Went to see Tricky and got papped with two living legends and personal heroes - DJ Mek and Aoife Nic Canna. Hip Hop, House music, electronic music, the craft of playing records, the sense and taste to know what to play, to who and how, I do not care who you are but if you're Irish and you're in this thing you're a footnote to what these two achieved and they've likely seen you come and go.
A legend of the game @executivesteve
Few names have been as synonymous with Jungle and Drum & Bass music in Ireland this past twenty years as Executive Steve’s. Cutting his teeth in a variety of venues during the mid 2000’s through warmup slots for legendary crews like Bassbin, he become a resident at Bodytonic’s prestigious MUD night, all while running his own party Tribe alongside his friend and musical brother Bonz. A label of their own - Ancient Ways - and the rave reviews of its only release brought a spate of well-received Irish festival appearances in its wake, as well as performances in Poland, France, Germany, Canada, Croatia and the UK. While his promoting days are mostly behind him he is a well known face in the booth, having shared it, his needles, his whiskey and occasionally the mic alongside practically every household name in the community of tasteful Jungle and Drum & Bass music, as well as plenty more from outside of it.
After nearly seventeen years as the host of the long-running An Fuaim show on Raidió Na Life 106.4FM he can also reasonably legitimately claim to be one of the most enduring voices in Irish electronic music radio, as well as being the figurehead of one of the longest running Drum & Bass FM radio shows in the world. He has appeared in several documentaries about electronic music in Ireland including “Underestimated” and “Notes on Rave in Dublin”, and alongside his MC duties for the Irish Soundsystem Gathering he has participated in panel discussions on politics and protest in electronic music culture, electronic music history and urban renewal at events like the Make A Move Festival, Body & Soul, and the Limerick Spring.
Tickets in bio 🎟️🎫
Solidarity with the Yamamori Izakaya massive in their battles against the Hoxton. Setting up shop in the middle of a busy nightlife street and running fo Court to complain about the noise is the most contempible act of shithousery I can imagine and we must not take this lying down.
B2B #5 - Tonight, @ulstersportsclub@stu_undadog & @executivesteve
These men make it all look easy, with a combined knowledge that would make even the most seasoned heads struggle to keep up.
A B2B that I've wanted to hear since we started AMEN, and that's quite some time ago now.
An education and masterclass is what I'm projecting.
Ticket link in bio, although can pay on door if need be.
We got you covered. 😉
See you on the floor xxx
Chill & Nephilim DnB Show returns with a special warm up show before tonight's Amen b2b spectacular at Ulster Sports Club, Friday 21st November.
We are super excited to be joined by Executive Steve. Fans of Executive Radio will be overjoyed to hear him play b2b with Underdog at Ulster Sports and we’re super excited to have him in for a pre-gig warmup.
We are live from 8pm GMT on the Mighty Skank FM. Perfect warm up vibes for the Amen B2B special….Tickets available now.
Big cru ting @ulstersportsclub on the 21st of November.
Our first time in the main room, so we thought it would be fun to get a whole bag of heads together for a B2B session all night long. Soundclash vibe. 🔊🔊🔊
Headling the night are two of my favourite heads on the island, extremely excited to hear what they have in store for us. I would imagine these two have forgotten more tunes than we even know, so we're in for a treat.
Bringing in bass reinforcement too, as always. Will be some steam. 🥵🥵
Also, big ups @sp0rcizia for the artwork as always. Killlllller.
Hope to see you all on the floor xx
Arguably the hardest working man in Irish Drum & Bass but if he treated it like a job he’d most likely get sacked. Few names have been as synonymous with Jungle and Drum & Bass in Ireland this past twenty years as Executive Steve’s. Cutting his teeth in a variety of venues during the mid 2000’s through warmup slots for legendary crews like Bassbin, he became a resident at Bodytonic’s prestigious MUD night, all while running his own party Tribe alongside his friend and musical brother Bonz. A label of their own - Ancient Ways - and the rave reviews of its only release brought a spate of well-received Irish festival appearances in its wake, as well as performances in Poland, France, Germany, Canada, Croatia and the UK. While his promoting days are mostly behind him he is a well known face in the booth, having shared it, his needles, his whiskey and occasionally the mic alongside practically every household name in the community of tasteful Jungle and Drum & Bass music, as well as plenty more from outside of it.
After nearly 17 years as the host of the long-running show on Raidió Na Life 106.4FM he can also reasonably legitimately claim to be one of the most enduring voices in Irish electronic music radio, as well as being the figurehead of one of the longest running Drum & Bass FM radio shows in the world. He has appeared in several documentaries about electronic music in Ireland including “Underestimated” and “Notes on Rave in Dublin”, and alongside his MC duties for the Irish Soundsystem Gathering he has participated in panel discussions on politics and protest in electronic music culture, electronic music history and urban renewal at events like the Make A Move Festival, Body & Soul, and the Limerick Spring.
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Pitch037 Release Party w/ special guest Chinese Daughter
21/03/25
2300
Racket
CHINESE DAUGHTER
PITCH037
EXECUTIVE STEVE
FLAVRJAY
RUB A DUB HI-FI
Tickets available on Resident Advisor.
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NO PHONES OR FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY - Please avoid the use of phones and flash photography in the space.
inhabit the space.
inhabit the moment.
inhabit the mind’s eye.
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🎨 @xbxbax
#event #dublin #nightlife #electronicdancemusic #drumandbass #jungle #140 #inhbt
Was an Honour to have @executivesteve over for the stream! Thrilling watching him mix!!! Technical, dark, dirty and fast! - Huge respect to the Don 👊 Mix on SoundCloud - Link in Bio - save that mix for the next pre drinks!
Always a very special time of year this, it's the very last breathless gasp of a dying and patchy summer, just before we all transition into hoodie weather and get the big jackets out of the press, but more importantly it's Fuinneamh time, a firm date etched into the annual calendar for some years now.
No other Irish festival is as fanatic about supporting and nurturing as wide a range of grassroots electronic music as Fuinneamh does. No other Irish festival goes about its business with the care and craft that the tireless Fuinneamh team throw into their work.
I am beyond flattered and extremely excited to be playing it yet again. I've been fortunate enough to play every Fuinneamh to date bar one and it's always a very special experience, even when a fire breaks out next to the generator powering your soundsystem mid set and even when you then come back and find strangers passed out in your tent.
I could go on and on but I'm going to let the tunes do the talking. See you in the Sibín at 1am Saturday night. We're opening stargates people.
If you're skint hit up Brophy for tickets but be very fucking quick.
