TIME MACHINE Step Back: Dance Party
Dance in and out of time: an expanded dance party featuring:
+ Cliques
+ Four Door
+ Tuff Sherm
+ Tyson Koh
Date: 27.07.12
Time: 10pm-3am
Location: Underground Bar, The Oxford Hotel, 134 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Tickets: $10 + booking fee (presale) / $15 on the door
CLIQUES is the collaborative project of Sydney-based producers 48/4 and Hensen. Both producers have been fixtures of Sydney’s electronic music scene for several years, with both producing a steady stream of material, initiating the 104 Collective, and Henson being one third of Seekae. This duo make complex primitive music which is crunchy yet airy, and spacious yet claustrophobic – resulting in a unique style of dance music drawing on the full spectrum of UK bass and club music, augmented with touches of trap, and laced with elegant arpeggios. In 2012 they have already received massive support from London’s Rinse FM and tastemaker Oneman, recorded their debut release.
FOUR DOOR is the collaboration of members of Holy Balm and Naked on the Vague. Together they create a smoky four to the floor sleaze machine. Ghostly voices and disembodied sax float in an ether of heinous riffs and stark percussion. Utilising the analogue technology of dancefloors past, Four Door create a haunted beatscape guaranteed to induce head nods and sultry dancing. Formerly performing as Hochman & Hopkins, this pair create a woozy smudge of pan-genre dance music.
TUFF SHERM Who is Tuff Sherm? One of Sydney’s finest goes incognito to bring his signature sounds to the dance floor. We don’t know what he’ll be doing or playing, because he’s an enigma; and that’s the nature of precocious talent. It could be two step/ techno/ garage/ grime/ house/ trap/ miami bass/ boom bap all mixed up into a slightly unsettling brain explosion. Come along and witness this walking mystery thread the needle, and find out the true meaning of Tuff Sherm.
TYSON KOH’S career in music is pretty weird. He started DJing out in public regularly when he co-founded the now defunct Thursday club night Health Club. Since then his vast and varied music know-how has had him DJ at almost every venue Sydney has to offer as well the ones Sydney doesn’t, by way of various illegal outdoor and warehouse parties. Even though he can’t play an instrument to save himself Mr. Koh has wound up programming music for events ranging from Sydney Festival to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Tyson has held down radio shows on community stations like FBi and 2SER for the last four years and currently works as a producer on the ABC’s iconic music video program rage.