LuckyMe NYC
Good Peoples present a one-off party from one of the hottest UK labels
One of the world's leading young crews fusing hip hop and new electronic club music is coming to NYC for a rare LuckyMe party including their a-list starting line-up of Hudson Mohawke & Rustie (Warp Records) djing back 2 back with support from Mike Slott, The Blessings and some of the most exciting new producers and djs travelling from around the world to meet... here in Chinatown for one night only.
These guys also have a reputation for art directing some of the best new music videos, clothing and sleeves so you know this is gonna look good. Simply, they ain't here often so get here early to guarantee entry. And pack a smile.
full lineup:
Hudson Mohawke
Rustie
The Blessings
Mike Slott
Lunice
Jacques Greene
Eclair Fifi
Machinedrum
Cubic Zirconia
Azealia Banks
Friday 24th September
88 Palace
21+ * 10pm - 4am
LIMITED $10 ADVANCE TIX HERE: http://ticketf.ly/bGHUmy
supported by:
Warp * Mishka * Taste * Okayplayer * Konkrete Jungle * Red Bull * Serato * Bassfaced * Novation * Hi Fi Cartel
Hudson Mohawke, (b. Ross Birchard), also known as DJ Itchy, Hudson Mo or Hud Mo, is an Electronic music producer/DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, affiliated with the LuckyMe collective of musicians and artists. He is signed to Warp Records and released his debut album Butter in October 2009.
At the age of 15 Birchard, under the name DJ Itchy, was the youngest ever UK DMC finalist. His earliest gigs as a club DJ were with Glasgow Uni’s Subcity Radio where he was part of the culture city kids show and later other shows including Turntable Science with Pro Vinylist Karim and Cloudo’s Happy Hardcore show. Birchard became Hudson Mohawke after seeing the name engraved on a statue in the hallway of his accommodation. He was signed to Warp Records despite a very limited track record of official releases; the bulk of his releases were unofficial tracks and DJ mixes circulated on the Internet. His first official release to get major notice was “Free Mo”, a track on the Ubiquity Records various-artists compilation Choices, Vol. 1 (2007); subsequently, he was featured as a remixer on Choices, Vol. 2 (2007). In 2008 his 12” EP Ooops! on LuckyMe/Wireblock became an underground sensation, particularly once word spread of his recording contract with Warp.
Rustie is older than he looks. Rustie makes beats and is a muthafukin bowss. Rustie wrote that himself. Now signed to the infamous Warp Records, check out his reputation building releases on Stuff Records, Hyperdub, Wireblock and various other labels. With the EP entitled Bad Science on Wireblock Records he consolidated his name at the top of the new wave of electronic hip hop producers. With his forthcoming LP for Warp Records and a 12” for us in early 2010 - you are gonna OMFG on his new shit.
The Blessings are Dom Sum & Fine Art. Founding members of LuckyMe alongside Mike Slott and Hudson Mohawke. A melting pot of 90's kid influence: New Jack Swing, RnB, Electronica, Garage & Deep House all getting processed by the crystal sound of contemporary Hip Hop & RnB. With their debut "Galaxy High" on the Dutch tastemaker Nod Navigatgors, they step out from behind the scenes of LuckyMe to bring their own 6 track selection of glistening melody, thumping drum programming and swagger.
To date they have featured in The Independent, The List, Mixmag, The Newyorker, Nylon, Dazed & Confused ( awarded in the Young Creative Entrepreneurs feature alongside Merok Records and this guy called Diplo). This Summer they played in front of 8000+ girls with that sallow Spanish look (probably wearing like, red jeans) at the LuckyMe presents stage at Sonar Festival 2010. Shit was awesome.
Catch their guest mixes for Mary Anne Hobbs BBC Radio One, XLR8R, URB, Dazed, The List, Vessel, BRAINFEEDER, Allez Allez and The Skinny. Despite this bio, their music and their clear notch in the rap game, they are yet to formally record with any of the Force M.D's.
Mike Slott is a musician routed in Jazz and Classical music but raised in Hip Hop and Electronic equipment. It's becoming a familiar story these days but strip the story and gear away and you are left with one of the subtlest, most naturally gifted modern producers. His bravery to explore percussive, textural soundscapes with shifting plates of synthetic melody has earned him kudos from some of the worlds leading musicians and critics.
Slott was one of the founders of LuckyMe and together we have grown up from the bare floorboards of a flat in Glasgow, recording hip hop long into the night, through to the backrooms of concerts in Manhattan. Mike's tribute to his new home in NYC came in the form of Lucky 9Teen, his debut LP released on LuckyMe in October 2009. But with new music in progress and 9Teen's license across Japan as an expanded CD, 2011 holds much for this humble innovator.
Lunice is just THAT dude. So cool, so easy. But at night he's a monster making bedroom dance videos to Footcrab and Sex Intelligent (remix stoopid). It was just over a year ago that Lunice started bumping his own beats at the Turbo Crunk nights. To think that he's since played two European tours and attended Red Bull in London, cheeeez, Dude is doing those big things already. Wish you all could of seen him standing in for Mike Slott in front of the 8000+ audience at our Sonar showcase in June 2010. Straight up, we felt this kid was a star. And we've known each other a minute now so it's family. Fuckin honour to work with this guy. Stacker Upper is comin for you, October 2010 on LuckyMe.
There's not much we can say about this 20 year old house producer from Montreal except that his music is incredible and it's sort of taken over our studio environment in the last months since his then anonymous demo arrived in our inbox. What time will tell is that this guy isn't a stranger to LuckyMe at all, but a good friend of ours for a few years simply growing into some new tastes. But look, I've said too much already. With his first 12", Baby (I Don't Know What You Want), dropping via our peoples at Night Slugs any time soon, you can catch The Look, a 4 track 12" EP debut by Jacques Greene dropping with us at LuckyMe this November. Get to know him. A legit young house producer brimming with ideas and deep, deep taste for techno, rnb & ukf and chicago house.
Eclair Fifi has been friends with us all for a long time now so we would ask her to play our shows and hope she could pull herself away from the internet. Clair has encyclopedic knowledge of italo, latin freestyle, electro, hip hop & club music and so she sits on a pillar for us one of the single most discerning djs we have ever seen play on home turf - and she's starting to get a rep beyond the city boundary as a reseident at Hoya:Hoya Manchester, and on the back of high profile shows playing Back 2 Back with Hudson Mohawke at Sonar Festival 2010 in front of a lot of people. Almost too many people.
Born Travis Stewart on March 4th 1982, Machinedrum has created several albums under several aliases since his first independent release in 1999. At 19, his debut Now You Know on the influential Merck Records was heralded as the "standard to which the next wave of imitators aspires" by Pitchfork – a sentiment reiterated in reviews of last years LP, Who Wants to 1, 2.
Garage, Dubstep, Juke, House, Hip Hop, Electro, R&B, Fuzz-Rock, Whatever; a scene of young New York kids are forming with Machinedrum at their heart. He runs the Cassette NYC club as their local haunt and has played svengali to next-to-blow artists such as Jesse Boykins iii, Theophilus London & Azealia Banks. Alongside Praveen he is one half of Sepalcure whose recent release on Hot Flush has been strategically timed for this our next offering of Travis music. His disregard for boundary made him an early influence on the LuckyMe ethos – influencing early mixes and production of Hudson Mohawke, Rustie & The Blessings. We are now very proud to acknowledge his place in our ranks with this ʻmicro - LPʼ Many Faces.
Simply put, this is innovative club music. Side A holds three crisp Electro / Hip Hop tracks which build up to huge melodic plateaus of Travisʼ own reverb drenched vocal harmonies. While Side B takes it to a somewhat darker place with 3 dope, ignʼant songs for the club with Ghetto House and Juke amped-up on clattering Hip Hop drums. Weʼve added another hit to our release with an amazing Acid-drenched house remix by Bok Bok of Night Slugs as a digital exclusive.The Many Faces… is a testimony to a multifaceted young musician who straddles pop standards and underground dance music, leaving his unique signature on all he touches.
So we went to SXSW with Hud Mo in March 2010 and the best band we saw by about 700 miles was Cubic. This is not to mention the fact that their singles Fuck Work, Black And Blue and Josephine didn't rip our collective heads open when we heard em but I mean, come on, this was Tiombe Lockhart's new band. We loved her sci fi tinged, smarter than everyone soul music for years. And Nick Hook is a man of legacy playing in bands for Drop the Lime and EL-P (Def Jux). It never occurred to us we would become friends with these guys, hang out, smoke a joint or eat steaks with these guys!? So when we got back to Scotland and Nick hollar'd about the prospect of working together we were very honoured to sign these guys for an amazing debut LP called Follow Your Heart featuring Bilal, Drop The Lime and Dam Funk.
Seriously, this band will fuckin destroy your club, your concert hall, your living room. It's acid inflected pop music that hints towards a tradition of great new york loft parties and the vacious structure of punk bands like ESG and Liquid Liquid. But you know, Cubic's music is more than that. It's not trying to be anything else than Nick Hook, Tiombe Lockhart & Daud Sturdivant going in as hard as they can. I mean, what shall we call it? We have to call it something - that's the way of music journalism. Let's go for ethnic disco.
The debut LP from Cubic Zirconia is called Follow Your Heart, scheduled for release on LuckyMe on January 11th.
