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Bookings: paramida@meanwhile.nl

Dylan 🫠
| Rhythm Selector
| Dublin - Bookings → dm
| Sound Lover 💽

💿 East London Label & Event Series
💃 Founded by @bustinloosedjs
🎉 Nu-Disco & Soulful Dance
👇 Check out our upcoming events 🚂💨
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Regarded as one of London’s “leading disco labels”, The Disco Express first began as a monthly loft party in March 2017; hosting the globe’s biggest house & disco DJs at the former 1940's Shoreditch railway station.

Evolving into a full-fledged record label and event series in 2020, The Disco Express is now a revered platform for nu-disco and soulful dance music. Working with the scene’s most talented up-and-coming artists, DJs and remixers, the label has established a global fanbase, distributing vinyl, merch, and music to over 50 countries worldwide. 

Consistent high quality releases and edits have garnered support from the likes of Nightmares On Wax, Purple Disco Machine, The Blessed Madonna, Crazy P, TSHA, Folamour, Dan Shake, Groove Armada, Sarah Story (Radio 1) and Basement Jaxx. 

Holding down residencies in London, Berlin, Paris, Mexico City and NYC, The Disco Express also plays host to events further afield in Bristol, Milan, Rome, Copenhagen and more.. 

Celebrating their 50th release as a label in May 2023, The Disco Express endeavour to support new underground artists from across the globe as well as working with legends of the dance music scene Barbara Tucker, John Morales, Michael Gray, Michelle Weeks, Art of Tones and most recently Dave Lee. 

The Disco Express is building a strong catalogue of original disco for 21st century dance floors and this train ain't slowing down anytime soon...

Under construction, back soon x

Give Us The Night <3

Pronounced 'guy-st' 

@hiddenlove Co-founder and Resident. 
One-third of @salvageddub
Contributor for @fourfourmagazine
Agent for The Building Society.

Forthcoming Shows:
25/1/2024 - Dublin, Pawn Shop, All night long with Eric Brown, Constant, LE4H & Derv for Hidden Love (IE)

Some Previous Shows:
05/10/2023 - Dublin, b2b Dylan Fogarty OTC in PawnShop for Hidden Love (IE)
21/07/2023 - Dublin, Secret Party with Rathaus (IE)
07/07/2023 - Meath, Otherside Festival (IE)
16/03/2023 - Dublin, Wigwam with Slither as Nerv (b2b Derv) (IE)
17/02/2023 - Dublin, Cromby at Bow Lane Social Club as Nerv (b2b Derv) (IE)
31/12/2022 - Dublin, Index at NYE with Dart (IE)
26/12/2022 - Dublin, Farrier & Draper with Research (IE)
30/11/2022 - Dublin, Bow Lane Social Club with Aeron XTC, TainT, and Dylan Fogarty at Somewhere Else (IE)
12/11/2022 - Dublin, Hidden Love Rooftop Party at Grand Social b3b Constant & 4foot5 (IE)
10/11/2022 - Dublin, Skin On Skin at Index with Slither (IE)
30/10/2022 - Dublin, Circles Pre-party with Cailín hosted by Subject at Hynes (IE)
24/09/2022 - Dublin, Hidden Love Takeover at Cellar b2b Derv aka Nerv (IE)
09/09/2022 - Cork, DV8 x Hidden Love x Elision b2b Doiléir at Crack Jenny's (IE)
01/07/2022 - Dublin, X-Coast at Bow Lane Social Club hosted by Reboot (IE)
07/06/2022 - Berlin, Belushi's (Mitte) with The Shed Residents (DE)
27/05/2022 - Mullingar, Life Festival (IE)
30/04/2022 - Dublin, Eats Everything & Melé at Index (IE)
23/04/2022 - Dublin, Hidden Love x Speed b2b MeltX at Cellar (IE)
08/04/2022 - Dublin, Phara & Shannen Blessing at Wigwam (IE)
06/12/2021 - Dublin, Hiatus at Bow Lane Social Club with Aeron XTC, TainT, and Erik Burka (IE)
17/11/2021 - Dublin, Interlude at Soundhouse b4b spedned, Erik Burka and Constant (IE)
10/11/2021 - Dublin, Light Up The Night at Bow Lane Social Club with The Shed Residents (IE)
04/03/2020 - Dublin, Farrier & Draper with Collie for Banana Club (IE)
07/02/2020 - Dublin, The Willers Brothers & Andrew Azara hosted by Omni and Foundations at Here & Now Room 2 (IE)
27/12/19 - Dublin, D7 Takeover b2b Ryan Roe at Here & Now Room 2 (IE)
09/11/19 - Dublin, Omni Laser Show at Centre Point b2b Constant (IE)
07/11/19 - Dublin, Konspiracy with Obskür, Josh Coakley, and Tamisya (IE)
18/04/19 - Dublin, Skint with Chantel Kavanagh at The Grand Social (IE)

We provide accessible underground music to everyone. 
Essentially we...
Love. It. Hot.

Record label founded by @Paramida
For wholesale enquiries contact distribution(at)loveontherocks.cc

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

OUT NOW: 
Quiet Village & Vanessa Daou 'Naked Hunger'
https://orcd.co/qv002

https://soundcloud.com/rekids
Radio Slave / Rekid / Quiet Village
Bookings: jessica@blivemusic.art


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