Sun Valley Sound volume 2
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Roger Perry and Joost Langeveld
present
Sun Valley Sound volume 2
We are truly proud to present to you ten new tasty nuggets from the Reliable stable.
Sun Valley Sound 2 represents some of New Zealand’s finest production talent including Dick Johnson, Soane, ReactorMusic, Reed & Radley, Subware, Cuffy & LeonD and also introducing new emerging artists Daniel Ward, Tim Richards and Craig Harris.
It’s been Reliable Recordings primary aim to work with people who are fully committed to the development of a healthy and thriving House Music community.
All the artists on Sun Valley Sound Part 2 are active contributors to our local music scene and are the creative forces behind the Sinister Sound System, Electric, Black Vinyl, Home Made Productions and of course our own Reliable Recordings club night: Sun Valley Sound System!
Reliable’s origins lie in the principle that if we work our talents collectively we can accomplish great things. We have built up a solid core of people we work with regularly and it is our sole objective to release music by the cream of established and upcoming New Zealand producers.
To celebrate the launch of this cracking new chapter in the development of our New Zealand house scene the Sun Valley All Stars will be taking to the road for a series of release parties.
Sun Valley 2 Tour:
Nationwide CD launch tour throughout May and June NZ tour dates:
Auckland - Morrison official launch party – Friday 21th May Wellington – Sandwiches Saturday 29th May Christchurch - Carbon Saturday 5th June Dunedin - Bath Street – Saturday 12th June Nelson - Saturday 19th June Phat Club Ohakune – Saturday 26th June Queenstown – Surreal Tuesday 29th June Tauranga - Budha lounge Gisborne - The Irish Rover Palmerston North - BK Lounge Hamilton – Sekure New Plymouth -
Sun Valley Sound volume 2 – in store April 22
www.reliablerecordings.com
Questions and
answers from Reliable Recordings:
When was the label founded? By whom was it founded? Who runs the label currently? What is each person’s role?
Reliable Recordings was set up in 1998 by Joost Langeveld. Joost is the Label Manager and A&R person. In 2001 Roger Perry became involved, initially fulfilling the role of A&R manager but has more recently taken on responsibility of coordinating and overseeing Reliable related ‘live’ performances, tours and Club Nights as well.
Joost and Roger together control Reliable’s aesthetics in both sound and vision. Reliable Recordings is in essence an artist run Label.
Why did you originally establish the label? In other words, why was it that you wanted to have your own label as opposed to release your music on other labels?
The label was established to create an outlet for/and to profile New Zealand House music producers. Our geographic isolation left us few opportunities to explore other avenues. The establishment of the label enabled us to sample visiting international DJ/Producers with local product.
What is the musical philosophy of the label?
To produce, nurture and promote quality New Zealand music.
How do you decide which tracks to release? What do you think is the sound of the label?
We obviously need to like the track and then thoroughly Club test it to check the crowd reaction. TechHouse, House, Deep House
Is one of your goals to promote New Zealand artists whom you think are talented?
To some extent but not exclusively. We have released tracks from visiting DJ/Producers like DJ Joshua, Asad Risvi (Two Right Wrongans), Flow, Dick ‘Magik’ Johnson and Ant Plate (one half from RhythmPlate). Having said that, we do encourage our immediate peers to get involved. I guess whoever gets considered needs to be an active participant in our Music community.
Name the artists that have released on Reliable.
Cuffy&LeonD, ReactorMusic, Dick ‘Magik J’ Johnson, Subware, StereoPeople (DJ Joshua), Two Right Wrongans, Reed and Radley, Greg Churchill, Soane, KHP, Ant Plate, Flow, Daniel Ward, DJ Phully, SGNY, Tim Richards and Craig Harris amongst others.
Does Reliable do any club nights in New Zealand? Has the label done any tours?
Yes, we run a 6-weekly club night called ‘the Sun Valley Sound System’ which has been going for some 18 months or so …. Also, all our major releases (full albums and compilations) are promoted with a nationwide tour. Our next tour is scheduled for May and June 2004 to promote the release of ‘Sun Valley Sound volume two’.
Can you name some DJs who are supporting or who have supported your release now or in the past?
Inland Knights, Swag, DIY, Dano, Asad Risvi, Nick Defender, Lee Burridge, Laurent Garnier, Luke Solomon, Mateo&Matos, Nathan Coles, Get F*cked, Dave Mothersole, Elliott Eastwick, Kenny Hawkes, Dick ‘Magik’ Johnson, Ben Davis,
Please mention anything else that you think is worth noting.
Tracks released by
Reliable Recordings have been licensed to Shaboom (UK),
Global Underground (UK), Defender Music (UK), Wrong (UK),
Influence Records(UK), Freq Records(NZ), Sound Fiction(AUS),
Red Melon(USA), Universal, Sony Music, Kog Transmissions,
Oceania Records (France), Select(USA),
Sun Valley Sound 2 – tracklisting & Artist Information
Tracklisting
Magik Johnson – Dustys Problem Written, produced and performed by Dick Johnson in Kingsland, New Zealand. Additional keys by Marc Johnstone.
Sun Valley All-stars – Fall Down Written and produced by J.Langeveld/A.Cuff/R.Perry/S.Lloyd Mixed at Sun Valley Sound. Guitar by Sebastian Tanganui Lloyd.
Reed & Radley – Tears Over The Years Written, produced and recorded by Reed and Radley at Monkey Puzzle, Auckland. Vocals by Yvonne Conti.
Cuffy & LeonD – Your Love Written and produced by Cuffy & LeonD. Mixed by LeonD at Ariki St Studio, Grey Lynn Vocals by Anthony Gold.
Soane – Song for Sesilia Written and produced by Soane Watkins. Mixed by Luke Tomes. Additional keys by Anthony Gold.
ReactorMusic – Here We Come Written and produced by J.Langeveld and R.Perry at Sun Valley Sound.
Daniel Ward – Filthy Written and produced by D.Ward . Mixed at Sun Valley Sound.
Craig
Harris & Tim Richards – Wild Life ReactorMusic – Rainy Day Written and produced by
J.Langeveld and R.Perry at Sun Valley Sound. Subware –
Move Back Written and produced by J.Langeveld and J.Hall.
A collaborative effort between
various producers and musicians connected with Reliable
Recordings and the Sun Valley Sound Studio. The All–Stars
project is an opportunity to explore more musical avenues,
live instrumentation augmented with samples and programmed
beats. Sun Valley All-Stars is a loose, freeflowing musical
project featuring, amongst others, Sebastian Tanganui-Lloyd,
Cuffy, Roger Perry, Joost, Wairere Iti and pretty much
whoever is hanging around the studio at the time and wants
to get involved. Craig Harris and Tim Richards This
track is one of Craig and Tim's most recent. The boys have
been on a roller coaster ride over the past year. With
releases on Reliable Recordings and Om out this year, and
receiving glowing public accolades from veterans Greg
Churchill and Dick Johnson, Craig and Tim are gaining
respect as engineers and musicians. They are continuing to
develop their signature sound. Expect big things from these
boys in the future. Dick ‘Magik J’ Johnson DJ Dick
Johnson’s reputation for rocking a party began amidst the
acid house madness of Manchester’s infamous Hacienda, where
he was Saturday night resident alongside Graeme Park and Tom
Wainright. He soon had his own room The 5th Man, where the
legendary basement sessions became a part of club history.
Residencies followed at Federation, Spice and Nottingham’s
Renaissance. Between 1994 and 95, Johnson started
producing tracks for Cream’s Olympic label, New Order’s
Pleasure Recordings and Manchester’s Paperecordings
collective. Shortly afterwards, he established Shaboom
Records with Mark Bell and Ben Davis. A man of many
monikers, Johnson records on his own as Magik Johnson/Magik
J, as Del-5 with Ben Davis, and alongside Soane as Troffman.
His music has been released on such influential imprints as
Danny Tenaglia’s Twisted label, Layo & Bushwacka’s End
Recordings, KAOS in Portugal and Paperecordings – and he has
completed remixes for Crazy Penis, DJ Sneak, Joey Negro,
Q-Burns, Human League, Neon Heights and many others. Dick
Johnson was one of the first UK DJs to pay regular visits to
New Zealand from 1994 onwards, and in 2001 he decided to
permanently relocate his base to the far side of the planet.
He wasted no time in making his mark – taking his own
ELECTRIC tours on the road up and down New Zealand,
releasing the clubnight’s companion ELECTRIC CD through
Festival Mushroom Records, producing music for the national
television network, and remixing seminal local artists,
including the Headless Chickens and Subware. Reed and Radley have clocked up more than 25
years in the studio and behind the Technics. They cut their
clubbing teeth in northern England before taking their
passion for house music one step further. Chris Reed's
career began more than a decade ago in Leeds, then one of
Britain's clubbing capitals. After signing to Liverpool's 3
Beat label, he produced a string of singles under the Neuro
name. The first, Initiate, was championed by Mixmag and
Manchester's pioneering Eastern Bloc record shop. The most
successful, Mama, was licensed to groundbreaking Belgian
label R&S and appeared on a string of compilations around
the world. After leaving Leeds, Chris returned to hometown
Manchester, setting up a home studio and DJing at the Home
club. He moved to New Zealand in 1999 and after stints in
Queenstown and Wellington settled in Auckland, where he made
a swift return to the studio with Paul Radley. Paul's
career also started in Leeds. He regularly played at the
Orbit, which went on to become Britain's longest-running
regular club night, and co-promoted Mindbiscuit, a monthly
deep house affair. Paul was a regular fixture behind the
decks at some of northern England's most discerning nights
and completed a sound engineering course in Manchester
before moving to New Zealand, via Sydney. Both are firmly
established in Auckland's house scene, playing regularly at
the city's best clubs. Chris also co-hosts George FM's
flagship Saturday morning show, English Breakfast. Together
they are carving out a reputation as producers of
high-quality deep, driving grooves. Their productions have
graced both volumes of Reliable Recordings' Sun Valley
Sounds while British institution DIY has licensed their
four-track Foundations EP. Reed and Radley are putting the
finishing touches to their next two EPs which will be
released later this year. Subware Subware is the
musical collaboration between label manager Joost Langeveld
and DJ Jason ‘ Rockpig’ Hall . Formed in 1998 Subware
quickly gained an enthusiastic following. Part of the
Reliable Recordings family of artists, Subware makes music
with a bass heavy, groove oriented and slightly twisted
sensibility. From ’98 on Subware quickly built a
reputation as a feisty, twisted live experience. More
recently their performances have developed a more organic
approach incorporating live musicians and singers to make
Subware an even more exciting experience. Subware has
released tracks on Reliable Recordings, Defender Music,
Influence Records, Freq Records, Sound Fiction, Shaboom and
Global Underground ReactorMusic is the
musical collaboration between Reliable head honchos Roger
Perry and Joost Langeveld. The ultimate pairing of top DJ
and Studio wizard. The ReactorMusic guys make fat, dirty
fucked up House music for real House heads. Working
together now for about 6 years Roger and Joost have spent a
good while getting their sound right. ReactorMusic have
released tracks on Wrong, Shaboom, Global Underground,
Reliable and FMR. Roger is one of the true innovators of
the New Zealand Club music community. His DJ-ing career
began in the mid-80’s as a sprightly seventeen year old
playing HipHop, Funk, Boogie, Electro and what was later to
became known as House Music. Roger is widely credited for
introducing House music to the Clubs of NZ. Instrumental in
the establishment of seminal Clubs like The Asylum, The
Playground, Siren, Calibre and more recently the Wyndham
Bowling Club. Roger has DJ’ed alongside everyone from
Derrick Carter, Doc Martin, Crazy Penis through to Qburns,
Derrick May and Tiefschwarz to name but a few. Roger has
also toured and promoted the likes of Luke Solomon, Inland
Knights, Huggy, Erik Rug and Phil Asher amongst
others. Joost is one of the leading producers/engineers of
New Zealand’s Club music scene. Joost started his musical
career in the early eighties as a bass player. In 1986 he
hooked up with a jaded Dutch prog rocker who taught
everything he knew about synthesizers and computer music.
Joost got more into programming and production in the early
90’s producing tracks with acts like NRA, Strawpeople Jules
Issa, Pitch Black, DLT, OJ and RhythmSlave and Mark
deClive-Lowe plus his own collaborations; NRA, Nemesis Dub
Systems, Unitone HiFi, ReactorMusic and Subware. From
1992 till 1996 Joost worked and lived in New York, running
B-Rave Studios in SoHo and producing tracks for Unitone Hifi
and German record label Incoming!. Upon his return to New
Zealand he touched base with Roger again and ReactorMusic
was born. Joosts productions have been released on
numerous National and International labels. Shaboom (UK),
Global Underground (UK), Defender Music (UK), Wrong (UK),
Influence Records(UK), Freq Records(NZ), Sound Fiction(AUS),
Red Melon(USA), Universal, Sony Music, Kog Transmissions,
Oceania Records (France), Select(USA), Sony (NZ/AUS),
Universal (NZ/AUS), FMR (NZ) plus more. Both Roger and
Joost actively run and manage the label Reliable Recordings,
Sun Valley Sound Volume2 is the label’s 11th release to
date. Cuffy&LeonD Hailing from Wellington, New Zealand,
Cuffy & Leon D are no strangers to the NZ dance music scene
having achieved top producer and DJ status in their home
country. Credited with releases on a number of regional
labels over the past decade, Cuffy & Leon D are poised to
storm the global house community with their crisp,
hook-laden productions and musically inspired
sounds. Cuffy and Leon teamed up in 1999. Combining their
gear and knowledge in pursuit of creating their own
sound. Cuffy started DJing mid '97 and currently has
regular DJ slots at Auckland's Ink Bar, Wyndham Bowling
Club, Centro, Mesh, Calibre and Coast amongst others....
As well as being part of the 2000 intake for the Red Bull
DJ Academy in Dublin, Cuffy has DJ'd abroad including gigs
with the likes of: Jonathan Yeo @ Zouk Club in Singapore
Terry Farley @ The Kitchen in Dublin Derrick May @ Fix in
Sydney FC Kahuna; Dano @ DNA Lounge in San Fran. Leon D
cut his musical teeth playing guitar in rock band Fat
Mannequin, which introduced him to both the live stage and
studio environment from age 16. In '98, frustrated by the
lack of tonal variety in guitars, Leon D swapped his for a
collection of keyboards and samplers, and the rest is
history. As a natural progression from producing dance
music, Leon D started DJing late 1998. Currently, he holds
regular DJ slots at Auckland's Ink Bar, Wyndham Bowling Club
and Centro Lounge and is a regular at Wellington bars
Studionine and Paradiso. Leon D has clocked up support slots
for many international acts including Ian Pooley, Eddie
Matos, FC Kahuna, DJ Joshua, Dano, Miles Hollway, Dick
Johnson and Singapore's Jonathan Yeo. Daniel Ward With
his musical roots in hardcore drumming Daniel appreciates
the angry side of music as is evident in 'Filthy'. But with
so much of his life dedicated to funk and hiphop (he is a
percussionist for the Hot Grits & House of Downtown as well
as producing hiphop), Daniel definately understands a
groove. These traits are demonstrated best when he DJs,
going from original 70s funk right through house music to
the darkest tech grooves whilst keeping the same underlying
vibe. These days his dark side is exorcised through being
one half of the Sinister Sound System and through creating
tracks like
'Filthy'. ENDS
Sun Valley All-Stars
Reed&Radley
ReactorMusic