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Mike Monday [LIVE] @ Darkbeat’s BOXING DAY RAVE – La Di Da
Friday December 26.
Darkbeat’s legendary day rave series returns with one of the most influential leaders in modern electronica – Mike Monday.
Joining us will be the lovely Tickled Pink ladies who will be taking over the side room. Already a favorite of those who regularly attend La Di Da – we cant wait to rock it out with them and celebrate the year that has been !
We will be starting at 2 pm and running through until late where Luke McD and the Screw Boat After Party will be taking over !
There will be a FREE BBQ running from 2 pm until 6 pm with the latest and greatest in culinary tastes !
Did we mention that Boxing Day this year falls on a Friday !?
There will be no better way than to spend the day than at La Di Da surrounded by all that is glorious !
Mike Monday
Citing his influences as Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, Ricardo Villalobos, and Jamie Lidel Mike Monday has come from studying music at Oxford University, to starting one of the early live electronic acts (Beat Foundation) in the 90's with Andy Cato, to writing a string of underground club hits on his label Playtime, Mike Monday has consistently stood apart from the crowd.
As IDJ said, ‘not a week goes by in dance music when you don't hear someone new trying to imitate Monday's trademark sounds.’ "What Day is it?" was a Berlin anthem, raved about by DJs from Steve Bug to Josh Wink and Mylo to Rob Da Bank. “Tooting Warrior” hit #6 in the German dance charts. “ZumZum” was in the Beatport top 10 for weeks. “Bhalobashi” was a staple of M.A.N.D.Y. sets who included it on their Fabric mix and was described by IDJ as ‘one of the top 100 essential dance tracks of the last 10 years.' Which is why he's been in high rotation as a DJ touring all over the world including headline dates at WMC and Sonar parties alongside pivotal figures such as Claude VonStroke, Jesse Rose, and Tiefschwarz.
And what he started with Smorgasbord, he has expanded upon with his next album "Songs Without Words - Part 1" due out on Om Records in September 2008. ‘With Smorgasbord I only started to realise the potential of instrumental music as a medium for writing albums,’ Monday says. ‘Lyrics make music specific but instrumental music can mean completely different things to different people. This allows the listeners to take what they want from the music, making it more personal to them. When I'm writing I always visualise something, but all I give to the listener are signposts or clues in the form of track titles, which I intentionally keep pretty inscrutable.’
And after all the years of DJing I’m craving the spontaneity and danger that a truly live show can bring. Forget about a boring laptop set - expect something very different.’
But then - what else but ‘very different’ would you expect from Mike Monday?
Mike Monday will be playing LIVE with the support lineup to be announced very soon.
For $15 Guest List entry please email full names to
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