The Martinez Brothers Beats in Space mix

They are the epitome of cool and one of the world’s most dynamic DJ duos – and, even more rarely, are brothers too. After a quite brilliant year (so far), which includes stints at DC-10, riotous globe-trotting shows and becoming the darlings of Sankeys (as anyone at Spektrum on Friday will testify), The Martinez Brothers are next back at the club this NYE. Don’t. Miss This.

They have also just released a mix on super-cool Beats in Space, Tim Sweeney’s revered radio show a global phenomenon in itself, welcoming these two prized spinners. You can check it out here.

Jozef K on Ransom Note

Sankeys’ resident Jozef K has just had his latest mix up on super-cool cultural bible Ransom Note, indicative of how he is becoming increasingly more established.

You can check out his brilliant mix here.

Ellen Allien mix for this weekend’s show

Ahead of this Saturday's Halloween show, our friends at Data Transmission are running this stonking mix from Ellen.

You can check it here.

She joins Magda, Chez Damier and Kink live, and don’t forget the night before it’s Jaguar Skills. This is going to be a huge weekend at the club!

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Danny Daze mix

Danny is at the club on Saturday 10th November, and here's his RA podcast to get you into the groove here.

Fatboy Slim at Sankeys

We're very excited to be welcoming Fatboy Slim to the club this Friday. Quite simply Norman Cook is a superstar, and a thoroughly British one at that. His part in the chart topping groups The Housemartins, Beats International and Freak Power would have made him a pub quiz staple, but Cook’s positioning at the emergence of big beat in the mid nineties meant he was destined for much stronger success than that. He married the chart topping prowess of his now world famous Fatboy Slim persona with a DJing knack equally as revered, turning the art of playing other people’s records into a stadium defining process.

Still one of the true superstar DJs left on the planet (check the documentary for his monolithic Big Beach Bootique event that still takes over Brighton’s shores), Fatboy’s crowd pleasing prowess marks him out as a true icon. He will be bringing a special ensemble of guests to ensure that Manchester feels the force of a true lord of the dance. And don’t forget Fatboy Slim Live: At The Big Beach Bootique – screened at over 600 cinemas worldwide this summer – is to be made available on DVD from November 5^th on Southern Fried.   

Sankeys this weekend...

The first weekend in October has a twinning feel to it – pairing the might of the UK one evening with our transatlantic counterparts taking the focus 24 hours later. It’s also an opportunity for the legendary party of the past to square up to everything that represents the brilliance of Sankeys in the here and now. Naturally each event is something of a classic in the making, spreading the musical palette to its far-reaching limits with a smorgasbord of stellar DJs all in starring roles.

 

Tribal Sessions kicks things off on the Friday. The legendary Sankeys institution still retains its driving ethos, a mantra etched into DJs and clubbers alike, with the pursuit of brilliance a principal Tribal Sessions continues to attain. The headliner for this TS instalment brings James Zabiela to the helm. The Dalek obsessed beatsmith has become synonymous with technique focused DJ sets which blow the conceptions of what you can do with technology out of the water. But they do so by presenting the music first and foremost in jaw-breaking fashion; never is this a DJ who lets technical prowess override the aural component of dance music at its finest, and for this James is globally revered.

 

He’s joined by Glaswegian house aficionados Silicone Soul, the duo still one of the genre’s most potent forces and as sure-fire a sign of peerless quality as their leading label, Soma. The new school is represented by James Teej and Droog who add a cosmopolitan zest to the traditional formula of ballsy dance music that has made Tribal Sessions such a vaunted and revered institution, one which Sankeys welcomes back with open arms.

 

If Friday is about a thoroughly Manchester ingrained institution, Saturday refers to connecting with a spiritual partner in the city of Detroit. Ever since the North West was engulfed by Northern Soul fever from the early 70s, the mid west metropolis has had a grip on Manchester’s musical hearts. What followed in the next decade was a connection to the city’s techno output and that of the infamous Belleville three, whose raw computer driven sounds entranced the early pioneers of acid house that Sankeys and dance music as a whole remains so indebted to.

 

The starlets headlining this showcase are part of the new school that continue to profit from that legacy, headed up by Omar S. Pursuing a more housier template than his forefathers, he arguably owes more to fellow city dwellers Theo Parrish and the funkier strains of Carl Craig. The raw soul infused ethic of Kyle Hall, with his delightfully rough and ready template, offers the perfect motor city counterpart to gift the party that grittier edge. Sankeys own Jozef K completes the bill, playing a double whammy at the club.