EC & LD present Egyptian Lover [LIVE]

Saturday June 2nd at The Underground in Kennedy's.Westland Row.D2

Lunar Disko and Electric City present:

The Egyptian Lover feat Jamie Jupiter - LIVE [Egyptian Empire- Los Angeles]
Skkatter [skkatter.net]
DJ Simon Conway [Electric City]

This coming June bank holiday sees another special Electric City/Lunar
Disko event @ The Underground. Flying straight in from Los Angeles,
USA, is the king of the 808 beats, Egyptian Lover aka Greg Broussard.
Alongside Miami electro hero Jamie Jupiter, 'The Lover' will be
providing a slick jam of oldschool vocoder electro beats straight from
his famous 808 machine. A Live show not to be missed for fans of all
things electro and hip-hop....The Lover rules the 808 like no other!

Support on the night comes in the form of EC resident DJ Simon Conway
and Fairview's very own 'Freakaholic' Skkatter who will be providing
plenty of oldschool electro jams before 'The Lover' and Jupiter take
to the stage.


The Egyptian Lover started out as a D.J. in Los Angeles with Uncle
Jam's Army doing dances at the L.A. Sports Arena with over 10,000
party people, and then began recording around Los Angeles in 1983 as a
member of the Radio Crew and later that year released "Dial-A-Freak"
as part of Uncle Jamm's Army. The Egyptian Lover released his debut
solo single and club hit "Egypt, Egypt" in 1984. It was followed by
more dance hits, including "And My Beat Goes Boom", "What Is a DJ If
He Can't Scratch", "Egypt Egypt", and "Girls", with even more that
came like "You're so Fine", "The Lover", "Sexy Style", "The Alesby
Inn" and "Freak a Holic".

The Lover also established his own record company, Egyptian Empire
Records, which included electro artists such as Rodney O & Joe Cooley
.

Similar in style and feel to those other artists, Egyptian Lover and
related West Coast electro groups and producers such as World Class
Wrecking Cru, Chris "The Glove" Taylor and the Unknown DJ took beatbox
manipulation to new levels, fusing signature loops with ample
syncopation, darker, modal melodies and impressive turntable tricks.
While Egyptian Lover records didn't start appearing until several
years after the New York and Miami electro scenes were already in full
swing, by the mid-'80s Egyptian Lover cuts like Egypt, Egypt" were
standards among club DJs, particularly in the breakdance scene.

Early cuts such as "Computer Love" and "Dance" were among Egyptian
Lover's most experimental, with the material appearing through the
latter half of the '80s increasingly flirting with full-blown rap by
adding more vocals and melodic hooks. While more of his material dates
from the latter phase, it's his earlier releases that remain his most
accomplished, and they're routinely namechecked by a new generation of
producers such as Autechre and I-F inspired by electro's first wave.

In 2005 "The Egyptian Lover" released his first single since 1994,
entitled "Party" and backed with "Dancefloor",he then followed that
12" with the album Platinum Pyramids in Feb. 2006. By the end of 2006
The Egyptian Lover went into the studio with Jamie Jupiter and
recorded "UFO" and "Futuristic" to be on the new "Keep it Hot" 12"
coming out in the summer of 2007.


http://www.myspace.com/therealegyptianlover
http://www.myspace.com/lunardisko
http://www.electricity-dublin.com

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July @ Lunar Disko

1st Birthday @ The Underground

Mr Pauli [LIVE] (Novamen / Viewlexx - Den Haag)
Intergalactic Gary (Viewlexx - Den Haag)

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