LACKLUSTER, DEXERCIST & GRAHAM O'SULLIVAN IN THE SHELTER --- SAT 22nd NOV (1 Viewer)

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[thegoone]

fair fucks to yous boys
yee haaaaaa!

 

[esaruoho]

Loose Electrix Present
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in association With the Mor Festival


Venue : The Shelter
Address : Vicar St, Dublin 2.
Date : 22.11.2003
Time : 11pm Till Late
Adm : ?12 / ?10 before 12 or with student Id.

Artists :
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Lackluster

Dexorcist

Graham O'Sullivan
Karl Murphy
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LACKLUSTER INFO:



BIOGRAPHY
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Describing the sound of Esa Ruoho's music is a task full of adjectives, but
it never comes to mind to call any of it lackluster - the name, that this
talented, young Finnish electronic music artist has chosen for himself.

At the same time challenging and rewarding, Lackluster's music is full of
texture and organic quality that many electronic artists seem to have lost
in the pre-millenium tension urge to slice and divide sound. Melodic sounds are
woven in layers; rhythm grows and reacts in harmony instead of pretentious
chaos. Lackluster is the sound of modern architecture colliding with the
intricate beauty of nature.

Hailing from the gray reality of the nation's capital Helsinki, Esa Ruoho is
more familiar with concrete buildings and suburban life, than the vast
forests, numerous lakes and icy cold snow that Finland is known of.

Starting with a meager set-up of a computer, soundcard and simple sequencing
software, Ruoho started innocently enough, fooling around with samples and
trying to piece together anything resembling a proper track. With no musical
education and no experience whatsoever from playing instruments the road
wasn't easy, yet at the same time there were no academic boundaries. Driven by the
need to learn and develop, Esa Ruoho composed over 300 original tracks over the
period of just five years.

Even though he had been excessively spreading his music over various
electronic channels such as bulletin board systems and internet, it was only after five
years of practicing half in public and half privately, that Esa Ruoho felt
like sorting the best of his work and pressing them on CDs. Named after the used
media, CDR#1 and CDR#2 were both pressed in limited numbers and sold out
immediately thanks to Lackluster's already impressive Underground fame. Both
CDs are still in request and doing rounds in mp3 format among the fans.

Lackluster's first real album and recording contract was conceived through
Clair Poulton's DeFocus-label. Container received excellent feedback, both from
the press and the electronic music aficionados. Container was followed by
Wrapping, the last album for Lackluster on DeFocus. Both albums were still more or
less compilations of slightly older material. Recording under his birth name, Esa
Ruoho, also released a dark and beautiful ambient concept album for Belgian
label U-Cover.

While many fans and reviewers who follow the IDM (intelligent dance music)
scene have a tendency for blaming artists for copying others, it says a lot that
Lackluster's uniquely melancholic and tender sound has never gained any
similar accusations.

Currently Lackluster is promoting his new album, Showcase, which is another
step forward in his career. Coming out on US-based label, Merck, Showcase
delivers yet another delicate compilation of Lackluster's trademark sound combined
with a slightly tighter and harder production. In addition to the new album, Esa
Ruoho is doing remixes for various labels and artists, composing music for a
modern dance piece as well as throwing gigs all around the globe.

DISCOGRAPHY:
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RELEASED
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1999-06-29 CDR#2 (Monotonik)
2000-03-27 FOC349 (12") (Focus)
2000-05-08 Container (CD) (Focus)
2000-05-08 Container (LP) (Focus)
2000-06-26 R U Oho? (12") (deFocus)
2000-11-11 Rikos005 (7") (Rikos Records)
2001-04-24 Spaces (CD) (U-Cover)
2001-04-27 Zealectronic Purple (7") (Zealrecords/Zealectronic)
2001-06-22 Spaces EP (12") (Inc.us)
2002-02-00 Wrapping Album Sampler (12") (deFocus)
2002-02-00 A Lackluster Remixer (12") (Merck)
2002-10-21 Wrapping (CD) (deFocus)
2002-10-21 Wrapping (LP) (deFocus)
2003-05-01 Lackluster Showcase (CD) (Merck)

REMIXES
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2002-05-00 Marumari: The Remixes (Carpark)
2002-05-00 Thug: Remixed (Aural Industries)
2002-09-01 Machine Drum: Half The Battle (Merck)
2002-09-01 Machine Drum Half The Battle (Japanese Version) (Merck)
2002-10-07 Mixt (Senton Recordings)
2002-11-19 Proem Standard Naming Convention (n5md)
2003-03-24 EEDL - Parallemped e.p. (Spa.rk)




DEXORCIST INFO:
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After a hughly successful out door party on Aug 30th 2003 Loose Electrix are
very proud to announce the Return of Dexorcist Aka Simon Brown.

1982 - Linoleum, spraycans and the "Return of Captain Rock" illegally
transmitting from a battered ghetto blaster, evil underground influences
causing a lifelong addiction to vinyl junkie Simon Brown aka The Dexorcist. By 89
the sound of Browns brand of audio weaponry could be heard deep beneath the
ground, educating those that dare dance in art of acid music.

Within no time at all our devious DJ could be found, hidden inside bass bins
of darkened clubs, hatching and plotting with new found conspirators known as
the Fear Teachers.

Embarking on an outdoor adventure armed with records, speakers, turntables
and a generator these reckless rave rebels roamed the great British countryside
infecting many innocent souls with the spine chilling sounds of acid house,
techno, and electro from deep within a forest under a strobe lit moon
As time grew older many former Fear founders fell foul to the evils of
mortgage and marriage yet the devoted Dexorcist remained true to the cause, speaker surfing, sleep deprivation, vodka and vinyl, burning any bass bins that dare
stand in his way.

Our twisted electro engineer soon reformed and regrouped to regenerate a new
force in urban audio technology. Firing on all cylinders, the Kore
Dispension Unit wreaked havoc through the warehouse wastelands and forbidden fields of London and Europe, broadcasting industrial dance music leaving a trail of
burnt out bass, frazzled frequencies and broken beats.

The time had come for the Dexorcist to perform the merger of his mind with
the machines of music so off he mutated into a maze of mutilated rhythms
emerging every once in a while under different disguises, the Program Crusher for New Skin, speaker bashing breakcore as the Bombdogs on experimental dance label
Audio Illusion, mashed up beats for Urban Disturbance and using his own
imprint Running Scared and Control Tower to implant vocoded robot frequencies, there seemed no end to this creatures musical mayhem.

And indeed there is no end, as the nights grow longer and the streets get
darker the Dexorcist grows stronger, joining forces with suburban scientists of
sound to prepare an onslaught of audio invasions using electronic dancefloor
persuasion. Early reports show signs of a new abstract electro collaboration
with the Radioactive Man (aka Keith Tenniswood, 2LS)and Bass Junkie
codenamed The Bassing Guild. Plans are also in progress to program industrial bass
machine the Kronos Device with fellow electro fiend Bass Junkie (Battle Trax,
Breakin) whilst the Dexorcist continues to develop Bombdog beats and brutalise booze bruised dance floors throughout the suburbs of the city streets....

PREPARE FOR AMPLIFIER ARMAGEDDON !

DISCOGRAPHY.....
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PROGRAM CRUSHER vs HEX - NEW SKIN 3 - NEW SKIN
PROGRAM CRUSHER - PROGRAM CRUSHER 4 - NEW SKIN
THE DEXORCIST - FIRST SHADE OF FEAR - RUNNING SCARED
URBAN DISTURBANCE - RED LEADER - URBAN DISTURBANCE
BOMB DOGS - DAY OF THE DOGS - AUDIO ILLUSION
BOMB DOGS - 101 DAMNATIONS - AUDIO ILLUSION
THE DEXORCIST - BAD ROBOT E.P. - S.M.B.
THE DEXORCIST VS RADIOACTIVE MAN - BORDER PATROL E.P. - CONTROL TOWER
THE DEXORCIST - DARKTIMES E.P. - CONTROL TOWER
THE BOMB DOGS - THROUGH THE WIRES - CONTROL TOWER
THE BOMB DOGS AND KRUDE - PRECISION BOMBING - S.M.B.
VARIOUS ARTISTS - EDGE CITY CHRONICLES - S.M.B./ AUDIO ILLUSION
KRONOS DEVICE - RAVAGER OF PLANETS - BATTLE TRAX
KRONOS DEVICE - DAMAGE CONTROL E.P. - BATTLE TRAX

FORTHCOMING (CONTROL TOWER).....
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THE DEXORCIST/ CONTROLLED WEIRDNESS/ KRUDE - HIDDEN CITIES E.P. - 009
BOOZE BREAKS - VOL 1 - BOOZE BREAKS

FORTHCOMING (BATTLE TRAX).......
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BASS JUNKIE - ED DMX BORG RE-EDIT/ DEXORCIST REMIX ROBOT MOVEMENT - BT009
KRONOS DEVICE - QUBE LP - BTLP2

FORTHCOMING (MISC.)
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BOMB DOGS - THIS IS LONDON - URBAN DISTURBANCE
KRONOS DEVICE - OBEY AND SURVIVE - REMOTE AUDIO

 

[thegoone]

how much is it in ?
havent been to the shelter since it was dine up
whats the sound system like?

 

[esaruoho]

how much is it in ?
havent been to the shelter since it was dine up
whats the sound system like?

Adm : €12 / €10 before 12 or with student Id.
Adm : e12 / e10 before 12 or with student Id.

apparently

no idea about the soundsystem,
hoping the venue wont be full of tobaccosmoke as per usual

 

[thegoone]

it will and i'll be contributing

youre a couple of months early
theres a total smoking ban coming to ireland
in work envronments next year

you could always wear an altern8 mask!