PROMOTER & RESIDENT DJ: 
TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE,
LONDON WAREHOUSE PARTIES.

Visit Bandcamp for releases
https://haulesbaules.bandcamp.com/

TRYOUTS
https://www.instagram.com/tryoutslondon

2025
27/12/25 London TBA
20/12/25 Birmingham TBA
05/12/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
22/11/25 Red Light, CU Dalston, London
08/11/25 Hotel Pelirocco, Brighton
07/11/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
27/10/25 Henge, Brixton, London
19/10/25 Freddies @ Pikes, Ibiza
11/10/25 Villa Party, Naples, Italy
03/10/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
13/09/25 Jezebell Takeover @ Golden Lion, Todmorden
30/08/25 The Cause, London w/ Paula Tape.
23/08/25 Tryouts Summer Escape Party, London
22/08/25 Do!! You!!! Radio show with Dave Holloway & Sarahtonin
26/07/25 Anomolous Forest Rave, london
20/07/25 Sun Deck, Margate.
19/07/25 Red Telephone, Margate Arts Club, Margate
05/07/25 Mi Casa Tu Casa, London
28/06/25 The Nightshift, Water Bear, Brighton w/Richard Norris
20/06/25 Wildwood Festival, Cambridgeshire w/ Manfredas
14/06/25 Red Light @ CU Dalston
07/06/25 Bugged Out, B2B w? Justin Robertson, The Social, London
25/05/25 Hare, Bucharest, Romania
23/05/25 Platforma Wolff, Bucharest w/ Wallace
17/05/25 Fuzz, London w/ Lou Hayter, Jamie Reynolds & Dan Kahuna
02/05/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
12/04/25 Marquee Moon, w/ Lisa Loud & Andy Taylor
04/04/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
07/03/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
08/02/25 The Day Job, Water Bear, Brighton w/ Richard Sen
07/02/25 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London
01/02/25 Acid For Breatkfast, LONDON
03/01/25 Tryouts with Danny McLewin, Ellie Stokes & For Mankind.

2024
21/12/24 Swirl x Jezebell, The Social, London
13/12/24 Black Rhino Radio, Bucharest, Romania
12/12/24 Control Club, Bucharest, Romania
06/12/24 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London w/ David Holmes
01/11/24 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London w/ Erol Alkan
18/10/24 The Adam & Eve, London
12/10/24 Faith @ Omeara, London
11/10/24 Soho Radio, London
05/10/24 Mi Casa Tu Casa, The Cross, London
06/09/24 Yes Chef @ Oath, Tokyo, Japan
23/08/24 Tryouts, Kings Cross, London w/ Wallace
05/07/24 TRYOUTS International Training Camp, Bucharest
22/06/24 Wildwood Disco Festival, Cambridgeshire
15/06/24 The Greyhound, Peckham, London
07/06/24 TRYOUTS, Kings Cross w/ Simone Butler & Andy Taylor
25/05/24 What The 50, London
24/05/24 Evil Acid Barons Ball, Devon
26/04/24 TRYOUTS, Kings Cross, London
06/03/24 Acid Chancers @ The Social, London
30/03/24 Red Telephone, WhereElse, Margate.
29/03/24 Just One More, Beckenham. w/ Nancy Noise
16/03/24 The Greyhound, Peckham. w/ C.A.R.
09/03/24 Electric Studios, Brighton
01/03/2024 TRYOUTS, Kings Cross, London w/ Kelvin Andrews
29/02/24 Martello Hall, Hackney
24/02/24 Adam & Eve, Homerton, London
17/02/24 Wrekin Havoc, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
15/02/24 Filly Brook, Leyton
02/02/24 TRYOUTS, Kings Cross w/ Decius


2023
01/12/23 TRYOUTS, Kings Cross, London
18/11/23 Adam & Eve, London
11/11/23 Stompaphunk, Brighton
27/10/23 Tryouts 11, Kings Cross, London
13/10/23 Adam & Eve, London
07/10/23 Platinum Club, London w/ rocky & Diesel
23/09/23 Totnes w/ DJ Ruby
08/09/23 Adam & Eve, London
26/08/23 The Red Telephone, Where House, Margate.
28/07/23 What The....?
20/07/23 Campfire, Two Tribes, London
15/07/23 WOW, The Mix, Dalston, London
17/06/23 NSA Edinburgh, w/Sean Johnston, David Holmes
03/06/23 One More Tune, Bromley
26/05/23 The Adam & Eve, Homerton, London
05/05/23 WOM, Ibiza
04/05/23 Freddies @ PIKES, Ibiza
28/04/23 TRYOUTS 10, Kings Cross, London
01/04/23 Adam & Eve, Homerton, London
03/03/23 TRYOUTS 09, Kings Cross, w/Justin Robertson, Tronik Youth
04/02/23 Lockdown radio party w/ Alex Knight, Sparkhouse, East London

2022
31/12/22 Tryouts 08, Kings Cross, London
02/12/22 Control Club w/ Sean Johnston, Bucharest.
12/11/22 Cat & Mutton, London
04/11/22 Tryouts 07, B2B with Sean Johnston (ALFOS)London
16/09/22 Platforma Wolff, Bucharest, Romania
28/08/22 Alfresco festival
06/08/22 Cat & Mutton, London
30/07/22 EvilPlans, Road Trip, Shoreditch, London
19/07/22 Pikes, Ibiza.
08/07/22 Fear & Loathing. Rialto, Brighton, England.
18/06/22 Alfresco @ Blackpool CC, Blackpool, England.
01/04/22 Alfresco Takeover @ Cat & Mutton, Hackney, London
29/04/22 Tryouts For The Human race w/Johnny Aux, Kings Cross, London
09/03/22 The Social, London w/ Dombrance.
26/02/22 Roadtrip, Shoreditch, London

2021
03/12/21 Tryouts For The Human Race 05, Kings Cross, London
24/07/21 Till Death Do US Disco, Hoxton, London

2020
21-24/05/2020 Alfresco Festival, Colebrooke Lakes, Tunbridge Wells
03/04/2020 Tryout For The Human Race 03, Secret Warehouse, London
14/03/2020 Adamski Record Launch, Secret Location, London
14/03/2020 Cosmodelica w/Prins Thomas POW, Brixton, London
29 /02/2020 No More Sleeping w/ Justin Robertson, Fellowship & Star, London
09/02/2020 REHAB w/ Richard Sen, Hackney, London
01/02/2020 Tryouts For The Human Race II, Kings Cross Warehouse

2019
14/12/2019 7" of Bliss @ Adam & Eve, Homerton, London
06/12/2019 Disco Heat, POW, Brixton, London
29/11/2019 Tryout For The Human Race I, Kings Cross Warehouse w/ Adamski
29/11/2019 Act of Sedition Record Launch, W Hotel, Soho, London
02/11/2019 What The Halloween Warehouse Party, Secret Venue, North London
03/08/2019 WHAT THE? w/ Justin Robertson & Graeme Fisher @ A Castle nr Exeter
29/06/19 Aures, London
08/06/19 Platforma Wolff, Bucharest, Romania
26/05/19 w/ 2 Many DJs, Alfresco Festival, Hop Farm, Kent
04/05/19 Hastings All Dayer, w/ DJK, Marina Fountain, Hastings
21/04/19 Wrong Side of the Tracks, Aures, London
06/04/19 Alfresco Boat party w/ Rigopolar
16/03/19 No Strings Attached, The Dean, Gala, Scotland
03/02/19 Alfresco All Dayer w/ Bill Brewster, Owl & Hitchhiker, London
01/02/19 w/ Mark Collings, Deptford, London
26/01/19 w/ Vox Low & Adam & Eve, London

2018
07/12/18 No Sleep, Bermondsey, London
03/12/18 Owl & Hitchiker All Dayer w/ Justin Robertson, London
09/11/18 Bound In Sound, Edinburgh, Scotland
27/10/18 Mansion Rave, Camberwell, London
13/10/18 Alfresco Boat Party, River Thames, London
25/08/18 Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London
11/08/18 Justice After Party, Summer Well Festival, Romania
04/08/18 Boat Party w/ Justin Robertson & Tronik Youth, London
09/06/18 Platforma Wolff, Bucharest, Romania
29/05/18 Alfresco festival, Hop Farm, Kent
01/04/18 Marseille Boat party w/ Birds of Paradise, Marseille, France
31/03/18 La Dame Noir w/ Justin Robertson, Marseille, France
09/03/18 Alfresco Thames Boat Party w/ Justin Robertson
24/02/18 PisiLove, Bucharest, Romania.

2017
01/01/17 We Are The Sunset All Dayer w/ Phil Mison
11/02/17 Rock N Roll Circus, Warehouse Party, North London
25/02/17 Le Dame Noir, Marseille, France.
23/03/17 DJ Mag live w/ James Hadfield. London
25/03/17 Printworks, Hastings. UK
05/05/17 NSA 22 @ Mash House, Edinburgh. w/ Andrew Weatherall & Ivan Smagghe
28/05/17 - Alfresco Festival 2017 feat Optimo, Paranoid London, Psychemagik
09/09/17 - Alfresco Thames Boat party
14/10/17 The Tiger E9 w/ Graeme Fisher
27/10/17 The Gun, Wells St. London E9
18/11/17 Seven Inches of Bliss, Homerton London
31/12/17 Flaxon Ptooch NYE, London

2016
12th Feb - w/ Manpower @ Basing House, Shoreditch, London
20th Feb - w/ Dave Dorell @ Arts Club East, London
26th March - Musica Noche, Farrs, Dalston, London
02nd April - w/ Dave Jarvis, Rick Lane, Lisa Loud, Broadway London SW6
08th April - w/ Mac Pinol @ Basing House, Shoreditch, London
27th-30th May - Alfresco w/ Ivan Smagghe, Vox Low, Sean Johnston, Jennifer Cardini, Morgan Hammer 
10th June - Lust 4 Logic. w/ Ewan Pearson, Hardway Bros, Canal 125,  London
05 August, Thames Boat Party w/ Marc Hasler.
13th August, Ponton, Bucharest, Romania.
08 Aug w/Lizards, London
03rd Dec - Islington Mill, Manchester.
01/01/17 We Are The Sunset All Dayer w/ Phil Mison

Dj's/label runners- always,Promoters - occasionally,Band members - once...maybe twice,Fools - always...

just a teen looking for some dope music to listen too 

Official Soundcloud page for Dave Ball and Richard Norris aka The Grid. Expect news in 2015.

Contact - thegrid@gmx.us

tici taci - bringing you electric funk rekkids at tempos below 120 bpm. No pre-packed freeze dried loops here, all tracks have live instruments well to the fore, from funky wah-wah guitars and deep chunky bass to temperamental analogue synthesisers and live percussion.

Now 2 years later (July 2015) we're at 23 releases from a range of artists and remixers, with one release scheduled each month.


Duncan Gray (biog) : Perhaps best known as one half of the Sons of Slough along with Ian Weatherall - see discogs entry for details of releases. The Sons were a formidable Live act (see You tube) playing regularly across the UK. DG's own releases also gained some popularity, starting with cuts for Scatological (1996) Blue Black, Whole9Yards, SaltHill, through to Aquamelon (2009). Since returning to music production in 2013 he has released tracks on NEIN, Eskimo, Blindetonation, Play Pal, Rock to The Beat, plus Andrew Weatherall's vinyl only Birdscarer label. He has played guitar on half a dozen AW remixes.
DJ Bookings : julieann.smith@gmail.com

CONTACT :  ticitacimusic@gmail.com


Yes, I do want to hear new tracks. I am always interested in music which features REAL INSTRUMENTS - or electronic originality. I'm getting fussy these days...please email files to the email address above. (don't just send a soundcloud link please) If you don't know what the sound of this label is like, don't bother sending me stuff. I get quite a few demos with a note saying "I love the sound of your label" from producers who have clearly never listened to any of our releases.

PLEASE NOTE : 2020 release schedule now full, but I can always make room for something spectacular, or a really cool remix...

Remix Requests  please contact lipstudio2@gmail.com

EMPEROR MACHINE  Biography
Over 30 years since acid house’s summer of love and there are few of 1988’s cast of actors still left standing. Still fewer are those whose music is still resolutely pointing towards the future rather than endlessly looking to the past. In fact, there’s arguably only one candidate left in the UK. While his peers are content with revival parties and classical house nights at the Albert Hall, Andy Meecham is out on his own as one of the few whose gleaming analogue machines are still pointing towards an imagined future rather than an endlessly relived history.
As the Emperor Machine, Meecham’s solo project since 2003, he has been wrenching monumental basslines, strange keyboard figures and luminescent rhythms from his beloved synthesisers, inspired by everything from sci-fi movies and KPM library albums. In some ways, his mission has scarcely altered in the 35 years since he first heard ‘Planet Rock’ in the early 1980s. “That’s the thing that got me hooked,” recalls Meecham. “The fact that it was futuristic sounding.  Anything that was sci-fi: UFO programmes, Dr Who, Star Trek. Stuff that suggested the future.”
While he’s happy to plough towards the future, we still has some serious history to contemplate. Meecham is one of the clique of acts in Staffordshire inspired by house music that included Candyflip, Altern-8, Sure Is Pure and Nexus 21. Meecham’s band with long-time conspirator Dean Meredith, Bizarre Inc, was one of the most successful of their generation and 1991’s ‘Playing With Knives’ was a staple in all self-respecting DJs bag that year. Major label deals, led to swift dissatisfaction; Meredith and Meecham went back to the mixing board to rethink their future. 
As Chicken Lips, they re-emerged alongside peers like the Idjut Boys and Faze Action, to offer their delayed and dislocated rhythms to an audience hungry for relief from the monotony of the four-to-the-floor house rhythm, with joyously dubbed out originals and fiendishly clever remixes for luminaries like Ennio Morricone and Groove Armada to Wolfmother, transforming Love Train from a metallic romp into a disco-dub delight with a bottom-end bigger than a Kardashian. Then there are Andrew’s other aliases (he’s had more than Carlos The Jackal), notably Sir Drew, Future Four, Gino Fontaine, BIG 2000, Randee Jean and Zeefungk.
The Emperor Machine was born out of an online slating of one of his favourite synths, the Roland SH 3A. Indignant at this appalling slight, Meecham set to work on a track only using said Roland. James Dyer at DC Recordings loved it so much, he asked him for another and gave the project its name. Emperor Machine it was.


 As with most of the Emperor Machine music, the methodology goes against the grain of how most electronic musicians approach producing. Rather than reducing it to mathematical blocks of music on a computer screen, Emperor Machine is about long passes, played live and then edited down by a crack team of highly-trained Potteries-based orang-utans, lorded over by merciless taskmaster Meecham.
The key to success is not dancefloor domination, but a far simpler rule, says Meecham. “The music has to make me shudder. So I work on something until I get that tingling feeling. So it’s almost more of a drug thing really. I have to get that out of the music and I can’t get that from full-on 909 four-to-the-floor dance music.”
A shudder and a tingle. And maybe a monster bassline. Emperor Machine redux. 
Bill Brewster

Official Soundcloud of Thievery Corporation

This site is a reflection and in some ways a chronicle of my career in Dance Music .... ALL the mixes are live and mainly all from vinyl .... There are a few which are a mix of Vinyl and CD .... ALL the remixes with the exception of "BREAK FOR LOVE" are from my time as a well known Remixer and Producer. All the ACIDISCOTECH mixes are samples of how I play now in a bar setting although there is some club crossover. ACIDISCOTECH means a mix of sounds and styles and time periods which when combined express the energy  and passion I feel for music ... I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN THE CAPACITY FOR PEOPLE TO OPEN THEIR EARS, MINDS AND HEARTS TO ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSIC AND ENJOY IT FOR WHAT IT IS .... WITHOUT APPLYING NEGATIVE ENERGY BASED ON WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD IS COOL. FUCK POLITICS AND TRENDINESS ... LET'S DANCE !      


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