Dates: 11th March

Location: The Rooftop, Madinat Jumeirah

Timings: Doors open from 10:00 pm-3:00am

Tickets: 100 AED, Ladies and FACE Card free till 11pm

Tables: Tickets available Time Out Tickets, Platinumlist Tickets and at the door

For more information call 050 725 8277 or e-mail lindi@ohmrecords.com

iLL Communications Presents PHONIQUE (Dessous, Berlin) at The Rooftop, Madinat Jumeirah Thursday, March 11th 2010

iLL Communications presents the UAE Premier of Dessous DJ/Producer Phonique, Thursday, March 11th at the Rooftop, Madinat Jumeirah.
After moving to Berlin in the mid 90’s, Michael Vater a.k.a Phonique was on the go like few others in Berlin. His successful parties and club nights got much love and paved him the way to become one the nice guys in Berlin’s nightlife. First he only organized parties, after a while he started to DJ himself: “DJ Phonique” was born.

Since January ‘98, Phonique continued to bring previously lesser known DJs and producers to Berlin for his club nights and parties, presenting many strong nights with DJs like Glen Gunner (Street Corner Symphony/Block 16) , Lil Tony (Nu Spirit Helsinki/Guidance), Alexkid (F-Com/Ovum), Llorca (F-Com/Brique Rouge), Joakim (Tigersushi) or Ivan Smagghe (Blackstrobe/Volga Select). In the meantime, Phonique continued to develop his “freestyle” profile. His guests were treated to a splendid mix from Hip-Hop via Breakbeats to Old School and Drum‘n’Bass. Just about anything was possible in between, as long as the tracks had the neces-sary “type of groove”. He invited DJs like LTJ Bukem, Richard Dorfmeister and many more.

As thanks for all his efforts, Phonique was voted one of Berlin’s 5 most loved DJs in Prinz maga-zine’s poll of 2000, along with major producers and DJs such as Paul van Dyk, Westbam and Jaz-zanova. Traveling the world and playing clubs in Sao Paulo, Helsinki, Paris, London, Marseille, Vi-enna, Brussels, San Francisco, Prague, Tel Aviv, just to name a few destinations, Phonique never forgot his Berlin base. Just like his residencies at Tresor and Pfefferbank (among others), where he brought his ‘Club Paris’ evening to life, with guests like Pepe Bradock, DJ Deep, Jori Hulkkonen and I:Cube.
From time to time Phonique, together with his partner Kiki, presented their QuadroPhoniquekikz’ on four turntables, eventually releasing their first ‘QuadroPhoniquekikz’ mix-CD in 2002 on Komfort Musik. His first two 12" were released on Martin Landsky’s Intim Recordings, and from then on Phonique released on labels like Komfort Musik (Berlin), Seasons (USA), Brique Rouge (Paris) and Crosstown Rebels (London), but mainly on Steve Bug’s own Poker Flat and Dessous. Besides Phonique’s remixing talents and DJing with vinyl and CDs, he also started to edit tracks so they made more sense for his DJ-sets. When Jazzanova found out about this, they asked him to do some for their own use. So Phonique worked out some edits, partly with his buddy Dixon. Edits for Georg Levin and DJ Spinna, remixes for Georg Levin and Sirius Mo even got released on Jaz-zanova’s Sonar Kollektiv label. In Autumn 2004, his debut album "Identification" for Dessous was released, featuring collaborations with Paris The Black Fu, Erlend Oye, Alexander East (Minneapolis), Ian Whitelaw (Glasgow) and Dixon (Sonar Kollektiv). With amazing international feedback, even a number one chart entry on Itunes’ dance download charts it turned out to be Phonique’s breakthrough success. Since Berlin’s nightlife is subject to rapid change, Phonique’s residences change alike. Currently you can meet him mainly at Weekend, F.U.N. Crew’s incredible venue with a view over all of downtown Berlin at Alexanderplatz. Their second compilation on Fine/ Four Music will be sup-ported by Phonique’s track ‘’Bee". Even though release is not expected before early 2006, the track already gets massive support by colleagues like Trevor Jackson (Output) and M.A.N.D.Y (Get Physical). Recently Phonique asserted his recognition as one of the high profile remixing artists in the dance world, letting Morcheeba’s former vocalist benefit from his talents on a remix of her upcoming solo project "Skye" (Atlantic/ Warner). Phonique mostly works with Alex Krüger (Dub Taylor / Korsakow / Tigerskin) for his productions/remixes, but from time to time he is cooperating with other artists or musicians like Steve Bug, David Duriez & Phil Weeks, Martin Landsky or Meitz.
Already being recognized internationally as one of the leading forces behind deep and forward thinking club music and commercial productions alike, this one will take it to the next level.

Phonique Links
Web: http://www.myspace.com/phonique
Discography: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Phonique
Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POhKBz3VC6I
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9F0Rd5IBxc, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGWy3-NiEdk