Cartel Music / A deep house night based in Portsmouth, UK
Ashley Casselle Sat 12 April 2008
ImageJoin us at The Lounge for yet another quality party from the purveyors of the finest underground house music and electronic grooves! Get yer freak on you muvvers!

Room 1: Cartel - Undergound House Music
Ashley Casselle (Ashtrax)
Craig Rickman (Deviant)
Phil 'Moonface' Thompson (Bedrock/Stripped)
Tim Cook (Railyard/Fade/Stripped)
Tommy Mundell

Room 2: Infectious Breaks - Breaks n Beats
DJ Charge (Breakneck)
Tom Mayhem (Somethings Missing)
The Cubists (Error)
Mark Martin & Jase Mullineaux (DustedBreaks)
Ignition & Promo (Out-Break)

All the above PLUS a whambamthankyoumam 15K Funktion-One Sound System! Live VJ's! Wicked atmosphere!!! Smoking area complete with umbrella!

Tickets £9 in advance/£12 on door/NUS £7 (on door only) Available from Wedgewood Rooms Box Office, Albert Road, Southsea. Tel 023 9286 3911 www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk/tickets.asp Ashley's DJ career began 10 years ago after fellow Hastonian John Digweed asked him to take over the alternative room of his new night Bedrock on Hastings pier. This gave him scope to experiment and entertain in his own style, blending vintage funk with phat beats, disco with dubby techno and all manner of different musical styles, he quickly gained respect from a wide range of DJs which resulted in a residency at Riviera with Stuart Patterson where he developed his blend of funky tech even further. Later he found himself joining Sasha & Digweed on their highly acclaimed Northern Exposure tour, playing to highly enthusiastic up for it crowds which helped pave the way for his next residency..at Gatecrasher! He suddenly found himself playing before legends like Carl Cox and Paul Oakenfold, his groovathon sets becoming the stuff of Northern folklore.. Since those hey-days Ashley has risen from playing seminal deep house clubs like 'riviera' with kenny Hawkes+stuart patterson to earning residency status at gatecrasher.besides the usual domestic gigs at Cream, Colours, Bedrock etc, the last 12 months have seen him headlining internationally at [to name a few]...Vinyl NYC, Spundae in San Fransisco, Zouk in Singapore, Home in Sydney, La Boom in Mexico as well as China, Japan, Canada, S.Africa, Holland etc... in July, he takes up Paul van Dyk's invitation to play the Berlin Love Parade spinning in front of a million people on Paul's truck !!. As Ashtrax [with James Christopher], he produces irresistibly danceable records with no genre restrictions, blending house, techno, breaks and ear nudging melodies.. having remixed PVD in a breakbeat stylee, Timo Maas and more the Ashtrax sound has become a staple diet for DJ's who want something exciting and different This year will see the new Ashtrax single 'Digital Reason' released on Deviant and the spacey vocal house anthem 'Midnight Sun' on Junior/Fuju. The duo will start live shows around Nov with 'Digital Reason' already in huge demand from jocks months before it's release. Ashley has released 2 mix cd’s - 'Deviations' on deviant and 'Response' on Automatic to critical acclaim reflecting the diversity of his sets, understandable when you consider he's played alongside everybody from Danny Howells to Adam Freeland to Junior Vasquez !!.

 
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