Warehouse Speakeasy / Chris Tofu (UK) Mortisville & Friends



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Hey guys MAF are back for our only festive show with a very special guest. All the way from blighty we are over the moon present godfather of electro swing and founder of Vintage Remix, Mr Chris Tofu! Having just been awarded an MBE by the Queen of England for his services to the arts over the last 30 years this maverick DJ out of East London is no less than musical royalty, helping to shape the the scenes at Glastonbury Festival, Boomtown, Bestival + countless others. He also co founded electro swing juggernaut, White Mink in the UK, started the first ever Electro Swing Club and shaped the UK’s burgeoning Vintage Remix. His DJ are epic and you can expect to hear the best and most fun tracks in the genre! For our MAF set we have a bunch of new tracks to play, complete with videos we have also got the chief who will be paying a special Swing Breaks set and the the pinnacle of galactic craziness Jalapeno Baby. Tickets are only 10 bucks if you grab them now and more on the door, much love and see you there for a celebration of all things Vintage Remix. ~Line Up~ Dj Chris Tofu Mortisville and Friends The Chief Jalapeno Baby + more to be ANNOUNCED DJ CHRIS TOFU Chris Tofu , is a maverick Dj out of East London. Dj’ing since 1995, from enormous stages to street corners, across the world. Started Dj’ing almost in reaction to the insanely obsessive DJ culture around early Techno and Drum and Bass, He just felt that DJ’ing was as much about “vibe” and talking to an audience as endless technical skills. For Tofu if youre not “inside” the tune don’t play it. Tofu has two lives, as a programmer of 1000s of bands and nights, some legendary clubs and festival stages and occasionally whole festivals, providing Tofu with the canvas to try all this crazy new remixed music’s, making people dance in front of the barrier to new and unusual sounds is the main Tofu goal. Tofu has run and Dj’ed till the cows have literally come home at festivals like Glastonbury (I run Shangri La, I programmed Lost Vagueness Music), Bestival, Big Chill, Sydney Festival, Boomtown, Lattitude, Lowlands , Wilderness, Shambala and Secret Garden etc . We also started the first Electro Swing Club in the world and Electro Blues Club THE VINTAGE REMIX “Throughout my musical life I have in some way been pursuing a remix of ancient culture s and new styles” Is simply for me anything remixed from the 1920s to the 1960s from dub to dub step. Between 1920 - 1950, there were millions of releases worldwide; the whole history of modern music all gathering dust . Tofu started the Electro Swing Club in London the worlds first club dedicated to these styles, whilst he is partner in White Mink a vast show mixing music with performance . Neither club has ever failed with years running in sold out gigs . In 2015 Tofu and White Mink created Vintage Remix Records which is now a part of the Island Records. We haved the biggest tapestry of great music to find remixers for and more/ DJ TOFU CV Some festivals - Glastonbury, Bestival and Camp (Main dance tent), Big Chill, Sydney Festival, Peat’s Ridge (AU), Ollinkan Festival (Mex), Lovebox, so many 100`s more Some venues - Koko, Cargo, 101, Voodoo Rooms, Melkweg (NL), FestiHalle (Berlin), Where Else (Thailand), Electro Swing Club - Book Club, Istanbul Babylon , hundreds more Some Artists Tofu Djed with with Caravan Palace . Parov Stella , Carl Cox, Fatboy and so many smaller guys he respects probably more . - Mixes Here - LINKS - https://www.mixcloud.com/DJChrisTofu/uploads/?order=hot Article on Dj Tofu - http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/skye-10352/chris-tofu-electroswing-club-2603/ Dj Tofu and Nick Freshley Squeezed On BBC Radio ONE http://core.thomaslaupstad.com/rob-da-bank-2010-11-20-electro-swing-special/ Dj Tofu the worlds first ever Electro Swing Radio Shows with Correspondents etc - http://www.mixcloud.com/continentaldrifts/electro-swing-on-resonance/ MORTISVILLE & FRIENDS Described as ‘effervescently unique’ by Vintage Remix aficionado Chris Tofu, there is no other act in the world like quite like Mortisville & Friends. Encompassing horns, synth, violin, vox and sax, the band have garnered a completely unique style, fusing the driving power of techno and tech house with a canivalesque backdrop of live instrumentation. MAF deliver shades of vintage remix, electro- swing, and jazz, in a joyfully flamboyant soiree of onstage mayhem and have wowed crowds at festivals such as Rainbow Serpent, Glastonbury, Womad and Symbiosis. Bursting onto the scene in 2012 at Rainbow Serpent, MAF have grown ebulliently, making the 2am Saturday night slot on the Playground Stage their own. Described by Eamon Armstrong of fest300.com as having the ‘raucous energy of a house party at the end of the universe’ they have flamboyantly mutated, harnessing a myriad of individual styles and throwing them into a celestial mixing pot of progressive good vibes. You will forget your woes; your strife and dance vivaciously till you ascend to another plane.