Future Funk @ DQs
Fitzwilliam Street, Sheffield
Fri 13th April
10pm - 4am
£5 b4 11, £7 after (£5 NUS)

Breaks & Techno at Sheffield's best kept secret.........

Jamie Bissmire (Space DJz)
Ron & Dave Atomizer
Si McLean
C4
J!m Random


Firstly a big thanks to everyone for making the last event so god damn wicked!! The extra sound worked a treat and all the D.J's rocked it.

Introducing Jamie Bissmire

From one of the UK's leading DJs, producers and exponents of techno music Jamie Bissmire has pretty much done it all and got the T-shirt. As one third of Bandulu he has inspired a plethora of international artistes to take up the production baton and live audiences to lose their collective marbles on the dancefloor. As one half of the Space DJz alongside Potential Recordingz Ben Long he has cut, scratched, fazed and faded his way across the world's premier nightspots and with his Foundation and Ground labels has continued to prove himself at the cutting edge of loose-limbed techno minimalism. There are plenty who claim to have achieved half the things Bissmire has since he first unleashed Bandulu and The Thunderground in 1991 with John O'Connell and Lucien Thompson. Yet Bissmire just gets on with it. Neither seeking acclaim nor award in his constant quest to push himself both as a producer and DJ. Whilst all too often we are quick to hail those from distant shores as "innovators" and afford them legendary status, we similarly often overlook the very same from under our noses

Since the later end of the 1990's Bissmire has mainly focused on his Ground label and DJing career alongside deck partner, Ben Long. As Space DJz, the pair would often warm up for Bandulu and the pair pioneered the DJ duo assault of playing on four decks and two mixers - scratching and cutting up untold amounts of vinyl across the planet. With the pairs every growing DJ reputation their recording partnership soon witnessed 12+ releases on Potential, Infonet, Novamute, Ongaku, Reload, Tortured and an album, 'On Patrol' for Soma in 1999. The Space DJz remain 'on patrol' to this day.

Check it out - you know it makes sense!!