Headway - Fri 6th Nov - WILL SAUL (Simple) @ The Reading Rooms, Dundee

[Andy Barton]

Headway are delighted to announce Will Saul as special guest for this month as part of the worldwide Balance 015 Compilation Tour. Expect techy, trippy, melancholic and euphoric house/techno/dubstep. Headway is the only Scottish date in the tour and this is also Will's Scottish debut... do not miss this! As always extra sound and lighting will be installed for the night.

Headway
Friday 6th November 2009

featuring
WILL SAUL
(Aus Music, Simple Records, London - UK)

Balance Compilation Tour (Scottish Exclusive)

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Andy Barton
Neil Clark
Bruce Anderson
Graeme Binnie

The Reading Rooms
Blackscroft
Dundee

Doors: 9.30pm - Late
£8 before 11pm, £10 after
£1.50 drink specials until 11pm

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Will Saul is the producer and DJ behind Simple Records and Aus Music. His sound is based in deep dubdiscohousetechno with flashes of soul and irresistible melodies that hark back to the early days of Detroit (from Motown to Planet E). Over the last few years Will has gained an admirable reputation as not only a show-stealing DJ, but also a talented A&R and producer. He’s remixed for Chicken Lips, Jesse Rose, Manuel Tur, Chymera, Solomun, Steve Lawler, Phonique and Marc Romboy to name just a few. Remixes for Appleblim, The Juan Maclean (DFA) and Cortney Tidwell are also in the pipeline and will be released before the summer. ‘Zippo' by Will and Mike Monday was released on Buzzin' Fly in February and received wide spread acclaim and notably made the top 20 in the UK independent sales chart. Will was resident at the legendary End club in London for many years before it closed it’s doors in January. He starts a new London residency at Cable in May.

Will was born in Taunton, Somerset in 1978. Always surrounded by music, his musical path has developed gradually. Growing up his parents encouraged him to play the piano, sax and timpani, each of which he disliked at the time. He started buying records at eight - motown, soul, R&B, film scores - and diligently recorded the Top 40 on Sunday afternoons. Before his teens he’d begun collecting hip-hop and by sixteen was into dance. Trekking to clubs across England every weekend inspired him to get a job and save up enough cash for two turntables and a mixer. For such a passionate collector, DJing was a revelation. Two years later he won Muzik’s mixtape talent contest Bedroom Bedlam, having progressed his sound from lush, jazzy grooves and leftfield oddities to include deep, dubby breaks and broken- beats. After two years working in Sony International’s A&R department he left to set up a label with friends. They called it Simple, to reflect their open-minded intention to release good music, of whatever genre. It was while working at the legendary Koobla records, and then the fantastic Phonica, that he had his eyes fully opened to the wonderful world of house and techno. At the time the scene was being re-invigorated by producers such as Mathew Jonson, who Will quickly employed for his first remix.

Simple Records' musical focus is futuristic house and techno for the deeper end of the dance floor. As well as his own tracks, including 'Sequential Circus', 'Mbira' and 'Pause', the constant evolution of the label now sees Ian Pooley, Adam Marshall, Motorcitysoul and James Priestley & Dan Berkson joining the core roster. Over the course of 6 years and well over 50 single releases Will has commissioned remixes from Jeff Samuel, Argy, Gui Boratto, Sebo K, Isolee, Konrad Black, Jimpster, John Tejada, Tobias, Recloose, Tiger Stripes, Martin Landsky, Dixon, Roman Flugel, I:Cube and many, many more of underground house and techno's most influential producers.

Look out for Will's other label of love - Aus Music, designed more for albums and the home/car/headphones. Aus explores more leftfield sounds and has developed into a home or 3 unique artists – from the live dub of Sideshow (Fink on Ninja Tune), through to the layered, undulating techno of Sian via the heart warming, richly textured grooves of Lee Jones & his MyMy project.

Aus Music and Simple Records continue to go from strength to strength following autumn/new year albums from Motorcitysoul (Simple) and Lee Jones (Aus) and Sideshow. The double CD ‘Aus Music...All Night Long’ will be released in May. One CD will feature new tracks by Will and the core Aus roster along with exclusive tracks from MyMy, Roland Appel, Appleblim, Shur-I-Kan, Martyn, Brooks and an extra special remix from Lawrence. The Second CD will be a DJ mix of the Aus back cat by Will.

Look out for Will’s second full artist album in Spring 2010.

[Andy Barton]

Originally Posted by Resident Advisor

Will Saul has been announced as the next DJ in line to mix an installment for the Balance series.

You may remember the fuss back in March over Joris Voorn's 100-plus track mix for the Balance mix series, which now leaves Simple and Aus boss Will Saul the somewhat unenviable task of producing the follow-up. Saul has returned to the format favoured by former entrants SOS and Lee Burridge by penning a three disc mix, which takes in a host of styles and sounds.

We cornered Saul for a brief run-down on what to expect from the mix.

RA: What tack did you take with the mix?

WS: I wanted to take the opportunity of a triple mix CD (I needed 3 CDs to fit in half the amount of tracks that Joris used!) to try and showcase all the different styles and vibes of electronic music (and beyond) that I'm into. The mixes touch on disco (CD 1), organic dub/dubstep/house/soul (CD 2) and then techy, trippy, melancholic and euphoric house/techno/dubstep for CD 3.

I wanted to make it as timeless as possible so I've included a lot of gems from the last ten years of DJ'ing and collecting music and pieced it together with how I'm playing now and tried to make it all sound fresh and current.

I did the mix on Ableton but I wanted to avoid the overly polished/clean sound of a sequenced/automated mix so I bought a controller and recorded the mixes in real time so all the volume,EQ and dub FX are added in real time.

RA: Why did you decide to do a mix with the Balance series instead of, say, your own label?

WS: Running two labels myself I know what a big job marketing and licensing a triple mix CD is. It's something I'd always dreamed of doing in the future but the Balance guys asked me now so I jumped at the chance. The Balance series has a really well established global fan base so it was also an amazing opportunity for me to reach people that haven't heard me DJ or the music I make and release. I had total free reign on the tracks I selected for the mix and Dan from Balance has done an amazing job of clearing all the old/rare tracks I requested so it's been an absolute pleasure working with them.


Tracklist

Disc 1
01. The Irresistible Force - Sunstroke
02. Smith & Mighty - Anyone (Mellow Mix)
03. Lawrence - Laid One
04. Junior Boys - Work
05. Karma - Beach Towel (I:Cube Cosmix Marathon Remix)
06. I:Cube - Vacuum Jackers (Maurice Fulton Remix)
07. Chromatics - In The City
08. Studio - Life's A Beach (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)
09. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)
10. Cage & Aviary - Georgio Carpenter
11. Daniel Wang - Panoramic (Acid Dub)
12. Kerrier District - Let's Dance and Freak
13. Syclops - NR17
14. Tensnake - Holding Back My Love
15. Capracara - King Of The Witches (Rub 'n' Tug Remix)
16. Bostro Pesopeo - Falls (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
17. Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong
18. Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior (Junior Boys Dub)
19. I:Cube - Supernovac (Live at the Lanchonete Version)
20. Recloose - Get There Tonight
21. Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream

Disc 2
01. Isolee - I Owe You (Villalobos Remix)
02. Cortney Tidwell - Palace
03. DJ Koze - First Snow
04. Ricardo Villalobos - Minimoonstar
05. Lawrence - Rabbit Tube - (DJ Koze Remix)
06. Isolee - Pillow Talk
07. Konrad Black - Medusa Smile
08. Adam Marshall - Vespers
09. Mathew Jonson - Typerope
10. Will Saul & Tam Cooper - Sequential Circus
11. Precious System - The Voice From Planet Love (Dixon's Chic-A-Go-Go Edit)
12. Robag Wruhme - Robag's Bobb 2005 Fur F
13. Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable
14. Model 500 - Wanna Be There (Dave Angel Remix)
15. Will Saul - Mbira
16. Burial - Shell Of Light
17. Zomby - Test Me For A Reason
18. 2562 - Embrace
19. Pangaea - Router
20. Peverelist - Infinity Is Now
21. Pearson Sound - So Far Ago
22. Modeselektor - The White Flash feat Thom Yorke

Disc 3
01. Pangaea - Memories
02. Rhythm & Sound - King In My Empire
03. Geiom & Appleblim - Shreds
04. Sly & Robbie - Skull & Crossbones
05. Geiom - Reminissin'
06. TRG - Broken Heart (Martyn's DCM Remix)
07. Rhythm & Sound - Free For All
08. Atlantic Conveyor - Nasty Things
09. Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You (Black Science Orchestra Re-Edit)
10. Dapayk & Padberg - Island (Noze Remix)
11. Wolf + Lamb - If U Had (Shaun Reeves Edit)
12. No Regular Play - Lady Luck
13. Jordan Fields - I Wanna Thank You
14. Sebo K & Metro - Sax Track (Reboot Remix)
15. Motorcitysoul - Vivid (Roman Flugel's Desperate Dub)
16. Will Saul & Tam Cooper - Teddy's Back
17. DJ T - Bateria (dOp Remix)
18. Tony Lionni - Found A Place
19. Shonky - Coco Feel & Love Shonk
20. Seth Troxler - Love Never Sleeps
21. Morgan Geist - Detroit (Carl Craig Remix 1)
22. Liquid People - Son Of Dragon

Eq will release Balance 015 on October 19th 2009.

This Friday!

Few photos and videos from our last night:

YouTube - Headway with Silicone Soul vid 3

YouTube - Headway with Silicone Soul vid 2