JULY 01

NORDIC NEWS & PROPAGANDA 07.09.01 ______________________________________________________ - Innocent Remixes Update - Luke DJ dates - Lazy Transmissions in Ministry Mag, Klublife - Jon Delerious - Global Underground & The Mekka Tour - New Release Schedule ______________________________________________________ TITLE: Innocent - The Remixes (Morgan Page, Swayzak & Gavin Froome) ARTIST: Home & Garden feat. Colette CATALOGUE: NT020 - 12" RELEASE: JUNE 25, 2001 via Prime Distribution Tim Shumaker and Colette's nouveaux classic 'Innocent' gets the relick. The original released March 2001 on Nordic Trax, 'Innocent' (NT017) has been destroying dancefloors all spring. DJ Magazine called it "a superbly deep yet housey vocal that sounds like Naked Music meets Circulation with all that warmth, a great vocal, chunky dancefloor-friendly beats and good percussion" (No.84) Already the response on promo has been incredible with massive support from Jamie Thinnes, Marques Wyatt, Johnny Fiasco, DJ Link, Tomas, Mark Farina, Hipp-E & Halo, Colin Dale, Chris Duckenfield , Charles Webster, Andy Cato (Kiss FM/Groove Armada - Charted #19), Inland Knights & Paul Woolford. Check these selected reactions: Atjazz - "Wow, shit hot, mmm deepness, thin and chunky? Really like this one, in my box forever.really into Swayzak." Pete Gooding (Renaissance) - "Still haven't stopped playing the original but Morgan Page's mix is very cool indeed. Excellent." Digs + Woosh (DiY) - "Gavin Froome my fave of these. Three spacey layers, but workin'." ______________________________________________________ Forthcoming deejay dates for Luke... Thu July 5 @ Cherry Lounge, Calgary AB w/ Jon Delerious (Nordic Trax) Wed July 11 @ Bar Dynamite, San Diego CA w/ Champion Sound Massive Fri July 13 @ Free Thinking, Los Angeles CA w/ Luis Sosa and Cade Thu July 19 @ Sonar (Vancouver) w/ Halo Varga (Siesta, H-Foundation) & Jon Delerious (Nordic Trax) Thu July 26 @ Sonar (Vancouver) w/ Mark Farina (Om Records, SF) & Dana D Fri Aug 10 @ Circus Life Guadalajara, MEX Thu Aug 30 @ Sonar (Vancouver) w/ DJ Heather (Afterhours, CHI) & Dave Rowe Thu Sept 6 Fresh Air/Cycle Against Abuse Fundraiser @ Sonar, Vancouver BC Sept 14 @ Turnmills, London, UK Sept 22 @ Ostgut - Panorama Bar, Berlin, GER ______________________________________________________ Current reviews: MINISTRY MAG - JULY 01 'What Rocks Our Office' #4 Lazy Transmissions - Nordic Trax "When the office temperature is rising, we burn off our energy to the chunkier-than-Noel Edmonds' sweater deep house of this mix album from the top notch Canadian label." "Sounds from the west-side, the west-coast, our Vancouver amigos that we at Klublife wish to develop more affinity to, don't think shizit shines only in the east. Luke McKeehan started in Toronto's warehouse scene during the late 80s, later checking out Vancouver/Seattle and doing some downtempo singles for Sweet Mother Records. He helped put Mo'Funk Records on the block and in 97 started Nordic Trax to be the vessel to carry out his deep house desires, also becoming a drive force behind Vancouver's groundbreaking clubs Chameleon and Sonar (the latter to which he recently celebrated the 3rd year of his weekly Fever sessions). Teamed up with Tim Shumaker, Pete Hecher, Tyler T- Bone Stadius and Gavin Froome, Nordic Trax has produced some of Canada's finest, no-nonsense house - check out the Necessary Pieces series by T-Bone. Luke's extensive experience on the decks shows here, he's a pro with his programming as he dishes out the proper and balanced dose of Nordic Trax delights." Rusty, Klublife, Toronto ______________________________________________________ NT019- JON DELERIOUS - HEADS DOWN EP OUT: JUNE 5.2001 First EP on NT from Calgary producer and deep house deejay Jon Delerious, aka Jon Marchuk. Jon delivers this follow-up to his stellar debut 'Way Out' on 'Necessary Pieces 2' (NT014 CD/LP). The spaced out b-side track "Orange Eyes - Dub Revolution mix" has been licensed to Lee Burridge's Nu Breed Vol. 5 (Boxed), part of the Global Underground series. The track is the lead track on disc 2 of the mix, in stores everywhere this July. The track will also appear on Halo Varga's 'H-Foundation' Mixed CD, compiled exclusively for the Mekka Tour, on the road across North America this summer. http://www.mekkatour.com ______________________________________________________ NEW RELEASE SCHEDULE: NT021 - 12" SCOTT FINDLEY 'DEEPENIT' 3 tracks from Los Angeles-based Scott Findley, with a stand-out horn solo from the producer's studio musician father! and a remix from Nottingham's Souldoubt. Release SEPT 10 2001 via Prime Distribution. NT022 - LP/CD GAVIN FROOME 'POST&BEAM' A follow-up to Gavin's hugely successful debut 'Mobile Villager'. SEPT 25 2001 NT023 - 12" JOE SILVA - 'THE ONE' Winnipeg producer with release on Red Melon & recent remix on Stickman drops this tech-house jam, plus remixes tbc. OCT 2001 NT024 - LP/CD MORGAN PAGE - 'untitled' Boston Producer drops his debut LP with an eclectic mixture of atmospheric downtempo & percussive techno-influenced house. tbc