!K7 Records are pleased to announce the next set of LIVE dates across Europe in 2009. Touring artists include DJ-Kicks eclectic and electric disco favourites The Glimmers and Chicken Lips, Joakim takes to the decks giving us a flavour of his new album due to be released later in 2009. New signing Circlesquare showcase their hotly anticipated album 'Songs About Dancing & Drugs' with friends and remixers Trevor Jackson and Swayzak.
Fri 16th January
Zoo, Geneva (Switzerland)
DJ-KICKS
The Glimmers
Chicken Lips
www.lezoo.ch
Sat 17th January
Death Disco @ The Arches, Glasgow (UK)
!K7 LIVE
Chicken Lips
Joakim
www.deathdisco.info
Fri 23rd January
Tindeschuur, Sint-Truiden (Belgium)
DJ-KICKS
The Glimmers
Chicken Lips
Saturday 24th January
Fabric, London (UK)
!K7 LIVE presents Circlesquare 'Songs About Dancing & Drugs' Album Launch
Circlesquare LIVE
Swayzak
Trevor Jackson
www.fabriclondon.com
Monday 26th January
Le Fleche D'Or, Paris (France)
Circlesquare 'Songs About Dancing & Drugs' Album Showcase
Circlesquare LIVE
Gentle Friendly LIVE
www.flechedor.fr
Tuesday 27th January
93 Feet East, London (UK)
Circlesquare 'Songs About Dancing & Drugs' Album Showcase
Circlesquare LIVE
Winterkicks LIVE
No Cars LIVE
Kings of Conspiracy LIVE
www.93feeteast.co.uk
Fri 30th Jan
Club Prive, Tallin (Estonia)
DJ-KICKS
The Glimmers
Chicken Lips
www.clubprive.ee
Sat 7th March
Nitsa / Appollo, Barcelona (Spain)
!K7 LIVE
Joakim
Chicken Lips
www.sala-apolo.com
THE GLIMMERS
Back in 1987, Mo & Benoelie were DJing for Ghent's youth every weekend, playing all sorts of music which was loved in those days. Back then they already reasoned that they should never shut themselves off from any style of music, that every blend, every genre, every movement was theirs for the taking. They played 'other' stuff, different stuff. Their sound developed into an amalgamation of new beat, funk, dub, house, techno, party hip hop, new wave, edgy post-punk disco and more was a revelation to those bored of linear mix albums. Numerous releases came through Eskimo Records, a Fabric Live comp and of course DJ-Kicks. The Glimmers have remixed names as eclectic as their sound - Bloc Party, The Killers, New Order, Roxy Music, Isolee, Phoenix, Pop Del Arte, Snow Patrol, Calvin Harris, Shirley Bassey and The Chemical Brothers.
www.myspace.com/theglimmers
CHICKEN LIPS
The sound of Chicken Lips is known as „disco dub“ and it derives from a mix of disco, boogie, 80s synthesizer music, and tricks from the dub chamber. A groove-inflected, instrumental sound that feels like it´s been handmade. There is a rock n´roll influence as well, with big drums, huge echo sounds, banging bass guitars and small melody fragments. A sound that moves straight forward, yet is marked by a special groove and a very unique feeling. A discography that includes remixes for everyone from the Stereo MC's to Plagroup, Robbie Williams to Mark Ronson Chicken Lips fouding members Dean Meredith and Andy Meecham keep busy in the studio whilst collaborator and DJ Stevie Kotey takes to the road.
www.myspace.com/chickenlipsproductions
JOAKIM
Joakim is one of the most illustrious people that the world of (not only) electronic music has produced. He started at age 6 with the piano, took lessons with Abdel Rahman El Bacha, a famous concert pianist. Later, Joakim discovered the possibilities of the synthesizer. After an experimental phase of only a few months, his debut “Tigersushi” (1999) was released, which 4Hero, Next Evidence, DJ Medhi and others, cited on “Tigersushi Remixed” (2000), and which also became the name of the label Joakim founded in 2001. The fun and musically free spirited album “Monsters & Silly Songs” (2007) will be followed up in summer 2009. 'My Best Remixes' is out now on Tiger Sushi.
www.myspace.com/jimibazzouka
CIRCLESQUARE
Circlesquare is back. Circlesquare is Vancouver, British Columbia's Jeremy Shaw, now living in Berlin. Don't be surprised, though, if he doesn't sound like any of his citymates: for the length of his career, Circlesquare has never sounded quite like anyone but Circlesquare. Last heard from over two years ago, Circlesquare set hearts racing with a set of records released between 1999 and 2006 on Trevor Jackson's Output label including debut album 'Pre Earthquake Anthems' (2003). The hotly anticipated follow up album 'Songs About Dancing on Drugs' (Jan 2009) features remixes from Konrad Black, Mat Jonson (Cobblestone Jazz) and Trevor Jackson.
www.songsaboutdancinganddrugs.com
SWAYZAK
Swayzak - some kind of bastardized patrick swayzee , men with hang ups – David 'Brun' Brown and James Taylor (kind of ) formed in 1993 ,way before the internet boom and back when samplers had massive 2meg memory and a computer was something to heat the room ! Since 1997 they have been working hard on avoiding full time employment and releasing records of sorts. “Some Other Country” (2007) showed a new maturity in their sound. Swayzak always loved their echo pedal, but in their tenth year of existence, their dub-techno attains a new, compositional dimension. “We’re more interested in atmosphere,” says Brun...
www.myspace.com/swayzak
TREVOR JACKSON
Trevor Jackson is a London based creative, working in many fields including graphic design, art direction, moving image, composing, remixing and production, installations and performance. His career began in the early 90's forming the design company BITE IT! creating record covers for early dance and hip hop releases for the likes of Stereo MC'S, Jungle Brothers and Todd Terry. In 1996 Trevor formed a new label Output Recordings, introducing international artists such as Four Tet, Black Strobe, Colder Mu, Circlesquare, The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem as well as his own acclaimed Playgroup project.
www.myspace.com/playgroup
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