DOCS WEEK AT WHIRLED CINEMA
Posted by Jenny 2012/05/14
The Whirled Cinema in Brixton is hosting week of amazing documentaries that you just can’t miss!!
Check out the website HERE
IAN HELLIWELL TAKES ON FRED JUDD
Posted by Jenny 2012/05/03
Ian is a self-taught audio-visual artist operating from his current HQ in Brighton since 1991. His work encompasses short experimental films, shown at festivals worldwide, and the composition of electronic music with instruments he designs and builds himself.
Practical Electronica, Ian Helliwell‘s new documentary focuses on the work of British electronic music pioneer Fred Judd. The film charts Judd’s development of electronic instruments and musique concrete in the 1950s and 60s
CHECK OUT THE TRAILER HERE
STEVE BRAIDEN IS A MAN OF MANY TALENTS
Posted by Jenny 2012/05/01
Photograph taken by Braiden
There’s the DJ-ing, from his sets on Rinse FM to rinsing dancefloor in London and beyond. There’s his production, with a follow up to The Alps, his 12” on Joy Orbison’s Doldrums label, due in the not too distant future. And then there’s his status as the London electronic music set’s go-to photographer.
CHECK OUT BRAIDEN’S PHOTOS
Bit of light reading here too.
WHEN RAP MEETS STAND UP
Posted by Jenny 2012/04/29
Ben “Doc Brown” Smith began his career in 2000 as a battle rapper, competing in live events such as the now defunct Mudlumz, an infamously tough gig based at the Dingwalls nightclub in Camden Lock where amongst others he battled and lost to fellow UK rapper Sway. Smith became a recurring battle champion at the fledgling competition “Jump Off” in 2003, when the now internation event was housed underneath Yo! Sushi on Poland Street in London’s Soho, moving to the Swiss Centre in Leicester Square (Now the M&M museum). The following year Smith’s growing reputation as a personality of the underground scene made him the host of a monthly event at his friend’s record shop Deal Real on Great Marlborough Court off Carnaby Street in the West End.
CHECK OUT DOC BROWNS SET HERE
LE DONK & SCOR-ZAY-ZEE
Posted by Jenny 2012/04/28
An improvised comedy, shot over five days by Shane Meadows, devised with and starring Paddy Considine. Rock roadie and failed musician, Le Donk has lived, loved and learned. Along the way he’s lost a girlfriend but he has found a new sidekick in up-and-coming rap prodigy Scor-zay-zee. With Meadows’ fly-on-the-wall crew in tow, Donk sets out to make Scor-zay-zee a star. This low-budget rockumentary follows Le Donk and Scorz on their journey of a lifetime; it’s an unpredictable, irrepressible ode to spontaneous filmmaking.
CHECK OUT THE TRAILER HERE
SCRATCHA DVA AT THE BOILER ROOM
Posted by Jenny 2012/04/25
Download Scratcha DVA’s 30 minute set at the boiler room here BANGIN.
R.I.P ALBUMN LAUNCH
Posted by Jenny
Huntleys & Palmers: Actress R.I.P. Album Launch with Helena Hauff and Sophie Live at Plastic People
ACTRESS – NEW ALBUM ‘R.I.P’
Posted by Jenny 2012/04/23
Actress isn’t your regular techno producer, if you can call him that at all. The founder of Werk Discs has flitted between electro, hip-hop, house and techno over the past eight years, finding something close to a home in the smoke-filled recesses of some lost Underground Resistance bunker. He’s an artist whose restless, unforgivingly manipulated music is just as suited to soundtracking installations as it is bellowing out into a nightclub. Part of the reason is Darren Cunningham’s deceptive sense of atmospherics: though his tracks are often submerged, distorted and heavily filtered, there’s an obsessive level of detail that seems to lead to dimensions of nuance unexpected from such a seemingly lo-fi surface. It’s the reason why 2010′s Splazsh was one of that year’s most addicting, fascinating albums, yet also one of its most monochrome and uniform. He’s a defiantly individualistic voice in a referential musical climate, and even his most obvious influences are twisted into nearly unrecognizable binary code wreckage.
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