Colour@ sankeys with dj rush bone and ben sims

Friday 9th July 2010
COLOUR presents:

DJ Rush
DJ Bone
Ben Sims

with COLOUR DJ’s in support.

There is something uniquely special about sharing experiences with like-minded individuals, celebrating the very reasons you chose to get together in the first place. Hopefully this gig will live up to that expectation; we don’t think this party could be any clearer in representing what we are trying to do right now.

This line up, certainly not for the faint hearted, has been aimed at techno perfection. Although the opportunity to host Beyer was lost in a cloud of ash in April, the most exciting thing to come out of The Advent’s unbelievable replacement performance was the confidence and belief it’s given us to push the musical boundaries away from the expected. For July, we believe we’ve assembled one of the most formidable line-ups of techno (in the truest sense of the word) Sankeys has seen in a long time.

DJ Rush is, to so many of us, the truest of legends. Where as others may have waxed and waned through trends, or morphed and shifted their own take on techno over time, Rush has always stayed true to his individual style of uncompromising, percussion-heavy techno. He smashed the Bloc apart, and why wouldn’t he? Funk, rhythm and kicks that you’ll feel deep, deep down; all laid down with that irrepressible Chicago funk that will have you moving like never before. This will be the very essence of the party, and something that won’t be seen again for a very long time.

And if an event revolves around performance, then in support we have brought the very best. DJ Bone is a true techno pioneer, someone who is described by all his peers as one of the best. One of the greatest musical experiences is to be left in wonder, and whereas others increasingly look to ever advancing technological innovation to shape their sound, Bone has always kept it truly real. Three decks, three records, a mixer and a whole lot of soul - there probably isn’t a DJ out there who can do what this man has been doing for over 15 years.

Except maybe the UK’s greatest Techno exponent, and another of the genre’s greatest turntable performers: Ben Sims The instantly recognisable tribal funk sound he has made his own permeates nearly every aspect of genre; his unique ability to simultaneously chew up sounds and samples of all techno persuasions (and beyond) and spit it out as one seamless hunk of irresistible dance floor groove is world renowned.

With this event we’ve flown in the face of ever-changing trends and aimed to bring you a no-nonsense roster of absolute techno establishment, in the form of a party that will not be replicated again for a long time. Three DJs (artists who have had a direct hand in sculpting the genre we love), all headliners in their own right, for one night only.

Tickets available from Skiddle:

http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manc...Sims/11363037/

And the Sankeys website:

https://www.sankeys.info/social/sank...-Ben-Sims.html

Or from any of the COLOUR profiles. Search on Facebook for:

Matt Colour
Joe Colour
Tom Colour
Mackie Colour
Eastwood Colour
Gaz Colour
Phil Colour

First of all, WATCH THIS:

YouTube - Dj Rush Get On Up


Whatever your opinion, you’d can’t help but be entertained. It’s like some twisted pop music. We’ve all been singing it to one another all week; it’s a tune that will stick in your head for days if you dare it.



But does it really sum up who DJ Rush really is? Well, to most of you it seems a pretty simple conclusion:


“He’s a massively tall, legendarily eccentric black guy who plays absolutely banging tunes. Sometimes, he’ll sing along during his set. Sometimes he even brings a trumpet.”

Yes, that’s right. A trumpet.



But it would be unfair to be assumptive. That really only scratches the surface of a career that has kept him in the highest regard amongst performers and crowds alike. Rush is just as famed for the fact that his approach to his music making over the years has been unflinching. This is a man who exists right on the edge of accepted boundaries:

YouTube - DJ Rush - Best Hard Techno BASS


But for me, what shows him at his best is this tune here, with Dave Clarke:


YouTube - Dave Clarke and DJ Rush - Way of life



Before men like Green Velvet (another Chicago luminary) showed the mainstream how performance can change experience, Rush was there breaking the ground that allowed that very kind of thinking in the first place.
It’s very rare for Rush to grace these shores; even the bar staff are taking this one off. It indicates just the sense of event this man creates.


So go to the event page here:


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and click on attending to show your support (even if you can’t come).


And for all of you who have all ready in the know, we still have another 2 very special DJ’s to discuss. Keep an eye out for the updates as and when they happen.

Ben Sims - With a DJ upbringing broadly based in electro, hip hop, disco and reggae, you know there will always be an eclectic sense of diversity about the man. This comes through in everything he does. From his ability to seamlessly chop and switch up different styles whilst in the mix, through to his recent output of... funky disco-drenched techno for the floor, there are constant clues and reminders as to where Sims has come from as a DJ, producer and music lover.Over the course of his steady rise to the top, he has had a hand in the running of numerous labels, including Theory, Hardgroove and Ingoma amongst others.

Combined with his own expert ability in the studio, this gave his production prowess the platform it needed, consistently getting his records into the boxes of DJs across the world.His mixing ability is nigh-on unrivalled in the industry: you don’t get a nickname like ‘The Human Ableton’ for nothing His relentless, tight-as-you-like ability on three decks has set him apart from the rest, and over the past few years has headlined at some of the world’s most legendary techno parties.

This unique ability has also more recently been employed in forward thinking duos, such as Killa Productions with fellow Essex rascal Paul Mac, allowing his performance to be built upon even further.As a name that always attracts true techno fans, and provides a highlight of any party, expect Sims to set the pace for the Sankeys basement in July like nobody else can.

Have a look at th man in action:YouTube - Ben Sims @ Awakenings playing "The Wanderer"

We came, we saw, we sweated.



Whatever your thoughts on Sankeys, July 9th witnessed the club once again as an absolute asylum of techno. This time the order of the day was a chaotic backdrop of pumping fists and peak time contorted faces.

For us, this constitutes a job well done; the unforseen circumstances responsible for abandoning Spektrum were taken in stride as we primed the main basement room for what panned out to be a sweaty seven hour battering.

Andro and Dimitri took us off the mark and turned in a good dose of rumbling futurism to give the basement speakers an early work out, before our own Tom Long and Ed Mackie chipped in and threw it down in anticipation of the arrival of Detroit’s DJ Bone. It had been a long, long time since DJ Bone last graced Manchester, let alone Sankeys, and he showed exactly what we’d been missing as he dispatched a full throttle 90 minute drill of funky and soulful yet driving and relentless 313 techno. This set the tone in stone: not once, for the rest of the entire night, did the pace, energy or atmosphere dip once the man from Detroit had begun setting the place alight.

Sims then took the reigns as Bone’s close was met with riotous applause. A marginally more regular fixture up north, certainly in the UK, but attracts no less as a result, Sims sublimely cut and chopped a period of peak time mayhem; old and new, funky and hard. Across his and Bone’s set, Sankeys’ 1210s haven’t taken a beating like that in years.

Then there was Rush. Everyone had their own idea of what to expect and I think few can say they were right. Tough, percussive, dancefloor fodder, laden with classics and of course the obligatory appearance on the mic to get everyone, ahem, “funked up”. Check the link below for a video of him doing a spot of cheerleading over a Beltram banger..

YouTube - DJ Rush - Funk You Right On Up - Colour Manchester