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Fez Club, Saturday 3rd December 2011.

"Revolutions always come around again. That's why they call them revolutions." - Terry Pratchett

And with revolutions, exciting new-comers emerge and brandish their shiny wares upon the World. And the world of electronic dance music is no different. Parties, venues and scenes come and go. But gladly, the great city of Sheffield is enjoying its own electronic revolution. And the aforementioned new comers are enjoying themselves - and rightly so!

But Cargo is no new comer. Cargo has grafted, trudged and waded through a perpetual cycle of joy and sorrow. We have seen the hard times; times when Sheffield was overlooked. When there was hardly a market to compete for! But this just makes the good times that much sweeter. When Cargo and its loyal followers are on form, there are few to match the atmosphere that the two fused entities create. We witnessed this in the early hours of Sunday morning!

And Cargo is not the only Sheffield thang to be enjoying a renaissance in the city’s newly found confidence. The legendary Fez Club has risen like a phoenix from the ashes, joining forces with Cargo to form a marriage of revolutionary proportions. Think of it as Cargo 2.0!

In our new home things are about to be taken to the next level. However Cargo will continue to roam. You will still be given offshoot parties in off the wall locations for your partying pleasure, whilst regularly returning to the new home turf of The Fez.

We are very excited about the future and we want you to be a part of it.

Don’t miss a beat.
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DEEP SPACE ORCHESTRA [ Quintessentials | Delusions Of Grandeur ]

We're highly excited to bring to Sheffield for the very first time a production and DJ duo that are white hot on the lips of so many in the house music scene right now. These guys are featuring on heavy hitting labels such as ART, Quintessentials, Delusions of Grandeur and local imprint More About Music. The pair have future releases lined up on Drumpoet Community and Instruments Of Rapture so its clear that Deep Space Orchestra are hot property that the worlds hottest labels are climbing over themselves get a slice of.

The pair are no slouches behind the decks either. Expect heavy low end grooves playing with rolling hi hats that go on and on and on... Were buzzed to say the very least.

ALEX ARNOUT [ Dogmatik | Hot Creations | One Records ]

Alex has had a massive year. Well he's always having a massive year it seems. This chap just goes from strength to strength. Alex is a local boy done good. He gave Maya Jane Coles a huge break by releasing some of her early work on his highly respected Dogmatik label and is working in the studio with Clive Henry. Not to mention future work on Hot Creations. Not bad for a lad from up the road.

THE FEZ CLUB IS WELL AND TRULY BACK!

What can we say? The last time we had people raving on each others shoulders was at our warehouse party in February. You know its going off when the bouncers are getting people off one another for safety reasons! The party with Miguel well and truly stamped the Fez back into Sheffield and made the most of what has got to be the finest club system in the city.

TICKET DETAILS TO FOLLOW.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152515138179007

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Yes! See you'll down there. Best venue in Sheffield?

Only 2 weeks to go!!

Yes! See you'll down there. Best venue in Sheffield?

Fo sho, can be our version of Mint or Sankeys if we make it so. Certainly best soundsystem too.

Not long the noo til our next little shindig. Also got a warm-up party with PHONO at Harrisons from 8pm if you're so inclined!

We caught up with Deep Space Orchestra ahead on their debut in Sheffield this weekend at the Fez Club


1) Obvious starting point - how did you guys meet and what got you into the studio together? Technically 2 questions but hey ho...

DSO is the fault of a very good friend of ours called Phil Charnock, one of the original residents of the Chibuku Shake Shake night in Liverpool. He knew both of us separately and, being a man of fine musical judgement, guessed that we would work well together. After a small amount of coercion, the irresistible force collided with the immovable object, and the rest, as they say, is history.


Following on from that, do you have any particular routine or way of working? Or do you just jam and see what comes out?

We don’t ever really have a set plan or routine as to how we like to work. Sometimes we might have some nice sample material that we want to build a track around and so we’ll start from there. Our first ep for Quintessentials was a perfect example of this, with one batch of samples coming from a couple of different places, and forming the backbone of the 3 tracks on the 12”. Other times, we just switch on the synths and see what comes out the other side.


3) And for the geeks amongst us, are you analogue, digital or a mix or both? Any particular favourite bits of kit?

We use a mixture of both actual synths and vsts/plug-ins. I think we’re pretty pragmatic about the old analogue vs digital debate, it should ultimately be about what sounds best or works best for each producer. Some of the people who evangelise about analogue this and analogue that just come across as pompous twits.

We have 3 synths that we use, but the Juno 106 is the key one. Lots of amazing sounds hidden away in there. It was definitely a good investment!


4) As for DJing, you tend to play more wax than anything else; is this becoming a problem in the digital age? Are clubs perhaps neglecting the needs of the more traditional amongst us? Any plans for a live show?

I would say that it would be about 50/50 in terms of the split between playing vinyl and cds. For gigs in the UK, it’s obviously much easier to take more wax with you compared to what you can fit in an overhead luggage rack on a plane. I’ve heard some bad stories in the last year about supposedly reputable clubs and the lack of care and attention being paid to their turntables. Thankfully we’ve not had any serious problems on that front in recent times. I suppose it’s just a reflection of the fact that so many djs now do just play off of cds or Serato/Traktor. Sadly, this is also impacting on the sound quality in some clubs when you play vinyl as the soundsystems are now being tuned with the digital dj in mind.

We are definitely planning to take DSO live and plans are already afoot. We want to do it ‘right’ and not just the old 2 fellas staring at a laptop and occasionally pressing a button routine. The flipside of this is that it’s going to take a fair while to execute, but hopefully we’ll have something together by this time next year.


5) Finally, your visit to Cargo will be a Sheffield debut and the city has a proud electronic music heritage, from the 80's acts like Human League and Cabaret Voltaire through to Warp, Swag and so forth - you looking forward to getting amongst it all? Anyone of our lot had an influence on DSO or are we just hopelessly fishing for compliments?!

Yeah, Sheffield has a rich electronic music heritage. I would say Swag/Chris Duckenfield has had an influence on DSO, at least from my side. I’ve bought many Swag/CD 12”s over the years and have been fortunate enough to see Chris dj many times. Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of the whole Warp sound, but would be an absolute numpty not to recognise the huge influence that the label has had on dance music in general and even further afield in some cases.

It's so close I can smell it! :D