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Go Deep, Friday 24th February

Fish Go Deep — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:46:02 +0000

Towards the end of each month a little excitement starts to build in the studio. Sometimes the previous weeks have been spent deep in the music machines. Sometimes we've been traveling. Sometimes, if the weather has been good, we've been sitting on our arses, watching the world go by. The last week of the month, though, is always special. The new tracks that have accumulated since the last Go Deep party are added to any classics that have sprung to mind. Early in the week we might hear word from friends around the country that are planning a trip south. If it's a big night - the birthday party in November or around Christmas - it can get a bit crazy. If it's a regular month - say February - it's more relaxed. But regardless of the time of year or what we've been up to for the previous few weeks, Go Deep is always our highlight of the month.

It helps that we've been playing this music here in Cork across a generation - for today's Go Deep regulars in the Pavilion, for their older brothers and sisters before them, even for some of their parents, aunts and uncles before them again. That's a deep well to draw on and, if tapped in to, can be more satisfying than any other place we've played over the years.

So, as it's the last week of the month, we're in a Go Deep state of mind. We'll be in the Pavilion on Friday night. Get down!

The Magic Carpet (Fish Go Deep Remix) - Latecomer

Fish Go Deep — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:44:39 +0000

This track was originally released on the fabulously named Trendy Mullet label back in 2010. It's a dreamy, jazzily percussive groove that slides and glides it's way under your skin. We played it a lot on our radio show at the time. It was a suprise to discover that Latecomer is a young Russian producer, not some seasoned house veteran. Check out the original mix below...

When head Mullet, Matt, recently asked us to pick a track from his label's back catalogue to remix, The Magic Carpet immediately sprung to mind. After a couple of false starts, the Juno 106 started working it's deep bass magic, that slurping hi-hat groove started swinging and we were off. As neither Greg nor myself are trained musicians, we find Melodyne Editor invaluble for figuring out chord sequences, rearranging them and extracting fragments of sound. It's an amazing piece of software that has developed into something far beyond it's original auto-tuning use. If you've thirty minutes to spare, there's a great interview with it's inventor, Peter Neubäcker, here.

Aside from the Juno and Melodyne, the other star of this particular remix was Urs Heckmann's beautiful new Diva soft synth. There are plenty of purely virtual machines that give their real world counterparts a run for their money but, for me, a Moog or a classic Roland is always going to sound better. Diva comes closer than any soft synth I've used to matching that sound. It has a deep, rich and, most importantly, musical tone that makes you want to play. It does put a serious strain on a computer's CPU but, for such a high quality return, I reckon that's an acceptable trade-off. We were using a beta version of Diva during this remix and didn't delve too deeply into it then but it's since become a staple in our plug-in folder.

Anyway, that was all a roundabout way of saying that the remix is now available and you should definitely buy at least one copy here.

Go Deep @ The Pavilion, 27.1.2012

Fish Go Deep — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:22:38 +0000

It's party time at The Pavilion next Friday night for the first Go Deep outing of 2012. We have so much great new music to play that we're starting a bit earlier than usual - 10PM - to fit it all in. Can't wait. To sweeten the deal further, you can win some passes in the competition running over on our Facebook page...

Commencing countdown, engines on....

Fish Go Deep — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:44:12 +0000

Only ten more sleeps until our biggest blowout of the year - the Go Deep Birthday Party (TM) - and we hope you're as excited as we are. We've already begun the annual trawl through the record shelves, looking for just the right mix of classics from two-and-a-bit decades of house music. Despite what a few jaded thirty/forty-somethings may yearn for, the birthday party isn't intended as a mix-perfect recreation of June 1992 - y'know when they still made good house/techno/yokes. We like to think of it more as a celebration of the entire span and enduring appeal of house music in Cork. And everyone who enjoys the music is welcome, from the twenty year old who's recently discovered house to grizzled veterans like us who, frankly, should know better! Can't wait.

Git yo tees

Fish Go Deep — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:41:11 +0000

We've recently hooked up with those fine folk at JoJo Electro to bring you a couple of all-new and exclusive tee shirt designs. Printed on high quality American Apparel tees and available for both the female and male of your species, these Fish Go Deep and Go Deep Recordings shirts may be just the thing for your next casual social occasion/upcoming birthday/festive celebration. Get them here.

Looong weekend...

Fish Go Deep — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:35:43 +0000

We like regular weekends a lot so you can imagine how excited we get when a long one comes around. What's not to like about 50% more weekend? This particular October bank holiday sees a Fish Go Deep sweep from Glasgow's Elements of Soul party on Friday night, to Cork City FC's league title-deciding match in Dublin on Saturday, then on to what promises to be an epic Go Deep session on Sunday in Cork's Pavilion Theatre. Can't wait. Hope to see some of you at some stage.

On the road again...

Fish Go Deep — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:39:59 +0000

After a storming September Go Deep party (great turnout and vibe - thanks to all who came along), we're back in the lovely Pavilion Theatre for an extra-niiice Cork Jazz Festival special on bank holiday Sunday, October 30th. That weekend is always one of the busiest of the year here in Cork so do get down early.

Before all that madness, we're back on the road over the next few weeks, taking in trips to Amsterdam, Porto, Ankara and Glasgow. The first of those is a tasty looking evening at the Amsterdam Dance Event, where Greg will be playing with Andre Lodemann, Roy Davis Jr, Alton Miller, Andy Roberts and more as part of the Mixed Signals Music label showcase. Should be a blast. More details here. And further info on those other dates next week.

Go Deep Autumn/Winter Dates

Fish Go Deep — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:04:32 +0000

Due to some weekend schedule changes at The Pavilion, our monthly Go Deep residency will be dancing around the calendar for the coming season. Just to give you plenty of advance warning, we've decided to announce the dates early. Pencils at the ready?

Friday 30th September Greg and Shane, house music all night long.
Sunday 30th October Extra nice Cork Jazz Festival special.
Friday 25th November Go Deep birthday party. Early session in the bar downstairs, then doors open to the club at 9PM.
Sunday 26th December Go Deep Christmas Party.

Second Chances and New Romances Volume 2

Fish Go Deep — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:08:43 +0000

Having only recently discovered the delights of Denmark's Noir Music label - check out the Solomun remix of Around by Noir and Haze for a prime example of their excellent output - it came as a pleasant surprise to find an edit of our remix of Cyclone on their latest release, Second Chances and New Romances Volume 2.

Jamie Anderson and Mr K Alexi were responsible for the original of Cyclone and we had a lot of fun working on the remix around this time last year - in our books, any day you get to do hip-house is a good day. It was released on the Mija label, did very nicely at the time and has since gone on to enjoy a lengthy afterlife - being re-released on vinyl, showing up on a bunch of compilations and now getting a tasty mix-friendly edit for this release.

Ever Wonder (Fish Go Deep Remix) - Alton Miller ft Abacus

Fish Go Deep — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:25:03 +0000

Alton Miller is one of those rare producers that has been consistently producing quality music with a minimun of fuss for many years - no flavour-of-the-month hype, no bandwagon-jumping, just soulful, grown-up house. From early 90's gems on KMS and Serious Grooves to more recent releases on Peacefrog, Seasons and Clone, his music has long been and still is essential listening.

So when Andy Roberts, label boss at Toronto's Mixed Signals Music, asked us to remix one of the tracks from Alton's forthcoming album, we needed all of, oooh, about two seconds to say yes. Andy sent us the album, Light Years Away, and on first listen Ever Wonder jumped out at us - beautiful chords over a great groove, topped with a sweet vocal line. Plenty to work with.

We're not the quickest studiobots on the block but this remix came together pretty fast. We went with a stripped back groove for the first half - cutting up the keys and filtering them down to just the low end - before introducing a new Rhodes piano and the full vocal line half way through. Some extra percussion and a synth line mirroring the vocal melody takes it home.