Club Educate presents the Irish leg of the Pornoground05 World Tour on Saturday April 2nd with 12ten in The Legal Eagle, Dublin. This event features international Wet & Hard DJ's Corvin Dalek, DJ Klang and John Gibbons alongside 12ten residents Al Keegan, Rob Hawk and Anthony O'Brien.



CORVIN DALEK – FLESH BERLIN

Mr Wet & Hard Corvin Dalek was born in the hot Hungarian capital of Budapest. His first DJ-gig as a young teenager, was in a disused railway station on the outskirts of Bodrog near Sarospatak on a bitter cold New Years Eve, 1988. It wasnt until the early 1990s that Corvin decided to turn professional. After a chain of frustrating experiences with inexperienced promoters, Corvin decided he wanted to have a bash at party promotion himself. There followed a series of successful parties and he promoted some of the first techno parties in Eastern Europe with his company Sunflower Promotions, together with his friend and partner DJ, Michael Burian. However, it was after a trip to the revitalised German capital in 1998, that Corvin decided to make his move to Berlin. It would be here that he could finally be creative and work on his new ideas. "Berlin holds an important point in Europe, it’s the place that binds old with new Europe, east and west. It is an extremely artistically inspiring city". In The Beginning In January 1999, Corvin mixed and produced, together with the Pet Shop Boys' producer Chris Zippel, the DJ-mixed MFS techtrance compilation "Assorted - E for Europe". This was the first technotrance compilation ever to be released on mini-disc format too and after its première appearance at the MIDI '99, it attained well deserved recognition within the music industry for its inventiveness, humour and musical excellence, with articles appearing in many music and technology magazines such as Fono, Billboard and Stereoplay. World Record Arguably, Corvin has probably the fastest hands in the DJ-business. During the Berlin Atonal festival in February 1999, he presented his project - Twelve Elements - this was his first attempt to set the world record by playing a set with 12 Technics turntables! Sadly for Corvin, the performance was not correctly recorded and so his world record couldn't be officially confirmed. Later that year however, he made another attempt during the first Berlin DJ-convention in the Casino club. This time, he officially set the world record, playing a set with only 10 turntables and leaving the record open for anyone who might like to try in the future. Pounds & Pénz Corvins debut single on MFS was Pounds & Pénz, which was produced together with Munich based DJ Alex Flatner. This innovative and groundbreaking single was released in March 1999. For fun, Alex had remixed the track for the "B" side and in the proccess, he unknowingly created the worlds first Wet & Hard record. Flatner’s Deutsche Mark remix has in the meantime, become the definitive version of the track and both Corvin and Alex have achieved respect and recognition from their peers, the world over, especially in England where, after it's first release on Blue Amazon's Convert record label, the famed BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong (Essential Selection) played it every Friday in his show for so many weeks, it became the most played track on his show, ever.

After the initial success of E for Europe, Mark asked Corvin to mix the 3rd ‘Assorted’ compilation for MFS. The theme this time was Berlin of the future. Corvin recorded Assorted Stadtansichten - a journey through Berlin on 4 Pioneer CDJ 500 -CD players and 2 Technics turntables. This album (a sort of, synthony of a city) presented a selection of various contemporary musical styles, which could be heard throughout the various clubs of the city at this time. This album too received a resounding response from both critics and fans alike and this time, it wasn't just for Corvins creative DJ mixing, but for the albums intricate and amusing artwork concept too, which Corvin conceived and designed with Mark Reeder. Taking the Berlin street names and changing them from statesmen to many of the activists of the original techno movement and those whose influence helped shape the techno scene. This album wasn't only commended in the international music press (in contemporary music magazines such as Raveline, Muzik or Xlr8r) but it was also featured within the highly selective pages of the New York Times, who in a hefty half-page article, praised the album for its creative design concept and inspiring selection of modern music, all to be found on an album dedicated not only to the Truemmerfrauen of Berlin (the girls who rebuilt the city by hand after the second world war) but the pioneers of the Berliner techno scene who rebuilt the sound of the techno-city in the heart of Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall. This album was the closing chapter on the 20th century for Corvin and Mark, and both saw it as a kind of adieu to the club-sound of that century. Corvin had decided that he needed to be able to express himself and his Eastern European roots more in his own music. It was now time to take some risks, have some fun and feel the thrill of the chase. Wet & Hard Internationally, Corvin was moving up and with him, his style was changing with each release too. The Pounds & Pénz remix had inspired him immensely to start something new and create his own style and he had discovered from his gigs, a new ideology and desire emerging from the clubs of eastern europe, where the kids dress sexier and the music policy is open minded. Corvin was eager to persue the idea of creating a challenging new sound for Eastern Europe and develop it in the future. This sound was already emerging, it was all around. It was a mixture of musical styles, but as no one could pin-point the sound with a simple term, Corvin and Mark decided they would have a go at giving this sound a name which would describe it - this sound meanwhile, has become known worldwide as Wet & Hard. Corvin explains how the term for Wet & Hard came about. "Mark and i were getting very bored with the constant repetition of dance music and it's lack of sex, style, excitement and imagination. As I am from Eastern Europe, I wanted to have my own sound that illustrated my roots. We were sitting in a normal cafe in the small town of Pardubice in the Czech Republic and we were flicking through some porn magazines, which were on general display, looking for inspiration, when in walked a girl wearing a skin-tight shiny black cat-suit and high boots. Five minutes later she re-appeared wearing a small French-maids apron over it. Mark jokingly said (as if speaking to her) "Are you wet? Cos I am hard!" and I said "Thatis it! We will call the sound Wet & Hard!" We had finally created a term which defined the fresh sexy sound of Eastern Europe and Wet & Hard sums it up perfectly." By the begining of the new millenium, Corvin had become one of the resident DJ's at the notorious and taboo-less XS club. This clubs image seemed just perfect for Corvin’s sound. In XS, absolutely anything goes (and anything comes too!) Playing his deep pornoid sounds with hip-thrusting drum patterns and powerfully pumping bass lines, to an extremely open minded crowd, he added fuel to an already highly erotic atmosphere. the effect was electrifiying! So much so, that Inflagranti Film were so impressed with the style and reactions from his music, that they asked him to perform as a DJ for one of their notorious video-films. Wet & Hard is thrilling, blatently sexual and very very stylish. It is a taboo-less sound, with no-holes barred. One could say it's the throbbing pulse of the Pornoground. Since Corvin was invited by Timo Maas to play with him at the Gallery in London, he's been busy DJ'ing all over the globe from Colombia to China, UK to USA (or from The Gallery to Gatecrasher!) Recent remix credits include Destiny’s Child – Lose My Breath and New Order – Krafty. Currently one of the most highly-rated DJ talents in the world, Club Educate were proud to be the first promoters to bring Corvin's Wet & Hard sound to Ireland, and continue to promote the sound worldwide.





DJ KLANG - MEXICO

1979 – 1994: disc jockey and owner of Disco Mobil Sound System, Mexico City.

1983 –1988: resident DJ in the following clubs: Keeper (Valle de Bravo), Magazine y Quetzal (Mexico City) and Taizz (Cuernavaca)

1987 – 1995: sound engineer for Sound Reinforcement, with some musical groups
and pop artists such as: Alejandra Guzmán, Yuri, Laureano Brizuela, Alejandra Avalos, Timbiriche and Pandora

1989 – 1998: DJ & producer of radio shows Nexus 6 & Tecnoplex, the first ones specialized in electronic music, broadcasted on 105.7 FM, a radio station at the Mexican Radio Institute, Mexico City.

1993. Enero – Agosto: DJ & producer of the electronic music radio show
Tecno Sector 96, broadcasted on 96.9 WFM, Mexico City.

1989 – 1998: creator, producer and part of the electronic music group EleEleTe, Mexico City.

1994 – 1997: producer of some electronic music events such as: Exseel (1995), Ecosistema the electronic festivals at the Ecologic Park Of Xochimilco (1996, 1997 and 1998) and the trilogy The Third Wave (1997), Mexico City.

1994 – 1996: producer and sound engineer at the sound post production studio
Nuvox, Mexico City.

1995: resident DJ at the Mystery Club / La Boom Discotheque, Mexico City.

1997 – 1998: DJ & producer of the radio show Contacto, the first electronic music radio show in San Jose, Costa Rica, broadcast on 979 Conexión on the 97.9 FM frequency.

1998 – 2001: producer and part of the deep trance group Cm3 from Luck, Mexico City.

1998 – 2001: creator and producer of the mexican electronic music CD compilations Toltecnica & Toltecnica Radical, on the record label Opción Sónica, Mexico City.

2001: creator of the record label Toltecnica Records, Mexico City.

1999 – 2001: teacher for the DJ Course at the music school G Martell, Mexico City.

2000 - July 8: first mexican DJ Invited to play at Lovenation / Loveparade, Berlin, Germany.

2001- April 5: release of DJ Klang’s CD Radiant Sphere EP, first release on Toltecnica Records, Mexico City.

2001- July 21: invited to play at the Loveparade, and to play for the second time at the Lovenation party, Berlin, Germany.

2001. July 21: release of the 12” vinyl DJ Klang – Radiant Sphere EP.
The first Toltecnica Records vinyl, Mexico City.

2001. October: Paul Van Dyk includes a DJ Klang track in his new mix CD compilation for Ministry of Sound Records, the name of the track is Change and is taken from the Radiant Sphere EP.
From 2001 to the present DJ Klang has been taking part playing as a DJ and as a live act internationally, at main electronic music events and festivals in Mexico, at Tecnogeist 2000 & 2001, Ecosistema, Equinox 1 & 2, Cosmic Eternity, Libido & Almas and Gemelas, Love Parade in Mexico and USA sharing credit with many international DJ´s such as Sasha, Paul Van Dyk, Green Velvet, Sven Vath, John Digweed, Dj Hell, Chriss Fortier & Jimmy Van Mallaghem, just to name a few.
DJ Klang has adopted the Wet and Hard sound as his own preferred style and currently plays at all the major Wet & Hard events worldwide alongside the pioneering names of the genre such as Corvin Dalek, Timo Mass, Oliver Klein, Eiven Major, John Gibbons and others.

JOHN GIBBONS – IRELAND

Following his inauspicious beginnings DJ'ing at school discos and 21st birthday parties, John Gibbons' rise has been meteoric, fast-tracking his way into the public conciousness and making a name as arguably Ireland's hottest young property on the dance scene.

Currently tagged as probably "Irelands hardest-working DJ*", and “Ireland’s answer to Corvin Dalek**”, Club Educate head-honcho John has guested in the vast majority of Irish clubs including PoD, Red Box, Temple Theatre, Radisson, Enigma, Rapture, Foundry, runs the hugely successful Vivid Vinyl tour nationwide, plays regularly in Europe and the US and has appeared on MTV Dancefloor and VIVA TV Europe. Gibbons holds down residencies in Lamouche (France), Forth (Miami), Technology @ TBMC (Dublin) and with the new Pulse club tour in Ireland among others.

A champion of the ever-expanding worldwide Wet & Hard sound, John produces and hosts his own 'Club Educate', dubbed “the world’s only dedicated Wet & Hard radio show”***) on Spin FM, Dublin (Thursdays 23.45gmt - webcast on www.spin1038.com) and regularly appears on 2FM and various other high-profile radio stations including Ministry Of Sound (London & worldwide), KFBK (California), Europa (Czech Republic), Fun Radio (Slovakia). John also has his debut release forthcoming on a major UK label which has received air-play on the majority of major Irish stations to date.

Playing regularly worldwide alongside names such as Roger Sanchez, Fergie, Corvin Dalek, DJ Klang, Paul Van Dyk, Hybrid, DJ Rush, Space DJ's, Timo Mass, Sandra Collins, Derrik Carter, Tall Paul, John 00 Fleming, Tomcraft and with confirmed future DJ bookings in America, England, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mexico, Canada, Hungary and Russia, John Gibbons is a name to watch out for now and in the future!

International press credits to date include DJ magazine, I-DJ magazine, M8 magazine, Mixmag, BBM, Bassline, USDJmag, Remix and full national exposure.

Recent high-profile gigs of note include Love Parade, San Francisco in front of 500,000 clubbers and Summer of Love festival, Prague where response was such that John has been booked already for next years entire Summer of Love series. Gibbons also recently guested alongside DJ Rob Hawk at this year’s Playstation Experience in Dublin’s RDS Arena, with Dave Angel and Corvin Dalek at the massive 3D 4 Elements event in Slovakia and a series of dates with VIVA TV in Poland along with numerous confirmed bookings in UK, France, Czech Republic, USA, France, Russia, Romania and Poland in 2005.

* Niall Redmond (Ministry of Sound)
** Mark Kavanagh (Trade, UK)
*** Mark Reeder (MFS/Flesh, Berlin)

Steven Gerome for Club Educate – February 2005-03-04