Flashback presents -Joey Beltram & Shades of Rhythm

Fri Jun 10 2022 at 11:00 pm to Sat Jun 11 2022 at 03:45 am

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Flashback presents -Joey Beltram & Shades of Rhythm
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Joey Beltram
Techno Royalty comes to Dublin from New York City, the man responsible for arguably the best Techno tune ever produced Energy Flash in addition to dozens of other amazing tunes released on some of the biggest labels of all time, Joey continues to play all over the world so this is a major major coup to bring such an icon to Dublin, Joey will play a killer 90's Techno set which will consist of many of his own productions, huge huge night in store.
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With a number of legendary tracks such as "Mentasm" and "Energy Flash" to his name, New York-based DJ and producer Joey Beltram is widely acknowledged as a leading innovator in Belgian-style acid and techno. Although his roots as a DJ lie in Chicago house (he still focuses on the style when he spins at home), Beltram's relentless club tracks were high points of late-'80s/early-'90s pre-breakbeat hardcore techno, and remain on many DJs' top ten lists as genre- and period-defining examples of post-Detroit European dance music. Born and raised in Queens, Beltram began DJing at a young age, spinning New York and Chicago-style house in his bedroom before moving into production and solo work. By the age of 18, Beltram was recording for Detroit techno staple Transmat and working on tracks with Mundo Muzique and Richie Hawtin for the latter's Plus 8 imprint.
After Beltram released "Energy Flash" on Transmat in 1988, the track was also picked up by R&S, launching his music into a Belgian association which remains to this day. He followed up the reissue with a single for the label in 1992, "Mentasm," a classic of "hoover"-style techno, so-named for its blaring, vacuum-cleaner synth noises and slamming beat. The track was embraced by Belgian techno/hardbeat fans and DJs alike, catapulting Beltram to widespread acclaim. Although Beltram remains best-known for his techno work, he by no means confines himself to that style, dabbling as well in house and ambient, as evidenced by his eyebrow-raising Aonox LP released by the San Francisco experimental label Visible in 1994. He was back to hard minimalistic acid with 1995's Places (for Berlin's Tresor) and 1996's Close Grind (released on NovaMute as Jb3). Beltram's abundant mixing skills are displayed on the Logic collection Joey Beltram Live as well as The Sound of 2 AM on Moonshine.

SHADES OF RHYTHM
S/O/R are amongst the finest P'A's of all time on the Rave scene, they enjoyed huge success in the 90's, and they continue to play at events all over, and are much loved by pretty much everyone on the Old Skool scene so we are absolutely delighted to be bringing them to Dublin yet again this summer in what promises to be another absolutely amazing Flashback event,this will be absolutely huge and we are totally buzzing for this
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The underground is where the music scene starts, without club support a record is nothing”. Back again for 1996….For the past five years, we’ve been shading-up the dance music scene with quite a heavy impact. We don’t want to sound arrogant by saying that we were pioneers in the dance music scene, because we weren’t. But at the time there were a handful of dance bands that really helped to create the rave scene, and we were members of that core group. We’d like to think that Shades Of Rhythm were an important link in the rave chain of the early 90’s, and we hope that we can continue to pull that chain into the dance scene of today”.

Wise words from Ryan Heath of Shades Of Rhythm. Or are they? After all, we all know that Shades Of Rhythm were big business back in ’91 when we were all going crazy at raves such as Raindance and Sunrise listening to tracks like ‘Sound Of Eden’ and ‘Ecstasy’, but what about now? What the hell have Shades Of Rhythm been doing since the epic rave years of the early decade, and to be totally honest, can the boys actually step back into the limelight after five years?The answer is most probably, yes. After all, Shades Of Rhythm have managed to stand firm in a highly disposable industry for longer than most and with a rave CV that details a wealth of dance music experience, it will be a pretty tough task to nudge Nick, Rayan and Lanx out of the scene easily.“As far as music goes us boys have been involved in the scene for as long as we can remember”. Explained Rayan. “We honestly haven’t done anything else but music, it’s the only thing we are qualified to do. We’d all been in bands of some kind since we were at school, we’d actually been rivals to each other in the early years, so it wasn’t until we hit our teens that we started working together. We decided that with Nick and Lanx’s musical talent and my lyrics, we’d probably make a good team, so we joined our forces and created Shades Of Rhythm”.From the moment that the band got together, a new form of dance music began to take shape. The boys used to meet every Sunday for secret ‘jam’ sessions in a local TV repair shop who agreed to lend them their sound equipment. In those days their creations were just for fun, but as the saying goes, ‘You can’t keep a good sound down’, and as soon as Rayan landed a job as resident DJ in a local Peterborough club called ‘The Attic’, the boys suddenly had a forum to test out their tracks.As this point in time, they were playing live gigs to massive crowds, but as a band were still without a name, and were rapidly being christened as ‘The Band With No Name’. It soon became blatantly obvious that a band name had to be created. ‘Shades Of Rhythm’ was the obvious choice because of their skin colours being one black, one white and one brown, they felt they could reflect every shade of music imaginable.“In those days, we had aspirations of being as important to dance music as The Rolling Stones were to rock. At the time there wasn’t an established dance act in the UK, it was simply a question of charging into the charts (if you were lucky), and then adding your name to a long list of one-hit wonders. We wanted more for Shades Or Rhythm, we wanted to be respected both on stage and on vinyl. Even in those early days at The Attic we knew that we had something that people could actually get into, so we went about things differently, We started putting records out in the shops on our own label, we did everything ourselves – the recording, the pressing, even the distribution – the whole damn lot!”Amazingly, without any help at all from a record company, Shades Of Rhythm were creating their own exciting buzz on the underground circuit. Promoters, DJ’s and clubbers were drawn to the ‘Shade’ vibe like iron filings to a magnet, and within weeks of their first track hitting the shops, the sound of Shades were furiously cooking in the underground cook-pots. Suddenly the boys were bombarded by phone calls from record company talent scouts who were all eager to sign the Shades to their label. As a result, their first deal was struck with Beat Box Records in 1988, which was the label owned by the infamous Stevie V. Unfortunately, due to legal wrangling with the company, Shades Of Rhythms’ debut release ‘Just Feel It’, briskly became their last on Beat Box.Once again Shades Of Rhythm found themselves hounded by record companies and eventually they signed their second deal with ZTT Records. A string of hits followed including ‘Homicide/Exorcist’, ‘Sweet Sensation’, ‘Sound Of Eden’, ‘Ecstasy’ and ‘Sweet Revival’, plus two further albums – ‘Shades Of Rhythm’ and ‘Shades’. They went on tour with The Prodigy and N-joi at the forefront of the Summer Of Love, playing major dance parties such as Technodrome, Fantazia, Amnesia House and Raindance, to name a few.In 1994 the band set-up their own label entitled ‘Wandering Dragon’ and signed a subsidiary deal with Public Demand Records. In September of that year they released their first track under the new label called ‘My Love’ and followed-up with ‘Musical Freedom’ which shot to No 1 in all dance charts nationwide. In March 1995 Shades Of Rhythm signed an album deal with PWL Records and their first release is set for early ’96. But being a band that’s holding the helm of British dance music, why have they formed a union with the UK’s biggest pop label?“
Are PWL a pop label?” jokes Rayan. “I hadn’t noticed! No seriously, we think that PWL are a really good record label who have probably achieved more hits in their short history than any other label I can think of. Shades Or Rhythm have always aimed to be the best, and to get there we have to be with the winning team, and we think that PWL are best equipped to put us at the top”.So what can we expect from the future album? Well, Rayan dismisses all rumours that there are plans for further remixes of ‘Sound Of Eden’ and ‘Ecstasy’ as he feels that past successes must be left simply as a memory of the time. However, the new album (as yet untitled) is set for release in mid ’96, with a single release scheduled for February.
The first track from the album will be called ‘Raise The Feeling’, but it will only be a limited edition because the boys simply want to give the clubs a small taste of what’s to come in the future.“The underground is where the music scene starts, without club support a record is nothing. As clubs and DJ’s have always been fully supportive of Shades Of Rhythm’, we’ve decided to give them this track as a thank you. ‘Raise The Feeling’ will be exclusive to the underground, with our next full commercial release coming out later on in the year. But for now we want to build new foundations, and we can’t do that without going back to our roots, which are the clubs. So this is our present to the underground really, we just hope they appreciate it. So Shades fans get out there and get clubbin’, you won’t hear this track anywhere but in the clubs, so keep the scene alive”.

LAYNEE
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Female DJ from Dublin, Ireland breaking the mould. I like to play darker and harder sounds but with melodies & interesting breaks & riffs. I have an eclectic mix of music in my collection but I generally gravitate towards the harder beats. I'm a vinyl lover so a lot of my mixes are vinyl only. I have played major venues such as Hangar, Opium, the Guinness Storehouse, the Button Factory, The Grand Central, The Grand Social alongside 808 State, Mr C, Judge Jules, Anne Savage, Allister Whitehead, K-Klass & Rozalla. I have also DJed with Irish dance music legends incl. Mark Kavanagh, Dean Sherry, Paddy Sheridan, Warren K, Pat Hyland and female techno starlets Cailin & Eavan as well as live act NANCY. Last year i played my first festival at Clonmel Greyhound Stadium called MASS to a sell out crowd on the Phever Dome stage and a few weeks ago placed my first ever headline show to a sell out crowd in Limerick which were bonkers!!! My biggest gig to date was closing the Button Factory @ Shades Of Rhythm for the Flashback crew which was amazing!!! I also co-host a show on Phever FM called 'Girls on Top' monthly on Fridays 6-8pm in Dublin (94.3fm) and also on Facebook & YouTube livefeeds if you'd like to have a listen. Hope you enjoy
CHRIS D
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Resident Flashback DJ Chris D has been on the Irish music scene since the early 80’s. Chris D was instrumental in the foreground and the background of the Irish Dance scene from its conception and his hard work helped lay the foundation for the dance scene we enjoy, Chris has also regularly guested in the all the top clubs, Kitchen, the Ormond and Temple Theatre. PA’s Dundalk and numerous other places and has supported the Cream of DJ';s as Ian Ossia from Renaissance and Manchester legendary DJ Nipper and most recently the godfather of Rave, DJ Slipmatt and 808 State. Chris has also supported the legendary SL2 and Q-Sound as well. The familiar face behind the counter of Outlaw records and the founder of One Cut Studios Dublin’s first DJ studio, Chris was also part of the Inner conscience Crew that brought us the Irish records, Moonboom Jacobs ladder and the Garden of Eden parties. Chris’s skilful hands on mixing style needs to be seen and his tune selection is second to none.
The major part that Chris has played on the Irish dance scene not only in the foreground like most other DJs but his hard work and dedication behind the scene must be acknowledged and its fitting and deserved that he have the title Irish Dance Music Legend.
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Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

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