World Unknown

"A challenging and exciting music policy ." Time Out
“We like the cut of World Unknown's jib, especially when it comes to musical policy” FACT


Dr. Alex Paterson exclusive World Unknown-style set (The Orb/HFB)
Andy Blake exclusive live acid house set (Dissident, Black Editions)
Joe Hart DJ set (Bloc, Body Hammer)
Visuals from Mike Coles (Malicious Damage)

Acid house, new beat, EBM, cold wave, minimal wave, synth pop, proper electro and more

Due to the phenomenal response to Andy's free World Unknown download, here's a new equally stunning free mix from Joe Hart. Ignore at your peril:
http://disception.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9725&p=176183#p176183

February 12th  / 11pm - 5am / Secret location, Brixton, London / £5 before 12 and £7 after . Visit www.worldunknown.co.uk for address or emailmail@worldunknown.co.uk for address plus £5.00 guest list all night

World Unknown are very excited to welcome electronic pioneer, the good Dr. Alex Paterson. A punk and acid house veteran, Alex is the man responsible for bringing ambient music to Top Of The Pops, contributing to utter classic 'Naked In The Rain' by Blue Pearl and not forgetting, being a top class a fryer of noggins worldwide, with brilliant Orb records and outer-space live sets. Alex has kindly agreed to perform a one-off, World Unknown-style set. Expect dark 1980s body music with an Orbient twist.

Plus, Andy Blake will be tweaking the boxes with an exclusive, pure-analogue-old-school-acid house-live-set, and Joe Hart (Body Hammer, Bloc) will deliver his usual flawless, connoisseurs’ selection DJ set.

If all that wasn't enough, Alex is bringing with him Mike Coles, the designer and visual expert who also runs the longstanding, cult-classic record label Malicious Damage, home to The Orb, Killing Joke, Shriekback, HFB and many more. Mike will be transforming the already unique venue into a cerebral cocoon, with images befitting and complimenting the soundtrack.

Andy Blake AKA "the best thing since free cocaine" Vice is the driving force the much-loved, recently deceased record label Dissident London, described in his own words as "freestyle analogue electronic dance music". On the end of the label, he states:

"After 60-something records, 3 CD comps and absolutely no downloads, the time has come to put Dissident to rest. Bearing in mind that I started the label with virtually no plans or expectations, it's come a very long way in just over 2 years. A fairly hefty proportion of the artists involved have developed good reputations and have a got off to a good start in the game. The Dissident legacy is a bunch of great and varied records and a black and white triangle, and that seems as good a place as any to leave things. Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse and all that jazz. I'd love to be able to say that I was taking a nice long time off from running a label to concentrate on other projects but my head is already buzzing with ideas about what to do next so expect a new label very early next year"

Dissident releases include Andy's own pure analogue, acid house remix of Alexander Robotnick's 'Obsession', The Horrors' synth-laden remix of 'Akin To Dancing' by Heartbreak, 'Spessivtseva' by Naum Gabo (aka JG Wilkes from Optimo) and the leftfield dance anthem 'False Energy' byBinary Chaffinch, alongside the debut releases by Gatto Fritto, Cage & Aviary, Brassica, The Niallist and a host of other soon to be household names.

Andy also records as one half of Invincible Scum, Control Voltage and S.C.S. and has just released his debut solo single, Terror International, a pounding 18 minute industrial monster of a track that fits perfectly into the World Unknown soundtrack.

Joe Hart has an obsession with 80s dance music. He is heavily influenced by radio shows WBMX  and HOTMIX 5, plus other pioneering DJs of the era. Joe was a resident at the Brighton based Bloc nights which led to a residency at the now legendary Bloc weekender. He also runs London club nightBody Hammer, a good old fashioned Chicago jack party. Joe's involvement in World Unknown gives him the chance to play records with a darker industrial sound, reminiscent of tracks played in the European clubs that house didn't quite reach.

World Unknown is a monthly session presenting dance music in its most physical, emotional and cerebral form. Most importantly, no record ever played will be devoid of ideas and imagination. The often boring, characterless, drug-fodder nature of so much club music will not be present. Plus 12" versions of actual songs feature heavily.

The soundtrack takes in elements of Belgian new beat, jacking acid house, cold wave, synth-pop, techno and italo, and hangs out somewhere in the territory inhabited by Ron Hardy's wild, kinetic take on house in its prototype form at Chicago's legendary Muzic Box circa '83-'86 and the sound of Belgian clubs Boccaccio, Carrere and Ancienne Belgique in the mid to late 80s. Naturally Andy and Joe bring things bang up to date with their own unique take on things, digging deep into their expansive, labour-of-love record collections for those gems that nobody else is playing...yet.

The intimate, unique and somewhat strange secret venue in Brixton is perfect for this dance experiment. Away from the trend-hungry hipster hordes of Dalston and Shoreditch, World Unknown is indeed just that.

World Unknown is extremely easy to reach by public transport 24 hours a day.

Brixton tube is a 5 minute walk and the 35 bus runs all the way from Shoreditch to right outside the venue. Many other buses from all over London stop nearby.

For all press enquiries, contact Duncan Clark: duncanclark1@live.co.uk