02.26.11 MARTIN SOLVEIG
"Saturday" at Ruby Skye:: With Frenchy Le Freak
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$390 - 6 VIP Tickets, 1 Premium Bottle, Tax & Tip Included.
ABOUT MARTIN SOLVEIG:
Beginnings
Martin Solveig is a focused artist,
hungry for experience. His first DJ sets (a few nights on the decks of
the Palace club when he was 18) inspired a passion for electronic music
and an ambition to make a career in this fascinating, elusive little
world. As a student, he was successively resident DJ at Le Palace, Les
Bains-Douches, L'Enfer and Le Queen. Assembling disco classics and
“Guem” and “Carneiro” percussion, he soon learned to put together
small, very simple pieces and produce his first samples…
First productions
… Martin's first production efforts were persistent, but inconclusive.
Then, with the backing of friend and mentor Claude Monnet, he set up
his own label, “Mixture”, and finally made his name with “Heart Of
Africa”. This piece of percussion enlivened by raging saxophone riffs
won acclaim from influential electro players, such as Joe Clausell,
Frankie Knuckles and Bob Sinclar. Sinclar, who had just launched his
“Africanism” project with DJ Gregory, asked Martin to join the team. The
result was “Edony”, Martin's first hit, which sold 40,000 copies in
vinyl. A surprising track, telling the story of an Egyptian princess
over a derbouka backing, it reached the number-one spot in the French,
Italian and Greek club charts.
First album: “Sur la terre” (On Earth)
Now it was time to take the plunge and put together an album combining
these tracks with others, providing a wider vision of Martin's musical
world. “Sur la terre” (On Earth) was released in 2002. It included
“Edony” and “Heart Of Africa”, as well as “I'm a good man” (a powerful,
old-school soul track), the slightly melancholic “Someday”, and “Linda”
(a jokey Afro nod to his masters, Fela and Serge Gainsbourg). This
first album was a strong critical success, drawing unexpected reactions
from all around the world. It enabled Martin to work with
international producers such as Kenny Dope (Masters At Work), and DJ
Spen (Basement Boys) and also brought him offers of ambitious remixes
for Cunnie Williams, Soldiers of Twilight and especially Salif Keita,
for whom Martin wrote one of 2003's great club anthems, “Madan”.
“Rocking music”
Martin realised that he had reached a turning point, that it was time
to step back from African influences if he was to avoid getting stuck
in a rut or acquiring the kind of label that always sticks a little too
firmly to an artist behind their back. Another meeting with Jay Sebag
brought the possibility of a rewarding partnership that would allow
Martin to express his sometimes rather controlled (but uplifting) disco
streak. “Rocking Music” was released in October 2004, greatly widening
the artist's audience and winning over the UK public for the first
time. Backed by Mousse T, Pete Tong and Erick Morillo, “Rocking Music”
impacted on the 2004 Winter Music Conference in Miami, then swept
across Europe on the air and in clubs (BBC Radio 1 playlisted it with
high rotation).
Decks forever
Martin
never lets his producer's cap get in the way of his DJ headgear. An
artist endlessly roaming from venue to venue, he performs his music on
the decks, touring clubs worldwide. The 2004 Rocking Music Tour took
him to more than 20 countries. In Sydney , New York , Ibiza , Singapore ,
Barcelona , Zaghreb, London , Lisbon , Dubai and Paris , at events
ranging from a private party for Karl Lagerfeld to the open-air festival
of Carthage , Martin found unswervingly enthusiastic audiences, often
displaying different sensibilities.
21+ 9PM - 4AM @ Ruby Skye - 420 Mason St
Christian Presents,
San Francisco Nightlife
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