UK Glitch Hop Allstars at Carousel with Liquid Records, Wonderland and Gypsy Disco, Electrowerkz, London, Friday 26 April 2103

There's a new night in town and it promises to be a game changer! With a similar vibe to the Decompression parties, Secret Garden Party and Glade Festival all rolled into one, the first Carousel takes place at the wonderful Electrowerkz in Angel on Friday 26 April.

We're stoked to be co-hosting a room as Glitch.FM, with William Breakspear, Your Niece, Automaton, Colony and the Morbidly Obese Midget ripping it up alongside Nimbus, Atomic Drop and Slackbaba from Liquid Records, plus Wonderland and Gypsy Disco taking you on a journey into a twisted fairground.

Step through the turnstile and leave the world you know behind. We'll keep you bouncing to the early hours with  music from all spectrums of the musical fountain. The Sideshows will provide a unique blend of circus, cabaret, theatre, games, art and stalls spread across the entire venue...even in those places you would never think to look! Entertainment and surprises at every turn.

TICKETS FROM HERE: http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/carousel/10026104/?ref=p5796-glitch

£8 if you’re lucky // £10 if you’re quick // £15 standard

✯ THE RINGMASTERS ✯

LIQUID RECORDS // GLITCH.FM // WONDERLAND // GYPSY DISCO

✫ GLITCH.FM Present...UK Glitch Hop All Stars ✫

http://www.facebook.com/UKGlitchHop

☞William Breakspear

https://soundcloud.com/william-breakspear

http://www.facebook.com/williambreakspear

☞Your Niece

https://soundcloud.com/your-niece

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Your-Niece/283448851607

☞Colony Productions

https://soundcloud.com/colony-productions

http://www.facebook.com/colonyproductionsdotnet

☞Automaton

https://soundcloud.com/automaton-uk

http://www.facebook.com/pages/automaton/111928481855

☞Morbidly Obese Midget

https://soundcloud.com/morbidlyobesemidget

http://www.facebook.com/MorbidlyObeseMidget?viewer_id=0

✫ LIQUID RECORDS ✫

http://www.facebook.com/liquidrecordsuk

☞Atomic Drop LIVE

https://soundcloud.com/atomic-drop

http://www.facebook.com/atomicdrop?fref=ts

☞Nimbus LIVE

https://soundcloud.com/liquidrecords/nimbus-live-elixir-of-life-nye

☞Slackbaba LIVE

http://www.myspace.com/slackbaba

http://www.facebook.com/slackbaba

☞Liquid James

http://www.facebook.com/DJLiquidJames?fref=ts

✫ WONDERLAND ✫

http://www.wonderlandfestival.co.uk/

☞Lunatrix LIVE

http://lunatrixband.com/

https://soundcloud.com/lunatrixband

☞Cheshire and the Breaksworths LIVE

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheshire-and-the-Breaksworths/440612679359681?fref=ts#

☞Sly Fox

https://soundcloud.com/slyfoxxx

☞The Queen of Hearts

https://soundcloud.com/imo-loves-dick-dj

http://www.facebook.com/ImoLovesDickDj?ref=stream&group_id=0

☞King Mix-a-lot

☞ Miss White Rabbit

✫ GYPSY DISCO ✫

http://www.facebook.com/GypsyDisco

☞ADHDJs

http://www.mixcloud.com/adhdjs/

☞Coco Deville Burlesque

http://cocodeville.wix.com/cocodeville#!

http://www.facebook.com/ms.coco.deville

☞Cat & Mouse Theater

http://www.facebook.com/catandmousetheatregroup

☞Knife Jugglers, Belly Dancers & Hoopers.

✯ THE SIDESHOWS ✯

☞The Rubbish Sideshow Presents...The Chicken Cabaret.

Intimate cabaret experience hidden away somewhere...find it and enjoy the show!

http://www.facebook.com/TheRubbishSideShow?fref=ts

http://www.facebook.com/TheChickenCabaret?fref=ts

☞Chivaree Circus

Arial acts and roaming circus fun.

http://www.facebook.com/Chivaree.Circus?fref=ts

☞Caricatures by the masterous Shindy Reeha

Get your self drawn...its better than a photo.

https://www.facebook.com/SandeevReehal

☞Custom Animation by VJ Kara Rose

Beautifully painted animations made just for you.

http://kararose.com/

☞Face Paint & Sparkles from Makeup By Maya and Squiggles & Wiggles

Get some fun on your face!!

http://www.facebook.com/MakeupByMaya

http://www.facebook.com/sw.facepainting

☞Gorgeous ambient lighting by LucyNation

Painting the walls with moving light

http://solar250.co.uk/

☞Live art and hidden installations around the whole venue.

☞The Wonderland Bakery

Yummy homemade cakes and tasty teas

http://www.facebook.com/groups/135148926510190/?fref=ts

☞ALAN-allsorts stall

Hosted by our good chums and general nut bags the ALAN crew this is the place to buy all your raving wears.

http://www.facebook.com/wearealan

☞Candy Floss, Popcorn & BBQ

nom nom nom...

✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯

Stay tuned for more tricks and treats as they come.

This is an over 18s event so please bring ID

See you in the Fairground!!

xXx 

TICKET LINK HERE http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/carousel/10026104/?ref=p5796-glitch 

ORIGINAL EVENT PAGE HERE http://www.facebook.com/carouselfestival?ref=ts&fref=ts

Elixir of Life presents :: Illumination :: Beats Antique LIVE / Gaudi / Bird of Prey / Mouldy Soul / Kursa / Nimbus @ The Coronet, London, Saturday 16 March 2013

Hailing from Oakland, CA, Beats Antique was one of the first acts associated with glitch hop to really think about their live show. In fact, they started with it. Fronted by gorgeous bellydancer Zoe Jakes, the group with David Satori and Sidecar Tommy was originally formed to create music that matched her dancing - a blend of tribal, popping and jazz. Since the release of 2009 album Collide, their eastern influenced clockwork glitch hop and steampunk aesthetic have seen them established as favourites of the Burning Man community and an essential soundtrack for just about every bellydancer and fire performer on the planet...and now they're finally coming to the UK to play a one off show with Bird of Prey at The Coronet in London on Saturday 16 May!

Other live glitch hop acts have graced these shores before - namely The Glitch Mob and to a certain extent Opiuo - but what makes this significant is that it's hosted by a psychedelic party promoter. There have always been strong links between the European psychedelic party scene and that of America's West Coast, with Elixir of Life, the promoters behind ::: Illumination :::, doing more than anyone recently to bring the visionary art of Android Jones and co to our shores (check out the gallery line-up below). With a few exceptions though, such as Bluetech, The Human Experience and Nagual Sound Experiment, the music has remained a little out of sync. While the Americans and Aussies have been exploring the psychedelic potential of dubstep, bass and glitch, since the wax and wane of psydub our conscious parties have mostly been clinging onto the relentless march of psytrance to keep the main room dancefloor moving. A shame considering the diverse roots of psychedelic music in this country.

The main room line up here, however, is going to be a little bit different, with Gaudi launching a new album alongside live favourites The Egg. Even better news is that there's a whole room dedicated younger home grown glitch hop, neuro hop and mid tempo acts, headlined by Slackbaba but with Mouldy Soul, Kursa and Nimbus all on the bill too. Slackbaba remixed and produced Nimbus' debut EP, which came out in January, while fellow veteran producer Gaudi regularly plays tracks by Mouldy Soul.

The potential of this night as a shift in focus for the UK psychedelic party scene is significant. It looks like the best event of its kind since Hallucinogen in Dub and Younger Brother played Brixton Academy in 2007. Oh, and there's a whole gallery of mind-blowing visionary art. Not to be missed!

:: Main Stage ::

Beats Antique LIVE (UK Debut) featuring Sidecar Tommy & David Satori

GAUDI featuring Danny Ladwa - album launch "In Between Times" 

The Egg 

Bird of Prey 

Atmos 

Emok 

Aliji

:: Room 2 - Psy Trance ::

Prometheus

Sonic Species

BeatNik

Liquid Ross

Shane Gobi

Mebjar

Amethyst

:: Room 3 - Glitch, Psy Breaks and Electronica ::

Slackbaba

Monk3ylogic

Mouldy Soul

Kursa

Nimbus

Rowan Elf

:: Room 4 - Techno hosted by Noisily Festival ::

N'to

Fuzzy Logic

Flash

Jasper

Audley

:: Room 5 & 6 - Visionary Arts Gallery and Live Painting ::

Live painting from Emma Watkinson and Stuart Grigg

and featuring artwork by

Luke Brown

Android Jones

Amanda Sage

Emma Watkinson

Robert Venosa

Carey Thompson

Carl Ward

Harold Pack

Pouyan Khosravi

Hakan Hisim

Luminokayo

Martina Hoffmann

Daniel Mirante

Laurence Caruana

Adam Scott Miller

Peter Gric

Tickets available online from

http://www.onlinestall.com/cgi-bin/stall2.pl?act=tickets&event=Illumination

Also available for cash and credit sales at 

Access All Areas Ltd Office

2nd Floor, 30c Camden Lock Place

London, NW1 8AL

Elixir Page on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/elixiroflifeevents

Elixir Twitter:

https://twitter.com/elixiroflife2

https://www.facebook.com/events/309992165784929/  

Wobblebox II: Krossbow + Nimbus @ Inspiral Cafe

Back in May, DJ Katty Grooves launched Wobble Box, a new night at the beautiful Inspiral cafe, with Mouldy Soul and Agent Smith bringing glitch grooves to the home of psychedelic down-tempo in Camden. This month's installment looks to crank up the energy factor with Brighton's Nimbus and the lads from Krossbow set to turn this intimate venue into a veritable sweat box as it wobble off its foundations into the canal.

10-11.30 Andrew Rushton
11.30-12.30 Katty Grooves
12.30 - 1.30am Krossbow
1.30 - 3am Nimbus
3- 4am Mr. Strangelove

Don't miss it... unless of course you're lucky enough to have a ticket for London Decompression in which case you're excused! (As long as you get there in time for my set at 9.15 - Morbidly Obese Midget)

Glade Festival set times and highlights

How sick is this looking? Pretty much all day Friday and Saturday night looking mouth wateringly good on The Meteor. If we don't see you then, come find us at 3pm Saturday for the UK Glitch Hop meet-up during Morbidly Obese' Midget's set. Can't wait!

THURSDAY 14 JUNE

METEOR STAGE

7pm-1pm Jump Records Showcase

FRIDAY 15 JUNE 

LIQUID STAGE

2pm Kursa

GLADE STAGE

3.30pm Freq Nasty 

9pm Pretty Lights

METEOR STAGE

3pm William Breakspear ft. Georgina Upton
4pm Memory9
5pm SixAM
6pm Zen Death Squad
8pm Colony Mike

9pm Mouldy Soul

10pmKrossbow

11pm VENT

12am Culprate
1am Akira Kiteshi
2am Samples
3am Your Niece



RABBIT HOLE
7pm Coda



OVERKILL
8pm Si Begg


VAUDEVILLE RAVE
2am JFB
3am Dutty Moonshine

SATURDAY 16 JUNE

METEOR STAGE

3pm Morbidly Obese Midget
4pm Shamanic Technology


12am Kutmah
2am Head of State
3am Sweet Jesus
4am Beat3



LIQUID STAGE
3pm Nimbus

SUNDAY 17 JUNE

METEOR STAGE
3pm Donk Pitch Showcase: Grinel 
3.40pm Boss Kite
5pm Ghost Mutt
6pm Slugabed
7-10pm Robox Neotech Showcase

Review: Incognito at Psychosocial, Brighton, 3 March 2010

Thanks to Liquid Djems (Atomic Drop / Liquid Records) and friends, Brighton has a two new alternating nights, Brighton Bass and Incognito. With the promise of regular glitch in the line up, and the specific lure of Nimbus and Kursa, plus a convenient 7th birthday party, I went down to check out the more psychedelic of the sister nights, the inaugural Incognito.

Both nights take place at Psycho Social, formerly the Ocean Rooms, providing three floors of multi-genre bass music. We got there just in time for Nimbus on the ground floor, playing a really danceable set that spanned bouncing glitch hop, funky dubwise and psychedelic mid-tempo breaks. Jae Nimbus is someone who seems to have an eternally sunny disposition, which really comes through in his music in feel good vibes and dance-abilty. By the end of the set the hazy purple ambiance was packed with smiling dancers. He's recently been signed by Liquid Records with a release due in May and a slot at Glade, one to watch out for this year!

I had to skip Slackbaba to see KURSA play upstairs in a back to back set with WonKay Records boss Bunkle. The top room of Pyschosocial is one of those mirrored, leather sofa affairs that seems like it was designed for champagne quaffing, chang chugging, R&B nights, rather than dirty bass; but somehow it seemed to fit rather well. As it turned out, they each played pretty much a full 30-45 minute set, with just one switch over in between. The first half of KURSA's set consisted of his crisp brand of neuro-hop - funking basslines and popping snares - which gradually accelerating into dubstep and some pretty heavy technical drum and bass. He's definitely mining a sound in a similar vein to Koan Sound, which seems a pretty good bet right now and with very tasty upcoming releases on Adapted Records and WonKay, he's another one to keep an eye on in 2012.





Bunkle closed the B2B with some nicely varied dubstep and dancehall bass before we rolled back downstairs for the empress of electro filth Mary Miss Fairy for a brilliantly broken set. Although I'm not really into psytrance these days, which was supposedly the main draw in the basement, if rooms 2 and 3 at your night are this good then you must be doing something right.

The next Brighton Bass is on Saturday 7 April. We'll keep you posted of more glitch in the line up!

UK Glitch Hop January round-up

2012 has kicked off to a strong start for UK Glitch. Here's what I've gorged myself on this month


The Tunes 
Mouldy Soul's released yet another kwality EP, this time through BroKen Records


The man with the stagnant spirit has also reworked Hedflux and Neurodriver's psy breaks banger Energy Vibration into an off-kilter mechanical squelch-fest for the Broken Robot remix competition.



The last I heard from KURSA was dubstep tune that showed a lot of potential but was a bit too jump up. Further investigation reveals that the man actually has more funk than that. Bonnibelle is a badass mid-tempo lazer bass blaster to be released very soon through those purveyors of quality free music from the psychedelic underground, Wonkay Records. Grab the Hackney test track below, while you wait.


Hiding away down in deepest darkest Brizzzzol have been The Beat Dweebs, who profess to making music that makes you go 'Uuuuuhhh...' S'gotta hella lotta funk. Works for me.



Pistol Shrimp's got an EP coming out on Prime DUB and it's all about this track. It's like Bobby Tank having a bubble bath with Koan Sound. Love it.

 
Following hot on the heels of Mouldy Soul's Shimi Sonic remix last month, Dephicit's previewed this nice little number out soon on Riddim Fruit:

Another nice release from Brighton's Donky Pitch, this time in the shape of man like Boss Kite

 
On the even more off-kilter Brainfeeder style side of things, Illum Sphere from Manchester gets airtime from a lot of Low End Theory residents. This went up on his Soundcloud just before the New Year, with a release expected soon

New one for me this month, downtempo glitch schizznit from Drowzy Beats in Brighton. This is exactly what you need to put on after a hectic day at work. Kick back and enjoy!




And lastly some guy called Rat posted this to the UK Glitch Hop Facebook page, which sounds kinda nice.


The mixtapes 
My find for the month has been Jae Nimbus. I went to Elixir of Life  for NYE, but had enough if the party after Slackbaba and Shpongle. I wished I stayed becuase two days later Nimbus posted this mix onto UK Glitch Hop. Mostly self produced tunes, it bodes very well for his first release through Broken Records. Keep an eye out for him playing in Brighton and further afield. Even better, book him to play your party!

Automaton's uploaded this DJ set from Beta Birmingham's Anty Riot Squad album launch party on 22nd December 2011 @ The End, Birmingham. Got lots of big classic tunes in there along with some heavy fresh ones.

Track Listing:
1. Mouldy Soul - Whine and Shine [Colony]
2. Pretty Lights - Still Night [Pretty Lights Music]
3. Prefuse 73 - Choking You [Warp]
4. Mimosa - Another Day [Beatport]
5. Sedge Warbler - Octopus Lover [Skanky Panky]
6. Modeselektor - Dark Side Of The Sun (feat. Puppetmastaz) [Bpitch Control]
7. eDIT - Artsy (feat. The Grouch) [Alpha Pup]
8. Figgy - Dr Gonzo [Soundcloud]
9. Bassnectar - The Sound [Amorphous]
10. Dj Shadow - Walkie Talkie (Spanky Panky Allstars Mix) [Skanky Panky]
11. Tipper - Covered In Lobsters [Tippermusic]
12. Koan Sound - Max Out [Screwloose]
13. Enya - Boadicea (Vespers Remix) [Vespers]


For fans of mid-tempo and variety, you can't do much better than Orangudan's Kneee Deep in Glitch. It's a brilliantly mixed journey through glitch funk, techno, hip hop and breaks. Beware the monkeys.

Pink Lady - Feed Me
Feeding Time - Mouldy Soul
Talking Smack - K+Lab
Come N Get It - J.Me.J
Tom Cosm - Bubble Butt - Tom Cosm
Gameboy - Mr. Bill vs Black Samurai
Night Of The Living Kebab - Messy Mass & Baba Gnohm
Assbref - Skeetaz
Majoram - Mr. Bill
Talk Box (Original Mix) - KOAN Sound
Android Porn - Kraddy
Ahi Haka (Original Mix) - K+Lab
Cyber Dojo Lazer Training - Zen Death Squad
Blackjack - Samples
Falling Into The Mine - Mad Zach
Glitch Villain - Mad Zach
Simmer Gently - Blunt Instrument
Skurry - Skeetaz
Mashington - Mad Zach & R2 The Specialist
What If Jimi Was A Monster - Mouldy Soul
Covered In Lobsters - Tipper

Agent Smith cut his teeth playing funky breaks and has the turntable scratch skills to boot. He's now applied his skills to the world of funky mid-tempo glitch with some extremely ear pleasing results. More like this please!

Track list- Talk Box- Koan Sound
What if Jimmy is a monster- Moldy Soul
Creamy Taco- Opiou
Yippy cheese face- Moldy Soul
One Sure Curative- Slack Baba
The light we bring- Love and Light
Robo boty- Opiou
Global declaration- Omega
Freeze dried cellophane- Ali Berger
Busted Up- Staunch
Slappy cans- Opiou and Mollusk
How we do- J Pod
Lunatics- Vent
Rae! Good thymes- Opiou
Social know how- JFB

More psychedelic leaning wobble from Rama Oood. I'm glad to see the downtempo rooms at psy parties are continuing to be the havens of glitchy squelch that they always should be. Just need to get rid of that other room now.


If all that wasn't enough, here's one last set from Dj Prokogy who's been in touch via Soundcloud. Keep up the good work in spreading that glitch love y'all!


The Fat Man