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New on VVWI: Spektre, live at Glade album sampler
It's a very English festival, Glade ... sunshine, a bunch of mad hippies, Jeff Mills headlining, and off to one side a cozy little Sancho Panza tent that on friday night hosted Veryverywrongindeed - Tim Sheridan playing back to back with Mr C for four hours, a killer set from Mike Monday, Josh Tweek and Frenchy warming up, and a live set bang in the middle by UK techno duo Spektre.
We're releasing that set as veryverywrongindeed's first CD in November - Spektre, Live at Glade. But in the meantime, here's a sampler of two of the cuts from the upcoming album.
Mike Monday: I am plankton
Mike Monday's second album is coming soon - Songs without words. It's the sequel to Smorgasbord - "a classic" (One Week to Live), "an LP we just can't put down" (DJ) and one of IDJ's albums of the month and...
King Roc's Equilibrium - out on vinyl Aug
“2008 will be the year King Roc claims his crown ... [The Mutual society releases are] dreamy ... elegant ... gorgeous ... bittersweet ... melancholy" - DJ mag.
"[Mutual Society is] the best thing King Roc has ever done" - IDJ.
Raves from Jamie Jones, Chloe, Lee Burridge, Laurent Garnier, Will Saul, Mike Monday, Oliver Klein, Jeff Samuel, TG, Markus Guentner and many more...
King Roc says: “What’s Equilibrium about? An event that happened in the Alps somewhere around Chamonix, France. I was on a snowboarding trip with some friends. I am an OK rider - not amazing. Then near the end of the holiday I had the most incredible riding experience of my life so far. Suddenly I was ten times better, riding faster than ever before and making all my turns perfectly.
“Then suddenly I came back to myself, the experience ended. As quickly as I could, I slowed down before I lost control.
“Later that evening, I tried to work out what had happened. I was amazed. I didn’t think about how I should be riding technically. I didn’t feel any fear towards to possible danger. I was unconcerned about the vanity of how I looked or what anyone thought of me.
“I wasn’t thinking about anything at all."
LISTEN TO SAMPLES:
DiscoVery |
Everything from nothing |
Flow parts 1 and 2
Prepare for the Freakshow - Tim Sheridan v Jon Carter
With the GRIM EP now on
Beatport, Tim Sheridan is gearing up for the followup, Freakshow, a collaboration with Jon Carter and spoken-word genius Ferank Manseed. The ringmaster of WRONG is ready to roll...
The freakshow of fucked up peversion
... is a travelling show - an excursion
It's a trip to the depths of depravity.
The manic laughter...
LISTEN TO SAMPLES:
Freakshow - original mix
Petit Mal out now on vinyl
He’s the biggest UK producer you’ve never heard of. dub KULT's records and his label, Living, get props from everyone from Bug to Villalobos to Weatherall to Vath. He’s been remixed by Guido Schneider and remixed Efendin, and been in Groove’s top 10 techno releases of the year as early as 2003. He's released on Warp's offshoot Arcola, German labels Traum and Raum...Musik, Belgium’s Curle and has a track coming on the UK’s veryverywrongindeed and a remix of Petar Dundov due out soon on Music Man. He did the soundtrack for Channel 4's upcoming Burning Man film, the Tomorrow's World Live show and he’s played more gigs in Europe than he is ever likely to do in the UK ...
It’s a bit more cerebral an approach than the usual. “At the centre of clubbing madness,” dub says, “lies a still, reflective core. There always has to be some brooding meaning, even at the moments of the most insane dancefloor abandon.” Which is why dub is currently working with a folk singer and a new, visually driven-live set due in 2008...
PETIT MAL EP - OUT NOW ON VINYL THROUGH NEUTON. LISTEN (SHORT SAMPLES ONLY):
Petit Mal |
Ole |
50 ways
Riva Starr's LA CONGA - out on Dirtybird April 3
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE A PRODUCER BREAKS STRAIGHT THROUGH... With releases already raved about on Dirtybird, Southern Fried and Frontroom, a remix of Armand van Helden in the bag, and gigs from his native Italy to this year's Dirtybird party at the WMC, London to China, Paris to Amsterdam, Riva Starr is very definitely the biggest thing to come out of wonky in quite some time... And that's before you consider the blogs - TWELVE THOUSAND downloads of his last mix on discobelle.net. Soon to come tracks on Get Physical's Kindish and his next track on Dirtybird, out April 3 - LA CONGA.
LISTEN TO SAMPLE:
LA CONGA.
Or more about
RivaStarr, or his
most recent X podcast....
The story behind King Roc's Communique EP - out on vinyl in March
King Roc's new label Mutual Society is a concept project - vinyl art by Seb Godfrey of Drunkpark, and a set of vinyl releases that will be massively re-edited and chopped and changed to create a final album, to be released late 2008. No song is planned to sound much like it started. And each EP has a theme - #1, Lunaris, was about coincidence and randomness, and release #2, Communique is about patterns, mathematics, and interconnectedness and is out on vinyl Mar 17 through Discomania.
LISTEN TO SAMPLES:
A pocket full of prose |
Hello infinity |
Phidias gold |
The growing phrase.
"Maths was the reason I was moved from a public to a private school," says King Roc. "I was crap at it as a kid - the worst in the class..."
Andre Crom - Kardio EP - Sender 72
"Sehr trocken und mit einem langsam immer intensiver werdenen Alarmsound der auch aus der Schule von Eric Martin stammen könnte. Pure Chicagomadness also und das mit einer so blendend albernen tausendmal gehörten Acidbassline..." - De:bug (review
here).
LISTEN TO SAMPLES:
Adrenaline |
Endorphin |
Fieberkurve |
Reha
Veryverywrongindeed 4: dub KULT's the fly / brave and afraid
Here's both sides of the Veryverywrongindeed MO: a tweaking dancefloor freakout WTF!? moment and an evocative, emotional take on vulnerability - lyrics and all. An explanation? Read the Tim Sheridan
Faith messageboard posting.
And for what it's worth, the song was overheard and snapped up at an Ibizan villa party. dub KULT is one of the seven artists working with veryverywrongindeed - one of biggest UK wonky minimalists you've never heard of, having had a Groove top 10 as far back as 2003, and now releasing on Traum/Raum, Curle, Music Man, Signals, and working with the bassplayer of the Guillemots on new music...
Listen to samples:
The fly |
Brave and afraid
Tommy Four Seven releasing Contact with Mark Broom remix - Shooting Elvis #2
Its first release got "Fucking good stuff!" (Perc), "Wow!" (Thugfucker), "Fierce!" (Chloe), "Love them" (Tom Pooks) plus a host of raves from Daschund to Joel Mull to Ewan Pearson to Garnier to Henning to Hazendonk. Now Shooting Elvis has started early promo on release 2, Contact - Tommy Four Seven, b/w a Mark Broom remix.
LISTEN TO SAMPLES :
Tommy Four Seven - Contact - Original mix |
Tommy Four Seven - Contact - Mark Broom remix
DJ SUPPORT: King Roc, Laurent Garnier, Tim Xavier, Darko Esser, Tom Neville, Someone Else, Oliver Ho / Raudive, Groove Rebels, Mihalis Safras, Mark Henning, Nico De Ceglia, Anthony Collins, Remute, Perc, Mistress De Funk, Jamie McHugh, Tim Green (TG), Sebastian Roya, Chris Carrier, Ron Flatter, Thugfucker, DJ Rebekah, Monoroom, Davide Squillace, Dub KULT, Paul Hamill, Chloe, Ewan Pearson, Tom Pooks, Daschund, Paul Hazendonk, Mark O'Sullivan / DK7, Alex Flatner, Mike Monday, Joel Mull. (Thanks!)
Catzmuzik: Straitjacket - with Andre Crom mix
"I love it!" - Justin Martin.
"Ooh yeh i like this. Right up my street." - Simon Baker.
"Lovin' it" - Hannah Holland, BuggedOut / Trailertrash.
"Brilliant party jams! I've been playing both mixes as much as possible!" - Alland Byallo, KONTROL.
LISTEN
Straitjacket - original
Straitjacket - Dr Crom's Autopsy mix
Scratch n Itch EP - Riva Starr raves on Southern Fried
"Scratch n Itch is wicked!" - Kissy Sell Out
Raves from Dan Kahuna to D Ramirez, Dopamine to Mr Cormac, Rene Amesz to Will Adventures Close to Home.
Out now on Southern Fried.
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE:
Scratch n Itch.
RECENT UPDATES
Veryverywrongindeed to open new London venue Lightbox
The news... Veryverywrongindeed and Zombies Ate My Brain are to open new Watergate-style Vauhall venue Lightbox. Previously the only good thing in gay club FIRE, Lightbox is now a separate and frankly pretty incredible new venue with a lightshow that will send every freak into a spin...Opening night will be Zombies and VVWI's notoriously oversubscribed Halloween Ball...
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Mike Monday: I am plankton
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Elvis is alive ... and he's up to release number two...
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DJ mag predicts a huge year for King Roc
Happy new year! We're particularly happy at X Towers - two of our acts, King Roc and Tommy Four Seven, featured in DJ mag's annual roundup of producers who are going to explode this year... " 2008 [will be] the...
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The biggest UK producer you've never heard of
He’s the biggest UK producer you’ve never heard of. His records and his label, Living, get props from everyone from Bug to Villalobos to Weatherall to Vath. He’s been remixed by Guido Schneider and remixed Efendin, and been in Groove’s...
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Here comes the Freakshow...
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EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE A PRODUCER BREAKS STRAIGHT THROUGH...
With releases already raved about on Dirtybird, Southern Fried and Frontroom, Riva Starr's still got more batty bass bombs to let loose. And with a remix of Armand van Helden already in the bag, he's had five more offers come in just this week. And then there's the gigs - from his native Italy to this year's Dirtybird party at the WMC, London to China, Paris to Amsterdam, Riva Starr is very definitely the biggest thing to come out of wonky since Claude von Stroke ...
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Welcome to the Mutual Society
It’s part Twin Peaks ... part Pink Floyd ... and it’s King Roc’s new album project... WELCOME TO THE MUTUAL SOCIETY The search is still on for the mythical dance-artist album that’s “not just for clubs”. A bit of mystery,...
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