Pearly Whites & Friends @ Limelite


What: Pearly Whites & Friends

Where: Metros (Freo)

When: 22 October 2010

Cost/Ticket details: 10/15, door sales

From the bedroom, to the backyard, to mixing it alongside the big boys The Pearly Whites have hit the ground running. Its been a massive year for the duo and with an epic countdown to their set at Stereosonic we have handed over the reins. Our shiny toothed lads call the night their own and take control of the bookings, support slots and programming on October 22 for The Pearly Whites & Friends at Limelite.

It kicked off when… JS and Mo’Fly paired up with a little mixtape sent into Limelite HQ five minutes before the closing of entries. The Pearly Whites were born and they sailed through the heats to be crowned winners of the first “Into the Limelite DJ Competition”. Embracing gold saw them smashing out party mash up set at Creamfields. Since then they played alongside superstars Drop the Lime and Anoraak at Limelite and secured gigs at almost every bangin club around town. Even scoring a one hour live set guest slot on RTR FMs “trainwreck”.

Phetsta’s DJ skills have seen him tour both nationally and overseas, including two eight week long sell out tours of Europe and one in The United States. His music has found its way into the record boxes of the likes of Pendulum, Grooverider, Andy C and Annie Mac. Expect a mixture of electro, dubstep, DnB and everything in between with expert mixing over three decks

M!SPR!NT exploded onto the scene with one of his earliest gigs taking him all the way to the limelite finals. Since then he’s been in high demand playing gigs at geisha, ambar, limelite, bar open and recently scoring support for Jack Beats and Aston Shuffle at villa. This man knows how to make a dance floor move.

DNRGFLD is the front runner and main man behind break the seal. Winner of the Mullaloo beach DJ comp this home boy plays everything from funk to breaks and knows how to bring the rukkus.

Mister Ed was an intelligent palomino horse who could talk. Mr.ED however is a nu school DJ, who’s style is hard to top and makes for exciting sets. As head honcho of Beat off, and a bar open and ambar regular, you can expect a set filled with party style electro and breaks.

Witness The Pearly Whites tear the place a new one with friends in tow

dishing out an array of electro, dubstep, breaks and party with a sprinkling of madness to make you move.

Music review

White hot

I’ve combined two important parts of Friday night into the title, I need to explain it otherwise it doesn’t appear very clever. You now know that my review titles are always clever! Pearly White’s (first part of title) are some of the most talented djs I’ve seen in a long time, there set looked pretty rehearsed but it didn’t matter because it got a great response, and there was plenty of excitement from the guys themselves. It was a good time to reminisce on some old electro, and it was an all round exceptional party set. It does add some evidence to electro being dead, the newest track I heard was “Jeffer”, and other than that everything was from early 2009 to pre-2009.

Now for the business side of the night, Anoraak! Most importantly there were people there specifically to support Anoraak and made the most of his appearance but occupying the front of the dancefloor, at least for some of the time, well when I was there anyway. Anoraak’s set was short but sweet. I don’t think the crowd were into the live set at the beginning, but people really warmed to their music, it has a great pace to dance to, nothing too far over 120 bpm, and the tracks are very catchy. I remember hearing “Nightdrive With You” and “Long Distance Hearts’ within the first few tracks, after that I wasn’t too sure about the rest but Toby (one of his true fans) told me there was some smashing song he was going to end with, I don’t know if he did end with it, but whatever he ended with was awesome! Overall everything I heard I enjoyed, so it probably doesn’t matter if I name the tracks or not, well I can’t anyway so just go listen to some more Anoraak.

On a more general note it was great to see some live electronic music again. There is just something so satisfying about seeing a drummer on stage (Frederik even says there may be a bassist soon!) I hope everyone gets on board with this ‘nu-disco’ wave, and we see some great nights return to Perth. Thanks to Limelite for making nights like Friday night possible, it was good fun, and they take a big risk having artists like Anoraak, so it’d be great to see continued support.