Saturday, September 23rd Love Infusion: Opel's LoveFest after party w/ Rennie Pilgrem, Hyper, General Midi and more...

The Love returns to San Francisco! One of our greatest parties of the year is always our Love event after party. This year looks to be no different, with world class talent in every room, 4 sound systems, and lots of extras, the love will stay strong into the night...

Discounted $20 pre-sales are SOLD OUT. Pre-sales now $25 HERE.

+_ added chill line up!

AMBIENT MAFIA presents:

Mo Corleone (Want It, Ambient Mafia)
Calamity Jane (WOM, Ambient Mafia)
Hickory vs Sixty4k (rEvolution, Ambient Mafia)
Seventh Swami (Want It, Ambient Mafia)
Speakeasy Ray (Hope Chest, Ambient Mafia)
Redstickman (FnF, Ambient Mafia)
4matt (ambient mafia, secret breakedelica)

About Rennie Pilgrem:

Son of a jazz trumpeter, Rennie Pilgrem started life playing tenor saxophone and sitting with his Father’s various bands around Southern England. Later after getting heavily into ‘black’ music he formed various funk bands playing sax and keyboards. Rennie's musical infatuation took a big twist when he heard the sounds coming out of Detroit in the late ‘80s. After making rudimentary House music on the wrong kind of drum machines with soon to be Rhythm Section members Ellis Dee, Richard Thake and Nick ‘Newton Scott, they had interest from (amongst others) the new British house label Guerrilla. Preferring to release their own material they formed Rhythm Section Recordings and became part of the wave of breakbeat house that went on to become known as Hardcore in the early ‘90’s.

Their third release ‘Comin’ On Strong’ was a anthem and would have charted top 40 if they’d known about ‘bar codes’ on records. With Ellis Dee the crowned king of rave DJs, Rhythm Section played at pretty much every main party between ’90-92’. On the same bill as The Prodigy, Moby, Altern 8, Shades Of Rhythm and Bizzare Inc. Their music was very big with pretty much every major DJ at the time, Fabio, Grooverider, Ray Keith, and Carl Cox etc. As the drugs sped up, so did the music. When the BPMs reached a ridiculous 150, Rhythm Section decided to call it a day and separately went back to making music at House tempo.

In 1993 Rennie founded Thursday Club Recordings (TCR) as a medium for putting out his own material. His first few releases were funky house with a smattering of breaks lurking in the background. Recording now as ‘Thursday Club’ he had a big tune with ‘Thursday Theme’, which was chased by Virgin.

A chance PA in Florida was another turning point in 1994. Hearing a thriving breaks scene at its original tempo galvanized Rennie into going back to pure breaks.

'A Place Called Acid' (1995) was one of the biggest breakbeat tunes around. With his pedigree as a member of the legendary Rhythm Section in the rave days Rennie's remixing skills are much in demand. He also set up 'Friction' with Adam Freeland, Tayo and Ian Williams which pretty much kick-started the whole 'Nu Skool' scene. He also coined the term 'Nu Skool' along with his fellow Friction partners as a way of describing their music.

He's released records on Whole9yards, City Of Angels, Chrysalis/EMI, Mob and China Records to name but a few. He's collaborated with many top producers including legend Arthur Baker (on 'Like No Other', 'Hey Funky People' and ‘Face It’), BLIM (on that massive 'Eskimo' track and the equally huge ‘2Freaks’) and with Meat Katie (on 'Rubba' and 'Atmosphere'). Following on from the huge ‘Black Widow’, Rennie also decided it was time to go back into the studio with Uberzone and their follow-up ‘Cous Cous’ received support from the likes of everyone from the Plump DJ’s to Pete Tong and Sasha!

He continues to DJ all over the world and wow audiences with his dancefloor-friendly funk-infused breaks sets. He is resident at Rome’s premier night, Agatha and runs a hugely successful club night, 'Hum', with Meat Katie, which takes place in London (the last one had 1400 people pack through the doors!). He is also part of the team responsible for the ‘Breaksday’ concept – so far 2parties have been held, one at WMC in Miami, which was one of the most talked about parties of the conference, and more recently at The Glade Festival, which was a huge success.

He has been voted ‘Most Valuable Person’ at The International Breaks Awards two years running and this year also picked up awards for Best Single (2Freaks) and Best Remix (for Emit/Collect which has just been signed to Universal).
Rennie released a mix album on Perfecto ‘Perfecto Breaks’ which received huge support across the board and his latest remix, of Ferry Corsten's ‘Rock Your Body’ got caned by all the top jocks. He has just finished his artist album for TCR (due out Sept 2004) as well as new collaborations with the likes of Lee Coombs and is set to mix the next in the ‘Y4K’ series– and of course he continues to be chairman of the local ‘Dwarf-Hurling’ association.

2003 saw his label TCR reach its 10year anniversary - an incredible feat for any independent label.

About Hyper

Twenty-Seven year old Guy Hatfield is a man with a mission. Heralded as the new Breakbeat leader of the pack and the hardest workingman in the UK dance scene, he continues to turn heads and push boundaries to great acclaim.

Hyper’s pioneering Y3K compilation albums secured his name in the dance scene as one to watch and spawned many copycat Breakbeat albums. Guy went on to surpass expectations with his world-renowned Bedrock Breaks CD’s and can lay claim to the biggest selling full price Breakbeat comps to date.

Hyper’s unique DJ sets, sliding between genres, have earned him the respect of fellow pioneers, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Timo Maas and BT (who lists him as one of his favourite DJ’s). Through shear hard work and over the last few years Guy has also achieved one of his main aims in taking Breakbeat from a backroom stalwart to a main room attraction blowing away many larger (and higher paid) jocks worldwide who commit to a more limited sound.

He regularly is asked to guest mix on BBC Radio 1 for DJ’s Annie Nightingale, Seb Fontaine and Fergie. Hyper frequently tours Stateside where he is considered as one of the (if not THE) scenes leading lights. He is a popular and frequent guest at the US’ largest clubs Spundae and Buzz. All this activity and profile lead to Hyper being chosen as the support DJ for Breakbeats biggest band, The Crystal Method on tour in the USA in spring ‘04.

In the studio Guy has been writing his much anticipated debut artist album. Recent releases on Timo Maas’ label 4:20 Recordings have proven a successful teaser of what1s to come. Guy’s production style contains the strong elements and main room crossover one has come to expect from his dance floor filling remixes. He has built on the notoriety of his mix (now a Breakbeat anthem) of 2001's biggest track 'Addicted To Bass', and other charting acts Filter and Joy Kitikonti. Hyper’s popular remix of Terminalhead was also chosen for a Radio 1 TV ad campaign.

Recently Guy has also collaborated with some of his favourite producers General Midi, Uberzone, Rui Da Silva and John Ross (one time production partner of both Sasha and BT), the results are groundbreaking.

Some genuinely great club remixes and productions have naturally attracted the attention of major labels and artist seeking to find a credible remixer for use on their artist forthcoming releases. Hyper first major label remix came for Pink ‘Trouble’ and ‘God Is A DJ’, remixed to such a high standard that Pink herself has asked that he be considered for remix duty on all her future singles. Also this year Hyper has remixed Sugababes, Paul Van Dyk, Sarah McLauchlane, The Crystal Method and BT.

Hyper also runs his own successful breaks label Kilowatt. Artists signed to the label include Terminalhead, Stir Fry, Flatliners, General Midi, False Prophet and MobileGazer – singles available now.

The promotion company Waxworks he set up is still the biggest in Breaks after 7 years. Guy is also DJ Magazine’s specialist breakbeat reviewer.

Hyper is one of THE best technical DJ’s in Breakbeat, expect much more from him and expect your expectations to be surpassed.