Kaboom! Guess who stepped in the room? On Saturday 2nd May we activated the Pogo reactor to give sunny Chorlton a blast of super-enriched soul, neutron disco, atomic funk and house vibes in true DiskoPogo style. With the usual packed ensemble of friends, chin-stroking beardistas and funky young mutant chickens like us, Diskopogo continued to belt out thermo-musical energy til early doors at The Nook, and, as the pictures prove, there was no shortage of radiation-based gags and hydro-cooled tomfoolery.
First off was Atomic DiskoGaz, with his tune of the moment Idris Muhammad’s ‘I see music in your eyes’, and the Clash’s ‘The Magnificent Seven’. Inspired by Louie Vega’s choice, DiskoGaz set the reactor core to idle with his sustainable low-carbon emitting choices, and modern disco from Motor City Ensembles ‘Raw Cuts 3’ and Kenny Dixon Juniors ‘Yesterdays’ followed. Sector 7G operative DiskoMike also joined in this hour’s fun for a bit of disco radiation pressure with a bit of Eddie C (Make it better) and Paradise (Change). Trying hard to replace radiation poisoning with alcohol poisoning, DiskoMike also induced a bit of heavily reinforced house with Sterling Void’s ‘Runaway girl, and the awesome bassline groove of ‘Reach for me’ by the Funky Green Dogs.
Fuelled-up with some weird glowing stuff, Mutant DiskoJim threw down some reactor ragga with Overproof Sound System’s remix of Kraftwerk’s ‘The Model’, subtly blended into the Atlantic records classic ‘Memphis Soul Stew’ by King Curtis. DiskoJim notched up the reactor to ‘throbbing’ as he atomically-fused brass and house music with Pacific 202 by 808 State in both the original and William Fairey Brass Band versions…..Atomic!!!!
By this time, one of the irradiated sacrificial operatives had escaped from the reactor face, as the facebook pictures and the Nook video show, spreading radioactive contamination. People panicked and thought we’d had an outbreak of swine flu, but luckily it was just a release of radio and chemically toxic materials from the downstairs musical reactor core, not causing them immediate harm, but reducing their life expectancies by some years.
The Disko Daz-bomb exploded like a mushroom cloud onto the decks following the capture of the nuclear Diskogimp and inserted the control rods back to the reactor to power down the evening with pulsating vibes from The Fog ‘Been a Long Time’, Idjot Boys ‘Droid 2’, and 2020 Soundsystem ‘Sliding Away’. Last tune of the evening was the hardcore classic Zero B ‘Lock-up’, proving it’s another fine Pogo we’ve got you into…..
Aloha! The regular DiskoPogo event returns in the cranny on Sat 13th June 2009 for a Summer Beach Party! Dressed up like ‘totally radical’ straight from the surf, and partying like the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson when he went, like ‘to-tally mental dude’, DiskoPogo aims to kick off a fantastic summer of events at the Nook – Wipeout! Sunshine smiles, bright Hawaiian shirts and exotically potent cocktails washed down to a backdrop of soulful summer grooves and beach party anthems in an awesome teenage mutant ninja DiskoPogo style. Surfs up!!
