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JP & Jukesy: revisited Reported by London Dom / Submitted 27-01-06 00:12 Tidy London is just around the corned; it's time to forget 2005, throw out all those well intended new year's resolutions and get back into clubbing, tidy style! As the self-proclaimed kings of the harder generation take over Heaven once more, we take the opportunity to talk to two men making their tidy London debuts: JP & Jukesy. It's been a while since we last caught up with the midland pair widely regarded as the peoples’ champions of hard house, so I put the questions to Adam and Jon ahead of their big London gig. London, in terms of hard house, is often foreign ground to DJs who cut their teeth playing across the North and Midlands club scene. The thriving city has its own, unique scene, with a lot of clubbers who don’t often travel anywhere north of the Koko Club. How easy is it for two Birmingham guys to establish a reputation in the capital? Do you need to approach the London crowd differently to those further north? JP: Yeah London can be a tricky nut to crack, the crowd seem to be into a slightly different sound than up north. That’s not taking anything away from the London crowd; they really know how to party. Jukesy: In some ways can be a lot more challenging than the midlands, its all part of the fun. We’ll be taking a mixed bag of records to cover every option, good music is good music at the end of the day so hopefully we’ll win them over. This is your first showing at what is set to be the next big thing in London for 2006, with this, the first of four confirmed tidy London gigs. Being tidy DJs will you be looking forward to this gig more than most? What do you think tidy bring to the table that other promoters might not be able to? JP: Tidy events are always that little bit special for us. You know that if they are behind the event that they will have gone that extra mile to make the venue, production etc is that little bit better. Heaven is an amazing venue and were booth really looking forward to thrashing it out! Jukesy: We’ve always had a excellent response from clubbers at tidy events and they have given us some of our best memories from gigs so it’s always a pleasure. We were gutted to miss tidy London last year so theirs lost time to make up for at this one. Tidy have always put 210% into their events in every aspect and I think that shows by the leading position they have in the hard dance scene at the moment. Their production in both sound and visuals are always top of the tree for me so it’ll be interesting to see what they do with heaven which is one of my favourite venues in London. What with it being January, the obvious angle for any interview would be that of reflecting on the past year& Not being one to buck the trend, can you run us through your highlights of 2005? JP: All the weekenders really stand out from last year as well as sets at Polysexual in November for Tidy’s 10th anniversary tour. The Tidy boys were doing their Big Night Out tour in the main room and the venue was full by 11pm with the doors closed. Being in our home town also made it that bit special as we hadn’t played in Birmingham for ages beforehand. Another one worth a shout was Summer Parade in Norway, going through the streets of Oslo in front of 25,000 people at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon was pretty manic, especially as hard house was booming out the back of the truck! I won’t be forgetting that for a long time! Jukesy: If I had to pick one event last year apart from the ones JP has mentioned it would have been Tidy Weekender 7. Playing the main room at Prestatyn and absolutely ramming the dance floor from start to finish of our set was a real proud moment for myself and JP… I can remember taking over from BK and preparing our first track, which we always select for the occasion and decided on ‘Don’t Cross the Line’. Once that was dropped there was no turning back from the slaughter that occurred haha! Tidy also did the First ever UK New Years Weekender which was a big success and the Main Room @ Blackpool was probably the best layout club wise you could ever look for, let’s hope they visit there again sometime in the future. We also did the free mix CD for TW7 which has given us more hunger to get an official album done and put out, we also had another successful year with our own label Deprivation Records. Times are difficult for Vinyl sales at the moment but ours stayed pretty steady all thought out 2005 so much so we decided last year to start up a 3rd label, Deprived of Funk. You’ve been on tidy’s books for over a year now, having made a dramatic impact at their events which they just couldn’t ignore. How has your time with tidy been? Do you think you’ve managed to push on as much in the past year as you’d have liked? JP: Things have gone well with the agency, we always knew it was going to a bit of time to bed in so to speak. Big Shouts to Hannah & Simon though as they have done a sterling job and we have some excellent gigs lined up for the first few months of 2006. Jukesy: Things have definitely progressed forwards for us and I think 2006 will be a lot bigger for us than 2005. It was a big culture shock for me as I had handled all our bookings before we joined tidy so just passing everything was difficult, it’s worked out for the best in the end. Your year seemed to have all come together with a nomination in the upcoming Hard Dance Awards. What has the nomination meant to you and do you think you’re in with a chance of taking home a prestigious Golden Glowstick?! JP: It was a bit of a shock to be nominated as we didn’t know anything about it until we saw it on the Hard Dance Awards site, we are up against some big names such as Colin Barratt, Ben Stevens and Tim Clewz who would all worthy winners. Jukesy: It’s always nice to have something like this spring up on us, just goes to show all the hard work we put in is recognised a little, good luck to whoever wins… I’d like to think we were in with a chance but in all honesty I think it’s a one horse race… Where will we see 2006 take JP & Jukesy? Do you have some monster gigs lined up? Any goals you’d like to achieve? JP & Jukesy: Poly’s main room on Feb 11th with the Tidy Boys, Lisa Pin up & Karim will be a cracking event too, it’s been a long time in coming for our main room debut at one of our favourite clubs in the midlands as we have both been there religiously as clubbers before; the grass is always a little greener when it’s in your home town! Then just after that will be Tidy Weekender 9 which is going to be a monster gig. Prestatyn is home for everyone who’s anyone in March so looking forward to that. A 6 Hour B2b with the Tidy Boys would be pretty cool too haha! Now, over the years you’ve managed to forge a reputation as being the kings of filth, pushing to the harder end of the hard house spectrum. Being pigeonholed is often dangerous ground for up and coming DJs, is it something you’ve become worried about as the latest bookings come in? JP: No not at all, it’s a sound we have always been the fondest of and always will be. People that know us though are aware we can play chunky warm up sets as well as peak times sets also. We have also been known to play the odd bounce set as well too. Jukesy: I think we were pigeonholed a couple of years ago but we have worked hard to change that and I think people views have definitely changed. We pride ourselves on picking out the right tunes for the right occasion, whether that be warm up, main set or later sets. Everyone now knows whatever time we play they are guaranteed a set of good tunes; our warm up sets have gone down extremely well as of late. We are playing a mixture of different times at different clubs and this is proof that we’ve come out of that pigeonhole. People just know when we play late we just don’t hold back so the filth sets are that little more special now. Do you think that you might be partly to blame for any stereotyping that might have occurred over the years what with the choice of records you have played and, most obviously, the releases on your label Deprivation? JP: No not at all, we put out hard house records, that's what we set out to do and thankfully the label has done really well even through the tough sales slump at the moment were still shifting enough units to keep us going so its all good. Jukesy: Deprivation was set up at the time because there was a little gap in the market for harder hard house music, as time moves on so the does the label direction ever so slightly but that’s still its main objective. Deprived of Funk is Ready to go and Deprived Of Bounce may be in the pipeline too haha. Why not try and bring a little bit of doink into proceedings! Haha! A couple of years ago I was just into hard music where as for the past year I’m now a firm believer in variety so any productions this year may see I little change from my behalf.” Beyond hard house, what or who has been influencing you lately then? JP: Shockingly I’m getting right back into speed garage again which was my first love as well as tuff house. We have a couple of house sets booked in also for the summer so watch this space. Jukesy: My tastes have chilled out quite a lot recently, this is probably due to Queen Farley’s wise words that he feeds me! I’ve been well into electro, house and tech trance recently. My partner tries to influence me with Bryan Adams but it’s not catching on haha! I guess you don’t have to look any further than your new sub-label for proof that there is more depth to the JP & Jukesy sound. What should we be expecting from Deprived of Funk? When is the first record out and who have you lined up to produce for it? JP: Tuff warm up house grooves. Basically just house music that is a bit harder than normal. First up it's a double a sider from Digital kid on one side and an amazing number from aftermath on the flip. It will hit the streets early February as long as our designer get round and does the labels!! (Stuart where are you?) Jukesy: We will be opening up the label for people to send in tracks to so if anyone has material then please email me on Jukesy@deprivationrecords.co.uk, we will be looking at getting some of the sexiest of chunky funky hard house producers for future which will include ourselves, Digital Kid again, Tim Clewz & Paul Maddox. Right then, before we finish, word has it you have a new mix available to download & run us through what we will find on this mix and can you share the link with us please?! JP: We actually have two free mixes to download, as we haven’t done one for ages we thought we may as well do something different and do one each. The first mix by Adam is detailed below, my mix will be going up for download in about a week or so and expect a full on thrash down, it will be the full on 5am thing!! Jukesy: Yeah mine is just a collection of tracks I’m really into at the moment and initial feedback as been extremely positive, it includes tracks from Marco V, Richard Durand, K90, ourselves, and upcoming releases from our label from producers like Eufex, Digital Kid, Aftermath and Steve Maynard. It goes from 145–157 bpm, there’s 18 tracks on there in total and I’m really happy with it. You can download it now from www.jpandjukesy.co.uk and the track list is below: 1. Marco V – Red, Blue, Purple 2. Richard Durand – Make Me Scream 3. K90 – Bring on the noise 4. Disco Brothers – Music is my weapon 5. Aftermath – You got me (Deprived of Funk 001) 6. Signum – What u got 4 me (Untidy Dub) 7. Digital Kid – Nobody likes Records (Deprived of Funk 001) 8. Tim Clewz – Sock it to them 9. Abandon vs JP & Jukesy – To the floor (DVR014) 10. Abandon Vs Masmada – Control (DVR014) 11. Eufex vs JP & Jukesy – Uncontrollable (DVR016) 12. Steve Maynard & WMD – Bust that (DVR017) 13. Eufex Vs Masmada – Impulso Errato (DVR016) 14. Steve Gillian & WMD – Dirty Freak 15. Steve Maynard & WMD – Follow the Leader (DVR017) 16. Ben Stevens – Rewind 17. Daley Vs JP & Jukesy – Rust in hell (DVR015) 18. Eufex & Jay B – Vaccuum Packed (Daley’s Filthatron Remix) (DVR) Check back to www.jpandjukesy.co.uk in the coming weeks to download JP’s set! Thanks for your time, see you at Tidy London! Pictures courtesy of JP & Jukesy, Paul Underhill & tidy. Not to be reproduced without permision. EventID a49ab787db74decafd533425fc95fb63: No matching event found Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable. Comments: From: K8-e on 27th Jan 2006 00:25.25 Can't wait for Deprived of Funk!!!! From: Digital Kid on 27th Jan 2006 02:16.39 Good stuff boyz! From: funcimunci on 27th Jan 2006 10:30.36 Excellent interview & very cool photography! From: Moffman on 27th Jan 2006 13:32.40 Wicked interview lads. Look forward to seeing you both at Poly. From: James Ellis on 27th Jan 2006 21:42.42 Top blokes and truly versatile DJs. An inspiration to any future stars out there. From: Steve Gillen on 31st Jan 2006 12:14.54 Top interview. Good to see you boys doing well From: Demonix on 2nd Feb 2006 10:39.34 Goodwork fellas!! From: *Ollie M* on 2nd Feb 2006 16:44.03 Looking forward to seeing you guys at weekender. From: mattpickup on 8th Feb 2006 19:35.25 great interview !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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