DUBS FRIDAY: NASTY NASTY, DRO CAREY, NIGHTWAVE
Be sure to check the rest of Rwina Records tomorrow at Green Room.
Free mini-album by Dro Carey.
Another SoundCloud freebie from Nightwave.
DIMENSIONS FESTIVAL LAUNCHED BY THE OUTLOOK TEAM
Just when we thought we might be getting a bit too old for Outlook Festival, the team behind the Best European Music Festival reassures us by introducing the brother festival (they call themselves Outlook’s *hotter sister*) in the same exact location (because, it is seriously really hard to beat), but focusing on “a deeper end of the electronic music spectrum”. Hey, nothing wrong with the deeper end! We love it. We love it just like we love every single name on the line up so far:
Moodymann, Dyed Soundorom, Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Scuba, Shackleton, Joy Orbison, Levon Vincent, Kassem Mosse, Gold Panda, Theo Parrish, Pangaea, Loefah, Boddika, Midland, Floating Points,Surgeon, Kyle Hall, 2562, Benji B, Andrew Weatherall, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Mala, Pearson Sound, Ben UFO, Blawan, Sigha, Locked Groove, Space Dimension Controller, Pariah, Untold, Alexander Nut, Funkineven, Fatima (live), Iration Steppas, Mungo’s Hifi, Author, Pinch, Deadbeat, Anstam, dBridge, Dub Phizix, Consequence, SP:MC, Synkro, Paul Spymania.
The tickets go on sale this Sunday, and will cost you 120 quid, or 185 dollaz. With the experience of Outlook masterminds and the sound of artists on the line up, we have no doubt Dimensions Festival is off to an amazing start and is very likely to be our favorite music festival of 2012.
2 CommentsGREEN ROOM INVITES RWINA RECORDS (AMSTERDAM) – WIN 2X2 TICKETS
This Saturday an absolutely massive edition of Green Room is taking place, as Amsterdam’s very own Rwina Records will be large and in-charge over at Studio/K. The evening will be split across the two main rooms, each with its very own Green Room VJ (Lideborg and Aintsane), the prime of Rwina’s artists will be on display. Green Room will being playing host to the killer forces of Doshy, Presk, Stagga, Taz Buckfaster, Akkachar, Sakka and Krampfhaft. Also gracing us with his presence this Saturday evening will be T. Williams, to complete this supreme line up.
So to be part of this incredible event buy your tickets now or win yourself a pair of tickets by posting your name in comments box below.
LISTEN TO THE FIRST SNEAK PREVIEW OF ADDISON GROOVE’S DEBUT ALBUM
Photo by Ashes57
Tony the Footcrab, aka Addison Groove, just announced the release of his new debut album on Berlin-based, Modeselektor-owned50 Weapons imprint. The release date is March 30, but every week before the big day, we’ll be able to hear little snippets of the album, which is by the way entitled Transistor Rhythm. Hear the first bit right here.
Addison Groove “Sooperlooper” (50WEAPONSCD06) Out March 30 by Modeselektor
No CommentsDUBS FRIDAY: GHOST MUTT, MACHINEDRUM, NIGHTWAVE
Title track off Ghost Mutt’s latest release on Donky Pitch.
Machinedrum is showing no signs of slowing down after a stellar 2011.
Freebie by Nightwave.
GOTH-TRAD – NEW VIDEO FOR “AIR BREAKER”
Homie Goth-Trad just dropped yet another bomb in addition to his soon-to-come album “New Epoch” (Deep Medi, Feb 7th). The video is for side A of the first single to drop before the album – “Air Breaker”. Directed by Goth-Trad’s Tokyo-based VJ DBKN, the video is a trippy mix of Enter The Void credits, Eskmo’s “We Got More” and your broken TV.
Goth-Trad – Air Breaker (Deep Medi Musik 2012) from Deep Medi Musik on Vimeo.
No CommentsNEW GHOST MUTT EP – FREE DOWNLOAD
We’ve been missing Ghost Mutt beats since his first release in 2010 and today is a good day. We get a whole 4-track Sweat Mode EP, and the best part – it’s free, courtesy of Donky Pitch. With support from Starkey, DVA, LV and Doc Daneeka, Matt Mcloughlin aka Ghost Mutt has some serious backing, and will hopefully bring us more soulful beats in 2012.
No CommentsRED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY 2012 COMING TO THE BIG APPLE
It’s official. RBMA 2012 is happening in NEW YORK CITY.
Let’s get all the important dates straight right away:
Apply: February 2 – April 2, 2012
Workshop 1: September 30 – October 12, 2012
Workshop 2: October 21 – November 2, 2012
This news is all kinds of awesome as we believe every place touched by RBMA will never be the same, in a very good way. And we cannot wait for New York to be touched and more talented people in this city get inspired. Just see what happened to Salva during his RBMA experience.
We have been holding off to publish a review by one of our reporters making pilgrimage to RBMA 2011 in Madrid for a weekend, and now is the right time. Make yourself a cup of tea, or better yet pop a can of Red Bull, get comfortable and read on…
Review by Brecht De Vleeschauwer
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY 2011 – MADRID
After watching hours of lectures and listening tons of radio shows on my laptop in the past, this weekend it was time to check out the Red Bull Music academy in person. The first days flew by. Roman Flügel on day one and Modeselektor (on an amazing soundsystem in Macumba) on day two were a great way to start.
On Saturday it was time for the mighty RZA, who was going to play a special dj session in a cinema. What was announced as “A cinematic journey into sound with a true musical mastermind” became the biggest disappointment of the weekend. RZA started off with what could be described as an ‘influences set’. Lots of old rock’n’roll, funk and soul that he had sampled over the years. Unfortunately most of RZA’s mixing was horrible. Without any sequencing dropping the next tune, with some scratches now and then, although I wouldn’t even use that word. The visuals, provided by Alba G CorralI, weren’t that bad but definitely didn’t add that much to the whole performance. It was a shame to see that by the end of his set 1/3 of the crowd had already left the venue of this sold out show.
On Sunday I headed to La Casa Encendida for the Open Sessions of the academy. To start the afternoon I had a look at the “15000 jazz records” lecture by Juan Claudio Cifuentes and Carlos González. Only a few people took the effort to come over for this truly interesting lecture that gave us some history of jazz lessons. Two passionate gentlemen taking their time to explain all the different elements and angels of jazz music. I felt like I was listening to my granddaddy telling stories about his youth.
Unfortunately I had to leave after one hour because the lecture with Benji B, one of BBC 1’s finest radio hosts, was about to start in the patio. As the Benji B show on Wednesday night is one of my favorite moments of the week, it was great to hear the man himself talking about his (musical) past, present and future. Always honest and humble (“I’m not used to this, normally I’m at the other side”). From jungle to models and bottles clubs, to pirate radio, freestyle, groove, J Dilla… One quote about the start of his career definitely stayed in my memory. When they started talking how he got in contact with Gilles Peterson and Radio 1, Benji just said that one night as a teenager he was in a club, went to Gilles Peterson and told him “You have a great show but I can make it a lot better…” That’s how it started. Hopefully the lecture will appear online as well.
As we were running a bit out of time and as Dorian Concept is better in producing than in talking, his lecture was a lot shorter. Musical education, States vs Vienna, love for cheap hardware etc… A few minutes later it was already time for him to get on stage. As it was still early, the crowd needed some time to get into it. But by the end of his set, when he played his more danceable stuff like the magical ‘Trilingual Dance Sexperience’ he got the place moving. Next up was Oneohtrix Point Never. He just released a masterpiece called ‘Replica’ but live he couldn’t fulfill my high expectations. An uninterested crowd and the slightly uncosy venue for this kind ambient-avant garde-beatless-electronica music was probably one of the main reasons. The title song of their new album gave me goosebumps anyway.
Last one of the afternoon program was Stones Throws’ James Pants. With his energetic mix of rock, soul, funk and hip hop he got the whole patio moving. We closed down the weekend at ‘Generation bass’. When I entered, the place was already packed and XXXY was going strong. Unfortunately the sound system in the club didn’t like any bass sounds… Pearson Sound was definitely man of the night. When he dropped ‘Arp 3’, a Floating Points dub, the place went off! And then Scuba took it to a more techno vibe. Around 5, the lights went on and I realized that I probably just experienced the best musical Sunday of my life so far. .. RBMA, see you next year.
FULL CRATE MIX FOR NALDEN
Our homies Nalden and Full Crate worked together on releasing and sharing this mix for Nalden’s website. Tracklist is looking wonderful, sounds are lovely. Enjoy the beats!
Mix 02 by Full Crate by Nalden
2 CommentsLISTEN TO PIXELORD – ‘KERAMIKA’ PREVIEW
We’ve been watching comrade Alexey Devyanin aka Pixelord for quite a while now, vastly enjoying his inventive synth bassbleep sounds. After outstanding rinsed out releases on Error Broadcast and Leisure System, next month he’s finally coming up with a brand new release, this time on Brighton’s Hit and Hope imprint, entitled Keramika. Here you can preview the four tracks of the EP including a remix by Groundislava.
Pixelord – Keramika EP (Out Feb) by HIT AND HOPE
A1. Imaginary Friends
A2. Keramika
B1. Drinky
B2. Imaginary Friends (Groundislava Remix)
