DUBS FRIDAY: DJ Q, GREENWOOD SHARPS
BBC Radio 1xtra’s DJ Q recently gave away brand new EP via his Tumblr.
Taken from Greenwood Sharp’s debut EP, Things Familiar.
WATCH THE COOLEST NEW VIDEO – BENGA “I WILL NEVER CHANGE”
The coolest video we’ve seen in a looong while with the simple idea and a very tedious execution was created for Benga’s “I Will Never Change”. The directors, or should we say the geniuses, Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor, took 960 vinyl records, measured, cut to fit the correct size and then animated: “To animate the wave form, we built it and then carefully removed each individual record. This had to be done very gently as any shift in the position of the sculpture would result in the failure of the animation and as we had to literally destroy each piece of vinyl to get it off, there was only one chance to get it right. Once the sculpture was finally built, the animation process took about 30 hours.”
Damn, boys did an amazing job, and Benga, please don’t you ever change.
1 CommentBIG UP TWELVE – NEW ISSUE FEATURING SCUBA, SEPALCURE, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA, COOLY G AND MORE
Cover art by Sougwen.
Hello Big Up lovers, fans, subscribers, supporters, readers and observers! The day has finally come. The new issue – the lucky Twelve – is officially released, hot off the press, smelling and looking good, thanks to the beautiful cover art by Sougwen, extensive features on Scuba, Sepalcure, Cooly G, Buraka Som Sistema, Renaat Vandepapeliere, and art by Alexis Marcou, Joe Fenton, and Erosie.
The “Black & White” or “Monochromatic” issue is now available in our online shop (in instantly e-mailed digital version and 2-day shipped print edition) and you can of course subscribe to the whole year of Big Up to receive it right at your door before everyone else. The new issue will be available in all good books and music stores nationwide and through your online music retailers in UK beginning this week.
We’ll be celebrating in our favorite New York club Cielo, with extended sets from our favorite Deep Medi crew – Mala, Quest + one very special guest featured in our previous issue – at our favorite Deep Space party on April 9th. The night is expected to be an event of epic proportions for all in attendance, so please don’t make up any excuses, and spend $20 on your best experience this April, this spring, or even this year.
Nuff said.
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One love.
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P.S. Mad love to every single one of you who put their time and effort into making this new issue happen. You all know who you are and we freaking love you to bits! This one’s for you.
No CommentsDUBS FRIDAY: CHAIRLIFT, THUNDERCAT, RAS G
Ras G edits Thundercat’s “Daylight”.
Chairlift gets Gerry Read treatment.
NEW VIDEO FROM IAMAMIWHOAMI – “PLAY”
Brand new video from sometimes stunning, sometimes creepy, but always mysterious and masterfully produced iamamiwhoami. The 21st episode in the sequence, entitled “Play” is just as beautiful and just as bizzare as the rest of them. Enjoy.
No CommentsWIN TICKETS TO AUDIO CULTURE: MICKEY + CHAIBA [CLUB UP, AMSTERDAM]
After the mental Martyn & 2562 party at Trouw, Audio Culture is back to rape and pillage Amsterdam once again. This Friday on 30 March at Club Up they will be bring pure fire in the form of [NakedLunch] label boss Mickey, the man who first introduced us all to the sounds of Boddika, Kevin McPhee and Trevino. Accompanying him will be Chaiba, one of the most talented new dj’s in the Dutch scene right now. The Audio Culture boys have been ever so gracious and given us 2×2 tickets to give away for the event, so to earn yourself a spot +1 on the guestlist scribble you details below.
Next month be sure to cope Audio Culture label’s second release, ACLBL002 - Hackman & Tessela – ‘Now I’ve Lost My Number 4′ which features a b-side refix from Presk.
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO – NEW VIDEO “CERULEAN”
Simian Mobile Disco just released their new video for “Cerulean” off their upcoming album Unpatterns, which by the way you absolutely have to check out, because it “is a record full of love, dedication, hard-earned experience, obvious understanding of decades of electronic music from across scenes and styles, and huge fun. It’s completely of the now, showing a band as familiar with Blawan and Lone as they are with Silver Apples and Phuture, but never jumping on bandwagons.” The record comes out mid May on Wichita Records, and if you like to hear more previews, here you go.
No CommentsNEW VIDEO FROM MODESELEKTOR
This is just perfect for Friday. The new gem from Modeselektor, who’s always on top of their videos game. The video for their track “Berlin” feat. Miss Platnum was directed by Swiss graphic designer and animator François Chalet. And this is how he got the job:
“We want to get married, and we want Modeselektor to play our wedding… They’d NEVER come and play at a wedding… And we wouldn’t be able to afford them… I emailed Monkeytown Records in order to proove to Meike, my future wife, that this idea will always stay an idea… One day later on the phone – Monkeytown: ‘You contacted us at the perfect moment – we urgently need a good video because someone flaked on us!’ One Skype conversation with Modeselektor… 3 weeks of hard work and little sleep… cardboard everywhere… lots of computer crashes and… Modeselektor will play at our wedding!”
1 CommentDUBS FRIDAY: KAVSRAVE, HALP
Catch Halp tomorrow at Green Room (Amsterdam).
Kavsrave of the Numbers crew recently gave this away.
GREEN ROOM: SCRATCHA DVA, HALP [AMSTERDAM]
It is that time agin for a night full of debauchery and no moral compass, Green Room is back! Split across two rooms each with its own Green Room VJ (Lideborg and Aintsane), the stages have been set. SK3 will be headlined by Hyperdub Records’ very own Scratcha DVA, bringing the prime of the UK sound to Amsterdam. Joining him will be Lowriders’ wunderkind Halp, the killer spark of Alexander Valentijn, and Green Room’s newest residents Lantei and Inuk finish off the line-up for the main room. Just across the hall in SK2, the massive presence of Henzel & Disco Nova will be ripping the dance floor apart with their progressive Electro/Techno sound. Next to them will be the premier performance of SK2’s newest resident duo Kristof and Cursed P.
We are giving away 2×2 tickets to the event so to win yourself a pair of tickets sign up in the comments box below, good luck!
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