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Martha’s Bisco

Jonny — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:28:12 +0000

Last weekend was awesome. I got to drive excessive distances and we got to hang with close friends and fun peeps. First up Camp Bisco. We been spending a bunch of time with the Disco Biscuits at various shows, supporting them as well as our agent Seth being a long time fan so was well nice to be invited to play and also chill at their festival. We got there Thursday night because we wanted to see LCD , who were awesome, again. We also saw Pretty Lights who were also awesome, caught a bit of Orchard Lounge set with Aron of the Biscuits tweaking softsynths into the mix and we decided to call it a night as we knew we had to play sunrise slot the next night. Completely accosted Diplo before his show Saturday, abused back stage pass access to go up and say hi and even though he was supposed to get on stage he stopped to talk and was awesome. His set was amazing I can’t explain enough how Diplo and Switch have occupied my brain for the last few years whilst trying to get beats and sounds right. The way they transplant rhythm patterns from other cultures and then just tweak them out and make them sound completely awesome on a fat system makes me want to spend all my time infront of a computer. Even though we were due to set up and play we all found it well hard to leave the tent Diplo was playing at, awesome. Then we played silent disco which was silent and on the 3rd stage and totally awesome. The Silent Disco peeps are mad cool and it’s a completely different experience to DJing through a system, it’s so awesome to take your headphones off and still know where the tune’s at by what people are singing.

The next day we went to Martha’s Vineyard. Which meant a long drive, and an hours ferry ride after about 3 hours sleep.Luckily we were greeted by the exceedingly charming Rob, Michael and Cesar who took us from the boat to meet the excellent Jamie at Lampost who made 3 hours sleep a thing of nothingness by setting up almost everything without us lifting a finger. Instead we were taken to jump off Jaws bridge , eat pizza and all was good with the world. It was pretty much a dead cert that night was going to be awesome when your on a party island, the clubs packed, everyone’s wasted and the DJs just come from Rob’s garden hammock. Pictures from Michael here>>>

Back in NYC preparing for a trip to Chicago to play a fucking awesome party that we can’t invite a single soul too….. I know!! But at least we will finally see Chicago which I am well psyched about. Then on 6th August we are playing at Webster Hall for GBH pretty much our biggest NYC date ever so far, and that’s saying something, we live here!

GBH’s Girls & Boys @ Webster Hall NYC

Jonny — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:26:31 +0000

FRIDAY : 6th AUGUST 2010

GBH + CHEEKY + INDAYO + WEBSTER HALL PRESENT

GIRLS & BOYS @ WEBSTER HALL

$1 BEFORE MIDNIGHT WITH RSVP - CLICK HERE

125 E11th St between 3rd & 4th Ave.s
Doors 10pm. 19+ w/I.D.

Rocks Against Cancer @ Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts

Seth — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:25:06 +0000

The Farber Center for Radiation Oncology

Presents

ROCKS AGAINST CANCER

A Fundraising Event for the Entertainment Industry Foundation

benefiting EIF Cancer Programs

BLACK TIE ROCK & ROLL STYLE!

Come join us for ROCKS AGAINST CANCER, a fundraising event for the Entertainment Industry Foundation benefiting EIF Cancer Programs.

At the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, situated on Norfolk Street in the former Ansche Chesed Synagogue, the venue boasts superbly maintained mid-19th century architecture.

The lounge-style space will feature cocktails and food as well as performances by The Rotten Hill Gang, a six-piece band from London fronted by Mick Jones of The Clash. Eclectic Method featuring London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen – who helped pioneer the emerging art of audio-visual mixing since first cutting U2’s Mysterious Ways music video with the Beastie Boys’ Intergalactic as an experiment back in 2002 will close out the night.

The event also includes a silent auction of jewelry by Stephen Webster—three-time winner of the “British Luxury Jeweller of the Year” award and 2008 winner of “UK Jewellery Brand of the Year”—including specially designed bracelets supporting the fight against cancer with net proceeds benefiting EIF’s Cancer programs. Webster is widely known as the jeweler to the stars; his celebrity client list includes Madonna, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Lopez, Kim Cattrall, and Christina Aguilera among others.

Some of EIF’s cancer programs include: Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), Woman’s Cancer Research Fund, Brains on Bikes, Right Action for Woman, and the National Colorectal Research Alliance

If you are arriving from out of town please contact the Smyth – part of the Thompson Hotels at 85 West Broadway phone: 212.587.7000. We have reserved rooms at a special rate under the group name Rocks Against Cancer.

A special thanks to our current sponsors at the time this invite went out: Stephen Webster, Matthew Robbins Desings, Svendka, Warren Tricomi, and Elekta Inc.

Can you attend this event? Respond Here

Camp Bisco 9 @ Indian Lookout Country Club

Jonny — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:12:57 +0000

Friday July 16th, 2010 (Early Saturday)

ECLECTIC METHOD @

CAMP BISCO

In the Infamous Silent Disco Late Night Tent!

LINEUP

The Disco Biscuits, LCD Soundsystem, Ween, Thievery Corporation – Live, Method Man, Ghostface & Raekwon (“Wu Massacre”), Girl Talk, Break Science w/ Special Guest Talib Kweli, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Major Lazer, Diplo, Aeroplane, Rusko, Holy Fu*k, Caribou, The New Deal, Sunrise Silent Disco, The Album Leaf, Dieselboy, Brothers Past, Gift of Gab (Of Blackalicious), RAQ, SOJA, Kill the Noise, Future Rock, Felix Cartal, Emancipator, King Britt, Tipper, Telepath, Two Fresh, Beats Antique, The Black Seeds, Orchard Lounge, Rubblebucket, Spiritual Rez, Eskmo, Welder, Sub Swara, Big Gigantic, Papadosio, MoPo, Mimosa, Derek Plaslaiko, Dubskin, Earl Greyhound, The Constellations, Morning Teleportation, Nobody Beats the Drum, C-Mon & Kypski, Woodhands, Grimace Federation, Justin Paul, Lee Mayjas, and DJ Everyday

at the Indian Lookout Country Club :: 1142 Batter St :: Pattersonville, NY, 12137

Please Visit CampBisco.net for additional information

Webby Awards

Jonny — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:27:32 +0000

Completely neglected to write about the Webby Awards, which we were performing at on Monday. We got back from Bonnaroo knackered, obviously, and went to Cipriana in Wall Street to setup for the Awards. I didn’t really realise the full scale of the event till i saw B.J. Novak and Animal from the muppets soundchecking.

I been pretty jealous that Ian had got to hang with Grover last year. Highlight of the night was meeting Auto Tune the News. After that I went to the sea in Brooklyn and got a day of recording and filming in with our mate J-Live. Ian and I drove down to Pittsburgh yesterday, immensely fun road trip. We are playing at Mattress Factory tonight and the show is completely sold out. Lots of pictures are now up from Bonnaroo.

Bonnaroo

Jonny — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:41:52 +0000

Wow that was an amazing 4 days. Bonnaroo was insane fun and we ended up playing a total of 5 times. We flew into Chattanooga airport early Thursday so we could get maximum time to check out the festival. Our experiences of festivals have been of Europeanones like Glastonbury, Oxegen and Sziget so we have high expectations and gotta say Bonnaroo was friggin sick. The greatest American shows for us to date and the audiences were ridiculous.

The Silent Disco set for us was amazing, everytime we took our headphones off you could just hear a tent full of people singing along acapella. We had immense fun then stayed around the silent disco with our friends Robbie and Amy before setting off to the Lunar stage to check LA Riots & Afrojack. We then proceeded to get lost and enjoy a wide wide area of whatever we walked across till a sunrise bedtime.

The saddest thing about Friday was not being able to see Les Claypool but instead hearing him in the distance as we set up on the Lunar Stage. The Lunar Stage was amazing though, it had a 20 ft video wall and a ridiculous sound system with a sound engineer who paid immense attention to detail. Pretty much the best sounding system we’ve played on in a long time. We started out playing to about 20 mates and ended playing to a few thousand. We packed our stuff and went to catch Chromeo and Daryl Hall…. it was like being transported back to see some genuine sick ass 80s band, the crowd was huge and the whole band were loving it, it’s so easy to get into it when the people playing the music look like they are enjoying themselves. Vocoders galore, loved it. Then Bassnectar, funkin raw ass wickedness, dubstep, beats, really wumpy sick bass had thousands going mad for it, we then hung around to watch LCD Soundsystem which was also fucking ace.

I haven’t seen them in ages but was reminded how astonishingly good a band they are. I heard they had brought in their own soundsystem for the stage and the sound powerful without being painful. Mid way through a naked dude ran onto the stage but was gathered up by security before doing too much damage, he was carried out dick downwards. LCD ended with a sick cover of Empire State of Mind.

Not imaging it could get any better Saturday turned out to be even better. Not only did we get to play again but they gave us another slot on the Lunar Stage right around midnight. Deadmau5 even came and watched our second set before donnin the electro mouse head and playing his 2 hour set next door. His live show is amazing, the sync work in the lights and AV with his music and helmet is off the top future shit. Great. We then went to see our the Disco Biscuits play a sunrise set, their 2nd or 3rd of the festival. After that I went to see Danny Howells playing 3 -4 hour sunrise set. We then proceeded once again to do random ass fun shit till the sun was well up and it was evidently time to go to the airport. Today we playing a special set at the Webby Awards.

Bonnaroo Festival @ Manchester, TN

Seth — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:28:24 +0000

Join Eclectic Method for our last set of the weekend at the brand new Bonnaroo Lunar Stage from 10:30PM- 11PM for one last hoorah just after Stevie and right before HoVa.

http://www.bonnaroo.com/artists/eclectic-method/2010.aspx

The newest addition to the Bonnaroo lineup will be the EDM Lunar Stage! World renowned electronic music artists will be performing late into the night until the wee hours of the morning all weekend.

During the day you can join to watch the World Cup games (yup, we’ll be there at 6:30 am) as well as a broadcast of the Conan O’Brien’s performance from the Comedy tent on Friday live on the screen.

Lunar Stage Line-Up:

Eclectic Method, Kaskade, The Crystal Method (DJ set), Sharam, Mark Knight, Timo Maas, Lee Burridge, Danny Howells, Afrojack, Hercules and Love Affair (DJ set), LA Riots, Dieselboy

Bonnaroo Festival @ Manchester, TN

Seth — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:27:28 +0000

We will be playing two sets on Friday June 11th: The first will be on the brand new Lunar Stage from 8:15PM-9PM as we get the musical festivities for that stage kicked off for the day. Then join us from Midnight- 2AM as we rock the Silent Disco silly with a dirty late night dance party.

For complete line-up and all general information please visit Bonnaroo.com

Full Artist Schedule

http://www.bonnaroo.com/artists/eclectic-method/2010.aspx

Are those voices in your head? No, it’s the world’s freshest wireless dance party and one of Bonnaroo’s top attractions. Stop by the Silent Disco and slip into a pair of stereophones. Live DJs spin late into the warm Bonnaroo nights, keeping it quiet for the tired and the volume turned up for all you night owls. The Silent Disco is a unique Bonnaroo experience, so don’t forget to stop by and bust a move to the hottest dance beats – broadcast directly into your ears.

Bonnaroo Festival @ Manchester, TN

Seth — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:24:32 +0000

Eclectic Method will kick off our first of four sets at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival with a 90 minute late evening set sure set the mood for a great weekend. Come check out the EM as they rock the silent Disco from 6PM-7:30PM Thursday evening.

For complete line-up and general information please visit Bonnaroo.com

Full Artist Schedule

http://www.bonnaroo.com/artists/eclectic-method/2010.aspx

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee every June. Bonnaroo brings together some of the best performers in rock and roll, along with dozens of artists in complementary styles such as jazz, Americana, hip-hop, electronica, and just about any contemporary music you can think of. In addition to dozens of epic performances, the festival’s 100-acre entertainment village buzzes around the clock with attractions and activities including a classic arcade, on-site cinema, silent disco, comedy club, theater performers, a beer festival, and a music technology village. For its peaceful vibe, near-flawless logistics, and unrivaled entertainment options, Rolling Stone magazine named this revolutionary entertainment experience one of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll.

GLOBAL LIVE STREAM

Jonny — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:53:39 +0000

[ May 28, 2010; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Live Video DJ set direct from our Brooklyn rooftop online from the EclecticMethod.net site 8pm Eastern Time