Sun 31st May @ Tripod: Diplo, Fake Blood, Tiefschwarz, Boy 8 Bit +more

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POD Presents

SoundTrack ‘09

**Access All Areas – 5 room special**

Room 1: *Tripod*

Mad Decent Soundsystem feat…

Diplo

Fake Blood

Boy 8 Bit * Rusko

Nic James

Room 2: *Crawdaddy*

Skream

Arveene & Misk (live)

Safety Boy * Micky [Naked Lunch]

Room 3: *Pod*

Tiefschwarz (Ali)

515 DJs

Room 4: *Lobby Bar*

Antics DJs all night

Room 5: Tripod lounge

Nightflight DJs all night

Bank Holiday Sunday May 31st @ TRIPOD/POD/CRAWDADDY

Doors 9pm ‘til late
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31st May is shaping up to be the hottest Bank Holiday Sunday this year, with POD hosting a mouth-watering dance line-up across six rooms from 9pm ‘til way into the night. An access all areas event that promises to deliver some of the most exciting, relevant, and cutting-edge party music around. Mad Decent comes to POD with the most sizzlingline-up of 2009: Diplo, Fake Blood, Tiefschwarz, Skream, Boy 8 Bit, and Rusko, plus Arveene & Misk (Live) and more.

A whole week’s sounds in one hot night.

Diplo

One thing of which Diplo (aka Diplodocus, Wes Diplo, and Wes Gully) cannot be accused is being afraid to experiment with new music. With his mash-up mixtapes, he found and created a sound where his musical tastes, '80s pop, electronica, Dirty South hip-hop, and his major influence, Miami bass music, intersect. His attention-grabbing projects Hollertronix, with partner DJ Low Budget, and the Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape, with elusive British-Sri Lankan MC M.I.A., made a heavy impact on the alternative electro-pop scene, amassing him rave reviews from music critics and indie kids alike, including Spin magazine, which named him DJ of the Year in 2005.

Diplo was born Thomas Wesley Pentz in Tupelo, MS. Although he lived in a few different cities in the South, he mainly grew up in south Florida. He spent his youth in his father's bait shop, fixated on manatees, alligators, and dinosaurs with hopes of becoming a paleontologist. However, he wound up pursuing an education in film studies, starting at a couple Florida colleges but then finishing up his undergraduate degree in Philadelphia at TempleUniversity in 2003. Before his move to Philadelphia, Pentz had moved temporarily to Japan to escape daily life in America. From Japan, he sent a demo tape of his beat concoctions to Will Ashon, founder of U.K. independent hip-hop label Big Dada Records, and once signed to the label, he relocated to Philadelphia.

To support himself, during and after graduating from Temple, Pentz took on a few different jobs in Philadelphia: social worker, after-school mentor, movie theater employee, and gig-by-gig DJ. He was barely able to pay the rent, and the frustration was stunting his musical development (although he does credit one of his musical epiphanies to the after-school students who exposed him to crunk and Baltimore club music). Thus, Diplo and like-minded DJ Low Budget pooled their resources to start up their own club nights in Philadelphia, which they branded Hollertronix. It simply began as a fun night of genre-warping dance music, but it blossomed into an underground subculture drawing out crowds from all over the East Coast. Under the Hollertronix moniker, Diplo and Budget released the highly praised Never Scared mixtape; it was listed as one of the New York Times' top albums of 2003.

The following year, Big Dada released Diplo's solo debut album, Florida, a more downtempo piece focusing on melody and instrumentals that was a departure from the melee of mashed-up vocals and beats. His unrelenting work ethic produced a considerable number of acclaimed mix CDs and 12" records; however, none of them accumulated more interest and Internet chatter than the 2004 Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape that introduced M.I.A. outside of U.K. borders. Developing a yearning to produce more worldly music, he also began to throw his energy behind the Brazilian youth- and street-based music known as funk carioca (also referred to as baile funk), a derivation of Miami bass music. So, it was no surprise that when he established his own label, Mad Decent Records, around 2005, his first signee was the funk carioca group Bondo do Role. Becoming an internationally recognized artist, Diplo developed a knack for championing new world music that seems natural given his dynamism and boundless musical outlook.

Fake Blood

Fake Blood also known as Theo Keating and Touché, is a British <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom> DJ and producer who made his name as one half of The Wiseguys <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiseguys> , a British Hip hop <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop> /Big Beat <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Beat> band. He is also a successful underground House and Electro producer, releasing many underground hits including "The Paddle", "Command Me" and many remixes. His most well known songs to the mainstream audience are "Start the Commotion <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_the_Commotion> " and "Ooh La La" (not to be confused with the Goldfrapp <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfrapp> song of the same name), which were famous due to their usage in commercials including Mitsubishi and Budweiser. The tracks came from his second album with The Wiseguys, the Antidote. His current projects are a group called The Black Ghosts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Ghosts> and his work remixing, producing and DJing as Fake Blood. He has astounded with his releases ‘Mars’ and ‘Blood Splashing’ and he is currently one of the most sought after producers and remixers.

Tiefschwarz

Tiefschwarz <http://www.last.fm/music/Tiefschwarz> are a German electro house group formed by two brothers, Ali Schwarz <http://www.last.fm/music/Ali+Schwarz> and Basti Schwarz in 1996. They performed deep house <http://www.last.fm/tag/deep%20house> DJ sets in some of the biggest clubs in Germany <http://www.last.fm/place/Germany> and Switzerland <http://www.last.fm/place/Switzerland> as well as in major foreign cities and became increasingly popular in the house scene. After six years of DJing and promoting, the two brothers began producing their own tracks. They co-founded the “continuemusics” label in 1996, on which their first single, “24 seven,” with remixes by Boris Dlugosh and Michi Lange, was released along with four other tracks.In 1998, Tiefschwarz signed a record deal with edel/benztown records. This proved to be a turning point in their career.

Their first release, “music,” featuring Joy Denalane of the hip-hop formation Freundeskreis, was not only a hit in Germany (9 weeks at No. 1 on the MTV Germany Dance Charts and No. 1 on Germany’s Club Charts), but proved to be very successful in the UK as well. “music” was licensed to the famous “wave music” label in N.Y.C. run by François Kevokian and was remixed by Matthias Heilbronn. Tiefschwarz have remixed around 30 tracks for artists such as Ultra Naté, Byron Stingily, Jam & Spoon, Jennifer Paige, Randy Crawford, Master At Work, Earth Wind and Fire, Shakatak, Mousse T., AWA band, Whirlpool prod., Sabrina Johnson and Sharon Philips.

The name Tiefschwarz stands high alongside other legendary German acts such as Boris Dlugosch, Mousse T., Knee Deep, Ian Pooley, Dixon, Jazzanova, Rainer Trüby, Ata and Vincenzo. As DJs, Tiefschwarz have gained a great reputation on the international house scene. They have composed remixes for Madonna's Get Together, Missy Elliott's "Teary Eyed" and Depeche Mode's single, "John the Revelator".

Skream

Croydon's musical wonderkid. At 15 he discovered making music. Five years later he's changed the course of UK urban music, having helped build the foundations of London's most exciting new musical style, dubstep. But he's barely started yet: because right now, Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> is an artist on fire. Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> 's story begins in Croydon, in secondary school year 11. He wasn't getting on with teachers and they weren't getting on with him: but he was getting on with his music. But two friendships cemented then would start him onto the path to musical success. First he met Benga <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=956> , another talented Croydon kid who was starting to make music. Then he met Hatcha, soon to be one of the most influential and pioneering DJs in urban music. Around 2000 Benga <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=956> and Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> set about building on the early dark garage flavours that were to be found on the pirate airwaves around Croydon.

It shouldn't come as any surprise then that he likes sub-bass, Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> has grown up around it. His older brother was a member of Croydon's notorious jungle hell-raising raving outfit Intanatty Crew, which featured Radio 1's Grooverider <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=252> and Bailey's 1Xtra as members. Ollie, Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> 's real name, is no stranger to a bit of hell raising himself, famous for his up-for-it behaviour at parties or out on the town. In fact he's the only known music artist with a subdued alter-ego. Most rock stars are quiet by day with flamboyant alter-egos. Our wonderkid is the other way around. But then that's wonderkids like Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> for you: unique.

Boy 8 Bit

Boy 8-Bit, AKA David Morris, made his first steps onto the dance scene when DJ Touché <http://www.simpleproductions.co.uk/dj_headliner_touche.htm> included his track 'The Colonel' in his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/tracklistingarchiveshtml.shtml?20040201> in 2004. He was then offered the chance to remix Touché's seminal track 'The Paddle' for Southern Fried Records. In 2004 he also released his first single for Touché's new Body Clap label. The track was his ode to the Commodore 64 of his childhood 'Turbo Loader' and this was followed in 2005 by his melodic bassline roller 'Long Jeanne Silver <http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF185050-01-02-01.mp3> ' which was described by IDJ magazine as an "Awesome Electronic Masterpiece" and given top marks with five stars out of five. Up to date the Boy has almost 30 official remixes to his name and his set promises to show just why he is one of the most in-demand producers on the scene.

Rusko

Christopher Mercer, aka Rusko was born in Leeds in 1985 to a musical family. From day dot Rusko was surrounded by music whether it be his families piano’s, guitars, banjo’s and saxophones…or in his later years the heavy reggae and dub sound systems of Leeds, music has always been an integral part of Rusko’s life. His sound continues to develop with different BPM’s that lean to jungle, house, hip hop or electro, either way, whatever BPM or tempo…you can immediately tell a Rusko track. At 23 Rusko is only in 1st gear, with collaborations on the table with the likes of Switch, Diplo , Yo Majesty and Wiley the future sure is looking bright. Already setting the radio airwaves alight with his own productions and remixes of artists such as Adele, A-Trak featuring Kid Sister,.

Arveene & Misk (Live)

A brand new production duo made up of two firmly established DJs/producers dedicated to making credible club music with interesting angles, styles and even songs when applicable, only been together six months but have already amassed an impressive catalogue of tracks.. most recent project, the boy's teamed up with 3 US girl rappers from Miami, the girls record as Yo Majesty and we have 2 words for them, on fire, the combo of the rappers over razor sharp electro beats will see the light of day very soon, more tracks are in the pipeline with Yo Majesty along with the legendary cut up of “Rage against Arveene”, and some fine original recordings from the boys themselves.

Siobhán O'Dowd

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