Quack quack

So have you recovered from the Phil Asher night, if not don't worry as there's a month until the next Buggin' and we're sure you're gonna need that rest as we've only gone and invited back one of the finest purveyors of quality dance music, Mr Chris Duckenfield.

With over two decades of djing safely tucked under his belt that have seen him take in the underground warehouse parties of the late eighties, classic clubs like Panorama Bar in Berlin, The Sub Club in Glasgow and The Electric Chair in Manchester as well as thundering cathedrals of rave in the form of London’s Fabric and Electric Elephant festival in Croatia, Chris Duckenfield has done it all. He was one half of the mighty Swag outfit, ran record labels Odori, Primitive and the more recent filthy disco imprint Popular Peoples Front and that’s not even mentioning the ‘ssssssh’ records he puts out.

This is one that you definitely do not want to miss.

http://www.chrisduckenfield.com/

Entry is £5 otd

Doors are 11p.m. - 4a.m.

Support comes from Soul Buggin' ressies Wrighty & Beane

Plasher the Masher

So last Saturday the man with the Restless Soul known to us mere mortals as Phil Asher bowled up to Nottingham and graced the decks of our little monthly shindig and did what he does best - namely mash the the living daylights out of our dancefloor. With a top crowd in attendance getting their wobble right on February's party proved to be a proper giggle. Big ups to all those that came down. Here's a few pics taken from the night courtesy of our favourite roving lens Nick 'the photo' Clague.

Phlash ATTACK

Well we told you we weren't gonna mess about in 2013 and hot on the heels of a rather fantastic night with Sam Redmore we bring back one of the best received guests we had at Moog, Phil Asher.

Undoubtedly one of the UK’s most prolific dj/producers Phil has been indispensable to the progressive musical landscape over the past 15 years. Having completed well in excess of 200 of his own productions, as well as innumerable remixes, from his first gig at Legends and London’s first House club Delirium in 1991 (slipping on a record when Noel Watson went to the toilet) to more recent gigs at, Inspiration Information, and Soul Heaven at Ministry of Sound in London, Phil has played the length and breadth of the UK, as well as, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, France, Brazil, Japan, Canada, United States, New-Zealand and Australia.

Along with Luke McCarthy, Phil is the founding member of the restless soul Production Team, which also incorporates producers Dominic Jacobson, Taxi Driver, Aaron Ross and Felix Hopkins and Latest recruits Jose Carretas, Bopstar & Craig Whitfield (HHA). He also produces under various aliases and he is also recognised as being one of the pioneering forces in the West London (Broken beat) movement. Phil has been an instrumental part to the scene, from being a founding member of the CO-OP club alongside Dego, I.G.Culture and Demus, Afronaut & G-Force, to representing and promoting the West London sound worldwide. He is one of those hardworking soul soldiers trying to unite the love for soulful music, breaking down musical frontiers and releasing an eclectic output of quality music.


Check him out here

https://soundcloud.com/rstlss-trx

https://soundcloud.com/restlesssoul

Residents supporting will be Wrighty & Beane

Entry is £5 OTD

Soul Buggin' January Sale!

Happy new year and all that jazz! Did you have a good un? We ruddy well did. Big ups to all those that came over to The Old Angel for our new years eve party and helped us to see in 2013 a few weeks back.

January eh, where to start? You've spent a fortune at Xmas, joined a new gym, given up just about everything. Come the end of the month you're itching to get back out there and enjoy yourself but the bank account wont take a heavy one. What to do? Well luckily enough we've been pondering this at Buggin' Towers and have come up with the solution, The Soul Buggin' January Sale, where we offer cheap entry, cheap booze but the same high quality dancefloor business.

To help shake the cobwebs away from your bestest dancing clobber we've invited the excellent Sam redmore along to do his thing. Resident DJ with Leftfoot and promoter of Freestyle, two of Birmingham's most respected club nights, Sam Redmore has shared the stage with musical luminaries including Roy Ayers, Cash Money, Norman Jay, Youngblood Brass Band, Odyssey, Breakestra, Crazy P and many more. His DJ sets incorporate anything from soul, hip hop, funk and disco through to afrobeat, salsa, broken beat, house and more, whilst his remixes have received widespread support on BBC 6 Music, the likes of Craig Charles, Gilles Peterson, Lauren Laverne and Nemone all airing his work in recent times.

www.soundcloud.com/samredmore
www.facebook.com/samredmoremusic

DJ support comes from the Soul Buggin' residents

Entry is a mere £3 before midnight and then £5 after. Please note we start this one at 10 pm due to there being no gig beforehand.

Plus they'll be a stack of drinks offers until 1 am

Secure the ornaments.... dark room disco ahoy

It was almost exactly a year ago when we tearfully waved goodbye to Moog, our home for 3 years since 2009, with a massive New Years Eve party and all night session till 6am. It was one hell of a party, not only because many of us knew this legendary venue was finally closing it's doors (and of course it was blinkin' new years eve) but also partly due to the fact we had invited Mark Rayner from the Wild Honey Soundsystem collective, Osbourne from DiY and Mr Alex Traska from MHYH Radio to join us for some disco bother on the decks.  It was an ace night and one that still tickles us some 12 months on.

Fast forward 12 months and it's been a rollicking year for us. It began with a massive hangover and a 4 month comedown as we pondered on life without Moog, what to do with a crowd that wanted to keep on dancing but more importantly where on earth to take our party. After much deliberation we plumped for The Bodega and in 2012 we saw the likes of Ashley Beedle, Recloose, Faze Action, Leftside Wobble, Crazy P, Paul 'Trouble' Anderson, Cosmic Boogie and many others join us for some brilliant parties at the well known Pelham Street venue.

Now with New Years Eve once again on the horizon we're pumped up for another party but this time we're planning on doing something a bit different as a special one off session in a new venue for us so here's the deal with just the juicy bits for your noggin' to take in:

NYE. Soul Buggin' vs. Wild Honey. Upstairs at The Old Angel boozer. 9pm-4am. One dark room with a side room bar. A big system. £5 entry on the door

The Old Angel is a well known pub in the centre of Hockley but we'll be doing our thing upstairs till the early hours and we'd love you to join us

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We look forward to shaking a leg with you all

:)

PS - Oh, and don't worry if you've already made plans over Christmas, we'll be back at the Bodega in the new year with a whole load more of goodness.

Date with the rain...

Well that was what we call a blinkin' party. In what proved to be one of the wettest days of the year in Nottingham even the truly miserable weather failed to stop you lot from coming out to witness the musical sorcery of Recloose last Saturday. Straight from the off people seemed up for it and with a proper buzz in the air building up to the event we were truly honoured to welcome the Detroit magician to the Soul Buggin' ones and twos. Big hugs and love to those that braved the elements and made it down and of course mad props to Matt for coming over from the other side of the world to play at our party. We wish him all the best as he continues his tour around Europe.

In the next week or so we'll have full details of our New Years Eve party but before all that here's a few pictures from Saturdays session courtesy of our favourite snapper Nick Clague

Detroit state of mind

Well Saturday turned into a bit of a monster didn't it eh! Big thanks to all those that bowled on down for a boogie and of course big props go out to our guest dj Luke Unabomber who rocked it solid.

So hardly a few days have gone since Saturday and we're already salivating at who we've got coming to play at Soul Buggin' on Saturday November 24th at The Bodega Social Club. We promised you something big and we reckon we've delivered, as part of his 6 date European tour we bring you Recloose.

**Please note: All limited early bird £5 tickets have now sold out so entry is  now £8 on the door**

We've been big fans of Recloose here at Soul Buggin' towers for many years and so have our crowd so we expect this one to be pretty busy.

Doors open at 11pm and as per usual musical warm up / warm down duties will come from residents Wrighty, Beane and even a rare appearance from our very own Mark A. 

So a little back story on the man himself...
It all started in the spring of 1997 when Detroit native Matthew Chicoine, aka Recloose, made contact with techno pioneer Carl Craig by way of a legendary ‘demo-on-rye sandwich’. This fateful meeting led to the signing of Recloose to Craig's seminal Planet E label and the birth of an eclectic and vibrant musical career.

Recloose's musical roots trace back to eight years of studying music and playing jazz saxophone, later shifting his focus to the art of collecting and mixing vinyl while at the University of Michigan. His eclectic DJ sets, which were first heard on Ann Arbor’s WCBN, have led him to become an in-demand DJ, playing at clubs and festivals around the world as well as performing as a turntablist for both Carl Craig’s Innerzone Orchestra and the more esoteric Uri Caine ensemble.

Over his fifteen year career Recloose has developed into a true standout of Detroit’s musical litter. To date he has released a number of groundbreaking 12”s for Planet E and Rush Hour, a host of remixes for the likes of Funkadelic, Herbert, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Tei Towa, Dennis Coffey, MJ Cole and Azymuth, a live album, and three full-length LPs debuting with ‘Cardiology’‚ on Planet E / !K7 in 2002, greeted with wide critical acclaim.

Recloose relocated to New Zealand in 2001 to plant new roots and explore fresh musical horizons. 2005 saw the release of Recloose's second LP, ‘Hiatus On The Horizon’ (Peacefrog/Loop), an album that features a host of New Zealand’s finest musicians and vocalists (and spawned the dancefloor stomper ‘Dust’ featuring Fat Freddy’s vocalist Joe Dukie). This was followed in 2006 by the Recloose Live Band’s funk compendium ‘Backwards and Sideways’, recorded live at the San Francisco Bathhouse and released on Recloose’s on-off imprint ‘Fingertips’ in early 2007. Recloose’s 2008 international long player, ‘Perfect Timing’, features yet more stellar New Zealand talent (including Tyna Keelan, Rachel Fraser, Joe Dukie, Jonathan Crayford) and took out the prestigious Tui Award (aka NZ Music Award) for best Electronica/Dance album of 2008. In 2010 Recloose teamed up with long time musical comrades Rush Hour records to release "Early Works", a retrospective collection of standout and lost material from his days in Detroit. Since then he has been continued to release a number of ambitious 12"s on Rush Hour and Delusions of Grandeur.

In 2009 Recloose launched his Hit It & Quit It radio show, broadcasting with broadcast partner Frank Booker every Monday from Auckland’s George FM and quickly growing the show into one of the highest rating on the station. In 2010 Recloose took up residence at Auckland’s Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand to set up and deliver a full-time DJ and Electronic Music Production (DJEMP) programme, now rotating between teaching and securing his masters degree at the University of Auckland.

 Check out Recloose's website here for mixes, productions and news www.recloose.com