Motor City Drum Ensemble NYD Show

This New Years Day, Animals Dancing crawls up the basement stairs to present their first foray into daytime partying. Taking place at The Bridge, the freshly built venue on the Yarra’s edge in South Wharf in Melbourne, top billing on the line-up comes from Motor City Drum Ensemble and 6th Borough Project. 

Motor City Drum Ensemble, otherwise known as Danilo Plessow, began turning heads with his house and broken beat duo Inverse Cinematics, but it was his 3 part ‘Raw Cuts’ series, each constructed from samples in less than two hours that really sent waves though the electronic music world.

His passion for researching and digging also shines bright, with his Djing selections, captured this year when he programmed the coveted DJ Kicks for Studio !K7. His mix is a striking collection of Cosmic Jazz, Dub, Soul, Funk, Disco, Afrobeat, Electronica, House and Techno.  

UK production duo 6th Borough Project , made up of famed Edinburgh DJ Craig Smith and prolific production wizard Graeme Clark have worked together in the studio for more than a decade, producing deep, underground house music and exploring long forgotten funk and dusty disco dubs.

Since 2008 they've grown from strength to strength, releasing weapons on labels such as Jiscomusic, Permanent Vacation and Delusions Of Grandeur. This year saw the release of their much praised debut LP One Night in the Boroughs which displayed the duo’s diversity through the 15 tracks spanning a landscape of tempos, styles and emotions. 

Joining the internationals is one of the best local lineups you will see this New Year’s Day. Bringing together the cream of the local deep house scene, many of whom already have a serious reputation internationally.

Tornado Wallace (Instruments of Rapture, Delusions of Grandeur, Sleazy Beats)
Fantastic Man (Wolf Music, Kolour)
Francis Inferno Orchestra (Under The Shade, Join The Dots)
Myles Mac & Andy Hart (Melbourne Deepcast, Dikso)
Andee Frost (stilove4music)
Otologic (C Grade)

Tickets: On sale Wednesday 18th of October 2011 from Moshtix outlets and www.residentadvisor.net.

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