ABC - The Evolution of Breaks feat Merka (UK) & Agent 86 -July 28th @ Crown & Sceptre - ITM Forums

The Adelaide Breaks collective are back again with a hot show to warm you up this winter. This will be a special show as we wind back the clock and revisit some of the tunes that are the foundation for what we listen to today. As the music is old skool so to will be the dress code. Prizes will be awarded for the best old skool/vintage outfits, so make sure you get into the vibe and dust off your best outfit from memory lane

It’s no good looking to the future without knowing where you have been. Giving the night’s history lesson will be none other then Adelaide ex-pat and legend Agent 86 (no not the guy from get smart). No stranger to the decks at the Crown and Sceptre (where he held a long time residency with HMC) Agent 86 will be doing a history of breakbeat set for us and if you have ever see him mix before you will understand not only why he has been in the game for so long but why he is one of the fastest rising DJs on the east coast.

After the history lesson it will be time to look through our crystal ball and see where breakbeat is heading. Providing us with this insight is the breaks scene latest protégé from the UK, Merka. He will also be using the night to launch his new album Beserka, and there will be plenty of chances to win a copy on the night, so make sure to get dressed up! Here are some reviews of the album from some of the industries top names:

DJ '...one of the most interesting and captivating albums the scene has ever produced...'

M8 'Funked up, fat, free flowing, forward thinking maaaaan!'

LAURENT GARNIER '...ooohhhh yes, lovely, full support.'

SOUL OF MAN (FINGERLICKIN) '...something we need in our lives for 2007.'

The ABC residents will also be joining in the educational escapades, taking you on a short lecture of sounds that have influenced their broken taste in tunes. Dusk will be donning her fluoro leg warmers and exploring the finer points of the 80’s. Noodle will be getting down on it like it was live at Brighton with a Fatboy Slim Appreciation Set. Anzac will be taking you back to the time of fat laces with an Old Skool Hip Hop set and Lachy Pender and Spark will be taking you back to where the nu-skool sound originated with a retrospective Nu-skool breaks set.

Doors open at 9pm. Your education for the night will put you back $10 for members and $15 for general admission. Email [email removed] by Saturday July 27th to register for cheap entry.

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a little bit of info on merka and his album

merka bio
After a quiet life growing up playing the piano in the country with the birds, the influence of drum and bass and a move to England's capital inspired a transition that has seen Mark ‘Merka’ Ford become one the frontrunners in the new sound of breakbeat. In 2003 Future Funk Squad's Re:connect Records were the first to commit his bass-lines to plastic, which led to a signing at Paul Arnold's Fat! stable. Releasing some genre bending monsters to great acclaim has amounted to 'Beserka', the first ever artist album on the long running breakbeat institution, released in March '07.

Support has grown across the dance scene from Shut Up and Dance to Laurent Garnier, and appearances alongside dance music heavyweights like Bushwacka! and Rennie Pilgrim at England's biggest and best nightclubs including the End, Heaven, Ministry of Sound and Fabric have led to ever growing exposure, helped with slots on Radio 1 and Kiss among many others. 2007 looks to be big with a new weekly show on BreaksFM, a mass of studio output and plans for full blown live productions, alongside energetic dj sets across the globe including both English and Australian album tours.


Beserka Album info
So here it is, the latest crop of bum grapes cultivated from the capacious arse of Fat! records. We’ve robbed the grave of big beat, given its corpse a rudimentary makeover and dolled it up with a superficial layer of 2006 production values. And the result? An LP that’s funkier than the sweat off a
tramp’s balls.

Yes, we’ve peddled some forgettable music over the past 6 years, but this one must be up there with the releases that even the most loyal breakbeat nerds hide when their friends come round. Hell, you’ll probably find this press release more entertaining than the record itself.


Imagine a shape-shifting, trend-hopping, Asda-shopping, proletarian can-can through every genre of music since rave music began. Then stick a funky breakbeat underneath. Plundering every nest-egg of modern popular music from the last decade, with added kitchen sink thrown in for good measure, the 25-year-old reconstituted yokel Merka secures his place as the nobel laureate of Magpie-breaks and Cuckoo-core.

Wasn’t it the 7th century monk and chronicler, the Venerable Bede, who said: ’Yay, and let the light of mediocre breaks shine forth’. For Merka is an artisan; an auteur; a master craftsmen in the long tradition that starts with Beowulf and ends with Krafty Kuts. Breakbeats are his haikus; rave samples his iambic pentameters; and cod-violins his sonnets. The rest comes from having ecstasy tablets rammed up his arsehole every week by Paul Arnold.

Merka’s got a message for all you press people: it’s time to open the doors and windows and let the funk out. And if that doesn’t work, try air freshener.

Album “Highlights”
(for the journalist in a hurry)
Track 4: Champion Selection : sounds like the music a troupe of performing orangutans might make if they were let loose in a custard factory with a bag of ketamine, a buzzsaw and a metronome.

Track 6: Wikabasket Case : recalls Mr Oizo, John Barry and Cannon & Ball stuck in a lift, collectively running the emotional gamut between the bitter sorrow of losing a favourite pet to the exuberance of pulling down your trousers in the high street rubbing your genitalia over the front windows of shops.

Track 7: Yakumo’s Ready : evoked the sensation of having your damp testicles dipped into a bag of castor sugar and then comprehensively and painstakingly cleaned by a conscientious Siamese cat with a sandpapery tongue.

Track 11: Act Now : features a sample of an owl raping a badger, delicately layered over a pumping 1 note bassline and generic synth riff. And yes, you guessed it, holding the track together is our old friend Mr Breakbeat again, resplendent in his cheeky boom-tit, boom-boom-tit Sunday best.

i'll be there... agent 86 = top notch party

I'm thinking this might be a mighty fine event to check out... I've been listening to a lot of breaks lately... and haven't been to a breaks event in farkin AGES (thinking back to Fabric days a few years back!)...

I'll be @ Algorhythm the night before this... so hopefully I'll have it in me to head out Saturday night too... and maybe drag some of the recovery crew along to carry on our weekend...

looking forward to a good night!!

abc is a brand you can trust

i'll be there... and will a bit of video at this for my doco...

GREAT night guys!!

i'll say! cheers for the 151 ryan... will have to try one again sometime. if you throw your pics up, i'll approve em as soon as they're posted. nice camera you had there, bucko...

no worries man! awesome night!! i have them done tonight hopefully

gallery up now.. nice work, ryan! http://www.inthemix.com.au/gallery/v...7-abcevolution

thanks to everyone that came - was a wikkid night

both DJS kicked it - hopefully they will eb back soon!

Thanks to all who came down it was great fun.

just having a listen to the abc promotional cd mixed by spark. its awesome!! keep up the good work guys!!!

Cheers wizard!
I will be mixing a new one very soon.

cool cool. well let me know when the next cd is available

loc mentioned there were previous ABC mix cds circulating... who's been responsible for the mixes in the past? the current one's had a few spins in my car stereo of late... you should send your mix to ITM-FM, especially while the ITM50 is on... gotta get some more SA mixes out there!

tracklist?

awesome, gonna rip it down when i get home!

First ABC party i've been to...

FREAKING AWESOME!

it was an AWESOME night! im disappointed i wont be able to make the next one..