After last months Remote resident party, we are pleased to bring you a Free Sunday party with special guests Jane Fitz and Henry Keen, both artists bringing sounds that influence us as dj's and beat makers, expect some serious underground vibes.
JANE FITZ (Night Moves)
HENRY KEEN (Soundspecies/The Room Below)
Wil Maddams
Mhishi
Ed Maddams
Callum Quarton
Lakumer
JANE FITZ
Jane Fitz is a DJ, promoter and music journalist from east London. After making tapes and DJing at parties while still at school, she graduated to promoting her first parties when she was 21. Shake It Baby Shake It were ramshackle nights mixing soul, funk, beats and house, in equally ramshackle Camden studios in the early 90s. A few years later Jane moved to Hong Kong, where she learnt to beatmatch on her flatmate's decks and became a resident at the legendary Robot parties, playing underground house 12 stories above the city.
At the tail-end of the 90s Jane returned to London and, daunted by the prospect of starting over, started up Peg, a word-of-mouth underground house party that travelled across London's warehouses, recording studios, pubs, clubs, basements and rooftops for 10 years. While London fell out of, then back in love with house music, Peg stayed true to underground deep house when no other promoter would touch it. The party's reputation was built on its welcoming crowd and quality line-ups; guests included, Charles Webster, Chris Duckenfield, Brothers Vibe, Jimpster, Brawther, Jitterbug and Miles Sagnia – alongside the real heroes, the unknown and upcoming djs that Peg always championed. There were also away-days to parties around the UK, in clubs, fields and barns, and Peg's unforgettable summer excursions to Provence (Peg In The Sun).
On radio Jane held a regular slot on early internet station Groovetech, as well as on London pirate stations House FM and Unknown FM. Her long-running Monday night show on radio myhouseyourhouse.net has set a benchmark for obscure deep underground house, often following a unique, pitched-down house sound, or featuring exclusive guest mixes from DJs such as Scott Grooves, Keith Worthy, Hakim Murphy, Scott Ferguson, Ethyl, Steven Tang, Ernie, DJ Spider, Will Azada and Serendipity. Jane even broadcasts an annual radio show from the Movement festival in Detroit.
Jane's bookings have always been down to her DJing skills alone, having yet to release any productions - an impressive feat considering today's producer-dominated booking policies and line-ups.
In the past couple of years alone Jane has DJed at parties for both Brothers' Vibe's Mixx and Paris' MyLoveIsUnderground labels, as well as playing in Berlin, Belgrade, Bratislava, Detroit, New York and Chicago, among others. There was a return visit to mini-festival Freeroration, a Saturday night headline and memorable sunrise slot at Bulgaria’s Meadows in the Mountains festival (she is now resident at both of these festivals), and outings to Manchester's Bohemian Grove, Detroit’s TV Lounge, New York’s National Underground and Birmingham institution Below. And of course Jane also made her debut at London's Fabric. Over the years her reputation as a guest DJ has been earned playing respected underground parties and clubs such as Secretsundaze, DiY, Wiggle, Scuba, Kiss Me Again, Arthouse, Below, Northern Purpose, Delete, Berlin's Watergate and Horst, and at parties and festivals across Asia, Europe, the US and UK.
Jane's mixes and podcasts are in constant demand - recent adventures include exclusive mixes for Fabric's blog, Deep Explorer, Bohemian Grove, Patrice Scott's radio show and the respected Louche, Northern Purpose, Do Not Turn Over and Underlying Form podcasts.
She is also lining up her first releases with studio partner Dom Ahtuam aka Dlay (Sud Up Recordings), the pair producing under the name Invisible Menders. A remix for Midnight Social Recordings was out in March, their first own-label vinyl releases are coming soon.
HENRY KEEN
Henry started as a vinyl collector and DJ of electronic music back in the early 90’s and was especially excited by the sounds of Hip Hop as well as Acid House and Techno emerging from the US cities of Chicago and Detroit. He has continued to collect music and DJ over the years, although focusing more prominently on production more recently.
In 2005 he was lucky enough to be selected as a participant on the Red Bull Music Academy in Seattle and was honoured to include collaborations with fellow ’05 alumni Black Spade and Ahu on the Soundspecies LP.
His homage to Acid House, ‘Love Tips’ under the alias Herbaceous was released on Vol.1 of Don’t Be Afraid’s Asparagus themed sub label ‘Spargel Trax’ in April this year.
In July ‘The Room Below Versions’ of Rapping With Paul White was released on One Handed Music. Alex Chase from the label wrote: Here is a very unusual project: an album of electronic covers of a recent hip hop album: Paul White's "Rapping With Paul White". Henry Keen aka The Room Below took inspiration from the original songs, replaying everything on drum machines and synths, and writing interludes of his own to give the record a unique flavour: a heavy analogue electronics rap record with not a sample in sight.
Soundspecies is the alias of producer/musician/DJ brothers Henry and Oliver Keen, based in London.
A self contained production and performance unit, they have played live and DJ’d at numerous venues and festivals around the world over the past 7 years including The Big Chill, Bestival, Sonar (Barcelona), Sunsplash (Turkey), as well as a recent mini tour of Cyprus.
They released a debut album in April 2009 on independent label Burntprogress featuring collaborations with various celebrated artists from the UK and worldwide such as Ahu, Black Spade, Foreign Beggars and Deborah Jordan, alongside a limited vinyl E.P and have also released remixes for the likes of United Vibrations, Emanative and Dave DeRose. They have recorded for the BBC at Maida Vale and count Gilles Peterson, Mary Anne Hobbs and Ras Kwame among their supporters.
Their track ‘Balafon Jam’ was released in March 2011 on the Boglewaltz compilation ‘We Came For The Music’ and was featured as the X-posure Hot One on XFM as well as making Gilles Peterson’s All Winners list for 2011 so far.
‘The Bamana Project’, a live 4-track EP of West African influenced grooves, inspired by Olly’s travels in West Africa was released on Round In Motion the following July, once again gaining the support of Gilles Peterson, as well as DJs Osunlade, Simbad and Jay Scarlett.
Sunday 7th October 4pm - 12.30am
Basing House/ 25 Kingsland Road; Shoreditch; London E2 8AA; United Kingdom
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