The Gallery’s critically acclaimed trance residency VACCINE welcomes yet another world class collaboration in the shape of Galaxy FM’s Nu Breed for a very special night on Friday May 11th.
In true VACCINE and Nu Breed style the lineup spans the entirety of the trance scene taking in London debuts, European talent, home-grown producers and world-class residents.
Fresh from their epic first birthday in February and collaborations with Black Hole Recordings and Discover (Recoverworld) as well as UK debuts for the likes of Bart Claessen and Richard Durand in April, VACCINE continues to set the pace others follow in new trance talent and cutting edge lineups.
With this ethos in mind the opportunity to work with not only one of the hottest acts in dance music currently in the shape of Riley and Durrant but also Galaxy FM and its commitment to supporting new talent especially through its Nu Breed show, broadcast weekly on Thursday nights from 11pm could not be missed.
Nick Riley and Andi Durrant are well known to clubbers as residents for super club Gatecrasher in its spiritual Sheffield home. A full DJ diary sees them playing across the world from Russia, Asia, Europe and the USA. They regularly rock clubs like Cream, Godskitchen, Slinky, Passion, Goodgreef, Judgement Sunday and Gatecrasher and their diverse musical style means you’ll see them playing alongside Tiesto, Van Dyk and Sasha as often as Morillo, Prydz and Tong. They’ve played 20,000 strong arena sets from Manchester to Siberia and St Petersburg, and rocked festivals including Creamfields, HiFi and Fort Dance.
In 2004 Riley and Durrant launched the Nu Breed radio show on Galaxy FM to offer a showcase for the underground, unsigned and unheard in dance music. Since then it has gone on to help launch the careers of some of Britain’s most exciting new electronic talent. Alongside Andi's other 2 programs (Galaxy’s flagship Saturday “Warm-up” show and the Big Night In), and their worldwide syndicated Nu Breed Global program, Riley & Durrant reach more than half a million people a week spreading new talent and cutting edge music.
Last year Andi and Nick took the decision to strip their sound back to basics and as a result they spent the whole of 2006 locked in the studio writing their debut artist album “Research & Development”. Teaming up with a range of talented singers, writers, musicians and engineers from musical genres as varied as folk, indie, rock, house, minimal, trance and electro the album hits the stores in June on Maelstrom Records
“Research & Development” will be out on Maelstrom Records at the end of June and the indie /electronic monster “Hollow” with the uber-talented Gina Dootson will be the first single, hitting the shops at the end of April.
Joining Riley and Durrant in the VACCINE room will be German superstar in the making, Marc van Linden. Marc is a firm favourite with trance fans everywhere and his new album ‘My Way’ has done more to add weight to the considerable support shown by world number one dj, Paul van Dyk who believes that he “is one of the hottest talents around at the moment”.
Label boss of his hugely successful Midway Records imprint and regular guest at the worlds leading clubbing establishments including a hugely popular set for VACCINE last September as well as appearances at the likes of Gatecrasher, Ministry Of Sound, Goodgreef, Love-parade in Berlin, Womb in Tokyo and Eden in Ibiza to name but a few, we are honoured to welcome back Marc for another education.
Joining Mr van Linden on the VACCINE Technics and CDJ’s will be one of the hottest young trance producers and djs around, Sophie Sugar. Fresh from shooting to our undivided attention with killer tracks such as ‘Call of Tomorrow’ and ‘Isis’, Sophie has started 2007 with a bang including being tipped as one to watch by Mixmag as well as seeing Armin van Buuren personally snap up not one but three of her original productions for release on his Armada imprint including the already huge ‘Fallen Too Far’.
Goodgreef’s newest talent Barry Connell joins the fray, originally meant to guest for VACCINE last November. Through no fault of his own Barry eventually gets round to showing the VACCINE faithful his unique blend of tech, trance and deck trickery which has blown away everyone from VACCINE resident The Viceroy at last years Love Leeds Festival to Judge Jules. Now a regular at leading clubbing emporiums from Godskitchen to Inside Out to Judgement Sunday in Ibiza, Barry jets in from his native Scotland and we suggest you catch this superstar in the making whilst you still can.
VACCINE residents The Viceroy and Ben Beaton have forged huge followings amongst the VACCINE faithful with their much anticipated monthly sets and tireless pursuit of new talent. This month will be no different with both residents returning to the VACCINE cockpit to guide the good ship into harbour.
Already tipped by Riley and Durrant and the Nu Breed Show following his appearance on the show late last year, 21 year old The Viceroy has just seen his ‘End Game’ track on Flux Delux pick up support from the cream of the crop including Armin van Buuren, Above and Beyond, Sander van Doorn, Markus Schulz and John OO Flemming to name but a few, look out for it’s release very soon.
Warming up for VACCINE is rising star Mike Harris who has been steadily climbing through the ranks with his well crafted sets and tireless enthusiasm. Not only will he be leading the audio assault by setting the tone of the night, he will also be celebrating his first record produced with rising star Acute being snapped up by leading trance label NOYS by Mike Koglin.
A true lineup of Nu Breed in every sense of the word and meaning VACCINE looks forward to welcoming another world class, cutting edge lineup of djs to its home showcased to the very best, most open minded clubbers.
The Gallery, Turnmills
Friday 11th May
T3 – Vaccine and Galaxy FM Nu Breed
Riley and Durrant (Galaxy FM Nu Breed)
Marc van Linden (My Way Album Launch)
Sophie Sugar
Barry Connell
The Viceroy
Ben Beaton
Mike Harris
T1 – Gallery 12th Birthday
Armin van Buuren
Remy
Gavyn Mytchel
Niklas Harding
Chris Linnell
T2 – Dirtbox
Audio Jack
Alex Collings
Pete Whitehouse
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