…

AL KENT (BBE/MILLION DOLLAR DISCO/GLASGOW)

As a first-class DJ, record collector, producer and promoter – Al Kent is a man that lives and breathes disco music. Born in Glasgow in the late 60s, Al has been collecting disco, funk, northern soul and house music since the early 80s. Over his three decades of collecting Al has amassed one of the world’s largest collections of …rare disco records. This has translated into amazing DJ sets which have taken Al all over the UK and Europe with appearances at the main room at Southport Weekender, Joey Negro’s Z Records party in London and Respect is Burning in Paris – the latter two at the personal invitation of Joey Negro and Dimitri from Paris who consider Al their favourite disco DJ.

Al has turned his love of DJ’ing and collecting into a passion for producing original disco music. In 2008 he released his acclaimed debut album “Better Days” on BBE with his band the Million Dollar Orchestra and in 2009 released his own “Secret Sounds” LP. Al is also responsible for releasing over 60+ edits on labels including Jisco, KAT Music, StillLove4Music and his own Million Dollar Disco imprint, with more productions to follow.

In addition to DJing, collecting and producing Al promotes the Million Dollar Disco parties in Glasgow, which have hosted Dimitri From Paris, Rick Wilhite, Sadar and Rahaan as well as the Bad Mouthin’ warehouse parties where Al and Rahaan play a monthly residency.

Due to his deep musical knowledge, BBE Records asked Al to compile their Disco Love compilation series which focuses on uncovering rare disco and soul. After the first volume sold out in record time, Al has just released Volume 2 and will be releasing the “Best of Disco Demands” box set on BBE in July 2011.

supported by
MANCHILD
JULIEN LOVE
ANDRAS FOX
KIM DEZEN
BENNY BADGE

$10 entry- very limited capacity