BIG 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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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.
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DUBS 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.
LUNCHMEAT FESTIVAL IN PRAGUE THIS WEEKEND FEAT. KODE9, AUTHOR, FLORENCE TO.
Lunchmeat is a festival of electronic music, visual art, and new media based in Prague, Czech Republic. As the founders of the festival explain “the main feature of Lunchmeat is to keep a balance between musician and visualizer, to let them perform in an organic connection; visuals and sound as equal elements.” Artists this year include Author (live), Codeshift (DJ set), Depart – Glyph (a/v instalation), DMX Krew (live), Florence To (visuals), Kode9 (live a/v, DJ set), MFO (visuals) and more. So if you’re in the vicinity of Prague this weekend, check it out and report back please.
Lunchmeat Festival 2012 – Teaser from …::LUNCHMEAT::… on Vimeo.
No CommentsBIG UP PODCAST 57 – SYNKRO
With upcoming releases on numerous respected labels, like Space Cadets, and Auxiliary, including “Why Don’t You” set to kick off the re-birth of Apollo records, and recently released gem “Dwelling” on the Blood Pressure compilation for Med School Music, we felt it’s a perfect moment to ask our favorite Mancunian – Joe Synkro – to contribute to Big Up Podcast with a mix. And as he always has done in the past, he exceeded our expectations, delivering one of the deepest, most meditative, thoughtful, and of course bass-heavy mixes we’ve ever heard. It is also one of the hardest mixes to describe with words, and we’re getting pretty emotional every time we try, so the best we can really do, is provide you with the download link and a play button. You do the rest.
SYNKRO FILLING IN THE BLANKS
– Hi, I’m Synkro, and I’m quite decent at… messing around with sounds.
– My most hated DJ moment was… a terrible incident in LA at some sketchy warehouse.. if you know me personally I have probably told you the story.
– My best music work to date is… not sure, I am very critical of my own work.
– If I’m not in the studio, you can find me… on the way to the studio.
– The world would be a better place if music producers stopped… worrying weather their tracks will ‘go off in a club’
– The fact that Apollo relaunches with my new EP makes me… very honored, it means a lot to me. Much respect to Ren for the support. Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient works is still one of my biggest inspirations musically.
– I never talk about my music with… my dog.
– If I had to play one song till the rest of my life, I’d pick… couldn’t say. probably something by Aphex or Xela?
– Best meal in Manchester under 10 pounds… Fuel in Withington.
Tracklist
1. Synkro – Knowledge [Forthcoming Apollo]
2. ASC & Synkro – Borderline [Forthcoming Auxiliary]
3. DFRNT – Monday Morning (Indigo Remix) [Forthcoming On The Edge]
4. Bop – Impermanence [Forthcoming Med School]
5. Emily Barker – Pause (Indigo Remix) [Dub]
6. Stickman – Pressure [Forthcoming Med School]
7. ???? – ???? [Dub]
8. Frederic Robinson – Roadtrip [Forthcoming Med School]
9. Tokyo Prose – Echoes (Synkro Remix) [Forthcoming Samurai Music]
10. ASC – TMA-1 [Space Cadets]
11. ASC & Synkro – Sacred Moments [Forthcoming Auxiliary]
12. Nether – Moon Dub [Forthcoming Space Cadets]
Blood Pressure is out now on Med School Music. Get it here.
DUBS FRIDAY: BALAM ACAB, SUFF DADDY, SEAN BYRD
A freebie from Balam Acab, that he gave away earlier in the week.
The first single from the new Suff Daddy album Suff Sells.
Taken from Sean Byrd’s album Always Was, which anyone cam download for free till March 19.
