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Metropolis presents CARL COX at the Sound Factory

When
4 December 2004, Saturday
open: 20:00, start: 23:00, end: 08:00

Where
Festivalna Hall
Manastirska Str. (very near to hotel Pliska)
Sofia, Bulgaria

Tickets
Serbia & Montenegro
www.tiketservis.com
Macedonia
Skopje, Enko Hajic, tel.+389 2 450202
Romania
Bucharest, The Mission, tel+40 21 320 0992

Internet
www.carlcox.metropolis-bg.com (special site for the party)
www.carlcox.com
www.techno.orbitel.bg
www.trip.co.yu
www.chillout.co.yu
www.globalvibe.net
www.djsets.gr
www.themission.ro

Info
Metropolis
Metropolis is the biggest promoter of club music related parties, gigs & raves in Bulgaria. We did more than 70 parties & tours and we hosted some of the greatest talent in dance music such as Carl Cox, John Digweed, Deep Dish, Sven Vath, Jeff Mills, Josh Wink, Luke Slater, Christian Smith, Jim Masters, Space DJ'z, Devilfish, Phats & Small, Bob Sinclar, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig, Alan Thompson, Smokin Jo, Nick Fanciulli, MaxGraham, Desyn Masiello, Rowan Blades, DJ Dmitry from New York, Marco Bailey, Gayle San, Misjah, Blake Baxter, Johan Bacto, Frank Muller, WestBam, La di da, Dr Motte, Marusha, Takkyu Ishino, Marco Carola, Chris Liebing, Cristian Varela, Ade Fenton, Ben Sims, Umek, Pedro Delgardo, Henrik B, Simon Digby & more. We did also the Bulgarian date of Orbital's European tour in September 2001. Metropolis Booking is a DJ agency with the best Bulgarian house & techno DJ’s in its roster. Metropolis M::Records is an independent label releasing DJ mixed compilations.

Sound Factory
The Sound Factory is a party concept. The idea popped up in a free conversation at the seaside in Bulgaria. We were discussing the future Carl Cox gig in Bulgaria with Coxy’s manager Ian Hindmarsh. The main point was the venue – maybe an old factory in Sofia. “Then it will be The Sound Factory.” said Ian. The name stayed and the concept is about:
- the best sound system
- DJ line-up that will make the event really a factory for modern sounds
- industrial decor
- visuals with industrial feel
- few other things that you will see at the party
Obviously there is a big influence from the legendary New York club with the same name – The Soundfactory. It is believed that it has the best custom-made sound system in the world and an amazing light show.

Carl Cox
How do you measure a DJ's popularity? By club bookings, remix credits, solo releases, and mix CDs? By branding, sponsorship and endorsements? Through glamour quota and celebrity status? Or by radio, television and movie appearances?
By any of these criteria, Carl Cox could claim he's got the love. Ultimately, though, it's the paying public that makes or breaks – and more importantly, maintains - a DJ's popularity. And in that case Carl Cox absolutely has got the love. Time and again, when music magazines print their end of year polls, it's Carl Cox who tops them. Across the globe, when club crowds are asked who they most want to have spin, it's Coxy they request. Promoters who need an arena to go off at three in the afternoon, or a club to stay full at five in the morning, know that Carl's their man. He may not be a household name, but in the scene itself, he's a living legend, as big as they come. Quite simply, Carl Cox is the People's DJ.
A musical ambassador since he was in short trousers, a professional DJ since his early teens, a veteran of acid house and a champion of techno, Carl Cox emits a love of his work that is dangerously infectious. Check him when he's behind the turntables and you can't mistake his ecstatic visage, dripping with sweat as his head bobs up and down to the beat, his hands pumping the air whenever they're not manipulating the turntables, his body swaying back and forth, frequently taking to the mike to share word on the latest
underground tune he's about to break massive. You name it, Carl's been there and done it, but he's never lost sight of the point of it: playing music, breaking tunes, spreading love, celebrating life.
Now, having extricated himself from his own thriving but overly time-consuming business empire, Carl is finally set to concentrate on his solo career. The new mix CD 'Global,' a typically high-octane burst of twisted melodies, driving backbeats, funky bass lines and future-skool breaks, finds him on a major American label for the first time. Mixed live off vinyl like his all his albums, and featuring three of his own cuts alongside fifteen other tracks caught between cult status and commercial appeal, 'Global' should finally see Carl Cox reach the same level of acclaim in the USA as he already enjoys elsewhere.
Born in Manchester not yet 40 years ago, Carl and two sisters were raised in the suburbs of south London. Carl's parents had immigrated from Barbados, and brought their Caribbean party spirit with them - especially for the annual harvest festival of 'crop-over.' While mum cooked and made the punch, dad lined up music on a turntable that could drop discs on top of each other. But when the records ran out, it was young Carl who'd be by the player, checking which b-sides would work, searching other tunes to keep the parents going.
"It just hit me," says Carl of his early engagement with destiny. "Instantly, I became 'Cox's boy,' who put on good music wherever my mum and dad went for a party. People would say to them 'Don't forget to bring Carl.' I would go record shopping with my dad.
And then I would hear something - a new James Brown record I thought was brilliant and I knew they would dance to - and get him to buy it."
Carl's enthusiasm for black dance music was boosted in the mid-70s when London was granted an independent radio station, Capital, with an American soul DJ, Greg Edwards. "The first time he played 'Running Away' by Roy Ayers, I was completely in heaven," recalls Carl. "I didn't need any women in my life, not my family, not anything. I was like 'This is it. If they make more records like this, I will be so happy.' And they did! The Blackbyrds, Norman Connors. . ." On Fridays, Carl would go to a store in nearby Croydon "and just buy buy buy. All my friends thought I was nuts, because McDonalds had just come out, and they would all go out and buy double cheeseburgers, and I'd go off and get myself a record. They'd have come back and eaten it and gone 'wicked' and I'd come back and say, 'This record by Brass Construction is unbelievable!'"
Competition from American cheeseburgers notwithstanding, by 1976 soul music was everywhere, and Carl and friends, still in school uniform, would board the bus into central London for late afternoon sessions at the 100 Club and Crackers. In 1977, aged 15, Carl got a set of turntables and began working as a mobile DJ. Disco captivated him. "I liked how it was orchestrated in such a way that a record could take you somewhere," he enthuses, citing Sylvester's 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)' because "it had a 4/4 beat, it had energy, it had breakdowns, and it had a diva singing his heart out - or her's!"
The early 80s saw Cox playing the same music as other young London DJs - rare groove (obscure funk), New York hip-hop, and electro. He was perfectly placed to hear Chicago house music in its earliest forms, and when the epic 'Acid Trax' by Phuture (a.k.a. DJ Pierre) came out in early '87, "I was just 'This is it.' I would do my parties, and I'd play old rare groove and hip hop and soul and I would say 'Right you've got to hear this, Phuture,' and people would just stop. 'What the hell are you doing?' I was just like, 'You've got to check this out, the 303s, the 909s...' I just had to go there. It's funny because all the people who thought I had freaked out then are the people who are making the music now."
As a founder of the sound, Carl rode the exploding British rave scene. He played the opening night of Danny Rampling's legendary Shoom, co-promoted The Project with Paul Oakenfold, held a residency at the Zap Club in Brighton and at the Sunrise rave in
1988, hooked up a third turntable for his dawn-breaking set, got 15,000 kids back on their feet, and established a personal rep for three-deck wizardry.
The next step was to make music, and Carl's 1991 debut single for Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto label, 'I Want You,' gave him a top 30 hit and a Top of the Pops appearance. Two more singles also made the charts. But Carl was a reluctant pop star and as the masses moved onto fluffy house and trance, and the hardcore created jungle, Cox retreated into the club world that had nurtured him and instead embraced the underground sounds of techno and hard house.
"Techno drives home somewhere," he says of his core music. "It takes you to an element of surprise, not knowing where you're going. It's scary but wonderful at the same time." A 1995 mix CD, 'F.A.C.T.', became a techno benchmark, selling over 250,000 copies. His own 1996 EP 'Two Paintings and a Drum' again broke the British top 30. With then-wife Rachel running the business side, Carl set up Ultimate Music Management, which counted Josh Wink and Laurent Garnier among 27 clients. There was the Ultimatum record label, for which Cox recorded his third top 30 UK single 'Sensual Sophis-ti-cat.' And inevitably there was a weekly London techno club, Ultimate B.A.S.E., for which Carl was resident.
Carl also started coming to America, thanks to a deal with Moonshine, which saw the Stateside release of 1997's 'F.A.C.T. 2' (recorded live in L.A.); 1998's 'The Sound Of Ultimate B.A.S.E.'; Carl's second studio album 'Phuture 2000' ('At The End of the
Cliché,' his debut, was only released in the UK); and that same year's 'Mixed Live', recorded at the Crobar in Chicago.
There was also a cameo appearance in the rave movie 'Human Traffic,' and a 'F.A.C.T. 3' for Australian audiences. Carl famously brought in the Millennium in Sydney, then traversed the International Date Line to do it again in Hawaii. His most treasured performances, though, have been for the Berlin Love Parade, which he played four years in a row, often the only British DJ at this trance-European techno-fest. "I can't think of anything that comes close to when you actually stand there and you see a million and a half people waiting for you to play the best records possible to give them the best possible time," he says.
Success comes at a cost, however. His marriage collapsed ("the most hardcore thing you ever have to go through") and though he spent two years trying to maintain his empire, the constant international travel, lack of sleep, and bad eating habits ultimately overwhelmed him. "My body said to me, 'Here, have a kidney stone, have a stomach infection, and also, get gout while you're at it!'"
He was forced to slow down. The Ultimatum label and management company were disbanded. ("I now have one person managing me.") The club night continues as B.A.S.E., with Cox an occasional guest. Carl, who sensibly moved close to Gatwick airport along the way, now focuses on his performances and recordings, with America increasingly in the picture. He enlivened the day time crowds on last summer's 'Moby-headlined Area: One' tour, but prefers to play six hour night time sets "so I can really show you why I'm here." And whenever he's at home, he's working in his studio there with engineer Neil McLellan (of Prodigy acclaim) on his third studio album, which he promises "will be as important as the new Chemical Brothers or Basement Jaxx" or any other DJ turned producer "already on the train of making albums."
Some of Carl's newer productions are showcased on 'Global.' There's 'It's The Machines,' a classic minimal techno cut co-credited to his long-standing friend Josh Wink. There's ' ,' featuring Neneh Cherry on vocals. And there's 'Ain't That Funky Now,' with its Brothers Johnson vocal sample, a Cox classic from his youth. Other song titles in the mix demonstrate Carl's love of music for the sake of music, 'House Soul,' 'Drums For Better Daze' and 'Horny Hustle' being but three examples.
Unlike many a mix compilation, 'Global' showcases the underground. For while Carl Cox has the fame and the fortune of a superstar DJ, - and absolutely has got the love - the People's DJ understands that when it comes to clubbing and dancing, the whole is far more than the sum of its parts. "Even if I'm just playing records, I'm into the moment of playing," he says, "and with that, if I'm dancing, and I'm enjoying this moment, then I'm sure you guys can too, without the record having to be the focal point of why we're here. That's why I find it a lot easier to push new music on people - because I believe in what I'm playing, full stop. And everyone can feel that, and go with it, and then they can walk away with the experience of Carl Cox."

written by Tony Fletcher

Bulgarian DJ’s
Main Room
DJ Steven
DJ Steven started DJ-ing professionally in 1990. He got the bug of turntablism from the early stars of hip-hop like Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. His love for hip-hop took him to the finals of the first Bulgarian DMC championship in 93 where he won the title together with his team Tall, Fat & Small. In 94 they took part in the World finals at the Ministry of Sound, London. The same year DJ Steven was voted best DJ in Bulgaria.
His final turning point to the even flow of the drum came with the release of Sven Vath’s seminal tracks L’Esperanza, Accident In Paradise and Harlequin: The Beauty and The Beast. In 1997 Metropolis started promoting parties with electronic dance music in Bulgaria.
Metropolis made more than 50 gigs and tours with DJ’s like Carl Cox, Sven Vath, John Digweed, Deep Dish, Jeff Mills, Josh Wink, Luke Slater, WestBam, Dr Motte, Misjah, La di da, Gayle San, Takkyu Ishino, Jim Masters, Marco Bailey, DevilFish, Blake Baxter, Johan Bacto, Umek, Ben Sims, Ade Fenton, Simon Digby, Henrik B and the Space DJ’z. DJ Steven played with all these DJ’s. He DJ-ed in Macedonia, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Turkey, Poland, Berlin Love Parade and London. Steven is running his radio show for club culture every Saturday at Darik radio – the biggest private national station.

Jassen Petrov
Jassen Petrov is a DJ from almost 10 years. As co founder of the biggest promoter company for electronic parties in Bulgaria called Metropolis he is responsible for the mellower side of the things. His abilities to mix innovative deep and progressive stuff with tribal percussion and heavy bass lines made him one of the most famous names of the Bulgarian electronic scene and “usual suspect” at the biggest clubs and parties all over the country. For three years he has residency at the notorious Lipstick club in Sofia, making the Friday nights at the club the most desirable house destination for clubbers in the city.
At the same time his life is absolutely devoted to music. He is chief of the music department of the Bulgarian branch of Radio France International, has the oldest /more than 10 years/ show in Bulgaria for electronic music at RFI and now has a new one at the National radio. As one of the biggest Bulgarian music journalists, he has his column in the best selling lifestyle magazine Egoist. As a DJ he has played with such names as Carl Cox, John Digweed, Desyn Masiello, Luke Fair, Deep Dish, Josh Wink, Bob Sinclar, Phats and Small, Mr C, Sven Vath, Eddie Amador, Christian Smith, Illinton, Desyn to name just a few.

Vesselin
Vesselin has been a professional DJ for nearly 10 years. He started out playing electronica in different underground clubs in Sofia. He gained a reputation for his good choice in music and right feel for the crowd. In 1997 and 98 Vesselin spent a lot of time dj’ing in Holland where he was influenced by the groovy side of the 4 to 4 beats. While living in Amsterdam he used to play at “Sinners in Heaven” and “Club148” to name a few. When he returned back to Bulgaria he began to recreate the vibe he witnessed in Holland. Vesselin performes at the best clubs in the country including ”Chervilo”, ”Comics Club”, “Club Cacao” and ”Momo” as well as at the legendary “Metropolis” and ”Decadence” events. Over the years he has played alongside with Desyn Masiello, Carl Cox, Hipp-E, Tony Thomas, Max Graham, Rowan Blades, K Klass, DJ Jean, Bob Sinclar, Phats & Small, Michel De Hey, Sven Vath, WestBam, Luke Slater, Jim Masters and many more. Vesselin’s sound can be described as a pumppin’ mixture of Tribal and Progressive House, with strong vocals and loads of percussions.
DJ Vesselin’s solid reputation is based on his strong technical ability and professionalism. At the moment he is resident at “Club Chervilo” – the finest House Club in Bulgaria as well as headlining the infamous InProgress- tours with international dj’s through out the country.

Doncho
Doncho is born on 02 April 1979 in Sofia.
His professional career started in 1997 at Olympia club, then he performed at Garbage, followed by Caramel; then he is a resident DJ at the biggest open air club Aliby (Sofia) for 3 years. His sets used to be influenced by different styles of music such as alternative, hip-hop, house and that contributes a lot to the search of his real self being an attractive way of mixing disco, funky, groove, tribal house music. For that very reason now he is one of the leading DJs on the Bulgarian scene and he is extremely well accepted by the audience. During the summer of 2002 he performed at the two of the biggest electronic events – “Street Parade” and Samsara Beach party. In 2002 he was also one of the main DJs at clubs like Soho and Chervilo, he had gigs at Avenue, Mania, Plazma, Momo.
On 11 Dec 2003 a scratching contest named Fight of the Dinosaurs of the Third Millennium took place and he won the third place. As from summer of 2003 he is a resident DJ at Chervilo. He played along such DJs as Carl Cox, Smoking Jo, Tony Thomas, Renato Cohen, Hipp-E, Terry Francis, Matthew Roberts (King Unique), Ceballos, Wally Lopez, Tom Baker, Nic Fanciulli, Lottie and many more.

Techno Chapter
Here you can listen to the best dj’s in techno at the moment in Bulgaria. They represent the different styles that are dominant in the scene. The following DJ’s will perform in the techno chapter room - Ataneus, Balthazar, Gabriel, Harry, Smooke, Versus, Stenly, Vityaz, Yemo. For much info about them – please check www.carlcox.metropolis-bg.com.

metropolis::booking

http://www.metropolis-bg.com

Godinava ke bide ushe poludo.Ako go napravat SyberFactory,ke bide krsh

„Што викаш Енко,што викаш Енко??“ (Хаџиќ..од Ѓорче, цар чоек)
алал да им е ете организираат..само да Ве праша чоек а што не организиравте и за Џери Ли него чоек к’о мајмун мора да се тормози????
(ако стигне до неговите/нивните уши)

ПЕЕЕЕЕЕЕР ЦРЊАВА НЕМА ЗУБ! ИХИХИХИХИХИХИХИХИИХИ :=
(хипо личи)
аме најпобољи од него неам видено, после него, ништо нема да ви биде исто! кој сака нека дое - ама ја знам дека после негов настап, ја бре неам видено ништо подобро! црња рулз !

[Сменето на 20/11/2004 од KenobiBen]

Vbb,
Znam na sho mislish, me understand u
But,
Carlito ke sviri 3,5 h min. i sum 99.99% suguren deka nema da zaebi.
Edinstveno ke mi ja zaebi glaata i cela nedela posle zurot kje gledeam fatamorgana,
vo mnozina

vo 2003 me zaebavase carinarnikot zosto jas ne sum bil na cox, a ucam vo sofija. istiot den koga cox nastapuvase jas od dobro poznati pricini(pari) si zaminav doma, ama sega na 4 zdravje, ne bi go propustil za nisto na svet.

Чима ман, иде ли некој со кола? Иде ли некој поише денови (2-3)..мислам, ја би да идам, ал не да се убија со темпо пат-журка-пат назад...ју ноу:)

е добро де, шо има тука лошо, секако дека сите би сакале да останат на афтерот, но најдоброто е што вторите 6 сата не ги осеќаш

FleX , јас одам цел викенд во Софија , кај бугарски другарчиња , така да ваљда ќе бидам таму од четврток до понеделник , никој не би одел со кола Софија , лош е патот , заебани се цајканите по пат , плус не е безбедно да ја оставиш колата некаде

A za mene Chima imet mesto? Mislam i ja bi da ostanam poise dena..al nema bas kade..pa nece valjda jedna mala plava palava da vam smeta:)?

Верувај дека не сакаш да дојдеш со мене кај нив

Carl Cox e definitivno No.1
Iako pola od mixovite mu se slabi toa sho go vidov vchera beshe najdobriot zur dosega.
Chovekot e Bog Najodlepeniot DJ.Koi parchinja samo gi pushtashe.Ja razbi publikata.Set od 01:30 do 05:30.Mnogu elektro i minimal.Sekoe parche go pushtashe kako da e poslednoto od setot.
Wudnica