[7inch] :: SEVEN INCH ENTERTAINMENT MAIL-OUT 2.03 ::

:: SEVEN INCH ENTERTAINMENT MAIL-OUT 2.03 ::

:: This weekend out ::

Friday 14th. Feb.
THE EMBASSY: VALENTINES SPECIAL featuring DJ Slo with guests JEREMY J & THE 
BARON (Deep North Productions, Cairns) - From 21:00 - 03:00

Saturday 15th. Feb.
THE EMBASSY: Paul Allan & Nathan Hill from 22:00

Sunday 16th. Feb.
THE EXCHANGE - BALCONY :: RELAPSE :: from 15:00 - 21:00 Nathan Hill & visiting 
DJs from the Seven Inch Collective spinning trippy down-tempo and leftfield 
traxx to supplement the soothing effects of Corona, Latte and Panadol. . .

:: The next 7Inch shows ::

Our next major event will be :: Decked Out 2.0 :: at the Exchange on Feb. 22nd 
featuring DJ Dan Marshall from Deep North Productions, Cairns alongside our 
7Inch artists. Dan is long-term resident at the Bassment and known as a bit of 
a deep dirty house freak. After playing a rocking set for us alongside Mag00 
from Brisbane in August we can't wait to have him back. Below is a novel on one 
of many accomplished nights of the master. 

 

The event will be a two floor affair, but depending on weather we may be using 
the back yard area as a chill out zone for zonking out to wack soundscapes. The 
slamming stuff will as always be unleashed in the back room.   

Wild Gravity will rig a fully quadrophonic and appropriately delayed sound 
system setup - we have also upped the benchmark for visual effects - but 
details shall not be disclosed just yet!


5000 flyers and posters are out - If you would like to help us distributing 
some of the material, please drop us a note on admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 
Check out our page 7 add in REMEDY (7000 copies of this issue for O-week) 

- and don't forget to flick to page 14 for a low-down on our own Nick Ho a.k.a. 
DJ Slo. 


:: Relapse ::

Relapse is the weekly alternative to spit roast and wet t-shirt Sunday sessions 
in Townsville, taking over where our sundays at La Bamba left. taged at the top 
floor of the Exchange complex these cruisy afternoons (15:00-21:00) are hosted 
by Pakamas and Nathan Hill with rotating visits from our DJ roster and beyond. 
Come and check it out - Boardgames, magazines and discounted drinks are 
available and pubmeals will be added shortly.

   
:: O-Week ::

University O-WEEK will feature two on-campus events from us. We are rigging the 
Refectory on Tuesday and Thursday nights for a bit of four to the floor. We 
will have people pushing flyers and information at lunchbreaks and stall 
sessions. Please push the mailinglist to any newcomers you may bump into or 
handthem a flyer for Decked Out (mailinglist info is on these!). 

Our new website is not quite there yet - should be ready over the weekend and 
we'll let you know the moment it is up - Think Dirty is doing the works - it 
will be nice.


See you in town

Seven Inch Entertainment
Australasian Electronica Collective
WWW.7INCHENTERTAINMENT.COM

 

EXCERPT FROM REVIEW OF DAN MARSHALL AT THE BASSMENT, CAIRNS - OCTOBER 2002

With the Bassment, Dan Marshall and the Cairns Clique winning accolades from 
the likes of Phil K, Gab Olivier, Ozzie LA, Prince Quick Mix, Nubreed and a 
swathe of other less notable yet equally talented visitors, Deep North built a 
reputation for excellence in dance music unrivaled outside the nation's capital 
cities. Dan's appreciation of the music has always been the club's strongest 
point. Shying away from the commercial and the predictable, it was Dan who 
introduced the Cairns massive to nu-school breaks and deep house and built the 
North's now famous love affair with all things deep, dark and dirty. Deep North 
began in 1999 with a weekly Friday night radio show MCed by visiting DJ Shaun 
'Silky" DeBauch with local talent featuring strongly in the mix. Picked up next 
by Taste-Y and put into the clubs on a regular basis, it wasn't long before Dan 
had every DJ and punter in town talking about his gift for selecting tunes and 
unique, minimalist mixing style. From then, it was only a matter of time before 
Dan was playing in clubs and presenting his own parties under the Deep North 
banner at My Bar. Moving downstairs from the Woolshed last year, Dan added to 
the foundation of the Cuban Club and built the town's first serious dance venue 
into a national interest, and the Bassment was born. Attracting luminary 
Australian talents on a monthly basis, a hard core following of Deep North 
loyalists (the Far Northern Alliance) grew up and partied side-by-side, week in 
and week out. The lack of glitz and pretty lights combined with the thundering 
sound system and saw to it that anybody who was there was, by default, there 
for the music and the dancing. Pretence took a back seat to the more serious 
concerns of quality tunes and going off hard. Saturday night (October 2002) saw 
a show of clubbing as we in the north know it. With a mammoth 5 hour set in 
expectation, Dan opened to an almost empty club with 'Night' by MIDIval 
Punditz, a gesture of recognition and friendship that moved me profoundly and 
set the tone for what was to be an emotional evening. As the ethereal sounds of 
flutes, female Hindi vocals and logic drum kits filled the room, close friends 
began to arrive, hugs were hugged, smiles were smiled, hands were shaken. 
Nobody bounced in, everybody seemed to arrive with a quiescent attitude. It 
would fall to Dan to lift us tonight. As he played out the first hour, it 
started to look like it would be a slow night on the floor. Many of the regular 
heads hadn't arrived, and the mood was strange; close and personal, but not 
like a normal Deep North night in that people weren't loosing themselves in the 
music. Until about 2 AM, everyone stayed lucid, chatty and decidedly social - 
an odd look on the floor of a club where there's no room for anything but the 
floor. In the space of about 15 minutes, everything changed. The lights went 
down a step, darkness ruling a breakdown over a long, echoed accapella 
reminding us not to be so stuck on the past, to forget the way we used to do 
and look towards the way we need to do it now, and to move forward as a 
community. This was Deep North territory - cracking production, expert mixing 
with a message. Then the thick, gated kick drum of Dirty Logic dropped in and 
the whole place lost it. This was what we'd came for, what we'd learned, what 
we expected. Tough, deep and hard tunes, staunch 4/4, heavy on the bass, right 
around the 128bpm mark, lights off, lost in it. Following with a string of 
tunes that wreaked havoc on the crew the first time they were dropped, Dan 
guided us back through nights long gone, a musical journey of rediscovery, the 
aural equal of flicking through a photo album. 

He couldn't have picked a better way to wind us up in preparation for the 
traditional 3 o'clock blur. Tune after tune met with shouts and screams from in 
front of the booth, by now Dan's eyes were closed most of the time, reaching 
out to the crowd and feeling the music with them, letting their mood drive his 
set, remembering as we remembered. From this web of interaction came the best 
use of the effects unit of the night, tweaking tunes and applying effects off 
the 600 with the subtle and precise mastery of a virtuoso. Few people who have 
seen this kid at work can walk away in anything less than awe of his talent on 
the mixer, punters and top DJ's alike all speak of his skill with respect. Tune 
of the night goes hands down to the Inner City Life remix Ozzy LA. left with 
us. It also marked the introduction of the breakbeat flavoured part of the 
night, and it is a moment I'd list as one of my most memorable in my many years 
of partying. People crouching in tiny little balls on the floor, hugging their 
knees, rocking slowly, probably in tears, while right beside them someone else, 
head down, danced like there'd never be another party. The moment did not last 
long, in the blink of an eye - faster than you could say "who ordered the Mad 
Skills?" the Bassment was a frenzy of syncopated motion. 5 am snuck up on 
everyone a little too fast it seemed. As the hour ticked over and the lights 
came on, the manager shouldered through to the booth and shouted "lock the 
doors, nobody in, nobody out, we're going for another half hour!" The cheer 
raised the roof and Dan, laughing, proceeded to bash up everyones ears with 
Take a Walk, then payed his respects to one of his mates by playing Blue, which 
led to another of those memorable moments. The final track, Orbital's Satan, 
was hardly a fitting end to the final Deep North, but you've got to end these 
things somehow . . .

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