The sonic brotherhood of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris. Strange things are still happening.

Dalston Superstore is a two-floor homo pleasure palace on Kingsland High Street in East London. We are a cafe, bar, art gallery and club open Sunday to Thurs 10am - 2am and Friday and Saturday 10am - 3am. 7 days a week for booze, brunch, burgers, boys, home made cakes, coffee, cocktails, wifi, art shows and other stuff.

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Sound artist Vallechi builds a sonic journey which taps into the recesses of our inner-most being, awakening feelings of self-connection and melancholia, impelled by a desire to initiate positive change in the world and to help us understand our fundamental place in it. 

Through electronic-based albums, live shows and immersive events, Vallechi creates new spaces, and ways, to re-engage with sound. Within our subconscious sits the potential to re-orientate our view of our past, in order to ignite a more liberating future. By remembering better, we live greater. 

In constructing an alchemic merging of music and media, Vallechi creates a one-of-a-kind dream universe: inviting the listener to engage with the deeper mysteries of existence. Club-friendly rhythms weave over ethereal soundscapes and soul-enriching frequencies. A core of uplifting, euphoric chords, mines our minds: digging deeper into aspects of the human experience. Peace can be made of traumas, dreams can be touched, soul stirrings can spark in communion, the beginnings of an enhanced connection to all things can be nudged alive. All the prospects lie in us, sometimes something just needs to inspire them into being. 

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Initially established in 2003 at The Eagle in London’s Vauxhall, Horse Meat Disco has evolved into a powerful force in queer and club culture as a whole, while staying local to its original home, each and every Sunday. Co-founded by James Hillard and Jim Stanton, and encompassing residents Severino and Luke Howard, the crew continue to maintain not only the weekly Sunday party, but a number of residencies in cities across the world, alongside a kaleidoscope of club appearances, festival dates and specially curated mixes.

Taking inspiration from a diverse, counter-cultural history of clubs and DJs, as well as from the sprawling, ever-expanding musical collections of it's resident crew, the sound of HMD is impossible to place. Nonetheless their style is undeniable, as is a popper-scented air of sheer authenticity. Rooted in hedonism, rhythm, freedom and emotion, a Horse Meat Disco set reinforces everything invigorating about disco, as comfortable as shattering old-school mirror ball cliches as basking in their light.

A typical HMD set blends classics, italo disco, house, oddities and punk funk, to conjure their initial spirit of “a queer party for everyone”, including, but not limited to, “Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch.” They have made appearances on every notable club scene in the modern world, as well as those beyond, and have long been a key fixture at festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival and Festival No.6.

Outside of the club, the Horse Meat Disco train rolls across the airwaves on Rinse FM, where the crew hold down a weekly residency every Sunday afternoon, serving as a pre and post-club Sunday lunch accompaniment, often delving into the more soulful shades of their sublime taste, often encompassing rave groove, gospel and whatever they can’t get away with on the dancefloor (which, as the years have proven, isn’t much). A series of expertly curated and acclaimed compilations for reissue label Strut helped further cement HMD’s formidable but communal reputation as disco masterminds, spreading their sound and many enviable obscurities into front rooms and record bags across the world. Their latest, ‘Meat Me Down the Disco’, was released on Z Records in 2017.

After decades of crate digging, globetrotting and partying, the HMD story continues apace. 2017 also saw the crew record their long-awaited contribution to BBC Radio 1’s ‘Essential Mix’, as well as their first joint foray into production, ‘Waiting For You To Call’, featuring Roy Inc., and released on their own, self-titled imprint. They are currently working on new music to be released with Glitterbox, with the new single ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ released in December 2018.

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