If you wern't at Glastonbury then check the below and pretend you were. If you were actually there in body as well as spirit, then watch and re-live the magic...
There's 8 vids in total, check the rest at Mr Groove's Youtube channel...
George FitzGerald - Silhouette EP [Aus Music]
George FitzGerald is a man very much on an upward trajectory, with his recent 12" EP on Will Saul's Aus Music imprint a surefire sign of his meteoric rise through the ranks of dance music. Featuring two original GF cuts as well as a John Roberts remix, it confidently demonstrates many sides to his sound and production prowess. Essential purchase!
Buy: Boomkat // Bleep
Silhouette / Reset [AUS1134] by George FitzGerald
Real Scenes: Bristol
Keeping on the Bristolian flex for the moment as Resident Advisor have just released the first part of their new video series examining various geographical locations around the world and their music scene. This first film features without doubt one of the most creative and influential cities for electronic music the world has ever known, Bristol. While so much focus is given on our capital city London, Bristol has cultivated a glowing reputation as the second, almost spiritual, home of Jungle, Drum & Bass, Dubstep and more, and there's even an interesting and exciting UK House revival happening there right now. The list of the cities famous sons is as long as your arm with names like Roni Size, Krust, DJ Die, Pinch, Rob Smith (RSD) and Joker all firmly implanted into the public conciousness while up and comers like Julio Bashmore, Kowton, Kidkut, Arkist and more look like ensuring the city's legacy and reputation remains for some time to come. Being the forward thinking, cutting edge agency we are, Surefire have a healthy representation too with Appleblim, Peverelist, October and Headhunter/Addison Groove of course all playing an integral part in the city's rich musical culture. Sit back, relax and see what Bristol is all about...
Kuedo - Videowave EP
Kuedo's latest is out now on the mighty Planet Mu featuring remixes from artists such as Warp Records stalwart Chris Clark and Hoya Hoya's Illum Sphere amongst others. Get it in the bag.
"The 'Videowave EP' is an 'end of phase one' sign-off for Kuedo, a.k.a. Jamie Teasdale.
After two well received and brilliant EPs, this is almost an addendum before a change in style with his forthcoming album.
Here, we collect together the best of his remaining original tracks from the first phase together with remixes by friends of three tracks from his last EP 'Dream Sequence'.
‘Take Off Remix’ was originally conceived in 2009 as a remix of Slugabed, but it doesn’t have much of the original left in it, so Slugabed has kindly let him use it for his own track. It’s a cosmic attack of spiralling, flickering arpeggios and aerial synth lines over crashing half-step drums.
Illum Sphere remakes ‘Starfox’ by laying it out with warm orchestral strings and soft bleeps, making an incredibly inviting and gentle version.
Chris Clark from Warp takes ‘Glow’ and turns it into a weightless symphony with long spaces, held together with gas-like drones in complex arrangements.
‘Shutter Light Girl’ is remixed by Heterotic and bathed in the washed out, gently pulsing and bending synths of the kind you might find accompanying the suggestive cut-aways of an 80s soft porn VHS.
Lastly ‘Oh’ is a mini anthem that mixes boom bap drums and claps with a lush upbeat synth melody that walks the fine line between melodic and abstract, previewing the forthcoming material, but also signing-off on his original hip hop sound and finishing the EP in triumphant form."
"The 'Videowave EP' is an 'end of phase one' sign-off for Kuedo, a.k.a. Jamie Teasdale.
After two well received and brilliant EPs, this is almost an addendum before a change in style with his forthcoming album.
Here, we collect together the best of his remaining original tracks from the first phase together with remixes by friends of three tracks from his last EP 'Dream Sequence'.
‘Take Off Remix’ was originally conceived in 2009 as a remix of Slugabed, but it doesn’t have much of the original left in it, so Slugabed has kindly let him use it for his own track. It’s a cosmic attack of spiralling, flickering arpeggios and aerial synth lines over crashing half-step drums.
Illum Sphere remakes ‘Starfox’ by laying it out with warm orchestral strings and soft bleeps, making an incredibly inviting and gentle version.
Chris Clark from Warp takes ‘Glow’ and turns it into a weightless symphony with long spaces, held together with gas-like drones in complex arrangements.
‘Shutter Light Girl’ is remixed by Heterotic and bathed in the washed out, gently pulsing and bending synths of the kind you might find accompanying the suggestive cut-aways of an 80s soft porn VHS.
Lastly ‘Oh’ is a mini anthem that mixes boom bap drums and claps with a lush upbeat synth melody that walks the fine line between melodic and abstract, previewing the forthcoming material, but also signing-off on his original hip hop sound and finishing the EP in triumphant form."
Buy: Boomkat // Bleep
New Peverelist Beats
Peverelist is on a bit of hot streak at the moment, here's some of his new music for your delectation and appreciation....
Peverelist & Kowton - Beneath Radar [Livity Sound]
A bristolian tête à tête here as Pev and Kowton trade remixes for the first release on Peverelist's new label Livity Sound. Limited edition, hand stamped white label business, this would be a gem in any collection...
Buy (+ soundclips): Punch Drunk Music // Hard Wax
Ricardo Villalobos, Max Loderbauer, Peverelist - Tshetsha Boys Remixes [Honest Jons]
Remixes of the South Anmerican 'Shangaan Electro' genre. Intrigued? You should be. FACT Mag explains the what and the why far better than we ever could so take a gander...
"There have been whispers on the vine for some weeks now, but it’s now been confirmed: Honest Jon’s have commissioned remixes of Shangaan Electro tracks by some of the finest Western producers around.
For the uninitiated, let’s backtrack slightly: Shangaan Electro was the name of a compilation released by Honest Jon’s last year. Curated by Mark Ernestus (Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Hard Wax) and HJ’s label manager Mark Ainley, it featured some of the best examples of the titular South African dance phenomenon, a synthesized, marimba-heavy and high-speed update of traditional Shangaan music. The comp focussed on the output of Nozinja Studio in Soweto, including such artists as Mancingelani, BBC, Tshetsha Boys and Nozinja himself.
“We don’t use the sounds of the hip-hop guys, or the afro-pop, or whatever, we’re using Shangaan sounds,” explained Nozinja at the time. “The traditional Shangaan music is fast. You play it slow, they won’t dance. Firstly it was played with bass and lead guitar. I’m the one revolutionized it, because when I came I didn’t use any guitar or any bass, I just used marimba and the organs. We are not using the live bass, we are using the marimba bass which is played from the organ. A small sample of voices, that’s what I specialize in. We use them in English. Those are the new aspects they never had before. At first people thought I was mad, and now it’s the in-thing. You can play that music with bass, that’s the old-timer music.”
Since then, Honest Jon’s have released a full artist album from Foster Manganyi, Ndzi Teke Riendzo, and now are set to release no less than five Shangaan Electro 12″s in quick succession. Two of these are EPs of original material from Tsetsha Boys and Tiyiselani Vomaseve, and then three remix 12″s. The first features two mixes of Tshetsha Boys by Mark Ernestus, the second featuring a mix of BBC by Detroit techno superhero Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir and one by Oni Ayhun (the latter listed as a remix of Shangaan Electro, so presumably Oni has drawn upon sounds from a variety of tracks from the original comp). Lastly, a 12″ featuring more mixes of Tshetsha Boys, this time by Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer and Peverelist.
A tweet from Will Bankhead, Honest Jon’s esteemed sleeve designer, alerts us to a page where you can listen to clips of all the tracks. From these, we have to say that it’s the Peverelist and Ernestus versions that are most immediately striking – Peverelist artfully bending those opalescent synth sounds into one of his own patented, poised steppers, the Hard Wax boss turning out his most techno-leaning productions in years."
Buy (+ soundclips): Honest Jons
Hot Flush - Boiler Room #58
Hot Flush + Boiler Room? Nuff said.
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