REACH 3RD BIRTHDAY. 22nd Jan.

Here’s  a quick post to mention that Reach will be having their 3rd birthday bash in The Twisted Pepper on the 22nd of January. The lineup looks like this: Kode9, Kenny Ken & Randall along with Mick Pressure, Deltaforce & the Reach residents. Criminal K to MC the affair. To get the whole lowdown on the night I’ll let the residents do the talking:

It’s that time of year again folks, or rather it’s four months past that time of year again, and even that time of year isn’t quite what the original time of year was when we first started off doing all of this – anyway, for all intents and purposes the time of year is pretty damn irrelevant as far as the REAL story is concerned, which is that it’s our third birthday party, and if you know what’s fecking good for you you’ll be there to help us celebrate no matter what.

When we first kicked off the whole REACH thing Dublin was a very different place altogether, you could hand out flyers without catching a gigantic fine, the Twisted Pepper didn’t exist, there was nowhere to buy Jungle in Dublin, Dubstep wasn’t even really on the radar as far as this town was concerned. Flash forward three years and there’s still nowhere to buy Jungle (FREEBIRD RIP, SELECTA RIP), there’s wee kids in neon hoodies playing Dubstep in pubs all over town, no less than six different crews putting on DnB nights, loads more Dubstep and Garage nights and the clubs close even fecking earlier.

We’ve had our ups and downs along the way of course, (OUT:REACH in the Vaults, festival tents all over the country, spelling Peverelist’s name wrong on the flyer that one time) but it’s always been great craic all the same – as both of the people who paid in to one of our earliest gigs will gladly tell you! So big, big, BIG up to EACH and EVERY one of you who’ve EVER been down to a night we’ve put on in the past three years or so, we’re doing it for the likes of ye, so ye’ll have a few stories to tell your grandkids about the way proper sub bass should make your trousers flap around your arse like a flag hoisted on a breezy autumnal day. Also, of course, MASSIVE respect to all the venue owners, barstaff, DJ’s sound system heads, MC’s, flyer monkeys, afterparty randoms, toilet attendants, lighting heads, VJ’s,other promoters, journalists etc that have ever played for us, let us play, given us the benefit of the doubt, turned a blind eye, poured us a whiskey or lent us a few skins, and maximum respect to each every one of you who ever called a well deserved rewind!

ANYWAY, without further ado let me tell you who we have for you this time around:

KODE 9 runs HYPERDUB, and in all fairness if you still need to be told that in 2010 then you haven’t been really paying attention to electronic music for the past few years. Suffice to say that in the 5 short years Hyperdub have been around they’ve completely skirted, written, subverted, crossed, rewritten and ignored nearly every rule in the big book of rules about running a contemporary bass music label, which is about the only sensible thing you can really label them as. Suffice to say that Hyperdub have been at the absolute vanguard of cutting edge electronic music over the past half decade, and I’m getting fierce hard just thinking about teh fact that Kode 9 is playing at our night. Support on his floor comes from MICKY who has managed to put Bagenalstown firmly on the dance music map as a hub for stuff that’s too cool for cities like Berlin and Bristol. Warming up are the REACH dubstep residents, proper fecking order too.

Down in the basement we have RANDALL & KENNY KEN who were both making names for themselves as DJ’s before many of the people who come to our nights were born. Tonight they’ll strictly be playing tunes that could get served in a Dublin club if they had their sister’s fake ID’s on them and they looked sort of grown up and it was all a bit too dark and busy for anyone to notice. RANDALL has been here before, he’s the ultimate DJ’s DJ who pretty much wrote the technical rulebook on mixing Jungle before it was even called that; Kenny Ken is no less deadly and the two of them will be competing to see who can dig back deeper and further through time to draw for crackly old dubplates that noone’s heard out since the days before Naphta went grey. Support from DELTAFORCE - that’s BARRY DELTA and RICKY FORCE, meaning you’ll be hearing all manner of cult classics from the Jungle and early DNB days; getting the ball rolling down early will be the usual REACH residents, keeping it cutting edge before the grandparents show up, hosting duties on the night will be performed by the legendary Criminal K.

See you there!

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