total-niceness-bass-chronicles: June 2006

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Total Niceness : Bass Chronicles # 5 - Saturday 1st July with Woody / Dtism & Boy Wonder from Armitage Skanks

This month at Total Niceness // Bass Chronicles we are proud to welcome 2 of the Armitage Skanks crew down for the first time at The White Lion - Streatham's finest & only provider of top quality beats to shake your stuff to on a Saturday night !

Kicking off the night we welcome back a Total Niceness regular - South London's dj Woody. Woody was a familiar face over at our nights at Inigo and he's gonna be doing the business for us on Saturday busting out some upfront hip-hop to get the party started.

Next up we will be giving a warm welcome to the undisputed King of Breaks beards, Peckham's very own hairy cornflake & Armitage Skanks' no.1 Wookie enthusiast - Dtism ! If you have been down to an Armitage Skanks night over in East London then you'll know what to expect from this man - a family sized bucket full of funk filled breaks - very tasty stuff guaranteed !

Our 3rd guest for the evening will be none other than Armitage Skanks' resident bass-avenger Boy Wonder. Me and Boy Wonder will be delivering an eclectic peak time set for you to get your Saturday night skank-on, plenty of scratching action and 1.5hrs of classic dancefloor tunes are coming your way.

& Finally, to finish proceedings me and the main man Delsa will be mixing and scratching a 2 hour mash up session of breaks, old skool, hip hop and whatever floorfillers we can cram in before 4am - the usual top drawer beats from us two !

This is going to be the perfect place for your post World Cup quarter-final celebrations next week so make it a date and don't be late !!!

Full Line Up :
Woody
Dtism
Boy Wonder & iDLE
Delsa & iDLE

FREE B4 10pm - £3 thereafter - £1 NUS cardholders & OAP’s !!

The White Lion – 4am Bar
232 Streatham High Road, SW16 2BB

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=530193&y=171590&z=0&sv=sw16+2bb&st=2&pc=sw16+2bb&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

Rail : Streatham Hill or Streatham Station
Bus : 109 / 133 / 333 / 159 / 250 / 118 / 319 / 249

Info : 07751 654677 or 07917 567887

Delsa@another.com
info@intergrate.co.uk
www.thewhitelion.co.uk

Total Niceness ................................. A Brief History

Total Niceness started out as a back room project for the Intergrate raves that we were doing in the early nauties. We aquired the name from something we heard goldfinger saying on the radio a few years before. Started by Delsa and Luke Envoy, with support and encouragement from Benergy; the aim was to provide somewhere to chill out and wace about smoking spliffs and generally getting high whilst people were dancing like nutters to techno and such in the main room. Musically we wanted to provide a diverse selection of laid back but bassy music that you could dance to or just spin the fuck out. The early parties included sets of tripped out nu skool breaks and electro from myself and the Breaks Proffesor, drum and bass from Luke Envoy and fucked up electronic house from Tarek, as well as Vince and his totally horizontal philosophy. We recruited many miscreants on the way and slowly morphed into a party in our own right when we finally knocked intergrate on the head as we had become to lazy to dance to fast music anymore. Staring out at the mighty Medusa club in the back waters of Brixton, we then moved around such esteemed venues as the Imperial Gardens, The Viaduct, Jamm, and Mass and many dodgy places in between. Finally in 2004 we moved to a permanent home for Total Niceness at Inigo in Battersea and pushed the more dance floor sounds whilst still keeping the total niceness eclectic approach to music policy and selection. We moved on from Inigo after 2 happy and successful years and on to the White Lion in deepest darkest Streatham where we have spent the last year but we are now on the move again in search of a new home much like the inhabitants of the battlestar galactica, except we were not forced to flee by the cylons, rather by the incredible ineptitude of some the White Lions staff and security and by some of the proper inbreds that seem to inhabit streatham high road of a Saturday evening. Some of the reprobates who have played and contributed to Total Niceness over the years include in no particular order although Benergy does deserve special props: Luke Envoy, Idle, The Breaks Prof, Paul Torch, Gillotron, Tarek, Smut Roast, Rob Focuz and the apply the breaks crew, Rob Reng, Mjoogoo, Plazadefunk, Shaman, Henry Blocked Nozzle, Woody, Clive Morley (Wanker), LadyKilla, Scuba, Elemental, Deekline, Gus, Dtism, Ms T, Funkbudha, Collins 303, Unique 3, Andy Simmonds, Moldy, not forgetting the Colenal, Clair Honey, and Mike. I'm sure there are more and they will be added when I remember them. Special mentions also go to the girl that Benergy booked who couldn't actually mix, even more props to Luke Envoy though for telling her to get off the decks.