Kettle Presents
Panzer Bass Launch Night
Si Begg [Noodles, SI Futures, Buckfunk 3000]
Signor Pepe
Conan O Donnell
Michael Gaffney
Rian Ryan
Will Kinsella
Visuals / 2 Rooms Of Music
Doors: 11.00 – 03.00
Date: Friday February 6th 2009
Entry: 10euro
The Think Tank
[Formerly The Hub / Below The Mezz]
Eustace Street
Temple Bar
www.myspace.com/panzerbassclub
www.myspace.com/kettleclub
It’s been lurking in the dark, recruiting, growing and training. It now lies still, waiting patiently for its moment to pounce. February 6th will see the dawn of a new era. The dawn of Panzer Bass!
Born out of a vision to break the mould that so many mediocre club nights follow these days, Panzer Bass is bass heavy beats at their best; combining international highly skilled craftsmen with the local hungry talent of our beautiful city.
After a long time in the pipeline and the selling of various internal organs, Kettle is proud to announce the first headline act of Panzer Bass, Si Begg. A pioneer of electronic music with a style and skill that is unparalleled, a true master of sound, he cannot be missed. There is nothing the man cannot produce; be it Dubstep, Breakbeat, Drum and Bass, Techno or Electronica.
Begg goes under various different aliases including; Bigfoot, Bigfoot Futures Ltd, Buckfunk 3000, Cabbage Boy, Culture Cruncher, Dr. Nowhere versus The Maverick DJ, Lenny Logan and S.I. Futures. Each alias represents a different style and sound he is developing and delving into.
As well as being the founder of Noodles Recordings, a hugely diverse label, promoting and releasing tracks of all genres and sounds, he has also worked as a remixer for over 40 different electronic artists including Alloy Mental, Atmosfear, DJ Rush, Faultline, Michael Forshaw, Lamb, Little Nobody, Moguai, Radio 4, Tipper, Sven Väth, Cristian Vogel and Stewart Walker. To sum it up; the man is a legend and massive respect is due! This is an essential show for true fans of electronic music.
Room 2 is a local master class with Rian “coming out of retirement” Ryan holding it down along side Kettle resident Michael Gaffney. Check his immaculate mixes on www.myspace.com/kettleclub for a free lesson in smoothness. Will Kinsella is kindly taking some time away from production and his new radio show on RTE Pulse to heat up the floor.
Support for Si Begg in the main room comes from Signor Pepe and Conan O’ Donnell.
Join the revolution, join the division, join the PANZER BASS.
Links:
Kettle www.myspace.com/kettleclub
Michael Gaffney www.myspace.com/freshfan
Will Kinsella www.myspace.com/willkinsella
Signor Pepe www.myspace.com/signorpepe
Rian Ryan www.myspace.com/rianryan
Si Begg Biography:
Si Begg (born 1972) is electronic dance music DJ, musician and record producer Simon Begg, from Leicester, England. His music combines elements of Experimental / Wonky techno, Downtempo, Breakbeat Ambient, Drum and bass, Turntablism and Jazz. Begg grew up in Leamington Spa and moved to London in 1991. His recording career began in 1993 and he has used a number of different pseudonyms and band names, and released music in different styles on several record labels. He has also recorded music for short films, television advertisements and has performed sound design work for television channels including the BBC, Channel 4 and MTV.
Listening to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in the late 1980s, Begg was introduced to early Chicago acid and bands like Warp's LFO, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads and Negativland. This influenced him to move away from playing guitar and drums with schoolmates and toward creating cut-up electronica with fellow electronic musicians, under the group name Cabbage Head Collective.
Begg initially gained experience working as a sound engineer in the early 1990s, helping to produce live music and studio albums for other artists, and began DJing in 1991. He began creating his own music in 1993, and a year later, released 3 EPs with Techno artist, and fellow-Cabbage Head alumni, Cristian Vogel, under the band name "Inevitable Technology". The pair later founded a record company, Mosquito, in 1997.During this time, Begg assembled a recording studio (which is now located in Harrow, in northwest London), and learned about A&R and label management.
He moved to London in the 1990s, where he met Jonathan More and Matt Black of Coldcut through the local music scene. Begg's works as Cabbage Boy were subsequently released on their Ninja Tune sub-label, Ntone. Begg released his solo debut album Commuter World on Caipirinha Productions in 1998. He continued to release 12" singles on a variety of small independent record labels (including his own).
In 2001, he released The Mission Statement on the Mute Records subsidiary, [ mute Records], going by the name of as S. I. Futures. This was followed by another Si Begg album, Director's Cut (2003) Since 2005, he has also released mp3 files on Digital Distortions and further singles on another label that he founded himself, Noodles Recordings and it's sub-labels, Noodles Institute of Technology and Noodles Discotheque, which he called "the stupidest recording organisation in the world". The description comes from that fact that the label releases such a wide variety of musical styles, a tactic most labels would avoid.
In addition to working as a recording artist, he also performs live DJ sets throughout Europe. He currently has two DJ residencies in London, Big Beat Boutique at Scala and Freakin the Frame at The End. He has also worked as a remixer for over 40 different electronic artists including Alloy Mental, Atmosfear, DJ Rush, Faultline, Michael Forshaw, Lamb, Little Nobody, Moguai, Radio 4, Tipper, Sven Väth, Cristian Vogel and Stewart Walker
Links:
http://www.sibegg.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sibegg
http://sibegg.addictech.com/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Si+Begg
