New Jackson, Rory Sweeney & The Outside
Button Factory
Friday 28th March
7:30 pm
Show Details:
Foggy Notions presents a celebration of live electronic music featuring New Jackson, Rory Sweeney & The Outside. PLease note this show is rescheduled to Friday 28th March. All tickets remain valid.
New Jackson is the lauded sonic poet of nocturnal romance, an artist who’s evocative machine soul has enjoyed a celebrated career both on and off the dancefloor. The impending release of his second album OOPS… POP! for Permanent Vacation now rewrites his own inimitable playbook from his current abode on Ireland’s south west coast to further affirm his status as one of electronic music’s modern visionaries.
Since his production debut under the alias back in 2011, Irish musical polymath David Kitt has released some of his most beautiful music as New Jackson. It’s an anything-goes electronic sound driven by an “MPC-mindset”; a hardware-obsessed vision of rhythm further clarified by Kitt’s unrivalled songwriter’s nous, impassioned love of ecstatic dance music and adventurous experimentation in the studio. The project’s origins date back to his time as part of Dublin’s ‘Thomas The Skank Engine’ crew (behind the now-legendary Dub Trax parties), a key focal point of inspiration that anchors Kitt with an underground mentality no matter where his music’s popped up since.
This all, of course, in tandem with his beloved live show; a spectacle in performance and sound that featured around the globe at places like Berlin’s Panorama Bar, Frankfurt’s Robert Johnson, NYC’s Output, Amsterdam’s Sugar Factory and Ibiza’s Pacha Destino as part of Solomun’s ‘Plus Live’ series. Then there’s the small matter of his near three decade-long DJ career; a passion of sprawling selections that expose his vast digger’s knowledge and defiance of genre frigidity that speaks to his versatility within the craft; as comfortable rocking festival main stages as he is spinning rockabilly 7’s in a dimly lit pub.
‘OOPs… POP!’ then is the highly anticipated sequel album, a refreshing new twist in the New Jackson oeuvre. Released with long-time collaborators Permanent Vacation, it is a concise triumph in techno-pop recorded across the span of five years and three different countries. Within the album’s 9 tracks, Kitt manages to transform his process into a leaner beast; tightening the screws around arrangements and songwriting to inspire an album sonically effortless in demeanour and spontaneously playful in structure and form.
Rory Sweeney is hard to define, having made a name for himself as one of the key artists in the Irish Underground. His solo music is both dramatic and playful, with glitchy electronics and cinematic balladry.
Mostly known for acclaimed production work for artists such as Sello, Curtisy, Kojaque, Aoife Wolf, Sloucho, EMBY and Pippa Molony, Rory seamlessly traverses mainstream and experimental sounds. He is the current AVA Festival Producer of the Year recipient.
Rory’s live set brings you to the otherworld, a place totally unlike our own. Expect textured atmospheres, glonked out club beats, heavy bass and moments of disorienting beauty.
The Outside is new collaborative project between musician/producer David Kitt and dj/sound artist Aoife O’Neill. Using field recordings recorded locally in Kerry as a starting point the pair stretch out in all manner of exciting electronic directions running the gamut from blissed-out ambient to futuristic club-ready bangers.
