Daniel Ferro- Grinning bad man and laughing gas fiend...can he mix it- yes he can. Loves it more than there are watch batteries in Japan. Refuses to eat cream or butter.
Andy Ellis- A world class expert in what the doctor is ordering. All comprising hero.
When the cheeky smile of Mr Winch and the formidable power of Fish Seeks Bicycle came along, the Crafties were instantly gobbled up, given a permanent headline residency and the fun busting was set to continue. Now the beautiful match is made together we have been spreading the fun policy far and wide. Big Luv to all those who work with us throwing some seriously good shindigs and to the Winch for slaving tirelessly to keep the sailors on board and the boat afloat. The residency with Fish seeks Bicyce is set to continue, meanwhile the Rascals are pushing their different musical visions as much as they can. They have supported the likes of Hyper, Luke Vibert, The Breakfastaz, Adam Freeland, Dreadzone, Krafty Kuts, Mani, Atomic Hooligan, The Freestylers and Tim 'Love' Lee to name a few. Thanks to all those who continually support us and to all of those gorgeous smiling faces that beam in the disco. Disco!
Influences
The Prodigy, Krafty Kuts, Malente, Elite Force, Lab 4, Tipper, Force of One, The Plumps, The Merry Pranksters, Snow, Steeley Dan, Cybernaught, Rubec, Ray Charles, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Tony Curtis, Meat Katie, The Doors, Dazz, Ursula 1000, Sons of a Loop Da Loop Era, Fela Kuti, D. Ramirez, Style of Eye, The Orb, Posh Girls With Attitude Problems, kari lekebusch, Fort Knox Five, Groove Armada, Metric, The Meters, Andy Woods, SL2, The Commodores, Cameo, Skeewiff
The Crafty Rascals head up the Dj'ing and music programming for the well renound Fish Seeks Bicycle crew. Taking crowds from afternoon or morning chill out, through to explosive jumping Breakbeat/Elecro/Techno peak time performances, wins them their place up there with the very best DJ's. The right song for the right moment is what they do best. Relentless musical researchers, the Crafty Rascals are constantly adding to the feathers on their bows, journeying through Swing, Jive and Jump Blues, Rock n Roll, Motown and Soul, the fruitiest of Funk, Latin, Dub and Reggae classics, Nu Jazz, Hip Hop and through every point that these genres cross with Breakbeat and Dance Music. All of this while having their fingers firmly on the pulse of Evereything Breaks, Electro, Tech House and Electronica. The Quitessential Party starters, The Crafties show genuine passion for music and playing it to people with a special talent in working a crowd. This is why, together with the beautiful people from Fish Seeks Bicycle, they have the festival scene begging for more.
Daniel:-
I was in the back of my parent's car in the queue for Sainsbury's car park on a Saturday in Watford when I first heard 'Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S. I couldn't beleive my ears. It was new and different and exciting and even at the age of eleven I could not get enough. By the age of 12 I was making compilation tapes for my friends at school and I already knew that dance music was going to be a feature in my life.
At 13 I had latched on to my 16 year old next door neighbour who was going to the Raindance and Spiral Tribe illegal raves around the M25, poaching as many hardcore tapes as I could lay my mitts on. I absolutely loved it. Alone among my peers as the only rave kid in my year, I would religously listen to and record Don FM, Pulse and Green Apple. At 15 I had my first proper party experience.
After seeing the birth of Jungle I spent 2 years living in Italy which earn't me my first turntables and a good taste for House and Progressive House music. I returned in 1996 to a very different scene. The Fridge in Brixton from 96-98 was a truly exceptional place. With the use of magic boxes people like Lab 4 would change the world over the course of a few hours.
I took my first lessons in event production helping to organise the Easy Tiger parties in St. Albans hosting acts like Active Loopzone and System 7 and won my first residency playing a range from House to Acid Techno. It was then I heard my first breakbeats courtesy of Lloyd "Skool of Thought" Seymour of Supercharged Records and his crew.
On landing in Bournemouth for my uni years I forged a style between techno, house and breakbeat, much of which is still present today. The variety of influences I had through my younger years left me mostly with a taste for the cutting edge and the underground, from whichever era. There is a tangible energy in real music that is being made for progression and love rather than money. Luckily most breaks artists are saved of any pains of this variety! Ahh the joy!
Mr. Andrew Ellis and I crossed paths through a vigour for good music and good parties and almost through a course of nature, started to work together, throwing some of the best parties the South Coast has ever seen. Since then we have not looked back and although we enjoy dj'ing alone everybody knows that The Crafty Rascals are much greater than the sum of their parts.
Forged in the summer of 2004 in a cave somewhere in Dorset, The Crafties have been spreading the love without fail, storming the underground dance scene in Bournemouth, London, Bristol and Cardiff, supporting and aiding with the production of Fish Seeks Bicycle, touring the cream of the Summer's Festivals .
Andy Ellis -
Music is undeniably great, and I was taught this at the age of 6 by my first cassette player and the piano in my front room. From this point on I have played, studied, composed and danced to music virtually non-stop. The relationship looks set to continue.
Breakbeat is what first inspired me to buy and mix vinyl. I have since explored and enjoyed, perhaps more than any other genre, the numerous styles that sit under the mighty breakbeat umbrella. My path of discovery led me to some amazing house music, mostly minimal tech- a lot of it very closely linked with the nu-school breaks that are focused around the straighter 4/4. I particularly enjoy the party-orientated, mid-tempo, extra funked-up, juicy breaks as a warm up. From here, faster and harder is usually the order of the day watching carefully for that sunrise to bring out the minimal, sometimes stompy, but always filthy house. When the sun has definitely come up roll out the dub-reggae and anything fun to make you smile.
Any excuse and I'll bring out the swing, jive and rock'n'roll because you can't beat it.
There's something very special about a song that makes people dance. For me, finding and playing the best of these songs for myself and even moreso for a crowd is so exciting and rewarding that I hope they never stop coming.
To ensure that they don't ever stop The Crafty Rascals have turned their hands to producing their very own brand of dance-floor funk....watch this sp-sp-sp-sp-space.
Antiworld Events London Present: November Rain 001... The Rock & Rave Experience!!! Feat Skazi Live In Concert!!! Supported By King Lizard Live!!! Saturday 28 November 2009 @ The Fridge In London! Town Hall Parade, Brixton, SW2 1RJ, London, UK. Blast Off : 09.00Pm - Re-Entry : 07.00am! http://www.facebook.com/antiworldevents http://www.facebook.com/AntiworldEvents?ref=ts#/event.php?eid=158571440766&index=1 Main Stage: The Over Ground Floor: Skazi (Live & DJ Set)!!! http://www.myspace.com/asherswissa King Lizard (Live) http://www.kinglizard.co.uk E303 Vs Psykinetic Kristian Vs Metaphase Lobster (Rock & Rave Set) Phil Lankester Aka Libra 9 Vagrant Misfit Andy Forse Vs Pan Monster Vs Matt Loraine VJ Set By VJ Baby K Second Stage: The Under Ground Floor: Diego cK Sutekh Peter Wel Aka Zeus Tish Magic E303 Lorenzo DJ Roo DJ Kymo Vs DJ Kito Zwezd@ Andi Leppard Candyman01 Online Ticktes: http://www.antidote909.com/hsbc/details.cfm?item_code=ANT00492 Peace & Love The Antiworld Events Crew!!!
Hey The Crafty Rascals, Hope your having a great week :) Loving what you do :) I have a bunch of new tunes on my profile that I would love to share with the community. Let me know what you think :)
Here we have the return of Digital Base to iBreaks.
This release has been played for quite a while receiving some amazing feedback from every artist who’s been supplied with the track.
The Climax, great summery track with the characteristic Digital Base vibe, full of intensity and melody. This track could easily fit from any dj playing in Ibiza to any breaks dj trying to get the girls shacking their body to the beats. A clear win win situation with The Climax and once again another great track under the iBreaks brand.
New World Order sees Digital Base in the remix duties, revamping one of the biggest track of all times in Dead Famous Records. The original track by Robosapiens has been reworked by mr Base injecting it with tons of groove good feel and squeezing the massive Stephen Hawking vocals… This is the New World Order!!!!
Antiworld, Q Club & HOMmega Productions Present: Astrix & Friends 004 The Tour Fri 30 Jan 2009 @ Q2 Birmingham Sat 31 Jan 2009 @ indigo2 @ the 02 London www. astrixandfriends. co. uk
Astrix returns to the UK for his most ambitious tour yet. On Fri 30 January he makes his debut at Bgham’s Q Club alongside local legend Sabretooth, who’ll be launching his new album, and Dejavoo live. Then on the Sat he’s following in the footsteps of dance music greats Tiesto, Paul van Dyk and Infected, taking on one of the world’s top venues, the o2’s incredible Indigo. As well as playing a live set of upfront tracks from his forthcoming third album ‘Red Means Distortion’ — and of course all the classic tracks that have kept him in the DJ Magazine Top 50 for the third year running — he’ll be launching new digital EP ‘One Step Ahead’, a limited edition multi-media production available on USB stick only. He’ll also be bringing along HOMmega label mates X-noiZe, Krunch and Delirious, who’ll be joined by the Antiworld residents. With X-noiZe and Krunch launching their new albums ‘Wheel of Misfortune’ and ‘Booster’, this promises to be one of THE psy trance events of 2009. The credit crunch is hitting everyone hard and we know you want to party more than ever… so we’re keeping advance ticket prices as low as we can. As our New Year’s present to our loyal fans, all advance tickets are being kept to just £20 (London)/£12 (Bgham) and capacity restricted to 1200 (London)/600 (Bgham). But be warned — at the time of going to press almost half of the tickets for o2 were sold out already!!!
See you all there! Peace & Love Happy 2009!!! The Antiworld Crew...
Antiworld Events in Collaboration with Coast II Coast, Indigo2 and the Q Club present... “Infecting The UK 004…The Tour” Halloween Weekend Birmingham / London Friday 31 October 2008 & Saturday 1st November www. infectingtheuk. com (Brand New Web Site)
Headliners Main Stage: -------------------------- Infected Mushroom live concert (Full band live show with 4 members) Amit Duvdevani (Singer) Erez Eisen (Keyboards) Rogerio Jardim (Drums) Erez Netz (Guitar)
Supporters: M-Theory (Live), Compressor, Kristian, Nasti Moto (Antiworld Main Stage
Antiworld In Collaboration With Coast II Coast Present: We Love Infected 001 - The Launch Party! The Summer Session! Saturday 09 August 2008 Blast Off : 09.00pm - Re-Entry : 07.00am @ The London Coronet Theatre
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26-28 New Kent Road, Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6TJ!!! (Plus After Hour @ The Factory / 65 Gooding Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5AW)!!! 2200 Capacity Venue! 4 Rooms Of Music! 4 International Live Acts! 37 DJs @ Work! The Best Sound System! Massive Lighting, Visuals And Laser Show! 3D Decors!
Music Styles: "Rock & Rave" Psychedelic Rock, Future Electronic Music, Psychedelic Trance, Psychedelic Hard Dance, Techno, Minimal Techno, London Techno, Breakbeat, Psy Breaks, Chill Out...
Headliners Main Stage: Infected Mushroom Live Concert (Full Band Live Show With 4 Members) Amit Duvdevani (Singer) Erez Eisen (Keyboards) Rogerio Jardim (Drums) Erez Netz (Guitar)!!! www. coastiicoastent. com
Psy Craft - UK Album Launch (HOMmega Productions) Talamasca DJ Set (Aka DJ Lestat France) Compressor Live (24/7 Records Australia) Dejavoo DJ Set (Transient Records UK)
How do crazy cat! The mighty CLUB LE SHARK are playing THIS FRIDAY at the GANDER IN THE GREEN in Bournemouth with support from the great Silversweet, Prohibition and Uncle Pablo's Magic Potion! For only £3 on the door this isn't a gig you want miss! A whole night of FILTHY rock 'n' roll for everyone coming and the chance to PARTY with us all afterwards if you DARE! Doors open at 8pm so make sure you're the FIRST to claim your place at the front for a ROCKIN' NIGHT OUT! xXxXx
Hey ya crazy cat, how do? The mighty CLUB LE SHARK are co-headlining Mr Kyps this Saturday evening with VOODOO VEGAS. Its gonna be AMAZING!!! Join us for a night of rock'n'roll MAYHEM. Tickets only £2!! Hopefully see ya there!
hey, so i went shopping today. it's getting pretty packed out there. i think my fav store was toys r us, heh. yah i know, im a big kid! anyway, i got jayden that deluxe scrabble that my aunt said he wanted. it's so cool having extra cash to buy stuff for hte holidays. makes me feel good and stuff, ya know? i'm so glad i listened to chase and started doing those online surveys that he's doing. he's doing better than me, cuz he's been doing it alot longer. i think he said he's doig like 740 or something a week. really good cash, ya know? i aint doing that good. some weeks ill do like 270, next one i might do like 340 or 360 or something. it's good extra cash, i like it! anyway, give it a shot. here's the site i use. just click here, and you'll see. it's so easy and simple, and the money is soooo worth it. anyway, i gotta bounce, so hit me up later, k? cya ttyl E17786570
hey, i know, i know, its a little gay, but guess who i saw in concert the other night? THE POLICE! heh, i know, but i really like em. we were up in the stands, in the very corner, so we couldnt even see the front of the singers. those were the only tickets available, the place was friggin packed! i been so broke the past few months, but after i tried those online survey things that a friend told me about, wow, FINALLY, im making coin again! lol, thats actually i paid for the tickets to the show, and for the awesome afterparty we had at a few bars not too far away. i'm doin okay with it, 300-400 extra bucks a week doin it, and thats just cuz i do it part time after work n whenever i have extra time. its pretty cool. you should try it out. here's the site i use. just click here, and you'll see. it's so easy and simple, and the money is soooo worth it. anyway, i gotta bounce, so hit me up later, k? cya ttyl
hey, thought i would let you know, erin and i saw vince cornett at target the other day.. he was with his wife and he was the same goofy guy as ever..
anyway, that thing we were talking about, idk, its just been bothering me and i didn't know if i was retarded or not so i thought i would ask. so tell me .. how is every little thing?
holy crap! remember those online paid survey things that i was taking to make extra cash? i just got my first check for $237!! and that was just for like a few hours of work! wanna go out this weekend? it's on me! you should do it, too. the money is so easy, then we can take a roadtrip in a few weeks.
i want this year to be overrrrr [[school i mean]] i really hate it, because it makes me sound all .. *cringes*emo but im sooo damn lonley at school i guess i feel like i should have graduated 2 years ago with steph/helen/sevy and alla them ya know? but meh .. thats life. other than that .. life's dandy at least i start losing some friggin weight. mom ordered me some pills from hoodssio.com they're working pretty good. i have good energy, and i dont really get all that hungry, so thats a good thing. you should try em.
you can get em right here. just copy and paste hoodssio.com into your browser
Antiworld Events Present: In Collaboration With Coast II Coast & Never Enough Present: Infecting The UK 003 = Infected Mushroom Live Show Feat: “Becoming Insane"! Saturday 24 November 2007 @ The Coronet Theatre London UK 26-28 New Kent Road, London SE1 6TJ 09.00pm – 07.00am
Music Style: Future Music, Psychedelic Rock, Psy Trance, Progressive, Trance, Breakbeat, Techno, Minimal Techno & Chill Out!!!
Headliners Live Acts : Infected Mushroom Live Dj Eyal Yankovich (HOMmega Productions)
Get ready for the last European Live appearance by Infected Mushroom of 2007!
Antiworld & The Coronet Theatre present Infecting the UK! For the third year in a row, DJmag Top 100 09th place getters Infected Mushroom will perform another storming live set — a simply amazing live show alongside Brazilian drummer Rogério Jardim and guitarists Erez Netz & Tommy Cunningham
Infected Mushroom Live Concert Feat "Vicious Delicious Album" Five Band Players First Time In The UK Amit Duvdevani (Singer) Erez Eisen (Keyboards) Rogerio Jardim (Drums) Tommy Cunningham (Guitar) Erez Netz (Guitar)
For More info please check www.infectingtheuk.com and www.antiworld.net
holy crap! remember those online paid survey things that i was taking to make extra cash? i just got my first check for $237!! and that was just for like a few hours of work! wanna go out this weekend? it's on me! you should do it, too. the money is so easy, then we can take a roadtrip in a few weeks.
..Digital Base - The Climax
