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Fortitude Valley, 4006

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Empire & Adicts pres Break & Enter

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Empire & ADICTS present Breaks & Enter featuring Myagi (Canada) & Rob Reng (UK)

Cover Charge: $10/All Night
Members: $5/FREE Before 10pm

ADICTS is an emerging dance music promotions team focused on providing the ultimate entertainment experience. Responsible for the mammoth showcase that is their premier club night series, Breaks & Enter, ADICTS’ profile is rapidly growing in notoriety. With a strong foundation in the Australian dance music community, ADICTS is committed to becoming a prominent force across the globe.

The team comprises of three DJs and a technical media publishing subject matter expert with backgrounds in engineering, sales & marketing, information technology, printing and graphics design.

ADICTS formed in June 2006, the brainchild of five friends, who realised that there was much room for improvement in the delivery of dance music events in Australia and that between them, they had most of the skills, assets, affiliations, ideas and drive to be responsible for this advancement. Thus what was then, ADICT Crew, was born – an acronym for its members first names: Anthony Radaza, David Kuczynski, Iyan Barry, Chris Verner and Tate Brammer.

In September 2006, the ADICT Crew embarked upon their first club night event by joining forces with two other DJ and promotions groups. This event was of course, the infamous Jaq’d on Jorge which tested the very limits of the establishment, drawing a record crowd to the now defunct venue, Jorge on George Street. It was in the planning of this event that the ADICTS team met their final member – Sang Pham. With his inclusion, the team was aptly and appropriately renamed to “ADICTS”.

ADICTS launched their first club night event, Breaks & Enter, together in December 2006, and since then, the boys have taken the Brisbane Dance scene by storm, drawing records crowds to BarZuka and then blowing away all other competition in the breakbeat scene after a move to the GPO Hotel and a weekly format. Since it’s inception, Breaks & Enter has consistently drawn mass audiences and has hosted a plethora of popular international, interstate and local artists including NAPT, Alex Metric, The Skool of Thought, Koma & Bones, Rob Reng, Deekline & Wizard, Janette Slack, 30Hz, Ninelives the Cat, The Autobots, D*Funk, Cut La Roc, Tittsworth, Lady Waks, Ctrl Z, The Aquasky, The Breakfastaz, The Rogue Element, Vlad, Nick Thayer, Precision Cuts, Tamsin, Signal Drivers, B.L.I.M., Bitrok, Loose Screwz, Friendly, Diverted and Karl Sav to name but just a few. This all attributed to the event being celebrated by the Queensland public and ranked as Queensland's No. 4 Most Popular Club Night in the inthemix.com.au Top50 (ITM50) DJ Poll.

In mid 2007, ADICTS launched its Artist Management and Touring arm, the ADICTS Agency and began managing local DJs, musicians and MCs as well as importing exciting young talent from abroad to play in both Australia and New Zealand. Renamed to Blah Agency in late 2007, it represents a quality list of international artists including Lady Waks, Rob Reng, Friendly, Tom Real, Boogie Army, DJ Quest, RSK (Sonic Animation) and Vlad. Blah Agency also represents over 20 local DJs, musicians and MCs including the much famed Adicts Collective and internationally renown Bitrok.

This year has already proven to be a mammoth year for ADICTS with many unique projects including Shake n Break on Australia day (with the Brisbane Breakbeat Collective (BBC)), Yo-Play on Anzac day (a collaboration with Shifty Productions) and the launch of Breaks & Enter at the Velvet Underground in Cairns. ADICTS also have designs on two new club nights that are soon to be announced, and the highly anticipated Dümi Festival - a boutique festival which has been promised to be the epitome of the ADICTS entertainment experience!

Last but by all means not Least Big UPS to the extended ADICTS army who make everything at ADICTS possible: Emily & Freddy from TrailerMedia, Pete and Mark (aka the Signal Drivers), Darren (aka Disco Daz), Stephan (aka El Nino), Dom (aka DJL), Connor (aka Conjure), Christina, Trish, Kate, Greg, Paul and Marcus from the GPO Hotel, Joey (aka Lady Lex), Troy and Terry from ITM, Olivia from the Velvet Underground, Chris and Adrian from the Empire Hotel, Liam (aka Butterz) and Paul (aka DiLate) from Shifty Productions, Murray from Central Station Records & all the other addicts out there (you know who you are).

Hailing from Toronto Canada, Myagi ,aka Soleclaw aka Andrew Mavor, has been making waves in the Canadian breaks scene for years now, and has played around the world from London to Europe to the UK. Mavor lands on Australian shores for the first time chock full of break-beat chunk-a-funk goodness.

So what has Myagi got install for the Empire audience? Expect a happy surprise, people will think they are hearing something come in and out over a tune, then it will just blow up on a tangent!

Rob Reng has been tinkling piano keys since he was knee high, and if you see the size of the big man now you’ll realise that was some time ago! Since then his broad musical skills and knowledge have been put to use on a variety of projects, from doors covers bands through freeform jazz funk improvisation, onto DJing in the late ninetees and more recently live electro-synth work, sound design and TV composition.

Robs new material continues to push the boundaries of electro and breaks, combining elements of hip hop, funk, rock and electronica to outstanding effect. Already in 2008 the almighty ’Superflux’ has earned 5/5 stars in IDJ Magazine, and his remix of Wiesel & Captain Koma’s ’Nice’ was tune of the month in Mixmags February issue. The man has rightly become ‘In Demand’ for both remix work and DJ spots across Europe, and 2008 sees Rob embark upon a world tour, which is sure to demonstrate to the dance music world that this is one damn fine producer to watch!

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Saturday Afternoon Session
Reviewed on Saturday, 16 September, 2006 by Yug
Loved the: Atmosphere, Music, Bar Service, Door Staff
Nice: Value
Overall: Love it!
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