Get Down Saturday Night presents…….

The Mole – CA/DE
(Wagon Repair & 7 Inches Of Love)

Get Down Saturday Night is extremely excited to welcome The Mole back to Edmonton. It’s been a while but he first came through town on the Mutek 10th Anniversary tour a few years back. We’re crazy excited to have him at The Common while he’s back in Canada from his current location Berlin, Germany. Huge night in store people, don’t miss out!

CHECK OUT THE LINKS BELOW THE BIO!

Bio:
Ever heard of Bobby Orr or the Rocket number 9? Neither had The Mole until he moved to Montreal from Canada’s west coast. And now he loves them. Perhaps there is something magical in the humble success of these men that inspires. Who doesn’t love a reluctant hero?

Dance music fans in Victoria and Vancouver in the 90s heard a lot of The Mole in his infancy. His mentors, believing he had a natural talent, pushed him from his DJ beginnings into music production. This natural talent was, in reality, mountains of hard work consummated in secret not unlike the rigorous discipline kung fu students undertake in those wonderful bamboo forests. For The Mole though this retreat took the form of long winters in the French and arguably the cultural capital of Canada, Montreal. Long, cold winters indeed.

It was only natural that the city’s storied disco story would fit him well. Warm people and cold nights warming blood like so much sap in spring. The Mole is often reminded of his voyageur past (as an 18th generation Canadian he is very proud of his French and English roots) when navigating the graveyards of vinyl that abound in his hometown. What could make a black crack addict feel more at home in this cold climate? I tell you what: 7 years of residency at the Laika bar and numerous appearances at the MUTEK Festival.

Enough about why The Mole has chosen to make his burrow in the storied city, let’s talk about the music. Urb magazine named him one of the ‘next 100’ in 2004. His live set at MUTEK 2004 was one of the top ten in the Village Voice Critics’ Poll 2004, followed by 2005’s collaboration with long time friend and band mate Mathew Jonson ‘Dirt Road and a Boat From Soundwave’ on Kompakt’s Speicher was received with critical acclaim. As were his releases that year on Philpot, Musique Risquée and Revolver. 2005 also saw the reunion of the Modern Deep Left Quartet on Wagon Repair, probably the greatest source of pride for the molito to date.

There is also what The Mole refers to as the ‘starchy root machine’. And with a little like that, it should spark some interest! Anyway, it is a performance in which a minimum of 5 turntables are all playing loops that are either manufactured or hand made. With this The Mole then manipulates them, in a traditional DJ sense, with some effects to bump it up (what he confesses is quite a psychedelic experience for him). And although he has, because of other projects had to put this endeavor on the back burner for a little while, he still gets questioned on when he will bring it back. ‘I’ve only ever don it in Montreal because I think the number of tables scares people and it is fairly experimental… though terribly techno as well’.

With his 2006 ‘In my song/Acadian’ being signed to a Sven Vath mix and a part time collaboration with Paddy from Cobblestone Jazz as the ‘Smokin Posties’ releasing their first remix on itiswhatitis, things were heading in the right direction for The Mole. 2007 saw further standout releases on Wagon Repair and late in the year a relocation to Europe, where he’d spent much of the summer months touring. Now 2008 heralds even greater things as The Mole releases his debut album ‘As High As The Sky’ on Wagon Repair and prepares to tour around it across the globe. Plus there’s the release of singles for Prins Thomas Ful Pupp imprint and there’s plans afoot to create a create diggers wet dream of a 7” label with fellow Canadian Koosh, code named Sticky Fingers.

In some ways all this begs the question of ‘why Bobby Orr and Rocked Richard’. In the end The Mole insists that he’s ‘just a hockey player’. Wait that’s not right! He doesn’t even play hockey. In fact, he can barely skate! But he does love music with a humble and honest gratitude that can be heard throughout his work.

Alongside:
Dane
Moe Lowe & Bron

$8 @ The Door

CHECK THE LINKS FOR TUNES & INTERVIEWS!

Great Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTO79E5ljLY

El Molito – Nice & Easy (7 Inches Of Love)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPOjyPfWCY

The Mole – Knock Twice (Wagon repair)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3839TLfy_70

The Mole – Hey Girl (I Feel So Good) (Wagon Repair)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLgdk3cZK4

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/eslamolita

Discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mole,+The

The Common pres. Get Down Saturday Night!

feat:

Girls Club
Raebot & Wjit
Dane

Welcome back to your Get Down Saturday Night! We have a special one for you this week with Sarah Keats Back from Toronto to complete the Girls Club trifecta of awesome! We’re super happy to have her back in Edmonton. As well, Raebot & Wijit make their new Common debut! Happy times ahead!

$5 @ The Door!

Come early to avoid line-ups!

Weekly DJ’s:
May 17th- Josh Johnson
May 24th- Ryan Wade
May 31th- Polyesterday
June 7th- Dan Pezim

Resident DJ:
Mr. Cleen

The list could go on for days but some bands that you are likely to hear are: Tanlines, The Weeknd, Cold War Kids, Bear In Heaven, Cut Copy, Van She, O. Chidren, Interpol, Cygnets, Miike Snow, Phantogram, Hot Chip, The Drums, Bombay Bicycle Club, A Place To Bury Strangers, Joy Division, Chromatics, White Rabbits, LCD Sound System, SBTRKT, Cults, HEALTH, Holy Ghost, Twin Shadow, The Roots, Danny Brown, Radiohead, and on and on….

Weekly DJ’s:
May 17th- Josh Johnson
May 24th- Ryan Wade
May 31th- Polyesterday
June 7th- Dan Pezim

Resident DJ:
Mr. Cleen

The list could go on for days but some bands that you are likely to hear are: Tanlines, The Weeknd, Cold War Kids, Bear In Heaven, Cut Copy, Van She, O. Chidren, Interpol, Cygnets, Miike Snow, Phantogram, Hot Chip, The Drums, Bombay Bicycle Club, A Place To Bury Strangers, Joy Division, Chromatics, White Rabbits, LCD Sound System, SBTRKT, Cults, HEALTH, Holy Ghost, Twin Shadow, The Roots, Danny Brown, Radiohead, and on and on….

Weekly DJ’s:
May 17th- Josh Johnson
May 24th- Ryan Wade
May 31th- Polyesterday
June 7th- Dan Pezim

Resident DJ:
Mr. Cleen

The list could go on for days but some bands that you are likely to hear are: Tanlines, The Weeknd, Cold War Kids, Bear In Heaven, Cut Copy, Van She, O. Chidren, Interpol, Cygnets, Miike Snow, Phantogram, Hot Chip, The Drums, Bombay Bicycle Club, A Place To Bury Strangers, Joy Division, Chromatics, White Rabbits, LCD Sound System, SBTRKT, Cults, HEALTH, Holy Ghost, Twin Shadow, The Roots, Danny Brown, Radiohead, and on and on….

Weekly DJ’s:
May 17th- Josh Johnson
May 24th- Ryan Wade
May 31th- Polyesterday
June 7th- Dan Pezim

Resident DJ:
Mr. Cleen

The list could go on for days but some bands that you are likely to hear are: Tanlines, The Weeknd, Cold War Kids, Bear In Heaven, Cut Copy, Van She, O. Chidren, Interpol, Cygnets, Miike Snow, Phantogram, Hot Chip, The Drums, Bombay Bicycle Club, A Place To Bury Strangers, Joy Division, Chromatics, White Rabbits, LCD Sound System, SBTRKT, Cults, HEALTH, Holy Ghost, Twin Shadow, The Roots, Danny Brown, Radiohead, and on and on….

OCCUPY COMMON
A pop-up Restaurant

5 chefs/ 5 courses/ $40

Featuring:
Andrew Cowan {100}
Adgar Guiterrez {Tres Carnales}
Nathan Suaruette {Jacks Grill}
Stu Chell {Ambers Brewing Company}
Jesse Morrison {The Common}

2 seating : 6pm & 9pm

All these chefs will be presenting a unique course of their creation for you to experience on this one night event.

Please email Alexis@thecommon.ca to secure your spot.

HEDSPIN & PUMP ON THE EH! YO! CANADIAN TOUR (EH! TEAM DJS)
http://theehteamdjs.blogspot.ca/

Hedspin (Reigning Red Bull Thre3style World Champion)
Pump (DMC and ITF champ)

Parties pop off anywhere nowadays. When they do, it’s best to have two of the most versatile DJs you can find to turn loose on the decks. Introducing Pump and Hedspin.
Brothers from some parallel reality, Pump of Calgary and Hedspin of Vancouver were likely drawn together by their shared Filipino-Canadian heritage, extreme amounts of time spent on the Internet and affinity for practical jokes – often on each other. But it’s their uniform excellence in the art of professional party-starting that permanently forged their bond. Why rock solo when you can swap cuts with your musical equal?

The lucky crowd at a Pump and Hedspin jam is the biggest winner in this arrangement, however, with partygoers potentially receiving twice the hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, disco, house, electro, rock, original edits, aggressive mixes, dynamic cuts, exhilarating back-and-forth interplay and massive payoffs they might have been ready for, but loving it nonetheless. Because to witness one of Hedspin and Pump’s sets played basically by ear, their intuitiveness and inventiveness on display for all to enjoy, is truly a treasured experience.

So whether it’s somewhere hot (like MTV Spring Break in the Caribbean) or cold (like Vancity during the 2010 Winter Games), in the middle of heated battle (Hedspin is the reigning world Red Bull 3Style king, Pump a past DMC and ITF champ) or somewhere in between – Rock The Bells, The Rub (NYC), LAX (Las Vegas), WMC (Miami), The Summer X Games (L.A.), SXSW (Austin) and CMW (Toronto) – it should be no surprise to find Pump and Hedspin mashing it up, joking around and blowing minds. Be sure to catch them together, solo or with one or more of their EH! Team brethren in 2012 – your ears will thank you.

With Support from:
Allout DJs
Sonny Grimezz

$8 @ the door

The Common pres. Get Down Saturday Night!

Featuring:
Dusty Grooves
Justinfoosh
Dane

Back at our usual Saturday Shenanigans with your very own Get Down Saturday Night! We’re stoked to have Mr. Dusty Grooves back to rock the house at the new spot. He threw down last time he was here so this night is not to be missed. 1 2 3 lets go!

$5 @ The Door