THE ROOKIE 

Playing together for the first time in over 6 months, Hobbes & D'Viking commandeer the decks once more to demonstrate why they are one of the best DJing partnerships in Scotland.  The Rookie heads north from London once again to provide support.

With a simply stunning collection of guest DJs and live acts performing under the Trouble banner over the last 6 years (see a complete list of acts staged here), the Trouble crew will be raking through their massive collections to represent the strength and sheer diversity of their taste, focusing on the more club-orientated acts they've shared the stage with to work the dancefloor into a FRENZY. 

Expect to hear broken/breakbeat-style classics from the likes of Mr. Scruff, Bugz In The Attic, Quantic, Jazzanova, Aim, Fingathing, The Herbaliser, Troubleman, 4hero, The Nextmen, Lady Sovereign and Pablo/Butch Cassidy Sound System alongside the 4/4 beats and electronic grooves of artists such as The Unabombers/Elektrons, Crazy P, Ame, Dixon, Tortured Soul, Kirk Degiorgio/As One and Quarion, plus the best music of today and undoubtedly the odd surprise. 
it's a freestyle mix, but it's all about the party and it's all got one key ingredient: SOUL.

Trouble, we're future-retro.  Are you? 

11pm - 3am, £6/5 concs. CABARET VOLTAIRE, 36 BLAIR STREET, EDINBURGH Venue: thecabaretvoltaire.com / info@thecabaretvoltaire.com / 0131 220 6176

Trouble: info@getintoTrouble.com / 0131 477 6916

PADDY FREEFORM (UNIVERSAL VIBES) DOLLSKABEAT – LIVE SHOW + VISUALS BY MAX HATTLER HOBBES (TROUBLE DJs)  

For the first TROUBLE of 2008, we're going back to the (late) '80s and (early) '90s for our inspiration.  So many new records reference old favourites and we've been pulling out more classics than ever before of late.  So, expect many a vintage ACID HOUSE, ELECTRO and ELECTRONIC FUNK* record to crop up in the sets of DJs PADDY FREEFORM and HOBBES, alongside some current favourites and FUTURE CLASSICS for this special date.

TROUBLE has always been about looking FORWARD as well as back, so we're embracing the NEW WAVE properly with a full live show by electro-pop she-being DOLLSKABEAT, comprising vocals, live drums and backing singers/dancers plus VISUALS by multi award winning visual artist MAX HATTLER. DOLLSKABEAT has already pricked up the ears of a certain highly influential A&R at a certain major label as well as producers and DJs at BBC RADIO 1.

And Geordie-via-London, PADDY FREEFORM, has just developed his UNIVERSAL VIBES radio show into a label, with the first release selling out to the distributors in a snap.  

Trouble, we're FUTURE-RETRO.  Are you?

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NB. RE the residents squad, the rest of the Trouble crew have long since flown the coup, with the Rookie and MC Ratty B both now back in London, having finished their studies, Dom Flanagan firmly entrenched in a very full-time job and Hobbes’s original DJ-sparring-partner-in-crime, Erik d’Viking, spending the winter season in the French alps!  So, for Trouble DJs read Trouble DJ, with Hobbes currently steering the whole ship solo.  Just as well he relishes a good challenge!  

* RE ELECTRONIC FUNK – in the late Eighties and early Nineties, this music was called techno.  The Trouble DJs were big fans of the Detroit techno scene that cultivated this music - that's the good stuff and just as SEXY as good house music.  So, while electronic funk was a more common term in the early to mid-Eighties, alongside p-funk and original, old skool electro, after Messrs Atkins, May, and Saunderson had got their mitts on it, in Detroit, it became known as techno.  These days, people seem to be a bit scared of the word TECHNO, what always set Detroit techno apart from some of its European hybrids was the funk – hence electronic funk.

11pm - 3am, £6/5 concs. CABARET VOLTAIRE, 36 BLAIR STREET, EDINBURGH www.thecabaretvoltaire.com / info@thecabaretvoltaire.com / 0131 220 6176

DOLLSKABEAT

DOLLSKABEAT was conceived from a formation of well designed cells which contained special genes - equal part Belarusian, part Scottish, part Melody and part Beats. The hybrid of cells united and formed a unique she-being who was named at birth by the Belarusian Gipsies as DOLLSKABEAT. Soon after her birth, armed only with the Dollska-suit on her back, DOLLSKABEAT began trawling the earth in search of magical melodies, rhythms and beats. She gathered elements of all the most pleasing sounds from alternative Pop, Electronic, RnB, Disco and Classical music (discarding any unpleasant sounds) and soon had the ingredients for the Dollska-sound.

www.myspace.com/dollskabeat

PRESS FOR DOLLSKABEAT

'My Dancer', Top 5 Tracks Of The Week, 'Introducing', BBC Radio 1 & BBC 6music. Live session & interview scheduled. BBC Radio 1 (Vic Galloway), 31st Jan. 'I think this is the start of something very special' (Uche Uchendu, producer BBC Radio 1Xtra) 'I can't believe no-one has picked up on this yet'! (Muslim Alim, producer BBC Radio 1)

MAX HATTLER

An award-winning, international, German artist, film-maker and music video director based in London.  

www.maxhattler.com

PADDY FREEFORM

Paddy Freeform is the creator of the Universal Vibes imprint, member of the Ecler Pro Team and resident at Robert Owen's 2FeetDeep night in London, Loose Joints and various Universal Vibes events across London not to mention a presenter of various shows on internet radio.

After picking up the DJ bug while working in a record shop in the early 90's, Paddy Freeform has gone on to forge a career taking in several high profile residencies and playing at just about every open minded party in the North East of England, as well as promoting a good few of them... these days paddy has spread his wings, packed up his studio and moved to london to set up Universal Vibes.... initially conceived as an internet radio station 5 years ago, the site has gone on to attract around 50,000 hits per month, now includes editorial content...and from summer 2007 universal vibes will also be a digital record label with a packed release schedule worked out over the next 12 months.

Universal Vibes has also hosted events across london and our growing reputation (and indeed Paddy's djing skills) has resulted in several residencies around the city and dj appearances for paddy at some of the capital's best known venues, including the end, the key and egg in the last few months. He's also been active on the festival circuit in the last two tears playing at events such as Secret Garden. Bloom, Bestival, Snowbombing and the Lake Of Stars in Malawi.

last year paddy was also made a member of the ecler pro team and demonstrates the techniques and creative possibilities afforded by their equipment in live sets performed with ableton that see him re-mixing and re-editing on the fly, blurring the boundaries between dj and live performance paddy sound can only be described as freestyle, loosely based around deep and soulful electronic beats, taking in house, broken beats, latin flavours, new jazz and sometimes more downbeat styles such as hip hop and dub, all held together with an ear for quality and a depth of sound. However, no stranger to an East End warehouse party, Paddy can also devliever a straight up set of 4/4 dirty deep minimal and electronic house, as featured on his monthly show on universal vibes, "the shakedown sessions"

You can check Paddy out on one of his regular radio shows: Every Sunday 6pm til 8pm-Universal Vibes on LifeFM: 103.6 fm (London) www.lifefm.org.uk (online) Freestyle Blend (eclectic beats) on demmand at www.universalvibes.com (monthly update) Shakedown Sessions (house/techno) on demand at www.universalvibes.com (monthly update) Universal Vibes on Samurai.fm on demmand at www.samurai.fm/universalvibes

www.universalvibes.com

TROUBLE DJS

With his monthly Inner City parties at the awe-inspiring Weekend club on the top floor of an office block in the heart of East Berlin, Dixon represents everything that is musically exciting and good about uber-cool, neu Berlin.  He also co-runs the critically admired and fanatically adored Innervisions label with Ame and was formerly a resident at some of the city's most important nightclubs: E-Werk, WMF and Tresor.  He has released records on Sonar Kollektiv and Defected Records with Georg Levin (under the guise of Wahoo).  And, not content conquering the world with an exhaustive DJ tour schedule, Dixon recently showed electro, techno and minimal house fans his definition of house music by delivering the latest instalment in Get Physical's acclaimed Body Language mix series.

We've been hearing what a great DJ Dixon is for years and we've been foliowing his studio work since his remix of afrobeat champion Femi Kuti emerged in 2000, through his stunning Off Limits mix CDs, which first appeared when Trouble started at the Blue Note back in 2002, Wahoo's ace remix of Jazzanova with Vikter Duplaix's At Night and their Make 'Em Shake It club smash – the last two of which were big records for us in 2002 and 2004 respectively.  What's clear from the man's production work but possibly not obvious to the casual observer, however, is how closely his style matches our own at Trouble.  An excellent warm-up record, late-night 'floor stoker or bar-room head-nodder, Dixon's remix of Femi Kuti's Victim Of Life brings out the African rhythms in a dubby, broken beat style that still sounds fresh today; Wahoo's At Night remix is a bumpin' mid-tempo burner and Make 'Em Shake It a peak-time floor-filler in the broken beat/hip house mould.  

Dixon has become a standard-bearer for house music the world over but his interpretation of house goes right back to its Seventies soul, jazz, funk, disco and electronic roots, while also having its focus firmly fixed on the future.  Call it future-retro if you will; we've always just called it freestyle.  But, as that classic Fingers Inc record puts it 'house is a feeling' and right now Dixon is one of the best ambassadors for that sentiment in the world.

"In a year when the resurgence of deeply intelligent and soulful dance music appears to be blossoming, Dixon is emerging as the worthy ambassador and this mix will undoubtedly be the flagship… the best house music compilation you are likely to hear in 2007." (Inthemix.com.au)

11pm - 3am, £8 / £6 concs, CABARET VOLTAIRE, 36 BLAIR STREET, EDINBURGH

Venue: www.thecabaretvoltaire.com / info@thecabaretvoltaire.com / 0131 220 6176

Forum: www.getintoTrouble.com / info@getintoTrouble.com / 0131 477 6916