-stYlus- presents Hook n Sling (syd) 11th March

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:35 pm

Rock Like This and -stYlus- present.........

Hook'n'Sling – Hussle n Bussle

Anthony began as a breaks DJ on the Sydney circuit in 2000 and has since played his unique style of breaks at nights such as Japan4@Ambar, FunkTrust, Haphazard, BUMP, Inner Styles and Australia wide Pepsi Live Events. Drawing on early influences such as Lee Coombs, The Crystal Method and JDS, Anthony's sets have always been filled with an energetic electro-rhythmic vibe.

In 2002, production seemed to be a natural progression for Anthony. Already producing bootlegs and mash-ups for his own sets, writing original material was only a matter of time.

October 2004 saw the release of HooknSling's debut release. The Number Cruncher EP, in its first week of release, it came in at Number 6 in DJ Magazine's Breaks and Beats Chart. Big support for the EP has come from the Plump DJ's, Danny McMillan, DJ Hyper, General MIDI and Friendly. The EP also received generous airply from domestic stations such as FBI, Pulseradio and 2RDJ and also abroad on internet radio and Tayo's well respected Kiss FM show.

Since his debut release Anthony has completed 2 remixes for Nasty Tales / Come on a my House (Hussle n Bussle) which were released in May 2005. More recently Anthony was asked by Ministry of Sound Australia to arrange and produce a vocal mix of Sick Strings by The Jack Addicts, Mills & Joy for Hussle Recordings. Anthony efforts have been recently rewarded with airplays by both Annie Nightingale and Pete Tong on Radio 1.

Early 2005 saw Anthony venture into Europe for the first time as a DJ with non-other than headline slots at London breakbeat nights, Platform 12 and C64 which have previously both seen the likes of Soul of Man, Rennie Pilgrem, Krafty Kuts and the Stanton Warriors.

Recently returning to Australia, Anthony has been concentrating on new HooknSling material. Released in 2005 is Anthony's debut on white label, lending his production towards the Tricknology series, this time with Tricknology no9. The follow up release on HusslenBussle Records was put out Aug 05 with early support for the material already coming from the Plumps, Friendly, Kid Kenobi, and Cedric Benoit.

With his latest release Silver Service/Vegas Heat on Hussle n Bussle selling like hot cakes, this gig is bound to be ram jammed, so get there early!!!

Anthony is joined by locals......

Deviant
Nago
Obliveus

@ Bunker Lounge
407 Swanston St
10pm-late

$12 (door sales only)

Post by **lynt** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:54 pm

Radness!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:56 pm

fuck yeah.... very excited about this one

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:00 pm

Dan,
Yer avatar is one of the funniest things I've ever seen...EVER!!!
shaved pussy....hrmmm!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:02 pm

wrongness

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:06 pm

deviant wrote:wrongness

Dont be such a 'pus'

marcus · Post by **marcus** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:07 pm

I am pumped for this gig. Really glad to get a guy the calibre of Anthony to come and play with us. Also picked up a few nasty goodies during the past month or so which are sure to get a play on the night, bring it!

abstar · Post by **abstar** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:17 pm

Nice one Dan, i will be at this gig for sure!!!c

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:18 pm

here's some samples of his latest tunes

Silver Service
Vegas Heat

two ripper tunes!!!

abstar · Post by **abstar** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:31 pm

Funky ass tunes, looking forward to it!!!!!!!!

Nick Thayer · Post by **Nick Thayer** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:16 pm

Hook and Bling!

Woot!

Just keep him away from anything shiny.

menace · Post by **menace** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:25 pm

OFF THE HOOK !!!!!

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:28 pm

menace wrote: OFF THE HOOK !!!!!

Pun master!!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:19 am

I just realised how whak that write up is....

that'll teach me for nicking it from breakspoll

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:12 pm

Word play got ya down, Dan?

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:51 pm

well..... it's fixed now. It said stuff like "due for realease in Aug 2005"... (which has clearly already been

)

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:38 pm

deviant wrote:well..... it's fixed now. It said stuff like "due for realease in Aug 2005"... (which has clearly already been )

Has it??? Like always, I'm too stuck in the past.

RK · Post by RK » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:59 pm

Woot!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:03 pm

woot indeed

dj awesome · Post by **dj awesome** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:06 pm

looks good - will be down to shuffle.

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:19 pm

RK wrote:Woot!!

Woot squared.

RK · Post by RK » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:36 pm

Tour of Wooty!

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:37 pm

RK wrote:Tour of Wooty!

Wooty and the Blowfish.

RK · Post by RK » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:42 pm

The Magic Woot!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:36 pm

You bwoot!!

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:48 pm

"Woot there it is"
This could go on forever...

mr lob · Post by **mr lob** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:55 pm

good gig eric, cool lineup indeed!

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:58 pm

mr lob wrote:good gig eric, cool lineup indeed!

Yeah, man. You heard much of him? Very tidy tracks.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:26 pm

Those Hussle n Bussle tracks have been flying outta the stores

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:27 am

deviant wrote:Those Hussle n Bussle tracks have been flying outta the stores

H&B got wings...like Red Bull!

ShiKung · Post by **ShiKung** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:20 pm

Word to Stylus. Was there last time, Deviant was killing it. Props for keeping it fresh!

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:02 pm

ShiKung wrote:Word to Stylus. Was there last time, Deviant was killing it. Props for keeping it fresh!

Like the fish market.

yenks · Post by **yenks** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:03 pm

Number Cruncher EP is one of my fav records..

please someone play it !!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:50 pm

Well I reckon we should leave it up to Anthony to play his own tunes

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:42 pm

deviant wrote:Well I reckon we should leave it up to Anthony to play his own tunes

I just had this debate with Paul. Should I play my FK5 records tomorrow night or not. My personal opinion is that you should never play the music of the person(s) playing on the night, because it's their music. They wrote it, let them rock it. That said, I'm always stealing Scotrod's fashion sense and beating him to the punch with the ladies...

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:52 pm

^^^

I had my first Fractured gig back in 2004 and was supporting Bass Kleph..... I was really rinsing out his tune "Wild Card" at the time and was debating whether or not to play it.

I figured that I shouldn't. He didn't play it any way

But that said I think it would've been disrespectful.

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:22 am

deviant wrote:^^^

I had my first Fractured gig back in 2004 and was supporting Bass Kleph..... I was really rinsing out his tune "Wild Card" at the time and was debating whether or not to play it.

I figured that I shouldn't. He didn't play it any way But that said I think it would've been disrespectful.

I went so far as to not to play the Klaus Vs Kid Kenobi remix "Chicken Out" (the one with the Beastie Boys vocal hook) 2 nights after I bought it in Canberra because I was playing with Q45, a close mate of Jesse's. I figured he'd want to play it...mainly because at the time it was so new. I'm glad I didn't play it, because he did and it went off.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:42 pm

hmm interesting topic really... what does everybody else think?

RK · Post by RK » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:12 pm

I think its funny ur hijacking your own thread

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:29 pm

^^ Stop encouraging me or us, or whatever

Blades · Post by **Blades** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:33 pm

Count me in 4 this 1.

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:30 pm

RK wrote:I think its funny ur hijacking your own thread

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:08 pm

Blade's avatar is gold!!!

ShiKung · Post by **ShiKung** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:24 pm

I say lay it down! Would you play the track anyway?? Play it. Do you fight it out with other Djs for rights to play tunes you love before a night out. Imagine that.
"no dude I bought this 10 years ago, It was me and my ex-girlfriends fav track"
"who cares dude my cousins mate sold the dude the record the sample came off, I've got rights"
Why treat internationals with silver service, unless they are playin a live set even then they usually play it differently. Plus if the tune is killer (if it comes from OB it must be) they crowd can hear it twice! and you lay down a mixing challenge to the international to slam it!

But as with all things this has to be within reason. There is a time and place for everything. There are no rules but everyone has to follow them! Crazy.

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:38 pm

I will not name names or night, but I attended a gig once here in Melbourne a couple of years ago, specifically to see an international I really wanted to see. Before said international made it up to the decks, the locals hadn't rinsed his entire catalogue, but definitely the best tracks in his catalogue had got a go. Mr. International hadn't showed up yet to hear this and when he made it to the decks, 2 out of his first 3 tracks had already been played. Because it was so close to when these tracks were already played by the locals, the dance floor suffered. He didn't clear the floor or anything, but it wasn't going off like it should have IMO.

I remember Karl wrote an article for Inpress (I think) where he talked about a good opening set, and I've always remembered it. An opening set shouldn't be about rocking the dancefloor, but building a dancefloor so the guys or girls going on after you reep the benefits. It doesn't always work this way and sometimes you have to pick it up a notch...but let the vibe decide this.

I think I fell off topic. Back to work...

ShiKung · Post by **ShiKung** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:49 pm

Yeah, I'm not saying you should rinse out the guys tunes or the dancefloor, you still have to play a set that is required for the night. (especially if you want to get booked again)
But a night is not about anyone's ego. You shouldn't rock the floor out before the headline act, but u shouldn't avoid playin a track thats required in your set because of the ego of the international dude either.

The night is bigger than one person, ego issues are whats slowly changing in the dance scene right night. The DJ is not god. The Party is.

But your example is still relevant OB, I just reckon you shouldn't avoid it, but you definately shouldnt overdo it either.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:57 pm

ShiKung wrote:I just reckon you shouldn't avoid it, but you definately shouldnt overdo it either.

I reckon so too.... But I would personally feel a bit funny about doing it. But, that's just me.

dj awesome · Post by **dj awesome** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:45 am

obliveus wrote:An opening set shouldn't be about rocking the dancefloor, but building a dancefloor so the guys or girls going on after you reep the benefits. It doesn't always work this way and sometimes you have to pick it up a notch...but let the vibe decide this.

My take - play to the floor in front of you at the time AT ALL TIMES (every gig, every time). If there's 900 people in a venue and the international doesn't start for 2 hours and they want to dance, make them dance. If there's 10 people in a venue - cater to them. DJing isn't that hard and shouldn't be looked at in such depth imo. It's one part of a greater product - a party/event.

dj awesome · Post by **dj awesome** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:46 am

In terms of the playing the tunes of someone you are on the same bill with ... don't do it.

UNLESS that person is Thayer and he hasn't bought you a nice Pimms and Lemonade with his stack of drinkcards at Honkys even though you've been hinting at it for hours ... then it's fair game.

lilstormer · Post by **lilstormer** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:19 am

obliveus wrote:
I remember Karl wrote an article for Inpress (I think) where he talked about a good opening set, and I've always remembered it. An opening set shouldn't be about rocking the dancefloor, but building a dancefloor so the guys or girls going on after you reep the benefits. It doesn't always work this way and sometimes you have to pick it up a notch...but let the vibe decide this.

I think I fell off topic. Back to work...