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Ricardo Tobar - Boy Love Girl EP : Out Now

2008-06-24T18:19:00.006+01:00

Chilean charmer Ricardo Tobar makes a welcome return to Border Community with the Boy Love Girl EP: four tracks of noisy genre-busting dancefloor electronica and bold, brassy electro-rock to propel him to the next level.

The variety on offer on Ricardo's 'Boy Love Girl EP' leaves you positively spoiled for choice: from joyful slow-building club jaunt 'Boy Love Girl Song' and the bombastic electronic rock of 'Computers' on the one side, to the apocalyptic bass rave of 'Psprf Frame' and the delicate dreamy pianos of 'Voy A Buscar' on the other. Buy the EP here now on mp3, or look out for the vinyl with Boris Zelenkevich's exquisite hand-drawn sleeve in your local record shop.

And be sure to catch Ricardo Tobar's accompanying boundary-pushing live show at one of his upcoming European tourdates alongside James Holden: visit Ricardo's Myspace for a full list of shows.

We Love Border Community, Paris : Saturday 5th July

2008-06-23T12:14:00.004+01:00

The excellent We Love Art promoters from Paris have invited the Border Community family over the channel on 5th July for a very special event in a secret woodland location on the outskirts of Paris. To help create the required magical party atmosphere on the evening we will have noisy bastard Nathan Fake and cheery screengazer Ricardo Tobar playing live, as well as DJ sets from pixie prince James Holden and techno weasel Petter.

For ticket information and precise location details (to be announced in the week before the event), watch the We Love Art website or their Myspace.

Border Community @ 10 Days Off, Ghent, Belgium : Friday 18th July

2008-06-18T11:13:00.003+01:00

Another fortuitous Border Community summer meet-up takes place on Friday 18th July in Belgium, when members of the crew will come together to kick off this year's 10 Days Off city festival at the Vooruit in Ghent. First lady of techno Misstress Barbara is scheduled to rendezvous with current tour buddies Ricardo Tobar (live) and James Holden in Ghent for their final European adventure together before Ricardo's return to Chile.

To join the party, check the 10 Days Off website for tickets and further information on the full festival line-up.

Border Community @ The Loft, Barcelona : Thursday 19th June

2008-06-17T11:57:00.004+01:00

We are getting all psyched up this week for our return to The Loft in Barcelona for another one of our legendary Sonar-week parties on Thursday 19th June, and we do hope that any of you heading out there for a weekend of fear and loathing will be able to join us. With their stated mission to deliver the 2008 update of the Border Community sound, on the evening you can look forward to an ever-devastating live performance from Nathan "big balls" Fake, the debut European live show from Chilean genre-buster Ricardo Tobar, Swedish twitcher Petter showing exactly why he is one of our favourite DJs, and of course daddy-of-them-all James Holden on deck duties.

Head to the Razzmatazz website for more information, and details of the rest of the line-up guesting throughout the Razzmatazz club complex over the Sonar weekend.

Ricardo Tobar European Tour

2008-05-28T16:28:00.006+01:00

Our Chilean representative Ricardo Tobar is all geared up for his second release on Border Community, the busting-out-of-the-box 'Boy Love Girl EP' which hits shops on 23rd June. He has also recently unveiled his matching boundary-pushing live show in his native Chile, and the EP release seemed the perfect excuse to make the big leap across the pond for his first European mini-tour alongside musical mentor James Holden.

Catch Ricardo Tobar, James Holden, and possibly some other bonus members of the Border Community family thrown in for good measure, at one of the following dates this summer:

19th June : Border Community @ The Loft, Barcelona, Spain
22nd June : Sonic Cathedral @ The Social, London, UK
27th June : Watergate, Berlin, Germany
28th June : Woodshock, Ljubljana, Slovenia
3rd July : Border Community @ 5 Days Off, Amsterdam, Netherlands
5th July : We Love Border Community, Paris, France
11th July : Spartacus, Plan de Campagne, France
12th July : Balatonsound Festival, Lake Balaton, Hungary
13th July : Border Community Boat Party, Athens, Greece
18th July : Border Community @ 10 Days Off, Gent, Belgium

Border Community @ The End, London : Saturday 24th May

2008-04-25T13:08:00.004+01:00

The next Border Community night at The End on Saturday 24th May is fast approaching, and this time we have decided to mix things up a little. Lounge stalwart Kieran Hebden has been itching to rinse out the main room of The End for some time now, so we thought it was about time we finally let him hop over to have it with main room mainstays James Holden and Avus. Also making his main room debut is our latest recruit Luke Abbott, who will be unveiling his spanking new live set of next level music for dancing to of the type heard on his recent Tuesday EP.

The Kieran-shaped gap left in the lounge is then snugly plugged by guest hosts for the evening Lo Recordings, where they will be offering up live sets of ecstatic electro from Black Devil Disco Club and melancholic italo-disco from Appaloosa, as well as DJ action from milky disco man Milky Globe and lo-fi pop lothario Vincent Oliver.

Advance tickets are on sale now from the End website.

Luke Abbott - Tuesday EP : Out Now

2008-04-16T20:10:00.004+01:00

The latest electronic troubador to be plucked from the Norfolk countryside and transplanted to the Border Community is one Luke Abbott, who joins us to release the musically ambitious selection of modern psychedelia that is the Tuesday EP: available to buy on mp3 here, or on vinyl from your local record shop to own your own piece of our infamous Border Community landscape as customised by Luke's own fair hand.

Former Output man Luke has crammed six short but extremely sweet songs into just 22 minutes of EP, where DJ-friendly bottom shifters rub up against dubbed-out nu-Kraut and 8-bit bleeps to form a cohesive home-listening experience almost worthy of (allbeit slightly short!) mini-album status.

Filmmaker and friend-of-Luke Michael Page of Processed Films has also created a rather cute animated illustration of the water cycle in video form to accompany the euphoric and twinkly EP track 'Melody120', which we have just added to our Videos section and our new Border Community Youtube channel.

Win Tickets to the Eat Your Own Ears Series @ IndigO2, London : Thursday 24th April

2008-03-27T18:17:00.005Z

Border Community's own James Holden and Fairmont are both performing at the Eat Your Own Ears Series of parties at IndigO2 in London on Thursday 24th April, alongside the lovely Four Tet, Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Kode9. And to celebrate, the good people over at Eat Your Own Ears have given us two free pairs of tickets for the event to distribute amongst the Border Community massive.

To win a pair of tickets for yourself, just answer the following question:

What was the title of the first single to be taken from Fairmont's 'Coloured In Memory' album?

PLEASE NOTE: This competiion has now closed. The two lucky winners were Eliza Scherwitz and Philippe Martin Davies.

And for more information on the Eat Your Own Ears Series party, click over to our brand new Border Community blog...

Border Community Japanese Tour : June 2008

2008-03-14T17:52:00.003Z

The Border Community dream team of James Holden, Nathan Fake and Petter will be heading off to tour Japan together in June, and very excited they are about it indeed.

First stop is the very special Taico Club Festival at Kodamano-Mori from Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th June, celebrating James' birthday with a weekend in the mountains. This is followed by a three date club tour, taking in the positively perfect Precious Hall in Sapporo on Thursday 12th June, JBs in Nagoya on Friday 13th June, and finally a "Border Occupation" at the Triangle, Kannon and Drop clubs in Osaka on Saturday 14th.

The Fondue Fun-Do @ St Moritz Basement, London : Wednesday 26th March

2008-03-04T14:00:00.006Z

Our resident cheese freak James Holden is very excited indeed about his next London DJ appearance on Wednesday 26th March at The Fondue Fun-Do, a collaboration with our good friends Allez Allez to bring you a special evening of cheese and tunes in the heart of Soho.

We have hired out the basement of London's oldest Swiss restaurant St Moritz (161 Wardour Street), where tasty vats of fondue will be dished up from 9pm to the accompaniment of an equally tasty soundtrack provided by cheesehead James Holden and the Allez Allez DJs to take you through to the 3am close. Be sure to arrive early to avoid missing out on the complimentary fondue fun!

All tickets for the Fondue Fun-Do have now completely sold out. There will be no further tickets available on the door on the evening, so please do not come down to the venue unless you have a ticket!

Border Community @ The End, London : Saturday 23rd February

2008-01-31T13:37:00.000Z

Hoping to continue that amazing community spirit which everyone helped us to create at our four parties last year, we return to London's End Club on 23rd February for our first session of 2008. This month, we are excited to finally be able to invite our old Berlin mucker Apparat for a rare guest live set in London, as well as the svelte Swiss DJ incarnation of former Lazy Fat Person Ripperton, who join regulars James Holden and warm-up man Avus in the main room.

Early doors the lounge is given over to the impeccable taste of Max Tundra (who will also be providing the perfect soundtrack to your Saturday afternoon from 2.30pm with his weekly Rotogravure show on the excellent Resonance FM), before handing the reins over to usual unlikely lounge lizard Mr Four Tet Kieran Hebden to bring proceedings to a close.

Get your tickets now from the newly re-vamped End website.