Southern Outpost

Also, a quick heads-up for the weekend coming up. Patrick ‘Hard as Fuck’ HAF is coming to town this Saturday to give Melbourne a lesson in electrobass, Detroit classics, deep techno and whatever the hell else. HAF’s productions and DJ sets get props from all the UR movers and shakers. Check ‘Southern Outpost’ for links to HAF’s DJ sets and so forth and you’ll hear why. If you’re up to see an Australian DJ with some serious, serious chops (with no disrespect implied to any of the several dozen very fine DJs in this city who are usually far better than the internationals) who makes records that respectable international DJs actually play, you could probably do a lot worse than checking out this party. I hesitate to say it’s gonna be a night of ‘real’ techno (and play into the whole stupid Detroit mythmaking crap that’s so irritatingly prevalent in Melb.), so maybe I should say that it’s gonna be a night of ‘good’ techno, leave it at that, and look forward.

- Peter Chambers/InPress, Melbourne

Soma Corp and Pretty Simple present:

LOCAL EXTRACTS #4 + Soma Corp 4th Birthday!
Featuring Patrick HAF aka ‘The Sentinel’ (Southern Outpost, Sydney) - 2 hour set!

Saturday 22nd December 2007
9pm - 5:30am

FFour - Level 2 / 322 Little Collins St, Melbourne
$20 on the door / $15 guestlist to events@somacorp.com.au

Think outside the box by looking back in…

Soma Corp and Pretty Simple team up to present the fourth installment of the Local Extracts series, this time incorporating Soma Corp’s 4th Birthday celebrations and welcoming the long-awaited return of one of the most talented techno DJs Australia has every produced - Southern Outpost’s Patrick HAF aka ‘The Sentinel’. Ex-Sydney, now relocated to San Francisco, Producer/DJ Patrick HAF has long been a perennial favourite with fans of cutting-edge, truly underground dance music. In the last 12 years he has achieved near cult status in this country supporting juggernauts such as Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Derrick May, Claude Young, Rolando, Mike Grant and many more in both Sydney and Melbourne as well as bringing Honkytonks to its knees several times over. In 1998 Patrick co-founded a 100% independent record label, Southern Outpost, which has worldwide distribution via Clone Records and has received critical acclaim from the likes of Dave Clarke, Rolando, UR’s ‘Mad’ Mike Banks and Aux 88, and even had a track distributed by Underground Resistance’s Submerge label! It’s impossible to pigeonhole the music Patrick plays. Well renowned for his dark electro sounds, he’s also made a name for himself as one of the best Detroit techno DJs in Australia, mixes crazy deep house sets with equal finesse… and more often combining all three! Back on home turf for 2 weeks only it is with great pleasure we mark the return of ‘The Sentinel’ for an exclusive Melbourne performance.

MAIN ROOM:
Patrick HAF (Southern Outpost, Sydney)
Christian Vance LIVE
Ben Cromack
Dave Pham
Mike Callander
Aram Chapers

THE SUITE:
Lance Harrison
Michelle Valenti
Mike Hunt
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