FUSE 1st BIRTHDAY w/ Joe and Will Ask? (Live) and Doorly (Ibiza Rocks)

One of my favourite Edinburgh nights is celebrating its 1st birthday in style! Fuse has to be the best place to hear the freshest electro and fidget music in the capital, the residents Gus Armstrong, Luke Cassidy, Stu Todd and Tim James are being joined by two of the biggest names in the UK electro scene: Joe and Will ask? and Doorly.

This seems to be one of the most exciting lineups in a long long time. Having seen Joe and Will Ask? last week i can happily tell you that this will be the best night of the year! Joe and Will absolutely blew the roof off at Trailertrash and have to be my favourite production duos of 2009.

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JOE AND WILL ASK? (LIVE)

Joe and Will are making waves across the electro techno scene and with their cutting edge productions are gaining support from some of biggest and best known artists in the business. Joe and Will met in 2005, both coming from very different musical backgrounds. Joe was releasing drum and bass 12″ records while Will came from the hard house and trance scenes. Their name describes their relentless passion to constantly explore genres of music, and represent their different influences within their own characteristic sound that they have become so well known for.

They started collaborating in 2007, and almost immediately draw attention from local DJs at respected nights such as Trash, as well as club promoters and indie labels. Their residencies at underground club nights soon moved into playing at some of the hottest nights in London; Matter, Trailer Trash, Durrr, Club NME, Boombox, Scala, Ministry of Sound, the Egg to name a few, as well as around the UK, Berlin, Florence, Milan, Budapest, Bucharest, Lille, and Ghent..

Meanwhile their productions have been equally well received. Coming across with dirt and cutting edge production and an eye firmly on the dance floor, but also with effortless musicality not normally associated with techno, they win over fans from the band/ indie scene, as easily as diehard clubbers. They inject tonality and musical flow into everything they touch, all under the banner of techno or electro or whatever you would like to call it, and have been compared to SoulWax, Chemical Brothers, DIM and Popof.

They signed to Andrew Friendly’s Gulp Communications in 2008, and have released three EPs worth of material, appearing in the Cool Cuts Chart, and bringing a wide fanbase to themselves including Brodinski who said “My favourite producers of the moment”, Kris Menace, Vicarious Bliss, Casper C, Acid Jacks, AutoKratz, Dark Globe, Jody Wisternoff, Cazals, Matik, Virgin Tears to name a few. They went on to remix a wide array of artists, from the highly blogged Mystery Jets remix, to La Roux on Kitsune/Polydor, Revolver (EMI), The Bell, Jupiters Heroes, Acid Girls, Revolver, Franz & Shape, Division Kent (Sony), Circuit Freq, Milke and Atomizer. There are many other remixes in progress for the likes of Ministry of Sound, and EMI’s new priority ‘Hockey.’

Joe and Will perform live, as well as DJing. As DJs they are adaptable who like to play to any crowd but their heart lies in techno and minimal on big systems. Live, their setup consists of the pair playing a set of their own material using laptops and midi controllers. The set is hard, and energetic with a balance of musicality to win over the indie crowds as easily as the techno crowds, hailing back to the start of warehouse rave with it’s raw energy and fist pumping breakdowns. Just witness the indie crowd at Club NME go absolutely mental to two lads behind laptops, and you quickly realise this is music that’s connecting on a primal level, with enough raw energy, guts and musicality to win over virtually any audience. And therein lies the answer to what Joe and Will asked.

*Joe and Will Ask? Mix- has to be one of the best mixes i have heard in a long time, this has pretty much been on repeat for the past couple of days!

Joe and Will Ask? – Wills Bag of Nails Mix

DOORLY

Fuse Favourite and rising star of the UK electronic music scene, Doorly is fast becoming one of the big names of 2009. With a string of enormous remixes under his belt including Calin Harris, Dizzee Rascal and Basement Jaxx, you can barely turn on Radio 1 without hearing one of them. His genre defying party sets take in everything from Dubstep to Techno over three decks and EFX.

In support will be the Fuse Residents Gus Armstrong, Luke Cassidy, Stu Todd and Tim James

Here is promo mix from resident DJ Gus Armstrong to give you a taste of what is in store:

Gus Armstrong – FUSE IBIZA PROMO MIX

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Jackin//Funky//Tech House and Disco

From Residents

Lee Mutch, Matt Mackie and Slikk Mick

and Special Guests

Christer
Laurie Neil
Trent Mendez

Minimal//Techno

Dickie Drysdale
Rab Clark and Mick MacNeil (Wired)
Rythmn Method
Tony Nichol
Richie Simpson

Advanced Tickets – £7 available from Rippin Records and Ticket Scotland

BONUS TRACK: Systematik (aka Stu Todd) sent over a little Promo from his forthcoming EP! Its a hard hitting come up of a tune- CHECK IT!

Systematik – Spring Promo

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