Pacha residents launch Burns Studio
WITH the exponential way technology is changing the way we make and listen to music, the career of Cassius, aka Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francard (or Phillip Zdar and Boom Bass), is testament to how they’ve moved with the times.
Beginning as the bombastic hip-hop beats of Le Funk Mob, Zdar was part of the deep, disco house of Motorbass in the mid-’90s, before the pair settled on their present incarnation helping France rise to the top of the cool stakes.
It’s this knack which led them to be picked as ambassadors for Burns Studios, a project launched at this year’s International Music Summit, and to be asked to create 2010’s IMS anthem, a project that they were still finishing in their rooms minutes before unveiling it.
“It’s like Pro-Tools or Cubase or Live but it’s free. This isn’t even software, it’s nothing ware, it’s outside of everything!” says Zdar on the project sponsored by energy drink Burns (the European equivalent of Relentless) which will bring professional producers and new talent together online with music making tools, mentoring, live recordings sessions and behind-the-scenes footage at
burn-studios.com.
While all talk has been on the arrival of Luciano at Pacha, their own Club 75 collaboration with Justice, DJ Mehdi and Busy P, hits Pure Pacha on various Fridays over the summer with guests like Jesse Rose, Aeroplane, Annie Mac, A-Trak and Shit Robot bringing their heavy, electronic sound to the club’s VIP massive.
The re-release of Cassius’ summery disco-garage classic ‘1999’, with remixes by man of the moment Tim Green and Reset, also looks set to become an Ibiza anthem for the second time.
“It was an incredible summer,” says Zdar, casting his mind back to its original release in December 1999. “For years and years with Pedro Winters, Hubert and even Daft Punk we used to call it ‘Summer 99’. For the first time we travelled the world. We went to hundreds of places, I was becoming a real DJ, which was my dream more than anything else, and all our friends fell in love.”
“It was also the end of the century,” adds Hubert. “It’s something you can only live once.”
Cassius are at Pure Pacha on 9th July, 13th August, and 1st October. Tickets begin at €37.
WITH JUST ONE PARTY last year serving as both the opening and closing, Circo Loco return on Mondays to the infamous DC10 under a huge weight of expectation and rumour. With the terrace newly kitted out with a killer sound system (reputedly the same used by Villalobos in his studio) fitted by Pink Floyd’s ex-sound engineer, the roll call of forthcoming acts reads like a who’s who of house music’s hottest underground properties with new residents including Detroit wizard Seth Troxler, Parisian king of the deep, DJ W!ld, and disco darling Jamie Jones alongside favourites such as Clive Henry, Damian Lazarus, Tania Vulcano and Ricardo Villalobos. For Milan-born, Ibiza-based residents Alessandro Carpentieri and Pietro De Lisi (aka Bingo), however, better known under their production and DJ name of System Of Survival, it’s business as usual after a 2009 which saw them running their own weekly party at Delano whilst playing around Europe with Circo Loco. “Our roots are deep! We’ve been DJing since 1988,” explains Bingo of a versatile sound that has kept them at the heart of Circo Loco since first appearing in 2003. “We’ve always had the classic house sounds of Detroit and Chicago,” adds Alex. “Now it’s become
a cool thing to put on old tracks but we’ve been doing it for twenty years mixing new and past tracks. Our production is the same thing, we’re inspired by the past...” “But we look to the future,” laughs Bingo.
With label IANUS71 now up to its sixth vinyl release, gaining support from luminaries like Loco Dice, Tiefschwarz and Matthias Tanzmann, they’ve just launched a digital label, Fventi, named after an old club on the Amalfi coast. Further gigs for Be at Space on Friday 2nd and 23rd of July, 13th August, and 17th September, plus appearances at Underground and Zoo Project, mean it’s back to thriving, rather than just surviving, this year. Last year they had lots of gigs cancelled. “We haven’t stopped playing though,” Bingo hastily adds. “We’re around every week!”
Circo Loco is every Monday at DC10. Tickets are usually €30.
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