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Technomite is very proud to be part of the SUF 100 tour, a serie of parties all over the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the legendary Stay Up Forever label.
Technomite started inviting SUF deejays in 2004 in the legendary Zazou club in Lier and since then, many of London's acid techno heroes found there way to the belgian decks and beers
On the 21st of december, the SUF 100 tour comes to Belgium for the second time. Don't miss it, you 'll regret it.....
Playing some plastic
Technomite started inviting SUF deejays in 2004 in the legendary Zazou club in Lier and since then, many of London's acid techno heroes found there way to the belgian decks and beers
On the 21st of december, the SUF 100 tour comes to Belgium for the second time. Don't miss it, you 'll regret it.....
Playing some plastic
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Technomite is very proud to be part of the SUF 100 tour, a serie of parties all over the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the legendary Stay Up Forever label.
Technomite started inviting SUF deejays in 2004 in the legendary Zazou club in Lier and since then, many of London's acid techno heroes found there way to the belgian decks and beers
On the 21st of december, the SUF 100 tour comes to Belgium for the second time. Don't miss it, you 'll regret it.....
Playing some plastic:
Chris Liberator (Stay Up Forever, UK)
Aaron Liberator (Stay Up Forever, UK)
Rachel Rackitt (Stay Up Forever, UK)
DJ Ant (Stay Up Forever, UK)
Twieq (Technomite, Kanekore)
Ex-Ray (Technomite)
Starts at 22.00u. Ends at ...... .
ACID TECHNO : A WAY OF LIFE NOT A FASHION STATEMENT
This year STAY UP FOREVER RECORDS will release the first part of their 100th release, and celebrate 20 years of being at the forefront of the U.K. Acid Techno scene. It will also be 20 years since the Liberator DJ’s (Chris, Julian and Aaron) the squat party pioneers and creators of Stay Up Forever and the Acid Techno sound began their mission to bring the hard and dirty sound of the London techno underground to the world.
And what a history…
Growing into a worldwide movement from Sao Paulo to Tokyo, Warsaw to Melbourne, Caracas to Johannesburg, with soundsystems, parties and clubnights dedicated to the sound and ethos appearing like viruses, inspired by the dirty,energetic music, and the punkish, “Fuck-You” context of the London squat scene, the scene erupted with little fanfare and virtually no hype. Non-fashionable, overtly political and anti-establishment, and truly D.I.Y. in attitude, the sound was reflected in these urban parties that thrived in London every weekend, a place to try out new tracks and see the music’s influence on the dancefloor directly. Producers and musicians like D.D.R., D.A.V.E.the Drummer, Lawrie Immersion, Geezer, Gizelle and Ant (to name but a few) joined the fold, and in the late nineties with more labels and input the Stay Up Forever Collective was born to reflect what was now a vibrant musical force across the whole Techno spectrum. Championed by such luminaries as John Peel and Kriss Needs, their D.I.Y. counter-culture ethic appealed to those who saw beyond the glitzy Mixmag coated media circus that the U.K. dance scene became, but also outlawed them from both the traditional dance media, and the po-faced “proper” techno scene which often gravitated heavily towards whatever was fashionable or intellectually appropriate. STAY UP FOREVER refused to play the game and continued with the music they loved, but developed it heavily through various channels, never following the mainstream penchants for Progressive, Hard House, Electro, Minimal or whatever other sound dominated. Totally dedicated to what they believe in, they have outlived most, forging an almost legendary status in the techno scene, without having virtually any media coverage in the mainstream.
Now, with stalwarts Chris Liberator and Aaron Liberator still at the helm, the Stay Up Forever Collective continues to pump out vinyl with a catalogue of new releases from Stay Up Forever, Hydraulix, R.A.W., Cluster, WahWah, Maximum Minimum, Hive, Yolk, Scythe Squadron and 99.9. With original producers like D.D.R., Lawrie Immersion, Chris Liberator and Ant back and on fire, and newer, younger producers like A.P., Sterling Moss, and Osmo kicking up a storm, there is a definite new wave of Acid Techno happening, with new free party rigs championing the sound across the U.K., bored of the establishment and disillusioned with the status quo of a tired music scene.
http://www.stayupforever.com
http://www.sufbookings.com
http://www.facebook.com/stayupforever
http://www.facebook.com/pages/suf-bookings/299570286077
http://soundcloud.com/djant-stayupforever
http://soundcloud.com/aaron-liberator
http://soundcloud.com/stay-up-forever-previews
http://soundcloud.com/rackitt
http://www.facebook.com/djant909
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Liberator/284487324966622
http://www.facebook.com/Liberator20years
More history lessons from the London underground
20 Years Of Liberator… the story so far
Liberator DJ's Aaron, Chris, and Julian, first met in the heady days of post acid-house rave, circa 1989/1990. Living in the (then) not so trendy nether regions of Hackney/South Tottenham, and entrenched in the post-punk squat scene (all 3 were squatting or ex-squatters at the time) they started becoming interested in the tougher end of the Techno sound, rapidly emerging from the early House music explosion. Going out to raves, whilst amassing the records that were coming out from Belgium, Holland, U.K. and the U.S. which were keyed in to this new tougher electronic rhythm, soon got them noticed on a scene still largely dominated by punk and post-punk musical ideology. Chris and Julian finally hooked up one day at Julian's squat, and started pooling their collections of new rave music. It wasn't long before another squatter named Aaron (who actually owned decks!) had heard about the' DJ's' operating out of another squat down the road and went to check them out, and that afternoon Liberator DJ's were born, and everything was about to change...
20 years ago, on the weekend of the 14th and 15th of September 1991, they threw their first ramshackle party in Julian's squat in Stoke Newington, offering one floor of tough rave music (complete with rig, strobes, lights and backdrops), and local punk bands in the basement (accessed by a pole placed in a hole cut through the floor). With a big garden and massive bonfire for a chillout, it was the perfect place without the dress restrictions and bouncers in a normal club or rave. The party was a big success with 800 people attending and lead quickly to another party in a squat inMentmore Terrace, Hackney. The party was simply named 'Liberator' (featuring the spacecraft from the cult TV sci-fi show Blake's Sevenon the flyer) a statement of freedom, which gave the three Dj's their name. From this they rapidly hooked up with Conspiracy, a group of travellers they knew, and soon became locked in and part of the quickly evolving scene which included Spiral Tribe, Bedlam, Shrape, Armageddon and many more rigs emerging with similar attitudes and ideology. In May 1992 they played with Bedlam and Conspiracy at Lechlade and a month later at the legendary Castle Morton festival, which an estimated 20-30,000 people attended and showed the authorities exactly how big the scene had become!
Meanwhile, back in London things were cooking. Liberator continued playing every week out of town at illegal festivals, as well as in London at a succession of squat eviction house parties, warehouses and larger events in venues like old schools and community centers. Meanwhile they were playing for Bedlam on a regular basis, as well as guesting for Club Dog/Megadog, Zero Gravity, Full-On and other underground crews, and in the same year were asked to be residents for Essence, the short lived but seminal club for free party people based at Turnmills every Thursday night.
Musically however, despite being popular on the scene, they were still regarded as outsiders. Totally in love with the hard European Techno and Acid, fused with the UK Breakbeat Techno rave sound, theirs was a sound that neither fitted with the increasingly Gabba orientated Spiral Tribe ethos, or at the other end of the spectrum, the underground house sound of DIY and Smokescreen. Not content with submitting to their peers they began their label Stay Up Forever in July 1993 to attempt to realise the sound of the music they loved and get this sound represented on vinyl. Despite a slow start, and with the help of some successful releases on Choci'sChewns, a London label and record shop which had a similar sound, they began to fuse a sound of their own and London Acid Techno was born.
When the original soundsystems of Bedlam and Spiral Tribe fled the country after the Criminal Justice Bill was introduced, the Liberators decided to stay put in London and concentrate on their music, and the burgeoning urban squat party scene, and soon hooked up with more like-minded musicians and activists like Dave D.D.R. Lawrie from the Immersion sound system, D.A.V.E.The Drummer, Ant, Guy Geezer, Gizelle and a whole host of musicians and sound systems, and the scene began to flourish. Labels like Smitten and Routemaster sprang up as the Acid Techno sound took hold and the squat party scene began to grow proportionately. By 1997 Liberator had their techno sister label Cluster alive and kicking, and had released a CD and vinyl album called 'it's not intelligent, it's not from Detroit, but it's fucking 'avin' it', a rallying cry to the underground and a 'fuck you' to the techno purists of the time who claimed the Liberator sound wasn't the true sound of techno. Of course, it wasn't, it was a pumped-up, super charged, twisted version of their straight laced version, but no less relevant and sales went through the roof as did a brief press and media flirtation with the squat party culture that surrounded it.
As time moved on the three Liberators found themselves not only nurturing a growing worldwide scene but also beginning to explore different musical possibilities within it. The Stay Up Forever label Collective started, run and managed by the Liberators to release music that reflected the growing sound. Julian's 4x4 imprint had tremendous success ploughing a more funky, varied, but hard techno sound whilst Chris began the Maximum Minimum label for analogue techno and hard minimal grooves, whilst Aaron explored funkier tech-house with Low Rent Operator. Individually the three DJ's were moving in various musical directions releasing artist albums (Chris's 'Set Fire' and Julian's 'True Defective' amongst others) as well as mixes, records and music in combination with other artists, including such luminaries as diverse as Lenny Dee, Dave from Elastica, and journalist Kriss Needs. Chris and Aaron continued to fly the flag for Acid Techno, Chris even managing to penetrate the prestigious Dj top 100 a few times, whilst Julian pursued a more techno approach releasing some of the most important techno artists like Leo Laker, Renato Cohen and DJ Rush on his 4x4 label and creating some truly innovative music including 4x4x9. Aaron meanwhile began to take the reigns of the S.U.F. collective, as well as banging out some successful music under his Crash 'N' Burn moniker. Their music was regularly being played and supported on Radio 1 where they were invited for a John Peel session and they were even being name dropped by Irvine Welsh in one of his novels.
DJ'ing across the globe individually, playing in such diverse places as Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, U.S.A. Japan, Canada and across Europe, as well as regularly here in the U.K, they still attempt whenever possible, to team up and bring their original mix of the three Liberator DJs to the dancefloor as a one-unit show as they used to back in the day.
On this, their historic 20 year anniversary, they prove that musical commitment, friendship and belief can triumph over commerciality and staid ideas. With a fiercely dedicated approach to the underground scene that spawned them, Liberator has proved that the underground can survive and prosper without embracing the mainstream. Come and 'ave it with Liberator, still tuned in and dedicated to the pulse of the dispossessed.
Technomite started inviting SUF deejays in 2004 in the legendary Zazou club in Lier and since then, many of London's acid techno heroes found there way to the belgian decks and beers
On the 21st of december, the SUF 100 tour comes to Belgium for the second time. Don't miss it, you 'll regret it.....
Playing some plastic:
Chris Liberator (Stay Up Forever, UK)
Aaron Liberator (Stay Up Forever, UK)
Rachel Rackitt (Stay Up Forever, UK)
DJ Ant (Stay Up Forever, UK)
Twieq (Technomite, Kanekore)
Ex-Ray (Technomite)
Starts at 22.00u. Ends at ...... .
ACID TECHNO : A WAY OF LIFE NOT A FASHION STATEMENT
This year STAY UP FOREVER RECORDS will release the first part of their 100th release, and celebrate 20 years of being at the forefront of the U.K. Acid Techno scene. It will also be 20 years since the Liberator DJ’s (Chris, Julian and Aaron) the squat party pioneers and creators of Stay Up Forever and the Acid Techno sound began their mission to bring the hard and dirty sound of the London techno underground to the world.
And what a history…
Growing into a worldwide movement from Sao Paulo to Tokyo, Warsaw to Melbourne, Caracas to Johannesburg, with soundsystems, parties and clubnights dedicated to the sound and ethos appearing like viruses, inspired by the dirty,energetic music, and the punkish, “Fuck-You” context of the London squat scene, the scene erupted with little fanfare and virtually no hype. Non-fashionable, overtly political and anti-establishment, and truly D.I.Y. in attitude, the sound was reflected in these urban parties that thrived in London every weekend, a place to try out new tracks and see the music’s influence on the dancefloor directly. Producers and musicians like D.D.R., D.A.V.E.the Drummer, Lawrie Immersion, Geezer, Gizelle and Ant (to name but a few) joined the fold, and in the late nineties with more labels and input the Stay Up Forever Collective was born to reflect what was now a vibrant musical force across the whole Techno spectrum. Championed by such luminaries as John Peel and Kriss Needs, their D.I.Y. counter-culture ethic appealed to those who saw beyond the glitzy Mixmag coated media circus that the U.K. dance scene became, but also outlawed them from both the traditional dance media, and the po-faced “proper” techno scene which often gravitated heavily towards whatever was fashionable or intellectually appropriate. STAY UP FOREVER refused to play the game and continued with the music they loved, but developed it heavily through various channels, never following the mainstream penchants for Progressive, Hard House, Electro, Minimal or whatever other sound dominated. Totally dedicated to what they believe in, they have outlived most, forging an almost legendary status in the techno scene, without having virtually any media coverage in the mainstream.
Now, with stalwarts Chris Liberator and Aaron Liberator still at the helm, the Stay Up Forever Collective continues to pump out vinyl with a catalogue of new releases from Stay Up Forever, Hydraulix, R.A.W., Cluster, WahWah, Maximum Minimum, Hive, Yolk, Scythe Squadron and 99.9. With original producers like D.D.R., Lawrie Immersion, Chris Liberator and Ant back and on fire, and newer, younger producers like A.P., Sterling Moss, and Osmo kicking up a storm, there is a definite new wave of Acid Techno happening, with new free party rigs championing the sound across the U.K., bored of the establishment and disillusioned with the status quo of a tired music scene.
http://www.stayupforever.com
http://www.sufbookings.com
http://www.facebook.com/stayupforever
http://www.facebook.com/pages/suf-bookings/299570286077
http://soundcloud.com/djant-stayupforever
http://soundcloud.com/aaron-liberator
http://soundcloud.com/stay-up-forever-previews
http://soundcloud.com/rackitt
http://www.facebook.com/djant909
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Liberator/284487324966622
http://www.facebook.com/Liberator20years
More history lessons from the London underground
20 Years Of Liberator… the story so far
Liberator DJ's Aaron, Chris, and Julian, first met in the heady days of post acid-house rave, circa 1989/1990. Living in the (then) not so trendy nether regions of Hackney/South Tottenham, and entrenched in the post-punk squat scene (all 3 were squatting or ex-squatters at the time) they started becoming interested in the tougher end of the Techno sound, rapidly emerging from the early House music explosion. Going out to raves, whilst amassing the records that were coming out from Belgium, Holland, U.K. and the U.S. which were keyed in to this new tougher electronic rhythm, soon got them noticed on a scene still largely dominated by punk and post-punk musical ideology. Chris and Julian finally hooked up one day at Julian's squat, and started pooling their collections of new rave music. It wasn't long before another squatter named Aaron (who actually owned decks!) had heard about the' DJ's' operating out of another squat down the road and went to check them out, and that afternoon Liberator DJ's were born, and everything was about to change...
20 years ago, on the weekend of the 14th and 15th of September 1991, they threw their first ramshackle party in Julian's squat in Stoke Newington, offering one floor of tough rave music (complete with rig, strobes, lights and backdrops), and local punk bands in the basement (accessed by a pole placed in a hole cut through the floor). With a big garden and massive bonfire for a chillout, it was the perfect place without the dress restrictions and bouncers in a normal club or rave. The party was a big success with 800 people attending and lead quickly to another party in a squat inMentmore Terrace, Hackney. The party was simply named 'Liberator' (featuring the spacecraft from the cult TV sci-fi show Blake's Sevenon the flyer) a statement of freedom, which gave the three Dj's their name. From this they rapidly hooked up with Conspiracy, a group of travellers they knew, and soon became locked in and part of the quickly evolving scene which included Spiral Tribe, Bedlam, Shrape, Armageddon and many more rigs emerging with similar attitudes and ideology. In May 1992 they played with Bedlam and Conspiracy at Lechlade and a month later at the legendary Castle Morton festival, which an estimated 20-30,000 people attended and showed the authorities exactly how big the scene had become!
Meanwhile, back in London things were cooking. Liberator continued playing every week out of town at illegal festivals, as well as in London at a succession of squat eviction house parties, warehouses and larger events in venues like old schools and community centers. Meanwhile they were playing for Bedlam on a regular basis, as well as guesting for Club Dog/Megadog, Zero Gravity, Full-On and other underground crews, and in the same year were asked to be residents for Essence, the short lived but seminal club for free party people based at Turnmills every Thursday night.
Musically however, despite being popular on the scene, they were still regarded as outsiders. Totally in love with the hard European Techno and Acid, fused with the UK Breakbeat Techno rave sound, theirs was a sound that neither fitted with the increasingly Gabba orientated Spiral Tribe ethos, or at the other end of the spectrum, the underground house sound of DIY and Smokescreen. Not content with submitting to their peers they began their label Stay Up Forever in July 1993 to attempt to realise the sound of the music they loved and get this sound represented on vinyl. Despite a slow start, and with the help of some successful releases on Choci'sChewns, a London label and record shop which had a similar sound, they began to fuse a sound of their own and London Acid Techno was born.
When the original soundsystems of Bedlam and Spiral Tribe fled the country after the Criminal Justice Bill was introduced, the Liberators decided to stay put in London and concentrate on their music, and the burgeoning urban squat party scene, and soon hooked up with more like-minded musicians and activists like Dave D.D.R. Lawrie from the Immersion sound system, D.A.V.E.The Drummer, Ant, Guy Geezer, Gizelle and a whole host of musicians and sound systems, and the scene began to flourish. Labels like Smitten and Routemaster sprang up as the Acid Techno sound took hold and the squat party scene began to grow proportionately. By 1997 Liberator had their techno sister label Cluster alive and kicking, and had released a CD and vinyl album called 'it's not intelligent, it's not from Detroit, but it's fucking 'avin' it', a rallying cry to the underground and a 'fuck you' to the techno purists of the time who claimed the Liberator sound wasn't the true sound of techno. Of course, it wasn't, it was a pumped-up, super charged, twisted version of their straight laced version, but no less relevant and sales went through the roof as did a brief press and media flirtation with the squat party culture that surrounded it.
As time moved on the three Liberators found themselves not only nurturing a growing worldwide scene but also beginning to explore different musical possibilities within it. The Stay Up Forever label Collective started, run and managed by the Liberators to release music that reflected the growing sound. Julian's 4x4 imprint had tremendous success ploughing a more funky, varied, but hard techno sound whilst Chris began the Maximum Minimum label for analogue techno and hard minimal grooves, whilst Aaron explored funkier tech-house with Low Rent Operator. Individually the three DJ's were moving in various musical directions releasing artist albums (Chris's 'Set Fire' and Julian's 'True Defective' amongst others) as well as mixes, records and music in combination with other artists, including such luminaries as diverse as Lenny Dee, Dave from Elastica, and journalist Kriss Needs. Chris and Aaron continued to fly the flag for Acid Techno, Chris even managing to penetrate the prestigious Dj top 100 a few times, whilst Julian pursued a more techno approach releasing some of the most important techno artists like Leo Laker, Renato Cohen and DJ Rush on his 4x4 label and creating some truly innovative music including 4x4x9. Aaron meanwhile began to take the reigns of the S.U.F. collective, as well as banging out some successful music under his Crash 'N' Burn moniker. Their music was regularly being played and supported on Radio 1 where they were invited for a John Peel session and they were even being name dropped by Irvine Welsh in one of his novels.
DJ'ing across the globe individually, playing in such diverse places as Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, U.S.A. Japan, Canada and across Europe, as well as regularly here in the U.K, they still attempt whenever possible, to team up and bring their original mix of the three Liberator DJs to the dancefloor as a one-unit show as they used to back in the day.
On this, their historic 20 year anniversary, they prove that musical commitment, friendship and belief can triumph over commerciality and staid ideas. With a fiercely dedicated approach to the underground scene that spawned them, Liberator has proved that the underground can survive and prosper without embracing the mainstream. Come and 'ave it with Liberator, still tuned in and dedicated to the pulse of the dispossessed.