The idea is simple: eight bands play across two stages in the same venue - four chosen by renowned local DIY promoters Forest of Sound, four chosen by fantastic local independent label Gizeh Records. All bands play consecutively so the audience gets to see everything.
01. Pfirter - Mi Auto - Original Mix 02. Soliquid - Piknic Bugz (Original Mix) 03. Brian Sanhaji - Interpolation Process V2. 04. Marco Bailey, Tom Hades - Glides - Original Mix 05. Alexander Kowalski - Damage 06. Michael Burkat, Lars Klein - Ansauger - Original Mix 07. Michael Burkat - Roomworks - Original Mix 08. Lars Klein - An Eye for an Eye(Original) 09. Marco Bailey, Tom Hades - Blast - Original Mix 10. Brian Sanhaji - Zero-Order Hold - Original Mix 11. Perc - Serious Moonlight - Original Mix 12. Michael Burkat - The Second Coming - Original Mix 13. alex long - black belt 14. Vegim - Return Of T - Dave Tarrida Remix 15. andrew technique - slaves of ourseleves 16. A.Paul - Math - Remix 17. A.Paul - Sympa 18. Darkrow, C-System - Hard Trick - Original Mix
Only a few weeks until a limited amount of collectors gatefold CDs drop exclusively via WarpMart and DealmakerRecords. Com......after that you're going to have to wait until the 18th August when "Lemurian" lands in all good record shops!!
"Like Boards of Canada with an extra scoop of codeine and better drums...." - Rustie "By golly we like it" - Mixmag - 4/5 "This is daydream music....." - Bibio (Mush Records) "FRESHNESS!!" - Varan "lone is the one!" - Red Bull Music Academy "He has drunk from some our our Los Angeles waters" - Daedelus (Ninja Tune)
All good thanks Tom. You're a bit of a talented mo fo aren't you?! Think I like peasman the best : ) You should come do some gigs in Sheffield (it is the best city in the world!!)
Koen Holtkamp is no stranger to producing beautiful music. Expect layers of warm organic noise and found sound combine to make pieces that are both gorgeously minimalistic and endlessly deep. He's making the trip over from New York to celebrate the launch of his new album on Type records, and you'd be a fool to miss him!
Gorgeously organic music that washes over you and through you - the best of all ambient music understands the importance of holding back, of understatement, of beauty - Pausal achieve this, and more. Stunning stuff for a night of pure sonic bliss.
Forest of Sound's favourite one man laptop genius, randomNumber, comes back to regale us with his excellent and deeply inventive brand of electronica. There's a reason that he's so energetic in his performance - his music is brilliant. Simple. As.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’ll be £5 on the door, and doors are at 8pm.
Subdub&Exodus, New Bohemia, Vagabondz & The Doctors Orders have joined forces with Compost Records and the radio show Soulsearching to bring you an incredibly special weekend of music covering the best in Dubstep, reggae, hiphop, broken beat, drum & bass and dance-floor soul music on a setting taken straight from paradise.
The festival site is in the gorgeous surroundings of Petrcane, close to Zadar, A fishing village on a peninsular where the Dalmation Coast meets The Adriatic Sea. For those in the know it will be recognised as the same sight that the Garden Festival is held. It has an outside Amphitheatre for live acts, a Beach Side Terrace for day & night time dancing and a 1000 capacity nightclub for the beats to go on right through the night. At this beautiful site you can swim in the glistening Adriatic, dance on the beach under the stars, join us aboard the swashbuckling Argonaut Boat Party, get your groove on to a Funktion 1 Soundsystem in a retro Studio 54 styled nightclub or relax beneath the pines along the forested coastline.
Other acts confirmed include:
Foreign Beggars Dj Chef/Chefal Bun Zero Ruckspin SMB INC & Medison Fliptrix Mc's Jila Andlar & Gusto + more to follow
For the full line up, travel and accomadation and all other information please visit
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
The Chap! The Chap! They make indie-electro-punk-electronica-rock-pop fun. They make slow tunes, but they make FAST tunes. They're known for their energetic live shows which often end with exploding violins and cellos. They're so much fun it's almost obscene. COME ON!
Also joining the bill are the brilliant purveyors of some of best live shows you'll ever see Fonda 500, as well as aceness in the form of The Debuts and local funpunk rocking beats legends Cowtown
Tickets are £5 advance from We Got Tickets and £6 on the door.
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, Audrey make stunningly beautiful music. Four part vocal harmonies combine with lush organic instrumentation to conjure up the feeling that you're watching a winter morning's sunrise, but with a sense of nagging unease... (ahem). Comparisons to Low, Sigur Ros and Red House Painters are spot on in terms of quality, but miss that certain something that makes Audrey so captivating. Forest of Sound can't believe its luck in getting them to come to Leeds. They're amazing.
Stafrænn Hákon, once described as “frequently mesmerizing, seamlessly interwoven combination of electronica and ambient guitar…” by Wire magazine, are coming to play in the Forest of Sound! The band centre around the Icelandic born Ólafur Josephsson, and produce walls of shimmering beauty, pitching guitars in to etheral noise. They're the perfect way to make the fast approaching winter in to something wonderful, and are joined by the fantastic Her Name Is Calla and Glissando.
I'm having a joint b-day bash with Nadine at Mr Smiths a week on monday - thats 24th September to you. Come with some kinda stylish clothing (Im thinking a silly hat of some kind) around 8/9 ish For a little bit of fun. Oh and tell some friends :oP
Golden Diskó Ship is a Berlin based musician who combines a mass of instruments and found objects together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music.
She’s embarking on her first UK tour this September, and is visiting:
15/9 - Leeds - Packhorse 16/9 - Manchester - Cafe Saki 17/9 - Margate - QUBAR 18/9 - London - Betsey Trotwood 19/9 - Sowerby Bridge - The Vine 20/9 - Lancaster - The Yorkshire House (w. Josh T. Pearson) 21/9 - Leeds – Packhorse
got some ace shows coming up including DJ MK (Roots Manuva), J-Live, DJ Qbert, Pharoahe Monch & the First Word Allstars. Check our page for latest line-ups.
Tonight, Thursday 10th may we'd strongly advise that you check out Ben Westbeech at the Hifi club, he's amazing. Then on friday we have. . . . .
Peas and love. nb.
New mix up for download - exclusively on my page - follow the link and get yourself a bit of that glitched up - funked out - click house all lovingly crafted in ableton for a multi layered effect - Go on - you know you want to ......
Unlicensed Media are holding auditions for a band for the UM artist Natalie Marie. We are looking for a Guitarist, and a Bass player to accompany Natalie in taking her new EP "As I Am" out of the studio and onto the stage!
Auditions will be held on Saturday 3rd March from 12 Noon til 8pm at Unlicensed Studios in South London.
Auditions will be held on an invitational basis, so if you are interested please get in touch to arrange a time.
To everyone that attended the first day of auditions for Natalie Marie's new band. We very much appreciate the time you all took to come to London and audition for us, thanks and we will be getting in touch with you all shortly, whether you were successful or not. Another big thanks to all those that expressed an interest but were unable to attend, your feedback and positive messages are very much appreciated! Please stop back some time for further audition dates and for more info on Unlicensed projects.
Unlicensed Media are holding auditions for a band for the UM artist Natalie Marie. We are looking for a Guitarist, Bass player, and Drummer to accompany Natalie in taking her new EP "As I Am" out of the studio and onto the stage!
Auditions will be held on the 4th February from 12 Noon til 8pm at Unlicensed Studios in South London.
Auditions will be held on an invitational basis, so if you are interested please get in touch to arrange a time.
Thought we'd say a big thank you to anyone who voted for us in the BBC Radio 1 Worldwide Awards.
We joined Manchesters Electric Chair, and Plastic People @ Co-op.
We've got some belting shows coming up incuding the winner of 'Best Album', Bonobo playing live. We've also got The Herbaliser, CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, DJ FORMAT, 4HERO, BLACKBEARD, FINGATHING. . . . tonnes of good stuff every friday, check our page for more info.
