Friendly Fires, the UK three piece that effortlessly fuses rock and dance music, is stopping  by the Works on Wednesday night after their show at The Independent to give us a display of their dj prowess. The band, which hails from St Albans, Hertfordshire in heart of London’s commuter belt, has really delivered on their passion for mixing rock with dance music in the last three years since exploding onto the scene with their first, self-titled, album in 2008.

Their Bugged Out mix on Studio !K7 from September of last year further proves that they have a deep appreciation for dance floor music. Couple this with the fact that band member Ed Macfarlane put out material on the respected Manchester electronica label Skam (once home to Boards of Canada, Bola and Gescom) and on the Precinct Recordings … Read more ›

There’s not much you can say about Kevin Saunderson that hasn’t already been said or written. One of techno’s original Belleville Three trio along with Juan Atkins and Derrick May, Saunderson’s productions push the same sonic envelope that all the groundbreaking Detroit techno did in the mid to late ‘80s. However, Saunderson was a futurist who had also taken in the classics on the floor of the Paradise Garage. This club informed the dark sensuality of one of his earliest records, “Just Want Another Chance” by Reese (his middle name is Maurice, thus Reese) a record with a bassline that was endlessly pirated by UK drum ‘n’ bass producers in the ‘90s and sought on vinyl by many more looking to access the “Reese bassline,” not a reference, as many thought, to UK drum ‘n’ bass pioneer Alex Reece but to Kevin ‘Master Reese’ Saunderson.

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Afrolicioius joins the Works again for another night of Afro-Latin and global inflected dance music with a modern twist. The Afrolicious djs, Pleasuremaker & Señor Oz have been throwing their weekly shindig at the Elbo Room for the last four years. Their nights are a heady (and body) amalgam of of heavy riddims, tropical and electronic grooves, live drums, live MCs and good times. Oz and Pleasuremaker have also travelled outside of San Francisco and taken their signature style to other cities in the US and beyond — including Japan.

Their unique approach to moving a dancefloor caught the ear of Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza and later this year the boys will be providing a remix for the Corporation’s 18th Street Lounge Music imprint as well as an EP of original material. The line-up for the June 4th show at the Works includes MC Fresh is … Read more ›

If you like electronic music but have been, unfortunately, stuck under a moss-covered stone on the eastern shore of the Kamchatka Peninsula for the last fifteeen to twenty years then you will have absolutely no idea who Luke Vibert is. You will also not have the slightest inkling that he’s going to be djing at Public Works on the 16th of June and that the show will be a whole big ball of completely and utterly out-of-control fun that human language couldn’t even begin to explain (because everyone will be having too much fun to be doin’ any explainin’).

Mr. Vibert, a native of England, began tooling around with music in the early ’90s as part of a few punk type bands. However, he soon figured out that working on your own with electronic equipment was a much cheaper and effective means to create music and that it was also … Read more ›