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Mr alleged "£150,000+ Millenium Pay-day" Superstar DJ is appearing at The Plug in Sheffield.
The tickets are a wallet friendly £8.00
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Price: £8.00 (Early Bird rate)
Door time: 10.30pm
Age: 18+
Woah. This is the big one. Even for a club of Plug's stature, who cram then in week in, week out with dance music's glitterati, it's very rare for a true epochal booking to float through. An artist who screams from the top of the premier league, a global music pioneer and one of the finest to ever usher in creativity to the craft of DJing; an unquestionable rave hero. Sasha is one of those.
There are few, if any DJs who command the respect, following and sheer impassioned support that Alexander Coe does. Back when the DJ was just the bloke in the corner in the midst of the acid house revolution, one of them was standing head and shoulders above the rest. At Stoke's pioneering rave Shelley's Sasha would spin for hours, mesmerising the hordes of clubbers who had travelled the breadth and length of the country to hear him segueing Detroit techno, acid tracks and the epic piano breaks of Italian house. The Hacienda may claim first dibs on the introduction, with Danny Rampling's Shoom pushing the family club vibe, but Shelleys had the first turntable hero of acid house, and he was Sasha.
As the Summer of Love blurred into the early nineties, Sasha would find himself becoming increasingly important. Mixmag labelled him the first ever ‘Superstar' DJ, and he was at the epicentre of the conversion from dance music from the fields and warehouses into the superclub meccas that defined the decade. Alongside John Digweed he mixed the first ever dance music mix compilation for Renaissance, putting the emerging progressive house genre at the forefront of musical ingenuity.
This would see him travelling the world, commanding huge fees and even bigger audiences as his mesmerising record collection and programming made him the world's most revered jock. The most recognisable face of Global underground, the one who allegedly commanded the biggest fee on the Millennium Eve madness, and better yet the most musically creative and technically proficient of them all, Sasha was the biggest DJ in the 90s, unquestionably.
Fast forward to 2009 and things aren't any different. Feted for his instinctive mixing at the height of his mid nineties fame, Sasha has embraced technology faster than most, utilising his own custom made Maven Controller for the Abelton Software package that allows him to remix, reedit and reconstruct the music he plays. He's moved forward with the times consistently, pushing back the boundaries on mix compilations, club performances and musical style, maintaining his status as the world's most creative sonic force. Ask any dance fan in the world, whether they are one of London's mullet sporting scenesters, an electronic aficionado from Berlin or a frequent raver on the sun kissed beaches of Brazil, and they will tell you Sasha is still the man like.
The tickets are a wallet friendly £8.00
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Price: £8.00 (Early Bird rate)
Door time: 10.30pm
Age: 18+
Woah. This is the big one. Even for a club of Plug's stature, who cram then in week in, week out with dance music's glitterati, it's very rare for a true epochal booking to float through. An artist who screams from the top of the premier league, a global music pioneer and one of the finest to ever usher in creativity to the craft of DJing; an unquestionable rave hero. Sasha is one of those.
There are few, if any DJs who command the respect, following and sheer impassioned support that Alexander Coe does. Back when the DJ was just the bloke in the corner in the midst of the acid house revolution, one of them was standing head and shoulders above the rest. At Stoke's pioneering rave Shelley's Sasha would spin for hours, mesmerising the hordes of clubbers who had travelled the breadth and length of the country to hear him segueing Detroit techno, acid tracks and the epic piano breaks of Italian house. The Hacienda may claim first dibs on the introduction, with Danny Rampling's Shoom pushing the family club vibe, but Shelleys had the first turntable hero of acid house, and he was Sasha.
As the Summer of Love blurred into the early nineties, Sasha would find himself becoming increasingly important. Mixmag labelled him the first ever ‘Superstar' DJ, and he was at the epicentre of the conversion from dance music from the fields and warehouses into the superclub meccas that defined the decade. Alongside John Digweed he mixed the first ever dance music mix compilation for Renaissance, putting the emerging progressive house genre at the forefront of musical ingenuity.
This would see him travelling the world, commanding huge fees and even bigger audiences as his mesmerising record collection and programming made him the world's most revered jock. The most recognisable face of Global underground, the one who allegedly commanded the biggest fee on the Millennium Eve madness, and better yet the most musically creative and technically proficient of them all, Sasha was the biggest DJ in the 90s, unquestionably.
Fast forward to 2009 and things aren't any different. Feted for his instinctive mixing at the height of his mid nineties fame, Sasha has embraced technology faster than most, utilising his own custom made Maven Controller for the Abelton Software package that allows him to remix, reedit and reconstruct the music he plays. He's moved forward with the times consistently, pushing back the boundaries on mix compilations, club performances and musical style, maintaining his status as the world's most creative sonic force. Ask any dance fan in the world, whether they are one of London's mullet sporting scenesters, an electronic aficionado from Berlin or a frequent raver on the sun kissed beaches of Brazil, and they will tell you Sasha is still the man like.
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