BLACK OUT @ Double Six Club, Saturday, 28 November 2009

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DOUBLE SIX

presents

BLACK OUT
SATURDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2009
@ 11PM ONWARD

FEAT. KING ROC (UK)

RESIDENTS: HELMY, DEDE, ART, FADI, MC BENO


::MORE ABOUT KING ROC::

King Roc Biography


Real name / Martin Dawson
Moniker(s) / King Roc / Two Armadillos

It's part Twin Peaks ... part Pink Floyd ... and it's King Roc's new album project...
WELCOME TO THE MUTUAL SOCIETY

The search is still on for the mythical dance-artist album that's "not just for clubs". A bit of mystery, a bit live, not just house - and more ambition than just cranking out the perfect dancefloor number...

King Roc's new label the Mutual Society is the rehearsal for his debut album Chapters, due mid-2008. It's part visual-art project - unlocking layers and layers of meaning through the Web and collaborations with Australian artist Sebastian Godfrey of Drunkpark. It's part "a bit of a hippy thing", as King Roc puts it - creating, across four EPs and an album, a new type of old-school concept album, taking in birth, death, and what drives people in the time between ...

But mainly the label will be an ambitious musical reworking of the four EPs to create a new, final album - turning ambient tracks to dance, complex electronics to rough live performance, crossing downtempo to techno, EPs to albums. Nothing will sound like it did to begin.

The first chapter EP? It runs from its ambient opening to house to techno to electronica, from birth to the random chances that change your life... "The album as a whole is about curiosities and questions," says King Roc. "But chapter one – Lunaris – is focused on the world of patterns and cycles - from the rotation of our planet around our sun and the moon around us, to the routines of when we eat, sleep, work and play.

"Day-by-day, we live in patterns, structured and repetitive. But it is often the random event within a cycle that has the greatest affect on our lives. This can come from meeting a person who ends up having a big influence on your life, to the personal experiences we have that inspire us and which drive us to create.

"Does everything that has happened to get us to this point depend purely on the fluke and coincidence? From the monumental creation of the universe and our planet, to a smaller but equally important event - how our parents met. Or is there some sort of pattern for it all? Do we believe in fate and destiny? Or is it really just because of chance events that anything is here at all? So we wonder...

"But asking the question," he says, is what makes us who we are and because we ask the questions, we reason. Perhaps then; reason is the definition of who we are? But this still leaves the question why? In Chapters, you you won't find any answers. But there is a mutual desire to look at the questions to show we know they are there..."

For King Roc, that's the future. And the past? He's released records on labels from BuggedOut! to Simple to Love Minus Zero to Azuli to Beautycase to Playtime. He's remixed New Order, Future Sound of London, S'Xpress and Stakker. His dancefloor sound is deep, lush melodic techno to house, with gigs from Berlin to Sydney, Siberia to San Paolo. But his roots are in live music, and his first forays into music were a live band that has since split to become three successful UK DJs – the others were Tom Neville and Nick Fryer (Sentience).

Chapters, he says, is in some ways a return - from live to electronic and back to live again, from groups to solo to new collaborations. Start, change, return, change ... the journey, always, as important as the destination...


Selected Discography
Feed On Me - Back Yard Recordings 2004
Pressure / How Big Is It - Kingsize 2005
Prime Evil - 1 Trax Recordings 2005
Prime Evil - Cassagrande 2005
Better Ways - iO Music 2005
Take Me Away / Mirror To Infinity - Bugged Out 2006
The Tip - Love Minus Zero 2006
Tirades Of ENV - KRPD 2006
Welcome To Zion - Simple Records 2006
Chapter I: Lunaris - Mutual Society 2007
Flicker EP - Love Minus Zero 2007

Remixes:

Chicken Lips 'Do It Proper' - Azuli Black 2004
Plastique EP 'Metro Sexuality' - Beautycase-Records 2004
Dylan Rhymes 'Salty' - Kingsize 2004
Atlantis 'Atlantis' - Skyline Records 2005
Andy Bell 'Crazy' - Sanctuary Records 2005
Holderman 'Left / Right Switch' - Involved Productions 2005
Peas (12") Peas - Most Records 2005
Mark Moore 'Trash The Can' - Umami 2005
New Order 'True Faith' - New State Recordings 2006
Cass & Mangan 'Caper' - Playtime 2006
'She's Hardcore' - Toolroom Trax 2006
Breakfasterz 'The Pressure' - Passenger 2006
Junkie XL 'Today' - Skyline Records 2006
Pablo Bolivar 'Vertigo EP' - Bay Street Recordings 2006
FSOL 'We Have Explosive' - Virgin Records 2006
Above & Beyond 'Good For Me' - Ultra 2007
Gastek 'White' (King Roc Remix) DJ Magazine 2007
Stakker Humanoid 'Stakker Humanoid' - Jumpin' & Pumpin' 2007