**PRESS RELEASE ** PRESS RELEASE ** PRESS RELEASE ** Closer – two rooms of original techno music… E1 warehouse location, London – New Year’s Eve, 2007 Luke Slater (Mote-Evolver)
James Ruskin (Blueprint / Tresor)
Steve Strawberry (Closer / Tilted Disco)
Religion / Inhale / Injury Time / System Location to be revealed 1 month before the event / 20:00-06:00
Very limited early bird tickets £15 + b/f on sale now
Ticketweb: 08700 600 100 / www.ticketweb.co.uk
Info: 07814 179946 / 07957 112723 / www.myspace.com/partycloser 
After two groundbreaking and enthralling techno parties that took London by storm, it simply had to be done -
Closer NYE. Politburo events are proud to announce that we will be taking over a brand new
E1 warehouse location in London – just five minutes walk from
Aldgate East and
Tower Hill tube stations – on
New Year’s Eve for one unforgettable night of original techno music across two rooms.
Closer is designed to do exactly what it says on the tin. It’s about techno in its purest, rawest sense –
unrestricted, unrestrained – delivered by its finest practitioners up close and personal. Techno in its many shapes and guises has become the leading international language of the dancefloor from beach festivals in
Brazil to the underground sound of
Europe’s coolest clubs. The scene’s leading DJs are in such demand on the global circuit that we barely get to see them here in the UK and that’s usually confined to the bigger clubs and festivals. All well and good, of course, but there’s nothing quite like dancing to techno when the lights are low, the atmosphere is intense and you can see the whites of the DJs’ eyes!
Closer has already featured some of the biggest names on the scene including
Luke Slater, Kevin Saunderson, Ben Sims, Colin Dale and
Mark Williams who have joined resident
Steve Strawberry and a cast of young talent from the London underground.
Closer NYE promises to go one better with the return of
Luke Slater and a warm welcome to
James Ruskin. 
Luke Slater: musical and technological innovator,
Fabric regular and man of many guises –
Planetary Assault Systems, Clementine, Morganistic and
The 7th Plain to name a few. Both as a DJ and a producer,
Luke Slater has always been at the forefront of redefining the techno blueprint winning support from across the electronic music spectrum. Recent projects have included a
‘Fabric’ mix CD, the
‘Head Converter’ EP and the
Mote-Evolver independent online music distribution portal, while his
‘Fear and Loathing’ mix albums are the stuff of legend. Combine that with a packed DJ and production schedule, and you have a true maverick with 15 years of dancefloor vision behind him.
James Ruskin: another stalwart of the UK scene and one of techno’s finest ambassadors, James Ruskin has been making music since 1997. As well as releases on his own
Blueprint and
Coda imprints, he is an integral part of the
Tresor organisation, both as a producer and as a DJ. The label will be releasing his fourth artist album,
‘The Dash’, at the end of 2007 and he has already played at the club in
Berlin since it reopened. James is currently touring
Europe in support of the album playing both DJ sets and live PAs, and has further cemented his reputation as one of techno’s most accomplished exponents. For
Closer NYE he will be bringing along his full bag of effects for a set comprising upfront material alongside classic tracks reshaped live in the mix.
Steve Strawberry: coming up from the London underground and the man behind the excellent
Tilted Disco parties, Steve Strawberry is a man you’ll be hearing a lot more over the coming months because of his incendiary turntable skills. He recently brought the sound of Tilted Disco to the
Ministry of Sound in support of their techno night
Hi-Tek Soul and has been working in the studio with
Colin Dale. 
Representing the sound of young London at Closer will be
Chris Rayner from
Inhale, Jon Holland and
Mutant playing back-to-back from
Injury Time,
Stakker and
Lene Andreasen playing back-to-back from System, and
Richard Belsom and
Dan Van Damn who have both recently released tracks on the
Jack Digitals label. Over in the second room, meanwhile, Religion will be your hosts featuring
Aleksei, Matt Hardin, Paul Edge and
Paul KC. These guys have been involved in some of the best parties around London this year including
Party Proactive at
Turnmills and have one of the most loyal and up-for-it crowds in town.
Full details of the venue will be released in due course but, rest assured, it’s going to be very special and perfect for the intimate and intense atmosphere of Closer. You can expect the same high standards of sound, lighting and production to be found at all Politburo Events alongside one of the friendliest group of techno aficionados you’ll ever find.
Closer is the
techno party London’s faithful has been crying out for –
unrestricted, unrestrained and like no other. This is your chance to get Closer with
Luke Slater and
James Ruskin and see in the New Year with a vengeance – accept no substitute, there is no other!
Paul Jack 07814 179946 / paul@proactive-records.co.uk
Matthew Duffield 07957 112723 / matthew@seditiondjs.com
Closer is a Politburo event www.myspace.com/politburoevents Web links: Luke Slater –
www.lukeslater.com /
www.myspace.com/thereallukeslater James Ruskin –
www.myspace.com/jamesruskin2006 /
www.tresorberlin.de Steve Strawberry –
www.myspace.com/stevestrawberry /
www.myspace.com/tilteddisco Religon –
www.religionpromotions.co.uk /
www.myspace.com/religionpromotions Inhale --
www.inhale.org.uk /
www.chrisrayner.com 
Closer NYE warehouse party-Luke slater,James Ruskin, Steve Strawberry 
