Horse Meat Dis - Splash - Inially tablished 2004 at The Eagle, an nocuo gay bar London’s Vxhall, Horse Meat Dis has evolved to a powerful force queer and club culture as a whole, while stayg lol to s origal home, each and every Sunday. Co-found by Jam Hillard and Jim Stanton, and enpassg rints Severo and Le Howards, the crew ntue to mata not only the weekly Sunday party, but a number of rinci ci across the world, alongsi a kaleidospe of club appearanc, ftival dat and specially curated spiratn om a diverse, unter-cultural history of clubs and DJs, as well as om the sprawlg, ever-expandg mil llectns of ’s rint crew, the sound of HMD is impossible to place. Nohels their style is unniable, as is a popper-scented air of sheer thenticy. Rooted hedonism, rhythm, eedom and emotn, a Horse Meat Dis set rerc everythg vigoratg about dis, as fortable as shatterg old-school mirror ball clich as baskg their light.A typil HMD set blends classics, alo dis, hoe, oddi and punk funk, to njure their ial spir of “a queer party for everyone”, cludg, but not limed to, “Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashnistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladi who munch.” They have ma appearanc on every notable club scene the morn world, as well as those beyond, and have long been a key fixture at ftivals cludg Glastonbury, Btival and Ftival No.6.Outsi of the club, the Horse Meat Dis tra rolls across the airwav on Rse FM, where the crew hold down a weekly rincy every Sunday afternoon, servg as a pre and post-club Sunday lunch acpaniment, often lvg to the more soulful shas of their sublime taste, often enpassg rave groove, gospel and whatever they n’t get away wh on the dancefloor (which, as the years have proven, isn’t much). A seri of expertly curated and acclaimed pilatns for reissue label Stt helped further cement HMD’s formidable but munal reputatn as dis mastermds, spreadg their sound and many enviable obscuri to ont rooms and rerd bags across the world. Their latt, ‘Meat Me Down the Dis’, was released on Z Rerds s of crate diggg, globetrottg and partyg, the HMD story ntu apace. 2017 also saw the crew rerd their long-awaed ntributn to BBC Rad 1’s ‘Essential Mix’, as well as their first jot foray to productn, ‘Wag For You To Call’, featurg Roy Inc., and released on their own, self-tled imprt. They are currently workg on new mic to be released wh Glterbox, wh the new sgle ‘Let’s Go Dancg’ released December 2018. - Saturday, September 25, 2021
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