Ibadan & Apotek Records presents: JEROME SYDENHAM & ADAM BEYER

In September 2009 Ibadan Records (NYC) & Apotek Records (GER) will start their monthly night in Finland in the underground club Playground at Helsinki These nights are dedicated to true techno lovers in Finland. Resident dj, Ibadan & Apotek Record label founder Jerome Sydenham, will be playing in every event. Jerome visited Playground first time in May and loved the club so much that he wanted to start his own label night there. Ibadan night will be set up in Playground once a month and every time alongside with the resident dj Jerome Sydenham you can see top of the top techno dj:s. The guest for the opening night will be a true techno pioneer from Sweden, Drumcode Record label founder Adam Beyer who hasn't played in Helsinki since 2002. Adam Beyer is one of the most known and busiest techno djs in the world. Both Jerome & Adam have produced huge amounts of the top techno tunes and remixes which are played around the globe by top techno djs. IBADAN & APOTEK RECORDS PRESENTS: JEROME SYDENHAM (Ibadan & Apotek Records, NYC/Berlin) & special guest ADAM BEYER (Drumcode, SWE) Warm up: Eliot Ness (Helsinki Techno City) Lights: marX Small room: Flink TBA _______________________________________ DATE Friday 11.9.2009 // 21:00-04:00 // Age 20 VENUE Playground Iso Roobertinkatu 10 00100 Helsinki TICKETS Advance from Tiketti (http://www.tiketti.fi): only first 100 tickets will be sold 12 € + booking fee 1,2 € + service fee, the rest are 15 € + booking fee 1,2 € + service fee Door: TBA € WWW http://www.ibadanrecords.com http://www.myspace.com/adambeyer http://www.drumcode.se http://www.clubplayground.fi Playground Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58971814702 Jerome Sydenham bio DJ, Producer and founder of the record labels Ibadan Records, Apotek Records, Avocado Records, and UK Promotions. He started out in A&R with Atlantic Records and later with East West Records. Jerome Sydenham is one of the hottest tickets in the world of house and techno music right now. Born in Nigeria to Jamaican and English parents, raised and schooled in England and then educated further by the streets and clubs of New York, his first major forays into dance music came when he worked in the A&R division of Atlantic Records in the late ‘80s, working with the likes of En Vogue, Das EFX, and breaking vocal house group Ten City. Soon after he met emerging producer Kerri Chandler – one of his closest friends and a former collaborator, and his name as a producer and DJ gradually built over the ‘90s, with his superb label Ibadan Records launched in 1995. He is best known for beautiful, emotive, sunkissed deep house tracks like "Swimming Places", and his timeless collaboration with Dennis Ferrer, "Sandcastles", both on leading house imprint Defected. However he also shares Ferrer’s love for hypnotic, soulful, sexy techno – bringing an undeniable warmth to an often emotionally cold genre of music. His collaborations with Get Physical’s Swedish talent Tiger Stripes - like the hugely acclaimed "Elevation" and their joyous remix of Faze Action’s classic "In The Trees" - should likewise be added to the cannon of great house music history. Sydenham’s desire to push the creative envelope with took him into the world of Techno with the hit “Asama”, with which he launched the German based label Apotek Records. The year 2007 also saw the initiation of a new label collaboration, Avocado Records, established in Denmark with heavy weight producer Rune RK with the monster "Elephant". In 2009 remixes by Sydenham include: "Angel" by Carl Craig (Planet-e) "Forming Dies" by Adam Beyer & Joel Mull (Drumcode) "Way of the Lonely Ones Pt2" by Nihad Tule (Spectrum) "This Used to be Our Playground" by Concolor (Perplex) &q