UPCOMING PARTIES!

SATURDAY 16th MAY:
DISCO NECTAR vs. BODY HAMMER with JOE HART & PAUL PURGAS

SATURDAY 20th JUNE:
1st BIRTHDAY PART with DJ BENETTI (Whitehouse/italoBLACK) + DISCO NECTAR Djs

SATURDAY 18th JULY: CANCELLED DUE TO VENUE REFURB.

SATURDAY 24th OCTOBER:
DISCO NECTAR vs. Swn Festival - Line-up TBA

All happening @ Undertone Basement Bar & Club
(under 10Ft Tall) on Church Street, Cardiff.
10pm-4am

Disco Nectar vs. Body Hammer 16/04/09

This month, Disco Nectar teams up with London's almighty Body Hammer bringing you the best Electro, Acid, Jack and Disco that you'll probably ever hear.With BH resident and promoterJoe Hart having played at the launch party last year, and the two nights booking legends such as Legowelt and Orgue Electronique resepectively, it was only a matter of time before we hooked up.

JOE HART
The brains behind Body Hammer, an underground night in the real sense of the word taking place at secret late-night E2 jackin' zones and office blocks. Joe's sets are heavily influenced by the sound of WBX Radio and The Hague Electro scene. He is also a BLOC resident; you may have seen him standing in for Metro Area at this year's festival.

PAUL PURGAS
Paul is a resident at Body Hammer as well as one half of experimental techno duo, Emptyset, releasing on Future Days and Caravan. Originally from Wales, we're pleased to welcome him back to unleash some of his fine Acid House records on the citizens of Cardiff.

Disco Nectar residents:

UNDERPASS:
Lee Marshall who releases warm electronica and bassy electro on Urban Planning Records is back, but this time as a DJ.

SYNCHRONOISE
He's probably being playing records since before you were born, so listen up kids. Electrofunk, Italo, Hip-House and Acid.

C++
Former promoter of Reload and Machine Meadow, he's played at every wedding, fourtieth birthday party and village disco you can imagine but vinyl freak C++'s first true love is electro, and doesn't he know it. He might play dubstep if you ask nicely :-)

The party will happen at our usual monthly venue, Undertone Basement (uner 10ft Tall) on Church Street, Cardiff. We're open from 10pm-4am and we'll charge you a meagre £4 for the privelege.

April update

Thanks massively to everyone who made it to our last event! For those of you who didn't attend you missed a fine liveset by UNscene who played some of his best stuff I've heard to date. You may have heard UNscene bashing out bass heavy electro under his Hidden Persuader moniker, most recently supporting Luke Vibert in Cardiff. This set had quite a different sound and I was seriously impressed by this guy's genre-melding collection of tunes ranging from warm, melodic downtempo techno reminiscent of Boards of Canada, through to jerky electro culminating in some rinsed out jungle. Go Bob! UNscene was followed by our guest Djs from Bristol, The Kelly Twins (Dan and Sean) playing two hours of ace tunes back to back. This was an eclectic set, as was expected including some fine electro classics, italo disco, Acid and Chicago house . At one point, everyone in the club was dancing. Nice work!

Look forward to our next party at Undertone on May 16th.

April Flyer

Saturday April 18th @ Undertone, Cardiff

This month's guests are:

UNscene (Live): Expect glitchy downtempo beats and deep, melodic sounds for this rare live appearance from UNscene, currently releasing on the South Wales based label, Access Tonal Communications. Like Boards of Canada? You'll love this.

The Kelly Twins: The Bristol based duo will provide us with some retro-style party sounds blending electro, synthpop, chi-town, hip house, acid, miami bass and italo. The Kelly Twins promote South West electro institution, UFO and co-promote Bristol clubnight, Best Before at which they are residents.

10pm-4am
£4
Undertone Basement (Under 10ft Tall)
Church Street,
Cardiff.

We went to BLOC !

Never have I seen so much great electronic music compressed into only three days so this is just very quick round up (have probably left a lot out!) of what went down apart from fish and chips, boozing, chalet hopping, slot machines and waterslides . Friday was a veritable dubstep fest, which was to be expected with the venue being closer to Bristol this year,. The two main rooms showcased Kode 9, Pinch, Peverelist and 2562, which I thoroughly enjoyed apart from the slightly annoying MC. Put a sock in it and let us listen to those tunes. Daniel Bell was ace and provided some techno relief at the end of the night with some really deep, hypnotic sounds. Things were cranked up a bit on Saturday with more electro and techno on the agenda, but only after listening to more dubstep in the form of the superb Bass Clef. What this guy can do with a trombone, a radio transistor and a sampler never fails to impress. Egyptian Lover’s djing skills are simply ace and caused me to dance like an utter loon to some old skool electro sounds. I somehow managed to miss DJ Godfather altogether as I was bopping away to Rob Hood. In fact I didn’t make it to the JAK Bar room until Sunday for some reason or another and that’s where DJ Bennetti (one half of Whitehouse) played under his italo moniker. The tunes being played can only be described as Power Italo anthems and he is cool enough to get away with dropping Boys by Sabrina. What a man. Other Italo highlights included I.F who’s DJing has admittedly become slightly more cheesy than it used to be but that’s not a bad thing if you ask me and the Miami Vice fancy dress theme added to the eighties feel. Was also great to hear him play his own signature production, Space Invaders, on a large sound system. Alexander Robotnik played a more techno orientated set than expected so I decided to rest my legs for later. Metro Area failed to show allowing Joe Hart to take centre stage instead. Carl Craig didn’t fail to deliever ending things on a high by dropping plenty of classics, which kept everyone wanting more despite three days of solid partying. Good work! All in all, this was a top weekend. Great tunes, great people, Was good to see so many Disco Nectar regulars and DJs present namely Synchronoise, C++ , The Hidden Persuader, Nanobot and Richard Carnage not mention plenty of familiar faces and friends from the Cardiff and Bristol scene. You know who you are! Big Love to you all. BLOC 2010: Bring it.