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| Introducing NEM3SI$’s new label Infinite Resistance! | | Mindbenderz talk ‘Lord of the Rings’ and fishing, as well as the creation of their new album ‘Celestial Gateway’! | | Iono-Music artists One Function, Eliyahu, Invisible Reality and Dual Vision talk Robert Miles, kids, dogs and vinyl, while we chat about their current releases! | | Luke&Flex talk influences, the Irish rave scene, why Flex wears a mask and Play Hard, their new EP out now on Onhcet Repbulik Xtreme! | | Lyktum expands on his new album ‘Home’ – talking about his love of storytelling, creating new harmonies and the concept behind his musical works. | | Pan talks getting caught short crossing the Sahara, acid eyeballs and tells us Trance is the Answer, plus shares his thoughts on his latest release 'Beyond the Horizon' - all from a beach in Spain! | | Miss C chats about living with the KLF, DJing in a huge cat’s mouth, training her brain and the upcoming super-duper Superfreq Grande party at LDN East this Saturday, 16th September! | | NEM3SI$ - I Live for the Night – talks superficiality, psychopaths, and bittersweet success, ahead of a plethora of evocative, emotional, and passionate upcoming melodic techno releases! | | Psy-Sisters Spring Blast Off! We talk to DJ competition winner ROEN along with other super talents on the lineup! | | Blasting towards summer festivals with Bahar Canca ahead of Psy-Sisters Spring Blast! | | Shyisma talks parties, UFO's, and Shotokan Karate ahead of his upcoming album 'Particles' on Iono-Music! | | SOME1 talks family, acid, stage fright and wolves - ahead of his upcoming album release ‘Voyager’ on Iono-Music in February 2023! | | The Transmission Crew tell all and talk about their first London event on 24th February 2023! | | NIXIRO talks body, mind and music production ahead of his release 'Planet Impulse' on Static Movement's label - Sol Music! | | Turning the world into a fairy tale with Ivy Orth ahead of Tribal Village’s 10th Birthday Anniversary Presents: The World Lounge Project | | The Psy-Sisters chat about music, achievements, aspirations and the 10-Year Anniversary Party - 18/12/22! | | A decade of dance music with Daniel Lesden | | Earth Needs a Rebirth! Discussions with Psy-Trance Artist Numayma | | Taking a Journey Through Time with Domino | | New Techno Rising Star DKLUB talks about his debut release White Rock on Onhcet Republik! | | PAN expands on many things including his new album 'Hyperbolic Oxymoron' due for release on the 14th April 2022 on PsyWorld Records! | | Psibindi talks all things music including her new collaborative EP 'Sentient Rays' on Aphid Records, her band Sentience Machine and 10 years of Psy-Sisters! | | N-Kore talks Jean-Michel Jarre, unfinished tracks and fatherhood! | | Celebrating International Women’s Day and Ten Years of Psy-Sisters with Amaluna | | A Catch Up with John Phantasm ahead of his upcoming set at the Tribal Village 4 Day Outdoor Event in Kent 6-9 May 2022! | | 'The Maestro that is Tristan talks barn owls, Shazamming and keeping it Psychedelic ahead of his upcoming performance at the Tribal Village 4 Day Event in Kent 6-9 May 2022! |
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NASTYDIRTYSEXMUSIC’s Tim Sheridan is our Beadle About.... he reviews Playtime
Reported by tim sheridan
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Submitted 07-04-05 15:12
So I’ve been playing all over for many, many years and I realise it’s 7... YES... 7! (count em) years since I had a Friday night with nothing to do in London. I am pretty hard to please as you can imagine when it comes to time off. Say you are a graphic designer and you have a first day off for years in your career what do you do? Wash the car? Go to the Tate Modern? Spend all day and night watching someone draw? Parts of my many tasks at nastydirtysexmusic are promoter’s tasks, although we don’t book DJs (don't need to! it’s OURS wooo) I think it’s time for us to look at like-minded clubs and hold hands with them in a loving way...
Smokin Jo and I sat down and first tried to draw up a list of possible guest DJs. We came up with 3! Then I suggested we modify the idea and have guest clubs. Unfortunately we created nastydirty because we couldn’t find any clubs exactly like we wanted, so we made one. In the interim period since we started it has become apparent that there is a small but distinct movement or sub-genre going on. Let's call it ‘filth’ or ‘filthy house’. It’s electro, but only when it funks, it’s house, but only when it makes you screw up your face in disgust. It’s everything that's good and rocks. It’s the Zen genre that is every type and none. As with many great things, all over the world people are having amazing original ideas without contact but in synchronicity with others. The internet brings them together in a new way never seen before. It seems to me it’s time to bridge the gaps between these Oasis nights in the vast desert of the dull and get together. So I started looking, listening and smelling a little... until I change aftershaves.
Mike Monday
One club stood out as destination number one. It’s the Music... always innit. Mike Monday was a new sound coming out of London and I did hear his tunes and lo! They were good. When outstanding music is produced there is always a story behind it so I called, invited myself rather rudely to dinner and got on a plane for my night off in London.
Just a bite and a chat, just a bite and chat, just a bite and a chat I told myself constantly... denial, denial, denial...
I met the two personalities behind Playtime on London’s throbbing Upper Street. Naturally they were struggling to try to pull a 2 metre tall sign out of a 1.5 metre long taxi. Magic! Good start. It’s a good sign (gggroan! DO forgive readers). BigDaddyG was neither large of frame nor had kids in tow, but his character was gigantic and effusive. Mike was equally charming. We dined under the shadow of the sign and got on immediately. It seems like every person behind something very cool and underground that breaks out into success seems to be really ace people. Nice coincidence if indeed it is one. G was forced to do the traditional bad-hotel tango when guest Phonique from Berlin (you know ‘The Red Dress’ by phonique is the best tune out right now!) was met by the usual "we don't have a reservation for you Sir no" despite the amazing feat of booking it twice to make sure. One day some bright spark will open a hotel for DJs in London and make a mint. If only any of you readers were property developers I’d go into partnership with you... we’d clean up. You read it here first lawyers! G went off to be the organised one. I have that dubious title too so my heart went out to him. I was left with Mike and after about four pints we got onto the topic of God which usually takes about 15 with me. I like him already and I’ve not even got to the club.
Then... Egg bound we were. I have a love/hate thing with the Egg. As I rarely go out I’ve only been a couple of times and found the upstairs/downstairs layout a bit too much for my old bones. I need a Stannah Stairlift. It seems to always take a long time to fill, always from the bottom up and tonight was true to that form. Possibly that adds a nice build/tension to the night.
The Cheshire Catz
First up were the Cheshire Cats. Two chaps I had heard something about, but yet to experience and I wasn’t let down by their rep. There was a great unity of sound but the genres were diverse. Sound familiar? Been my modus operandi for decades you youngsters, you. Move as much as possible in variety while playing with the line between flow and mash up. Always stay on the side of flow though my young paduan learner, for to mash is the way of the dark side..... The cats were a joy to groove to, but more of them later.....
Just a bite and a chat, just a bite and chat, just a bite and a chat I continued to tell myself constantly... denial, denial, denial...
I was in all-new research mode, and then the chipper conscripts from Sgt Major Winstanley’s all-girl platoon of combat photographers arrived to relieve me. Many thanks to Ilana and Beth for their sterling work under fire. The night was building. It was a twisted pleasure to see two DJs of such calibre as BigDaddy and Mike running around trying to fix things and sort out guests. I’m not the only one then! Just a bite and a chat, just a bite and chat, just a bite and a chat... denial, denial, denial... OOps. I slipped and something fell in my mouth and suddenly it all went out the window.
I hope you enjoyed what I wrote above as it’s the last bit of sense I made. I think after 20-odd years at it I’m so conditioned to turning into a performing nitwit at the stroke of midnight it’s as inevitable as my denial. I started to join in and proper. I don’t remember much except G was ace, Phonique was tall and Mike was everything I expected and was so good I even remember. I ended up an embarrassing shitty mess and was saved 12 hours later by Dan Cheshire Cat and his after-hours tunes, revived enough to stumble to a cab but not before YOINKing his CD.
My destination? Not bed but Zurich.... where I was due to play. Next thing I remember was being wheeled through arrivals half asleep into the arms and stunned faces of the promoters. Apparently the airport crew took pity on me because I looked (adopt Swiss accent) “Like a liddle bunch ov sickness.”
Your roving reporter
Thing is, if that’s what it’s like when I go to Playtime off duty, what’s it going to be like when I play!?
Tim is at nastydirtysexmusic on Saturday. Bring your noise and digital camera, all is being recorded for a global mix CD release and your portraits will grace the inside cover.
Tim debuts at Playtime at the Egg on Friday May 6th for their 3rd birthday with Switch, Geddes, Paco, Mike Monday and Big Daddy G. The day the general election results are announced!
NastyDirtySexMusic
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Saturday 9th April 2005
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Ministry of Sound [map]
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23:00 - 07:00
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£15/£12 advnaced £8 NUS
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Attention, Her majesty's Ministry of Sound is pleased to announce the keenly anticipated return to the stage of Nasty Dirty Sex Music and it's attendant notoriety thrill! at the spectacle of the cojoined 4 armed-single-breasted performing beast. Swoon! at the quality of the customers Egad! it returns!
Yes Yes, NDSM is back, we all know what this night is about. as every party we do gets busier, noisier, later.
Get yourselves down to enjoy Tim and Jo's eclectic mix through the musical genres. They won't let you leave the dance floor all night. So get yourselfs ready for the Nasty Dirty Sex Music stage show spectacular!
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House. Tribal House.
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BOX: NastyDirtySexMusic
Smokin' Jo
Tim Sheridan
BAR: Bacardi B-Bar
Alan Thompson
Stuart Patterson
Jeremy B
Percussion - Basil
Baby Box: Elementry Group
Marc Hughes & Justin Spier
Hooked
Nico De Ceglia
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From: Lizzie Curious on 7th Apr 2005 15:41.21
brilliant read! So funny and refreshing.
Wish I could be there on sat, but alas, I am performing elsewhere....ah well...roll on June!!
From: Rainey on 7th Apr 2005 15:47.12
who were the 3 possible guest DJ's you & the Jo would have chosen?
From: Dan Cheshire Cat on 7th Apr 2005 16:47.11
Playtime is the best monthly party in town. Best music. Best crowd. And that's why we are teaming up with them for At Night vs Playtime madness on June 18! Tim, it was a pleasure to meet you properly... massive respect to you for all that you are doing. Dan 
From: tim sheridan on 7th Apr 2005 17:00.34
Add your comments here !
3 guests are booked, Ralph Lawson, Ewan Pearson, Jon Carter. Alsp Damian Lazarus and Danny Tenaglia are being worked on.
From: tim sheridan on 7th Apr 2005 17:02.40
Add your comments here !
P.S the table above that describes us?
Music is NOT house/tribal house. Never played a tribal record there (I don't even own any) but do play Electrohouse, Breaks,Techno in fact basically...nastydirtysexmusic
From: BottleofWater on 7th Apr 2005 17:26.22
Loving the t-shirt 
From: House Mouse on 7th Apr 2005 18:31.15
Great article, sounds like a typical night out with those reprobates to me.
Really pleased to hear you'll be back to Playtime too. And roll on Saturday, can't wait. 
From: the Greg on 7th Apr 2005 23:20.15
Tim - You are one Crazy Nutter~! NO DENYING~! Awesome Read.
From: Exiled Angel on 8th Apr 2005 12:11.41
 Good review - MORE PLEASE TIM! 
From: Hoochie Koochi Man on 10th Apr 2005 11:04.17
Top reviewTim and that Phonique tune is wicked especially the Tiefschwarz mix. Jon Carter would be a fitting guest at NDSM, he's filthy as fuck too. I will be definitely making a return to Playtime next time. J.
From: guyster on 11th Apr 2005 22:20.41
Nice one guys, STILL gutted I missed NDSM. 
From: doios on 19th Apr 2005 14:03.41
Add your comments here !cool mam cool go on like this
From: Hoochie Koochi Man on 23rd Apr 2005 11:22.10
Great chart in DJ Mag Tim.
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