Pop star. Innovator. Diligent DJ to the Maceo’s crew bar crowd. Take a joy-ride through Neneh Cherry’s broad web of interests on this archive mix recorded at Block9 at Glastonbury, and showcased as part our Crack Mix 500 celebrations. 

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Crack Mix 500: Neneh Cherry (Block9 takeover)

Fixtures at your favourite parties, Hannah Holland and Josh Caffé step up to the controls across this vibey archive mix from the Block9 treasure chest. Shared here for Crack Mix 500.

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Crack Mix 500: Hannah Holland & Josh Caffé (Block9 takeover)

Masters at Work turned Masters of the Downlow back in 2017, when the vital New York duo touched down for an hour-and-a-half of inexhaustible bangers. Relive it here, as part of Block9's Crack Mix 500 takeover.

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Crack Mix 500: Masters at Work (Block9 takeover)

To the NYC Downlow we go with Block9’s own GIDEÖN for a sweat-soaked session recorded at the iconic pop-up club in 2010.

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Crack Mix 500: GIDEÖN (Block9 takeover)

A dynamic excursion through a peak-time, late-night NYC Downlow, led by the most eminent of guides, Midland. Recorded in 2017 and showcased here for Crack Mix 500.

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Crack Mix 500: Midland (Block9 takeover)

MACLO Live @ The Meat Rack - Block9 Glastonbury 2023

Week 2 - New York To London & Back Again - The Identity Clash Of Uk Garage

GIDEÖN''s BBC Radio 1's Residency - #2 New York To London... Garage Special

Week 4 - Conscious House - Music Delivers A Message

GIDEÖN''s BBC Radio 1's Residency - #4 Conscious House

Week 1 - The Queer DNA Of House - The Sound Of The Queer Underground Then & Now.

GIDEÖN''s BBC Radio 1's Residency - #1 The Queer DNA Of House

Week 3 -  Nineteen Ninety What?:  #3 The Golden Age Of Deep House

GIDEÖN''s BBC Radio 1's Residency - #3 The Golden Age Of Deep House

Recorded live on Genosys satge in block9 on Saturday at Glastonbury 2019

Glastonbury Festival Block9

Michael Upson @ Genosys, Block9 (Glastonbury 2019)

Got the Glastonbury blues? Want to relive some of the magic for an hour? Then listen back to my latest Love Will Save The Day Get2kno… Glasto special radio show ✨✨✨! Expect….

🗽An ode to the best club in the world, the NYC Downlow, including predicting one of the most beautiful moments I’ve ever had on the dance floor when Kings of Tomorrow aka Sandy Riviera played a stripped back version of Finally as the penultimate track in the DL on Saturday night (legit tears)

🪩 A mix of dancey tracks by and inspired by some of the long list of amazing DJs at the festival 

📸 A chat with subculture photographer and Glasto local Mattko about when raving hit the field back in 1989, when he first discovered Block9 and why the early hours of Monday morning is his favourite time at the festival 

🔥 PLUS we hear from the amazing JESSI who slayed her Glasto debut at the weekend, UK bass royalty Hagan and an EXCLUSIVE banger from UK garage legend Jeremy Sylvester

Get2kno...Glasto special w/ Emilia G on LWSTD.FM 29/6/24

🧚🏻‍♀️ southeast ldn dj / journalist

🎙️ check out my show Get2kno on lovewillsavethday.fm - where each episode we get to know something from the dance music world. Recent episodes include a deepdive on legendary UKG shop DnR Vinyl and female DJs in the 90s. The interview clips are interwoven with a mix by me.

💃🏻 co-mama of Pherotone, a female-led southeast London party

🎧 one half of @joshckandemilia

Founder and resident DJ of the Leeds based queer club night, Love Muscle.

GIDEÖN
HOMO-CENTRIC RECORDS / NYC DOWNLOW / ADONIS / R3 SOUNDSYSTEM / BLOCK9

GIDEÖN has a background in music spanning 33 years. In addition to his studio practice as a recording artist, his work as a creative director, stage designer and curator, he is also a touring DJ and an avid collector of vinyl. Since his first set of turntables in 1990, GIDEÖN has devoted his life to collecting vinyl from the US, Jamaica, Latin America, Africa, and the UK. He specialises in Northern Soul, Latin, Reggae, Gospel, and Disco rarities. House Music, above all else, is his first and greatest love. 

He is currently Creative Director of a new opera being developed in partnership with English National Opera. He has a degree in Music with Visual Practice (BA Hons) and was guest Creative Director of Music for London Borough of Culture 2022. Recent projects have seen Gideon head up Creative Direction for Dua Lipa’s record breaking Studio 2054, winning the MVA’s Music Video of The Year award. He was production designer for lead artists at Live at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury’s virtual festival livestream. 

As a curator, he programmed two events for Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival in summer 2024 and is currently Head of Music at The Roof Gardens in London. Other projects include work with Anohni, Banksy, Imperial War Museum, Finnish Opera House, Hercules & Love Affair, Lana Del Ray, Skrillex, Brian Eno, Roisin Murphey, The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, and Jorja Smith.

GIDEÖN co-founded, co-directs and curates Block9’s festival nightlife institutions The NYC Downlow, Genosys, Maceo’s and IICON at Glastonbury Festival. He is also resident and co-booker at London’s hottest queer club night Adonis. As a radio DJ, GIDEÖN has been actively involved in broadcasting for over three decades. Since cutting his teeth on London’s pirate stations in the late nineties, he hosted a weekly show on London’s Soho Radio for 3 years. Recent guest appearances include New York’s Beats In Space, London’s Rinse FM, NTS Radio and BBC 6 Music. He recently held a residency at BBC Radio 1.

GIDEÖN has been involved in political activism his entire life and is now increasingly focussed on organising hybrid cultural-political events partnering music and protest, often under the banner of R3 Soundsystem. Together with charities Love Music Hate Racism & Stand Up To Racism, GIDEÖN has organised major sound system interventions on many of the Stop Brexit and Stop Trump and Anti-Fascism protests. He is actively involved with fundraising for several LGBTQ+, human rights and social justice organisations including AllOut, Medical Aid For Palestinians, Prepster, Human Dignity Trust and Refugee Community Kitchen. GIDEÖN sits on the advisory committee for The Right to Dance, part of War Child’s NGO Network.

R3 Soundsystem is a consortium of DJs, musicians, producers, record labels, festivals, nightclubs, sound systems, activists, and cultural organisations, all united by love of music and the rejection of right-wing nationalist values. R3’s three Rs stand for RESIST/REJECT/REVOLT.

GIDEÖN’s House Music label HOMO-CENTRIC RECORDS launched to showcase both his solo productions and collaborations with close queer comrades. The label focusses on the LGBTQ+ heritage of House and attempts to pay homage to its lost heroes. Its manifesto states the intent to re-establish the lines of queer musical tradition at the heart of House, lost to AIDS and the capitalist desecration of dance music itself.

MacLo 
Manchester (UK)
Contact - Maclomanchester@gmail.com

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