[7inch] :: SEVEN INCH ENTERTAINMENT MAIL-OUT 3.03 ::

:: SEVEN INCH ENTERTAINMENT MAIL-OUT 3.03 ::


:: WELCOME ::

Wow - nearly 200 newcomers to our mailinglist this week - a warm welcome to you 
all - hope you will find this feeder usefull and that you will enjoy our 
parties, our DJs and all.

:: THE JCU CLUB ::

Thanks also to the students who were rocking it with us on Tuesday night - it 
was really enjoyable and good to see a bunch of electronica heads in toga's 
loosing it! 
We are repeating the show tonight (Thursday - see event guide below) - bigger 
and better! See you then!

:: DECKED OUT 2.0 ::
- The one you have all been waiting for -

:: DECKED OUT 2.0 :: at The Exchange Hotel (Flinders Street East) on Feb. 22nd. 
from 21:00 -05:00. 
Tickets at the door ($10 or $8 w. student card). Come early as this one will 
sell out!

Featuring special guest: DJ DAN MARSHALL from Deep North Productions in Cairns 
- bracketed by the 7Inch artists: NICK HO, PAPPAS, PAKAMAS, NATHAN HILL, DJ 
SLO, IVES & PAUL ALLAN. 
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. At the bottom of this mailout is a 
bit of a novel on one of many accomplished nights of the master. 

:: DECKED OUT 2.0 :: will be a two floor affair, with Portraits featuring an 
upgraded soundsystem as a chill out zone for zonking out to wack soundscapes. 
The slamming stuff will as always be unleashed in the back room (Perfect for 
all the new unistudents to loose it together - as if you did not do so 
already!!).

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!

Line Up is as follows,

Main (Back) Room:
21:00-22:30 Pappas
22:30-00:00 Pakamas
00:00-02:00 Dan Marshall
02:00-03:30 Nick Ho
03:30-05:00 Nathan Hill

Portraits (Front) Room:
23:00-00:30 Pappas
00:30-02:00 Pakamas & Nathan Hill
02:00-04:00 Paul Allan & Ives
04:00-05:00 DJ Slo

Lots of freebies from our generous sponsors are up for grabs for the 
earlybirds: 100 moviepasses from Birch Caroll & Coyle Cinemas, T-shirts from 
Cre8ive Sk8 and Diving Dreams, hair products from H-Spot hair and Diving Dreams 
tops it again with dive course cash-backs on our entry ticket and a magic 
two-day reef trip for one lucky person!! In addition mix CDs from us are up for 
grabs. Yet more reasons to COME EARLY! - The important other one being that 
this event will sell out and probably fast!  

There will be a full page feature in the Friday Bulletin (Good Guide) and 5000 
flyers and posters are out - and almost completely gone - If you would like to 
help us distributing the last bits, 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. 

:: THIS WEEKS OUT (otherwise) ::

Thursday 20th. Feb. 
THE JCU CLUB: 7 Inch Entertainment Floor at the Refectory (JCU-Douglas) from 
20:30-01:00.
DJs NICK HO, PAPPAS, PAKAMAS & NATHAN HILL

THE EMBASSY: O-WEEK SPECIAL, 22:00-02:00
DJ PAPPAS spinning funky music (Embassy is on the corner of Sturt and Denham 
street in the CBD and by a quantum leap the swankiest nightclub in all of North 
Queensland - This is were we hang out, play and have fun)

Friday 21st. Feb.
THE EMBASSY: 22:00-02:00
DJ SLO & PAPPAS

Saturday 22nd. Feb.
DECKED OUT 2.0 (see above)

 
Sunday 23rd. Feb.
THE EXCHANGE HOTEL (Flinders Street East) - BALCONY :: RELAPSE :: from 15:00 - 
21:00 NATHAN HILL & PAKAMAS w. visiting DJs from the Seven Inch Collective 
spinning trippy down-tempo and leftfield traxx to supplement the soothing 
effects of Corona, Latte and Panadol. . .

:: RELAPSE ::

Relapse is the weekly 7inch Entertainment alternative to spit roast and wet 
T-shirt Sunday sessions otherwise inflicting mortal damage in Townsville (not 
that we mind those . . ). RELAPSE is taking over where our Sundays at La Bamba 
left. staged 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.

See you in town

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

- Any questions - email: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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 a
 nd 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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