Club Release creates a mess to Finnish drum and bass scene again:
Ladies and gentleman, it gives us great pleasure to introduce our next guest...
Biography
Undoubtedly one of the leading lights in the Drum & Bass scene, Nookie, aka Cloud Nine/Second Vision/New Balance (along with Blame), is London/Herts DJ/producer/artist/remixer Gavin Cheung.
Already into pirate radio, electro and hip hop, as well as jazz funk, while still a school boy, Gavin served his musical apprenticeship working in Soho's Red Records (which later became Unity Records). Not only did he get to meet many important people in the industry, but managed to establish himself as a reputable DJ.
"Personally, I'm into good music full stop, whether it be hip-hop, soul, house etc. Music is about feeling and I try to reflect that in my music, be it when I'm playing out or in the studio, in my opinion there's only two types of music, good and bad".
To his credit is "Give a little love", one of the first underground rave anthems, which came out on absolute 2 records then re-released on Reinforced Records in 1993. "The sound of music", another early rave anthem from "The return of Nookie EP", also issued by Reinforced records was to catapult him into the limelight, "Snow"/"Jazzmin" on Moving Shadow, one of the first tunes to use a real jazz double bass. He was also running his own label in the early nineties (Daddy Armshouse Records) with his long-time friend Pedro, and had a number of releases to his credit.
In 1995 Nookie released his debut LP on Reinforced Records entitled `The Sound of Music'. This proved to be a huge success and gave Nookie a more worldwide status. He has been lucky enough through his work to travel all around the world experiencing different cultures and seeing how others perceive the sound of his music. Countries that he has visited include Germany, Italy, Japan, America, Poland, Yugoslavia, Estonia, and Spain amongst others.
His status as a remixer continues to rise, not least due to his interpretation of Goldie's instant classic "Inner city life". Other artists to have received the Nookie remix treatment include Cutty Ranks, Flourgon & Ninjaman, Doc Scott, Omni Trio, Adam F, Ganja Crew and more recently his remix of MC Conrad's "Energetic Poetry" and The Pedge's "What's Up Partner?" released on Dread Recordings. DJ's who have helped promote his work over the years include Fabio, Grooverider, LTJ Bukem and Ray Keith.
Nookie has also been engineering for Ray Keith for over ten years and has helped him with such classics as Renegade "Terrorist" and Ray's many album projects amongst others.
In terms of Good Looking, Nookie had already had various releases under his other aliases including New Balance "Reflections" and Second Vision "The Italian job". Recently he has added multiple 12" releases, the First Light, Oceanic and Free The Funk EPs and "In@thedeepend", his massive debut album on Good Looking Records and his forth album in total. Featured on his E.P's was the massive "Continental Drift" which was a personal favourite of LTJ Bukem.
Despite these quality releases, Nookie is not resting on his laurels. He's always looking at new ways to stretch his musical and DJ'ing talents and has already produced some House tunes for his "In@thedeepend", album. His fifth album will include more House and Down Beat tunes as well as his usual dose of quality Drum & Bass.
His current projects include Strictly Digital, which is an mp3 download website featuring exclusive artist's tunes as well as various independent record labels catalogues.
`The current music market clearly shows that people are veering more to the digital form of music for their listening pleasure, it's also very hard for new, up & coming producers to get their work heard as many labels aren't in the position to invest money in to new artists'
Nookie also has a monthly Drum & Bass night in London called `Atmosphere' to coincide with the Strictly Digital website.
"Artists that I rate have to include anyone with the persistence and determination to have a go and experiment with different sounds and not to just bite other peoples creations to make a few dollars, after all that is why I started to make music, to interpret what is going on inside my head into others through the use of sound".
http://www.strictly-digital.com/
http://www.rolldabeats.com/artist/nookie
Other artists:
This night will be a start of a new era when L.A.O.S. (Large Amount Of Soul) gives their debut LIVE performance.
L.A.O.S. LIVE consists of abraham, d-bex, JayeM and various guests.
L.A.O.S. will guarantee to make that booty shake and soul vibrate!
Resident djs in action:
Physics (Metalheadz, Midnight Sun Recordings)
A.Myllykoski (Laava Production)
Tickets 10e at the door, 8e in advance. Pre-tickets can be bought from Lifesaver(=>NOTE! Only in cash!).
Agelimit 20
Showtime 21-03
Happy hour 21-23
Venue:
Oasis
Address Hietalahdenkatu 6, Helsinki
