New York’s Brennan Green is back in Adelaide. The eclectic DJ and Chinatown label boss will be taking over Sugar Nightclub on the weekend of Fri Oct 3 and Sat Oct 4 with HMC.

“That’s how I roll now,” jokes Green. “I roll into town and say ‘I won’t play unless I can take over the whole weekend’”.

Green is a favourite of Adelaide party goers and last year he remixed The Swiss’ Movement for t-Bot’s label t-Bot’s All Nite House Party, he says that record got a lot of attention overseas.

“The little bit I get to travel people always bring that record to my attention man. We did a really small press of it and I’m sure maybe only about 450 copies got out. They only pressed 500 and I’m sure like after the 50 copies that they gave away, only about 450 got distributed and it still made a lot of noise. People come up to me all the time in Japan and everywhere bugging out to that record, you know?”
Is there plans for Green to do more stuff with The Swiss or other Adelaide producers?

“I’m at The Swiss studios right now [with Luke G from The Swiss]. Does that answer your question? I’m sitting here with Luke. I had a friend of mine from Japan come to New York, it was his first trip to the western hemisphere, and we worked on something for a minute. His name is Altz from Japan, he records for Bear Funk and Altz Music, he came to Brooklyn and hung out. We recorded a little bit and I said to him ‘Man I can’t finish it’. So, I brought those parts with me and hoped Luke could work on it with me. If we could pull our egos out of our asses right now and stop listening to our own stuff and get to work we might get something done. Right now it’s just like ‘Do you like this?’, ‘Oh, if you think that’s good, listen to this’. ‘Oh, well listen to what I did’. ‘Oh yeah, well listen to this’. Just joking each other right now, we’re scratching each other's chins.”
The latest release on Green’s Chinatown is the Runaway EP. Runaway have just been signed to DFA, and Green says he is going to take Chinatown a little more seriously now.

“It’s hard because I’m travelling so much and I’m working on so much other stuff for other people like remixing and then this whole demise of the vinyl distribution makes it really tough. So, I’m trying to veer Chinatown down the digital distribution domain but I hate to do it. I’d rather just stick with vinyl. The concept of Chinatown has always been very analogue from the beginning, from the production aspect of things to the manufacturing. So, I wanted to keep it old skool like that but it’s getting harder and harder man.”

David Knight
Brennan Green plays Sugar on Fri Oct 3 and Sat Oct 4 with HMC.