THIS IS UK GLITCH HOP! Volume #1

Morbidly Obese Midget selects the tastiest free glitches from the last few years, plus a handful of delicious classics, all donated by our favourite UK producers. If you like the sound of this, tune into Glitch.fm every Wednesday from 2200-0000 GMT/BST for two hours of the latest glitchy goodness from the UK and beyond. All funds donated will go towards running UK Glitch Hop, The UK Glitch Hop Awards, Glitch.fm and making swag for you lot.

1. This is UK Glitch Hop 00:02
2. Kursa - Bonnibel [Wonkay Records + Adapted Records] 05:25
3. It Takes Two to Tango - Short and Sweet Pt.1 04:25
4. Mouldy Soul - Whine and Shine (1996) [Colony Productions] 05:25
5. Wolfie Razzmatazz - Twitch Brother (Blunt Intrument Vs. Billie Holiday) 04:30
6. Dephicit & Kotch - Bag It Up [Adapted Records] 05:15
7. Shamanic Technology - Deadly Cosmos [Omni Temple] 06:10
8. Crunch (Mike Wallis, Dave Tipper) - Karot (Vent Rmx) [Colony Productions] 05:19
9. Earegular - Grit Spitter [Colony Productions] 06:01
10. Tryptich - Qarth [Colony Productions] 05:11
11. Spenghead - I Think We're Dead 03:38
12. Akira Kiteshi - Strike Rock Fist 04:37
13. SixAM - Bad Mother [Skanky Panky Records] 03:19
14. inaudible - Toejam and Earl 05:51
15. Slugabed - Kittens 02:56
16. Zen Death Squad vs Roger Troutman - Superman (ZDS Remix) [Wonkay Records] 03:57
17. BEAT3 - Get the Cash 03:49
18. Mr.50 - Take It Back 04:54
19. Royce Da 5'9 - Boom (Automaton Refix Feat Dj Switch) [Beta Birmingham] 04:05
20. William Breakspear & SixAM - Vowel Mouthed VIP [Skanky Panky Records] 03:58
21. Zomboy - Here To Stay (Krossbow Remix) 04:07
22 Skope - Good To Me [Omni Temple] 04:02
23. Skrillex & Damian Marley - Make It Bun Dem (Mat Tha Hat & Wom Remix) 05:29
24. TERRORBYTE - Glitch Hop Bootlegs Are Bigger Than Hip Hop (Funk Step Edition) [Beta Birmingham] 04:46
25. UK GLITCH HOP BLUD 00:26

Compiled by Morbidly Obese Midget | Artwork by Orangudan | With huge thanks to Adapted Records, Beta Birmingham, Colony Productions, Glitch.fm, Omni Temple, Skanky Panky Records, Wonk#ay Records, all the artists featured, all our UK Glitch Hop listeners, DJs and crew. Big up yourselves!

Drop Beats Not Bombs, Birmingham, Saturday 4 May 2013: Beta Test, DJ Switch, Shamanic Technology, Spenghead, Skanky Panky Records

Terrorbyte from Beta Birmingham looks ahead to the 10th anniversary of Drop Beats Not Bombs -  a party with a purpose in Birmingham. Catch Harley on the Basstronics Stage with DJ Switch, Shamanic Technology, Spenghead, Skanky Panky Records and Beta Test Records live.

It seems so unreal to say that Drop Beats Not Bombs started TEN years ago but that is the truth of it.

So much has happened in that time, so many ups and downs behind the scenes, and I'm sure in all of your lives too. Blimey, there wasn't even Facebook, Twitter, smartphones or a coalition government back then.....

We have all come such a long way in the past decade but at the same time nothing has changed. Looking around, what do we see? More war, more death, more pain. Are the lessons ever learnt? Perhaps, when we all marched on London in February 2003 we should have done more than we did. Our mere presence and voice was not enough then and the lack of any change in direction from our elected government has had a significant effect on the protest movement as a whole, in my humble opinion.

Even so, I felt it would be wrong to let the ten year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and the very first Drop Beats Not Bombs event go by without us coming together again. So Saturday 4th May we will ride the Drop Beats Not Bombs beast once more. The event will run from 9pm-6am.

I have a road in Birmingham all ready to be closed off with a warehouse space next to it. It has never been used before and, as we did so many times with Drop Beats Not Bombs, we will show Birmingham something new.

There will be one live main stage within the warehouse and five other stages out on the closed off street. There will be food stalls, pleasant and friendly security and as many info stalls as can be mustered. If you want to contribute something please do get in touch.

Tickets £10 www.theticketsellers.co.uk   

http://www.facebook.com/events/453141008076523/

TYPHOON WAREHOUSE : Live Stage

Nova - Too Many Ts - Major Triadz - Alternative Dubstep Orchestra - B.I.D. aka The Bootlegger - Earth Is Flat - Jam Tidy - PCM - Enigma Dubz - 2 Smokin DJs - The Beatbox Collective - Sicknote - Feva - Hey Zeus - DJ Shorty - hosted by MC Taz

SECTION 18 - Drum and Bass Stage

Jordan V - Mutated Forms - Mistanoise - TNT & Vytol - PMX - Tim Ryan - Raw Theory - Andy Massive - Toomz - Scarce - Richie Swift - Dat Kyid - Snypa Riley - MC PM

BETA BIRMINGHAM - Basstronics Stage 

Barbarix - Shamanic Technologies - ADJ - Beta Test (live) - Spenghead - DJ Switch - Kryme - Skanky Panky Allstars - Leon Trimble

MAKE WONK NOT WAR - House Stage

Danny Mekanik - Kelvin Andrews - Lovebeats - Craig Chambers - Martynappropriate - JO-EE-T - Dixon Pickles - Akahum Ft Melodie Forrester

WONKEY HI-FI - Roots & Dub Stage

Wonkey Hi-Fi - Automaton Ft Cheshire Cat (live) - Iman Issachar - Don Carlo - Pure Phase - Daddy Hovis & The Biscuit Tin Selectas - I-Mitri - Version Girl

CUSTOM MADE - Chill Stage

Adam Posh One - Jon Harris - Lenny OMP - Rob J - Marvin Carpenter - Big Andy - Mark Smallman - Ben Dunn - Bobby Bird

Plus full-on visual assault from over 30 of the UKs finest VJ crews

DONK! Opiuo / Shamanic Technology vs. Kursa / Spenghead / Your Niece @The Winchester, Bournemouth, Friday 29 March

You can't do much better for an opening night that to book Opiuo, but throw in and you've got the making of a classic!

MAIN ROOM DJS:

* OPIUO (WINNER OF 5 UK GLITCH HOP AWARDS 2013)

https://www.facebook.com/opiuo

www.opiuo.com

* SHAMANIC TECHNOLOGY VS KURSA

http://www.shamanic-technology.co.uk/

https://soundcloud.com/kursauk

* SPENGHEAD

https://soundcloud.com/spenghead

* YOUR NEICE

* THE DIRTY AU PAIRS

www.facebook.com/thedirtyaupairs

ROOM 2 DJ:

* TOMA DJS

https://www.facebook.com/TomaSundays?group_id=0

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Friday (Good Friday) March 29th

The Winchester Pub

39 Poole Hill

Bournemouth

Tickets:

^ Visual mapping by Matt Taylor

^ New stage specially designed for DONK!

^ Full Funktion One surround emersion

Shamanic Technology gets LostinSound.org

Shamanic Technology's just done a huge interview and an even bigger guest mix for the US music blog LostInSound.org. In it, he reveals news of forthcoming remixes for Si Begg, Gravitas Recordings, Dizraeli and the Small Gods, as well as plans for the Omni Temple collective, a new UK based management agency and label, with UK Glitch Hop favourites Spenghead, Mouldy Soul and Kursa already on board. Oh.. and did we mention the collaborations with Kursa and Mouldy Soul?! We really can't wait to hear how those come out. With whispers of a US visit later in the year, this is a man to keep a very close ear on in 2013

Read the LostinSound.org interview here

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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

UK Glitch Hop on Glitch FM #2: Your Niece interview

Ahead of his first radio show for UK Glitch Hop on Glitch.FM, we caught up with bare-knuckle-crunk fighter Your Niece. Tune into Glitch.fm tonight from 10pm-12am GMT (party in the chat room!) or listen again at soundcloud.com/ukglitchhop

Introduce yourself...
My name is Rhys Clarke, better known by my DJ moniker Your Niece.



How would you describe your particular style of glitch hop?
I like the edgy more aggressive crunk influenced stuff. I guess you could say tunes with a bit of swagger. I use a lot of acapellas in my sets to thread different styles like dnb, electro and dubstep together. Before I'd ever heard of glitch-hop I was a sucker for any kind of rapping over dance tracks.

What first turned you onto crunk and glitch hop? Any particular artists or tracks?
In 2007 my friend came back from Burning Man talking about this thing 'glitch-hop'. He mentioned the the names Bassnectar and the Glitch Mob. As soon as I heard West Coast Rocks I knew that was the sound I wanted to play.



What's the scene like where you are?
I've been playing glitch-hop for about 4 years now and I'm really surprised how new it still is to a lot of people in the UK. There are now some really good labels dedicated to the sound and you can definitely hear it's influence bleeding into other styles whether people know it came from glitch-hop or not. We've just started a night called 'Uppercut' which will be one of the first glitch-hop specific nights in London so watch this space.

Where do you like to play the most?
I'd have to say at the Secret Garden Party Festival. I've played there for the past 6 years and I've grown with the festival, each year getting to play to a bigger crowd. The set I got to play before Bassnectar last year was pretty career-defining.

What's the craziest gig you've ever played?
Secret Garden Party put on a big Valentines Ball in this huge swanky venue (a boutique hotel in Brixton). They opened up the whole place including some bedrooms at the back and gave me a huge sound system and the keys to the master bedroom. I'd just started playing glitch-hop out so it was really exciting seeing the look on people's faces when an edIT tune dropped. It got totally out of hand, the 4-poster bed got flattened, the plasma tv smashed and their was an orgy in the hot-tub. Just like a rap music video!

What's your favourite track at the moment?
Probably 'Glass Bong' by Stagga and Monky, two producers from Wales, which, incidentally is where I'm originally from.



Who's inspiring you at the moment?
I'm loving some the stuff that the German label Robox Neotech is putting out. Experimental but still retaining the danceable hip-hop energy.



Who are you looking out for in 2012?
The guy that features in my first show Shamanic Technology has been working like a madman in the studio and has piles of fresh stuff he'll be unleashing which is sure to cause an impact. He's already getting recognition stateside picking up sets at Burning Man this year. Beat3 are another name to watch closely, they've got an imminent release on the Muti label and some exciting sounding collaborations in the pipeline.



Where can we expect to see you playing next and over the summer?
It's always busy with festival bookings over summer. Glade and Secret Garden Party I'm particularly excited about as I'm helping program a new venue that will be tying in with the 'Uppercut' night we've just started in London. I'm headlining Uppercut's Bare Knuckle Bass on 10 March vs. Head of State and alongside Sweet Jesus, Atomic Drop, Beat3 and SixAM.

What have you got lined up for your first show on Glitch FM?
I've got an all-originals guest mix from Shamanic Technology and getting excited about the line-up for Uppercut's area at Glade festival which is utterly ridiculous.

Catch Your Niece on Glitch.FM from 10pm-12am GMT Wednesday 29 February 2012. For an archive of UK Glitch Hop on Glitch.FM go to soundcloud.com/ukglitchhop