Invol2ver UK Launch Party.
Date: 30th August
Venue: Ministry of Sound, London
Featuring an extended set from Sasha.
Other DJs include GU regulars Jim Rivers and Anil Chalwa.
Box:
Sasha (Extended Set)
DJ Three
Bar:
Anil Chawla
Jim Rivers
Dark Globe
Baby Box:
Warren Mooney
Sarah Rodin
Andy Newland
This will be massive event at London’s premier club the Ministry of Sound.
Mark this release date in your calendars as it’s not going to be one you will want to miss.
Get your tickets early to avoid disapointment!
Saturday 30th August. Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, London, SE1 6DP
Opening times: 23:00 - 07:00. Tickets £20 Advance
Below is an excerpt from a Ministry of Sound interview
It’s been four years since the last Involver album was released to critical acclaim, do you think the sound and the scene have changed much during this time?
Yeah, I think everything’s changed! I didn’t even go into the studio for a good two and a half to three years after the last Involver record was released and then we moved the studio from Florida to New York and it took us some time to find a space in New York that was going to work, so by the time it came around to working on the record a lot of things had changed for me personally but also generally, musically, there’s been a huge change in the sound. We spent a good part of 2007 just working on finding the direction and finding the sound and where we wanted to go with the record and that’s why we were working on a lot of original music last year, the Emfire stuff, we kind of used that as an exorcise in finding the sound for what Involver2 was going to be. Releasing that stuff on Emfire has helped set up this Involver.
You’ve almost answered my next question there! How did you approach working on Involver2, and what was your inspiration when getting down to it?
Well it came together very differently to the last record, when we put that one together we already had the first and the last tunes sorted very quickly early on, we had the Grand National thing and we had the Ulrich Schnauss tracks in place and it was a case of how are we going to get from Grand National to Ulrich Schnauss and what we should put in between, whereas with this record the final track listing only really came together last month of recording and we still added a couple of extra tracks right in the last few weeks of recording. I think the thing about this last record is I really wanted to cast the net a bit wider in terms of the artists we were looking at so I was listening to a lot of music that hadn’t necessarily come from the electronic music scene, whereas with Involver everything came out of my record boxes really. This time I was listening to a lot of music away from the places where I’d looked for the last record, and that is where we found things like Telafon Tel avive, Ray Lamontagne, The Engineers; those tracks came out of trying to dig in places that maybe I hadn’t looked for the last Involver.
Have you had much feed back from the artists featured on the CD?
Well everyone’s approved it, all the managers and the bands have requested that they get copies of the mixes very quickly and I think its been met with approval. I haven’t had any direct feedback from the artists but I think everyone is happy!
Were there any tracks that you wanted to include but that you couldn’t squeeze on or find a place for?
There were a lot of tracks that ended up on the cutting room floor, as I said the whole track listing didn’t come together until the last minute so there was a lot of other music that we had the parts too but that didn’t up fitting on the album in the end. Luckily though we’ve been able to do a limited edition CD and so four or five of the tracks that we had finished but that didn’t really fit on the first album have gone on there. Its meant that most of the music we worked on ended up seeing the light of day but there were definitely a few tracks that we had the parts too but that we ended up not mixing because the track listing took a different direction.
