2008 Wrap-up

Well, another year is almost done - so I thought what better time to update the blog! Lots of things to go through, so i've tried to keep it as condensed as possible!!

Firstly, just need to mention the party I DJ'd at the other night. The 20th of December saw me DJing at the Russian Bar, Kingsland Road London for "Freitag". The party was really good fun with the place packing out around 130/2am. Me and "The Smirk" aka Rik Vincent from Tweek!! played from 1230 til 2am, with residents James Monday and Dimitry Slyusarenko wrapping up the night. Before us was DJ's Ali Macdonald, Stuart Brazewell and Martin Lange - all of which played excellent sets too. Hopefully we will be back to play again at Freitag, so will get some photo's next time and do a proper review!

So back to the rest of year!

2008 has been more about the DJing and networking rather than producing tunes and releasing material on Kinetic Groove.

One of the big things for me in 2008 was the launch party for my label, which took place in April. Despite some hicups along the way and a fair share of problems leading up to and on the night, the party was a huge success with an excellent turn out of people. The party saw sets from Ben Hoo, as well as our most recent signing Paolo Bernacchia aka "Lord of Crows".

I've also been very lucky to travel out to Germany a number of times this year to DJ at the NFF club in Bremen. Bremen is starting to become some what of a second home for Kinetic Groove and as such saw the label throw it's first party outside of the UK - at the NFF Club, Bremen. What's better is the second Kinetic Groove party will now be taking place on the 7th of Feburary 2009!

I also have to mention quite possibly one of the best parties of 2008, of which I've met some excellent people and lots of great contacts. Rainbow Value was a free daytime party that took place at Brick lanes infamous 93ft East throughout the summer. The party attracted a massive amount of people, as well as some big name DJ's. What's more the party was all for charity, something that i've not seen in London before. Sadly the party is no more, but i'm pleased to say that everyone keeps in touch. Let's hope a similar party comes back next year!

More recently we've finally started getting the ball rolling with the Kinetic Groove website. The label has a fair web presence (myspace, facebook, this blog etc etc) but needs its own identity, instead of using someone else's layout and template. In addition to this the website will be a great way to promote the label's artists by means of podcasts, downloadable mixes, gallerys and so on. The website is still in the very early stages of design, with no launch date planned yet - I do however plan to have the label's first podcast available for download in the first part of 2009.

So that's it really for 2008, but what's going to be happening in 2009 at Kinetic Groove?

*Kinetic Groove returns to Bremen on Feb 7th 2009!
*The first Kinetic Groove Podcast!
*The Launch of the Kinetic Groove website!
*Kinetic Groove's 2nd Birthday - yes 2 years old!!
+ who's know's what else could happen!

A big thank you to everyone who has been a part of Kinetic Groove in 2008, 2009 is going to be an exciting year for the label - so stick around!

Happy New Year!

Stefan X
Kinetic Groove