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Get ready for the hottest club night of the year this bank holiday Sunday at POD.
POD Presents
Soundtrack ‘09
**Access All Areas**
Mad Decent Soundsystem
**Access All Areas**
Mad Decent Soundsystem
*Tripod*
Diplo
Fake Blood
Boy 8 Bit/Rusko
Diplo
Fake Blood
Boy 8 Bit/Rusko
*Crawdaddy*
Skream
Arveene & Misk (Live)
Skream
Arveene & Misk (Live)
*Pod*
Tiefschwarz
515 DJs
Tiefschwarz
515 DJs
*Lobby Bar*
Antics DJs all night
Antics DJs all night
*Tripod Louge*
Nightflight DJs all night
Sunday Bank Holiday May 31st @ TRIPOD/POD/CRAWDADDY
Fake Blood
Tiefschwarz
Nightflight DJs all night
Sunday Bank Holiday May 31st @ TRIPOD/POD/CRAWDADDY
Doors 9pm ‘til late
Advance tickets €24.50 including booking fee on sale now
Tickets from usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges.
www.ticketmaster.ie <http://www.ticketmaster.ie/> /0818 719 300
More info www.pod.ie <http://www.pod.ie/>
Advance tickets €24.50 including booking fee on sale now
Tickets from usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges.
www.ticketmaster.ie <http://www.ticketmaster.ie/> /0818 719 300
More info www.pod.ie <http://www.pod.ie/>
31st May is shaping up to be the hottest Bank Holiday Sunday this year, with POD hosting a mouth-watering dance line-up across five rooms from 9pm ‘til way into the night. An access all areas event that promises to deliver some of the most exciting, relevant, and cutting-edge party music around. Mad Decent comes to POD with the most sizzlingline-up of 2009: Diplo, Fake Blood, Tiefschwarz, Skream, Boy 8 Bit, and Rusko, plus Arveene & Misk (Live) and more.
A whole week’s sounds in one hot night.
A whole week’s sounds in one hot night.
Diplo
One thing of which Diplo (aka Diplodocus, Wes Diplo, and Wes Gully) cannot be accused is being afraid to experiment with new music. With his mash-up mixtapes, he found and created a sound where his musical tastes, '80s pop, electronica, Dirty South hip-hop, and his major influence, Miami bass music, intersect. His attention-grabbing projects Hollertronix, with partner DJ Low Budget, and the Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape, with elusive British-Sri Lankan MC M.I.A., made a heavy impact on the alternative electro-pop scene, amassing him rave reviews from music critics and indie kids alike, including Spin magazine, which named him DJ of the Year in 2005.
Diplo was born Thomas Wesley Pentz in Tupelo, MS. Although he lived in a few different cities in the South, he mainly grew up in south Florida. He spent his youth in his father's bait shop, fixated on manatees, alligators, and dinosaurs with hopes of becoming a paleontologist. However, he wound up pursuing an education in film studies, starting at a couple Florida colleges but then finishing up his undergraduate degree in Philadelphia at Temple University in 2003. Before his move to Philadelphia, Pentz had moved temporarily to Japan to escape daily life in America. From Japan, he sent a demo tape of his beat concoctions to Will Ashon, founder of U.K. independent hip-hop label Big Dada Records, and once signed to the label, he relocated to Philadelphia.
To support himself, during and after graduating from Temple, Pentz took on a few different jobs in Philadelphia: social worker, after-school mentor, movie theater employee, and gig-by-gig DJ. He was barely able to pay the rent, and the frustration was stunting his musical development (although he does credit one of his musical epiphanies to the after-school students who exposed him to crunk and Baltimore club music). Thus, Diplo and like-minded DJ Low Budget pooled their resources to start up their own club nights in Philadelphia, which they branded Hollertronix. It simply began as a fun night of genre-warping dance music, but it blossomed into an underground subculture drawing out crowds from all over the East Coast. Under the Hollertronix moniker, Diplo and Budget released the highly praised Never Scared mixtape; it was listed as one of the New York Times' top albums of 2003.
The following year, Big Dada released Diplo's solo debut album, Florida, a more downtempo piece focusing on melody and instrumentals that was a departure from the melee of mashed-up vocals and beats. His unrelenting work ethic produced a considerable number of acclaimed mix CDs and 12" records; however, none of them accumulated more interest and Internet chatter than the 2004 Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape that introduced M.I.A. outside of U.K. borders. Developing a yearning to produce more worldly music, he also began to throw his energy behind the Brazilian youth- and street-based music known as funk carioca (also referred to as baile funk), a derivation of Miami bass music. So, it was no surprise that when he established his own label, Mad Decent Records, around 2005, his first signee was the funk carioca group Bondo do Role. Becoming an internationally recognized artist, Diplo developed a knack for championing new world music that seems natural given his dynamism and boundless musical outlook.
One thing of which Diplo (aka Diplodocus, Wes Diplo, and Wes Gully) cannot be accused is being afraid to experiment with new music. With his mash-up mixtapes, he found and created a sound where his musical tastes, '80s pop, electronica, Dirty South hip-hop, and his major influence, Miami bass music, intersect. His attention-grabbing projects Hollertronix, with partner DJ Low Budget, and the Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape, with elusive British-Sri Lankan MC M.I.A., made a heavy impact on the alternative electro-pop scene, amassing him rave reviews from music critics and indie kids alike, including Spin magazine, which named him DJ of the Year in 2005.
Diplo was born Thomas Wesley Pentz in Tupelo, MS. Although he lived in a few different cities in the South, he mainly grew up in south Florida. He spent his youth in his father's bait shop, fixated on manatees, alligators, and dinosaurs with hopes of becoming a paleontologist. However, he wound up pursuing an education in film studies, starting at a couple Florida colleges but then finishing up his undergraduate degree in Philadelphia at Temple University in 2003. Before his move to Philadelphia, Pentz had moved temporarily to Japan to escape daily life in America. From Japan, he sent a demo tape of his beat concoctions to Will Ashon, founder of U.K. independent hip-hop label Big Dada Records, and once signed to the label, he relocated to Philadelphia.
To support himself, during and after graduating from Temple, Pentz took on a few different jobs in Philadelphia: social worker, after-school mentor, movie theater employee, and gig-by-gig DJ. He was barely able to pay the rent, and the frustration was stunting his musical development (although he does credit one of his musical epiphanies to the after-school students who exposed him to crunk and Baltimore club music). Thus, Diplo and like-minded DJ Low Budget pooled their resources to start up their own club nights in Philadelphia, which they branded Hollertronix. It simply began as a fun night of genre-warping dance music, but it blossomed into an underground subculture drawing out crowds from all over the East Coast. Under the Hollertronix moniker, Diplo and Budget released the highly praised Never Scared mixtape; it was listed as one of the New York Times' top albums of 2003.
The following year, Big Dada released Diplo's solo debut album, Florida, a more downtempo piece focusing on melody and instrumentals that was a departure from the melee of mashed-up vocals and beats. His unrelenting work ethic produced a considerable number of acclaimed mix CDs and 12" records; however, none of them accumulated more interest and Internet chatter than the 2004 Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape that introduced M.I.A. outside of U.K. borders. Developing a yearning to produce more worldly music, he also began to throw his energy behind the Brazilian youth- and street-based music known as funk carioca (also referred to as baile funk), a derivation of Miami bass music. So, it was no surprise that when he established his own label, Mad Decent Records, around 2005, his first signee was the funk carioca group Bondo do Role. Becoming an internationally recognized artist, Diplo developed a knack for championing new world music that seems natural given his dynamism and boundless musical outlook.
Fake Blood
Fake Blood also known as Theo Keating and Touché, is a British DJ and producer who made his name as one half of The Wiseguys , a British Hip hop /Big Beat band. He is also a successful underground House and Electro producer, releasing many underground hits including "The Paddle", "Command Me" and many remixes. His most well known songs to the mainstream audience are "Start the Commotion" and "Ooh La La" (not to be confused with the Goldfrappsong of same name), which were famous due to their usage in commercials including Mitsubishi and Budweiser. The tracks came from his second album with The Wiseguys, the Antidote. His current projects are a group called The Black Ghostsand his work remixing, producing and DJing as Fake Blood. He has astounded with his releases ‘Mars’ and ‘Blood Splashing’ and he is currently one of the most sought after producers and remixers.
Tiefschwarz
Tiefschwarz are a German electro house group formed by two brothers, Ali Schwarz and Basti Schwarz in 1996. They performed deep house DJ sets in some of the biggest clubs in Germany and Switzerland as well as in major foreign cities and became increasingly popular in the house scene. After six years of DJing and promoting, the two brothers began producing their own tracks. They co-founded the “continuemusics” label in 1996, on which their first single, “24 seven,” with remixes by Boris Dlugosh and Michi Lange, was released along with four other tracks.In 1998, Tiefschwarz signed a record deal with edel/benztown records. This proved to be a turning point in their career.
Their first release, “music,” featuring Joy Denalane of the hip-hop formation Freundeskreis, was not only a hit in Germany (9 weeks at No. 1 on the MTV Germany Dance Charts and No. 1 on Germany’s Club Charts), but proved to be very successful in the UK as well. “music” was licensed to the famous “wave music” label in N.Y.C. run by François Kevokian and was remixed by Matthias Heilbronn. Tiefschwarz have remixed around 30 tracks for artists such as Ultra Naté, Byron Stingily, Jam & Spoon, Jennifer Paige, Randy Crawford, Master At Work, Earth Wind and Fire, Shakatak, Mousse T., AWA band, Whirlpool prod., Sabrina Johnson and Sharon Philips.
The name Tiefschwarz stands high alongside other legendary German acts such as Boris Dlugosch, Mousse T., Knee Deep, Ian Pooley, Dixon, Jazzanova, Rainer Trüby, Ata and Vincenzo. As DJs, Tiefschwarz have gained a great reputation on the international house scene. They have composed remixes for Madonna's Get Together, Missy Elliott's "Teary Eyed" and Depeche Mode's single, "John the Revelator".
