28 HOUSE//ELECTRO//TECHNO PETE JORDAN
How has your year been? It’s been a great year. My focus has shifted onto music production for the most part. I’ve gone from never having released anything officially to having over 20 tracks and remixes due for release in the first half of next year. It feels like that side of what I do is going to kick off big style. My DJ profile seems to have mushroomed as I have played at bigger and bigger events, none more so than the main stage of Global Gathering Festival last summer.
Why did you start Spectrum? I started Spectrum as nobody was doing the kind of nights I wanted to play apart from perhaps Fabriclive around the end of 2000. In Febru- ary 2001, I took the risk and got into putting on parties and they just seemed to always be amazing. Even the less successful events always felt special and to this day people still talk about some of the smaller shows when referring to their best ever club events. Our early days at The Bomb in Notting- ham circa 2002-3 were really the stuff of legends and it wasn’t long
YOLANDA BE COOL
Dean Woodhouse
Their hit in the summer ‘We No Speak Americano’ found the Australian duo on top of the UK charts. We had a chat with them about their recent success.
What did you get up to for New Years? We spent the new year in Buda- pest which was an amazing place to be. It included a surreal couple of hours in the large public out- door baths, surrounded by snow and these steaming baths with a couple of thousand people of all ages, shapes and sizes. It felt like we could have turned back the clock a thousand years.
What are you two up to at the moment? We are on our way back from our gigs in Europe over the New Year’s period and a week off snowboarding in Austria. On our way back to Oz where we have 2 solid weeks of studio booked where we will be finishing tracks for our forthcoming album.
Your summer hit We No Speak Americano has put you in the lime light. What has happened in your personal lives that has changed? We definitely don’t see our
friends as much at the moment due to travel but apart from that, not too much has changed. This may be helped by the fact we don’t show our faces too much. Guess our passports have more stamps.
Your name Yolanda Be Cool comes from Pulp Fiction, great film. Why did you choose that line? Was there any other lines you were tempted to call yourselves? We love Tarantino and especially Pulp Fiction and the scene the name was inspired from. But at the end of the day, we were just looking for a kind of quirky, slightly ambiguous name that wasn’t taken. Hmmm... there were a lot of names left on the cutting room floor, but perhaps better they stay there.
What’s your inspiration? Musically, we love quirky, sample based House music so defi- nitely labels pushing this such as DirtyBird, Made to Play, Exploited
not to mention our label, Sweat It Out, and all the artists on these labels we pretty much love and take inspiration from. Old School Hip Hop will also always have a special place in our hearts. In life; positive people. We love Paolo Coelho and follow him on Twitter and he is always full of in- spiring, life affirming commentary. Worth checking out for sure.
We’ve seen a decline of Austrailan music making an impact in the charts in the UK. Do you feel Australian music doesn’t get the credit it deserves?
Funny you should say that be- cause though the charts may not reflect this in the UK, we feel that the Australian music scene has never been stronger. For example, when Americano was number one on BeatPort, at the same time, the Cassian remix of Flight Facilities amazing track ‘Crave You’ was number one on the Indie
Nu Disco chart, and Bass Kleph had the number one track in Tech House. All Aussies. So we felt this was a pretty good sign that the scene was strong.
When will you next be releas- ing a record? We are basically putting the finishing touches on our album and will then hand over to our label Sweat It Out, and let them choose the singles and go from there. As soon as possible we hope.
What do you hope to achieve in the next five years? We feel very lucky to be doing what we are doing at the moment, so if we could continue to be do- ing this, and doing it successfully, we would be more than satisfied.
Watch out for Yolanda Be Cool’s album coming out some time this year.
THE STAR OF KINGS
This month Central London’s most exciting new pub-club ‘The Star of Kings’ is ready to take Kings Cross by storm. This new project is being launched as a sister venue to ‘The Star of Bethnal Green’, a failing East End pub made into one of the hottest places to be seen by promoter Rob Star. He is embracing this new challenge with a line-up of quality DJs playing out of a massive Funktion- One sound system. This good old fashioned pub will also feature cooked food and a comfortable ambiance. Definitely a hot venue to check out this year.
before we moved to other cities and out into Europe.
What’s the key to the longevity of a party? When it comes to Spectrum, it’s about being based on the right in- tentions. Spectrum is an extension of me musically, me as a DJ, and for that reason, it’s something that will always evolve as it’s about creating fun times for people around top quality music and DJ performanc- es. As it is not restricted by any genre, it doesn’t have limits in terms of its development. You go through times of inspiration with the brand though, and I feel now is a real purple patch for Spectrum. Great events, massive crowds and a real sense that we are offering exactly what people want.
What have you got planned in 2011? Cliched as it sounds, I’m looking forward to the next 10 years of Spectrum events. We are going to expand the number of shows we do, some more across the UK, across Europe and further afield. We have some big announcements
THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2011
With Spectrum’s Decade of Dropping Beats 10th Birthday popping off this month, Pete Jordan has been a busy man!
coming regarding further London shows and our excellent events at Birmingham’s HMV Institute will continue in association with Eclectricity.
Production wise 2011 is going to be massive with a load of new releases coming out. Two EPs due for release on Top Billin as Jordan & Santero, remixes on the likes of San City High, Distinctive and a whole load of other labels. Further collaborations are planned too. DJing will continue with more of the same, more big shows around the globe. Most likely will be taking the Jordan and Santero show on the road, which is going to be a next level DJ show really focussed at putting the emphasis back onto the craft of DJing which is sadly a skill which has deserted much of electronic music.
Spectrum’s Decade of Dropping Beats – 10th Birthday, Ewer Street Warehouse, London Janu- ary 28th 2011
KINKY MALINKI RE- TURNS TO MATTER TO HOST THE BIGGEST VAL- ENTINES PARTY OF 2011
The biggest Valentines party is kicking off in London on Feb 12th. Kinky Malinki returns to Matter to host another Valentines ball. This date is a always big in the Kinky Malinki calendar and is always a guaranteed sell out.. With Matter re-opening in 2011 as Proud2, this will be one of the last parties at the club before it changes names and is rebranded. This year Kinky Malinki welcomes some of the biggest names in House music…
Headliners: ATFC, MASTIKSOUL, PROK & FITCH and KID MASSIVE
Support Acts: MY DIGITAL ENEMY Location:
Proud2 (Matter), The 02, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DY
Tickets: £10 tickets SOLD OUT £15 tickets on sale now (early bird) £20 otd
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