Hisham Akira Bharoocha Born in Niigata Japan in 1976, Hisham Akira Bharoocha graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in photography. While in school he played music throughout the years, becoming a key member in the Providence, Rhode Island underground music scene. Bharoocha was a founding member of the legendary noise rock group Lightning Bolt, and after leaving that group became the long time percussionist for Black Dice (DFA Records). Hisham stopped playing with Black Dice last summer and has started his first solo project under the name Soft Circle. Hisham also has other collaborative musical projects such as GaTax, the duo he does with Eye from the legendary Japanese band Boredoms. Hisham also plays in the band Pixeltan (DFA Records) who are presently working on new material for an album. He also has an acoustic based group called USUN, with artists Mark Borthwick, David Aron, and Scott Mou. Bharoocha also shows his artwork at galleries across the world, having just arrived back from showing work with Deitch Projects gallery at the Art Basel fair in Miami, Florida. His work is also shown through John Connelly Presents. |
Neil Scribbins aka Prince Nelly Hailing from the East London school of DJs, Neil Scribbins, transforms in to the salitatious Prince Nelly when the lights go down and the cocktails come out. The perfect party player bringing you your all time, best time parrrty hits, that stir memories and keep you dancing. Feeding his musical obsession with a diet of The Supremes, ABBA and The Beatles it was inevitable that pop became number one: "I loved groups like the Pointer Sisters and Bucks Fizz. A-Ha, Bananarama and early S/A/W. Basically anything with a strong melody." His uplifting and nostalgaic blend of music through the decades makes him the perfect party player. Consuming music from TV and radio by the time he'd started primary school, Prince Nelly was brought up on a diet of the Supremes, ABBA and the Beatles. With an 80s show on Hospital Radio under his belt Prince Nelly got his first club DJ break in 2001, playing in the Trash Room at Popstarz . Here he honed his skills in playing unpretentious pop, which led to other gigs in and around London, eventually landing himself a slot at Radio Egypt. Guesting at Radio Egypt inspired Prince Nelly to put forward his idea of a retro chart show hosted in a pub. Richardette, propreiter of the George & Dragon on Hackney Road, granted him his wish and the Retro Chart Rundown was born to an enthusiastic response. Articles appeared in such diverse titles such as i-D, Time Out, The Guardian, Jockey Slut, Metro and the Sunday Times. What sets Prince Nelly apart from the pack is his ability to cover a wide range of genres in his sets, guaranteeing a satisfied crowd. "I aim to play music that is familiar enough to put a smile on every face and I like to jog people's memories too. I want them to re-discover the breadth of music that really was fantastically produced but may not have been given credit back in the day." Prince Nelly remains resident in the George & Dragon and regularly plays on the party circuit around London, including his own nights such as House Arrest (late 80s/early 90s house) and A Night In New York (a celebration of NY disco labels such as SalSoul and West End). He has also played for numerous Paris Fashion Week parties. |
DJ Alex World of the 12” Welcome to the world of the 12�. Prescribing the troubled youth of East London with a healthy dose of soulful percussion, DJ Alex has been regularly sugar coating the darker, seedier East End raves. A musical entrepreneur, stitching old school Chicago house with his own blend of feel-good disco - get ready for some soulful blues. No stranger to the music scene, Alex has been an avid partaker for the last fifteen years. Once part of Attica Blues Allstars, from radio to warehouse parties, from Plastic People to Hoxton Pimps, his blend of sunshine house and light melodies now make up a third of the Voices Collective � an East End residency bringing soulful underground dance music back to the masses. Lean back, and let the light in. |
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Mix for i-D Don your space-gear and plug in for another epic mix from our Nordic heroes. Catapulting into the hottest duo on the dance circuit, if you haven�t yet been blown sky-high by Lindstrom and Prins Thomas you must have had your head in a (shore)ditch. Whether scorching their way across dance floors or fox-trotting their way around continents the Norwegian master-minds run their own record label, Feedelity Recordings, and throw out tip-top remixes like nobodies business. Infusing '70s porn funk with world-inspired layers, from cowboy to Turkish, Balearic to disco, get ready to be wooed by their sleazy jams. Down tempo lounge music with something you can dance to (although no one�s perfected that dance move quite yet). Get moving. |
Jonjo Jury-Andrews Creeping in to clubs since he was 14, dyslexic Jonjo now 25 has gone from rocking to the beat with a glass of lemonade to full on rocking the joint. From old time favourite haunts, Kinky Gurlinky, Smashing and Pushca ten years later playing for Queens of Noise, Kashpiont and stunnerz international. With a love of �, � and �. Jonjo has been dj-ing since 2001 and has since become weekly resident at Trash (a residency he couldn�t be more chuffed about) Having done past show music for Robert Cary Williams and Sophia Kokosalaki. Collaborating closely with fashion maestro and all time party boy Gareth Pugh and regularly tearing the mental George & Dragon at the seams with his live shows, the lovely Jonjo is one East-end party force to be reckoned with. |
Rub'N'Tug New York nightlife, as we all know, is in the doldrums. Giulliani shut the whole shop down. Light up a Lucky Strike and you'll find yourself at the wrong end of a 911 call. Fortuitously, nobody told Thomas Nicholas Allen Bullock and Eric Z Duncan. Their Rub n Tug moonlighting aliases are doing some heavy shift work in re-locating the vibe that shaped the city in the first place. Their parties are already the toast of the town. 'They feel like a hot bath in a dark room. Volcanic.' Howdy, boys. We're already feeling your flavour. So we hooked them up and Bingo, they supplied us with this exclusive mix of deep house, post funk and acid rock. Check it out. For full interview see i-D no 246 |
The Boilerhouse Boys The Boilerhouse Boys are widely regarded as pioneers of London's dance music explosion of the late '80s and early '90s thanks to their eponymous club nights. They went on to produce, write, mix and record some of the greatest hits over the past decade for world renowned artists including Gabrielle, Texas, A Tribe Called Quest, Donna Summer, Chaka Khan, Blondie, Malcolm McClaren and Shaznay Lewis, garnering along the way a host of awards including the acclaimed Ivor Novello for excellence in songwriting and clocking up over 20 million record sales . The Boys recently provided the score for Orlando Bloom's first starring role in 'The Calcium Kid' and music for Colin Firth's and Mena Sauvaris' performance in 'Trauma'. They continue to DJ around the globe and work with various artists - most recently and notably discovering and producing Joss Stone. In 2004, Vivienne Westwood commissioned The Boilerhouse Boys to provide the soundtrack to her retrospective at London's Victoria And Albert Museum. This is it, in two parts... |
Court One: from Let It Rock to Vive Le Rock It was more than an honour to curate the music for the Westwood retrospective, it was catching up with the bigger boys on the night bus. It was almost closure. I was 11 in ‘77 in Bromley, watching the contingent swan around in the magnificence of creating the most important, significant, revolutionary and bestest youth movement ever, but being too small for even the babiest pair of bondage trousers was no fun. It took the best part of 30 years to finally feel that, musically, I was amongst the punk gods, that I'd caught up. Finally I was fit to sit under the signed Jamie Reid Pretty Vacant poster on my wall; finally I felt I could 'fuck forever' and that 'ours' was 'the 21st Century', as he'd written on it. With Westwood comes, more than any other, a passion amongst its devotees, with such an eye for detail, history and frankly pedantry that this was a project charged with the possibility of being laughed all the way back to Bromley should it fail to not capture exactly what was musically right. Although many claimed to be at the 100 Club to see the Sex Pistols, I couldn’t realistically claim this or even to have attended Sex, less still Let It Rock, so the accuracy demanded here is due as much to research as it was to knowledge through musical anecdote - one of the delights of the project was talking for hours with old and ex-punks who were there. The beauty was, in the same way that I can name the Millwall team from 1974 yet can’t remember who played last night, the memories of the time were so vivid from those who were there. Many of the Bromley boys were very helpful, like Dave Carroll in particular, as was Jordan and some of the other luminaries from the time, but awards for total recall go to Mark Alleyene and particularly Marco Pirroni, and many of the stories I gleaned for this project were his. "No Pistols, no Bowwowwow, no Mclaren and nothing kitsch.” Oh. That was the directive, which I personally thought was harsh. A retrospective is about accuracy rather than revisionism, but rules is rules. Disappointingly, it meant that the first Pistols demos we had included had to be edited out, along with L'anarchie Pour Le UK from The Great Rock N Roll Swindle and the Black Arabs great disco take on the Pistols catalogue. Boy George when known as Lieutenant Lush singing Cast Iron Arm in his one and only appearance with Bowowow at the simply fantastic Rainbow gig couldn’t be included, nor some of the brilliant hobo scratch sessions of Mclaren and Trevor Horn for Duck Rock. Shame. Still, there's a reason and sometimes a story for each track that is in the mix. And one day I'll share it. For now I'll just say thank God for Malcolm's magic tape. It was, and still is, magic. Like Westwood. Magic. Listen, enjoy and fuck
forever. And more than anything, thank you Vivienne. Ben Wolff. Mix
by Ben Wolff and Andy Dean, with Jo Wallace |
Music For Cosmic Heroes, a mix created especially for i-D by Jolyon Green, based on his set at our party with Y-3 in Paris. Jolyon Green has been DJing since the early days of acid house, mixing up an obsure melting pot of balearic, rock, ambient and '80s electronica. He plays unlikely dancefloor fillers at various underground London parties attended by the pretentious, comatose, and clueless. |