TOOLROOM KNIGHTS IBZ TAKEOVER-AMNESIA TERRACE,TUES JUL-SEP

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It’s a Toolroom Knights Ibiza Takeover!!!

Toolroom Records have been responsible for more Ibiza anthems than most in recent years but this season they're pitching their biggest flag on the White Isle yet, hosting their first Ibiza residency on the Terrace at Amnesia.

Teaming up with Armin Van Buuren’s ‘Armada’ on Tuesday nights, Mark Knight is leading the way with a ‘Toolroom Knights Takeover’, throwing a total of 7 parties throughout the season on the newly refurbished terrace with label favourites Tocadisco, Martijn Ten Velden, Richard Dinsdale to name but a few, joining him for a full-on ‘TOOLROOM KNIGHTS’ audio assault. (and take it from me on that new upgraded soundsystem the beats are sounding bigger than ever!)

Having launched in July the parties have been a real success, injecting a much needed dose of fresh, forward thinking sound to the island. Whilst many might place Armada's epic trance sweeps in a different remit from Toolroom's energetic, acid dripped, electronic grooves - in reality the sounds are closer now than ever before.

"There's a point where the two sounds meet very clearly," believes Knight. "There's very much a connection between the bigger main room stuff we push and the slower more groove filled work that Armada delve into. If people come from one room to another, the flow of music will work and they won't feel too alienated in either room."

As for this season's Toolroom anthems, Mark has teamed up with Toronto's finest Adam K to release ‘From The Speaker’ - a main room, big bass track with a driving electro groove (this has been working really well late night/early morn on Amnesia’s terrace claims Mark), and wasting no time in following up their massif remake of ’Man With The Red Face’ Mark Knight and Funkagenda have once again delivered the goods with a track called ‘Done or Dusted’ using the old Carrie Lucas sample that Armand Van Helden used in 'You Don't Know Me' but given it a really cool techie backing - it's a real techie groove but drops into the original disco sample before thumping back in. There's real clever elements to the groove but it's got that cheeky hook that’s be smashing the summer dance floors.

For more info on Mark Knight check out www.myspace.com/djmarkknight and to find out what’s forth coming on Toolroom visit www.toolroomrecords.com

Toolroom Knights takeover Amnesia Terrace in July, Aug and Sept on the following dates:


• 1ST July – Terrace; Mark Knight, Tocadisco, Julio Navas & David Amo
• 8th July – Terrace; Mark Knight, Martijn Ten Velden, Mar T, Mathew Dekay
• 29th July – Terrace; Mark Knight, Martijn Ten Velden, Richard Dinsdale, Erick E
• 5th Aug – Terrace; Mark Knight, Tocadisco, Laidback Luke
• 12th Aug – Terrace; Mark Knight, Seb Fontaine, Kurd Maverick, Brian Cross
• 26th Aug – Terrace; Mark Knight, Tocadisco, Erick E
• 9th Sept – Terrace; Mark Knight, Seb Fontaine, Richard Dinsdale