Agency X http://www.the-x-agency.com/ Management and talent development. en Copyright 2012 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:42 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Amazing Sherburne / RA review for Grizzlies

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]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/pitchfork_says_yes.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/pitchfork_says_yes.htm agency news Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:51 +0000 Hed Kandi on Max Cooper

]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/hed_kandi_on_max_cooper.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/hed_kandi_on_max_cooper.htm agency news Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:15:44 +0000 FIELDS #3 - ELECTROWERKZ EASTER THUR 5 APR Ghosting Season launching their debut album The Very Last of The Saints, Raffertie's new live show, London wunderkid Graphics on the decks and the Slow Revolt launching his Dark Matter EP.

Easter Thursday - come join the keytar revolution.

GHOSTING SEASON
[LAUNCHING THEIR DEBUT ALBUM]

Our first sighting of Ghosting Season? They warmed up for Apparat at the Scala late 2011 - and pretty much blew the main band away. With heavy support from DrownedinSound and Line Of Best Fit, they're about to launch their debut album - we can't reveal the name yet. The album ranges from flat-out dance music to introspective ambience, but for FIELDS we're expecting pretty much that same exhausting dance experience you last had falling out of an Underworld show.

RAFFERTIE - NEW LIVE SHOW
[NINJA TUNE / SUPER / PLANET MU]

With his debut album coming this year on Ninja Tune, Raffertie is one of the bass scene's most intriguing experimentalists. From releases on juke-powered weirdy beardy Planet Mu to his own label Super Recordings that's championed new UK acts like the R&Bass pop genius of AlunaGeorge, Raffertie has jumped from 2-step to 8-bit, between synthtastic rave mayhem to deeper funky sounds ... and for FIELDS, we'll be seeing an early version of his new live show.

GRAPHICS [GETME / GRANHOLME / MADE TO PLAY]

We'll let the press do the talking here: "got a way with drums ... futuristic bass lullaby ... should not be overlooked ... we're becoming big fans of Graphics ... like children playing in snowdrifts through a distant window ... lot of heart and a deep range ... floats between meditatively introspective and deeply dance-worthy ... ". If you like your bass music warm, melancholy and, yes, "like children playing in snowdrifts", here's an act you need to check out - according to Dummy, FACT, XLR8R, Abeano and Fader ...

THE SLOW REVOLT [LAUNCHING THE "DARK MATTER" EP]

He won't be one of London's best-kept secrets for long. If you thought it was a warm mess of blog love for The Slow Revolt's remix of Patten's Peachy Swan - which essentially rewrote the track from parts and added a new vocal to boot - then wait for this: The Slow Revolt is about to drop his achingly gorgeous EP Dark Matter on new label Pavilion. We highly recommend arriving early to FIELDS to see him - he's unlikely to be playing the early sets for long.

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD FREE TRACKS

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4142647-watch-new-ghosting-season-video-for-far-end-of-the-graveyeard
http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/sets/mass-appeal-ep
http://www.thefader.com/2011/11/14/stream-graphics-theres-a-way-back
http://theslowrevolt.bandcamp.com

FIELDSLDN.net.

Easter Thursday Thu April 5 @ Electrowerkz - one room plus chillout only. 7 Torrens Street London EC1V 1NQ. 10PM-6AM. Tube: Angel. £8-£12 presale, £15 on door. Presale links at www.fieldsldn.net. Enquiries guestlist@fieldsldn.net.



]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/fields_3_-_electrowerkz_easter.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/fields_3_-_electrowerkz_easter.htm FIELDS-night Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:32:54 +0000 New Graphics EP on Made to Play

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Plus London producer makes UK bass lullaby, sweet-talks in tongues with new song...

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]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/fields_the_explaination.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2012/01/fields_the_explaination.htm agency news Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:13:03 +0000 Great fan vid for Minilogue - Seconds (Max Cooper mix) http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/12/great_fan_vid_for_minilogue_-.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/12/great_fan_vid_for_minilogue_-.htm video Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:47:10 +0000 Jet Project "One of my songs of the summer" - Seth Troxler http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/12/one_of_my_songs_of_the_summer.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/12/one_of_my_songs_of_the_summer.htm video Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:41:44 +0000 Max Cooper: Le sens du Detail [in french]

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Or stream the track.]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/11/graphics_getme_launch.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/11/graphics_getme_launch.htm agency news Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:07:58 +0000 Double position?

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"Combining the on-stage theatrics of the live band performance with the trance-like states and will to dance cultivated by beat-natured techno makes for an absorbing experience, whilst the sight of the two multi-instrumentalists on stage palpitating and perspiring enriches the intimacy of the floor’s relation to the sounds in session. The usual barrier between the audience and the techno-musical subject-matter of the performance has been eroded." - Spoonfed.

"Lesser DJs wouldn’t have been able to hold the dancefloor for this amount of time and still keep the audience interested, but Cooper’s challenging mix kept people guessing and attracted." - Data Transmission

]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/11/fields_great_reviews.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/11/fields_great_reviews.htm agency news Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:29:34 +0000 "One of those songs that should not be overlooked" - FADER

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]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/11/electronica_1.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/11/electronica_1.htm agency news Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:21:11 +0000 New Bass Kleph site is go!

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]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/polyamorous_affair_debuts_new.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/polyamorous_affair_debuts_new.htm agency news Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:07:13 +0000 Wiping the Eye EP http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/wiping_the_eye_ep.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/wiping_the_eye_ep.htm video Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:22:33 +0000 "We're becoming big fans of Graphics" - FACT

]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/were_becoming_big_fans_of_grap.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/were_becoming_big_fans_of_grap.htm agency news Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:45:51 +0000 RA: 4.5/5 for Max Cooper MOTEK gig

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Very excited that we can announce this: Bass Kleph will support Morgan Page on his November US tour - as well as his upcoming North American dates in September.

Sat Sep 10 - Dee Why Hotel, Sydney Australia

BK SEPTEMBER US TOUR
Sat Sep 17 - Club V - St Johns NL, Canada
Sun Sep 18 - Dolce Patio - Toronto, Canada
Wed Sep 21 - Oakland Metro - Oakland, California United States
Fri Sep 23 - Hush - Victoria BC, Canada
Sat Sep 24 - Nocturnal Festival - San Bernardino, California United States

AUSTRALIA
Sat Oct 1 - New York Hotel - Launceston, Australia
Sat Oct 15 - Platinum - Gold Coast, Australia

EUROPE / ADE
Wed Oct 19 - 1Management network bash / Club NL - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thu Oct 20 - Deepheat / Little Buddha - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sat Oct 22 - Escape Studio - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sat Oct 29 - Halle03 - Heidelberg , Germany

AUSTRALIA - NOV 4/5 TBC

THEN MORGAN PAGE TOUR NOVEMBER
Wed Nov 9 - Vain - Orlando, Florida United States
Fri Nov 11 - Phoenix - Charlotte, North Carolina United States
Sat Nov 19 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver BC, Canada
Fri Nov 25 - Empire Ballroom - Edmonton, Canada
Sat Nov 26 - Whiskey - Calgary, Canada

You can subscribe to BK's dates at gigs.gigatools.com/user/Basskleph

]]> http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/bass_kleph_supporting_morgan_p.htm http://www.the-x-agency.com/2011/09/bass_kleph_supporting_morgan_p.htm Bass Kleph Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:59:33 +0000 Launch night: FIELDS

FIELDS - DANCEABLE EXPERIMENTS IN BAND / ELECTRONICA / DJ CROSSOVER


ALL NIGHT LONG AT ELECTROWERKZ - FRI NOV 4

Crossover is such a dirty word. But then these days electronica is such a dirty, raw-sounding field, with the barriers finally pushed over and the noise bands, the beardy laptop junkies, the DJs, the experimentalists, the sound designers, the girls with keytars and the boys with found noise ... They're all playing happily in one big park together - and that park is Fields, 2011.

MAX COOPER [2 HRS LIVE, 1 HR DJ]
ONE OF THE UK'S MOST UPCOMING FESTIVAL ACTS PREMIERING TRACKS FROM HIS NEW ALBUM
[apc40 | extra effects | 50 tracks cut down to component parts | PhD in computational biology]

GHOSTING SEASON - THE MANCUNIANS WHO BLEW THE SCALA APART SUPPORTING APPARAT
[two guitars | drum pads | loops | "something like an electric cello"]

CAPAC - THE THREE PIECE THAT'S TRANSFORMING LIVERPOOL'S LIVE SCENE
[drum triggers | keys | vocoder | kaoss pad | live vocalist | sample pad]

HIATUS AND SHURA - STARKLY BEAUTIFUL ON LOVE, AND ANGRY SONGS ABOUT REVOLUTION
[live vocalist | boss rc50 vocal looper | kaoss pad | keys | loops]

PLUS DJ SETS FROM THE ACTS.

Fields is a night for those who grew up with bass and bands, Gold Panda and R&B on the stereo. The people who want a rough-and-ready live three-piece on a festival stage - at the same time as the punishing bottom end of the neighbourhood sound system. Each London Fields will showcase live electronics, new bands, three- and four-pieces, duos with extra hardware - danceable experiments. It's live music for the electronica generation: dub with texture and dance tracks played by hand that could fall apart at any second.

Influenced by Four Tet, Apparat, Underworld, Jon Hopkins, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Border Community, Nedry, Sun Drums, Envelope, Olafur Arnulds, Max Richter, Radiohead, Umber, Trentemøller, Burial, Amon Tobin, Shackleton, LONE, Trent Reznor, The BLBX crew, Sei A, Daggereyess, Seekae, Umber, Old Apparatus, John Roberts, Boxcutter, Carl Craig, Clubroot, Ghostek and Synkro; it's London's suck-it-and-see approach writ large, grabbing the best of disparate styles and distilling them into a single electronic moment with an emphasis on letting loose in dark clubs.

Headliner? A three hour special set from Max Cooper, showcasing both his producer and his DJ side. One of the UK's fastest rising electronica stars, Max was described by IDJ as having "consistently proved himself to be one of the most peerlessly beautiful recording artists in modern dance music", and his music by Clash magazine as "haunting". Recently he's been special guest at North American electronic showcases Picnik Electronik in Montreal and Decibel Festival in Seattle, closed for Richie Hawtin at 10 Days Off in Ghent, and his collaborations with visual artists led to him headlining the opening night of London's Alpha-Ville arts festival. He'll be premiering new remixes for soundtrack composer Michael Nyman, releases for the label of techno superstar Stephan Bodzin, and tracks from his forthcoming album, due 2012.

With Max there's a collection of great electronic bands drawn from across the UK: Mancunians Ghosting Season, whose powerful opening set for Apparat's recent London gig had the audience of jaded industry observers on their feet and screaming; Capac, the frighteningly young elder statesmen of Liverpool's burgeoning electronica scene; and Hiatus and Shura, a duo whose strikingly beautiful looping of vocals recently wowed the Soundwave festival in Croatia.

Fri Nov 4 in one room only of the Electrowerkz - 7 Torrens Street London EC1V 1NQ. Tube: Angel. LIMITED CAPACITY: this is the smallest venue Max Cooper has played in London in some time. £8 entry / £5 NUS / £3 if you send us a demo of your own electronica BEFORE THE GIG PLS guestlist@londonfieldsmusic.net. 10PM-6AM. Hiatus and Shura on 11PM - be there, their music is astoundingly beautiful.

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