Death Disco, Glasgow March 2010: Bloody Beetroots, Death Crew 77, Don Rimini, Egyptian Hip Hop

LIVE Scottish debut for Masked Crusaders

Saturday 20th March 2010
The Arches, Glasgow
10pm - 3am
£16 (£8 with a half price pass)

Tickets: 0141 565 1000 or online @ www.thearches.co.uk
Sign up for a HALF PRICE PASS (£8) @ www.deathdisco.info

Lineup:

The Bloody Beetroots
Death Crew 77
Don Rimini
Annie (DJ SET)
Hey Today!
Egyptian Hip Hop (LIVE)
plus DD Residents

Following on from our sold out NYE extravaganza, Death Disco returns on Saturday 20th March, 2010 kicking off what is set to be our biggest year to date with the most recognisable and exciting international names in electro, house, bassline and indie.

The Bloody Beetroots DJed to a sold out audience at August's Death Disco and return in March under their mysterious 'Death Crew 77' alter ego with a full live show in tow.

If their sets weren't already brutal enough when they were armed with CDJs and a mixer - you can imagine what chaos the incorporation of live drums, vocals and a ridiculous number of effects, pads and pedals will bring.

The Bloody Beetroots

The Bloody Beetroots is the brainchild of Italian 'Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo' (or Bob Rifo for ease): a modern art and cinema aficionado who has big, conceptual plans for his masked group of heavy-metal/electro avengers not too dissimilar to those that Daft Punk (conceptual film pieces, elaborate live shows and anonymity) set about to achieve with the help of Pedro 'Busy P' Winter in the early noughties.

After successful remixes for the likes of Goose, MSTRKRFT and Shitdisco, TBB released their debut album 'Roborama' in mid-2009 which caught fans of their typically heavy and incessant style off-guard with its hugely varied musical references and generally cosmic sound. Soon after 'Warp 1.9' was released - a collaboration between the group and Dim Mak label owner Steve Aoki, which saw them transcend any previous levels of infamy and launch them, with the chant of '1-2- Woop! Woop!', into the electro stratosphere where they now sit comfortably as one of the most popular names in current dance music.

Death Crew 77

This appearance at March's DD will be the Scottish debut of the Death Crew 77 show and is already hugely anticipated with our online groups going crazy with excitement, chatter and screams of 'I Love The Bloody Beetroots'.

Don Rimini

Fellow Italian and musical-peer Don Rimini is a fine example of the power the internet can have in transforming the careers of little-known producers and DJs through the viral spreading of one track through the extensive network of blogs and forums that are now the life-supporting veins of modern-day clubbing.

Don Rimini's "Let Me Back Up", and the remix by DD favourites Crookers, was one of the biggest club tracks of 2008 and seemingly came from nowhere! Since its release the Don went from strong release to stronger release with the help of Mental Groove Records (Luciano/Miss Kittin/Crowdpleaser) with his tracks appearing in countless DJ sets from the likes of A-Trak, Boys Noize, 2ManyDJs and Tiga.

This will be the DD debut for Don Rimini, but perhaps one of the most highly-anticipated DJ bookings we've made in the past 12 months.

Annie

Pinch yourself as we have inimitable Norwegian pop-princess Annie coming to party with us this month. Annie burst into the charts in 2005 with singles "Me Plus One", "Heartbeat" and "Chewing Gum" from her debut album 'Anniemal'.

Her 'pop music with strange edges' grabbed the attention of Island Records who signed her up for a major international deal and she was tipped for massive stardom.

Soon after, the two parted ways and the future looked bleak. That is until the world stopped to think for a moment and realised that, major record deal or not, Annie is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant popstars to have emerged this century.

She is now enjoying her long-awaited comeback, collaborating with the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Girls Aloud and Mini Viva and her DJ set with us is a great, quirky, poppy addition to the lineup.

Hey Today!

From the same management stable as Digitalism and resident favourites of the über stylish Kitsuné label, Hey Today! are one of the more interesting new production duos in Europe with a very distinctive style that doesn't quite fit into any of the 'trendy' musical niches but nevertheless will please fans of fidget-house, pop, electro and disco alike.

With releases on Turbo Records and Bang Gang as well as remixes for the likes of Zombie Nation and Shazam, the German two-piece are making all the right friends and impressing the right crowd - we're sure they'll go down an absolute treat at their Death Disco debut.

Egyptian Hip Hop

It's hard to read through any music blog/magazine/newspaper so far this year without reading about the young Mancunian 4-piece Egyptian Hip Hop. We're understandably excited to have them kick things off in The Playroom at Death Disco in 2010.

Last year, The Playroom saw performances from Delphic, Chew Lips, Filthy Dukes, Frankmusik and We Have Band, amongst others, all of whom have gone on to achieve brilliant things and we're positive the same will be the case for EHH.

Although all barely old enough to even enter the club, Egyptian Hip Hop demonstrate a huge amount of maturity in their song-writing, referencing The Cure, Talking Heads and The KLF but with a youthful flair that sees them hold their own next to peers such as Klaxons, Metronomy and Late of The Pier. Their live show is often under-rehearsed and a little chaotic but the noise they produce is infectious, impressive and seriously hard not to dance to.

Their debut single "Wild Human Child" was released at the start of February on the rising Hit Club label and with the NME strongly behind them, 2010 is looking extremely bright for this curiously named (and impressively hair-styled) group.

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