***slam@dolans Limerick***

badboyblast

STRUTT ACCESS ALL AREAS with SLAM ( Soma )

Dolan’s Warehouse,
Dock road, Limerick.
September 22nd----Doors@9pm

Slam plays the intimate venue dolans warehouse, limerick on Saturday 22nd of September.
In the Warehouse - Stuart and Orde(SLAM) will be doing laptops and controllers for 3hrs or more!! Bad Boy Blast & Cian Frawley with a special live show from Sykes to warm you up!
Upstairs keeping it nice and deeeeeep, Pa Mulqueen & DiD all night long.......

Do not miss this.... door tax 18beans.
No dress code, wear what you like,….just have a good time.
Tickets are available on www.ticketmaster.ie and www.dolanspub.com

Upcoming @ STRUTT.

October bank holiday weekend 27+28th.
Two nights over 3 rooms with everything from house / Funk/ Techno/ Reggae
Over 15 djs and acts.
More info to follow soon!!
Tickets will be available on www.ticketmaster.ie and www.dolanspub.com

Biog and press info
Biography
Following on from the rather massive Azure single, Slam bring you their outstanding fourth studio album HUMAN RESPONSE. Not content to standstill, this album sees Stuart McMillan and Order Meikle pick up the techno baton, twisting the genre even further still, to create a forward-thinking new sound all of their own. These are artists at their creative peak. In this technological age Slam utilise the human touch to inject a myriad of emotions into their electronic machine music. The end result is much more than a collection of tracks. HUMAN RESPONSE flows and grows and, in an era of single track downloads, Slam provide an album that you can listen to from start to finish.

HUMAN RESPONSE opens with Subject Invisible, a sublime haunting piece of introspective
electronica that sets the mood for the journey ahead. No One Left to follow, the first of two collaborations, follows, as My Robot Friend delivers hypnotic vocal overran intricate
Dubbed-out, deep, twisted modern day work-out. Weekday mourning with its poignant
Strings is next. A warm emotive interlude which leads on nicely to last year s looking north, (one of the highlights from Soma 200, written specifically as a taster to this album), re-edited and remixed. This is an epic, soulful, Detroit-inspired excursion that weaves a web of glistening, unfathomable melodies and intricate percussion. Ghost Song is a swinging, jacking spiritual anthem with syncopated sequences and spacey chord triggers, already a big favorite in Slam s sets. Next’s We Medicate, an unusually dark, filmic, epic slice of electronica.Add to this, the talent of long-time collaborator, Dot Allison, fresh from her tour with Massive Attack and duets with Baby Shambles singer Pete Doherty. Dot adds her own eerie enchantment to the track making intone of the albums undisputed highlights.
Reluctant Traveler, a beatless, high octane, synth-led expedition, spaced-out and emotional, leads perfectly into Azure. The first single from HUMAN RESPONSE, has already caused a stir, gaining support from the likes of Laurent Garnier, Sven Vath Mandy, Radio slave, Carl Craig, Josh Wink and a whole host of others. Already huge, this tune is predicted by many to grow further and become one of this summer anthems. Staccato Rave is 21st century twisted techno mayhem with unexpected twists and turns. During this dark experimentation the album approaches its ethereal climax before the freakish We re Not Here kicks in, with its hypnotic rhythms and tripped-out sounds and percussion, it bleeds intensity from its pores. The journey ends memorably with the aptly named Memoir and its dark edged beauty. Slam respond to what they see around them, releasing an album brimming with emotion and honesty, uplifting and beautiful electronic music, with that moody Slam undercurrent. The end result is a soundtrack for now and for the future.


HISTORY: Slam have played all around the world, championing UKunderground electronic music, whilst always living and working in their home base of Glasgow, where they have helped to develop and influence one of the best music and party cities anywhere. Ask any of the bands and DJs who have performed at their monthly Pressure parties. People like Vitalic, Luciano, Beyer, Villalobos, Mills, Hawtin, Green Velvetand Weatherall all cite the city and the club as being amongst theirfavourite gigs in any year. When you add that Slam are currently preparing their eleventh production of the annual, (15 thousand capacity)
Slam Tent at the T in The Park, (which sold out in an hour again this year), then you start to get a feel for the passion for their scene and their music that Orde and Stuart have.Soma is another example of their dedication to the cause. At a time where its daunting to be an independent label, Soma are incessant in their march forward, after confirming their position in history with last year s Soma 200 release in the label s 15th anniversary year. Soma artists like Alex Smoke, Vector Lovers, the Black Dog and Funk D Void all help to make their label one of the most forward thinkingaround.www.myspace.com/slamofficial



Quotes



Laurent Garnier - I absolutely love the new Slam album. It is truly stunning

DJ Times - A disc that is equally at home in your car, living room or on the dance floor

M8 - An absolutely superb album from start to finish and one no-one should do without.

BBC Radio Ulster - Slam have gone firmly back to their electronic roots with this record, with a lovely Detroit influence throughout

badboyblast

This weekend...Looking like a good one...Anyone off here heading to Dolans?