Tag Promotions First Birthday Featuring:
NAPT (UK)
Saturday 12 April
Fu, 4 Wolfe Street
Tag Promotions is rather happy to announce that we have survived our first year in the crazy jungle that is Auckland’s dance scene.
In its first calendar year of operation, Tag Promotions held 17 events at various venues featuring the following 21 International acts, most of which were flown from European cities for your enjoyment. Friendly (uk), Rennie Pilgrem (uk), The Freestylers (uk), The Rogue Element (uk), Madox (italy), Defcon1 (australia), The Breakfastaz (uk), Merka (uk), Hyper (uk), Nick Thayer (Australia / twice), The Scratch Perverts (uk), Adam Freeland (uk), Freq Nasty (uk), CtrlZ (uk), Aquasky (uk), Meat Katie (uk), Jono Fernandez (Australia), The Autobots (uk), Deekline & Wizard (uk), Tayo (uk) & Koma & Bones (uk).
By booking these Internationals, along with more than one hundred slots made available for local support acts and thousands of happy punters through the doors, Tag Promotions has helped strengthen the Breakbeat sound in Auckland. We are by no means stopping however and our next year promises to be even larger. To prove this point we would like to announce that Breaks superstars NAPT(UK)will be joining us at our first year celebrations in April 2008, and it is fitting that this will be the first time the award winning duo has ventured to New Zealand.
Local Support from:
Dalai
Apex
Page3
Randomplay
Paul O'rion
A Spark
With your host: MC TWINCAM
Presales $20 available now from Real Groovy, Cosmic Corner or by texting NAPT to 858. Email Sarah @ Tag to buy four, get two free. We're nice like that.
Winners of Breakthrough DJ of the year, Breakspoll 2006
Nominated for Best Producer, Breakspoll 2007
"That sound...What’s that coming from…? then it hit me. I closed my eyes and became locked into this incredible sense of infinity, of timelessness, a swirling centrifuge of bliss".
Genre mangling N-Funk futurists NAPT dwell below the central streets of an overcrowded metropolis in a near pitch black environment. When the dark becomes punctuated by the flickering lights of analogue racks they come to life making a soundtrack for your insides and out. With one hand caressing the golden musical sounds of years gone by, the other beckons a call to technological future. Look backwards, look forwards, look inside. Harbouring an unabashed love for musicality and unswerving passion for bass and rhythm NAPT have created the N-Funk sound. A sound that nods towards the inner warmth of early house, hails the music that blew out of UK pirate radio and pays tribute to the block-rocking energy of those beats that came chopped up from NY city.
NAPT’s first release was a remix for Sony of Jon Cutlers club hit 'Its Yours' which reached Number 27 in the UK singles chart. They then went on to produce a string of club smashing breaks singles for established labels including Plastic Raygun and Rat Records. Recently their “Contrast†four part EP series saw them work with luminaries MJ Cole, MC Skibadee, G-Double, Ken Mac and Miss Trouble. “Contrast†has consistently been at the top of breakbeat charts, played on radio shows the world over and gathered support from all sides of the dance music spectrum. From house supremo Miles Dyson to cool kids favourite Kissy Sell Out to UK grime ambassador DJ Cameo, the N-Funk sound has infiltrated many a DJ’s box. Their tracks appear on numerous compilations and their productions have been used on several international advertisement campaigns and television shows. NAPT have also remixed some of the undergrounds most respected artists including MJ Cole, The Freestylers, Ills, Klaus Hill, Reid Speed and major label artists on Island Def Jam and Sony.
In 2006 NAPT’s in demand DJ skills scooped them the Breakspoll Breakthrough DJ award. This along with their futuristic N-Funk sound has led to many international shows including four tours of the U.S/Canada, three of France, three of Spain, not to mention numerous other European dates and has seen them become residents at one of London’s most esteemed clubs Herbal, guest on high profile radio shows (BBC Radio 1, Kiss FM, Galaxy FM) and receive rapturous applause as they closed Fabric’s main room at Breakspoll 2007. Catch NAPT as they spread the N-Funk gospel worldwide.
Ignore the hype and listen, listen to the future sound that is N-Funk.
www.napt-music.com
www.tagpromotions.co.nz
www.myspace.com/naptuk
Thanks to Tag's Sponsors: Sol, Redbull, Jagermeister, Technics, Ortofon and Pioneer[/b]
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. Have a good one y'all