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!

Glitch.fm #86 - William Breakspear, SixAM & The Chicken Brothers

UKGH back again, this time from Liverpool with the bard and sixAM, with a special guest mix from The Chicken Brothers, a Beat3 EP preview and something festive from WB himself.

Love Filth presents ShoreGlitch III: William Breakspear / SixAM / It Takes Two To Tango / Standard & Push / Dyson @ Vibe Bar, London, Friday 1 March

Love Filth is going from strength to strength in its new monthly incarnation as Shoreglitch at Vibe Bar on Brick Lane. Huge line-up for Friday 1st March with our very own William Breakspear headlining alongside fellow Skanky Panky head SixAM; UK Glitch Hop Best Remix winners Standard&Push, fresh from the win; Simplify Recordings' latest UK signing It Takes Two To Tango, showcasing a new EP; plus resident head Dyson. Oh, and it's a birthday party for the Flithy3Some MCs. Funkin awesome!

WILLIAM BREAKSPEAR (Skanky Panky Records)

http://www.beatport.com/artist/william-breakspear/171393

https://soundcloud.com/william-breakspear

SIXAM (Skanky Panky Records)

http://www.beatport.com/artist/sixam/171394

https://soundcloud.com/sixammusic

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO (Simplify Recordings)

http://www.beatport.com/artist/it-takes-two-to-tango/265458

https://soundcloud.com/ittakestwototango

STANDARD & PUSH (R3GMA, Adapted records)

http://www.beatport.com/artist/standard-and-push/256431

https://soundcloud.com/standard-and-push/

DYSON (Boomtown/Zoola live)

http://www.mixcloud.com/sam-knowles2/

https://soundcloud.com/samuson666

Hosted By

SKOLA X & RIZLABLU (Filthy3Some)

6pm - 1am

Free b4 8/ £5 after

Vibe Bar

91-95 Brick Lane

E1 6QL

www.vibe-bar.co.uk

Twitter - love_filth

Contact - lovefilth@london.com

Design by https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gandhi-Design/366778663394569

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/

Whatz Gwaaanin #3: SixAM & Kotch hit Liverpool, Friday 25 January

It's all about the Mersey beats on Friday 25 January when Liverpools finest SixAM (Buddha and Dog's Pocket) preview a brand new set at Whatz Gwaaanin #3, ahead of their upcoming release on Skanky Panky Records. They're joined by Bristol's Kotch, bringing ghetto funkin' glitch and swing vibes from the South West, local lads Glitchez.B.Trippin, and a whole host more . Big 'tings gwaaanin as far as we can tell!

LINE UP 

main room

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SixAm (Skanky Panky Records) 

https://soundcloud.com/sixammusic

Kotch (Adapted recs) 

https://soundcloud.com/kotch

Kwah (Broken Robot Recs)

https://soundcloud.com/kwah

Lojt (Basslight Records)

https://soundcloud.com/lojtmusic

Dr Monkey(100th Monkey/Whatz Gwaaanin)

Glitchez.B.Trippin (Whatz Gwaaanin/Sessions Faction)

https://soundcloud.com/glitchezbtrippin

Cpn Bones (Yellow Sub Soundsystem)

Pastafoureyes (Whatz Gwaaanin/100th Monkey/Area d3e)

https://soundcloud.com/pastafoureyesuk

Room 2 

......................

Mini (bang on)

Mr Bitches (Whatz Gwaaanin)

Lucifer (Whatz Gwaaaanin)

Matty P feat Cam (Whatz gwaaanin/100th Monkey/Sessions faction)

Shade (whatz gwaaanin/Bass Knowledge)

Seven Point.83 (Sacred Media/Seven Point.83 Audio)

Tickets £6

£8 ON THE DOOR

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 - Uppercut: Bareknucle Bass, Hackney Wick, 10 March 2012

UK Glitch Hop editor Morbidly Obese Midget reviews Uppercut: Bareknucle Bass for Spoonfed, one of the few media outlets in the country with a dedicated interest in glitch hop, thanks largely to the efforts Editor-in-Chief Lowri Clarke. Check the links throughout!

Your Niece coming in your ears with sonic lazers

Glitch hop pretty much originated in the UK, so I’ve always been a bit puzzled as to why it’s never really taken off here. Uppercut is one of a number of nights burgeoning around the country that has set out not only to remedy this situation, but to raise the bar. With underfloor speakers. 

How does that work in a Hackney Wick warehouse?! Well apparently the answer is to build a two tier pyramid-come-boxing ring that takes up most of the main room and stuff it with bass bins. As we arrive, Atomic Drop are demonstrating the Funktion-One system in full effect with their energetic dancehall, electro house and dubstep. You could feel your legs tremble the minute you set foot on the first tier, which turned into full shakes on the dance platform. There‘s no option but to dance, especially with these boys at the controls. 

SixAM gets 'em bouncing

The first glitch hop DJ on the bill is SixAM, co-founder of Liverpool's Skanky Panky Records. For a brief moment at the start of his set, I wonder whether the audience is ready for mid-tempo in the main room at 2am, but as Buddha pulls out remixes of DJ Fresh, DJ Hype and Ray Charles the party really got going. Pretty soon the pyramid is packed with bodies popping and bumping to the jacking beats, with fresh dubs from Skanky Panky and big tunes from the likes of The Glitch Mob. The dancefloor is a melee of fur, animal tails and incredible patterned onesises. Secret Garden Party goers would feel quite at home. 

L-Biz on the ones and twos (in a pimped-out 1960s spaceship)

Being Hackney Wick, I’d been expecting a rather grimier warehouse, but the Autumn Street Studios are a surprisingly nice conversion with friendly bouncers, affordable drinks and plenty of space to dance. The second room, hosted by Tell Tails, resembles a graffiti jam disguised as a festival tent - the perfect setting for an old skool scratch set from L-Biz of Beat3. It’s further enhanced by some rather talented girls with hoop that looks like it’s been forged from pure rainbows. 

Escaped rainbows sighted in Hackney

Back in the main room, the ceiling sweat showers have already started, whilst Head of State breaks out of filthy d'n'b into a particularly fat remix of Jump Around. As if we have any choice. Outside, in the shadow of the Olympic Park, smokers lounge on bare-spring sofas and crouch on fire escape steps. 

Your Niece paints with his face

UK Glitch Hop and Uppercut resident, Your Niece has been pioneering crunk in the UK for years and his opening set for Bassnectar at Secret Garden Party last year completely blew me away, so I’m really looking forward to seeing him. He doesn't disappoint, carrying the ever-energetic crowd on a bass odyssey into the morning, from popping glitch to carpet bombing bass. Psymbionic's Intergalactic remix has the whole floor bouncing like mad, as do fresh tunes from Akira Kiteshi, Ben Samples and Bassnectar, and the odd snatches of familiar riff form the likes of Muse. Lazer noises in the music are sketched out by real ones, strafing the smoke-filled air with coloured shapes and beams. 

Beat3 "I can hear Britney"

By the time Bournemouth producers Beat3 take the stage, dawn’s already filtering through the skylights. On laptops, pads and decks, playing lots of original tunes as well as recent releases from Koan Sound, DCarls and Adapted Records, their bouncy funk hop is the perfect end to the night. As party goers drop into cuddle puddles at the back of the vibrating stack, a spilled drink on the stage at the front dances in ripples and spikes with every thump of the bass. 

Free back massage

The Uppercut crew recently announced a ridiculous glitch hop line-up for The Meteor Stage at Glade Festival, hosted by themselves, Skanky Panky, Donky Pitch, Jump Music and Colony Productions, with headliners including Ben Samples, VENT, Akira Kiteshi, Slugabed, Zen Death Squad, Memory 9 and Koan Sound. If this is just a small taste things to come, I'm going to have to get in training." 

*Tune into Glitch.FM every Wednesday from 10pm-12am for UK Glitch Hop with Morbidly Obese Midget, Your Niece, Skanky Panky Records, Mouldy Soul and Colony Productions.*

UK Glitch Hop rocks

So, following a 2011 UK tour from Bassnectar (the first in 7 years), The Glitch Mob also return to the UK this weekend. With dubstep getting ever more US sounding (Flux Pavillion, Doctor P), a jaw dropping EP from Zen Death Squad this summer (pictured above) and an amazing forthcoming tune from Koan Sound on Zane Lowe's playlist this week, the time feels ripe for UK Glitch Hop to blow up in 2012.

On this tip I've started a UK Glitch Hop Facebook page to help you keep track of events and releases, as well as keeping everyone else posted with what you're up to (Like Like Like). According to Facebook there's over 30,000 of us in the UK who like US glitch hop acts, so lets get behind our home-grown talent as well. They fucking bounce! Here's a guide to what's out there at the moment...

Released today, here's a sample of that literal Funk Blaster from Bristol's Koan Sound:
  Funk Blaster by KOAN Sound

With heavy props from the likes of ill.Gates, Ben Samples and Muti Music boss Dov, this is my EP of the year so far from London's Zen Death Squad. They've just completed a US tour and have a new release on the boil.
  Cyber Dojo Lazer Training EP by Zen Death Squad



Bigup the originator - Dave Tipper is one of the artists that got this whole thing started and probably the first person I ever heard playing glitch hop in the UK

  Snake Eyes / Chrome Splat by tippermusic

Led by William Breakspear and based in Liverpool Skanky Panky records has been flying the glitch hop flag on these shores for almost two years now. Although their artists range from far and wide here are a few of the UK based gems, including Son of a Glitch from London and Fredo from Bournemouth:
   SPRR004D Son Of A Glitch - Together 80kbps Preview by Skanky Panky Records
   SPRF006 - William Breakspear - Skanky Panky Tune (SPRF006) by Skanky Panky Records
  SPRF005 - Top Cat - Special Request (SixAM remix) by Skanky Panky Records
This one from Fredo
  80kbps - SPRR001B - Ent Wot Yo by Skanky Panky Records
  80kbps - SPRR001C - Vowel Mouthed by Skanky Panky Records

The first DJ I ever heard smashing balls of lazer crunk across UK dancefloors was Your Niece. He opened for Bassnectar at Secret Garden Party this year and blew the Colisillium apart
  Your Niece - Headshot Masterclass by Your Niece


Cambridge's Mouldy Soul comes with a heavy wobble, delicate minimal techno sounding glitches, is signed to Colony Productions and had his first release with KrossBow through Addictech earlier in the year
  Wine and shine by Mouldy Soul
  What if jimi was a monster by Mouldy Soul
  KrossBow - Absolute Crisis by KrossBow

I seem to remember Vent from London making heavy ass dubstep smashers, but they've recently co-produced a sick track with ill.gates and Opiuo and released more mid-tempo wobble through Colony Productions
  Ill.gates + Opiuo + VENT - Trillogy by VENT

Inaudible from Birmingham has been pretty audible in the glitch hop community, comes highly recommended from Doktor Krank and has even remixed Freddy Todd and Splatinum.
   inaudible - an irrational fear by inaudible
  Freddy Todd - Thug Tastic (inaudible remix) by inaudible
  Splatinum - Pumping Quarterz (inaudible Remix) by inaudible


Orangudan in Worcester has been smashing out the wobble and mid-tempo for some time
  NippleRash by Orangudan


On the mid-tempo / electro side of things there's a very tasty producer coming on in Guildford called WBBL
  Wbbl Up Here by WBBL


Also down in Bristol DJ Parker is rather partial to a bit of glitch-hop. Although I've not yet heard a full glicthed out release from him it can only be a matter of time (nudge nudge, hint hint)
  Parker - The Monkey Butler Did It...Mix by Parker*


Last and probably least, here's a bunch of my old glitchtapes (fresh sounds on the way!)
  Morbidly Obese Midget - Om Bongo Whomp Hop (Tribal Circuitry 2011-04-23) by Morbidly Obese Midget
  Morbidly Obese Midget - Burning Night Paris (Wobble Till You Bounce) by Morbidly Obese Midget

  Morbidly Obese Midget - Droppin bombs on ya glitch - Nov 2010 by Morbidly Obese Midget


It's 1am on a school night, so I'm bound to have missed about a million people off the list. If I have post your tunes here!