Deep exotic soul, twisted funky disco, exhilarating blissful beat-down, slow-burning house grooves and fathomless melodic techno.
Start your weekend with a subsonic excursion through some of the most seductive and elating dance music from across the oceans of time, a genre-hopping voyage of discovery and rediscovery, guided by four of the city’s resident connoisseurs of dance-floor science, assisted by some of their equally skilled and knowledgeable friends.
The SLO-MO residents Stuart Holbeck, Charles Gardiner, Rob Firth and The Earl will be back in the decadent surroundings of Bath Street's Mamasan again on the 17th of this month armed with crate-loads of classic funk, disco and our trademark deep grooves. Entry is free all night and we're on from 11pm-3am.
From Saturday 19th of June, the Slo-Mo residents will be taking over Mamasan's hallowed dj booth to bring some of our deep, midtempo groove to Bath Street.
Yes, your favourite eclectricians will be let loose with crates full of funky, ass shaking, soul drenched boogie, mid tempo house and full flavoured disco edits on the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Entry is free all night and we will be sneaking in some top class guest djs every now and again as well so keep an eye on facebook for further details.
This month our residents dj team will be joined by two of Glasgow's infamous disco intstitutions. Dance! Dance! Dance! residents Andy Piacentini and Derek Smith.
Thursday 3rd June
DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!
ANDY PIACENTINI
Half bowl of pasta, Half Funk 45, he’s been DJ-ing in Glasgow for over 15 years and has been a leading light in the Glasgow underground Disco scene, however his musical interests don’t stop at all things ‘Protohouse’. As a fledgling aficionado of the nascent Rave Scene in 88’ he has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of all things ‘Old School’. With residencies at Disco Not Disco, Deaf Monkey and for the past 2 years at DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! Andy’s sets are a true journey through underground dance music...Leftfield Disco, 80’s Electro, Italo, Boogie, Techno and Deep House.
DEREK SMITH
A DJ for almost 20 years and been collecting records since his childhood. He’s been DJ-ing in and around Glasgow since the mid 90’s beginning with Galactic Disco at the Sub Club. In 98’, alongside some friends, started the legendary club night, Traxx, where he remained resident DJ for several years. Since then Derek has DJ’d all over the UK from Aberdeen to Brighton. One of Derek’s main influences is that of the Chill Out/Ambient scene of the late 80’s and early 90’s, where the emphasis was on setting a mood. A firm believer in programming being the main point of his DJ sets and that a good record is a good record - you’re as likely to hear 60’s Soul, 80’ New Wave, Philly Disco or one of his own Re-Edits.
Over the years the DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! guys have DJ’d alongside the likes of Andrew Weatherall, Greg Wilson, Todd Terje, Mark E, Tom Middleton, Balearic Mike, Phil Mison + The Revenge and many many others and the club night has had both national and international press coverage.
The SLO-MO Residents will then be hosting the entire evening for our last bash at The Flying Duck on Thursday 17th June, before we take a summer break.You'll still be able to catch us djing monthly at Mamasan just round the corner on Bath Street as we take up a monthly residence there on the 3rd Saturday of every month.
SLO-MO Resident Stuart Holbeck delivers a fantastic mix pitched down disco and midtempo house.
Tracklist....
1) Lump - Rain
2) 6th borough project - Stratus Quo
3) Neighbour - Charo Claptrap
4) The beatdown soundmachine - More love (LTJ X-perience mix)
5) Space Ranger - Herbal cake (the Revenge rubdown)
6) Johnny Dynell - Jam hot (40 thieves dub)
7) The Revenge - Heavy love
8) SFPV - Cosmic funk (SFPV edit)
9) Roundtree - Get on up (Brevil edit)
10) Eddie C - One with the stars
11) The Revenge - Just be good to me (Revenge alternative dub)
SLO-MO continues its foray into deep, funky and soulful sounds with the first of our guest nights.
Kicking off proceedings we've pulled in the talents of two of the best resident djs we've found in Glasgow. Kev Stevens and Craig Moogroove are resident djs and co-promoters of the fantastic Solar Disco parties held on the second Saturday of each month in the Brunswick Hotel basement which they run with their mate Paul Maelstrom.
Taking in sounds from the likes of Tensnake, Floating Points, 6th Borough Project, Cottam and various other cutting edge producers these guys regularly turn the Brunny basement into a proper sweatbox with full on body rockin sets. We've been seriously impressed since the first time we heard them and felt they'd be the perfect act to rock SLO-MO!
Craig Moog has been a player in the Glasgow music scene for the last decade. Now running the Solardisco club nights with Maelstrom (Eskimo Recordings/Mindless Boogie) and Kev Stevens. He also runs his own Electrofunkdiscotek nights alongside fellow Glasgow disco devil Billy Woods(Supermax). He can be found playing a sound that takes in Disco, Italo, Cosmic, Electronic, Balearic, Funk, and everything else in between.
Craig has played residencies in Glasgow to packed clubs in Europe,taking in Paris, Berlin and the O2 Arena in London for an aftershow along the way, also Djing with some of the greatest players in the Cosmic Disco/Nu Disco scene such as Pete Herbert (Reverso 68), Prins Thomas (Full Pupp), Rune Lindbaek (Noid), Dicky Trisco (Disco Deviance), Social Disco Club (Bear Funk), Fabrizio Mammarella (Bear Funk), Optimo (Oscarr), In Flagranti (Kitsune), Richard Sen (Padded Cell), Q-Burns (Eight-Tracks) and The Revenge (Jisco). Craig also runs the Disco/Electronic music blog PieceTogether.
Big Kev started djing around about 1999 or so in the legendary Buff Club in West End of Glasgow, playing along side the likes of Mark Robb and Nick Peacock spinning upfront Jazz, northern soul and deep funk.
He's played in numerous bars in Glasgow everything from HipHop to RareGroove, but has always loved the Disco and only really started delving more into the Disco vibes after hearing mixes from the likes of the Social Disco Club, Mark E, Pete Herbert. This was also coupled with numerous nights getting down to the sounds provided by Melting Pots Andy Pirie and Simon Cordiner who introduced him to lots of music he's never heard before.
This led him to start his own night with help from Craig Thompson and Paul Gordon… Solar Disco was launched and it embraces the Disco vibes, but they have also given it their own twist by playing more of an electronic sound incorporating House and Deep House music. You can find Kev playing some of the best Electronic Disco grooves in Glasgow every Friday in the bar at Humming Bird.
As always our residents Charles Gardiner, Rob Firth, Chef De Party and Stuart Holbeck providing support.
When Marvin Gaye originally recorded this groundbreaking LP, he used many different recording techniques.
He used 2 sets of vocals and separated them: falsetto on one side and tenor on the other. He also brought the rhythm section to the front with accent on the bongos. Motown bosses (Berry Gordy & Company) did not like the result and remixed it more conventionally for the 1971 release.
Thirty years later (2001) they finally released the original mix now called "The Detroit Funk Mix"; (after The Funk Brothers, the Motown rhythm section who played wonderfully in this session)
In 1971 as a 15 year old Jay Negron made a medley of the songs from this LP on a cassette.
Recently he was listening to all the remixes from this LP and decided to re-create the Medley he did but NOW using The Funk Brothers versions and a
great Jimmy Michaels mix on "Mercy Mercy Me".
It turned out just the way Jay wanted it to and i think its so good i just had to share it with you.
Medley includes:
"What's Going On", "What's Happening Brother", "God Is My Friend", "Mercy Mercy Me",
& "Inner City Blues"
1. DC La Rue - Reworks Vol 2 (Overture-BC Edit) - Dc La Rue Reworks. Buy it here
2.The Shake Up Connection - Live At The Basement - Amplified US. Buy it here
3. Daz-I-Kue - "In The Middle" (feat Joy Jones - Domu mix - dub) Future Soul US. Buy it here
4. Sanskrit - Toothpaste Ninja - Avatara Records. Buy it here.
5. Erdbeerschnitzel - 4 Months - 3rd Strike Records. Buy it here
1. Jean Pierre Massiera & co - Mama Ecoute (James Johnston edit) Listen here.
2.Watusi Band - Oi Gere (Fromage vs Knanky Fuckles edit) Listen here
3. DRRTY HAZE - Make My Body Hot - (Redux) Buy it here.
4. KZA - Aneugalam - (Endless Flight, Japan) Buy it here.
5. Art of tones - Breaking Bad (Room With A View, Germany)
1. Afro Disco Boogie Edits vol 1 - (Guynamukat 001) Buy it here.
2. Harry Thurman - Underwater - (Uniwave 1980) Listen here.
3. Jayson Brothers - The Game EP - (Drumpoet Community dpc_029-1) Buy it here.
4. The Osmonds - I,I,I (Quiet Village edit) Listen here.Free download here.
5. We Do It For The Love EP - House Is The Cure (HITC 001) Buy it here
1. Boogymann - "I Missed You" (Superhult France) Buy it here.
2. Dub Version - "Boogie Easy" (Special Kind of Dub) Buy it here.
3. Red Rack'em - "In Love Again" (Untracked) Buy it here.
4. Reboot - "Enjoy Music" (Crazy P Remix) (Defected) Buy it here.
5. Tiger & Woods "Gin Nation" (Editainment Germany) Buy it here.
Forever Cookin' Promotions is very proud to announce the arrival of a brand new midweek clubnight to Glasgow's vibrant party scene.
SLO MO promises to deliver a sweet and intoxicating blend of some of the finest dance music produced in the last 50 years. From Motown soul to electro-boogie, from classic funk to re-edited disco, from emotionally charged house music to deep melodic techno, this fortnightly Thursday jam session will feature four highly skilled and knowledgable residents plus a selection of our biggest local DJ heroes.
Our resident team compised of Robin Firth, Stuart Holbeck, Chef De Party and Charles Gardiner will have over 50 years djing experience between them and have played in some of the finest clubs in the country. Their forward thinking approach to modern electronic dance music is combined with a connieseurs passion for collecting classic tracks from across the past 5 decades and beyond.
We sincerely hope that you can join us for the birth of our new project and we hope that you will enjoy our music continue to support us.
