The West End’s about to get a taste of what’s been getting Notting Hill’s hipsters in a
spin for the last 15 months!

The boys behind secretive soiree Nodisko – DJs/promoters Zak Frost & Magic Jase –
are launching a hot new

Central London party... Ultimo Disko. An Italian phrase which means ‘the last record’, it’s what the country’s
club kids shout at the DJ at the end of the night when they’re desperate for that one more tune.
It’s this sense of anything-goes dancefloor delirium that Ultimo Disko is about.

In keeping with the continental flavour, we’ll be showcasing some of the best lesser-known, yet up-and-coming, DJs and producers from all corners of the European underground. Kicking things off on the launch night will be an ultra-rare DJ set from the duo behind Reverso 68, Pete Herbert and Balearic legend Phil Mison. Responsible for a string of highly original Italo/disco-influenced club cuts and remixes under their belt, not to mention a host of productions and re-edits to come in 2005, their joint appearance is undoubtedly going to be a bit special.

Finnish design wonderkids Syrup Helsinki will also be providing eye-popping visuals and artwork for the night, so Ultimo Disko will look just as good as it sounds.

Come on in – the Disko’s lovely...

February 24th: LAUNCH PARTY! Reverso 68 (Phil Mison & Pete Herbert) DJ set + resident DJs Zak Frost & Magic Jase COMING SOON... Bjørn Torske (Tellé, Norway) // The Rev. Milo Speedwagon (Kiss FM / NoWave) // Guglielmo Mascio (Nu Funk Klan, Italy) GUEST BIOGS…

GUEST BIOGS…

Phil Mison: England's premiere Balearic DJ, Phil got his first taste of live DJing by warming up for Underworld's Darren Emerson at the Milk Bar in 1991. Perhaps the formative moment in the DJ's career came a few years later, when he met influential DJ Jose Padilla of Ibiza's Café del Mar in '93. Padilla invited Mison to Ibiza, where he began a series of residencies, setting him on a trajectory of chilled house music for which the Ibiza hang-out is famous. Mison is in fact credited with releasing the first-ever English chill-out mix, appropriately titled ‘Original Chill-Out’, and subsequently issued a number of defining down-tempo compilations, including the highly-regarded ‘Real Ibiza’ series.

As a producer, Mison has recently been stepping up his pace, issuing a range of tracks in recent years that have found their way into his ‘Café Del Mar’ releases. Together with Pete Herbert he is part of Reverso 68 who in their short but prolific recording career have issued the killer Balearic/Italo tune ‘Piece Together’ and remixed Bent, Stratus, Lazyboy and Manhead. Phil and Pete also record together as Frontera, and their debut album (not to mention Phil’s debut solo LP as Cantoma) is coming in the Spring.

Pete Herbert Pete's musical career began whilst at college in the south of England in 1991 DJing alongside Simon Lee (Faze Action) and Andy Williams (Yam Who) before moving back to his native London to run Daddy Kool, the notorious reggae shop in Soho for a couple of years before opening his own shop, the infamous Atlas Records, in 1995. In that time he cut his teeth production-wise with Atlas partner Nic Rapacciolli (one-time Leftfield member) as Bushflange, released 5 EPs for Hard Hands UK and did various warm-ups for Leftfield shows on their European tour of 1996 as well as releasing the ‘Atlas Earthed Vol.1’ compilation (Jumpin’ And Pumpin’ UK, 1997).

During his time at Atlas, Pete worked up a heavy schedule playing extensively in London and around Europe playing his trademark groove-based eclectica with residencies at Cake And Milk (Le Batofar, Paris), Dusted (The Blue Note, London), Far East alongside Gilles Peterson (La Scala / Fabric London), Perverted Science (The 333, London - featuring guests Rainer Truby, Peter Kruder, Funky Lowlives and Michael Reinboth) and Larger Than Life (Herbal, London). He’s also guested at parties for Sunday Best, Freerange, Hydrogen Dukebox, Jazzanova and Euro hot-spots the Culture Club (Ghent, Belgium), The Rex (Paris, France), Kerma (Helsinki, Finland), Amnesia & Café Del Mar (Ibiza, Spain), TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) and festivals like Tribal Gathering, Essential Festival, The Big Chill, Electronica Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark) and
Popcomm (Cologne, Germany).
As well as his Reverso 68 and Frontera production work, look out for forthcoming material as
Optimus and LSB Soundsystem.

About Nodisko... Having first appeared on clubland’s radar in November 2003, Nodisko has established
itself as one of the capital’s most exciting and downright daring little discos.

What started as an outlet for long-time promoter/DJ Zak Frost and new kid on the block Magic Jase to play the new electro-charged ‘post-house’ sounds and lost classics they loved has become a secretive West London institution, an intimate, inclusive end-of-week workout built on word-of-mouth - rather than hype - alone. They’ve also pulled in some of the most exciting DJs from the UK and beyond: Cosmo, Headman, Bjørn Torske, G-HA, Dax DJ, Guglielmo Mascio, Richard Sen, The Rev. Milo Speedwagon, Pete Herbert and The Zookeepers have all graced the club’s decks, spinning alternative sets of glossy Eighties Italo, forgotten disco from outer space, electronic punk, dub and European electro-house – a revolt against the dull deep house and Latin sounds which Notting Hill had become synonymous with.

It’s a delicious dancefloor brew which has seen the night voted one of London’s top nights out and third best night in the land in DJ Magazine. i-D, SleazeNation (RIP), Metro, The Guide and Time Out have also heaped praise on the club: ‘For music lovers, this is the real deal... Nodisko are setting the dancefloor alight!’ said the latter in a review of the night.

In 2004 the Nodisko DJs have made appearances all across the capital, including sets at Fabric, Turnmills, FESH @ The 333, MUZIK XPRESS @ The Cross in July, AKA (they hosted the venue as part of Laurent Garnier’s As One residency in December) and Cargo, where they threw their first
NODISKO LIVE event in September. Website: www.deepbluemusic.com/nodisko

About Syrup Helsinki... Established in 2001, Syrup Helsinki is a design studio offering graphic design, creative direction, art direction, brand development, interactive design, motion graphics and illustration.

Syrup Helsinki´s clients over the years have included companies and organizations such as Amnesty International, David Yurman, Escalator Records, Fabrica/Benetton, Fazer, Film Magica, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Finnish National Theatre, Image Publishing, the Koneisto Festival, Leaf, Le Shop (Stockholm), Nokia, Sony, Trans Europe Express Festival (UK), Vice Magazine (Sweden),
Warner Records, WSOY, Yakuta and YLE, among others.

They have held exhibitions all over the world, including UseAgain at Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp, Netherlands, November 2004), Business is Dead at Päiväkoti (Turku, Finland, March 2004), Typecon 2003 (Toronto, Canada, June 2003), Sonar Festival for Advanced Music & Multimedia, (Barcelona, Spain, June 2002) and The Museum for Modern Arts (Frankfurt, Germany, 2002).

Their work has also featured in Creative Review (UK), Design For Kids (Hong Kong), E-Project (USA), Étapes (France), Flips (Hong Kong), I.D. (USA), Interplay (UK), Muoto (Finland), North By North (Germany), Pictoplasma 1 & 2 (Germany), Rethink Redesign Reconstuct (USA) and ZOO (UK).
Portfolio: www.syruphelsinki.com