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Danny Howells @ Panama Amsterdam 13-05-2005
Danny Howells komt in mei naar Panama Amsterdam voor een GU 27 releaseparty. Er staat nog niks qua info op panama.nl, kwam echter wel de volgende tekst tegen!
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DANNY HOWELLS UNLEASHES HIS NEW GLOBAL UNDERGROUND ALBUM.....Coming to a stereo near you soon.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Miami.
This is the first Global Underground album proper for Howells, who has already released a Nu-Breed and a 24/7 mix for the label. The 34 year old from Hastings in Sussex first became known as a warm-up DJ for John Digweed’s Bedrock club. Three New York residencies, a tireless international touring schedule, and a way of combining cutting edge grooves with crowd pleasing dynamics have changed all that: he’s now one of the hottest DJs in the world.
Danny Howells is a DJ with a broad musical taste – he loves the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, and James Brown, and collects archive rock n’ roll and funk footage from all over the world. “There’s not a lot I don’t listen to,” he says. Consequently he’s confident enough – as this mix amply demonstrates - to champion his own special tracks, records nobody else has latched on to. “I tend to distance myself from tunes that are associated with other people. You are trying to find your own all the time,” he says.
If you want to break it down, CD2 of this mix is what Danny played in the main room at Space in downtown Miami in the early hours of a Sunday morning back in October, and CD1 is what he played out on the Terrace when the sun had come up. This first CD is not so much a warm-up as the soundtrack to a party that really gets going at eight o’clock in the morning - a deliciously groovy blend of oddball disco, spacey grooves and toasty deep house. “It’s sunny, warmer, sexy – a bit funkier as well,” says Danny. He singles out the balmy deep house of Mimosa’s ‘End Of Me’. “It really sums up how I interpret the terrace at Space. A pure sunshine track, really beautiful.”
There are two such forgotten classics on this CD. Tantra’s ‘Hills Of Kathmandu’ is a brilliantly camp, Italian disco wig-out from 1979 that mashes jiggling guitars with heavily percussive breaks and robotic basslines. Legendarily rare amongst DJs, it took Danny seven years to find a copy. He first heard a DJ called Steve Proctor play it in 1991. “It was a really big influence when I started DJing,” he says. “One of those things that blows your mind.”
“I love being in Miami. I find it quite a surreal place,” says Danny Howells. “I’m always drawn to places that have a darker undercurrent. Scratch the surface of Miami and there’s something a lot more twisted there, and I’m quite into that.”
Like Miami, Danny’s got a lot of colourful character – one reason he chose the city (the other being all the great nights he’s had during the Winter Music Conference). They love him there. He doesn’t look or behave or even think like a normal DJ. There’s the eyeliner, for one thing – and a passing resemblance to Keith Richards in his stylishly dishevelled glamour. “The whole moody DJ in a record company T-shirt standing there is a bit dull,” he laughs. “If somebody wants to get the make-up out or go a bit crazy with the hair, I’m bang up for that.”
Danny will be touring extensively over the coming months, so get a taste of the Miami soundtrack, roll up your sleeves, jump in your soft-top, pop the cd in the stereo and cruise to one of these destinations:
13th February - Global Underground Miami GU27, Barock Club, Santa Cruz de Teneri
18th February - Global Underground Miami GU27, Barocco Club, Belgium
19th February - Global Underground Miami GU27, Back2Basics, Rehab, Leeds, UK
24th February - Vox, Tel Aviv, Israel
26th February - Global Underground Miami GU27, Escape, Swansea, Wales
4th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, Tribal Sessions, Manchester, UK
5th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, Colours, Arches, Glasgow, Scotland
10th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, Prana Club, Amman, Jordan
11th March – Global Underground launch party @ t*#!%$@*s, London, UK
12th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, Lush, Portrush, N. Ireland
14th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, DTD Club, Kiskinhalas
18th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Scotland
19th March - Global Underground Miami GU27, Shindig, Foundation, Newcastle, UK
30th March - Spin, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA
1st April - Spirit, New York, USA
2nd April - Avalon, Los Angeles, USA
7th April - Church, Denver, USA
8th April - Soundbar, Chicago, USA
9th April - Ruby Sky, San Francisco, USA
14th April - Sunset Club, Charlotte, USA
15th April - Avalon, Boston, USA
6th May - Global Underground Miami GU27, Love Club, Athens, Greece
7th May - Global Underground Miami GU27, Decadence Club, Thessalonoki, Greece
13th May - Global Underground Miami GU27, Panama, Amsterdam, Holland
14th May - GLobal Underground Miami GU27, Tunes, Istanbul, Turkey
20th May - GLobal Underground Miami GU27, Club Kristal, Bucharest, Romania
27th May - Global Underground Miami GU27, Discotheque Barcelona, Barcelona,
28th May - God's Kitchen, Club Air, Birmingham, UK
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Maar had het dan ook meer over de line ups 
