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Luke Vibert A Cornwall contemporary and longtime associate of Richard D. ‘Aphex Twin’ James, Luke Vibert has released music under various pseudonyms including the off-kilter funk of Wagon Christ, ragged drum ‘n’ bass of Plug and a much celebrated collaboration with steel guitarist BJ Cole as well as remixing a host of his peers including Nine Inch Nails, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, The Artful Dodger, Tortoise, Cylob, Lamb and Stereolab. Kid 606 even did a track called ‘Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie Punk Whiteboy Ass’ on his album Down With The Scene in which he fiendishly stole a sample from the Plug track ‘Military Jazz’.
Guapo Guapo are a trio of musicians from London. With their sixth album Guapo have conjured a harrowingly complex and unflinchingly epic piece of work. Heady and hypnotic, driving and relentless, tumultuous and visceral, sonic and serene, the sheer odyssey that is Black Oni encompasses many paradoxes in its massively dynamic scope. Picking up where they left off from their previous Cuneiform Records release Five Suns (2002), the band continue to expand on their palette of dexterous chamber-rock anomalies, modal transcendence, and apocalyptic death marches, and like it's predecessor, Black Oni is one singular piece of music, making it the second record in a trilogy of large-scale symphonic forms. Incorporating elements of prog, avant-garde jazz, kraut-rock, minimalism and a range of folk mediums from Britain to Indonesia, Guapo take their queue from a disparate array of influences including Magma, King Crimson, Boredoms, Goblin, Sun Ra, Charlemagne Palestine, Univers Zero, This Heat, Olivier Messiaen and Popol Vuh. The assembly of Dave Smith's explosive drum assaults, Matt Thompson's brazen and prowling bass throb, and Daniel O'Sullivan's ethereal keyboard reveries telepathically collide in an augury of rich and cinematic musical ceremony. Black Oni is Guapo's most monumentally unreserved offering to date.
David Toop A lecture in sound – and a sound lecture! Let the godfather of British music journalism, Mr. Rap Attack and Ocean of Sound himself, teach you with his unmistakable mixture of multimedia lecture and dj set, when words and music (and the meaning of both) become one. Latest on his reading/playing list are the book with double cd Haunted weather, including tracks by Oval, Ryoji Ikeda, Carsten Nicolai, Kaffe Matthews, Sachiko M, Akio Suzuki, Evan Parker...
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SPEEDRANCH www.myspace.com/speedranch SHITMAT www.shitmat.co.uk www.myspace.com/henryshitmat DJ Rephlex
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Ed Cox The master of entertainment about himself: „i'm part ov a soundsystem/label called life4land, we're a collective ov producers who organise free parties around england, we produce anything from ambient and dub to hardcore jungle and gabba, although we're more known for the harder stuff.. i also play the accordian and from my love ov traditional music inspired me to use folky melodies when writing jungle and tekno,, the result? CLOWNCORE! i play the accordian live in my performances, and have recently taken these performances to the street, busking with my breakorey backing tracks! i also make beats 4 vocalists,(grime/hip hop/reggae ,etc etc.) watch out 4 the beef brigade!!! original dirt hop buzniss!!!!
Supported by: British Council Sponsored by: Republic of Art
