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DJ’s
Radio Slave (Rekids)
Radio Slave is of the main players on the future house scene – an umbrella that takes under it; minimal, deep, techno and jacking – house music good and proper! His stripped down sound is the sound of the moment and his residency in Panorama bar in Berlin has seen hoards of Europeans religiously queuing to listen to him. His productions are out of this world and as a duo he makes up the other half of soon to be huge Quiet village whose wonderful Balearic cosmic soundtrack is set to take the world by storm this year.
Benga (Tempa)
Benga’s album “Afro Warrior” is an awesome future slice of crossover underground music where Dubstep meets east London grime meets Detroit techno. It has received huge props across the globe, with Gilles Peterson, Benji B all name checking this awesome new UK talent whose sound is fresh, bold and quintessentially British; in the same way that soundsytem culture spawned massive attack, soul II soul and metlaheadz..It’s the most exciting talent we have heard for a long time.
Alfredo
Alfredo is one of the most iconic and revered Disc Jockeys of the last 30 years.Someone whose musical path pretty much affected the whole rise of acid house and Balearic in the late 80's. In the mid 1980's when this Balearic vision met the early jacking sound of Chicago, there was a revolution.He was the Che Gavara of underground dance music, a music lover whose ecclecticism have made him one of the leading lights across the planet.His sun soaked spiritual sets were groundbreaking and broke all the rules, incorporating music from soul, disco, house, jazz, soundtracks,cosmic and ooddball pop and he wove it into beautiful and magical journey.
Roland Appel (Innervisions)
Roland Appel like Trusme is another hot new talent, his “Dark Solider” track released on seminal Innnervisons label as track in 2007 was a massive underground crossover anthem. Originally part of Fauna Flash, Trudy Trio and Vroom Vroom this is future house jacking of the highest order.
Trusme (Prime Numbers/Fat City)
Trusme is one of the new school of up and coming UK talents. Residing in Manchester, this deep beat technician has caused a stir with the likes of Danny Krivit, Moodyman, Giles Peterson, Benji B, and Ashley Beedle.His album “Working Nights” is a beautiful fusion of Detroit cosmic electronics 70’s soul, jazz funk, house and beautiful late night subterranean atmospherics
The Idjut Boys (Noid)
The Idjut boys have been a huge influence on underground music over the last decade and our now regarded by many as the finest in the field.Their productions have become hugely influential. Effortlessly fusing dub, disco, Balearic, house, cosmic electronica, techno and a myriad of many influences into a magical musical adventure.Their long DJ sets have become a seminal reference points for so many people.
Chris Duckenfield
Chris has earned a reputation for being one of the UK’s if not the world’s most versatile and interesting DJ’s. Equally at home playing House as he is Downtempo, Disco and classics, his career behind the turntables has consistently inspired him to keep digging deeper for those special tracks, and to make one-off edits and mixes for individual gigs all over the world, returning to the roots of Djing, having all the killer cuts you need but making sure that entertainment and the need to expose new sounds never outbalance one another.
Moonboots & Jason Boardman (Afcionado)
Moonbots and Jason Boardman are the infamous alchemists whose dj sets are inspired. It’s an institution. The holy grail of all that is Balearic. For many this is one of the finest and truly original shindigs..They are the true originals and continue to play their sound not giving a hoot about hype, fashion or the next big thing.
Linkwood (Prime Numbers/Fat City)
Hot new talent on the Prime Numbers label also home to Trusme..Linkwood is a growing group of musical influences. Linkwood is a devotee of the early Detroit / Sheffield / Chicago sound and is one of Edinburgh's finest West Country imports. Linkwood's sound has evolved from engineering free jazz experimentation to developing new routes in analogue electroinics. Getting major props.
Andy Newcombe (DIAL/Discobox)
DIAL is about good time adventures into jazz, funk, soul, boogie, disco, latin, hip hop and more for people who like to party with resident's Andy Newcombe and Simon S and many, many special guests....DIAL's sister event Discobox takes things a bit further with emphasis on boogie, disco and house with a good times feel...These events take place in or around London town in some of the finest venues with great sound systems.
Paddy (Universal Vibes)
Universal Vibes head honcho and main resident, Paddy Freeform. Paddy is becoming a bit of a face on the London scene after appearances at some of Londons best known nightspots in the last year, including Egg, the Key, Canvas, Turnmills, the End and Herbal and of course the Univeral Vibes residencies and one off events accross London, as well as a bunch of festival appearances at Bloom, Bestival, Snowbombing and a legendary closing set at the Lake Of Stars Festival in Malawi
John Mahon (Bodytonic)
John is one of the Bodytonic residents. Bodytonic Music was set up in 2002 with the sole focus of “let’s do it ourselves”. The Bodytonic ethos has always entailed setting up their own identity through club promotion, music production, and establishing their own website & record label. Over the past two years Bodytonic has grown to become a prosperous music company and includes a large number of DJs/producers, graphic designers, web engineers and promotion reps.
Billy Scurry (Under The Stairs)
A much talked about local Dublin legend and Balearic maverick….
Club Gangs
Lowlife
Throw their legendary word of mouth south London parties with a musical manifesto that is an open minded and beautifully progressive one, a melting pot of new and old, organic and digital, grooves and songs, deep and jacking, cosmic and discoid, to a crazed mob of banshees. A gang of exceptional djs namely Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Matthew Burgess and Michael Cook. Bill and Frank’s DJ History website has become the only place for music lovers to talk, rant and pontificate.
Horsemeat Disco
Shouldn’t require that much introduction. They aren’t just a cool ***** club, they are much more. It is an incredible intimate gathering where ***** boys, bears, straight lads, cool girls and aficionados get down and unite with no pretensions… Its dirty...its late night. it’s murky, it’s sleazy. Dubbed out discoid rhythm tracks, boogie, beautiful spiritual soulful NYC garage and cosmic gems all get played at this wild Sunday night party!
Homoelectric
An oddball kooky gathering with a younger and wonderfully mixed crowd of homos hetros, lesbos, fahionistos and don’t knows.This bi monthly riot takes influences from so many areas... electronica, outsider pop, rock n roll suicide, cosmic wierdness, house, punkfunk, dark disco, garage, and nu rave pop. Once described by the Face magazine as one of the best clubs in the world. **ck art lets dance. Be ugly, disco dogging for skins.
Cosmic Truth & Mudd
The Cosmic Truth trip have been sending ripples through the London Disco scene for just over a year. In that time they have done a host of parties that have gained them a great reputation and an even better crowd. They've also rocked floor and turned many heads at nights like Late Night Audio, Lasermagnetic and Disco Bloodbath amongst others. They've began a coveted residency along side Go! Zilla, at East Village, and are soon to host the launch for the new Quiet Village artist album.Their own parties - Who's Afraid of the Cosmic Truth? - take place in hijacked basements, loft spaces, disused strip clubs, lock ups, beer gardens, wherever they can rig their system. Joing them will be the rather ace MUDD.
Kabal
A distinctly original and fresh Sheffield party. Their fusion of deep future heavy sonics, bashment, tough northern soulphuric funk, ragga, and rough house tracks are dropped by resident DJ’s Toddla T, Winston Hazel, Pipes and Peppa Seed. Check Toddla T’s productions which are gaining huge props from all over for their fresh no nonsense sonics and futuristic swagger.
Downtown Sounds
Having found they shared a love for crazed funk, soul and house, and that 3 day house parties were much more fun in someone elses house, they tried to find someone who would put up with their antics. Unbelievably nobody would, so they decided to have some parties in clubs and Downtown Sounds was born…A proper crew
Live Artists
Adem
Stunning Domino records artists whose new cover’s album Takes is truly awesome, which includes cover versions of Aphex Twin, P J Harvey and The Breeders to name but a few. Adem is also a member of Fridge along with Four Tet’s Keiron Hebden.
King Creosote
King Creosote is part of the Fence collective based in fife, scotland, and is at present writing and demo'ing new songs. there are 4 albums out and about - "kenny and beth’s musakal boat rides" (2003), "rocket d.i.y." (2005), "kc rules ok" (2005) and "bombshell" (2007) - with several albums available thru’ the Fence records website http://www.fencerecords.com.
Pictish Trail
Pictish Trail is Johnny, head honcho of Fence Records along with friend King Creosote. 'The work of Johnny Lynch, aka ‘The Pictish Trail’ is more stirringly subversive stuff from the Fence Collective. Lynch writes warm, welcoming tales with tiny keyboard patterns, acoustic neo-folk rumblings and all manner of undeniable oddball noises.'
Quiet Village
After three sought-after singles for the Whatever We Want label—plus remixes for the likes of Gorillaz, François K, Cosmo Vitelli and, um, The Osmonds—Quiet Village step out of the shadows to present their first full-length album, Silent Movie. Comprised of master crate-digger Joel Martin and rising dance-music star Matt Edwards (aka Radio Slave), and borrowing their name from Martin Denny's exotica masterpiece, Quiet Village make the old sound new (and vice versa). Influenced by Italian film soundtracks, BBC library music, disco edits, acid rock, vintage soul and easy listening, they smear the unlikeliest elements—bluesy guitar, chamber strings, air-raid sirens, shuffling breakbeats, even flutes and seagull cries—into an hour-long reverie with Vaseline on its lens.
Liz Green
An amazing talent from Manchester. Green's introduction to music was an education in pop, via her Dad's mix tapes. Ranging from the Stones and Chuck Berry to Jackson 5 and Elton John, they inspired Green to pick up a guitar, although it took her another seven years to learn four chords! It wasn't until she discovered finger picking that she began playing ‘properly' and writing her own songs. The style she has developed also goes some way to explaining her love affair with country and blues.Listening to Liz Green's voice should remind you of the rapture that can be derived when certain new music is discovered for the first time.
John Stammers
Another of Manchester’s hot new talents, we can promise you heartbreak and tears of joy! with sublime harmonies, all drifting in an exquisite gondola propelled by the tightest swinging folk/jazz imaginable. john was tour support for lone pigeon last spring and for alfie in the summer. he has also played with king creosote,Sam and the Plants,Pip Dylan,Jack Cooper and aidan smith.
Denis Jones
A truly ground-breaking songwriter, Denis Jones began playing the guitar while he was at school, but it was not until he moved from the North west to London that his music took the electronic direction that runs throughout his startlingly polished debut album, humdrum virtue. Borrowing a sampler from a friend, Denis experimented with distorted chords and the manipulation of sound in the same way as Four Tet or Matthew Herbert had done before him, retained the rootsy vocals from singer-songwriter past.
Swiftly building a devoted following, Denis has taken his distinctive live shows as far as Lithuania, and astonished crowds at Glastonbury, as well as during support slots with Amp Fiddler, Efterklang, Merz and Okkervil River. Humdrum Virtue was initially released with limited edition handmade cover art, and these early copies are now highly-coveted collectors’ items.
James Yuill
James is a 25 year old singer/songwriter currently residing in London. Like many music lovers of his generation James Yuill has a passion for both the emotional songwriting and atmospheres of artists such as Nick Drake, Radiohead and Sufjan Stevens and the visceral beats and dynamic rhythms of Justice, Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin. Unlike anyone else however, James has fused these seemingly disparate influences into a magical sound of his very own
Superimposers
With a cult following the superimposers are pretty much made to play on a outdoor stage next to the blue Adriatic sea. “60's sunshine harmonies and baroque touches, harps, vibraphones and omnichords adding an extra shimmer to their sonic palette" is what Q magazine had to say about their ace new album Harpsichord Treacle. Perfect.
Magic Arm
Last year, Magic Arm released his debut EP on Switchflicker, unveiling his sparkling collection of sinister pop and new psyche folk gems. 2008 will see his debut album being released.Marc Rigelsford is the man behind Magic Arm's eclectic , his solo career has gone from, strength to strength. A debut gig at the Sounds from the Other City festival in April 06 lead to support with Ariel Pink, Six Organs of Admittance and John Stammers, as well as countless, sold out appearances. Grizzly Bear, King Biscuit Time and The Earlies are all passionate fans, and with his slightly shambolic charm, and innovative use of children’s instruments on stage, he wins more praise with each outing.
Birdengine
Birdengine is the name Mr Lawry Joseph Tilbury chooses to make music with. He hails from the Dorset countryside and began making music as a child. Venturing at night into the fields and forests surrounding his childhood home, with a broken nylon guitar, a record player and a couple of carefully scratched and doctored records, performing his ramshackle and melancholy sound for only himself, the woodland creatures and the moon.He has since fled the countryside and moved to a nearby city but has managed to hold on to the eerie and pastoral sound that infiltrates his music. Recording only on a 4-track tape recorder and using a whole range of dictaphones, home-made tape loops and music boxes, he harbours a deep loathing for computers and digital equipment opting instead for the humble hiss of a tape cassette. |
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