Modular Presents…
OK OK #3
Ft.
Dangerous Dan(Bang Gang / Ksubi)
& Magic Happens (SYD/ Modular)
If you don’t know already, OK OK is a series of two-monthly parties presented by Modular. Modular is one of the world’s most influential independent record labels.
Their stable of international recording artists includes: Cut Copy, The Presets, Ladyhawke, Klaxons, Muscles, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Van She, Robyn, Soulwax, Canyons, Ajax, The Avalanches, The Bang Gang Deejays, The Bumblebeez, Chromeo, Colder, MSTRKRFT, New Young Pony Club, Leave Them All Behind, The Whitest Boy Alive and Tame Impala.
Modular parties are famous the world over, with nights already established in New York, London, France, Japan and throughout Australia.
OK OK is Modular’s exclusive first foray into New Zealand.
AUCKLAND
Saturday 27th of June
Cassette Number Nine
Supports ….
Magic Happens (SYD/ Modular), Daniel Farley, Cyril Orson and Cam Robertson
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
Magic Happens
Like a fine wine, Magic Happens grew up on a vineyard. From a young age he learned the values of drawing a line in the sand without putting all your eggs in one basket. After initially falling in amongst a rag-tag bunch of misfits with nothing to lose and something to prove, a youthful Magic Happens would soon reach a point of inconsolable disillusion and eventually come to formulate his own system of beliefs and ideals, ultimately arriving at the notion of doing what's best for the party.
Upon this moment of clarity he ruthlessly fled Adelaide for the open pastures of Darlinghurst. It was here that he emerged as a legend and got "pretty anthemic" in the face of adversity. An epicentre of taste, Magic Happens then went on to get real smooth and hit the disco tip, at the time one of few to do so in a landscape dominated by murky swamp-house. Which brings us to the present, a temperate climate in which Magic Happens flourishes heaps all the time.
A former affiliate of the Master Celebrator Crew, Magic Happens broke away from his former muchachadores on the 18th of March, 2008. At this juncture in time he inquired about "being in Wu-Tang for a while" but was denied membership by the RZA on the grounds of never having killed anyone - a harsh but honest judgement. Ever resilient, Magic Happens kept on slamming life and slamming it in realtime.
1st Release of Presales $15 on sale from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Real Groovy on the 8th of June
