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Late Night Date presents Shadowdancer, Djedjotronic & Strip Steve, Friday August 28

Shadow Dancer began in the summer of 2006 almost by accident.
Brothers Paul and Alan Farrier had been writing music since childhood, drawn by their love of artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Human League and Pet Shop Boys to follow synthesizers rather than guitars.  Although the pop and video game music of the '80s was their initial inspiration, it was the sounds coming out of Detroit (Underground Resistance, Axis, Planet E, Submerge), Chicago (Trax, Relief) and the European techno scene (Warp, Ideal, Bush, Tresor, Basic Channel, R&S, Harthouse, Novamute) that started an obsession with electronic dance music. And, having previously created tracks using tape overdubs and a limited sampler, they started to build up a small studio of second-hand synths. Originally from Liverpool, the brothers were pulled towards Manchester in the '90s by it's musical legacy - club nights like the Hacienda, Bugged Out!, Versivo, Robodisco and Drama, and labels like Paper and Skam gave the city a strong identity.  Under the name 'Pinback', they organized occasional nights around south Manchester, DJing in bars in the Fallowfield and Withington areas, and performed a headline live set as part of the 2001 Manchester Music Festival. In 2003, Pinback came to end due to damaged studio equipment and Paul & Al's commitments to their daytime jobs.  Three years later, having tried out some PC DAW software - and with a challenge from a producer met on MySpace to remix one of their tracks - Paul was once more bitten by the producing bug and Shadow Dancer was "born". After compiling two self-released retrospective digital EPs, 'Machine Code' and '80somethings' (comprising of material recorded between 1999-2002), and releasing another digital EP, 'DirtBox', on the New York-based The Other Cosmos label, Shadow Dancer were approached by Alex Ridha of Boys Noize to produce a four-track release for Boysnoize Records.  The result was the 'Shadow Dancer EP' (sometimes known as 'Poke EP'), released in July 2007, and finding favour with DJs such as Busy P, Soulwax, Adam Freeland, Teenage Bad Girl, Erol Alkan, DJ Mehdi, Mr. Oizo, Kavinsky, Proxy, Shir Khan, Malente and Digitalism. The relationship with BNR continued with the 2008 EPs 'Cowbois' and 'Soap', along with a debut album, 'Golden Traxe' - a culmination of their electro, techno, acid and house influences -  due to appear in January 2009. Since their live debut as Shadow Dancer supporting The Whip in Manchester on New Year's Eve 2006, the brothers have played (both live and DJ sets) alongside Boys Noize, Strip Steve, D.I.M., Arnaud Rebotini, Sinden, Surkin, Para One, Das Glow, Housemeister, The Glimmers, Crookers, Fake Blood, Kid 606, FC Kahuna, Mike Monday, Teenage Bad Girl, Filthy Dukes, Dolby Anol, Trevor Jackson, Dilemn, Soulwax, Riton, Mixhell, A-Trak, Jean Nipon, Radioclit, Gucci Soundsystem, Ivan Smagghe,  Les Petits Pilous and many others.

Djedjotronic
At 23 years of age Jeremy discovered electronic music through Warp and UR.  He started his career when he met POPOF and the duo toured under the name Wee-Kids. Djedjotronic’s refers to his particular style as ‘electro bitchy dance’ - which is a mix between smooth pumping breakbeat and heavy industrial, happy electro and fat rough rave techno. His smashing debut EP "Turn Off" was released 2007 on Level75, and got huge support by T.Raumschmiere, Busy P, Justice, O.Huntemann, M.Oizo and more.. This success gave him the chance to work on great remixes : UNKLE, MOTORMARK, DSL (to name a few), which appears on well known labels such as EdBanger or Surrender All… Between Level75 & EdBangers, things have gone really well. He’s recently finished working on his 2nd EP, released on BoysNoize Records, featuring South African rap singer SPOEK.

Strip Steve
As any cool kid of the 90's, Strip Steve grew up with Offspring, the passion more or less regular of skateboard, and the art of turntablism. Few scratches and a failure in a rap band after, he remembered how much Armand van helden, Modjo & Daft Punk's videos he used to watch before "Yo MTV rap" started, torn his sentimental life, and more his whole existence. He started mixing at 14 with his first turntables, and slowly made parties with his friends in his hometown (Bordeaux) that mixed every kind of music they found exciting, with  always one purpose: that the people had fun very simply.Steve is now 20 and listen for most to House & Techno. Inspired by the masters Dj Sneak & Paul Johnson, as much as by listening to the Crydamoure compilations, his goal is to bring back House where it should never left: the dancefloor.And he knows how to do: his dj sets make crashing Chicago House classics (Robert Armani, Dj Pierre, Marshall Jefferson, Armando...), nowadays Techno Anthems (Boys Noize, the french record labels Institubes & Ed Banger, Switch, Steve Angello...), early 90's Rave Ufos (this kid has fascination for for Prodigy & Bizarre Inc.) or the best 12" electronic music has ever made (Masters at Work, Romanthony, Daft Punk, LFO, Joey Beltram...). With a very strong Techno culture and a very obvious talent, Steve didn't wait long before he distinguished himself from the Myspace crowd. His extatic and pumpin productions putted the lightspots of the electronic music lovers on him at lightspeed. Now signed on Boys Noize Records, his productions breaks the floor of every club his playing at.

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