Trade x 3

Trade is back with a mighty line-up for it’s massive 24th birthday. QX speaks to three of its top disc jocks…

 


Pete Wardman – Trade Tuff

 

What are you looking forward to most about the birthday?

I think it was 1995 when I first played at a Trade birthday – a night I’ll never forget! As the years pass the birthday has taken on a special significance for me – about what we’ve gone through together, and to be quite honest being grateful that we’re still around to enjoy it! I love the fact that on the birthday many Trade babies who don’t go out quite so often these days make the annual pilgrimage to have fun and catch up. And the fact that the whole thing is set to ‘the music of your life’ has to be the cherry on the cake!

How does working as a BBC Radio producer and Dj-ing at Trade compare?

They don’t compare really – they’re definitely two very different beasts, although at times the two have gone hand-in-hand. I started in radio on the south coast around the time that myself and friends were immersed in the outdoor rave scene with most weekend evenings following other cars in a convoy to try and find the right field and ringing fictional mobile phone numbers along the way and often (having failed miserably) just ending up in a motorway service station somewhere in Kent or Hampshire! Other times though we were successful, and it was those nights that caused the clubbing bug to bite hard. Between 1992 and 2001 was when DJing, dance music, and radio collided for me – during my time at Kiss 100FM in London. Now though I’m involved once again in journalism and news, so I flit between different worlds.

 


Severino Panzetta – Trade Disco

 

It’s been another incredibly busy year for you with Horse Meat Disco, what has been your personal highlight?

Doing a remix for Roisin Murphy’s ‘Italian Cover EP’ with my mate Nico De Ceglia… even Erol Alkan on BBC 6 played it, and I’m so chuffed… and the Horsemeat Disco Vol 4 CD hitting the top spot in the national compilation chart.

What have you been up to in the studio?

More remixes and a new project between KDA and Waterson, which we remixed with a wicked old skool vibe.

What do you think the legendary disco icon Sylvester would have made of Trade?

Well, for lots of clubbers Trade was like a church. Sylvester would sing gospel in my room. Imagine it! It would be sooooo awesome!

 


Nick Tcherniak – Trade Modern

 

How excited are you on a scale from 1-10 about Trade’s birthday and why?

Many moons ago, long before being involved in the night – or in those days I should say morning – I remember trying to get in a disco nap on many an occasion before heading off to Trade. It was nearly always impossible to fall asleep with the anticipation of what was to come. Things haven’t changed much, I still get as excited as ever, so I fear I won’t get a wink all month but no matter it will crescendo in a resounding David’s Den Number 10!

What’s one of your craziest Trade stories?

One I always remember is the story of a good friend of mine who spent nine hours at Trade cruising what appeared to be a rather enamored and interested looking, gym toned young man. As the needle was taken off the very last record it turned out he was standing in front of a mirror in Muscle Mary Alley!

You run your own night ‘Familia’ at EGG LDN, is it extra exciting for you that Trade is at the same home?

In a word – yes. We have a mixed crowd at Familia, although currently predominately straight, however my eventual aim is to mix it up to a greater extent. In Ibiza and Berlin one experiences truly mixed clubbing when it’s all about the music and the vibe rather than just picking up and routinely staying in a ghetto, so I’m excited at the prospect of possibly gaining a few more Familia-ites if they make plans to come back to the venue the following week, as well as this Trade of all Trades on 25th which looks set to make history with it’s opening hours alone!

 

• TRADE 2WENTY 4OUR: The Longest Birthday is on Saturday October 25th from 2pm onwards with Filterheadz flying in exclusively from Belgium plus Pagano, Tom Stephan, Hannah Holland, Smokin Jo, BK, Daz Saund, Severino Panzetta, Jamie De Rooy, TheMenWhoFell2Earth, Massimo Paramour, Nick Tcherniak, Pete Wardman, Ian M, Ross Homson + Ben Carr, Guy Williams & The Sharp Boys featuring Tonnic at Egg London (200 York Way, London N7 9AX).

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