Blavatsky & Oncel
Daniel Avery aka Stopmakingme arrives to the second Honki Ponki party at Nolla on Saturday 12.5. When not DJing around the world, Daniel spends his times inside his studio full of analogue equipment producing remixes and releases for such labels as Tigersushi, Gomma and How The Other Half Lives and Relish.
"It’s fair to say a restless urge for creativity has punctuated everything Daniel Avery has done to date. Having grown up on and been influenced by the risk taking DJ sets of Weatherall, Erol, Ivan Smagghe, Ewan Pearson and Optimo, his own DJing style sees house and techno thrown alongside cosmic drones, post-punk angles and mutant new wave whilst no momentum - or any floor - is lost. It was this drive that prompted Fabric to quickly pick him up as a resident (where he still remains), calls to entertain the masses at Bugged Out and Durrr on a regular basis and for the aforementioned Alkan to state “He’s not following a trend, has good taste, is not competing against other DJs, understands how to read a room, doesn’t panic… Avery is turning into one of London’s best DJs, mark my words.”
Avery is a reminder that individualist attitude and a desire to approach club music from the underground upwards is still as exciting a proposition as it ever was, a spirit embodied by godfather of the scene Andrew Weatherall whose recent endorsement in Time Out speaks for itself:
"On several occasions in 2011 I have been impressed by music made under the production name of Stopmakingme and seen the name appearing with growing frequency on posters for discos. So, imagine my joy when the penny dropped and I realised that the nice young man who’d been working in my studio was responsible for these productions. That man was Dan Avery, and when I had the pleasure of appearing with him at a Death In Vegas gig at Fabric, I realised that he was as good a DJ as a producer. He makes gimmick-free machine-funk of the highest order. There were times in 2011 when part of my set was pretty much an Avery mega-mix, and I sense that those mega-mixes will only get longer in 2012."
Saturday 12.5
Honki Ponki with
DANIEL AVERY / STOPMAKINGME
(Tigersushi, Relish / London)
BLAVATSKY
ONCEL
VISUALS: J▲SON (jason.fi)
Nolla
21:00 - 04:00
5€/Free until 23:00
