Press release from the Vurt Project 1998

Vurt was about making ideas happen. These ideas belong to a lose collective of artists, designers, media producers, musicians, dj's and promoters in Copenhagen-Denmark and Birmingham-England. Vurt will not be organized by this collective, but instead, will provide an outlet for the work produced by the collective. This outlet (?) > a record label, exhibition, radio station, film, web site, CD-ROM, magazine, band promotion, artist management or DJ agent.

Vurt Opening Night at Stengade30

Vurt the club night will be a focus for this collaboration, a place where the projects take shape and evolve. The launch of Vurt will be held at Sengade30 in Copehangen on the 22nd of May 1999. The whole of Stengade30 will be taken over by Vurt, three rooms, three different sound systems.

The main room will have a different drummer than we're use to here in Copenhagen, hosted by DJ's Magnus Jarlson, PK1, MC Hippo from the English Voodoo sound system and Nu-Tonic's Resident DJ Bowen, joined by Stepa, Hurts resident DJ, and MC AMA from the Danish crew Supaflyz. The music will drop free style, all new music, all electric, dance music, base heavy broken beats.

The attic room at stengade will be cleared and converted to create a second dance flour for the club. House music played by DJ's: Morton Trøst (3345®Vinyl), Massive(H.M.E.98), Martin H (T.O.T.S,London) and Henrik N (P2 Records, Berlin).

The Basement will be down beat. DJ's: Kosh(Supaflyz), J-Nutz and Krok spinnin vinyl, hip hop and break beat oldies.

But expect more than this, we arranged some stuff that can't be advertised and there's still 10 weeks to go before the launch of Vurt, the nature of this projects leave space for anything to happen. Two weeks after the launch of Vurt, Danish DJ's will travel to Birmingham and play the NuTonic club night at wobble to complete a circle.

The English Voodoo sound system

English Voodoo are an 8 strong collective of music producers, artists and DJ's based in Birmingham. Maybe you've hear of their "Voodoo Parties" in London and the Midlands? one of gigs in strange places. Magnus Jarlson and PK1 are the two DJ's and have held residencies in Birmingham for the last 2 years as well as promoting their own monthly at the "Last Word". MC Hippo, in case you wondered, is the girl on the front cover of baby Vurt magazine, she is an artist. Scout and Tiny Lion are currently splitting time between gigs with Michael Valentine and the studio laying down track for their second release. Vurt links up tight with English Voodoo.

Nu-tonic

Nu-Tonic, held every Saturday night In a upstairs room of a back street club in Hockley promoted by Del Aguad with the help of Bowen, represent the edge of whats happening in UK clubs this year. There not afraid to mix up a twist for everything, music they describe as Funk Hop, Hip Breaks, Nu Beats and Bass Drums . The club is a rebellion against UK's bland and commercial main stream house and techno scene. "Low-Fi is HI-Fly" - Bowen says - "Get it"?

Vurt Baby Magazine

Vurt is an outlet for media produces as well as performing artists. Vurt baby magazine is our Baby print publication. This mag in a bag will be produced (1000 - 4000 run) weekly, by a team of writer and designers working with Vurt, and edited by Rebecca Richmond. The magazine will contain anything from 8 to 32 pages depending on contribution and the time of publication. The magazine is a way of publishing information about what's happening with the Vurt project.

www.vurt.dk

Vurt's web site will be third generation. More than advertising more than pretty pixels filled with fish food. We have already have 5 of Copenhagen's best new media designers and programmers working on the site. Vurt magazine editorial staff act as contributors, we have photographers, illustrators animators and artist already working on related projects.

Vurt Records

Vurt records will release it's fist EP on the 5th of July (vinyl only). The EP features 2 tracks from Scout and Tiny Lion. Vurt hopes the project will generate more music for it to promote. (Separate press release when the time is right.)

Promoting

Michael Cassidy is the organiser of Vurt. He has been involved in music promotion, in the UK for 8 years, promoting club nights, managing bands, artists and DJ's from the UK. He was responsible for promoting Brothers and Sisters, PhatHead, Athletico, Talkin Loud at Paradise Circus, da Sink, Rare, The Northern Jazz dance show down. Michael is also University Lecturer and a new media producer, working both in Copenhagen and the UK.