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Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings

aka Alex / Hoffers www.adventuresclosetohome.com je vous laisse a bout de souffle

About Me

adventures close to home resident dj , mtv2 gonzo producer , quite lanky ............................................................ ..................................................... ADVENTURESCLOSETOHOMEADVENTURESCLOSETOHOMEADVENTURESCLOSETOH OMENOTE: THIS IS THE OFFICIAL CHOAF MYSPACE PAGE. THERE ARE NUMEROUS FANPAGES THAT DO NOT REPRESENT MY VIEWS. THEY HAVE BEEN SET UP BY VARIOUS CHOAF FANS ACROSS THE WORLD BUT THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE TO GET OFFICAL CHOAF NEWS.MANY THANKS. CHOAF ///// "Adventures Close To Home is perhaps the finest of the new breed of London parties" (TimeOut - Feb 2007)Adventures Close to Home has been a party situation since 2004. ACTH Resident DJs are joined by friends and live guests.We run things at the Old Blue Last on the last Friday of the month and the Camden Barfly on the first Friday of the month plus one-offs here and there.Previous live guests include CSS, Spank Rock, The Gossip, The Walkmen, Death from Above 1979, Metronomy, The Futureheads, Jamie Lidell and loads more - look down and left for the full list...Previous DJ guests include: Justice, Paul 'Phones' Epworth, Four Tet, Annie Mac, Buraka Som Sistema, Carlos Interpol and Eduardo Bananafeatures.Adventures Close to Home is now also a record label. We have birthed the following babies (click to purchase):ACTH001 - Holy Hail "Born Of A Star" - iTunes - 12" sold out! ACTH002 - Free Blood Part 1 - Limited edition 12" featuring remix by Hot Chip - iTunes ACTH003 - Holy Hail "Cool Town Rock" - Limited edition 7" - iTunesACTH004 - Free Blood Part 2 - COMING SOONACTH DJs have played at Glastonbury, Club 103 in Berlin, Fabric, 333, Turnmills, 93 Feet East, Camden Crawl, Modular, Vice and DFA parties, aftershows for Muse, Bloc Party and Interpol. They have forthcoming sets at Bestival, TDK Cross Central, Machac Festival in Czech Republic and Sub Club in Glasgow.FREE BLOOD 'THE ROYAL FAMILY'
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My Interests

eating passion fruit, port salut, blueberries, feta, haloumi and bananas. NO fucking veg.

I'd like to meet:

 

Music:

the fall, nico, justice, headman, serge gainsbourg, cornelius, new order, tv on the radio, love is all, public enemy, dizzee, animal collective, hot chip, beach boys, the egyptian lover, pavement, tindersticks, pro forma RIP, the beta band, joy division, flaming lips, metronomy, diplo, scott 4, lee and nancy, of montreal, jackson and his computer band, rammellzee, zongamin, free blood, fiery furnaces, ol dirty bastard, panico, mazzy star, the walkmen, skee-lo, sufjan, mstrkrft, method man, shack, del tha funkee homosapien, ESG, elliott smith, daft punk, shadow, boards of canada, sebastiAn, beasties, life without buildings, jonathan fire*eater, anti pop consortium, cat power, shy child, holy hail, digitalism, bush tetras, can, broken social scene, solex, bonde do role, feadz&uffie, SFA, kool keith/ultramagnetics, futureheads, xtc, cansei de ser sexy, the gossip, johnny cash, edu k, the delgados, dr dre, dfa, daniel johnston, friction, betty boo, SMD, TTC, phil spector, busy P, wonder, JME, buraka som sistema, arthur lee, joanna newsom, bmore gutter music, mehdi, matt and kim, switch/sinden/herve/crookers, black affair, clipse, schooly d, the brothers, passions, the man shir khan, beirut, gramme, crystal castles, dead prez, gameboy/gamegirl, the stricken city, yo majesty, olivia tremor control, afrikan boy, adventures close to home. anything french etc etc...

Movies:

Happiness, Festen, Swingers, Les Quatre Cent Coups, Buffalo 66, Fargo, Fucking Amal, American Splendor, Do The Right Thing, Wonder Man, The Money Pit, Adaptation, Downtown 81, King of Comedy, The Man Without A Past, Eternal Sunshine, The Science of Sleep. Almodovar, Woody Allen, Godard, Aronovsky, Von Trier, Moodysson, Moll / anything French etc etc...

Television:

Curb, anything Chris Morris-related, The Kingdom, Model Behaviour, Charlie Brooker anything French

Books:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Vernon God Little, Platform, A Hundred and One Days, Great Apes, anything French

Heroes:

Ill Will and The Colonel.All bands and DJs that have played at Adventures Close to Home : Death From Above 1979, Jamie Lidell, The Futureheads, Bonde do Role, Who Made Who, The Walkmen, The Gossip, Bloc Party, Cut Copy, CSS, Buraka Som Sistema, The Rakes, New Young Pony Club, Panico, Plan B, Paul Epworth, Justice, Four Tet etc etc etcAnyone who's ever helped out us with the night : Marky C Owen, The 2 Dres, Courtney Carnage, Sonia and Franny, Saam all staff at both venues, all our regulars. Much love.

My Blog

DOWNLOAD THE NEW ACTH MIX

ACTH DJs Febmix 08http://www.sendspace.com/file/g11tv4(copy and paste this link into your browser)King Clip  Lets Get IllFree Blood  Royal family (ACTH Remix)Mike Dunn  Dance U MuthaYing Yang Twins...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:39:00 PST

ACTH UPDATE AND TING

yes well hellojust got back from paris, we played records at showcase and yet again it was totally awesome. back there very soon we hope.holy hail have gone back to new york after nearly 2 months in e...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:12:00 PST

ACTH SUMMER ACTION

Lots of fun stuff happening - here's some of it...FRIDAY JUNE 29TH - ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME @ OLD BLUE LASTFREE ENTRYWHITE RABBITS (live)GEORGE PRINGLE (live)GROSVENOR (live)djS - ACTH, DEKKER, KICK...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:07:00 PST

CHECK OUR NEW DJ MIX

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/54706GameboyGamegirl - 'Sweaty Wet / Dirty Damp' Dizzee Rascal - 'Pussy 'Ole' Timbaland feat M.I.A - 'Come Around' (William Russell remix) Holy Hail - 'Born of a Star'...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:09:00 PST

HOLY HAIL to support NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB

yeah the hail will be supporting NYPC from May 25th to June 9th across the UK get there early and fall in love www.myspace.com/holyhail ACTH DJs will be playing some records at the koko gig on june 6t...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:22:00 PST

SOME TUNES I AM PLAYING QUITE REGULARLY...

Free Blood - GrumpyHoly Hail - Big Guns (Dave P Remix)Dizzee Rascal - PussyholeBlack Affair - It Goes Like ThisThe Teenagers - Homecoming (Passions Remix)A Trak - WampercycleBreakwater - Release the B...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:37:00 PST

ACTH RECORDINGS // MEET HOLY HAIL

Fun.We've started our label and stuff.Our first release is Monday April 2nd and its pretty much my favourite band in the world. Bonus.Be friends with Holy Hail. They're from New York and they make rel...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:12:00 PST

M.I.A vs A.C.T.H

check out the ill one's ACTH neu-dave mix of M.I.As new tune...http://download.yousendit.com/5385529A7D2EE217where the fuck were you in '92?i was having my barmitzvah. glowsticks and acid everywhere....
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:46:00 PST

ACTH CURRENT FIRST 11s

CHOAF Holy Hail - I Owe (White Label)JME - 96 Bars Of Revenge (Boy Better Know)TTC vs. Modeselektor - DancingBox (BPitch Control)Friendly Fires - Your Love (People In The Sky) Midnight Juggernauts - S...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:56:00 PST

THESE 2 SONGS MAKE ME CRY (NEARLY)

i'm not like an emo or nuffink but seriously these 2 get methe gossip cover aaliyah http://this.bigstereo.net/2006/06/04/the-gossip-5/and 'another one goes by' off the new walkmen albumhttp://musicisa...
Posted by Choaf - Adventures Close to Home Recordings on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:58:00 PST