NRGIZE
Saturday December 6th
Ministry - Lichfield Street
ANDY FARLEY (UK)
http://www.andyfarley.com/
NICK SENTIENCE (UK)
http://www.nicksentience.net/
DICK JOHNSON (NZ)
http://www.magikjohnson.com/
Local Support:
Robbie Glass, Toby Nice, Francesca
Fil Alexander, Dave B, Jared Kelly B2B Rips,
Wongie, Ferrous, Roland, Aragorn
Summer is here, Christmas is just around the corner and work functions are already starting to take their toll, but before you even think about having a quiet night in and saving for the silly season we have one last night of hedonistic debauchery that you know you can’t miss…mark it down, get the Monday off work and we’ll see you at the bar.
The legendary Andy Farley has enjoyed a career of phenomenal success on a worldwide scale. His name is synonymous with hard dance and his influence and impact on club culture throughout the past decade is immeasurable.
Renowned for taking hard dance DJing to the next level. He has strong ties with revered clubbing institutions such as Trade, Tidy, Godskitchen, Creamfields, Slinky and Euphoria, and can satisfy every type of crowd, whether it’s 150 hard house extremists in the environs of a dark and sweaty underground club or 10,000 festival-goers jumping joyfully in a sun-scorched summer field.
At the forefront of cutting-edge hard dance production for the past decade, he was one of the first to add an innovative techno edge to straight up hard house, and never seems happy unless his latest studio creation has either pushed back boundaries or knocked them down completely. Having worked with every label and producer under the sun Andy’s ability to adapt has seen him land residencies with some the UK’s biggest brands and forwardthinking events including Party Proactive at Turnmills which sees him spin everything from house to electro and techno to hard house.
His weekly show on Ministry of Sound on Saturday mornings sees an ever-increasing army of internet devotees from every corner of the globe tune in to the most upfront hard edged music from around the globe, mixed to perfection.
Nick Sentience - Trance/Psy
At just 16 years of age a bright-eyed Nick Fryer sent a demo disc to legendary magazine, Future Music. The next month his track was on that same magazine’s front cover. Soon after came a call from dance music power house Media Records and a cash advance from the label so Nick could set up a studio in his bedroom.
Nick’s school buddies Martin Dawson (who went onto become Electro legend King Roc) and Tom Neville (international house dj & the man behind one of the genre’s most well known tracks ‘Just Fuck’) agreed to be part of his new band “Sentienceâ€.
Nick then went to local club promoter Ed (the now infamous Ed Real) and in December 1998 the band Sentience did their first live PA. As fate would have it that night Ed Real met Peter Pritchard and they agreed to manage “Sentience†and begin a new label project, which was to be called Nukleuz Records (which went onto become the #1 uk selling label in 2001,2002,2003,2004).
As Nukleuz grew so did the demand for Nick Sentience’s production skills and dj’ing talent and he was soon touring the world and remixing chart topping tracks such as Storm “Time to Burn,†Safri Duo “Played Alive,†Mauro Picotto “Komodo†and Mario Piu “The Vision.â€
Fast-forward to 2008 and Nick has well and truly conquered hard dance and is now making his mark on the international psy trance scene. With his third album set for imminent release we’re in for a treat.
Dick Johnson - Electro/Tech
From late 80’s Manchester clubs heaving to the sounds of The Happy Mondays, New Order and The Smiths, to the peaceful Auckland suburbs chirping with the sounds of native New Zealand birds, DJ/Producer Dick ‘Magik’ Johnson’s life has been a journey in sound. Since making the move from England to New Zealand in the early 2000’s, Magik has made himself at home down under, although his heavy production output means DJs around the world are never short of a piece of Magik to throw in their sets.
It’s a long way from the early days when Magik rocked his own room at the legendary Manchester nightclub The Hacienda. From there an interest in production developed, and before long he was producing tracks for Cream’s Olympic label, New Order’s Pleasure Recordings, Manchester’s Paper Recordings collective and then establishing his own globally respected vinyl label Shaboom Records and more recently his new digital label Magiktrax, distributed by NRK Music. His second album, You Are Sound (on Underwater) with the massive single “East West Connection†has been leaving dancefloors quivering in its tech electro wake and with a multitude of remixes and releases for the best in the business the music loving public well and truly believe in Magik.
Tickets
Tickets for our final event for 2008 are available from our loyal supporters Cosmic Corner.
Early BirdTickets//$40 + BF & Receive an Exclusive Nick Sentience or Andy Farley mix recorded exclusively for their 2008 NZ tour.
Second ReleaseTickets//$45 + BF
AdvanceTickets//$50 + BF
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