D/R/U/G/S @ Crawdaddy - Saturday October 15th

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Presents: D/R/U/G/S
Saturday, October 15th
Doors 11pm, Adm 8eu
http://podsaturdays.com/

Following some amazing remixes last year, for the likes of Crystal Fighters, Egyptian Hip Hop and Cymbals, this electronic duo from Manchester have been generating a veritable tsunami of interest. A successful stint at last year’s In The City festival in their home town of Manchester and a circling of a few original tracks have only served to increase the wave. Their music is a form of nostalgic, four-beat, ambient trance, that pierces the parts of the brain and is reminiscent of early Orbital.

It’s not hands-in-the-air dance on show here, as it’s aiming for a deeper part of your cerebral cortex and often builds very slowly, but once flowing the atmosphere drowns you in a euphoria not felt since you last found yourself high as a kite on, um, drugs – very, very strong drugs.

Apparently, they're hip-hop fans who create their songs by sampling bits of their own music, which they then reassemble in the studio or onstage. "It's kind of like remixing yourself," they say. And yet their tracks don't sound like neo-rave versions of Paul's Boutique-style bricolage; they're smoother and lusher than that, all raggedy edges polished away, with a 4/4 insistence and the kind of suavely deployed female vocals that you would indeed get on a Cafe Del Mar comp.

The buzz: "D/R/U/G/S sound pretty fantastic, a glittering electronic El Dorado, heard through a neighbour's wall at 8am on Sunday morning, soundtracking a party that'll never end" – OffModern.com.

File next to: Orbital, Underworld, the Shamen, Mountain of One.

Links

http://www.myspace.com/drugsdogoodthings
http://soundcloud.com/drugsbeats/sets/love-lust-12

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Support on the night from : ▲▲L▲ST D∆YS OF 1984▲▲

Last Days of 1984 are one of those bands that come from nowhere and sweep everyone off their feet. Well there’s been no feet sweeping yet, but I’d expect there to be. The duo’s debut single River’s Edge is a dreamy synth-pop ballad, chill and breezy.

Straight away comparisons are going to be made to Animal Collective, and you wouldn’t be wrong in doing so, but this isn’t some cheap imitation. It’s not some unsteady foal, it’s sure of itself and picks up it’s own pace quite well. Last year The Cast of Cheers came from virtually nowhere, and cleaned up quite well.You check them out for yourself this Saturday in Crawdaddy as they support electronic duo D/R/U/G/S.

http://soundcloud.com/lastdaysof1984/l-st-d-ys-of-1984-rivers-1

/\ NIGHTFLIGHT

NIGHTFLIGHT PROUDLY PRESENTS

AZARI & III (LIVE)



Date: Saturday 5 November 2011
Venue: Crawdaddy, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.
Telephone No. +353 1 4763374 Web:
http://www.podsaturdays.com
Doors: 23.00 Admission:
€10 Advance Tickets:

http://www.ticketmaster.ie
More info: http://www.night-flight-music.com

Nightflight is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the Irish debut performance from Canadian act, AZARI & III in Crawdaddy on Saturday November 5th. With their self-titled debut album released in August of this year, and sensational single Hungry for the Power recently receiving ‘Track of the Season’ at the dance music awards in Ibiza, this live show will be a great chance to catch this hotly tipped act in the intimate surrounds of Crawdaddy.
Azari & III are Toronto producers Christian Farley, aka Dinamo Azari, and Alphonse Lanza, aka Alixander II, with feature vocals by Fritz Helder and Cedric Gasiada. While singularly they have been on the scene since the mid nineties plying their trade under various different guises and in a variety of musical genres, they are a relatively new group, forming in 2008 and releasing their first single in 2009. Their early singles, ‘Reckless’ and ‘Hungry for the Power’ which have been huge hits on dancefloors across the world, and have become anthems for the modern generation, have raised the group’s profile enormously, making them a household name in the underground music circuit and earning them slots at some of the biggest festivals this summer.

While their big singles could be crudely pigeonholed as house music, the group offer much more than just this. They have transcended genres and scenes with their remixing catalogue and their album also expands their identity further. They manage to use the beautiful falsetto vocals of Gasiada to full effect with beautiful pop melodies layered over tripped-out textures.
Undoubtedly this buzzing quartet have started a fire burning, their high profile fans range from Annie Mac to Grizzly Bear and Boys Noize to Broken Social Scene. They have remixed a list of acts as long as a tall person’s arm from Cut Copy to Booka Shade, from Cosmo Vitelli to Matias Aguayo and from Uffie to Friendly Fires.
Their energetic and engaging live show truly is a sight to behold. The interaction, movement and stage antics of the two front men, Helder and Gasiada had the crowd at Lovebox in London smiling all the way through their set, despite the torrential rain. Let’s hope they have enough room on the stage in Crawdaddy to bust some of their moves.
Links

http://azariandiii.com http://podsaturdays.com http://night-flight-music.com