FREEFORM FIVE(DJ Set) BACKLASH // This Thursday at Wax

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Freeform Five // Strangest Things // Doors 11pm
In association with Carbon Records, Mezzanine floor, Urban Outfitters Ph: (01) 677 6666

'Lets Get it On'! as Marvin Gaye once said. Its guest time again as we welcome one of our
favourite producers and remixers to Backlash, Anu Pillai, the main man behind Freeform Five,
(of who there are actually only four) will be handling DJ duties this Thursday at Wax.

Anu has been schooling himself in music since the age of 6. Not just soaking up the sounds
of his parents’ classical and Indian records, but picking up instruments too.
By the age of 12 he had his first synthesizer and was fully literate in Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”,
Soulsonic Force’s “Planet Rock” and Harold Faltermeyer’s “Axel F” - even the difficult two-handed
syncopated bit! But it was his youthful investigation of rap records that opened his eyes not only
to the world of jazz and rare grooves, but to the super-heavy dopeness that can be conjured with
just a cheap sampler and a stack of records.

At the age of 15 Anu had the full set – synthesizer, sampler and sequencer - and might have gone
about making music all on his own if being in a band hadn’t sounded like much more fun. So Anu
and friend Nick formed their first band. Playing a timely stew of Funkadelic and Stone Roses covers.
Thankfully that didn’t work out, and Freeform Five was born!

Freeform Five have had a long and successful career to date, and become a household name on every
good electrohouse setlist. Their earlier work on Derrick Carter and Luke Soloman's now defunct
'Classic' label was hugely acclaimed. Of course most Backlash fans will be familiar with releases
like ‘Perspex Sex’,‘Electromagnetic’, ‘Strangest Things’ and of course ‘Eeeeaaooww’, all regular
hits down at Wax. Anu is also a much sought after remix artist and has done some twisted reworkings
of tracks like N*E*R*D’s “Lapdance”, X-press 2’s “Lazy” and Annie's "The Greatest Hit", also with
the well received “Misch Masch (Part 2)” recently released FF5 and Anu Pillai are bigger than ever
so it seemed like the perfect time to bring him to Wax.

This Thursday expect Anu's wealth of musical experience combined with the atmosphere and sea of
smiling faces you always see at Backlash + there's really very little on TV

Support on the night comes from Backlash resident Philth who's minimix you can download here:
http://www.philth.ie/philth128.mp3


Anu is his gaf waiting for Neighbours to start

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Wax, Beside The Powerscourt Centre, South William Street. D2.
Money to get in is 10eu this week cause there's an expensive DJ on.
Heineken Pints eu3.50 // Ursus Vodka & Redbull eu5.00

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Here's Anu's top ten, looking forward to this more now!...

1. Jamie Lidell 'When I come back around' (Freeform Reform) (Warp)
2. Benjamin Thieves 'Texas' (Sebastian remix) (Kitsune)
3. Lindstrom 'I Feel Space' (Freeform Reform) (Playhouse)
4. Freeform Five 'No More Conversations' (Alter Ego/Mylo remix) (Perspex/Fine)
5. Chicken Lips 'White Dwarf' (Kingsize)
6. LCD Soundsystem 'Tribulation' (Lindstrom remix) (DFA)
7. Funky Lowlives 'Time Traveller Man' (Freeform Reform) (Outer)
8. Optimus vc Wannadies 'Love to Dub You' (Suicide)
9. Gorillaz 'Dare' (DFA remix) (EMI)
10. Alter Ego 'Beat the Bush' (Freeform Reform) (Klang)

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FREEFORM FREE!

A double pass for this Thursday to give away
Along with a copy of the latest Freefrom Five Album

To win the afore mentioned booty then name any Freeform
Five single:

Anwsers to compactdisko@eircom.net asap

or just PM us your anwser

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Here's a minimix recorded by Anu of Freeform Five:
http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/backlash/audio/freeform_five.m3u