WHISTLEBUMP – ARTIST PROFILE
May 4th, 2006 by rui
WhistleBump was started in January 1999, inspired by a trip to New York a year previously when residents Simon Haggis and Andy Crowther went to a downtown hip-hop party at a disused warehouse. E-man was on the door, and god knows who was DJing, but the thrill of wandering from one room of upfront house, through to another packed room with slammin’ hip hop, instantly set the agenda for what has become the WhistleBump blue print for a good party: 2 rooms of contrasting music, from some of the best DJs in the world, on the best possible soundsystems, in the best possible club spaces.
We kicked off at the now defunct and much mourned Clinic on Gerrard Street in Chinatown, playing the music Dj’s always put in their charts, but when it came to a Saturday night never actually had the balls to play. After Basement Jaxx graced the final X-Mas party in ’99, we had to grow, so a shift to the Rhythm Factory in East London saw bods like Harvey, Phil Asher, Ashley Beedle and The Next Men pay a visit before it was time to get back into the West End at venues like the End and, of course, onto the river Thames for what the press like to call our ‘legendary annual WhistleBoat parties’, that have seen Djs like Cosmo and Francois Kevorkian slip their arm bands on and play out of their skins.
Our favourite DJs tend to be the ones who can slip from style to style, whether it be house, disco, latin or brokenbeat, but always keeping the floor moving.
Now, if you’re going to play varied styles of music, covering both old and new production qualities, you need an analogue sound system that has the flexibility and responsiveness to react quickly and cleanly to frequency changes (have you heard Danny Krivit EQ’ing?!?!) It’s no exaggeration to say we have spent thousands of pounds over the last few years settling on needles and trying out different mixers from Vestax R-1′s, to 20 year old rotary Urei’s, to importing Japanese Eq units, all in aid of finalising what we think gives the best sound quality to enjoy the range of music played at WhistleBump parties.
Cheers, simon & andy
