Dear friends, another cookin’ year has flown by.

As we still haven’t found a tool to stop time, we can try to do so once a year.
Yes that’s right; What’s cookin’? celebrates its 4th year anniversary.

We’ve only just recovered from a legendary New Year’s eve party and haven’t got a chance to thank you properly.
What better way to say thanks than with an even bigger party?

The oldskool fanatics will be hip housed by master of ceremony, producer and DJ Tyree Cooper hailing from Chi-Town, USA.
New talent and breakthru house artist of the year ‘Gramophonedzie’ (Belgrade, Serbia), from the hit single ‘Why don’t you’ will show us his skills behind the decks and set the place on fire.

Our residents Jensen & Bugsy and Jack ‘n Jazz have been serving you for four years now, and by now they sure know what you all love best.
Live visuals as always by Jokjok!

Time for some reminiscing over the years and dance the night away!

http://www.whatscookin.be

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* LINE UP *

Gramophonedzie (Belgrade, Serbia)

For almost 15 years Marko Milicevic (Gramophonedzie) has been working as a Dj. Now 30 years old, the Belgrade native started his career as a teenager. In the year 2000 Marko was honoured to be chosen by RedBull Music Academy in Ireland as their student and participant which was one of the main steps towards his work as a producer now.

At RBMA he was introduced to music production which lead to his later success in that field. Beside dj-ing he finished his studies of Sound Design at Belgrade University. He also made music for many video commercials, shows, films and produced projects for some major Hip Hop bands in Serbia. He also made the theme music for the Big Brother tv show across the Balkan countries.

His passion for funky music, live instruments and intensive vocals resulted in his alias “Gramophonedzie” under which, he’s been making music for last 4 years. He’s released tracks for Gotta Keep Faith Records, Yakuza Records, Guesthouse, DiskoZoo Records, Shak Digital, Maracuja & DVR as well as numerous remixes for a large variety of labels. So far, his biggest success is his track “Why Don’t You”, where he samples an old swing track. This brought Gramophonedzie to the lights of the global house scene where he was signed to Virgin/Positiva records.

As producer Gramophonedzie has very diverse style of music that varies from jackin house to almost minimal beats. In his long dj career he’s played numerous parties and big dance events where he shared decks with the lieks of Bob Sinclar, Derrick Carter, Junior Jack, David Morales, Basement Jaxx, Tom Novy, Axwell, Roger Sanchez and many more besides…

Tyree Cooper (Chicago, USA)

It probably all began with the old R & B dusties of his mother, Tyree Cooper was impassionedly listening to.

Growing up on the streets of Chicago’s South Side Tyree Cooper discovered his love for the soul music of the 60ies. A first step was to join his Grammar school band at the age of 13 – playing the flute! His other passion at that time was playing basketball.
Both passions followed him to the high school where he met Mike Dunn and learned how to DJ. Listening to Farley “Jackmaster Funk”, “ The Hot Mix 5“, Ronny Hardy and the electrifying energies of Frankie Knuckles, Tyree was well schooled at an early age.

Eventually Tyree’s basketball skills awarded him at scholarship to the University of Wisconsin -Stout where the bourgeoning mixing skills were fine tuned.
Two years after college Tyree was already one of the most popular and highly sought-after DJs in Chicago. Then Vince Lawrence, of the garage funk band “Jesse Gang“ (founded by Jesse Saunders) persuaded Tyree to put together a demo tape of his music to start a career as a recording artist.

From now on it was only a question of time before signing the first record deal with the Chicago-based underground label D.J. International – that was in 1986. The first 12″ – “I Fear The Night“ (with female vocalist ‘Chic’) – promptly became an underground classic in Chicago. Other hits followed: “Acid Over“(1988), “Turn Up The Bass“ (1988/89),“’Let’s Get Hyped“ (feat. Kool Rock Steady, 1989), “Let the Music Take Control“(1989) and “Hardcore Hip House“ (1989). That was the time when Tyree Cooper created a crossover version of house music together with his friend and fellow DJ ‘Fast Eddie’ Smith and which was known as hip house. It then caused a furor on the hip hop scene, while today rap vocals are a common feature of the commercial house scene.

Tyree Cooper is now regarded as one of the most influential artists in the international house scene. Already looking back to a respectable discography Cooper founded his own label in 2002: Supa Dupa Recordings. Later one of the most important hip house tunes was released on Epic with the original and some new remix versions: “Turn Up The Bass“, which is surely one of the most important hip house tracks of all times.

Other remixing highlights and hits were undoubtedly Fast Edde “Yo! Yo! Get Funky“, “It`s Alright” from the Pet Shop Boys and the Mixmasters “In the Mix“ which was featured in Madonna’s Truth or Dare. True to the scene Tyree still lives in Chicago spreading his roots also in Europe’s exciting capitol Berlin – doing what he does best…. spinning and traveling to Europe for gigs and producing new tracks on his own record label Supa Dupa Records and of course together with shik stylkö for realbasic recordings.

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* TICKETS *

Early Bird Tickets available at € 10 From March 29d Till April 2nd only at Le Pain Total

Presale All Fnac shops + 0900/00600
Music Mania Walpoortstraat Gent
Le Pain Total Blandijnberg Gent

Online at fnac.be

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