POD CONCERTS & 515 PRESENT
JEFF MILLS

Clubroom: EC vs. EC

Niall Power [Electric Circus - Waterford]
Dave Halligan [Electric Circus - Waterford]
Giles Armstrong [Electric City - Dublin]
Dan McElligott [Electric City - Dublin]

Bar: Eoin Long


Bank holiday Sunday May 6th 2007 @ TRIPOD/ Doors 11pm
Advance tickets €28 incl booking fee
Advance Tickets usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra
service charges.
www.ticketmaster. ie /24hr Hotline 0818 719300

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REPUBLIK
MAY 6TH: MARK FARINA (STAGE 2, MAIN AREA)
the forum Waterford
16 euro doors 10pm

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Kettle Special: Claude Young (Cynet Media Japan-Detroit)
Djs:

Claude Young (Cynet Media Japan-Detroit)
Rian Ryan (Electric City/3 Deck Set)`

Hugo Johnson
Fonetik (ChoiceCuts)
Eoin Diamond
Michael Gaffney


Date: 28th April 2007
Doors: 11.00 (Late Event)
Venue: Temple Bar Music Centre
Tickets: 20 euro

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Friday 27th April
The Cavern @ Radiocity
Frenchmans Lane Store St, Dublin 1 (opp Busarus)

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DOWNTOWNSOUNDS PROUDLY PRESENTS

Ashley Beedle (Black Science Orchestra/X-Press 2 - Freestyle Set)
+ El Tomo (Downtownsounds)

Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2.
Friday April 27th
Doors 11.30pm
7e before midnight/10e after

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BARGROOVE SATURDAY APRIL 28TH
PRESENTS ROTATE RECORDS NITE
The Bowery, Waterford

This was feature on the EC forum from anther site

"my friend organises nights in the forum in waterford, he has just been told by the forum owners they along with every club in waterford have signed a deal with the waterford guardi to not allow any more techno/dance music djs in their clubs because it attracts a drug crowd.

basically its a legal way of banning techno and dance from clubs

i dont take pills, speed or any hard drugs so how are they allowed to stop me or anyone from listening to music that we like just because some people like to take drugs?

is there anything we can do about this?

its like banning irish music from pubs because some people that listen to irish music drink and drive....."


what do you think?

BIOGRAPHY
One of the founding fathers of cult Techno imprint/group Underground Resistance along with Jeff Mills and Mad Mike Banks, Robert Hood distinguishes himself with a sparse, minimalist sound that has shaped modern techno in many ways. After collaborating to several UR and X-101, 102, 103 releases, Hood left Underground Resistance to focus on his solo deejaying and recording carreer.

Hood subsequently created his own record label M-Plant and contributed to the success of the original Techno sound in Europe through his releases on Berlin-based imprint Tresor.

"Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".

Robert Hood needs little introduction. Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ?Mad? Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties. As Birmingham's Surgeon once remarked, 'When Hood released his pivotal 'Minimal Nation' EP in 1993, it was like a bomb went off.'

Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. Having recorded for Metroplex, as well as the Austrian Cheap label and Jeff Mills' Axis label, Hood also owns and operates the M-Plant imprint, through which he's released the bulk of his solo material. As part of the original UR line up whose influential releases throughout the early and mid '90s helped change the face of modern Detroit techno and sparked a creative renaissance. Infusing elements of acid and industrial into a potent blend of Chicago house and Detroit techno, UR's aesthetic project and militant business philosophy were (and remain) singular commitments in underground techno. Hood left Detroit (and UR) with Jeff Mills in 1992, setting up shop in New York and recording a series of 12-inch Eps. He began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-103 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with "Tranquilizer EP" and "Drama".

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically.and set up M-Plant in 1994 releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", "The Protein Valve" "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts. "M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. "It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal."

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends. With this in mind the seminal "Nighttime World Pt.1" in 1995 and "Nighttime World Pt.2" in 2000 incorporating Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop as well as Techno and House.

His debut Peacefrog album 'Point Blank' took Hood's hypnotic minimalism to entirely new depths and territories, whilst his last album 'Wire To Wire' took his productions onto new levels of musicality and sophistication within the world of electronic music.

JEFF MILLS ON ROB HOOD:
"Having known and worked with Robert on projects in the past starting with Underground Resistance X-101, X-102 "The Rings Of Saturn" and X-103 "Atlantis" and varies Axis releases s