Dublin Xpress Recordings Presents - Label Showcase 9th Jan @ The Underground - Dublin

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Dublin Xpress Presents Double XposuRe @ The Underground -
Kennedys, Westland Row Dublin 2

Saturday 09-01-10 From 11pm.
€8 From 11
€10 From 12
(All boards.ie people can get in all night for €8 by quoting your Boards nickname at the door - Happy Christmas!)

This is a label showcase bringing together a slice of the talent appearing on Irish electronic music label Dublin Xpress Recordings.
Featuring not to be missed performances from Brian Taaffe, Jay Riordan, Tony Craig (Belfast) and a special Live set from label new guy,
Captain Random

More info:

Brian Taaffe
Starting out in the Mid-Ninthies playing house music, Brian Taaffe is now based solidly in the Genre of Techno. Taking Inspiration from dj's Carl Cox , Ignition Technician, Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, Brian Taaffe has spent last few years perfecting his production and dj skills around the world of electronic music .

Brian has played countless gigs all over Dublin and Europe, including playing alongside some of the biggest names including Valenitno Kanzyani, Ignition Technician, D.A.V.E. the Drummer, Dave Randal, Lucca, John Gibbons, Umek, Marco Bailey, Marko Nastic, CJ Boland and Numerious Irish talent.

Each and Every Monday Night from 10pm-12am
Catch Brian's brand new techno show "The Sequence" with Brian Taaffe
on RTE radio pulse (RTE's New Digital all Dance Station)

http://www.rte.ie/digitalradio/pulse/

Recent Releases:

Brian Taaffe - Treibh EP (Notorious North)

Brian Taaffe - Pirate Audio 11 EP (Pirate Audio)

Roman Zwanodny - CEM (Brian Taaffe remix) (Redlz records)

Kenyu - Crazy Phonk (Brian Taaffe remix) (Redlz records)

Najib - Glassy Mounatin (Brian Taaffe remix) (Dublin Xpress records)

Rockwell - Flamable (Brian Taaffe remix) (Dublin Xpress records)

Jonno Brien - Enforcement (Brian Taaffe remix) (Full Tilt records)

Brian Taaffe - Nu-Minimalist (Nice and Nasty)

Tomi Chair - Midnight (Brian Taaffe remix) (Dublin Xpress records)

Tony Rumling - Transfixtion (Brian Taaffe remix) (Frantic tracks)

Headzinc - July 5th (Brian Taaffe remix) (Nice and Nasty)

Omega Drive - Big Race (Brian Taaffe remix) (Starstraxx)

Jay Riordan

DJ/Producer/ remixer / and recently recruited as label A&R Manager
for DublinXpress recordings. Starting at 15 and playing regularly on the likes of NRG88 FM, KISS 105.8fm, FutureFM, CLUB FM, but only recently breaking into the club scene, Jay has taken to producing his own tracks with his productions appearing on various labels such as Seedy R, Takeover recordings, Nice&Nasty and DublinXpress recordings
2010 is set to be even better with a sting of releases and dj sets in the pipe line , Jay also featured on this years D.E.A.F festivals compilation album
Jay's Untamed EP is out now on DXR from all good download retail sites.

Selected releases:

dxr014 Produse -(copy paste delete Jay Riordan's Breakalicious Remix)

sedy021 Corrugated Tunnel - Temple Jack Remixes Temple Jack Jay Riordan Mix

dxr021a Terrorboy - Nature of Authority - Remixes Part Two jay riordan mix

dxr024a Shayne Berry - Aurora Borealis Day 1, jr's deepstep mix + jr'selectrobreaks mix

dxr026 Jay Riordan - Nuevo

dxr032 Mike Absolom - Fuel Jay Riordan remix

dxr033 Stefano Vozza - 20 Jay Riordan remix - 20% Off The Marked Price Mix

Captain Random
(AKA Enda Rochford)
Originally from Co.Sligo but more recently based in Co.Kildare , Random began DJing in 2000/2001 When he bought his first set of cheap direct drive turn tables and started taking regular trips to Dublin to visit Spin Dizzy and Abbey Disc's. This led to moving to Dublin permanently in 2003. After a short break from playing commercially and getting married in 2005 , Random started back with a renewed sense of purpose working as resident Friday night DJ at the Beacon in Sandyford
Focusing on Production for the last few years, Captain Random is now a recognised Ableton Live Performance professional. Recently signed to Irish Label Dublin Xpress Recordings, Captain Randoms First EP will be released on DXR in early 2010

DXR Releases:
DXR041 - Tony Craig - Doghead - Captain Random Remix
DXR043 - Diarmaid O Meara - Melodika - Captain Random Remix
DXR048 - Tony Craig - Kode6 - Captain Random Remix
DXR051 - Produse - Primal - Captain Random Remix

Tony Craig

Rising Star on the Belfast music scene, Tony presents the Saturday night Dance show on Feile FM, He is also regularly playing in most clubs around belfast and recently ran his own night called 80 only. As for production Tony has had releases on a number of labels so far including Nice & Nasty, DXR, Modifi music and a track forthcoming on Static Recordings.
Tony has 2 releases this month, his own track Doghead on DXR and a remix of T-Polar's Bubbling brook on Nice & Nasty.

Praise For Doghead: Tony Craig's debut is a stomping minimal groove that fuses the deep Berlin sounds with pumping Chi-town style rhythms. this is pure unadulterated dance floor fodder from Belfast burgeoning talent, Tony Craig and comes replete with remixes from Ireland's emerging talent Jay Riordan and Cricky Lyttle; however, look out for the cracking debut from Numerical and Captain Random. These 5 trax span the spectrum of techno, minimal techno, progressive house and tech house. It is pure deep quality tuneage that DJs and punters will adore. Tony Craig has been steadily building his reputation as one of Norther Ireland's top DJs of the future whilst churning out a few remixes for DXR and Nice & Nasty. Still in his early 20s this young man is most definitely one to watch.

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Here's a little something for all you music fans:

Warm-up mix

Give it a spin

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Captain Random will have a busy 2010,

As well as featuring heavily on the DXR catalogue, he will also have remixes and original material coming out on Red Robot Records in the UK and New Irish Techno Label Gobsmacked.


In the mean time. Just praying that the weather breaks for the weekend so the gig can go ahead.

psyte

cool. i like the underground..

whats the problem if the weather is bad?

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psyte wrote: »

cool. i like the underground..

whats the problem if the weather is bad?

Getting there.

psyte

fair enough! otherwise hopefully everyone should be sufficiently stir crazy by saturday to make it a good party

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psyte wrote: »

fair enough! otherwise hopefully everyone should be sufficiently stir crazy by saturday to make it a good party

Thats the hope
I heard Dublin was quiet enough last weekend so hopefully if the snow clears enough to let people head out it should be a fairly solid night of choons

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Tony Craig will be arriving down from Belfast on Saturday evening by trusty Dogsled, with a big bag of tunes in tow.
Its Brian Taaffe's Birthday weekend so he's bringing a big gang and we were updated yesterday by the venue manager that there's big interest in the gig over the last few days. It might be cold outside but we'll be turning up the heat

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Unfortunately due to increasingly bad weather we've been advised to postpone tonights Dublin Xpress Recordings Gig.
There will be no Nightlink bus in operation tonight and reduced taxi service from 6pm and with the snow set to return with vengeance tonight its for the best that we call off tonights proceedings for a better date.
There has been great response so I'm fairly gutted at having to call it off but we are likely to run this night in early February so I'll keep everyone in the loop.