Black Octopus 8th Birthday Part 1 with Danilo Plessow aka MCDE

Mcde is the best known alias of the german producer and dj danilo plessow, who works in house and sampled electronic music and has been making records since his teens. He is known above all for the raw cuts series, and has put out singles and remixes on more than twenty labels. He also co-founded his own label, mcde recordings.

A brighton dj and promoter who runs the long standing disco deviant parties and the unity agency booking roster. He started out on house and techno and now leans on funk, soul and disco, digging out vintage club records and lost classics. The disco deviant nights have travelled well beyond brighton, to berlin, oslo and other cities.

Ellie talebian is a brighton dj and radio presenter with two decades of experience across the music industry and wellbeing work. She has worked with gaydio, brighton music conference and the last night a dj saved my life foundation, and co-coordinates the brighton chapter of she said so. She has also introduced mental health first aid training in the music industry.