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From 6:PM to 11:PM Presale Tickets £15 On Resident Advisor & Crownmakers St John at Hackney Lower Clapton Rd, London E5 0PD Photo:Fergus McDonald Influence is an artistic and cultural project led by passionate activists looking to pro- mote electronic music in Europe. Its members aim to protect underground culture by gathering an eclectic mixture of local and international talents who share this ethos. It is by producing events of diverse formats, ranging from Sunday afternoons to regu- lar evenings, that Influence hopes to gather a diversified crowd made up of informed and open-minded people. For its first edition in London, Influence presents a pioneer of electronic music in the UK: Gerald is both one of the initiators of acid house music as well as one of the most respected artists worldwide in a genre that is exclusive to him. Influence also brings Frenchman and London based producer Danton Eeprom for this first Influence in London whose musical heritage reaches an aesthetic vision of electronic music. It’s only in a symbolic place for spiritual groove that such performance could be held, and in this outlook the church of St John of Hackney was the perfect venue to host the event. Seeking its spiritual groove, between occult vibrations & rumbling noise, Influence finds refuge in the church of St John Hackney (where beats meet angels). (Where beats meet angels) A Guy Called Gerald Manchester born and Berlin based electronic musician, Gerald Simpson’s life can be understood through his early influences. His Jamaican heritage gave him a passion for the battles parties in Man- chester while his adopted home of Berlin was industrial and raw. This led to his love for the machines which allowed him to master his craft. Founding member of 808 State, Gerald made his name in 1988 with Voodoo Ray. His first solo LP celebrates the dawn of a rave new world that reached England and the world alongside electronic music. In this genre, Gerald is a classicist. If you ask him ‘did you create the jungle style?’ he would res- pond that he is a hybrid mix of reggae, funk and techno. Though he is acclaimed for the birth of acid house, he would tell you it wouldn’t exist without the guys from Detroit. He even remains humble with the choice of his stage name. Some say his name came from the first radio show broadcasting of Voodoo Ray. As the radio host could not recall the name of the artist he finally announced: "Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald”. If Gerald did not create European techno, he is surely one of the initiators. If he doesn’t want to de defined by a specific musical category it’s purely because Gerald is well aware that his music has no equal-It’s just ‘A Guy Called Gerald’. http://www.guycalledgerald.com/ https://soundcloud.com/aguycalledgerald http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/aguycalledgerald https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Guy-Called-Gerald/51605353712 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHTKdrvAGs Danton Eeprom French born and a London based producer, Danton’s deep roots in modern electronic music surely recall the name of Oscar Wilde in literature. Danton’s perfectionism and aesthetic vision has built his unique energy with influences ranging from pop music to rock and new wave. His two albums Yes Is More in 2009 & If Looks Could Kill both released on Infiné along with about fifteen EPs gained him much merited notoriety. We say he’s a techno dandy never far away from blasphemes. http://dantoneeprom.com/ https://soundcloud.com/danton-eeprom http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/dantoneeprom https://www.facebook.com/dantonrocks?fref=ts Infos Contacts Lower Clapton Rd London E5 0PD. UK +44 20 8985 5374 http://www.residentadvisor.net/club.aspx?id=74656 PRESS CONTACT Alice Cabon Internal Communications Consultant MEOKO / meoko.net [email protected] +44 7534 767753 Alexandre Puig - Musical Direction Modern Jam Movement Collective Artistic Director - Influence [email protected] +33 6 10 60 30 80 Benjamin Clement - Art Direction Director of Creation - Influence softcapsule.fr [email protected] +33 6 98 16 24 90 Angel & Clement Lebailly Partnership & Production Raw Events London [email protected] +44 7798 852516.