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Event
| BLEND | JANUARY 24th, 2015!
1.BLEND
verb \ˈblend\
: to mix (things) thoroughly and usually with good results
: to exist together as a combination
On January 24th, 2015,
Smooth Villain Records and X-Files Hardcore Productions Bring you:
~|ı Blend ı|~
*******FEATURING A FIRST TIME EVER INDOOR SNOWBALL FIGHT AT A RAVE!!!!!!!!!!*******
Come 2gether and celebrate life with us!!
If you experienced CONTACT or PULSE you already know what we're all about!
ONE Room -- ONE vibe...keeping true to the spirit of what it's all about....THE MUSIC.
***House - Techno - DnB - Hardstyle - Hardcore - Electro ***
SO MANY SURPRISES IN STORE!!
18+ to Enter
21+ to Drink
* Drink Specials all night for 21+
**For your listening pleasure:**
****|ı NIGEL RICHARDS ı|**** {Techno, Electro, Dark Stuff}
(611 Records, 611lifestyle.com, Downside Up Recordings, Thoughtless Music, Voltaire, Recovery Tech, Nervous Records)
https://www.facebook.com/djnigelrichards
Nigel Richards is an internationally-recognized DJ, producer, and entrepreneur known for his unique music style and contributions to the dance music industry.
Richards discovered his passion for dance music during his undergraduate days at the University of Rochester in New York. There, he hosted a radio show titled "City Sounds from the Underground," for three years on WRUR FM. The show exposed Richards to all genres of dance music, and Richards developed relationships within the industry as the station's Program Director.
In 1993, Richards opened the doors to 611 Records, the iconic record store for dance music DJs, in his hometown of Philadelphia. Richards' knack for branding evolved 611 Records from a local record store in Philadelphia to an international lifestyle brand synonymous with dance music and the DJ lifestyle.
Richards, who describes his music as "sexy, spooky, dark techno," recalls the experience that inspired him to pursue his career as a DJ. In 1993, the same year that he opened 611 Records, Richards was asked to travel to Stuttgart, Germany to perform for 8,000 people. The energy from the room inspired him to devote his life to delivering music to the masses.
As the demand for DJ Nigel Richards' music grew, 611 Records attracted more attention from DJs across the country and the globe. Richards saw the opportunity to grow the 611 brand through apparel. Richards explains, "When the store was open, we put the 611 label on everything." As Richards traveled to new states and countries to play music each week, he sold 611 t-shirts and tossed 611 Records releases into the crowds. By the mid 1990s, Richards was distributing 611 apparel to dozens of stores across the country.
DJ Nigel Richards has released over forty vinyl records and performed in all fifty states and in more than twenty countries. Today, he continues his cause releasing music digitally with bits of sneaky 7" limited vinyl collectors editions. His releases on labels such as Communique, USA, Omnis, Ireland, Phobiq, Italy, Incense, Spain, and many others will surely mean that his sounds will continue onward and worldwide.
His web presence is focused on his podcast available thru itunes or nigelrichards.podomatic.com and his 611 Lifestyle apparel brand at 611lifestyle.com.
"Enjoy rock music!"
****|ı EMPRESS ı|**** {DNB}
(Empower, NYC, New Identity, UK)
https://www.facebook.com/EmpressEmpower
Since 1996 Empress has toured the best clubs, festivals & events all over the world. She's gone as far as Europe and Asia, has also played almost every major city in North America, including Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. A real "DJs DJ" known for repping the deep, dark, musical & rolling dramatic genres of Drum & Bass, Jungle and other bass styles.
This femme fatale is a veteran Dj who's devotion to music, revered sets and relentless ambition has sustained her esteemed global reputation. Empress was one of the first female DJs in the world to start playing regularly at Raves back in the 90's. Her flawless mixing, esteemed technical skills, vast knowledge of music and high energy sets has set her apart from the mediocrity.
Empress has toured internationally Djing, Performing, Song Writing & Producing all genres of extreme Music. Specializing in Drum and Bass, Jungle, Electro house, Moombahton, Industrial, Deep, Dark and Epic Sounds.
In 1999, she was the first American Drum & Bass DJ ever invited to play in London.
From 2000 to 2007, she performed at the Ultra Music Festival at WMC in Miami.
In 2002, she released a mix CD on Topaz Records called "Stateside Sessions" scanning over 5,000 copies sold in the first 2 quarters it was released.
In 2003, Empress toured North America, playing almost every major city in both North America, Canada & Mexico.
In 2004, she produced & mixed 4 songs for NYC's notorious band BLONDIE for their last album - "The Curse of Blondie".
Throughout this entire time, between touring the globe DJing or taking studio production classes or pining away in her studio, Empress worked hard at becoming the studio professional that she always dreamed of being.
In 2006, her reworking of the song "We Live In Brooklyn" by Roy Ayers, entitled "Brooklyn Baby" was sold to Universal Music Group to be licensed to the HBO Film "Life Support" starring Queen Latifah, produced by Jamie Foxx, eventually sold to Universal.
After being based out of London in 2007 & 2008, and touring most of Europe, Empress decided to come back to NYC to form her first band and persue her song writing and singing.
In 2009, Empress wrote, recorded, produced & engineered her first solo album. She dedicated the year to finish the songs & to teach her band to play the songs from this new album. It featured her singing with some of New York City's brightest Musicicans. They rehearsed for over a year before her band, "Empower" began doing shows in NYC. All the while, she kept DJing her Drum & Bass sets, while also taking on Dubstep & Electro House, and was booked to DJ in the Dominican Republic for a Music Festival in March of 2010.
Also In 2010, Empower performed shows in NYC.
Empress founded Empower Recordings in January 2011 to release "Alien Nation" her first single from the album. She coordinated various genres of bass heavy remixes of "Alien Nation". Two Dubstep remixes; one from SST (from Orlando), another one from Optimus Gryme (from New Zealand), a Drum and Bass one from GenR8 (from Miami) and a techno/electro one from Thrash (from Brooklyn) that were distributed through Itunes, Beatport & Amazon. She then teamed up to create "Alien Nation's" music video with director Eric Acosta, editor Dee Wassell and camera work and direction by Kermit Mercado and Gabriel Garcia.
Watch it here---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrofE7W_IxY
After doing shows with her band Empower in NYC, she decided that she wanted to focus solely on producing music & DJing again after the wear and tear of having and bankrolling a band in a city as expensive as NYC.
In 2013, Empress is gearing up to release the next single on Empower Recordings featuring her vocals and solo production on "Only Love" and "Faithful" in March. She is also set to release her next Empower Podcast, available through Itunes, Soundcloud and Youtube, while she's exclusively playing at the World of Drum and Bass in Miami for WMC and continues to DJ shows all over the world, while working intently on her original production.
Sought after by promoters, artists, bands and fans worldwide, Empress continues to move crowds, grace studios and stereos across the globe everyday.
After doing shows with Empower in NYC, she decided that she wanted to focus solely on producing music & DJing again after the wear and tear of having a band in a city like NYC.
In 2013, Empress is gearing up to release the next single on Empower Recordings featuring her vocals and solo production on "Only Love" and "Faithful" in March. She is also set to release her next Empower Podcast, available through Itunes, Soundcloud and Youtube, while she's exclusively playing at the World of Drum and Bass in Miami for WMC.
In 2014, Empress began producing Drum and Bass events in Brooklyn at the sleek new club Verboten New York. Her first event is scheduled for September 27th, with top notch D&B and bass music international talent, sponsored by Radeberger Beer, Jameson and Belvedere.
Sought after by promoters, artists, bands and fans worldwide, Empress continues to move crowds, grace studios and stereos across the globe everyday.
****|ı ZOE-X vs. HOWHARD ı|**** {HARDCORE}
(H2OH Recordings, X-Files Hardcore Productions, NYC -vs- (Hard Kryptic Records, NOISJ, Machinecore Records, Digital Plague Records, Hardmind, Ravers Only)
https://www.facebook.com/DJZOEX
www.djhowhard.com
www.facebook.com/howhardmusic
www.soundcloud.com/djhowhard
www.hardkrypticrecords.com
HowHard -
How Hard, aka the Pied Piper of Hardcore, is one of the most recognizable names in the NYC Hardcore Techno scene. Born in New York and splitting his adolescence between the music scenes of both NYC and South Florida, he has spent twenty years building his music career. Though beginning his musical dissonance in the metal, hardcore, and punk scenes he has been best known over the last decade by his non-stop DJ schedule. Fusing his influences and crossing genre lines, How Hard has been known to embrace many styles including Hard Techno, Industrial, and Drum & Bass within his already powerful Hardcore Techno sets.
When not behind the decks, How Hard is relentlessly in the studio working. As an original artist he has continuously produced, collaborated, and remixed on multiple labels. Looking to further push hard and underground music, he launched his Hard X Music group of labels in 2006 which includes the top-selling imprint Hard Kryptic Records. Hard Kryptic and its sublabels have featured original tracks and remixes by some of the biggest names while emphasizing in discovering the best underground talents from around the world.
An ever-growing force in the music industry, How Hard continues to strive to reach new heights in his career while pushing his undying love for hard dance music.
ZOE-X -
Zoe-X started his journey when he worked at LIMELIGHT(91-96).He is the true definition of true HARDCORE/GABBER..He can rock the vinyl with his trusty 1200's or CDJS...Anyone that has had the privilege of watching him perform knows that he caters to the crowd...involving them and making the dance area lose control.He takes great pride in his work and wil never play a pre determined set..Its all freestyle cause he reads the crowd and performs accordingly.Trust me when i say he is one of the best..When you have heard him perform you will have experience the true definition of the HARDCORE/GABBER sounds.
Now teaming up with SUBTONIX this duo of artists are taking the GABBER world by the balls..Having and still producing original tracks theres no slowing these guys down,
http://youtu.be/cMCveZgT3a4 ( GRIND) https://soundcloud.com/subtonix/subtonix_zoex_cays_remix
(NEOPHYTE,TIEUM,ROB GEE) COMING AT YOU STRONG -ZOE-X & SUBTONIX GO FUCK YOURSELF REMIX.
****|ı SPACE MONK-E ı|**** {HARD/ElECTRO-HOUSE}
(Smooth Villain Records NYC/NJ)
http://www.beatport.com/artist/space-monk-e/347794
https://facebook.com/djspacemonke
https://soundcloud.com/space-monk-e
Making you bounce for the better half of the past two decades, Space Monk-E has performed all over the North American continent He is so versatile and has such amazing energy that he has the ability to please crowds wherever he goes. Not only is Space Monk-E an electrifying DJ he is also a musical-genius when it comes to production. He is notorious for that hard bass-in-your-face sound that will keep you moving until you drop!
****|ı INTEGRITY ı|**** {High-ENERGY}
(Hardmind, NYCRavers, Kikwear, DJintegrity.com)
http://www.djintegrity.com
http://www.soundcloud.com/djintegrity
http://www.facebook.com/integritydj
http://www.hardmindproductions.com
http://www.nycravers.com
http://www.kikwear.com
For more than ten years, DJ Integrity has strived to serve and represent the rave community without compromise, influence, or corruption to fulfill the expectations his moniker implies. As a DJ, despite genre evolution over the past decade and a half, Integrity's driving, deep, and complex sound has remained consistent, but fine tuned and modernized along the way. Integrity covers a wide range of trance, hard dance, and techno with quick and calculated mixing and incorporates the best examples of driving, body-moving, and mind-expanding music into his sets, featured mixes, and radio broadcasts that have reached fans all throughout the country. Influenced by and trained during the late 1990s-era New York City rave scene, supported by prominent promoters past and present, and matured by years of performances, you can rely on Integrity to deliver the authentic rave experience even when others claim it is dead.
****|ı LAUREN VALENTINE aka LALA ı|**** {HARDSTYLE}
(Pretty Girl Productions, Team No Sleep NYC, Reckless Dream Productions)
With an energy that could explode a room, this Valentine will steal your heart or just break it in half. An intricate story teller, Lauren uses a unique blend of hardstyle, hardcore, speedcore, trapstyle and many hardbass genres, blended with a rock and roll flare, to take your ears on a journey. Aside from her true love of hardbass, valentine ventures into the sexy world of techno, exploring dark techno, hard techno, and hard trance.
It all began at the age of 7 behind a drumset. Lauren Valentine grew up a rocker and developed her passion for hard beats from her roots, as drummer, in hard rock and metal. Lauren also spent years evolving her musical background and training her ears with classical piano training, musical theater and has also spent years in the dance world, as a gogo dancer, aerialist fire performer pole dancer and hula hooper. Her hardcore attitude stands to promote a true love for music and moving to it. Her dance experience gives Valentine a unique perspective from a dancers point of view, and uses this knowledge to truly move the crowd.
Her passion and unique style shine on stage and off, she may be small but her energy is huge. This blonde bombshell sets out to put the HARD back in hardstyle and bring a whole new sound to the hard dance world, and break the mold of typical hardstyle. Her rock infused sets uniquely blended with hardstyle hardcore, techno, and trap, with a few other twists, will make any crowd dance hard, or just erupt into a mosh pit! ROCK ON!
****|ı DIZZY DECKS ı|****
(TeamNoSleepNYC)
www.soundcloud.com/dizzydeckznyc
https://www.facebook.com/Dizzydeckznyc
****|ı GRIZZLY ı|****
(Bass Island)
https://www.facebook.com/CDjGrizzly
https://soundcloud.com/brandon-grizzly
~|*With your master of ceremonies for the night*|~
****|ı MC MASTACHIEF! ı|****
(Lyricist, Vocalist, Poet)
Photography:
**Brian Triple Threat
http://www.facebook.com/ttpnj
**Casey Anne Photo
Reckless Dream Productions
https://www.facebook.com/caseyannephoto
EXTRAS!:
*Body Painting
*Vending
*Glow stuff
*Limited $15 advanced tickets
$20 at the door ALL NIGHT!
**$5 dollars off with your *official* #teamnosleepnyc card until 10pm**
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LocationBLACKTHORN 51 (View)
80 12 51st ave
Elmhurst, NY 11373
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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