Mr Elephant Presents – Party Rockin’ Mammal Sessions 1st Birthday – 2nd October 2009

The Party Rockin’ Mammal Sessions have become synonymous with playing floor filling underground dancing music, guaranteed to make your tail feather shake, and a reliable way to find some of the best underground djs in the city.

Celebrating it’s 1st birthday, and final party at the Bulls Head, great vibes were in full effect, with balloons, kazoos (& those lighty up things) adorning a lovely and well up for it crowd, whilst superb sets were thrown down with celebratory style from Marc Reck, VJ Blendstate, DJ Lopan, & The Beat Suite, all of which kept  the birthday mammals stomping with a dancefloor journey through hip hop, glitch-hop, funk, breaks, drum ‘n’ bass and jungle!

New residents, The Beat Suite, are a Birmingham-based duo, who can scratch, genre hop, and rock the party, joining the Mr Elephant collective at the 2nd Cinephonic. Comprising of Skeleton and Dolhasz, these two DJs began their journey at the venue filling (and much missed) Open Beats events alongside Skeleton’s residencies at Trigger. Now they host their own radio show live on rhubarb radio every Wednesday at midnight, and watch out for big things from the new 4 way partnership in 2010.

DJ Lopan was welcomed back with his record bag full of party breakbeat, and dirty electro, with some fine turnatablist skills, alongside fellow resident VJ Blendstate who delivered without doubt the finest visuals yet seen at the venue.

whilst resident sock-rocker Marc Reck once again brought his magic to the turntables with a massive crowd pleasing breaks and drum and bass set,

followed by The Beat Suite’s 2nd set of the night with some huge jungle which set the place on fire.

One of the 4 regular nights from the Mr Elephant collective, the next Party Rockin’ Mammal Sessions will be on Saturday 14th November. Sadly saying farewell to the Bulls Head, but happily taking up a new Saturday night residency at the Hare & Hounds, where it will be on rotation with Cinephonic every 2nd Saturday of the month (though the next Cinephonic will be on Friday Dec 11th for a xmas movie mashup!)

Look out for other nights belonging to the Mr Elephant family including Live and Free @ the Adam & Eve, (great live music til 4am for free!), the return on Intermix in 2010, the bi yearly festival style events, and of course the Mr Elephant radio show live on www.rhubarbradio.com every Monday evening from 6pm – 8pm.

More photos of the night can be found here

After kicking off to a great start with Quantic back in June, Cinephonic well and truly settled into its groove with it’s second outing this month. It was a monster weekend with the Mr Elephant team also ramming the bull’s head the night before with a funk flavoured Party Rockin Mammal Session. A little sleep later and we’re back again at the Hare and Hounds for a very different animal.

Video by Jack Brabant

As always with Cinephonic we base the visuals of the night around a theme. This time around it was all about the road movies. Marc Reck opened us up with a great bit of chilled trip-hop, the room nicely filling up to the warm sounds of artists such as Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation & Barry Adamson.

Mr Vj Blendstate was on the light fantastic, craftly mixing up some killer clips from Thelma & Louise, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/ David Lynch’s lawnmower powered movie “The Straight Story” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/, and the classic Easy Rider http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/ as the pace picked up ready for our special guests.

Rhurbarb Radio favourites Skeleton and Dolhasz perfectly translated their radio show ‘The Beat Suite” http://thebeatsuiterhubarbradio.blogspot.com/ into a live environment. Covering a massive range of genres just like a certain resident of ours loves to do, the experimental pair seemed a perfect match for Marc and the night.

The Beat suite’s 1st set saw some great scratching from Skeleton & some seamless blending from Dolchasz. Taking it from the trip hop into the hip hop and building up into choice dubstep and big room breaks, their style, vibe and mixing was 2nd to none and kept the tension building and the party rockin vibe flowing!

Despite the soaring temperature the place was nice and full by 11:00 and our DJ’s responded accordingly cracking the tunes up and getting everybody moving. The visuals hit overdrive with some feedback powered cliff driving, motorcycle acrobatics, and Lawnmower action for good measure.

Midnight came and it was time for Marc’s 2nd set. Starting from breaks and switching it up with each track, it seemed our resident was looking for what was the crowd wanted in order to set the place off.

After breaks, a little swing, it was the huge bite from the liquid drum and bass which set the place on fire and took us into a great hour of crowd pleasing jungle & drum & bass!

Blendstates visuals were creating a filmic visual narrative that bought the cinema to the dancefloor with impressive skill and inspiring imagination! Skeleton & Dolchaz took to the decks for their 2nd set and displayed why they are two of the moste versatile djs in brum, effortlessly jumping from jungle to drum and bass, from breaks to dubstep, dropping in some cheeky numbers and keeping the floor locked and jumping all the way through.

Massive thanks to all those who came out and created a truly lovely vibe creating a proper night to remember. Also special thanks the venue for staying open an extra half hour allowing our DJ’s a unanticipated B2B set at the end!

Cinephonic will return on the 10th October with details to follow soon. If you’d like to keep posted automagically, please subscribe to the rss, or join the facebook group (invites for each event)

On a totally electronic tip this week with an exclusive mix from Dfrnt in honour of his excellent forthcoming album Metafiction, and an old mix from Marc Reck found on the hard drive earlier in the day

Mr Elephant Radio #8 – Hosted By Marc Reck – 24th August 2009 by marcreck

Dfrnt Mix – Dfrnt – 2009

#Tracklist
01 Hatcha – Flippin’ (DFRNT Remix) [Dub]
02 Adam Johnson – 4 Squares (DFRNT Remix) [Dub]
03 DFRNT – 808 State of Mind [Dub]
04 DFRNT – On The Move [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
05 DFRNT – Tripped (Synkro Vocal Mix)  [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
06 DFRNT – Decay [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
07 DFRNT – Sectioned [Dub]
08 DFRNT – Tenfold (DFRNT Less Is More Edit) [DFRNT.co.uk]
09 DFRNT – Dark Jazz (DJ Madd’s Even Darker Remix) [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
10 DFRNT – An Early Place [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
11 DFRNT – The Warmest [Forthcoming... On The Edge]
12 DFRNT – Wake Up [Forthcoming... On The Edge]

More info on DFRNT
http://www.dfrnt.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/DFRNTdubstep

Synchronicity Mix – Marc Reck – 2004

1. KINGDOM – Waulkner Hintenaus
2. APRICOT (Momu’s with cream mix) – Blake Jarell + Starkid
3. KICKBACK – Soul Of Man
4. MILKSHAKE (Dj Zinc remix) – Kelis
5. I WANNA DISCO (Flip side) – Rhythm Unlimited
6. MUSAK (Wonderland remix) – Trisco
7. DUB BE BAD (ND Mix) – Boots International
8. NORMALIZER – Don and Dirty
9. AN ECHO, A STAIN (Luke Chable + Chris Gainer Mix) – Bjork
10. SABOT (Santos Vip Reix) – Santos
11. GREY DAY (Paper Faces mix) – Zoot Woman
12. SONG OF LIFE (Lee Coombs Mix) – Leftfield
13. RIDE – Chable + Bonnichi
14. I AM (Kasey Taylor’s Oceanbreakers Mix) Chakra
15. MURDER WAS THE BASS (Original Mix) – DX8
16. I CAN’T EXPLAIN – Boombdogs
17. BUMPER (Plump Djs Mix) – Electronauts
18. MILKSHAKE (Freq Nasty Remix)
19. FLINSTONES JAZZ SCORE (Marc Reck Remix) – Hanna and Barbera

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This week we have music from a few midlands artists, a lil afrobeat, some swing, a breaks mix from The Lab’s recent edirol tour, a liquid drum and bass mix from the Ez Rollers warm up set and some footage from their own set recorded live @ the launch of Get Em in @ the Hare & Hounds

Mr Elephant Radio Show #5 – Aug 3rd 2009 by marcreck

Tracklisting

Hanna & Barbera – Flintstones Jazz Score (Reckorder Edit)

Friendly Fire Music / Ras T Weed – Melody and Rhyme

Tamedun – Tamedun Don Come

Tony Allen – Jekalewa

Quantic Ft. Alice Russell – So Long

Waldeck – Memories

Barry Adamson – Jazz Devil

Free Control - Witness

Lamb – Cotton Wool (Fila Brazillia Mix)

Marc Reck – The Lab Edirol Tour Mix

Bedrock - Granite

Alphadrive – Chronos

DJ Icey - Glance feat. Nikki Carabello – V2.2 Mix

Speedy J - EDLX ToolFunkanomics – Circle Kid (Funkanomics Remix) The Prodigy – Thunder

Bit of Dj Icey Mix

The Prodigy – Warrior’s Dance

Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought – We Play the Music

Tim Healey & DJ Deekline feat Fast Eddie – Yo Yo Get Funky (Crissy Criss Time To Get Grimey Remx)

Marc Reck‘s liquid drum & bass set @ Get Em In launch with Ez Rollers – August 2009

Nookie – Get Down (PBK feat Miss Drop)

Roni Size – Heroes (2008 Re-edit)

Syncopix – Lost In Space1

Bungle Feat Ayah – If I leave
Roni Size- Its a Jazz Thing (Utah Jazz Remix)

Ez Rollers recorded  live Get Em In launch with Ez Rollers – August 2009