Eastern Electrics NYE 2011 – The Coronet from easternelectrics on Vimeo.

We were so blown away by some of the comments from acts, promoters and punters a like that we thought we’d share some of these thoughts with you >>

“Wonderful to bring in the New Year with my friends and to play in such an interesting historical old venue, The Coronet Theatre. Very nice to meet sweet Mount Kimbie boys and of course an honour to play after the legendary Laurent Garnier.
Anja Schneider loves Eastern Electrics!
Happy New Year 2012.”
- Anja Schneider

“We had a spectacular time on NYE one of the best crowds all year!”
-Horse Meat Disco

“I want to say a huge thank you to all of you at Eastern Electrics and everyone else involved for an epic night – the line up for every room was spot on and the venue was great too, best night at the Coronet I’ve been to.”
- Dan Moseley

“Thanks for the awesome parties. Really made the entrance into 2012 a special one.
Hope to chat up with you again next year, for our visit to the UK.Have a great 2012.”
- Craig Van Rensburg, South Africa

“Just a quick note to say i thought the NYE party was unbelievably good, great sound system, friendly crowd, good bar staff….a damn good night – thank you for sorting me out a ticket!”
- Shinnie

“This year we decided to go to London on purpose to see Laurent Garnier because for us it is a God!!!
We arrived at the coronet were 00.15 H and already the Garnier played! We were impressed with the theater space,was amazing!
We went towards to the front of the grids because ai is where we like to be,danced for hours and hours no end, we know people, security guards and even your boss who was Portuguese!
Laurent garnier gave a magnific show!

the moment of the night for me was when I raised his hand, and made the gesture with his finger tapped to Laurent de number 1, he looked for we laughed and thanked! This gesture earned him a lot to us”

- André, Sarah & Helder from Portugal!

Eastern Electrics join Snowbombing again this year with a particularly special lineup of house musics biggest DJ’s of the moment.. Yes, Resident Advisor’s number 1 & 2 DJ’s Jamie Jones & Seth Troxler will be bringing the vibes to our arena along with talent nurturing and all round spectacular DJ Damian Lazarus, deep-house rebel DJ Maceo Plex and mulletover master, Geddes. Wow.

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Just £100 deposit required to secure your place for Snowbombing from 9th – 14th April!

Once again, we’re hitting the pistes, clubs, secret venues and traditional Austrian bars of Mayrhofen for our Snowbombing throwdown… and this year we’re bringing the Rebel Rave crew with us in the form of the hottest property in the world right now; Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler & Damian Lazarus plus mulletover’s very own Geddes!!! Those that were around to witness last New Year’s Eve’s rabble rousing rebel raving EE love in will remember what an incredible night it was… and we’re doing it all again!! We want you to be with us for the second time around… get your tickets for snowbombing with us and the next ten to do so win themselves a NYE ticket aaand a beautifully branded EE T! Niice, niceness.

Hit me up with more info on the Snowbombing EE ticket.

So the time has finally come for us to reveal our no-longer-secret NYE location… We give you – The Coronet!

The Coronet’s striking art deco with its incredible main room, amphitheatre seating, the capital’s biggest smoking area and hidden back rooms became the perfect choice of environ to see in the big twenty twelve.

The search began in January and we looked high and low for a new space, but nowhere was available with the size and character demanded by Eastern Electrics NYE! After looking at 10 or more spaces we decided that we needed somewhere with a big enough main stage to accommodate Messieurs Garnier. We also wanted somewhere with an interesting 2nd room, a spacious smoking area and plenty of seating. The Coronet fitted the bill perfectly.

The scene of some amazing parties by our friends at Bugged Out and Secret Sundaze as well as some legendary one off gigs, the Coronet will also showcase a Snowbombing arena and a further secret 4th room… which you can win tickets into in the coming weeks.

And elsewhere… Tensnake takes us on a musical journey through his travels… it sounds like he went back to the 70′s on his travels.. and we love it! You can check his mix for ee nye right here.

Aaand finally, if you want to learn a little more about the life and music of the very special Mssr Laurent Garnier have a read of this recent article ‘Discovering a Legend’..

Tickets are selling fast, over half of the £32.50′s gone, so get yours quick before we reach peak price!

Until next time x

Laurent Garnier and Mount Kimbie – New Years Eve 2011 from Bloc. on Vimeo.

Mount Kimbie, Horse Meat Disco & Warm Residents unite with our old friend Geddes in joining Laurent Garnier, Anja Schneider & Tensnake in our most exciting lineup yet to date.

Taking to the Bloc stage to bring us a very intriguing kind of live set, our post-dubstep heroes Mount Kimbie will be taking us on an explorative journey through all regions of electronica. And with a slightly different take on music Horse Meat Disco engage our ears in the sweet sounds of disco, funk & soul in the Warm room this New Years Eve supported most suitably by  Warm residents Ali Tillet & Rob Sumerhayes. and last but certainly not least our old mate Geddes brings the underground element to a rather exciting bloc/mulletover amalgamation in this years main room.

£25 tickets on sale here..

More info here..

That hasn’t been the only painfully exciting news by way of lineup announcements… Snowbombing made their first in a trilogy of lineup announcements offering (deep breath) James Zabiela, Heidi, Aeroplane, Jack Beats, Soul Clap, Norman Jay, Toddla T, Pearson Sound, Jackmaster, Doctor P, Alex Metric, Julio Bashmore, Hospitality ft. High Contrast, London Elektricity, Netsky, Camo & Krooked, Nu:Tone, Lindstrom, Metro Area, Style of Eye, Stanton Warriors, A1 Bassline, Hot Lunch (Ewan Pearson & Sasse), Marcus Nasty, Redinho, Spencer.. phewh! And that is all, until later on this week… and then again next week! So keep your eyes peeled – and in the meantime get your tickets early from ee – the first ten to do so will win themselves a NYE ticket, so get booking!

until next time x

Ali Tillett and Rob Summerhayes are the Warm Residents. Warm is a London based DJ agency, management and events company. Established in 1990 the Warm agency is home to some of the world’s finest DJ and production talents. The Warm roster includes; Âme, Dixon, Henrik Schwarz, I:Cube, Horse Meat Disco, The Revenge and Tensnake. Warm believes in forging strong relationships and building networks with artists, labels and promoters.

Warm club nights have been a permanent fixture on the London scene for 10 years now and continue to showcase not only artists from the Warm agency, but also other highly regarded DJs and producers from around the world, such as Todd Terje, Steve Bug, Sebo K, Move D and Maurice Fulton. Warm has a monthly residency at Plastic People.

Warm Residents join us in their very own room this New Years Eve.

Now into their seventh year, Horse Meat Disco have continued to lead the way with packed residencies at their HQ at The Eagle in London’s Vauxhall, Lux in Lisbon and Tape in Berlin. Inspired by the music and inclusive ethos of New York’s club scene during the ‘70s and ‘80s, the collective have garnered a unique reputation for amazing parties and unmatchable sets, the quartet of DJs each mixing their own quality blend of disco juice. During 2011, as well as playing their annual UK festival dates at Glastonbury and Lovebox, they will be spreading the love to some of the world’s leading festivals including Vivid in Sydney, Electric Elephant, Bestival and San Francisco’s Pride.

Horse Meat Disco join us for celebrations this New Years Eve!

Who – or what – is Mount Kimbie, really? “That’s a hard question,” muses Dom Maker. “The hardest. It’s…” “It’s hard to say,” chimes in Kai Campos. “It’s an unspoken thing.” Unspoken, or barely even there at all? The duo’s first two EPs – Maybes and Sketch On Glass, both out in 2009 through Hotflush – seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were turned instantly into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind – albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds.

For these were releases ushered into existence in Elephant and Castle, south London – a place where, as Kai puts it, “you can get a bus to anywhere in the world”, but is still, ultimately, “the shittest place you could ever live”. You imagine the area doesn’t become any more endearing when you’re forced to sleep within the walls of an old mental asylum.

“That’s where we first met,” explains Kai, originally from Cornwall. “South Bank University turned the old asylum into student halls. The ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves, and there was a brick wall about an inch from the window so they couldn’t leap out.
“It was a cold, joyless, concrete building – the sort of building where you’d drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo.” Echoes are important to Mount Kimbie.
“We were rehearsing at Dom’s place in Brighton with James Blake once,” Kai explains, referring to their prodigiously talented friend and sometime live collaborator. “We went down to the beach to get drunk.
We walked home singing through this 50 metre-long wind tunnel, and there was just this incredible reverb.
“A couple of months later we went back with some mics. It was a freezing evening – people kept coming down and there’s us, three weird guys in the middle of nowhere, singing harmonies in a wind tunnel! A lot of what we got that night features on the new album.”

Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning London’s ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain – the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Grouper’s sad-eyed glow, D’Angelo’s pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum’s Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti’s swollen ‘Twin Peaks’ atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib’s lax lope – but what emerges as ‘Mount Kimbie’ feels so pure in its of vision it’s surprising to learn its roots lead back to a trance club at the end of a pier in Bognor Regis.

“My first experience of electronic music was at sixth form,” explains Dom, who hails from the south coast holiday town. “All my friends would go to this club called Sheiks. They’d play the Tie?sto rave mix of Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’, and I’d see girls I knew from school going in all tarted-up with their mums. It was fucking gross.”
It’s perhaps too easy to see the music Mount Kimbie make now as a retreat from both siren-strewn London mess and the rank, tyrannical mob empathy of Tie?sto’s trance brain-sucks. What seems sure is that the sound of Mount Kimbie’s music reverberating around Sheiks’ main room come Friday night would blow many Bognor minds. This is music made in and for stranger, more private places: emerging from train journeys, “dimly lit garages full of hefty spiders” and the guest rooms of that old asylum, to exist… where, exactly?

In terms of attitude and approach, Mount Kimbie exist alongside those other auteurs in the vanguard of the post-dubstep diaspora – like Joy Orbison, Actress, Untold and Ikonika, Dom and Kai were drawn closer to UK clubland by the bass rearrangements seeping from nights like FWD> and DMZ. And like those other producers, their sound – their electronic response to the dubstep moment – is very much their own: sceneless; untethered from etiquette and genre codes. They float through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores. But when the question comes to place Mount Kimbie’s music physically, we’re forced to return to that earlier question – who – or what – is Mount Kimbie, really? There are two minds at work here – if you were to scrawl a Venn diagram with Dom on one side and Kai on the other, ‘Mount Kimbie’ would be the overlap, a territory where their tastes and empathies interlock and resonate. Kai’s first year in London was “bleak” – he didn’t have any friends, and broke up with the girl he moved from Cornwall for. How important was it for the two of you to meet at that point?
“Crucial,” reckons Dom, immediately.

Mount Kimbie joins us for 2011 New Years Eve partyparty!

We are absolutely thrilled to be one of the handful of promoters picked from across the UK by the mighty Snowbombing to partner them with their 2012 festival efforts. Standing alongside Fabric Live, Urban Nerds & 2020 Vision to name a few, we will be getting the party started well ahead of the April finale in Austria’s Mayrhofen.. 

We avise all you extremely-sporty type music lovers to get in there early for your Snowbombing tickets which you can find here..

More snowbombing announcements in due course..

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