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Filthy Dukes
Filthy Dukes host Kill Em All, a night they started nearly 4 years ago, born out of their love for bands like The Rapture and Roxy Music and labels like Out Put & DFA. "It's about music played in the right way, with passion and full of ideas." "We have always put equal emphasis on booking bands and DJs, with neither one being more important than the other." This passion for independent music plus the popularity of Kill Em All earned the Filthy Dukes success in their own right and they now have a residency at Fabric as well as playing all over Europe and various remixes under their skinny belts. Kill Em All is always packed out with a party hearted art school crowd of dressy ravers and blissed out indie kids.
Kill Em All has now been at Fabric for two years taking over room 1 or 2, as well as monthly at its original home The Barfly. The Filthy Dukes were the first UK promoters to book and get behind emerging talents like Justice and Simian Mobile Disco as well as bands that went on to become huge names such as Bloc Party, The Rakes, We Are Scientists, Test Icicles and The Long Blondes. They have always managed to predict what is just round the corner musically. In 2006 their line-ups included, Para One, Lo-Fi-Fnk, The Maccabees, Erol Alkan, Larrikin Love, SebastiAn, Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Jackson & His Computer Band, Goose, Klaxons, Metronomy, the Long Blondes, Shy Child, Hadouken, MSTRKRFT, Late Of The Pier.
The Filthy Dukes, emerging from Kill Em All with a residency at Fabric, have gone on to support Mylo, Hot Chip & Who Made Who on their UK tour as well as being the first DJs invited on an NME tour with The Rakes. They have supported LCD Soundsystem, Soulwax, 2manydjs, Felix Da Housecat, Glimmers as well as playing along side Justice and Simian Mobile Disco at Kill Em All as combined residents. They are regular DJs at Dazed & Confused parties, "getting Björk to dance to Johnny Cash A Boy Named Sue was pretty cool". They have played most of the Major European festivals and already have plenty booked in for 2008 for return visits.
As well as playing at Fabric 10 times in 2007. They have also recently become residents of Razzmatazz in Barcelona and continue monthly at Kill Em All at the Barfly in Camden.
Filthy Dukes are also co-promoters and residents at Adventures in The Beetroot Field, who have hosted tents at Glastonbury & Bestival as well as creating parties on a boat on the Thames, taken over the whole of Fabric and recently put on a free warehouse party for 2500 people.
They are currently in the studio starting on their first productions of Filthy Dukes original material. It's the first chance they have had in the last 2 years to work on their own music and are already very excited by the results. Up until this point they have managed to squeeze in a few remixes and have very much been learning their trade as they go. They are the first to admit that they have a lot more to learn and are working hard to create something amazing for their first release.
To date their remixes include; The Rakes - 22 Grand Job, The Rakes - All Too Human, Trabant - The One (Dub & Remix Radio Edit), The Maccabees - XRay, Foreign Islands - We know You Know It, One:Two - Oh Hot Brain.
The Maccabees remix which was for a promo and only available to a limited fan base has become a bit of a cult classic with 20 requests a week for MP3s from Filthy Dukes' MySpace, regularly played out in alternative clubs across the UK and strangely it was also used as the theme music to a major Ch5 TV show. Their remix for Trabant which has never been released in the UK was used as the A-side release in the band's home country Iceland, and reached number 7 in their charts! "We still aren't sure if that's good or not?!" After many requests their first remix of 22 Grand Job by the Rakes, was recently re-released on vinyl and remains an indie disco classic.
The Dukes' DJing style and content has definitely grown & mutated too, many people still wrongly associated them with indie and as indie DJs, but having played some of the biggest and best clubs in Europe their style has changed to fit. Always difficult to define and label you could say they mix a combination of Electro, Punk Funk, Acid House, Twisted Disco and some Techno with a few surprises along the way. Their pure energy and overt love of every record they play always translates to the crowd and the mutual energy can be seen by the great reaction they always receive. The Dukes' playlist, which is frequently updated on their MySpace, changes every night they play as they only build a rough idea of a set with a few key records the rest is added depending on reactions and the club and crowd.
Source: Coda
