Garden Festival Lineup and details
Garden festival began as an intimate alfresco soiree of 300 clued-up clubbers back in 2006. Now to mark the end of a decade of festivals, Garden has announced a predictably stellar lineup to draw this historic saga to a close. Having been the catalyst to a burgeoning festival scene in the Tisno region, there is much that can be said for […]
Review: Jessica Pratt at St John’s church, London.
A couple of the guys from Cone were lucky enough to head over to London this week to catch an intimate gig from US folk songstress Jessica Pratt. As if in an act of fate (or perhaps just a strategic booking decision) the show took place in Bethnal Green’s St John’s church – the 19th […]
Lusine Releases Arterial Reworks
Ghostly Internationals Lusine will release a Remix EP featuring Telefon Tel Aviv, MOORS and The Sight Below. The last thing anyone would have expected to succeed Jeff McIlwain’s (a.k.a Lusine) Arterial EP was a record of reworks, but the reasons resulting in said EP were unconventional to say the least. After fellow Seattleite Rafael Anton […]
Review: RBMA presents Gilles Peterson and Lonnie Liston Smith Live
For the final instalment of Red Bull Music Academy’s Bristol leg of their UK tour, we found ourselves nestled within the intimate confines of Bristol’s planetarium, for an evening with Gilles Peterson & Lonnie Liston Smith. The night began with fabled sound selector and BBC radio 6 host Gilles Peterson, introducing his main guest of […]
Review: RBMA presents Lords of the Manor
The paradoxical combination of a 17th Century manor house surrounded by 220 acres of land, and a roster of Detroit and London based hip hop and grime artists seems like one that draws few parallels. But with some prescient imagination from Red Bull Music Academy and Crack Magazine, Bristol was about to be treated to an inimitable house […]
Review: RBMA presents Lords of the Manor
The paradoxical combination of a 17th Century manor house surrounded by 220 acres of land, and a roster of Detroit and London based hip hop and grime artists seems like one that draws few parallels. But with some prescient imagination from Red Bull Music Academy and Crack Magazine, Bristol was about to be treated to an inimitable house […]
Interview: DJ W!ld – “I’m A Naughty Boy With A Big Heart.”
Deep, dark, sexy, acid house is what best describes the sound of the French Circo Loco resident Dj W!ld. Contriving his name from the 1983 film Wild Style, with influences in hip hop and graffiti, he dedicated his focus to electronic music production amidst the frenetic aura of the French Touch movement in the 90’s. Dj […]
Shadez of Brooklyn – Change
Change by Brookyn Shadez was released on Pandemonium Wreckords in 1996. The record was the group’s first 12” and features archetypal late golden age production. The crackling looped piano sample over a dusty boom-bap beat perfectly evokes a hazy summer in mid-90s NY. The Bushwick collective was made up of Chocolate Tye, Tee Black, Reverend Al, and Rambo. […]
Review: An Evening With Bicep
For the 3rd instalment of An Evening With, Belfast production duo Bicep put on a strong performance and successfully pushed out an exceptional night of heavyweight house and techno at Bristol’s Marble Factory. The An Evening With series of nights have proved to be some of the most exciting new musical events in Bristol this year. The […]
Shanti Celeste to Release New 12” on 29th April
Bristol’s Shanti Celeste has been steadily making waves for the past year or so with a string of unanimously well-received releases, most recently the lush synth-laden ‘Universal Glow’ on Julio Bashmore’s Broadwalk Records. Hats off to Shanti Celeste, she’s a busy lady, but somewhere between running her own night and label, holding down a regular […]