Opel presents Infuse : Love Rules ! Opel's SF LoveFest After Party w/ Elite Force & Vandal

Opel takes to the streets once again for America's biggest dance event and one of the funnest days in San Francisco there is to be had. Now in it's 5th year, SF LoveFest continues to grow and blossom into an amazing day of dance music unity. And of course, we will be there to add our flavor to the day. The Opel float will find it's way to our spot in front of City Hall, and we'll do a rocking after party once again at Temple. Our guests for the weekend include tech funk master, the mighty Elite Force (Lot 49 / U & A Recordings , UK), joined by breaks powerhouse Vandal (Lot 49, UK), making his U.S. debut!!

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Elite Force Bio

Simon Shackleton’s Elite Force project began way back in 1996, debuting on his own newly founded Fused and Bruised label with a series of peerless 12s and remixes. After a successful five years,he put Fused and Bruised on the backburner to concentrate on production work, and following several years with Whole9Yards and Moonshine he became a mainstay recording artist for Adrift Recordings (formally known as Kingsize Records) before moving on to set up his own Used & Abused imprint.

Often credited for being a lynchpin in the developing the tech-funk genre (an amalgamation of breaks, house, techno and electro) he has released a series of highly successful singles in the past few years, finding broad support from DJs and musicians across the board, including the likes of James Zabiela, the Plump DJs, Laurent Garnier and Damian Lazarus. In addition to these solo singles, Meat Katie has been a regular collaborator with Elite Force, a relationship that had begun in 2003 with the massive-selling 'Toba'. As a remixer, Elite Force has always been in considerable demand, with re-workings for the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Crystal Method, Jungle Brothers, Stereo MCs, UNKLE, Infusion, Rennie Pilgrem, Shiloh and Dylan Rhymes all contributing to his reputation as one of the most creative and effective remixers around.

Elite Force's music has also been the soundtrack to many a movie, with a huge list of impressive A-list credits to his name, including the likes of the Matrix, Charlie's Angels, Arlington Road, Mortal Kombat, Crow, The Bone Collector, The Jackyll, Spiderman 2 and his music has appeared on a wide array of TV shows, from CSI to Top Gear, from Football Focus to LA Doctors. He's also soundtracked a number of computer games, including no fewer than 5 FIFA games, several of the Wipeout series, The Matrix,and Motorstorm 1, and he is currently writing some bespoke music for the sequel to one of the biggest games of all time......

On the decks, Elite Force has been a prime mover since 1990 when he cut his teeth playing huge student nights and self-promoted acid house nights in the South West of England, before moving up to London and ultimately gravitating towards his tech-funk style, with which he now has a full diary of global bookings and has become known as one of the top technicians on a circuit that has included massive shows in Hungary, Australia, Italy, USA, Czech Republic, India, Turkey, Spain, Japan and China, as well as numerous festival slots including Glastonbury, Coachella and the Glade. His bi-weekly strongarm sessions webcasts have become something of an intraweb institution since their inception back in 2001, and the most recent archives should be your first stop if you've not come across the Force in action before :)

Vandal Bio

Vandal

Born in Sheffield, Vandal, otherwise known as Sam Evans, started his musical career in his very early teens, playing guitar in metal and punk bands at any dive that would have them. Around the age of 18 Sam discovered Underworld & Orbital and his fascination with electronic music began.

Whilst studying at an art school in Cardiff in the late 90’s Vandal became involved with the Plastic Raygun group, a collective of dj’s, musicians, and film makers who went onto to form Plastic Raygun records. Sam eventually became Plastic Raygun’s label manager and from 2001-05 Plastic Raygun became a hugely respected, award winning label, discovering acts like Baobinga, Napt & Jean Jacques Smoothie. Plastic Raygun went onto release nearly 50 records, four CDs and in 2001 they had a massive top 15 hit in the UK’s national chart with Jean Jacques Smoothie’s “2 People”.

It was during this time that Sam taught himself how to produce and 2001 saw his first vinyl release. Sam’s releases and remixes through Plastic Raygun received amazing support from the breakbeat fraternity and beyond. DJ’s like Andrew Weatherall, Paul Van Dyke, Adam Freeland, Daddy G (Massive Attack), Plump Dj’s and Damian Lazarus all raved about Vandal’s eclectic/electronic style.

After leaving Plastic Raygun in 2005 Sam sent Meat Katie a demo of future single ‘Mad As Hell’ and Meat immediately signed it to his LOT49 label. The track went onto become one the biggest tunes of 05 boosting the profile of both artist and record label to another level. That summer ‘Mad As Hell’ was the soundtrack of breakbeat clubs around the world with all the biggest names in breaks hammering the record. As with previous Vandal releases this amazing support wasn’t limited to the world of breakbeat it went onto become a smash across the board. This included support from arguably the world’s most influential alternative DJ Zane Lowe. Zane cained ‘Mad As Hell’ on his BBC Radio 1 Show and Zane made ‘Mad As Hell’ his “Hottest Record in the World” and “Single Of the Week”. Sam even got to do a live interview on his radio 1 show!! It went on to receive over 25 plays on Radio 1, pretty much unheard of for an underground dance track. 2005 was topped off with a nomination for single of year at the International Breakbeat awards.

Sam’s next release for LOT49 was the equally huge ‘Obey’ which again became another breakbeat smash as well as receiving support from DJ’s from all genres including BBC Radio 1’s indie legend Steve Lamacq. A succession of remixes of some of breaks biggest names followed including Rogue Element and Metric and his huge remix of Meat Katie’s “Round & Round”.

In 2007 Sam upped his game to another level with his single ‘Idiots’. ‘Idiot’s’ proved once again that Vandal was a master of re-invention and delivered a track that kept the breakbeat community happy while also appealing to the fans of the noisy and eclectic French and German electronica scenes. Backed by a class remix from the well respected Audiojack the single became yet another dancefloor anthem. It even gained support from arguably the most influential electronic DJ in the world, Pete Tong. ‘Idiots’ went on to sell well over 6,000 copies on vinyl & mp3, which was an impressive feat considering the poor state of the music industry at the time. Vandal’s 2007 remixes of Elite Force’s ‘Return2Mindfunk’ and Mr Fogg’s ‘Seciov’, made their way into CD wallets of all the major players and by the end of 2007 Sam had DJ’ed all over the UK, Germany, Spain, Holland and the Ukraine. He also made his debut at the infamous Circle Club in Seoul.

As each year passes Vandal keeps coming back stronger. So far in 2008 he has released one of the most exciting tracks in recent times, a collaboration with the hotly tipped Blende called ‘Healthy Boy’. Vandal has also really established himself as one of the most exciting DJs in UK dance music. As well as Djing at some of the biggest clubs in the UK & Europe, he has had a succession of shows at Fabric. Fabric is easily one the most respected clubs in the world and since his debut there in 2007 he played there 9 times, an amazing achievement for a non-resident DJ. This has lead to him sharing bills with some of the biggest names in the world, including the Stanton Warriors, Switch, Adam Freeland, Felix Da Housecat, Hybrid, Plump DJ’s & James Lavelle.

Sam has two singles lined up for release after the Summer, ‘Captain Magic’ & ‘Bad Acid’, featuring remixes from the likes of Ruddi Stakker, Dopamine, Charlie Fanclub, Worthy (Dirty bird Records) and the mysterious Randolph & Mortimer. Vandal and LOT49 are planning their comprehensive campaign yet that will cross into the genres of house, techno, electronica and beyond. This will be the first stage in the build up to the release of the debut Vandal album, ‘Tonight We Ride!’

Opel / Qool / Lot 49 : Float Set Times

11:30 DJ Messiah
12:15 Kepi
12:45 Drew Drop
1:15 Scott Carrelli
2:00 Dex Stakker
2:30 Melyss
3:00 Silencefiction
3:45 Hoj
4:15 Spesh
5:00 Syd Gris
5:45 Elite Force
6:30 Vandal
7:15 Rennie Pilgrem

Infuse: Love Rules ~ Opel's SF LoveFest After Party Set Times

**PLEASE NOTE ELITE FORCE AND VANDAL ARE PLAYING DOWNSTAIRS IN THE CATACOMBS

Catacombs:
11:00-12:15 Syd Gris
12:15-1:45 Elite Force
1:45-3 Vandal
3-4 Dex Stakker

Upstairs:
10-11:30 Alixr
11:30-12:30 Scott Carelli
12:30-1:30 Hoj
1:30-2:30 Worthy
2:30-3:30 ICON

Destiny Lounge:
10-11:30 Tone
11:30-1:00 DJ IQ
1-2 Erik Rumors
2-3 Vinkalmann