Club Lazareti

14-08-2009
MINISTRY OF SOUND weekend show - vol 1.
SMOKIN JO (World´s best female DJ)

15-08-2009
MINISTRY OF SOUND weekend show - vol 2.
DOM CHUNG & STUART PATTERSON
(MOS RESIDENT DJs)

DAILY TICKET : 130kn
2 DAY TICKET : 200kn

Smoking JO
http://www.smokinjo.com/
Jo′s story began in 1990 when after years of attending many of the early raves and illegal parties she noticed a distinct lack of female DJs. As a massive fan of this exciting new music that was sweeping the nation, Jo decided to buy some decks and started mixing. From those early days it was always the deeper side of things Jo preferred, soulful sounding tracks that take you on a journey, no matter what style she plays from Techno to House it has to have meaning and a bassline to kill. Taking her stage name from the boxer Smoking Joe Fraser, Jo felt it provided ambiguity over an obviously feminine name as at the time it was seen as a novelty to be a female DJ (how times change!) It′s thanks to women like Jo that these shifts in attitudes have taken place.

While working in the Gaultier shop in London′s Soho, Jo made her first mix tapes and gave them to friends and customers to gauge their response. The reactions were better than expected and her first gigs quickly followed at fashion after-show parties. In 1991 Jo was given a chance to play at London′s legendary after-hours party Trade at Turnmills. Seizing the opportunity she smashed the club, blending her mixture of deep house and techno and as a result was given a residency that lasted three years. Trade was her stepping stone into the big league. At that time Trade was the only after hours in London: all the promoters, Dj′s and industry people came down to party religiously each week so in no time at all Jo was being booked to play at club events like Puscha, Boys Own, Tribal Gathering, Back to Basics, Cream and Full Circle. These gigs were the basis for her winning DJ Magazine′s highly coveted DJ of the Year Award (she is still the only female DJ to have ever won this award).

Stuart Patterson

Stuart has been at the forefront of London′s cutting edge club scene for over a decade. Through DJing, promoting club nights, fanzines, mix compilations or his record label his profile has continually risen since the 90s and he now takes bookings from farthest flung spots in the World from those who also crave proper house music, although as you will read Stuart′s musical tastes really are all encompassing.
Since the mid-90s those destinations have included Russia, Norway, France, Germany, Thailand, America, Portugal, Turkey, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Italy, Ibiza and South Africa with many more countries and tours lined up this year.

But it was in 1998 when Stuart launched Saturday-nighter Soulsonic in London′s Subterania with Leo Elstob that his career really started to gather pace. The club pushed the idea of ′real house music′ at a time in the UK when it was the era of the superclub and all about branding, similar soundtracks, making money and playing it well safe. The music policy at Soulsonic has always has been serious but with an absolute hardcore party spirit.

His global DJing jaunts have come partly from his exposure in the press, plus through Worldwide sales of his record label Transfusion records. The label was launched in 1995 to try and create a house label that took risks and presented a slightly ′off- centre′ version of house. Of the 32 releases to date artists like Phil Asher [Restless Soul], Maurice Fulton and Freil who had one of their tracks licensed by Masters at Work′s Little′ "Little" Louie Vega. Eight of the tracks where produced by Stuart himself and time allowing he hopes to get back in the studio really soon