DISCOLEXIA @ cargo - 22/02/08

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If you like your house music sounding like disco played at a dub reggae night then Discolexia is the night for you. Padded Cell makes a rare live appearance with house leg-end Maurice Fulton getting up on the ones and twos with NZ's dub-disco don Atlantic Conveyor.

Richard Sen and Neil Beatnik are not normal people. Having won notoriety as a Bronx Dog (Heavenly) and a Dirty Beatnik (Wall of Sound) respectively, Padded Cell came about in 2002, partly as a response to the conservatism of early millennium dance music but also to act as a conduit through which they could conduct and realize their most outlandish ideas.

A shared history as club deejays and producers means that even the most mind bending elements of their sound are conducted through dance floor focused channels; disco breaks and rolling percussion combining with menacing synth work outs, electro sensibilities and live instrumentation to create an unholy brew that has been described variously as ‘dark-disco', ‘goth-disco-rock', and perhaps most tellingly of all, ‘devils-disco'.

When the 4 labels you have attached to your name are Tiger sushi, Warp, Output and Sonar Kollektiv, as a producer, you are definitely doing something right. Maurice Fulton has the pleasure of affiliated with all four, and as a Sheffield lad who's made his name in the American Disco scene and who now lives down under, he pretty much done it all. A legend on underground house and leftfield scene, he has literally been to every party ever, and so knows how to turn one out with his eyes closed.

The Atlantic Conveyor was a British Navy Merchant ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War and sunk... oh sod you Wikipedia, you're rubbish.

The only Atlantic Conveyor you need to know about is the dub disco NZ connection kind of Atlantic Conveyor. They are Disco, Dub and Hip Hop in one. Ever since Steven Tripp and Tubbs dropped the Fantastic Incidents EP in 2004, there has been a grass roots swell of support for these London based producers. "Nasty Things" and "We Are" received support from DJ's as diverse as Gilles Peterson, Groove Armada and Zane Lowe.

http://www.myspace.com/paddedcelldc

http://www.myspace.com/mauricefulton

http://www.myspace.com/atlanticconveyor

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8-3

£10 ADV, £12

LIVE: PADDED CELL

DJS: MAURICE FULTON + ATLANTIC CONVEYOR + RICHARD SEN