Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Meet Soul Clap



Live at Pygmalion Club, Dublin by Soul Clap

Elyte and Cnyce's paths were crossed for all time
when a Sun Ra light beam sent from Saturn
collided with the P-Funk Mothership and sent
them tumbling to earth. Now, Soul Clap time
travels on a musical spaceship of dopeness...

The early years.
As children on earth, they were driven to
understand the history of dance music and
found their teacher in original boston disco DJ
Caril Mitro who admitted them into the temple
of Vinyl Connection (whose members included
Dimitri From Paris and Frankie Knuckles plus
many more). Caril taught Soul Clap that "house
wears many hats" and instilled the sounds of New
York, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia while
fostering an addiction to digging that has become
a worldwide quest to acquire the best vinyl and
download every good song on the planetary-interweb.

Soul Clap's training goes beyond history lessons
to mastering all the elements of the DJ: knowledge,
 mixing, programming, performance and experience.
They honed their knowledge, Elyte taught a
college course about dance music and Cnyce
worked for UK booking agency MN2S.

In between.
They locked themselves in a basement until
their mixing was flawless and traveled the
universe observing the most advanced
programmers (Josh Wink, Carl Craig, Francois K).
Then they went out into the world to perform at Ministry
of Sound in London, Paradiso in Amsterdam, Avalon
in Los Angeles, Rise in Boston, and in smaller places
in New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Miami, Dallas,
Las Vegas, San Francisco, Chicago, Mars and Jupiter
plus dancefloors in other galaxies that you haven't heard.
20 years of experience has prepared Soul Clap to free
your mind, and your ass will follow.

The future.
By harnessing the past Soul Clap looks to the future,
with forward thinking productions and remixes,
creative DJ sets and some of Boston's best
dance music evets. Soul Clap released their first 12"
records on Airdrop Records, "The Giraffe", "die Ente"
and "Puppy Crack" receiving remixes by Franco
Cinelli, Tanner Ross and Mikael Stavostrand
respectively. Each summer they organize Dancing
On The Charles (one of Urb Magazine's six best
outdoor parties in the US) and every Wednesday
they host Midweek Techno (Boston's longest running
techno night). They also broadcast live to planet
earth on The Adventures of Soul Clap Podcast.
With more material coming soon on Aux-Rec
and Wolf + Lamb Music and with the return of
the "Soul Clap Edits" on Wolf + Lamb Black -
the boys aren't slowing down.

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