Modular & Sick Disco Present …
OK OK
Leave Them All Behind III - Official Launch Party
Ft.
Canyons
(DFA/Modular)
Dangerous Dan
(Bang Gang / Ksubi)
AUCKLAND
Saturday 26th of September @Cassette Number Nine.
Doors 9PM / $10-$15 Door sales only
Supports …. Cyril Orson / Cam Robertson / DJ Lotion
CANYONS BIO
Canyons equal two producers/DJs Leo and Fred Cherry. As influenced and inspired by soul, hip hop and psych rock as they are by disco and early house, Canyons write music that sounds just as good in the club as it does on your sailboat. Live instruments are combined with drum machines, percussion, analogue effects, vocals and samples to create a sound that is refreshing, relevant and all their very own.
Canyons’ first record The Lovemore EP, released on their own label Hole in the Sky in May this year caused quite a stir amongst the upper echelon of international club DJ’s. With plays from the likes of DJ Harvey, Todd Terry, Tim Sweeney, Love fingers, Aeroplane, DJ Spun, 40 Thieves and New York’s Cosmo Baker, the people making the taste definitely took note. Only a few short months later and the Canyons sound is back by demand, with remixes for artists such as Ladyhawke, Tame Impala and Lost Valentinos. With an album in the pipelines and a string of 12″ releases scheduled for release later this year on labels in the US and Europe, Canyons definitely have their work cut out for them.
Avid record collectors and DJ’s alike, Canyons play plenty of the good stuff – new and old – depending on the context you find them in. One can expect to hear anything from Italo, Disco, Acid House, electro, soul and psychedelic rock. Canyons never let bpm’s stand in the way of selecting the right tune, so expect it all in the same set. When it comes down to it – Canyons play the music for people that love the music.
DANGEROUS DAN
Dangerous Dan. Famed originally for his role in Bang Gang parties, then later for his music production credits on all the Bang Gang / Modular compilations, and also for his role as head of Ksubi clothing (what many have called Australia’s #1 fashion label)
He shot to fame with his fellow Bang Gang members as they single handedly sweated a whole new culture into Australian nightlife with their club night with the same name. Since then they’ve broken dance floors across Australia and the world spurring a music revolution. Their compilations, put out yearly by Modular, consistently shock and redefine the music scene. Bang Gang’s 2008 release ‘D is for Disco E is for Dancing,’ is on the tip of everyone’s tongue and widely acclaimed as the best compilation of its genre.
You can also attribute Dangerous Dan for much of Modular’s impeccable chic. He’s head and co-founder of ‘Ksubi.’ The fashion label that hit headlines worldwide with stunts like opening a show with 250 rats running down the runway and throwing models off a three-story cruiser into the middle of the Sydney Harbour.
DANGEROUS DAN.
By TIGA.
Dangerous Dan is the original party rocker.
Not the first man to rock a party, but THE original party rocker.
(and he is still younger than me!)
One quarter of the bang gang deejays (aussie dj super troupe)
One half of ksubi (my favourite label) brother of beni (riot in
belgium)
And friend of mine.
Dangerous is great, he loves to party.
He loves to DJ and he DJ’s good too! Sometimes better than
ME!
The best bit about Dangerous DJing is that girls dance. Girls
girls girls, dancing all over the place.
Whether he is slamming techno at festivals or jamming old
school disco at little late night clubs, girls are dancing, people
are dancing!
He also made one of my favourite records of last year
(dangerous dan and nicky vanshe - around the world again)
I played it in Paris and the place went fucking crazy, one guy
smashed
a chair over his own face, somebody else lit his hair on fire,
everyone was screaming “THIS IS THE BEST RECORD
EVER”……… I had to turn the whole system off just to calm
people down. It also happens to be the only record i have on the
wall in my studio….. It makes me wish i loved guitars.
TIGA
So his credentials over a phonecall and off the top of his head
are.
Spun wax with….. Me, daft punk, soulwax, scissor sisters, mylo,
stuart price, erol, james murphy, boyz noize, justice, medhi, and
even roger sanchez!!!
Played at most festivals in the world as the bang gang, half the
clubs in the world on his own.
He is my ultimate recommendation to rock a party.
Dan is my man.
My moon my man.
TIGA
Thanks to Red Bull, 1AM, Daniel Le Brun, Sick Disco, Neon Sleep, Juice TV and Epaulette.
26th of September / 9pm / Cassette Number Nine / Door Sales ONLY / $10 early birds - $15 latecomers
