Melodic Presents:- 1st Birthday with Gavin Herlihy - Lost Society Basement - Dec 21st

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2 months, 14 gigs, 9 International guests, countless good vibes... and you. Melodic is celebrating it's 1st birthday in suitable style and you're invited!

2012 has been a huge year for the underground dance scene in Dublin and we're proud to have brought top quality acts over to be a part of it. The Lost Society basement has played host to some big names and rising stars; Edu Imbernon, Tim Green, Los Suruba, Negru, Dosem, Coyu, Pig & Dan and most recently Rainer Weichhold.

In that time we've also had some of Irelands best DJs and producers play through one of the city's best soundsystems and help make Melodic up to what it is today.

To celebrate the occasion we're bringing Wicklow man GAVIN HERLIHY back across the pond for a special performance. Now based in Leeds, Gavin has had a massive year touring all across Europe and the U.S and releasing quality productions on some of the biggest labels out there; Crosstown Rebels, Culprit and Get Physical.

We're opening our doors nice and early so you can get in and start celebrating with us - we'll also have a limited number of party packs for the first 50 in the door. A gift from us to you.



Gavin Herlihy’s music has been a constant feature on underground house and techno’s most iconic labels since 2006. He started 2012 with a bang - with releases on esteemed labels Culprit, Crosstown Rebels, Get Physical and Leftroom – adding to an enviable discography which also included previous outings on scene leaders like Cocoon and Buzzin Fly. As comfortable writing sublime deep house as he is at crafting no-nonsense future techno, few artists have achieved such a broad base of label support as this enigmatic Irishman.


Now based in the UK’s capital of house music, Leeds, Herlihy (pronounced Herl-i-hee) is an established feature on the global DJ circuit. He earned his place thanks to a two year stint learning his trade as an up-and-coming producer in Berlin at the end of the 2000s where he notched up gigs at the Panorama Bar, Watergate and Bar 25.


In the last year his tracks have been championed by a diverse array of DJs, from Seth Troxler and Ricardo Villalobos to Jamie Jones and Pete Tong. A split EP with Detroit legend Delano Smith last summer was supported by the house and techno elite. Deep and dark bomb ‘With Me’ added fire to his ever evolving relationship with hot UK label, Leftroom whilst in February 2012 his Witching Hour single on Crosstown Rebels scored a Top Ten chart placing in Beatport’s Deep House Top Ten. It was closely followed by another bomb EP lead track ‘Get Loose’, which became a worldwide house anthem attracting accolades left right and center, earning Radio 1 airplay as well as being featured in iTunes featured tracks section.


It’s a long way from his debut single ‘Machine Ate My Homework’ in 2006, hailed by DJ Hell and Laurent Garnier as one of the tracks of the year. However, his roots in dance music lie much deeper than that. Herlihy’s teenage years were spent lost in the experimental rock of bands like Sonic Youth, Rage Against The Machine and Fugazi before uncovering electronic music during an eye opening festival pilgrimage to England at the tender age of 14. During this pivotal trip he remembers in particular hearing early drum ’n’ bass on a north London pirate radio station. “It sounded like the future being beamed down the radio waves,” he says. "And I've been chasing it ever since."


The coming months will find Herlihy building on the success of his releases in 2012. With forthcoming music squared away for some of the scene’s most talked about labels, plans for his own vinyl only label in the making and his move last year to London super-agency air london adding extra fire to his bookings, his star is set to shine even brighter than ever.



Very Limited €8 early bird tickets from the RA event page:-
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?426298


€10 / €12 on the night



Support from Melodic Residents:


Mulljoy
Paul Gill
Al Dillon
Do Funkk
Darragh Burke



Upcoming at Melodic:


January 25th - Ripperton


March 29th - Aril Brikha


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