Farley Jackmaster Funk, the Chicago house man behind ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’, a track bursting with funk from 1987, is coming to The Sugar Club for a date, courtesy of Downtownsounds and Fatty Fatty Phonographics on Friday February 7th.
He was last here in 2007 and this time around you can expect “a 3 hour set comprised of early house classics as well as the vintage disco, italo and electro that you hear on his mid ’80s WBMX mixes.”
Support on the night is from Pablo and Lil Dave. Doors 11pm, €12 on the door or Tickets €10 from entertainment.ie . Facebook event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-OgG1A74c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJc21j6jNoQ
Farley Jackmaster Funk bio
Farley Jackmaster Funk is one of the originators of the house music sound. As part of the Hot Mix 5 DJ team in Chicago in the early 1980’s, he displayed his jawdropping 3 turntable technique to millions of listeners on their hugely popular Friday and Saturday night slots,spinning a wild mix of classic disco and early 80’s electronic dance music. In 1985 he made the move to production, using drum machines and sequencers and synthesisers to help create a new genre that we all know now as house.
In 1987 his ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ single went all the way to Number 1 in the UK, and and remains an all time classic to this day. His prolific output continued until the early 1990’s, when he began to concentrate more and more on the global DJ circuit.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Get these into ya: http://www.gridface.com/features/farley-playlists.html
Nice one chewmaster.