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PADDED CELL (Live & DJ Set) @ MAXIMUM JOY // Fri August 11th

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  • 03-08-2006 3:20pm
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    Maximum Joy
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    MAXIMUM JOY PRESENT
    PADDED CELL (live & DJ set)
    & Maximum Joy DJ's
    Underground @ Kennedy's, 32-33 Westland Row, D2.
    Fri 11/08 - 9:30pm till 3am - €10



    PADDED CELL
    (DC RECORDINGS)
    Richard Sen and Neil Beatnik are not normal people. Having won notoriety as a Bronx Dog (Heavenly) and a Dirty Beatnik (Wall of Sound) respectively, Padded Cell came about in 2002, partly as a response to the conservatism of early millennium dance music but also to act as a conduit through which they could conduct and realize their most outlandish ideas.

    Originally let loose in order to remix Big Two Hundred's 'Let it Bleed', their first full scale release came in the Autumn of 2005 with Signal Failure, a prowling slab of sub aqua freak funk that reached like an ESP projection from within the Cell to the darkest corners of the dance floor.

    With a sound that draws from sources as diverse as Goblin, The Velvet Underground, Arthur Russell, Prince, Carl Craig and label boss J Saul Kane, analogue fetishism and creeping psychosis are key themes, as is a need to create something that is both honest and unique.

    It is their intent to fashion a sound that is soulful and emotional, yet also dark and narcotic; something that can be understood simultaneously by the head and the heart, getting under the skin in different ways. Rather than seeking to fit into a pre-existing niche, its about creating an idiosyncratic sound that is peculiar to their respective personalities and reflective of their combined experience.

    A shared history as club deejays and producers means that even the most mind bending elements of their sound are conducted through dance floor focused channels; disco breaks and rolling percussion combining with menacing synth work outs, electro sensibilities and live instrumentation to create an unholy brew that has been described variously as 'dark-disco', 'goth-disco-rock', and perhaps most tellingly of all, 'devils-disco'.

    The Padded Cell inhabit a hinterland between many worlds and it is there that they conduct their alchemical experiments, the experiments that draw the listener into shadows with whispers and opaque promises; follow your ears and You'll find yourself trapped within.

    WHAT THE PRESS SAY
    'Are You Anywhere?' is shot from the same ESG-on-horse drugs gun barrel as its predecessor but if anything is even more claustrophobic, underpinned by a monochrome bassline and saxophone squeals straight outta James White & The Blacks' 'Contort Yourself'.
    IDJ Magazine
    Hip-house, acid and new beat (youngsters – ask your granddad) have all had their corpses exhumed by musical Dr Frankensteins looking to create a fresh new kind of boogie… Padded Cell, have taken the Italo sound and injected it with a healthy dose of dub swagger
    BBC Collective
    Quite simply deep electronic fuelled grooves to let you lose control…
    Ali Tillett (Big Chill/Universal Vibes)
    Listen at www.myspace.com/paddedcell

    Many Thanks,
    Maximum Joy Team
    www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub

    Future Maximum Joy events:
    25th August - 10LEC6 (Troubleman Unlimited) // Cyril Briscoe (SiSi & 110th Street)
    22nd September - Imitation Electric Piano (Duophonic)
    20th October - Steeple Remove (France)


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