With summer threatening to kick into full swing any day now, the official "part-ay" season is just around the corner! And to show PhDJ's total appreciation of good music and good parties, he's going to provide you with the soundtrack to this year's festive season!
An all Australian, all indie, ULTIMATE PhDJ mash up! The Purple Sneakers Mixtape of Indie Joy is a digital release only mixtape that will feature some of Australia's raddest indie bands!!
On the mixtape you'll find a combination of Australian indie, rock, pop, folk, electro, hip hop, and Baltimore all seamlessly mashed, smashed and bashed to a pulp for your listening joy!. This will includes tracks by Gotye, Bluejuice, Muscles, Dappled Cities , Soft Tigers, Urthboy, Regurgitator, Mercy Arms, Cut Off Your Hands, I Heart Hiroshima and many, many more with an exclusive remix of Wons Phreely's track "Another Thing" by PhDJ & Mailer Daemon!
In anticipation this delightful Mixtape of Indie Joy, we are going to tantalise your senses with the announcement of the Purple Sneakers DJs tour, set to coincide with the launch. The coolest Indie spinning Disc Jockey's around (well we believe so) will be hitting the following venues around the country - so get ready to experience the joy!
Tour dates include:
09 Nov - Purple Sneakers at The Abercrombie - SYDNEY
16 Nov - King Street Hotel - NEWCASTLE
22 Nov - Newport Hotel - FREMANTLE
24 Nov - Amplifier Bar (Capitol) - PERTH
24 Nov - Abercrombie Hotel - SYDNEY
01 Dec - Inferno - TRARALGON
08 Dec - Kink at Valve Nightclub - MELBOURNE
14 Dec - The Empire - BRISBANE
15 Dec - Berlin - GOLD COAST
Ever wished you could hit up Purple Sneakers whenever you wanted? Well, with the release of PhDJ's PURPLE SNEAKERS MIXTAPE OF INDIE JOY, you now have your favourite indie night as a portable option. It's a killer music mash featuring Australia's best indie talents that you can listen to whenever and wherever you like. In the mix you'll find bLuejuice, Dappled Cities, Mercy Arms, Wons Phreely, Gotye, Yves Klein Blue, The Paper Scissors, I Heart Hiroshima, Teenager, Urthboy, Soft Tigers, Melanie Horsnell, British India, Muscles, The Beautiful Girls, Regurgitator, Horsell Common and Cut Off Your Hands. Sound joyful!? This pocket-rocket of a compilation will be available exclusively on iTunes as of November 20.
Finally, a solution to all your partying dilemmas...
Also, to coincide with the launch we are sending the Purple Sneakers DJs on a national tour so you can experience the good times, LIVE. We'll keep you posted on the dates, so stay tuned. That's all folks.
Queensland gets its first dose of Purple Sneakers magic since the sold out Pauhaus Festival this Thursday [August 16] for its final leg at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane with PURPLE SNEAKERS DJs and OPERATOR PLEASE rocking live as well as MTV's newest dating game show MEET OR DELETE,
which involves dudes and dudettes checking out the hard drives of
prospective partners to decide whether or not they will date. Sounds
simply nerdalicious!
Also, lucky Brisbanites can catch Purple Sneakers DJs for a proper club set this Friday at The Empire in Fortitude Valley. Catch PhDJ and VIVIENNE KINGSWOOD cutting loose on the disco decks. Yippee!!
Purple Sneakers DJs On Tour
Thursday August 9th - Snowball, Sydney Uni Manning Bar
Thursday August 16th - Queensland University of Technology
Friday August 17th - Tour Wrap Party w/- Purple Sneakers DJs PhDJ and Vivienne Kingswood - The Empire, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
