Parterre One &
Flamingofarm.ch present

Fr. 29.03.2019
VIVID Drum & Bass Nite
w/ LTJ Bukem (London, UK)
& MC Moose (London, UK)
supported by
DJ Sueshi (Density 94.5FM)
ppVoltron (LTJW)
aka The Saint972

Doors: 23H – 04H
Abendkasse: CHF 24.-
Ticketino Normal: CHF 18.-
Ticketino Early Bird: CHF 12.-
VVK: Ticketino.com & Elch Records Basel
Age: 25+

Nach der unvergesslichen Nacht mit DJ Storm (Metalheadz, UK) & MC GQ (UK) beehrt uns eine weiteres dream Team mit hohem Legenden-Status!

LTJ Bukem:
When the man behind those wire rimmed glasses and that disarming smile writes his job description just what does he put? The man who took the drum and bass concept from a small venue off London’s Charing Cross Road to the nation’s superclubs and then onto the international stage?

The geezer whose records launched breakbeat into a brand new galaxy of sound? Or maybe he just writes ‚Renaissance man for a digital age‘. In truth LTJ Bukem is all of the above. Although he wouldn’t like to admit it, LTJ Bukem is the living embodiment of the post-acid house entrepreneurial creative spirit. He is a mild mannered energy flash whose panoramic musical vision has found success in every area he has explored.

From running soundsystems to cutting up breaks at raves, from relocating the heart of breakbeat culture to redefining the spirit of drum and bass, the man known to his friends as Danny Williamson has sat at the forefront of breakbeat evolution, lighting the way with little more than a zest for life and a love of music.

In other words, LTJ Bukem is a man on a mission! Bukem’s first introduction to music was, like so many others, through piano lessons as a child. Unlike so many others however, the young pianist turned out to possess a natural talent and he quickly moved through the piano grades. Classical music represented the soundtrack to his home life.

Both parents having a passion for Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky that rubbed off on their son. However it was when the family moved to Watford and Bukem changed music teachers that he developed his first true musical love. Thanks to a progressively minded teacher called Nigel Crouch – with whom he lost touch but, after a long search, has recently found again – he was introduced to the world of jazz fusion, a style which has informed his work ever since.

In the mid eighties, at the age of seventeen, Bukem discovered the joys of clubbing. The teenager regularly checked out the local soul clubs and legendary rare groove all dayers. As a keen record buyer he soon became interested in the idea of putting over his own version of the club soundtrack and before long he got involved with a sound system. Throughout this time he also had a jazz funk band, although this had never presented itself as a serious past-time just fun.

The DJing was his main thing and by 1987 he gained something of a reputation for his sets. However it was 1988 that Bukem first realised that DJing could offer a full-on career. In 1990, LTJ Bukem got his first big break at Raindance. Booked to play between one and two AM in front of 10,000 people, it was the first true test of the fledgling DJ skills. It may have taken all his mates to push him onto the stage but it proved to be a set that he’ll never forget. From the first track he ripped it up and LTJ Bukem, the world class DJ was truly born.

Around this time Bukem had also ventured into the studio to record a track which was to become one of the most influential records of the era. Called ‚Logical Progression‘ it surfaced on the newly formed Vinyl Mania imprint. At once anthemic and relaxing it offered the first true blueprint to Bukem’s sonic vision. By the time of his follow up to ‚Logical Progression‘ Bukem had set up his own imprint. Run from a small office in Harlesden, London, the label was christened Good Looking and its debut offering came in the shape of ‚Demon’s Theme‘. Finished in mid 1990 and pressed up onto dub-plate, Bukem dropped it into his sets for a full year just to test the reaction before he finally released the track officially in July 91.

‚Demon’s Theme‘ caught people’s imaginations immediately, its soulful combination of rushing breaks, lush ambience and mellow vibes opening up fresh vistas within the increasingly dark ambience of the rave.

MC Moose
started his music career in the Blues parties of London as part of sound system back in the Eighties playing Reggae, Lovers Rock and Rare Groove and soon moved onto Pirate radio stations such as, Time Radio WLR and Traffic Jam. It wasn’t long before the Sound systems moved to Notting Hill Carnival where Moose performed alongside the likes of Rap Attack, and Tim Westwood,

In 1988 his Brother took him to his first Rave where they were playing Acid house and Techno and this is where he first picked up the mic.

This was soon followed by bookings at Stush, Biology, Roast, Jungle Fever, Pirate club, Unit 4, Spread Love, with the likes of Fabio, LTJ Bukem, Mr C, Evil Eddie Richards, and Mark Moore from S Express to name a few.

Moose has never looked back and as one of the UK’s longest standing MC’s has performed at all the biggest and best parties around the World.

Today he is still a regular at In Session with Bukem Fabric, Moondance, Raindance and Metalheadz due to his style. Moose has an easy style that’s suits the more musical DJ and with so many fast chat Lyrical MC’s this set’s Moose apart from the rest.