UKGH Return to Silver Bullet this September...

Silver Bullet was the venue for our hugely successful UKGH Best of 2014 Awards night at the start of the summer.

September 11th will see the return of residents William Breakspear, K.L.O. (Kursa, Lonedrum & Osmetic), Your Niece, Terrorbyte and Raptus for an end of summer, post festival knees up!

Flyer and more info coming soon!

Silver Bullet Website

You only have a few more days to make your vote count this May - in the Best of 2014 UK Glitch Hop Awards!  

Then join us in London on Friday 8 May to find out who's won, as we celebrate three official years of glitching. Good times guaranteed, whatever the outcome of the day before...

Vote for Glitch Hop!

There's just 1 week left to vote for your favourite tunes, remixes, artists and releases of 2014. Make your voice count this May and VOTE HERE!

Awards Party @ Silver Bullet, London, 8th May 2015

Join special guests WBBL, K.L.O. + UK Glitch Hop residents for our birthday day knees up. FREE B4 11PM, £3 AFTER!  GIG INFO

Glitch.FM #70 - Terrorbyte + Ben Dunn + 3 x DMC Champion DJ Switch

Beta Test are back! This months show features a guest mixes from Ben Dunn of Jam Hott and we've edited the end of the show to include the DJ Switch mix as we had some technical issues last night. Plus, there's the usual dope dose of glitched up super funk from host Terrorbyte.

Below is the tracklisting. Free downloads have links next to them .. enjoy!

Freddy Todd – GourmetEverything [Circuit Bent Remix] [Adapted]
Bristletone – Quibble Bsmediaproductions – Bristletone-quibble
Scatman Crothers – Keep That Coffee Hot [Defunk Remix] [Speakeasy Electroswing]
Mako – The Fixer [Caliber]
Astrio – Knifepoint Bsmediaproductions – Astrio-knifepoint
Qubit – Me Like Foxtrot [Adapted]
House Of Pain [Terrorbyte Remake] Terrorbyte-1 – Jump-around-terrorbyte-remake
Shamanic Technology – NeuroWolf www.omnitemple.com/
C2c – Le Banquet [On And On Records]
R.O – Funk With The Machines Adapted-records – R-o-funk-with-the-machines

Ben Dunn Mix

01. Proper Motion - Losin' Control
02. B.Visible - King Of My Castle RMX
03. Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA (JPOD & The Funk Hunters Remix)
04. BEAT3 - Get the Cash
05. GRiZ - Fall In Love Too Fast
06. Gramatik - Take It Back
07. edIT - Artsy Remix (feat. The Grouch)
08. Nas - Doggy Makes You Shoot Em Down
09. K+Lab - The Mothership (feat. The Mic Smith)
10. GRiZ - Mr B (ft Dominic Lalli)

Skope – Give A F_k [Adapted]
Volatile Psycle - Tick Tock [Adapted]

Dj Switch Mix

Glitch.FM #55 - Beta Test show featuring AMB > 2200-0000 GMT Wednesday 20 March

Terrorbyte and Automaton host an uber special interview with AMB ahead of his London show at Distant Tremors on 29 March, plus clips from forthcoming Beta Test releases and a cacophony of free downloads and fresh glitches!

TUNE IN HERE from 2200-0000 GMT Wednesday 20 March and GET IN THE CHAT ROOM

UK Glitch Hop 1st Birthday Tour!!! London - 15 February / Bristol - 1 March / Liverpool - 2 March

Crack out the whomp sauce! The UK Glitch Hop road show is coming to a town near you!!

 London - Friday 15 February @ Juno, 134-135 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JE

Automaton & Terrorbyte *LIVE DEBUT*
William Breakspear (Shortlisted Best DJ)
Your Niece (Shortlisted Best DJ)
Morbidly Obese Midget
Lumo / Lone Drum

UK GLITCH HOP AWARDS
Orangudan
DOORS: 7PM - 2AM 

FREE ENTRY / DONATION
DRESS CODE: DIGITAL BLING

http://www.facebook.com/events/159938417488182/166402716841752

Bristol - Friday 1 March @ Warren at The Croft,
117 - 119 Stokes Croft, BS1 3RW

Mouldy Soul (adapted records)
Automaton & Terrorbyte LIVE (beta test records)
Skanky Panky Allstars (William Breakspear vs SixAM)
Morbidly Obese Midget (UK Glitch Hop)
Your Niece (glitch.fm)
RetroBait Dj's (Bambi Legs) 

DOORS: 10PM - LATE

FREE ENTRY

http://www.facebook.com/events/588355871193731

 

Liverpool - Saturday 2 March @ Haus, 35-39 Greenland Street L1 0BS

Mouldy Soul (Adapted Records / Colony Productions)
Your Niece (Uppercut)

William Breakspear (Skanky Panky)

SixAM  (Skanky Panky)

Automaton & Terrorbyte LIVE (Beta Test Records)

Morbidly Obese Midget (UK Glitch Hop)

DOORS: 10PM - 4AM 

£5 PRE-SALE/£7 ON THE DOOR
www.nightowlliverpool.com/ukgh
http://www.facebook.com/events/598602716821328/

UK Glitch Hop 1st Birthday Party + Awards shortlists revealed! FREE PARTY Friday 15th February @ Juno, London

It's time to reveal the shortlists for the first ever UK Glitch Hop Awards! The winners will be revealed during out 1st Birthday Party at Juno, on Shoreditch High Street, London on Friday 15th February.

From 7pm-2am you'll be treated to sets from Glitch.fm resident DJs William Breakspear, Morbidly Obese Midget, Mike Wallis and Your Niece, plus a special live set from Terrorbyte & Automaton from Beta Test Records. The man behind the UK Glitch Hop logo will open with a down tempo glitch set to ease you into the weekend, so it's well worth arriving early. We'll also have free stickers and CDs to dish out.

Having considered every possible approach, we've decided to throw this as a FREE PARTY for our community, the producers, DJs, listeners and promoters who have put UK Glitch Hop, neuro-hop, drumstep, whomp, mid-tempo breaks and omni-tempo bass music on the map over the last year. We hope you can make it!

UK GLITCH HOP 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY

Automaton & Terrorbyte *LIVE DEBUT*
Glitch.fm / Beta Test
https://soundcloud.com/beta-birmingham

William Breakspear (Shortlisted Best DJ)
Glitch.fm / Skanky Panky Records (Shortlisted Best Label)
https://soundcloud.com/william-breakspear

Your Niece (Shortlisted Best DJ)
Glitch.fm / Uppercut (Shortlisted Best Night)
http://soundcloud.com/your-niece

Morbidly Obese Midget
Glitch.fm / UK Glitch Hop
http://soundcloud.com/musicalmana

Lone Drum
Colony Productions
http://soundcloud.com/colony-productions

Orangudan
/ RAWK music
http://soundcloud.com/orangudan

FREE ENTRY / £5 SUGGESTED DONATION*
DRESS CODE: DIGITAL BLING
https//www.facebook.com/events/159938417488182/

The awards announcement will be made around 8pm. You can see the top three nominations from each category below, in no particular order. Massive respect to all shortlisted artists and crews. You rocked our 2012! Thank you to all 2,000 people who voted across the UK and international polls.

UK Glitch Hop Awards shortlists

Best Track (UK)

Culprate & Maksim - Nightmares in Reality

Koan Sound - Sly Fox

Tipper – Spunion

Best Track (International)

Opiuo - Fizz Tickler

Habstrack - Get Funky

Mr Bill - Cerebellum Serenade

Best Remix (UK)

Blunt Instrument - The Pocket (Krossbow remix)

Ill.Esha - Blazed (Standard & Push remix)

Mustard Tiger - Spell On (Mouldy Soul remix)

Best Remix (international)

Infected Mushroom - UR So Fucked (Opiuo remix)

K+Lab - Need To Know (Blunt Instrument Remix)

Ill.gates, Opiuo + Vent - Trillogy (Spoonbill remix)

Best EP (UK)

Culprate - Nightmares in Reality

Koan Sound - The Adventures of Mr Fox

Tipper - Puzzle Dust

Best EP (international)

He.Robust - Screw Loose

Ill.esha - Imaginary Friends

Opiuo - Butternut Slap Vol.1

Best Album (UK)

Reso - Tangram

Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms

William Breakspear - Bardcore

Best Album (international)

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

Griz - Mad Liberation

Mr.Bill - Focus

Best Producer (UK)

Culprate

Koan Sound

Tipper

Best Producer (International)

Amon Tobin / Two Fingers

ill-esha

Opiou

Best newcomer (UK)

Dephicit

Kursa

Shamanic Technology

Best Newcomer (International)

JoBot

kLL sMTH

Teknian

Best Glitch Hop Label (UK)

Inspected Records

Ninja Tune / Big Dada

Skanky Panky Records

Best Label (International)

Addictech

Adapted Records

OWSLA

Best live act (UK)

Culprate & Maksim

Koan Sound

Mouldy Soul

Best international live act to play UK

Amon Tobin

Opiuo

Pretty Lights

Best DJ (UK)

Itchy & Scratchy DJs

William Breakspear

Your Niece

Best Night (UK)

Badger's Nuts

Uppercut

Whomp

*If you like what we're doing, please support us by chipping in to cover the cost of running the night, producing the awards, stickers and giving you Soundcloud downloads of all our shows. We've shelled out a few hundred squids between us so far and all monies received will go towards making UK Glitch Hop even more badass. Suggested donation £5

How The Glitch Stole Christmas Pt.2

Another dose of festive glitch to get you in the present wrapping, sherry swigging, family argument kinda mood. Merry Glitchmas!

Terrorbyte kills Christmas

Teknian's Xmas trap

This Skope mix for Kane FM isn't really Christmas themed, but it should last long enough to get that wrapping done...

More glitchy jingles from William Breakspear, Mouldy Soul and Slugabed in pt.1 here

Conscious Movement: Beta Birmingham hit Bristol!

The second installment of Conscious Movement sees the Beta Birmingham lads hit the Croft in Bristol this Friday 7 December. Terrorbyte, Automaton and 3xDMC world champion DJ Switch bringing the glitch bounce alongside live funk band the Boom Operators and a whole loada reggae and Brazilian beats.

What winter?

Terrorbyte / Beta Test interview

Founder of top midlands glitch-hop night Beta Birmingham, Terrorbyte hosts a Glitch.FM show with Automaton (this Wednesday 5 December 10pm-12am) and is just about to launch a new project, Beta Test... 

Please introduce yourself....

I'm Harley Davies aka Terrorbyte hailing from Birmingham UK and architect of Beta Birmingham and the forthcoming Beta Test Records.

How would you describe your particular style of bass music?

That's always a difficult one as I hate to pigeon hole myself. Hybrid bass with a heavy dose of electro infused Hip Hop?  In the past I've tried to experiment quite a bit so I've made anything from robot electro to ragga and breakcore. I like future b-boy music [thanks Andy Jaggers].

 

What equipment / software do you use?

I use fruity loops with a midi keyboard and my mpd32 for most of the beat making then switch it to Ableton for edits and glitches and master everything using Cubase and my TL Ivory valve compressor. Reaktor, Fm8, Massive, Predator, Albino soft synths. I have an Ensonique dp2 also which is truly shocking. I'm looking at maybe going analog and getting either a Moog Minataur or a Mini Brute as they look outstanding. Got a bit of synth love there, need to stop dribbling on my keyboard.

What first turned you onto bass / glitch / lazer music? Any particular artists or tracks?

Through a few avenues really. The early Warp, Ninja Tune, Detroit Underground and Rephlex stuff were definitely a big influence in getting me into Electronica and experimental electronics in general. It was Prefuse 73's One Word Extinguisher album and Forss' Soulhack that really stand out.

I worked engineering at a funk and jazz bar for 5 years and that introduced me to all kinds of sounds [shout outs to the Yardbird!]. I'd occasionally DJ there in between engineering the bands and that introduced me to funked up glitch breaks from the likes of Sticky Buds, Featurecast, and Shepdog. We had some amazing gigs there, working with such a high calibre musicians taught me loads about production. The UK B boy champs regularly throw down there too which made for a wicked atmosphere. We made a video for them actually, definitely worth a look!

Production wise, until recently I was always more into producing Electronica, Breakcore, Techno and Electro but I ended up playing a gig supporting Edit from The Glitch Mob and that was an epiphany. It's funny now as I had no idea who he was at the time. I was playing a boom bass electro set but after hearing the stuff he was playing I was hooked. That introduced me to the likes of kraddy, Boreta, Deweyb, Ill esha, Bassnecter and Breakbeat Buddha and there was no looking back really. At that point there wasn't much in the way of glitch hop in the UK and it's been amazing to see how the sound has progressed and how many people are switching up over the last few years.

I found Colony Productions after playing a gig with Point B back in about 2003-4 and always loved their stuff. Glitch Hop wasnt really a genre back then in my mind and I considered their releases to be more electronic than anything but Colony have been true innovators of the sound in the UK over the years in my opinion so massive respect to Mike and Sam!

I think it was at the edit gig though that I realised the potential of mid-tempo 100 - 110 bpm music and changed focus. There appears to be no end in scope for what you can get away with in Glitch Hop and Bass music in general.

What's the scene like where you are?

Painfully slow really but Birmingham is a notoriously difficult egg to crack. It's strange, there are so many wicked producers and musicians here, which is why I set up Beta Birmingham, but whenever we make an effort and put decent events on it can be hit and miss as to whether people represent. Then you get the old "there's nothing good on in Brum" speech which can be frustrating. Don't get me wrong, Birmingham is a melting pot for creatives and I love that, but I wouldn't really say there was so much of a "scene" for decent bass music here unless you like commercial Drum and Bass birthday parties or drole Dubstep events. There has always been a wicked Reggae scene in Brum Town though so it's not all bad.

Both myself and cohort Automaton have been holding down a bit of a monthly residency for the afore mentioned Andy Jaggers [ADJ] from Pyramid Transmissions and to be honest without those events and the bits we do, there isn't much else which is tragic. Under The Counter have done a couple of cool events but it's all a drop in the ocean really. Quick shout out to Ben from Jam Hott though, played a wicked show for them a few weeks back and it sounds like they have some interesting projects lined up for 2013!

Where do you like to play the most?

Festies are great fun but I prefer 200 cap venues as you're right up next to the crowd and that's a real buzz. I used to play loads of free parties under motorway bridges and in abandoned warehouses, except for the odd bit of trance music they were pretty epic.

What's the craziest gig you've ever played?

Ha! I'm not sure I'm allowed to mention all the details but I was on my way to be interviewed on the Tim Shaw show on Kerrang Radio to promote one of our gigs years back but on the way to the studio the police tried to pull us over. I'd not met the guy giving us a lift before but he turned out to have a bit of a shady past as a bit of a getaway driver. He had some weed on him or something and decided to pretend to pull over and then do one. A few handbrake turns later and we were at the studio. Never laughed so hard in my life!

Absolutely loved playing at Shambala Festival in the ufo this year as they had alien air hostesses with lazer tits.

Who's inspring you most at the moment?

Such a difficult question, I guess what has inspired me the most has been the emergent scene in general and all the characters I've met along the way. No beefs or arrogance and just pure passion for the music is my general experience to date and that's really refreshing to see.

What's your next project in the pipeline?

Big things planned for the future! The label is going through a bit of a transition at the moment as we are changing the name from Beta Birmingham to Beta Test. I've always wanted to represent a pretty broad spectrum of bass music but now I want to move away from the D and B and Dubstep and concentrate more on the Glitch Hop stuff as this is what I'm enjoying the most at the moment and it's also the stuff we have had the best reception to. Originally the label was conceived to represent the Midlands but we are going national now so the name is a reflection of that.

I'm currently coordinating our first vinyl release, admittedly its taking a little longer than expected but once the first one is out and we're set up properly we will be looking to do one every 6 months and to be honest it's worth the wait. I can exclusively confirm that we have William Breakspear, Mouldy Soul, Abstrakt Knights, Shamanic Technology, Spenghead, Automaton, Inaudible and myself.  This is a heavyweight line-up to be pressed to a gatefold double vinyl with scratch samples and lock-grooves for remixing the tracks on the fly. I want to make Glitch Hop battle wax basically and the response we have had already to the idea has been immense. I don't want to say any more as there are still a few other bits to confirm, but that alone is pretty dope ey?

I'm in the studio 5 days a week at the moment finishing up a few projects so I'm expecting to be a lot more prolific in the coming months. I've just done a mashup of Dead Prez's Bigger Than tune which is available for free download by liking my page on Facebook. Glitch Hop Bootlegs are bigger than hip hop but with Funk licks and some brass and Clavia synths to boot.

http://betabirmingham.addictech.com/ 
http://www.betabirmingham.co.uk 
http://www.reverbnation.com/betabirmingham
http://www.youtube.com/user/betabirmingham?feature=mhee 
http://twitter.com/#!/betabirmingham