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DDR is a Techno producer and live performer from London, UK. He was instrumental in defining the London Acid Techno sound in the early nineties whilst running with the FullOn and Bedlam Sound System.

DDR was the first guest artist to appear on Stay Up Forever Records & has been one of their most prolific artist to date. He is responsible for the old school infused Hazchem Records and the Punk Techno sound of COSHH label. DDR also fas many appearances on seminal Acid Techno labels Smitten, Cluster Routemaster, etc

His performances are distinct, improvised, real time remixes of classics from the back catalog fused with yet to be released material and music that is written only for the live gigs.
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Rackitt’s involvement in the dance scene has spanned well over a whole decade. An early introduction to acid house in the late 80’s and Rave in the early 90’s soon turned into a passion and almost immediately she started to learn to DJ. 1996 saw her play her first gigs on the free party scene with support from Acid Techno stalwarts, Aaron and Chris Liberator, both of whom introduced her to the Immersion sound system crew. It was only a matter of time before she was making a right old Rackitt! Over the next few years she was invited to play on other various reputable sound systems, such as Virus and Bedlam, before moving on to join the London squat party collectives Underground Sound, Restless Natives, Manik and Malfaiteurs making a name for herself as one of the most talented and versatile free party DJ’s. Her style, Hard Edged Techno/ Acid Techno, has taken her throughout the country playing clubs, festivals and the more infamous Teknivals as well as having the opportunity to play a selection of gigs overseas in Europe, Asia, Middle East, North America and South America. Aside from the traveling, Rackitt has also taken the opportunity to make her mark in the studio by recording tracks on such imprints as Powertools, Maximum Minimum, RAW and Pure Noise as well as remixing popular Acid Techno anthems such as D.A.V.E. The Drummer’s, ‘Build Up The Pressure’ and Ant’s “This Shit That Shit”.

This is the one you’ve been waiting for…

The 1990’s was a golden era for Acid and Techno, with some of the biggest tracks of the decade slamming their way through warehouses, clubs and festivals across the world, rippling like a fresh wave of cultural energy through our collective subconscious, imprinting upon us the feeling of collective empowerment that has lead us forward to this very day.

In the first event of it’s kind we will recreate these intoxicating moments and annihilating rhythms, and take you back to a place where musical rebellion was the key to our existence. Some of the best loved and most well known tracks in Acid and Techno history provided a scorching soundtrack to the 90’s. Now join us and witness them in the present, utilising cutting edge technology to provide brain rattling sound and retina sizzling visuals in an electrifying London warehouse, alongside one of the most exciting line-ups to date with legends from the era representing on full frequency undiluted vinyl all night.

Bringing you our newest concept with the heaviest levels of production that you will find on our biggest events, get ready for:

RETROFLEX
16/07/06
LONDON
ALL 90’S, ALL VINYL

1st tier tickets £10 + BF available from:
909 London: www.909london.com/Stay_Up_Forever/?event=61
Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?832178

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**NEWSFLASH** We have just had word that MISS DJAX will now be performing a live show at LONDON UNDERGROUND UNITED on November 21st!! As part of a very rare appearance in the UK, it has been years since THE QUEEN OF ACID has performed a solo live P.A. in England, so we are extremely excited about this!! With 4 exclusive live sets + 3 world class DJ’s, this is an event you cannot miss!! Grab your ticket now as this venue is limited capacity so don’t miss out!!

MISS DJAX LIVE! (Holland)
ANGY CORE (Italy)
CHRIS LIBERATOR & STERLING MOSS (Live)
D.A.V.E. THE DRUMMER (Live)
GEEZER PRESENTS JAH SCOOP (Live)
AARON LIBERATOR
MARCELLO PERRI

Stay Up Forever Crew have announced a new DJ/producer to their lineup. A trailblazer on the worldwide stage, and an important supporter of Techno and Acid for over 25 years, contributing massively by releasing the sounds of Chicago and Detroit into the European market and helping spread their message over the years. Her DJ & live sets are legendary and she is quite simply an icon of Techno & Acid history, standing fast across generations of dance music that has been and gone. One of the innovators who deserves maximum respect, give it up for The Acid Queen: MISS DJAX!!!

THE ACID QUEEN
Saskia Slegers, better known as Miss Djax, or as many say ‘The Acid Queen’, is living proof that age doesn’t necessarily always brings peace. For 25 years now, she has stomped on the face of techno and acid with hard punishing beats and radioactive sounds. The ferocious releases on her Djax-Up-Beats label helped Chicago and Detroit sounds gain foothold in Europe, as Djax Records was one of the first European labels to put out techno in the early nineties. Now 25 years later Djax can look back at an impressive catalog of over 400 releases!

ROOTS AND START OF DJAX RECORDS
Miss Djax started her DJ career at the age of sixteen. Her musical roots can be traced back to disco, funk and new wave. Being open minded and always on the hunt for the newest dance music she played a unique blend. Everything in her life was about music and at the age of eighteen she formed the band ‘B-System’, a new wave band in which she played the bass guitar.
Having worked in record shops for many years, Saskia met a large number of promising artists whose music never got released because, according to the Dutch record-companies, it was “not commercial” enough. That triggered her to start her own label and in 1989 Djax Records was founded. The first release was an album by the Eindhoven based hardcore hiphop band 24K (No Enemies, 1989). Only a few months later the first 12″ of Eindhoven producer Stefan Robbers was released on a new division of Djax: Djax-Up-Beats was born……

DJ OF THE YEAR
Miss Djax had her international breakthrough when she played at the notorious MayDay rave in Berlin 1992. With her hard and uncompromising acidtechno set she made a great impression at the promoters on-site. As a consequence she played the mainstage at all big international raves and festivals from that day on. One year later Germany’s leading dance magazine Frontpage declared her ‘DJ of the year’. In the following years her name was always in the international top 10 rankings.

CHICAGO AND DETROIT
In that same year (1992) Saskia went on a trip to Chicago and Detroit to meet her favourite producers in person and to see with her own eyes were it all had started. In Chicago she visited the famous Warehouse club with Armando, went to Trax Records, DanceMania, DJ International etc. while in Detroit she hang out with Carl Craig and Alan Oldham and visited all relevant clubs and labels there too. It was a great experience and after two weeks she went back home with a bag full of acid and techno tracks from producers like K-Alexi, Felix Da Housecat and Paul Johnson. Djax-Up-Beats became the first European platform for the producers from Chicago: a bunch of new talent like Mike Dearborn and DJ Skull as well as the old skool heroes like Steve Poindexter, DJ Rush and Spank.
Saskia started a cooperation with the legendary Warehouse label from Armando. Some of the most sought after Chicago house classics such as Work That Mutha-Fucker and Circus Bell’s were remixed by top-producers like Hardfloor and became a massive underground hit. Till today these records can be found in the record boxes (or USB stick) of many of the world’s top techno deejays.

LOVE PARADE
Four years in a row, from 1995 to 1998 she took part in one of the major techno happenings: The Love Parade in Berlin. In 1998 Djax even had the privilege to start at pole position! Many people will remember the 20-metres long red/silver Djax-Up-Beats rocket with 20.000 watt of acidtechno terror on board! Miss Djax also played two times, in 1996 and 1998, at the Love Parade end manifestation at the Victory Tower in front of millions of people.

NEDERHOP AND BREAKBEATS
Besides the worldwide respected releases on Djax-Up-Beats, Djax Records is also known for being the first company to release Dutch spoken rap-music, later called Nederhop. In 1991 Saskia discovered The Osdorp Posse that soon became the most popular rap-band of the Netherlands! In 1995 they won the Dutch Popprijs for being the most innovative Dutch band! Also ABN and Spookrijders were two of Djax’s successful nederhop bands.
Being open minded toward various styles of music Saskia founded two new divisions in 1997: Djax-X-Beatz and Djax-Break-Beatz. Both divisions gained success with Grumpyhead and Head First who both performed at the famous SWSX music convention in Texas in 1998. Dance (bigbeat, drums ‘n bass, triphop) combined with pop and rock. With these two new divisions Djax lifted up its position at the Dutch music market and both in 1997 and 1998 Djax Records received the Dutch Award for being Best Record Label.

ARTWORK
Not only the music but also the looks of Djax Records have always been important to Saskia. Since 1991 she is working with Alan Oldham, the famous illustrator from Detroit. Till today Alan made hundreds of beautiful illustrations and five Miss Djax comics for Djax-Up-Beats. Saskia also worked with Zender and the famous American illustrator Ed Repka, who is well known for his Megadeth album covers.

DJAX ANNIVERSARIES / AWARDS
In January 1999 Saskia received the Dutch Award ‘De Veer’ for her effort and work for the Dutch music industry. Later that year Saskia published her 10th Anniversary book ‘Djax Records The Power of The Underground’.
In 2004 Miss Djax celebrated the 15th anniversary of Djax Records by releasing her first mix album with 24 of her favourite Djax-Up-Beats tracks and 2005 saw the release of Miss Djax first artist album ‘RAW’ that included floorfillers such as ‘Sick of U’ with vocal support by DJ Rush. The album contained a new Miss Djax comic, again by the hand of Alan Oldham. Miss Djax promoted her RAW album with a European live tour.
The 20th Anniversary of Djax Records (2009) was celebrated with the release of the DVD ‘Underground Nation’. Compiled by Saskia, it contains 90 minutes of exclusive footage and is a true testimony to club culture. In conjunction Miss Djax proudly recieved a Gold Record for 1.3 million records sold in 20 years of Djax Records and a Gold Record for 40.000 albums sold of Afslag Osdorp.

THE X-FACTOR
Miss Djax’s second artist album ‘Inferno’ got released in 2008. Both singles of the album, ‘Hell’s Bells’ and ‘Headbangin’, became Record of The Month in Raveline Magazine. ‘Still Dominating’, together with Human Resource and ‘Stereo Destroyer’ in co-operation with Marshall Masters became international hardtechno anthems and rocked the dancefloors all over the world. Furthermore she mixed and released the hardtechno album ‘Kick Down Volume 1’. In the same busy year Saskia was asked to take place in the jury of the famous TV show the X Factor but she decided that a tv career was not her ambition (yet).

DJAX IT UP
In the nineties Saskia toured with her Djax it Up events around the world. In 2009 she decided to bring this event back to life and hosted Djax it Up stages at Ground Zero, Q-Base and Free Your Mind.

PET TRIO AND TECHNO CRUSADERS
Early 2011 Miss Djax formed a cooperation with the Brazilian Pet Duo under the name Pet Trio. Their single ‘Dance or Die’ set fire to many dancefloors. In 2012 Miss Djax recorded the album ‘Techno Crusaders’ together with the Canadian Patrick DSP and in 2013 they released the album again with remixes by Mark Archer, Chris Liberator & Sterling Moss, Pacou and many others.

2014 – 25th ANNIVERSARY
Last year Miss Djax celebrated the 25th anniversary of Djax Records with a European Djax it Up Tour. She released an old school acid vinyl (From Within) as a tribute to her loyal fanbase and made a remix for Chris Liberator and Sterling Moss. In that same year she also recorded some new tracks at the famous RichMusik studio. She released ‘Overdrive’ and ‘Forbidden Dance’ both accompanied by an amazing video. With these two releases she announced her new sound to the world and both got great reviews in Clublife and Fuzz Magazine.

2015 – NEW ALBUM
In October Miss Djax will release her new album (vinyl and digital) with a new Miss Djax comic by Alan Oldham. The album is a journey through Miss Djax favourite sounds and ranges from old school techno and fat acid to modern EDM influences. A unique blend between the past and the future by a true originator.

Pro techno is al jaren in een adem te noemen met oldschool techno / acid techno. Op 17 oktober nodigt Pro Techno de Britse bemanning van Stay Up Forever uit. In samenwerking met het grootste acid techno label van de UK haalt Pro Techno een aantal Stay Up Forever exclusives uit de acid techno scene naar Tilburg.

Chris Liberator is een van de grondleggers van het London 303 geluid, een leider van Rebel Culture en een icoon in acid techno. Deze man belichaamt de geest van acid techno en vertegenwoordigd al jaren deze scene. Na 20 jaar is Chris nog steeds volledig gewijd aan de acid techno waar hij, met de andere twee Liberators; Julian en Aaron, in 1991 deel van uitmaakte. Maak je klaar om te worden bevrijd door de machtige Chris Liberator!

Komende weken worden er nog meer namen voor deze avond bekend gemaakt. Houdt de pagina goed in de gaten voor updates.

LINE UP (BEKENDGEMAAKT DUSVER):

CHRIS LIBERATOR (UK) (Stay Up Forever)

volgende artiest wordt 29-07 bekendgemaakt !

Tickets: €10,- (Vvk) / €13,50 (avond)

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A brand new concept with Pro Techno invites the UK crew Stay Up Forever; bringing this high levels of production and earth shaking beats to the table. We are proud to present this highly respected artists of the acid techno scene and we get them to the Netherlands with this great acid techno edition of Pro Techno.

In our pursuit of bringing elements to life, we combine the most cutting edge components we can find, so we promise:

Stay Up Forever exclusives, an atmosphere with of pure love with slamming grooves and a great location at the Hall of Fame of Tilburg.

Pro Techno introduces one of the founding figures of the London 303 sound, a leader of Rebel Culture who has fought back from the underground, using his Punk roots to fire attitude into the belly of the beast we all know and love as ACID TECHNO. His relentless enthusiasm and tireless dedication to the sound has seen him touch every corner of the globe with his firing beats, and still after all this years his undiluted passion is evident when you see him behind the decks, rocking parties wherever he goes. This man truly embodies the spirit of ACID TECHNO, and for those of us who are involved and follows the acid scene, he is essential in representing this sound. Get ready to be liberated by the mighty Chris Liberator.

LINE UP (Announced so far):

CHRIS LIBERATOR (UK) (Stay Up Forever)

Next artist will be announced at 29-07 !!

Costs: € 10,- (Pre-sale) / €13,50 (Doors)

Stay Up Forever Collective & Elemental Parties join forces for a deliciously acidic techno night, with proceeds going to a very worthy cause. The legendary Club 414 will, once again be the venue for the carnage! Photo ID is required!
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Kicking off at 11pm – ?
We have a Tour de Force of DJ’s & LIVE P.A.’s to add fuel to the fire!!
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STERLING MOSS (STAY UP FOREVER/PROJECT303)
GIZELLE REBEL YELLE (STAY UP FOREVER/CLUSTER)
DARC MARC (STAY UP FOREVER/MAXIMUM MINIMUM)
BAD BOY PETE (GETAFIX/ANARKO DUB TECHNO)
OWEN ACID (WAH/WAH/AUDIO EARGASM)
SANE (DON’T RECORDINGS/OYABUN TRAX)
PAUL ELEMENTAL (PROJECT303/STINKYPINK)
ACIDBREW (MALFAITEURS/MANIK)
RICHARD TRAVERS (PROJECT909/AUDIO EARGASM)
MIKA SAHA (AUDIO EARGASM)

PLUS SPECIAL GUEST DJ’s TBC
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Drown in the Sound of the Underground
“THE ACID BATH”
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SUF Crew Payback Party
Friday 9th January 2014

Legendary Acid Techno record label Stay Up Forever is back for a 4th Payback Party with an ever cool line up, a raucous and lively crowd and blistering sound system of bashing beats. SUF owners Chris and Aaron Liberator will play alongside Rackitt and Sterling Moss spinning Acid Techno and Techno sets over 2 rooms. Plus we have a live P.A. and DJ set from “The Dice” and special guest DJ Roo.
Always a road block and free before 12, £5 after!!

Jamm
261 Brixton Road, London SW9 6LH
10pm to 6am

Free before 12, £5 after

Set recorded live on Stay Up Forever radio show “TEAR YOUR CLOTHES OFF”, presented by John Bromage AKA Product 19, from Kinetec old record shop in central London. June 2007.

MAXX – Tear Your Clothes Off on Techno.fm (Vinyl DJ Set) 2007 by Maxx on Mixcloud