Beat Hoker's Podcast

Fifties aka Louise O'Donnell passion for electronic music began when she first arrived in the UK from Ireland to study at Lincoln University. Originally an indie kid it was through a good friend Ollie Gregson (one half of breaks duo Brother's Bud) she discovered underground dance music. The pair began frequenting some of the UK's leading club nights such as Chibuku, Urban Gorilla and Fabric and it wasn't long until she was well and truly hooked by the bleeps, squeeks and basslines she was partying too each and every weekend. This was at a time when breakbeat was the big underground scene and her favorites artists would be the Plump DJs, Evil 9, Meat Katie, Elite Force and Jon Carter, she goes onto say:

'I think my big ‘wow’ moment was when I went to see Jon Carter play in 2004, after that I knew I wanted to have a go at Djing myself and shortly afterwards bought my first pair of decks. Jon still is my fave dj til this day!'

This was the defining moment where she knew the direction her life was to take. Getting her inspiration on dance floors across the country by night and locking herself away by day honing her skills she soon began making tapes that she'd circulate to friends and contacts through Myspace. With an eclectic taste in music her mixes blended up her favourite house, techno and breaks. The first mix she passed out generated much interest from friends so she decided to send the next to i-DJ Magazine's 'Raw Talent' up-and-coming DJ feature where she came runner up and got praise from leading industry figures.

'This is the way to build a set... Louise's set it bang on the money' (i-DJ Magazine)

Fueled by the achievement her first DJ booking followed shortly after when a promoter friend booked her to support deep house outfit Crazy P it was here that Fifties fledgling DJ career truly began. Following a few more bookings she became resident at Lincoln-based electro party Choobe (picked as one of Mixmag's Top Clubs in 2006) Famed for it's open music policy Fifties diverse taste fitted right in and her excellent choice of tunes soon saw her become a firm favourite at the club performing alongside guests Cagedbaby, Inland Knights and DJ Hal.

Building a solid reputation for herself Fifties soon began DJ'ing at other clubs and parties across the city playing the back room of the local drum'n'bass party and regularly playing warm up for Moda - a club set up Radio 1's Jaymo and Andy George. It was during her time at Moda she really began to establish her name through supporting major acts such as Chris Lake, DJ Touche, Mystery Jets, Herve' and Boy 8-Bit. It was also around this time she received more publicity in the shape of winning DJ Magazines 'Pick & Mix' competition which featured here latest mix tape.

In 2008 she took the next logical step and got into the studio and within months had her first release: Scrap '2Ci' (Fifties Remix) which was released that year on Modifi Music. 2009 saw her move back to Northern Ireland to take some time out and following a brief sabbatical Fifties is now busily working on her own solo productions alongside infiltrating the Northern Ireland club scene it is clear to see Louise ‘Fifties’ O’Donnell is clearly focused on her mission.

Alongside DJ’ing and production Louise’s other passion is graphic design, which she combines with her passion for music and has created flyer designs and logos for club nights, artists and labels including Fat! Passenger Records, Moda, Meat Katie, Burrito, Urban Gorilla, Jon Gurd, Disco Of Doom and numerous others.

Mick Chillage is one half of Dublin based radio DJ's The Chillage Idiots who have been playing a wide range of music within the spectrum of electronica on Dublins XFM..Mick has been producing music since late 1996. His Influences are wide ranging from John Barry to Kraftwerk to Eno to Larry Heard & beyond so his productions cover a variety of genres, techno,house,electro, IDM, ambient, dub, minimal etc, sometimes fusing all these styles in to one track. His focus is mainly on atmosphere melody & emotion & prefers to create all this from scratch rather than sampling someone else's work.

Mick has released material including remixes for Herb, this-side net label, nice & nasty, DXR, static, unnamed, His debut album "Tales From The Igloo" on Dublin based electronic/ambient label Psychonavigation records was released in July 2009.

Psycatron have been gaining momentum for some time now having spent the past seven years hosting their residency at Shine and the Stiff Kitten in Belfast supporting some of the best house and techno DJs in the world, 2009 have seen them taking things to a new level making a massive impact across the globe with a string of releases on some of the worlds top labels, appearing in the playlists of an endless list of top DJs and making waves with several stand out tracks that have destroyed dancefloors, Fergie, Christian Smith and Carl Craig have all secured releases for their labels and this frenzy of signings and high profile releases seems like just a taste of whats to come. Probably their biggest release to date 'Deeper Shades Of Black' which is out now was picked up by Carl Craig for his new Planet E sub-label Guilty Pleasure after hearing it on Myspace, quite an achievment but a well deserved one! Paul Hamill and his new partner in crime Dave Lievense will make their debut Psycatron live show this Halloween night in Derry with further dates pencilled in for Belfast, Dublin and Munich. Keep an eye out for forthcoming material on R&S, International Deejay Gigolo, Tronic, Mija Recordings and Cocoon.

Cork's Generic People are in the house for Beathoker podcast 007 with a live mix using cdjs, ableton, trigger finger, bcr 2000, Korg R3 , Pioneer efx 500, and a shit load of vsts!

'Generic People' are a group of party animals who get drunk and perform far from ordinary DJ set with a duel laptop set up synced together incorporating various pieces of hardware, controlers and trusted decks, a batch of Vst's, sound effects, loops, re-edits, remixes & original productions. They have over 20 years DJing experience between them, and through their shared passion for all forms of music and blatant disregard for generes have fused their idea on how to rock a dancefloor resulting in the birth of the GENERIC PEOPLE DJS. They don't believe in boundaries & can be found playing , remixing, re-editing on the fly a multitude of music styles making for a very very unique DJ'ng experience Past support slots include Soulwax/2 Many DJ's, Fatboyslim, Midfield General, Snow Patrol (DJ Set) Tom Middleton, Justin Robertson, Zane Lowe, Electric Picnic Festival, Airbound festival, PNAU, DK7, Sultans Of Ping FC, Chymera, Norman Jay, Jose Padillia, Bueno Vista Social Club, Timo Maas, Justin Roberston, Kerri Chandler, Corrugated Tunnel, Sebastien Leger, Plump Djs, Leeroy x Prodigy, Jamie Lidell, Grandmaster Flash & a whole host of others.

Carl Craig - Home Entertainment (Combo edit) Generic People Re-edit
Jarvis Cocker - Your in my Eyes (Pilooski mix)
I led 3 Lives - Curious Red -(In Flagranti mix)
Apparat ft Raz Ohara - Hold on (Modselector mix)
Bats for Lashes - Pearls Dream (Leo Zero mix)
Delorean - Seasun (John Talbots mix)
In Flagranti - Bashed & Bruised
Phonat - Set me Free
Candi staton - You got the love (Generic People Edit/mix)
Florence & the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Leo Zero mix)
Solo - Congoloid (Minimow mix)
Pezzner - Shasta (Master King mix)
Fuck you like an Animal - Generic People
William Orbit - Purdy (Greenmoney mix)
Howie B - Royal Sound (Radioactive man mix)
David Bowie - The Man who sold the World

www.myspace.com/GenericPeopleDJs