If you attended we hope you had a great time & hope to see you again soon. We return to Butlins in March for a weekend curated by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel, who so far has picked artists include Joanna Newsom, Boredoms, The Magnetic Fields, Thurston Moore, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Scratch Acid, Low, The Fall, Yann Tiersen and many more. Tickets are on sale now and if you want to pay a deposit now and the rest of the apartment cost by the end of February, our deposit scheme still has a little room.
We’ll also be running I’ll Be Your Mirror at London’s Alexandra Palace in May curated by Mogwai & ATP - headliners include Slayer performing Reign In Blood, The Afghan Whigs, Sleep, Dirty Three, Codeine, Mudhoney with far more to be confirmed. Info/tickets here.
If you came to Nightmare Before Christmas, Thank You! We hope you got home safe and are recovering well. Check out our aftermath message on the link above.
ATP attendeee Matt Griffiths has setup a Big Pretentious Mix CD Swap for this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas. Here are his rules:
“The aim: Bring a 10 Track Mix CD and give it to a perfect stranger as an Xmas present. These aren’t rules, they are merely guidelines-
- You must swap your mix with a total stranger. You’ve probably been forcing your far superior music taste on to your close friends for years. Time to spread your wings, now is the perfect time.
- 10 Tracks long please! This is more of a challenge to you…..the creator. I’m sure you’re already thinking about opening tracks, what leads well in to what, themes, bringing out the obscure, a balance of serious music with just the right amount of light hearted moments and more importantly including your favourite b-side.
- This is a pretentious mix - Give it a pretentious name
- This is a pretentious mix - Give it a pretentious cover / or wrap it in Xmas wrapping paper.
- Include the names of Artists / Tracks - some people won’t know what’s on your mix so don’t keep it a secret. And it’ll be handy in the car for the journey home.
- This is just a guideline, you put as much or as little effort in to this as you like. The aim is to have a bit of Fun with it and you can make as many mixes as you like…..”
The exact time and place of the swap is going to take be confirmed along with the event stage times next week - but we wanted to let you know now so you have more time to make your mix. To RSVP for the swap go here on Facebook.
We hope to see a lot of you there and if it’s a success maybe we’ll make it a regular event for ATP festivals!
DJ Rashad has been instrumental to the creation and evolution of Chicago Juke music and has been lifelong friends with other key players on the scene, such as Paul Johnson, DJ Gant-Man, DJ Spinn, DJ Godfather, and Jammin Gerald. He has the ability to blend elements of house, ghetto house, disco, juke, and ghettotech together with a knack for creating sparse, snappy tracks that manage to convey a physicality and funk with a spectacular precision.
Along with his teammates DJ Spinn and DJ Gant-Man, DJ Rashad has become notorious for making juke anthems that have made fans outside the world of Chicago mix cds. He’s DJ’ed across Europe and released records on Juke Trax and Databass records earlier on in his career and some big remixes and collaborations are in the pipeline.
DJ Spinn:
A staple in footwork circles since the late 90s, and regular DJ at house parties throughout Chicagoland. South suburb resident Spinn started his career dancing for the legendary early dance crew House–O–Matics, later on becoming part of Wolf Pac with his partner in crime DJ Rashad. Known for having a knack for breaking down everything from hip-hop tracks to Pink Floyd into circle worthy material, his basement studio is a regular hangout for many prominent dancers and producers of today.
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Check out some tracks on the ATP site bio page: click here!
Hit the link to enjoy an amazing mix put together by Dan Snaith (Caribou), who has created an intense hour long journey through the artists chosen for his day of the Nightmare Before Christmas event, highlighted by a new and previously unreleased remix of Improve Me by Junior Boys.
Tumblr for Info/Photos/Articles/Music/Movies related to the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas 2011 festival curated by Battles, Caribou & Les Savy Fav. More info at http://www.atpfestival.com/events/nightmare2011.php
