Slick Chick is a 27 year-old disco-freak from Rotterdam. She started playing records about seven years ago. At the time she and her friends were throwing nonprofit parties in dirty warehouses throughout the Netherlands and beyond.
Wanneer Redevice een pionier en levende legende op het gebied van sonische experimenten uitnodigt om te komen optreden binnen de ideale setting van Studio 80 met z’n moddervette sound system, dan weet je zeker dat het voorgeschotelde geluid je niet alleen zal verrijken...
Terwijl de Sint z’n zak met pepernoten leegschudt en onze grote Kerstvriend de arrenslee weer voorrijdt, dropt Arctic Boogie vrijdag 12 december feestelijke acid en oldskool in club Innocent in Hengelo.
Loveland organiseert dit jaar het grootste Oud & Nieuw spektakel van Amsterdam. De organisatie viert de jaarwisseling in Amstelborgh onder de naam ‘Loveland NewYear’.
While Sweden lesser known for it's house music there´s a producer that´s been crafting out his niche in that genre for yours. Working at a rate challenging the track speed of Michael Johnson, Hakan Lidbo (pronounced Haw-kan) has release upwards of 70 house tunes since he put out his first 7" single 12 years ago.
He since done two artist albums, seven mix albums and released several EPs on labels from Sweden, UK, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. His style is diverse as house music itself. While you may have heard the deeper, trackier stuff that he´s done for te likes of Paper Recordings (All I want) or Loaded (most recently "Walk away" and "Home cooking EP") he?s also parial to harder edged stuff. Just check out Lidbos releases on Hollands X-trax label which he describes as ?baninbg techno?. More recent stuff is a tech house EP ofr Pokerflat in Germany and another 12" for US impint Plastic City.
"Right now i?m very much into house music? says 35 year old Lodbo, chatting from his home studio over in Stockholm. "But if you check the records I buy they are mainly old ones, 50s, 60s, 70s, big orchestras like manchini and Burt Bacharach-style arrangements".
Lidbo makes music alone in his studio. All his productions are sample based and he admits to being a "sample-freak"; lifting bits from old and new records and chopping them up into tiny pieces; and looping sections to create his sound that´s sometimes deep and dubby, others techy and more pumping and something verging on hte banging.
Hakan first plugged into music biz in the late eighties when he landed a job as an A&R bod at M&W, the biggest independent label in Scandinavia.. Lidbo found the role restricting:
"They only worked with the Swedish market and well as being really hectic I felt that they didn?t really respect what I wanted to do". he says. "So I quit".
in the meantime Lidbo has been producing some of the labels pop releases and working on remixes. "When I quit my job, I found I suddenly had all the time in the world for my music. I had so much of tis music in me so I worked like a madman", he admits.
Lidbo started churning out a track a day. "My personal recod is six in one day" he chuckles. "But that was a very long day". The pace has kept up since then and this working speed is less to do with formulaic productions and more with haveing a focus for what you?re doing.
"I´m so focused when I get into the studio" says Lidbo. "I don?t think it?s about how much time you spend in there. I work by intuition so I don"t find myself having to pick between this bass drum or that bass drum, this effect or hatt effect.
