RAW is the new monthly night at the infamous TWSTD DJ Cafe in Amsterdam, hosted by Dave Ellesmere (UK). Dave Has been recording and releasing tracks for labels like Kanzleramt and 100%pure. Now he's got Ray Kajioka (Muller, Rotation) coming over this saturday from Germany.

Dave Has been recording and releasing tracks for labels like Kanzleramt, 100%pure, Kazumi, Restructured,Holzplatten, Intacto and Remote Area.

His first guest, Ray Kajioka, hails from Japan but is based in Berlin. He has released three top ep's for german Kanzleramt label. Most recently Ray made a superb remix for the last Joel Mull release. Ray has also released on Muller records aswell as Television and Dave Angel's Rotation. Rayperformed at this years Melt Festival in Germany. He has just collaborated with Dave on some tracks for a future release . This is his first time in the Netherlands.

Dave Ellesmere's last release 'Standing In Line' found its way into the boxes of almost all the major players including, Josh Wink, Ricardo Villalobos, and Richie Hawtin, although released in February, you can still hear this tune regulary in Dj sets around the globe. His next release will be a collaboration with 2000 and One under the name Microfunk. White labels of remote area 002 are out now and totally erupting floors everywhere. Again all the major players inc. Vath, Hawtin, Villalobos and Cox are totally buzzing on this.

Castro Le China is a bright new talent on the Amsterdam Scene. After several near missed in various Dj contests, he finally won the Kingdom Dj contest in 2005. This resulted in several bookings such as Heroes Of Techno and Beatitude. Expect a set of rich warm tech house grooves.

21:00-23:00 Castro Le China
23:00-1:00 Dave Ellesmere
1:00-3:00 Ray Kajioka



Saturday 26th August 2006 / TWSTD Amsterdam / Weteringsschans 157 / Free entrance

More info: http://www.twstd.nl

(source: Press Release)