From: Nick Matthews (nicktheagency_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 2004-02-02 13:24:15
BEST KEPT SECRET
Booking Agents * Artist Management * Promotions * Consultancy
FEBRUARY 2004
DJ's:
Alex Attias, Anderson Soares, Beanfield, Bitasweet Records, Boo Williams, Pete Z (Block 16), Break Reform, Bruno E, Domu, Drumagick, Fauna Flash, Joseph Malik, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Les Voleurs, Mark Luv'Dup, Mr Hermano, Mitchell & Dewbury, Mad Zoo, MK (Roots Manuva), Nick Matthews, Nicola Conte, Nu Spirit Helsinki, Phil Asher, Rainer Truby, Russ Dewbury, Sidewinder, Stacy Kidd, Stateless / Swell Sessions, Wagoncookin', Yam Who?
Live / Semi Live Acts:
Bluprint (Exceptional), Break Reform, Fertile Ground, Izzi Dunn, Mitchell & Dewbury, Patricia Marx, Sidewinder
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This months instalment includes :
- Latest roster addition - RAINER TRUBY & FAUNA FLASH
- Best Kept Secret 2nd Birthday Continues ....
- Best Kept Secret host radio show.....
- Drumagick to make debut appearances in Europe.... Plus dates from Sidewinder and Yam Who?
- Latest news regarding remixes and forthcoming releases....
- Tour booking opportunities - 2004 (Sidewinder, Boo Williams, Break Reform and more)
- Best Kept Secret 10 essential tunes for February...
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RAINER TRUBY / FAUNA FLASH (Compost Records)
Best Kept Secret extends a very special welcome to the latest addition to our roster - Rainer Truby & Fauna Flash (doing it as Truby Trio when amalgamated) - household names to most of you and heroes to anyone with any taste who have been named checked and adored over the years - a slice of the German Royal Family is now exclusively represented in the U.K by Best Kept Secret. Please see some details about U.K dates further down the newsletter....
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BEST KEPT SECRET SOUTH AFRICA
OK - A little industry announcement.... After a successful trip to South Africa for the whole month of January, the international perspective and scope for Best Kept Secret is ever - widening and over the coming months expect announcements and opportunities for labels and artists to in this territory for touring and music promotion... Full details announced over the coming month whilst our thinking caps get ready to explode.....
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BEST KEPT SECRET RADIO
After recent BKS radio airings with Mr Pink in Istanbul and Radio Magnetic in Glasgow, Best Kept Secret hosts another radio show - this time courtesy of Philly's No.1 home-bwoy Argo and his BrokenBeat.com radio station....and this time you can all hear it streamed and archived at http://www.beleza-music.org/vivid/bb_radio.html ..so..do yourself a favour and check out the flavour.....
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DRUMAGICK - DEBUT TOUR (EUROPE)
This is the one that all seem to have been virtually wetting yourselves about - possibly the freshest bastions of quality, organic drum n bass ?? Probably set for world domination of the drum n bass scene ?? The answer to would be Yes / Yes. They have got their passports and they are ready to leave Brazil for the first times in their lives and show the whole of Europe a huge array of studio and unreleased tracks that are going to have you all grinning like pigs in sh*t!
Just to keep you in suspense a little longer, we will announce the full tour next week - so you will have to change nappies a couple more times I am afraid - 10 dates in total - 5 in the U.K and 5 throughout the rest of Europe - EXCITED ..!!
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BEST KEPT SECRET 2nd BIRTHDAY TOUR w/ NICK MATTHEWS
From now until the beginning of April, Nick Matthews alongside various members of the Best Kept Secret family and friends - will perform over 20 special and one- off dates around the world to recruit new victims for our cult - culminating in a very special show in London to officially celebrate our second anniversary in April. This months' tranche of funk hits the BKS homelands - its all about the YOU.KAY
Saturday 7th February
NICK MATTHEWS & YAM WHO?
PHON-ETICS @ CLUB ELEMENT - 40 Charter Sq, SHEFFIELD - 10 p.m - 3 a.m - £5
The brightest star in the sky hangs over this club - get on your camel and let it lead you to them.....
Sunday 8th February
NICK MATTHEWS & ERIC D'VIKING
MISSING @ CABARET VOLTAIRE, 36 Blair Street, EDINBURGH - 10.30 p.m - 3 a.m - £4
Continue your journey north on your camel through snow and wind in the dark of night - don't stop for water as the only refreshment you'll need is lying in wait when you cross the boarder - oh.. and top jocktronica outfit FUSION EXPERIENCE are playing live as well.
Tues 10th February
NICK MATTHEWS & DJ LUBI (Straight No Chaser)
GROOVEMENT SESSIONS @ THE ATRIUM - 6 - 9 Grand Arcade, LEEDS - 9 p.m - 2 a.m - FREE
OK - No more camels (other than the smoking variety) - this one-month old soiree at top Leeds club, The Atrium, hosted by jazz spammer and aficionado DJ Lubi - check out his brand new "Beginners Guide to Cuban" CD out on Nascente Records on 23rd February ....
Weds 12th February
NICK MATTHEWS
MARKET BAR - 16 -22 Goose Gate, NOTTINGHAM - 9 p.m - 2 a.m - FREE
Small and intimate venues have been in vogue of recent years and this place leads the cause with big names from across the board for a house party feel.... NICE
Sat 28th February
NICK MATTHEWS & SIDEWINDER
HALFWAY HOUSE - Tettenhall Road, WOLVERHAMPTON - 7 p.m - 11 p.m - FREE
A dodgy old man's pub in the Midlands ?? Bury those images henceforth as the Halfway House has been long since re-invented into an institution for the young and morally dubious. Norman Jay rocked the place last month, so let the "Good Times" roll....
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YAM WHO?
www.yamwho.com
Sat 7th February
PHON-ETICS @ CLUB ELEMENT - 40 Charter Sq, SHEFFIELD - 10 p.m - 3 a.m - £5
As part of the Best Kept Secret Tour (see details above)
Fri 13th February
LOVE ON THE ROCKS @ On the Rocks, 25 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, LONDON - 9 p.m - 2 a.m - £3 / £5
I.Love.Audio crew throw an (unlucky?) 13th of the month pre- Valentines booty-fest - featuring Ben Smith (WhiteNoise) in support .... No luck needed me thinks - rely on it and your f****d...
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SIDEWINDER (Fenetik Music)
www.somarecords.com/fenetik
Fri 13th February
DEEP, DOWN AND DIRTY @ THE KEY - Lazer Road (off York Way), Kings Cross, LONDON - 10 p.m - 6 a.m - £5 b4 11 / £8 after
Triple D present a fine night of soulful smiles for a good time crowd - SIDEWINDER plays alongside Crazy Penis (Paper Recordings), Simon Morell (Back to Basics) and Simon Baker (DDD resident) - champion their cause.
Sat 28th February
HALFWAY HOUSE - Tettenhall Road, WOLVERHAMPTON - 7 p.m - 11 p.m - FREE
As part of the Best Kept Secret Tour - (see details above)
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DAZ I KUE (Bugz in the Attic)
Fri 13th February
SOFA BEAT - Israel
A testimony to the international nature of the beat that is broken - Tel Aviv - via the energy of Alan Brown (Ecco:Chamber / Soul Seduction) and Jurgen (Jazzanova) - now hosts "crazy jazz parties" for the Israeli - part with your hard earned sheckles and hop on one leg.....
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BLUPRINT (Exceptional Records)
www.exceptionalrecords.co.uk
Weds 11th February
PORTER CELLAR BAR - 15 George Street, BATH - 8 p.m - midnight - £3
Discovered and released by the ever consistant Exceptional Records (Susumu Yokota, U.F.O and others) and with a new album in the making for release towards the end of 2004 - Bluprint perform an intimate gig in their native West Country to show the fruits of recent labours with their winter warming instrumental sound....
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RAINER TRUBY (Compost Records) U.K DATES
www.compost-records.com
Best Kept Secret's new addition to the roster is possibly the worlds worst kept Secret - because he's a blinding bloke with blinding music - but eye sight is over rated because when Rainer's around all you need is a pair of ears and feet
Fri 6th February
TROUBLE @ CELLAR BAR - 1a Chambers Street, EDINBURGH - 9 p.m - 3 a.m - £5
ITS BACK - The former Blue Note sponsored venue dusts off its dancing shoes for a reprise - courtesy of residents Eric d'Viking and Hobbes. NICE indeed...
Sat 7th February
LEFT FOOT 4th Birthday @ Medicine Bar (Custard Factory), Gibb Square, Digbeth, BIRMINGHAM - 9 p.m - 3 a.m - £6/7
Germanic jazz manoeuvrings as Rainer is joined by Jurgen from Jazzanova and the rest of the Different Drummer crew that lights the left side of the road - long may they prosper...
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LATEST RELEASE NEWS and GOSSIP (Don't forget... It's a secret)
A short round up to bring to some exclusive news and gossip and keep you updated about the latest temptations on offer at vinyl emporiums and establishments of recorded music across the globe...
EXCLUSIVE - Finally, we are excited to announce that top Italian jazzer Nicola Conte has concluded a worldwide licence deal with BLUENOTE RECORDS for his forthcoming new live album - a huge congratulations to him and all the Fez Studio crew - and a testimony to his talent and wide reach of music. Official release dates and live booking opportunities will be brought to you first as soon we have more news....
Staying on the jazz side of the fence, Mitchell & Dewbury have completed a remix for new "Roy Budd Cult Film Scores 1971 - 77" compilation - released on Sanctuary Records this month. For those who don't know, Roy Budd is most famed for his theme to the "Get Carter" film as well many others form the 1970's.
DJ Lubi releases his new compilation for Nascente Records entitled "Beginners Guide to Cuban" on 23rd February - it comes of the back of the "Beginners Guide to Salsa" CD that has been a bible for many and sold buy the shed loads -
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FORTHCOMING TOUR DATES
PLEASE THE BOTTOM OF THIS E-MAIL FOR FULL ROSTER DETAILS...
Domu (Sonar Kollektiv / Archive / 2000 Black) (DJ) - (NORTH AMERICA - Thurs 4th March - Tues 23rd March) - SELECTED DATES AVAILABLE
Sidewinder (Live / DJ)- March / April / May (U.K / EUROPE- especially Germany, France & Italy)
Boo Williams (Anthology Launch & Tour) - (U.K / EUROPE - Thurs 1st April - Sun 18th April )
Bruno E (Trama / Nova Vida / SambaLoco) - (U.K / EUROPE - Late April / Early May)
Stacy Kidd (Chicago) - (U.K / EUROPE - April / May)
Break Reform (Live) - (U.K / EUROPE - April / May / June)
Break Reform (DJ Tour) - (NORTH AMERICA - 14 April - 26 April)
PLEASE THE BOTTOM OF THIS E-MAIL FOR FULL ROSTER DETAILS...
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BEST KEPT SECRET CHART - FEBRUARY 2004
1. Seiji in Puerto Rico (CD-R)
2. Amy Winehouse - Take the Box (Seiji "Buggin" mix) (Island)
3. Boo Williams - Charming Echoes (Attic Space)
4. Oi Va Voi - Refugee (Matthew Herbert Big Band Mix) (Outcaste)
5. Shade of Soul feat. Marylin David - Give it to Me (Sunny Side)
6. Sidewinder - Ego Riot (Yam Who? Remix) (Fenetik)
7. Freedom Soundz feat. Vanessa Freeman - Do It Right (People)
8. Rain People feat. Marcus Begg - Trippin on Love (Osiris)
9. Titonton - Explicit E.P (Neroli)
10. Colonel Red - You Gimme that Feelin (People)
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Nick Matthews
Best Kept Secret
7-11 Kensington High Street
LONDON
W8 5NP
T: +44 20 7368 3393
E: nick_at_bestkeptsecret.uk.com
W: www.bestkeptsecret.uk.com
DJ's:
Ady Harley, Alex Attias, Anderson Soares, Beanfield, Bitasweet Records, Boo Williams, Block 16, Break Reform, Bruno E, Domu, Drumagick, Fauna Flash, Joseph Malik, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Les Voleurs, Mark Luv'Dup, Mr Hermano, Mitchell & Dewbury, Mad Zoo, MK (Roots Manuva), Nick Matthews, Nicola Conte, Nu Spirit Helsinki, Phil Asher, Rainer Truby, Russ Dewbury, Sidewinder, Stacy Kidd, Stateless / Swell Sessions, Wagoncookin', Yam Who?
Live / Semi Live Acts:
Bluprint (Exceptional), Break Reform, Electracoustic, Fertile Ground, Izzi Dunn, Mitchell & Dewbury, Patricia Marx, Sidewinder
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