7 Inches: Subject

Published May 13, 2013

Twisted Pepper’s native deep house, disco and techno night Subject hits its big sixth birthday this month. With a history of impeccable bookings (including the Belleville Three, Shed and Levon Vincent), the monthly club shows no signs of greying hairs just yet. Here are honcho Ro Hayes’ seven deepest cuts read more…

Clubbing Features

The Essential: John Heckle

Published March 29, 2013

John Heckle has been around a while. The Liverpool-bred producer first appeared on record as a mere 16-year old back in 2006 with 'Poppadom Preach', released under the name Hek. That track was a slab of minimal jackin' techno; described with a wink and a nudge as bleepcore, though far more capable of destroying dancefloors than that tag would suggest. A residency at Liverpool's now-defunct Rehab club gave the young DJ time and space to perfect his skills, which eventually saw him bringing drum...read more

Clubbing Features

Interview: Morgan Geist

Published March 26, 2013

Morgan Geist takes having a good time very seriously. He makes good time music, dance-your-ass-off music, disco for the ages. He makes an art out of it. Born in New Jersey and resident in New York, Geist has been producing and DJing since the mid-90s but first came to prominence alongside Darshan Jesrani with their Metro Area project around the turn of the millennium. His music has fallen in and out of fashion since but he has stuck to his guns and continued developing his beautiful, deep, dan...read more

Clubbing Features

An Interview with San Soda

Published February 23, 2013

Ahead of his four-hour set tonight at Twisted Pepper, here's an interview with San Soda from last year. Details of tonight's gig, which also features Norman Nodge in the basement, can be found here: http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/events/3401/ Words: Joelle Molloy Tonight is my first phone interview with Belgian born DJ and producer San Soda, aka Nicolas Geysens. Tonight is also my first lesson in how to go from being beautifully early to horrifying late – in 60 seconds. The time zone penn...read more

Opinion

Hatred Of Music: Ireland – The Warm-Up Act

Published February 20, 2013

Emptyset played the Twisted Pepper last Friday night for !Kaboogie's 7th birthday and it was great. A short-ish set of chest-rattling bass and immense white noise, controlled by Paul Purgas and James Ginzburg. They took full advantage of the great system in the stage room of the Pepper with a dynamic approach to intensity. It was loud and quiet, harsh and soft, and everything in between. It was physical and cerebral. It was stunning. The depression set in even before we got home. Why is there no...read more

Features

10 Things Dublin Can Learn From Radical Science

Published April 10, 2013

Bricking over the Liffey, banning all televisions in town and just straight-up seceding are amongst the ideas Radical Science can contribute to Dublin life.