This is the big one guys – the launch night for our huge “Blood Pressure” album is about to drop, and we can’t think of a place we’d rather be celebrating its release than at Fabric. We were last at Fabric back in January and once again we’re taking over room 3 on Friday 9th March.

What to expect: Lung B2B Joe Syntax, Fracture & Neptune, a set from Sydney’s own Royalston, Eleven8, Mutated Forms and Anile, and the whole affair will be hosted by MC Ruthless and Linguistics.

We’ll be sharing Fabric with Marky & Friends in Room One who’ll be playing host to DJ Die as well as The Nextmen and more, and Metalheadz in Room Two with some b2b sets from Goldie and dBridge, Ed Rush and Calyx.

A huge line-up for what we’re expecting to be an even larger night. You do not want to miss this!

Tickets:
£16 Advance
£17 OTD
£7 after 3am

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Another massive Med School night is on the cards for 7th April, as the crew fasten their seatbelts and head down the M4 to take over room three at Hospitality Bristol.

Expect to hear only the finest and freshest beats from Joe Syntax, Lung, Royalston – who’s coming all the way from Australia and New Blood 011′s Clarity, plus label manager Ash Med School supporting.

Hosted by Ruthless and Linguistics, this is a night you do not want to miss. Remember the last one?

Tickets: £17.50 + BF adv

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Blu Mar Ten will be our special guest for the night alongside Med School signings Joe Syntax and Lung, New Blood 011′s Eleven8 plus label manager Ash Med School.

Tickets:
Super Earlybird £10.00
Earlybird £12.00
Standard £15.00

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Med School lynchpins Joe Syntax and Lung will be heading up the room, with super special guest Royalston over from the depths of Australia, plus NB011′s Eleven8 and label manager Ash Med School supporting.  MC Juma Phist will be hosting.

Tickets: £14.00 + BF adv.

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Not only that but Unquote’s album “Reverberation Box” was voted #6 in K Mag’s “10 Best Drum + Bass Albums 2011″ and “New Blood 011″ was voted in Headphone Commute’s “Best Compilations Of The Year”.

Unquote was also in at #3 in K Mag’s “Top 10 Producers Of 2011″ and our Russian resident came in at #17 in Data Transmission’s “Top 10 Podcasts Of 2011″ alongside a Med School New Blood special at #9. A huge success all round! Thanks to all the artists and everyone who supported us in 2011!

Best Med School track of 2011?
We also decided to run our own poll to see what you thought was the best Med School track of 2011. Many thanks to all who entered. The top 5 results of our poll were:

1. Joe Syntax – Signal Drop

2. Joe Syntax – Sightlines (feat. Jono McCleery)

3. Spherique – Snowflakes Catcher

4. Eleven8 – Colours Of Distance

5. Bop – The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel

Full list of results can be found here.

We’ve no doubt at all that 2012 will be even bigger + better, but before we leave the office and tuck into some mince pies and mulled wine we thought it was time to look back on the highlights from 2011 and see what YOU think.

What’s been the best Med School track of 2011?

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Joe Syntax is headlining alongside Lung, live and direct from Cardiff. 1Xtra DJ and all round D&B hero Bailey is special guest for the evening as well as friend of the label Blu Mar Ten. MCs AD and Ruthless will be hosting.

Make sure you come and join us to see 2012 off to a fantastic start!

ADVANCED TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT BUT THERE WILL PLENTY MORE ON THE DOOR. MAKE SURE YOU GET THERE EARLY!

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, ROOM 3 WILL BE STREAMED LIVE…

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Advance tickets for the event have sold out (though there will be a limited number available on the door – get down early!) This means that if you didn’t manage to get a ticket you can still join in the fun and tune into sets from: Joe Syntax, Reso, June Miller, Lung and Ash Med School with MC Ruthless and SP:MC on the mic.

Simply head HERE between the hours of 10pm and 5am and you’ll be able to lock into the action live and directly. If you ‘like’ the link, it’ll automatically embed on your FB profile for everyone to share.

On Friday 21st October we welcome Reso to Med School in Room Three at fabric for fabric’s 12th birthday, where he will be playing alongside Joe Syntax, Lung, June Miller and Ash Med School. Reso is a firm favourite for us at Med School and we’ve always been impressed with his forward thinking attitude and sharp beats, so it is a great honour to welcome him to the Med School room. In anticipation of this occasion, we caught up with Reso to find more more about the man behind the music.

Hi, so to start off can you tell us who are you and where are you from?

My name is Reso and I’m from the epicentre of all things hip and futuristic, Morden. It’s where Paul Merton and the band Good Shoes come from so it must be cool, right?

Any meaning behind your DJ / producer name?

I used to try and graff it on our disposable table cloths in one of my house shares at uni and I’m a firm believer in the idea that you should be able to graff your name, even if it is only in a halfbaked shit way. It also has production connotations.

How would you describe the music you make in 5 words?

Highly detailed anal brain farts.

Some of our personal favourites include…

“Hemisphere”

“Hyperglide”

and, on a tougher tip, “Technetium”

Tell us a bit about your musical evolution and your musical roots / inspirations?

I started off playing drums in bands before getting really stoned and pissing around on dance ejay which was great because it taught me about arrangement without the ball ache of actually composing music. At that time I used to listen to a lot of hip-hop and rock before progressing onto drum & bass and breaks. When breaks was dying was when I first heard dubstep and it filled the gap that breaks occupied in my brain. Now I basically listen to anything; I”m passed the whole thing of listening to a sound or being into a scene because I think it’s cool.  I”m just as happy listening to Pantera as I am Kiln or Jazzanova or Spor or any of a thousand artists.

How does it feel to be playing at fabric’s 12th birthday party?
It’s a pleasure and a privilage to be asked! I’m super happy.

You’re doing a live show now, right? Or developing one? What does this involve?

I’m supposed to be….. but it’s a long road. I’ve got myself some V-drums and my live drum kit so I’m just fiddling around trying to make it live rather than me checking my emails on Ableton.

What can we expect to hear from you when you play for Med School on 21st Oct?

I always play a varied set of deeper and upfront tunes. It’ll be nice though cause I’m gonna play a lot of stuff I don’t usually get to play.

And now some quick fire questions……

Favourite alcoholic poison of choice?
Whisky

Favourite club?
Don’t have a favourite really – different clubs have different reasons for being wicked.

Favourite holiday destination?
Cyprus at the mo!

Favourite Med School artist?
Bop

Any other things you want to mention?
I’ve got a new EP on Civil Music out in November called “Ishimura”. Keep an eye and an ear out for it!

Make sure you catch Reso at Med School @ Fabric’s 12th Birthday on Friday 21st October where he will be playing alongside: Joe Syntax, Lung, June Miller and Ash Med School with MC’s SP:MC and Ruthless hosting. In Room One is Caspa and Dub Police and Mistajam’s Jam Packed in Room Two!

On Friday 21st October Med School are taking over Room Three at fabric as part of fabric’s 12th birthday. Headlining is Joe Syntax alongside Lung, Reso, June Miller and Ash Med School.

We spoke to Med School label manager Ash Howard to find out more about Med School and what we can expect on the night!

1) Can you introduce yourself + tell us a bit about your role entails at Hospital and Med School?

Hello, I’m Ash. I’ve been working at Hospital for nearly 5 years where two contrasting roles keep me on my toes: label managing Med School Music and running our publishing company Songs In The Key Of Knife. The former enables me to engage in A+R and take an overview of all activities on the label, the latter incorporates everything from royalty collection to data admin to sample clearances. Occasionally I’ll hear “Aaaaaassssshhh” shouted across the office whenever the internet connection drops… for some reason people here seem to think I’m good at fixing techy problems… just don’t ask me to fix a Mac.

2) What does Med School stand for?

The concept for Med School is fairly straightforward; it’s essentially a vehicle for releasing, dare I say it, “deeper” electronic music and giving exposure to emerging artists. We generally stick to drum & bass but aren’t afraid to venture across different tempos in an attempt to offer something different to the Hospital musical ethos.

We try not to pay too much attention to what other labels do and we’re always looking for new sounds and new ideas; we like artists who are able to carve out a unique sound for themselves. Whether it’s tracks that make you want to dance or music for your MP3 player (or both!), musicality is crucial!

3) Tell us about the four Med School signings?

Over the past couple of years we’ve carefully built up a core group of exciting artists, namely Joe Syntax, Unquote, Lung and Bop, who are at various different stages of their development. Our fruitarian Russian friend Bop was the first of the bunch to land on Med School and subsequently has delivered two sublime albums, made all the more impressive by the fact he’s still only 21 years old!

Next on board was Unquote, also from Saint-Petersburg in Russia, who is about to release his eagerly-anticipated debut album on Med School in October. Expect warm celestial navigations across the tempos as he skirts the boundary between introverted melancholy and uplifting ecstacy. Frustratingly, it’s really difficult to bring Bop and Unquote over to the UK, but there’s a really healthy drum & bass microcosm in Russia and it’s a privilege to be a part of it through our label.

Next up we have Joe Syntax, who lives round the corner from the Hospital office and released his debut single “Signal Drop” on Med School a couple of months back. Joe’s music flirts with the dancefloor more heavily than our resident Russians and he’s armed with a plethora of wicked dubplates at the moment which will hopefully form the basis of his debut album.

Last but not least is Lung from Cardiff, who we only signed recently to Med School. We’ve put out a few slower tempo tunes by various artists in the past, but Lung is a real breath of fresh air for Med School (no pun intended) thanks to the dubstep influence in his music and hopefully he can take us in a new direction. Expect to see Joe Syntax and Lung rinsing the dancefloor when Med School comes to a club in a town near you!

4) How does it feel to be hosting Room 3 at fabric for fabric’s 12th birthday?

Obviously it’s a huge honour whenever we get to represent our music at such an established, well-organised and generally sick venue, but to be able to be a part of their birthday celebrations is amazing and I know our DJs are really hyped! It may be smaller, but room 3 at fabric really creates a special vibe that’s very different to the main rooms – if not better.

Med School has hosted there a few times now and enjoyed it hugely every time; a few times as part of a Hospitality and another time alongside Marky & Friends and Urban Nerds, but I think this will be a different experience once again. The sound system is sooooo good!

5) So what else is in the pipeline for Med School this year?

As I mentioned before, Unquote’s debut album “Reverberation Box” is out in October on vinyl (with full CD album included), CD and Digital. In November Sydney-based bass music technician Royalston returns to the Med School operating table with his unique brand of twisted synth-work and complex drum programming. That will wrap up proceedings for 2011, so you’ll just have to keep it locked to see what comes next!

6) You’re playing at fabric’s 12^th birthday yourself. What can we expect from an Ash Med School set?

It’s exciting enough being able to host a Med School room at Fabric, to be playing there too is the cherry on the icing on the cake. As a fan of dance and electronic music, I’ve been to fabric more times than I can remember so the opportunity to be on the other side of the decks is something I’m really looking forward to. I’m on first so I think I’ll go in pretty mellow to begin with and then crank it up when, all being well, room 3 fills up. Needless to say, I’ll try and squeeze in a load of Med School tracks and some forthcoming bits too, but ultimately it will be a selection of tracks I’m into at the moment and maybe a few older bits that people might have forgotten about.

7) It’s a strong line up- tell us why you selected the artists on the line up?

Joe Syntax and Lung are integral to any Med School club line-up, not only as signed artists but as skilled DJs in their own right, anyway, I think I’ve bigged up our own artists enough at this point (sorry chaps!)

I’ve been a massive fan of Reso for a while now, and I remember being the first in the office to receive “Slap Chop” which later came out on Hospital and just being blown away by it. Some people might think he is a bit “smashy smashy” for a Med School line-up, but he does have an incredible talent and ear for all vibes and genres, whatever he plays is guaranteed to be good.

You can see Ash Med School play Room Three at fabric’s 12^th birthday on Friday 21^st October alongside: Joe Syntax, Lung, Reso and June Miller, with MCs Ruthless + SP:MC hosting. Tickets are £15 adv.