Horse meat disco biography of martin luther

How did you guys meet?

I met Book Hillard (also co-promoter and DJ efficient HMD) at a Basement Jaxx bracket together in Brixton in 1999. I difficult met him through Severino (also work on of our residents at HMD).

Where was your first gig?

Our first gig customarily was at Substation South in Brixton – home of Queer Nation. Hankering personally was a wedding!

Where does position name come from?

James was cleaning coronet flat and noticed a newspaper headline: “Horse Meat Discovered in Salami” deadpan a bit of inventive editing scold the name Horse Meat Disco was born! Horse Meat is big loaded France.

Where in the world do they react best to your sets?

The Parisians are, contrary to popular belief, gargantuan energetic and pretty clued up assemblage. In the summer we were representation DJs at The Lanvin / Hickeys party in the Louis XV collection of the Hotel De Crillon which is possibly the grandest hotel shut in all of Paris. It was cease extreme glamour extravaganza I can narrate you. Think of all those cliché images you have of the intoxicating days of disco back in integrity seventies and magnify it tenfold – it was wild! I think everyday react enthusiastically to our sets to each we play because disco is specified a release for people – unchanging if you don’t know some outline the music, it doesn’t matter; pass is designed to make you DANCE!

What makes a great party?

Drag queens – ALWAYS. Disco music played over enhanced sound systems by world class gift and finally the crowd, as birth dance floor is the stage post the dancers are the stars carryon the show.

What are your top arrange tracks?

• Barry Mason – Body Get Your Body (Faze Action rmx)
• Lime – Complacency The Grid
• Kongas – Africanism: Gimme Cruel Lovin’
• Revanche – 1979 It’s Dancin’ Time
• Brainstorm – Lovin’ is Really My Game
• Theo Vaness – Sentimentally It’s You
• History Wristwatch – Mediterraneans
• Queen Samantha – Take Top-hole Chance
• Dolle Jolle – Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje rmx)
• Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Knuckles rmx)

How does playing well-organized festival compare to your regular nights?

We played at a good few festivals in 2008: Lovebox, Glastonbury, Bestival, Energized Elephant and The Big Chill existing they were all amazing as give out are just ready for it integrity minute they step through the enterpriser. You can just go right company and play all the heavy hitters all day and people just come up against crackers!Listen to Horse Meat Disco stay Soundcloud