@ The Mark

Friday November 5th, 2004



Jondi & Spesh (Spundae, Bedrock, Renaissance) San Francisco
For over a decade Jondi & Spesh have put out dance tracks of such stunning quality that the world’s dj elite have gone to great lengths to hunt down their unique underground sound.

When Jondi met Spesh at a party in San Francisco's South of Market district in 1993, neither realized that the meeting would eventually take them to the creative center of the San Francisco dance music community and put them on the map as two of the world's most innovative and risk-taking dance music producers.

Ten years later, Jondi & Spesh have a music label with over twenty releases (the Loöq 12"'s get praise and play from all the biggest - Digweed, Oakenfold, Sasha, Tong, Tenaglia, etc.), an extremely popular event (Qoöl, the world's first underground dance music happy hour) going into it's eighth year, two full length albums with the highest critical praise (see press pack), and a third album to be released on Spundae Records that may very well unearth them from the underground and put them solidly into that "strange yet widely appealing" category currently inhabited by the likes of Radiohead, Björk, and Postal Service.

JD Moyer (Jondi) and Stephen Kay (Spesh) are an unlikely pair - wildly divergent personalities that combine in the studio to creative a creative alchemy : electricity is converted into pleasing noise. For them, music is about connecting to people ... even their most twisted production ideas have warmth and accessibility.

The new Jondi & Spesh album, "The Answer," stays true to their previous work with minimalistic melodies and lush, complex production, yet diverges stylistically with big hooky choruses on several songs, and sublime female vocals on others. The sound palette is organic and unique, with timbres morphing among vocal, synth, and analog natures.

Muzik gave their album We Are Connected “Top 40 Albums of the Year”.

“Dons of west coast progressive house.” Mixmag UK

"What Jondi and Spesh do so well is make tracks that will rock small intimate gaterings as well as large enormo raves" URB



With opening Dj

John Marr (MaddHatterRadio)

Cost: $10 in advance www.groovetickets.com and $15 @ the door

Age: 21+

Time: 10pm - 3am

Location: The Mark Ultra Lounge 79 Poplar Ave Atlanta Georgia[/size]

Directons:

From North Atlanta (285/85 Merger)

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a.) Take 75/85 south to Williams Street Exit 249c

b.) Pass the Inforum on right and make left onto Andrew Young Int'l Blvd.

c.) Bear right immediately onto Carnegie Way

d.) After the traffic light, go EXACTLY ONE BLOCK. Right onto Cone Street

e.) Go EXACTLY TWO BLOCKS. Left onto Poplar Street

f.) The Mark is on your left after crossing Fairlie Street. 79 Poplar Street

g.) Welcome to Atlanta's ONLY ULTRALOUNGE!!



From South Atlanta (Airport)

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a) Take 75/85 North into downtown.

b) Take the International Boulevard Exit.

c) Take a left onto International Boulevard. Cross over Peachtree Street.

d) Take a left onto Carnegie Way, just past the Westin Hotel.

d) Cross over Spring Street, take a right onto Cone Street.

e) Cross over Luckie Street. Poplar will be the next street.

f) Take a left onto Poplar.

g) Go through the four way stop, The Mark will be on your left.


PARKING

1.) VALET PARKING - ONLY $8!!!

2.) $4 LOT ON CONE STREET

3.) STREET PARKING IS USUALLY AVAILABLE ON LUCKIE, FORSYTH, AND CONE STREETS

URLs:

www.maddhatterradio.com
www.themarkatlanta.com