Catch Matt and Jamesey at the famous Jazz Cafe in Camden on Thursday 4th July as they warm up the dance floor before Josh Milan hits the stage!

After an electrifying sold-out show last summer which Makin Moves was involved in, Josh Milan’s long-awaited return to the jazz cafe takes place this August for what will be an unmissable showcase covering three decades of music.

With ties to gospel music, the Grammy Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist, producer, and CEO of Honeycomb Music tackles each project with a level of spirituality and inventiveness uncommon in modern music.

Josh’s phenomenal “Shapes, Color and Magic” EP, 2021, explores some of the most innovative jazz and dance music rhythms ever released on the label. In this latest project, Milan pushes the boundaries and challenges our beliefs around danceable jazz music. As with his “6.9.69” LP, this EP is very jazz influenced, improvisational and timeless.

As you can imagine tickets have been selling fast so grab yours today!

Makin’ Moves join forces with the Indahouse crew a London dance collective for an all day and night dance extravaganza at Earth Kitchen in Dalston, a venue we are very familiar with its high ceilings, wooden floor and state of the art sound system. Indahouse comprise of three members, Clara Bajado, Frankie J and Troy, who have all been integral to the London dance scene since 2007 not only as dancers but teachers collaborating with the likes of Red Bull Dance as well as holding their own events.

The event gets underway at 5pm with Clara and her team kicking off with some house dance work shops, come and get involved and learn some moves before we hit the floor later for the main event the 2vs2 all styles dance contest which sees dancers teaming up to win a the big prize of £150!

Presenting the djs playing throughout the day, we have one of our most exciting line ups to date which sees Makin Moves residents Matt & Jamesey joined by two international star djs Kapela from Paris and Masaki Morii from Japan!

Kapela has been one of the rising stars in the soulful / afro scene for sometime. Building up a reputation as one of the top djs in Paris at the infamous Djoon club where he has a monthly Sunday residency. He’s someone we’ve wanted to bring to Makin’ Moves for sometime and we can’t wait to see what he has in store for us!

Masaki Morii also joins us all the way from Japan with his unique deep afro sound for his debut performance in London! This man’s productions have been on fire in the last two years via his M2Soul Music imprint and we look forward to welcoming him !

This event has something for everyone, with Makin Moves giveaways during the day so £10 is an absolute bargain!

DJ’s

Matt L-S & Jamesey
Kapela (Paris, Djoon)
Masaki Morii (M2Soul Music, Japan)

Event includes

Dance workshop hosted by Indahouse from 5pm!
+ 2v2 All styles Dance contest on house music later in the evening!
Winner receives £150 + Makin’ Moves giveaways on the day!

Earth Kitchen
13 Stoke Newington Rd
Stoke Newington
London N16 8BH

Limited £10 early bird tickets available from RA.co & Dice.fm

Makin’ Moves return to Earth Kitchen in Dalston for our second event of 2024! This space is getting alot of hype as one of London’s best kept secrets with it’s airy NYC feel and wooden dance floor plus state of the art sound system!

Joining Matt and Jamesey on the musical journey will be Ezel who will be flying in all the way from the Dominican Republic for his first London gig! This man has been on fire production wise for the last few years putting out some beautiful music on various labels including his own imprint Bayacou Records. This year he dropped his long awaited album with singer sensation Rona Ray which went straight to the top of the Traxsource album charts last month!! As a dj he’s been building his name with slots around the US and at some boutique festivals such as Mi Casa in Mexico and we simply cant wait to have his bless us at Makin Moves!

Opening things up is Ted Lawrence a real talent and alongside David Bailey has been forging a great new event under the Underground Project brand.

Very limited £10 early bird tickets available via RA and dice.fm!

https://ra.co/events/1869331

Last entry 1am!

Makin’ Moves
Saturday 13th April
@ EartH Kitchen (Situated above EartH Hall)

DJs
Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin’ Moves)
Ezel (Bayacou Records)
Ted Lawrence (Underground Project)

EartH Kitchen 11-17 Stoke Newington Road *enter via Trumand’s Road London N16 8BH
Doors: 10.30pm-3.30am
£10 early bird tickets available from RA / More on the door

Following our first Makin’ Moves & friends event earlier this month at All My Friends we’re excited to be heading back down to Hackney Wick on Sunday 31st March for an Easter bank holiday special! The first time we visited this space last year we instantly feel in love with it with its incredible terrace and hi-fidelity sound system!

This event differs from our regular house events and allows our residents and friends to dig deep for those extra special tracks journeying through the genres of soul, disco and deep house!

Joining Matt and Jamesey for the musical journey will be Miss Soxee a fab dj who runs the infamous monthly Open Decks sessions at Jaguar shores in Shoreditch. We also welcome Deep Pete from the Lucky Cloud sound system and last but not least Love Is Blind.

Makin’ Moves & Friends
Sunday 31st March
@ All My Friends

DJs
Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin’ Moves)
Deep Pete
Miss Soxee
Love Is Blind

All My Friends
Unit 1, 96, Whitepost Lane
London E9 5EN

Doors: 3pm-12am
Free entry all day

Spring has sprung and we’re excited to present the first in our all day series of Sunday events at All My Friends in Hackney on Saturday 10th March! The first time we visited this space last year we instantly feel in love with it with its incredible terrace and hi-fidelity sound system!

This event differs from our regular house events and allows our residents and friends to dig deep for those extra special tracks journeying through the genres of soul, disco and deep house!

Joining Matt and Jamesey on this musical journey will be Daisybelle and Faro, two of London’s premier spin sisters! With over a decade entrenched in the London music scene, Daisybelle has evolved into a sought-after selector, hosting shows on platforms like Razor-N-Tape, and The Lot Radio in New York plus festival slots galore!

Faro also keeps an equally busy calendar including festival slots such as Southport Weekender this month. She played for us last year and dropped an awesome set at Curtain Club and we look forward to welcoming her back to Makin Moves!

Early arrival is essential as this one is sure to be a road block!

Makin’ Moves & Friends
Sunday 10th March
@ All My Friends

DJs 
Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin’ Moves)
Daisybelle (Nervous Records)
Faro (Patterns)

All My Friends, Unit 1, 96, Whitepost Lane, London E9 5EN
Doors: 3pm-10pm
Free entry all day

Our penultimate event of the year sees us head back to one of our favourite venues Grow in Hackney Wick! We’ve had three really great events already this year and our crowd always really enjoy it as the club is one of the best small spaces to get down in London into the small hours!

Matt & Jamesey have probably had their busiest year since the pandemic, culminating with their feature in the summer edition of Faith Magazine and this month celebrating their 200th label release. If you haven’t been to one of their events think, smiling people, quality soulful music with dancers getting down.. Everyone is welcome in our house!  The boys will be joined on the night by Abel aka Steve Butler who will be making the trip down from the north east. From catching the house bug in the late 80s as a devout collector, his DJ career went from strength to strength. It saw him perform across some of the UK’s most prestigious nights including the Southport Weekender, not to mention internationally.

He’s recently dropped his second studio album “Cosmic Law’ which is getting a lot of praise from all corners, where he’s collaborated with some notable talents and musician and singers including Rona Ray and Sabrina Chyld. Check out the album on his bandcamp page.  His current single “Cant Let You Go” with Rona Ray on vocals has been getting serious air play on all the main dance shows and we look forward to welcoming him to Makin Moves on the 2nd!

Theres a bunch of early bird tickets available from Dice so make sure you grab them early otherwise take your chance on the door!  https://dice.fm/event/kyldl-makin-moves-w-abel-2nd-dec-grow-london-tickets

Makin’ Moves
Saturday 2nd December
@ Grow Hackney

DJs
Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin’ Moves) 
Abel (Atjazz Record Co.)