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CLOSED Win a place on the Guest List of Volar for French May
Saturday, 22 April 2006
We have 7 pairs of places on the Volar guest list to give away for the French May closing party with artists such as Vincent Aze, Nout Heretik System, Level 75 and UTB! This event will take place at the end of May. Throughout the month of May there will be a variety of events happening over the whole city such as films, stage performances and other shows within the Franch May programme that has taken place every May in Hong Kong for a number of years. This event will be the closing party.
To be one of the lucky 14 people to get on the guest list all you have to do is email us to
with your site login name, your full name and contact number.
Winners will be notified via phone or email, and we will then arrange the tickets with you.
Deadline 10th May 2006. You must be over 21 to enter this competition and be based in Hong Kong.
UTB is born from the meeting in 2005 of these 4 great artists from the French Electronic scene : Nu from the Banditos Franz_Wa from Quadbyte EpZ from Pi R2 SteamPunk from Pi R2 All of them are making, on their own, different styles of electronic music such as techno, abstract breakbeat,hiphop..... but they’re all for the same things Fun and Lovely music ,chessy bass, smooth melody and crazy breaks a perfect mix of their different styles, you can dance on it or appreciate the music while you want to rest. Their live set are always different and they play computers as never you seen before ! They played each other in many different raves, festivals nad chill-outs in France and Europe,some of them are doing soundtracks for theater and cinema , released several record on their own and now they just want to play together all around the world, spreading their loundgy and smily sauce every where ! Nowadays they’re working on a smooth album together it will be release during 2006, you can’t miss it !
UTB is an international collective of Electronic Music producer all around the world (Epz, Nu,Franz_wa, Steampunk.......) with musicians from France,Istanbul and Hong Kong......
Nout Heretik System (Paris) France
Founder Members in 1996 of “Heretik System” , one of the oldest French sound system still in activity www.heretik.fr , he’s also the founder of the famous label “ Le Diable Au corps” www.lediableaucorps.org He’s the label Manager of 30 labels in france since 2001 such as “Level75” www.level75.net, he has in his discography more than a 100 tracks on different support such as Maxi vinyls and cds. Dj since 1996 and live producer since 2001 Nout have played in many big festivals and raves across the world specialy in Europe where he played in different country such as Austria, Tcheck Republic, Spain, Germany, Netherland, France and also in Thailand and Liban. From the begin of 2006 he export himself to Thailand where he becomes a resident of the Full Moon and Half Moon parties of Koh phangan for electro techno mixes. This radical change of style makes him able to prepare a full new live set 100% eclectic and full of flavor It will be a new music style with softs sounds and delicious break specially for the dancefloor as his sets always been ! Nout is one of the electronic music producer most wanted in France and Europe
Level 75
Founded in 2005 By Nout and Saoben to reflect their nowadays feelings, Level75 is an Electro label
The First record was sign Wee-kids and it been a great sucess over Europe that sucess conduct the label to be worldwilde distribute by Discograph as exclusive distributor. Today they sold more than 10000 copies of that maxi witch is udge for a so young label and artist : Popof, one of the two founder member of Wee-Kids was already well know in france for his impotant production in electronic music www.popof.org and also in his jazz band and Djedjotronic
All tracks of the level75 label are playlisted in Only For Dj’s,Radio Altoverso and ElectroDisco in Italy, Radio 98eins in Germany , radio Resonance and Radio Campus in france....
DMC Australie wrote : « A powerfull electro bomb, full of arpegios and dancefloor kicks. One hit plays by many Djs … »
Atome.com : « Some tracks electro techno / electroclash powerfull and clearlydancefloor oriented witch will attract all fans of black Stobe or Walter Lilly »
ElectroDisco.it : « 3 efficient well done tracks to shake up all electro techno fans ! »
The second release of the level75 unit Wee-kids and Lowkey,great producer from “ L’En-fer” of Dijon(France),castle of the French techno music, and founder of the label call Goog Record...
Wee-kids’s also member of the collective call Flavor Freak witch containt since 2005 one selection of the best electro-house dj of France. They’re already playing in clubs such as le Rex club everywhere in france
Vincent Azé
Events:
Hong Kong @ Yumla for a monthly residency called Planet Vega, 5 hour set – 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006 My favourite night as I can play all styles, progressing from House to Techno, getting everybody to follow the groove and sweat it out. www.yumla.com There you can also listen to 2 of my online DJ mix sets.
Hong Kong @ Volar - 2005 & 2006 Bottles of champagne and sexy beats all over the place in this members’ club in the Central district. Played there four times.
Shanghai @ Dragon Club - 2005 The best house music club in Shanghai for its sound system, party people and management. Played there three times.
Hong Kong @ SinoSphere - 2005 Played twice at some of the infamous underground Dance events presented by international Techno label, Technorient. Supported Joris Voorn the first time and Amil Khan from Technasia the second one. www.technasia.com
Hong Kong @ Kee Club - 2004 Bottles of champagne and sexy beats all over the place in this members’ club in the Central district.
Hong Kong @ Norah Jones’s concert after party - 2004 Sponsored by Chivas Regal. Laid back atmosphere and housey beats at Isola, IFC.
Hong Kong @ Drop - 2004 This was a House only night for a trendy crowd at a top notch club.
Hong Kong @ Club NU - 2004 This was the release party of the Carl Cox latest CD “Pure”, and an all night techno event for Intec lovers (Carl Cox wasn’t there!).
Hong Kong @ 1/5 - 2004 Another House party for a trendy crowd and a bar voted one of the best in the world.
Thailand @ Koh Phangan Full Moon after party - 2003 Nothing like an after party on the beach after such a busy night. A 3 hour set to revive the dancing sandals until lunch time.
Costa Rica @ Broadcasted live radio set in San Jose - 2002 A French DJ residing in San Jose was presenting a weekly electronic show and invited me to play on air. It was amazing to see how big the Dance scene already was back in 2000 in Latin America, and to a certain extent, be part of it.
St Maarten in the French West Indies @ Beach Parties - 2002 Lived in St Marteen for a few months and enjoyed more beach parties ran by the underground forces of the Caribbean Sea. House, techno and electro while sipping rhum & coke under coconut trees.
London @ Herbal in Shoreditch - 2002 A famous little club in the busy area of Shoreditch. Great sound system for music lovers. Played 2 hours of free style dance music with the Pacha DJ crew.
London @ Electrowerz in Angel - 2002 Darker than ever in this 3 floor club in Angel for a night of underground techno and wildness
London @ Boulevard in Covent Garden - 2002 Stylish French restaurant offering wine & decibels testing for the happy few. Only for members!
France @ Radio Galaxie, live broadcasted sets - 2002 Galaxie FM used to be a great Dance music radio station at the border between France and Belgium. I was invited there twice to play on Saturday evenings from 9 to 11 PM, when everybody around there is getting ready to take the road to the numerous clubs and parties around Belgium. The first set was Electro and the second one Tribal House.
Projects:
Event Organised from scratch to finish “Le House”, the Dance music party of the 2005 French May Festival, presented each year by the French Consulate in Hong Kong. I invited DJ Jack de Marseille to rock the house. The event was held on the 4th of June 2005. www.frenchmay.com section “music” www.jackdemarseille.com
Production Time to get involved into music production. Using Logic 7.1 in a computer based home studio somewhere in HK. Style varies from house to electro to techno. First track to be released in April 2006 on UBL Recordings.
We have 7 pairs of places on the Volar guest list to give away for the French May closing party with artists such as Vincent Aze, Nout Heretik System, Level 75 and UTB! This event will take place at the end of May. Throughout the month of May there will be a variety of events happening over the whole city such as films, stage performances and other shows within the Franch May programme that has taken place every May in Hong Kong for a number of years. This event will be the closing party.
