From: DJQoolMarv_at_aol.com
Date: 2003-10-14 10:42:57
The details:
October 20th - 11pm
@ Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street
No Cover
Qool DJ Marv with DJ Misbehaviour & Madison
present
Bring It V.1
The Manchester Invasion
Featuring artists from Mark Rae's Grand Central Records:
Fingathing LIVE (Turntablist Peter Parker, Double Bass Player Sneaky, with
interactive visuals by Chris Drury)
and DJ sets from Grand Central artists Funky Fresh Few, Only Child, & Jon
Kennedy
Plus DJ sets from Fat City Records Darren Laws & Matt Triggs
And DJ sets from Twisted Nerve (Badly Drawn Boy) label head Andy Votel,
Martin Brew (1/2 of East/West recording artists J-Walk), and Subtub Players Records
label head Tim Gilles (whose label featured one of the UK's biggest feel good
tunes of the summer "Wesley Music" which was featured on Giles Peterson's
latest Worldwide compilation.
Even more details and information can be found at these websites
http://www.grandcentralrecords.com
http://www.transatlanticexpress.co.uk/diary/20th.php
And now a few word about why I'm really excited about this event:
Sometimes life presents magical moments that are not only unforgettable, but
also life changing. My first trip to Manchester in 1999 was one of those
moments.
I've always had a passion for discovery, I've always been excited by new and
different sounds, I've always enjoyed and appreciated the skill and talent of
New York City DJs who took you for a ride through many musical styles. I
remember going to a club and having that giddy feeling of wanting to get to the
dancefloor...bouncing and nodding my head with a big ole smile while in the coat
check line.
I loved music so much that in 1992, with aspirations to DJ in the best and
most challenging city on the planet, I used graduate school as an excuse to get
to New York so I could hear and learn from the best DJs in the world, hone my
own skills and then do what I could to uphold the craft and art of DJing.
During the day, I was taking classes at Columbia, but late night, my professors
were named DJ Smash, Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito, Kool DJ Red Alert, Timmy
Regisford, Kid Capri, Jazzy Nice & Chillfreeze, Jules & Julian, Grandmaster Flash,
DJ Premier, E-Man, Cosi, Storman Norman & DJ Spinna.
I'm what you call a romantic, and romantics are people who daydream about the
ideal. Manchester, as it turned out was the ideal place for me as a DJ with
many styles and influences. Here's a review of my first gig ever over there
written by Hamish Anderson for Sleazenation Magazine:
“DJ Qool Marv is moving seamlessly from Tribe Called Quest classics to new
school hip hop via Disco, early House, 70s Soul, Jazz Funk, and an assortment of
British Beats-n-Pieces. He holds the crowd with a smooth, stealthy mixing
style, which he alternates with cheer-inducing cuts and scratches and spacey,
beatless interludes. Marv, who, in his native New York, only gets away with
this sort of thing in bars.”
That night is like a blur to me now and you can see a fuzzy photo that
represents that memory on my site www.buttamilk.com. But the exhilaration of doing
a whole set without dropping anything overtly commercial or "hot" and getting
a response of cheers and a full dancefloor, has stuck with me and gives me the
energy to keep on in this wonderful world of music.
So, thanks to Grand Central Records & Transatlantic Express this is an
invitation to you to come experience what I have. Bring It is an event that may
redefine (or reaffirm) what you expect out of your nightlife, out of your DJs,
out of New York City. Come out and see how it goes down, in real time, in real
space......3000 miles across the Atlantic!
October 20th - 11pm
@ Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street
No Cover
Qool DJ Marv with DJ Misbehaviour & Madison
present
Bring It V.1
The Manchester Invasion
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Qool DJ Marv
Please reply to djqoolmarv_at_buttamilk.com and add that address to your
contacts list as that will eventually be my primary e-mail. Thanks.
www.buttamilk.com