2nd Birthday Party + Awards Shortlists

Celebrate UK Glitch Hop's 2nd birthday + Glitch.fm's milestone 5th year with a traditional East End knees up on Friday 4th April at Juno on Shoreditch High Street. We'll be revealing the winners of the 2013 UK Glitch Hop Awards Poll about 8pm then glitching the night away with UK Glitch Hop residents + super special guests Stickybudz + Mat Tha Hat!!

Tickets are £5 from here: http://tinyurl.com/me722tx 
http://www.facebook.com/events/588162641271275/ 

And because we've kept you waiting long enough already. Here in alphabetical order, as voted for by YOU, are the.... 

2013 UK GLITCH HOP AWARDS SHORTLISTS

BEST TRACK OF 2013 (UK)

Skope - RollerSkates [Adapted Records]
Tipper - Shatterbox (VIP Mix) [Tipper Music] 

Tryptich & Dephicit - Get Dirty [Colony Productions]

BEST REMIX OF 2013 (UK)

Reso - Axion (Koan Sound Remix) [Civil Music]
Krafty Kuts - Feel Like Jumpin (Krossbow Remix) [Instant Vibes]
Mustard Tiger - The Grip (Skope Remix) [Adapted Records]

BEST TRACK OF 2013 (INTERNATIONAL)

mc2 - Wesh Up [Glitch Hop Community]
Slynk & Crazy Daylight - Moustache Ride [Adapted Records]
Stickybuds & South Crew feat. Rage - Bouncy Bouncy [Apapted Records] 

BEST REMIX OF 2013 (INTERNATIONAL)

Defunk feat. Sam Klass, Vindaloo - I Put A Spell On You (Blunt Instrument Remix) [Simplify Recordings]
Rebirth- Interpersonal Communication (Ratchet Remix) [Street Ritual]
Sun - On My Radio (Stickybuds & Mr. Bill Remix) [Mr Bills Tunes] 

BEST EP OF 2013 (INTERNATIONAL)

Cheshire - The Funkd Up EP [Adaped Records] 
Nico Luminous - Music is my Spaceship [Muti Music]
Spoonbill - Boca Fiesta [Addictech Records] 

BEST EP OF 2013 (UK) 

Joe Ford - The Mission EP [Caliber Music] 

Skope - Rollerskates & Hoverboards EP [Adapted Records] 

Tipper - Dusty Bubblebox EP (Tipper Music)
Various - Scoured Cream: Vol.03 [Scour Records] 

BEST ALBUM OF 2013 (UK & International)

Defunk - Welcome to Groove City
K+Lab - Spacedirt
Mr Bill The Collaborative Endeavors - A Glitch Opera

BEST COMPILATION OF 2013 (UK & International)

Adapted Records - The Best of Adapted Records Vol.1 
The Glitch Shop - Glitch Shop Vol.1

UK Glitch Hop - This is UK GLitch Hop vol.1

BEST LABEL (UK)

Omni Temple 
Riddim Fruit 
Scour Records 

BEST LABEL (INTERNATIONAL)

Adapted Records 
Caliber Music 
Glitch Hop Community 

BEST PRODUCER OF 2013 (UK)

Joe Ford 
Skope 
Tipper 

BEST NEWCOMER OF 2013 (UK)

Mat Tha Hat 
Nimbus 
Mr.50 

BEST PRODUCER OF 2013 (INTERNATIONAL)

Gramatik
Mr.Bill 
Stickybuds

BEST NEWCOMER OF 2013 (INTERNATIONAL)

Cheshire 
CloZee 
Minoru 

BEST LIVE ACT (UK)

Dephicit

Koan Sound 

Krossbow

BEST LIVE ACT (INTERNATIONAL)

Beats Antique 
Gramatik 
Opiuo

BEST NIGHT (UK)

Electric Empire
Koan Sound Presents... 
Rawk Music

BEST DJ (UK)

Odjbox
Orangudan 
DJ Switch 

William Breakspear 

Commiserations to those who haven't made it this far, but we hope you can still join us for the awards party with free entry for all nominated artists!

For everyone else, tickets are £5 from here: http://tinyurl.com/me722tx 

Be there or be a pixelated square!

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 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