Hipsville 29 B.C is delighted to have Keb Darge as guest DJ at our next party on October 4th at Hør Hør.
In the early eighties Keb was voted the world’s number one northern soul DJ. Many of today’s classics started life as Keb Darge discoveries. In the early nineties he invented the Deep Funk scene which soon became a worldwide phenomenon. Again he led the way by discovering killer 45’s that nobody had heard of before. In the early 2000s he opened his “Lost and Found” night, which brought unknown fifties R&B, Rockabilly, Surf, and Northern Soul to the general public, and has since been copied worldwide.
Keb has been traveling the world as a DJ for a good thirty years. He has played to packed clubs in Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Kobe, Beirut, Dubai, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Moscow, all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada. To have him play for us is an absolute privilege.
In 1994 he began running “Deep Funk” every Friday night at Madame Jo Jo’s in Soho. A night that he successfully ran for eighteen years, and the night that transformed that venue into one of the capital’s most popular. In 2004 he began “Lost and Found” on Saturday nights at the same venue, and that night stayed packed until 2012, when he emigrated to the Philippines. These nights lasted so long because of Keb’s drive to constantly find new discoveries in order to keep the music fresh and exciting.
He has compiled over 30 albums of rare 45’s from the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Most he did with BBE records, but he also runs the New York based Kay Dee record label with Kenny Dope (Masters at Work), works with Beams records in Japan, and Do Right music in Canada.
He has partnered up with the likes of Paul Weller, RZA (Wu Tang Clan), Cut Chemist (Jurassic Five), Kenny Dope (Masters at Work), Pete Rock, DJ Shadow, and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings amongst others on these compilations.
He has also partnered up with Paul Weller, Jazzy Jeff, Masters at Work, DJ Shadow, Spinna, John Peel, Cut Chemist, Sharon Jones, and many others for DJ tours around the globe.
In 2015 his show on Soho Radio won the Mixcloud award for best vintage music show worldwide.
Now he has settled back in the UK and has a new musical master plan. He reckons that the styles he played before have been copied so much by less adventurous DJ’s that the customers have been saturated by hearing the same tunes over and over for too long. He has in recent years been amassing a collection of rare sixties garage punk, raucous rockabilly and wild surf instrumentals. A sound that has avoided the general clubbing world, probably due to the rarity of the records.
He already has two sixties garage compilations out, one that he did with his old mate Cut Chemist on BBE, and one for Ace Records, and has two more lined up for release soon, one for Madlib’s own label and another one for Ace Records.
Decks start spinning at 20: 00 til 03:00.
No cover charge and dancing shoes are optional but recommended!
Expect to hear some of the best 45's ever made!
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