Cream was a music promotion trio (Darren Hughes, James Barton and Andy Carroll
) that originally began hosting a weekly
house music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground ...
club night (1992–2002)
at the now-demolished Nation
nightclub
A nightclub or dance club is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a Bar (establishment), bar and discotheque (usually simply known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighti ...
(formerly ''Snobs Disco''
) in Wolstenholme Square in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
. It ran in this format from October 1992 to June 2002.
Cream has counted
Steve Lawler and Yousef amongst its resident DJs.
Cream also hosts the
dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance musi ...
festival
Creamfields every August in
Daresbury, Cheshire. Creamfields has won the award for Best Dance Event at the UK Festival Awards a record six times since the awards began 10 years ago, most recently in December 2014. In 2010, they also won the Music Week award for "Festival of the Year".
In 2012,
Live Nation acquired the Creamfields Festival Brand from Cream on a contract basis .
Cream's home in Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, was demolished in 2016 as part of an urban regeneration project. Plans to build a new home for the nightclub as part of the development were retrospectively removed from the planning application.
Cream Ibiza
Every Thursday during the
Ibiza clubbing season Cream hosts a club night at
Amnesia.
Releases
The label has had a history of releasing DJ mix albums, originally from their own label and later
Deconstruction Records (1995–98),
Virgin/
EMI (1998–03),
WEA (2004–05),
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound or Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publisher (popular music), music publishing busin ...
(2006–11) and New State Recordings (2011–present). Releases from the club have been acclaimed. One of its earlier releases,
Paul Oakenfold's ''
Goa Mix'', originally broadcast on radio, was described by
Resident Advisor
''Resident Advisor'' (also known as ''RA'') is an online music magazine and community platform established in 2001 and dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe. Its editorial team provides news, music and ev ...
as "groundbreaking in its cinematic two-hour scope" and an "''Essential Mix'' frequently cited as the best and favorite by both listeners and DJs."
''Cream Live Two'' (1996) featured ''
Qs 1997 list of "The 10 Best DJ Mix Albums...Ever!".
['' Q''; October 1997 issue.] ''Cream Beach 2002'' (2002) was noted by
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...
as an example of how, "as usual, Cream has gone out of its way to compile an album appropriately, and impressively, suited for such
ommunaloccasions."
's ''
Creamfields'' (2004) was subsequently nominated for "
Best Electronic/Dance Album" at the
2005 Grammy Awards. Many of their albums have also been commercially successful, most evidently so with ''Cream Anthems 2001'' (2000), which reached number 1 in the
UK Compilation Chart.
See also
*
List of electronic dance music venues
References
External links
Cream's official website
{{Live Nation
Nightclubs in Liverpool
Culture in Liverpool
Music venues completed in 1994
Electronic dance music venues
1994 establishments in England