Wah Wah Super Disco Special at Bussey Building (05/10/2018)

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• Artist:
  Wah Wah 45s
• Date:
  05/10/18
• Time:
  10:00pm
• Venue:
  Bussey Building
• City:
  Peckham, London
• Address:
  133 Rye Lane
• Venue phone:
  02077325275
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £8-£10
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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• More information
• Notes:
  Nick The Record // Modified Man (live) // Danvers // Dom Servini // Patrick Steele
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Wah Wah 45s return to take over Room 1 at the legendary Bussey Building and this time bring nothing but feel good disco vibes all night long!

Headling is a DJ who, over the past 25 years, has become something of a legend in Japan, and more recently has been spreading love closer to home with unforgettable sets at Dekmantel, Southern Soul Festival Montenegro, The Garden Croatia and of course in his home town of Brighton. Nick The Record is one of the unsung heroes of Afro, disco and real house music, both in his DJ sets and the tunes he’s released over the years. We’re very excited to have him play some of his favourite music for dance floors from the last four decades to the party people of SE15.

Taking to the stage for a live set, and representing Albert’s Favourites recordings, are eight limbed synth-disco machine, Modified Man. Dave Koor and Adam Scrimshire’s take on intergalactic 21st century jazz-funk has been earning them fans across the globe over the last couple of years, and their recent Modifications: Set 2 release saw them set alight some of the world’s more discerning dance floors. Prepare to be taken of a ride into future disco delights as these two men make their Wah Wah debut.

In support, and joining Wah Wah 45s head honcho Dom Servini on the decks are Wot Not recording artist, Danvers (who’s stunning remix for Hunrosa is out on Wah Wah 45s in September) and Mi-Soul Connoisseurs radio jock, and DJ of some pedigree, Patrick Steele.

Tickets: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1148919

£8 Early Bird until Sept 1st / £10 Advance / £12 On The Door

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Adam Scrimshire @ Music Tech Fest 2018

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• Artist:
  Scrimshire
• Date:
  08/09/18
• Time:
  12:00pm
• Venue:
  Music Tech Fest
• City:
  Stokholm
• Country:
  Sweden
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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• Notes:
  Adam Scrimshire @Music Tech Fest 2018, discussing the creative process, discussing how to continue to rediscover and regroup to create.
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The Man from Mo'Wax review – from superstar DJ to rock bore

This hit-and-miss documentary charting the life and career of James Lavelle feels too much like a promo

The rise and fall of James Lavelle, the record label founder and DJ, is the subject of this celebratory music documentary by Matthew Jones. In the 1990s, Lavelle was music’s Damien Hirst – a cocky upstart with a genius for A&R matched only by a gift for self-promotion. At 18, he opened the hip label Mo’Wax and helped to popularise trip-hop (though signing Tricky and Portishead evaded him). Everything he touched turned to gold, until it didn’t.

Ego, money, drugs: Lavelle’s story has the makings of an entertaining account of the music business. But this film feels too much like a promo for a comeback attempt. Its greatest strength is archive from the personal collections of Lavelle and Josh Davis, AKA DJ Shadow, whose groundbreaking sample album Endtroducing marked Mo’Wax’s high point. The clubbing footage brings back a chemical rush of the 90s London dance scene.

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Dom Servini @ Bussey Building on 01/09/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  31/08/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  The White Hart
• City:
  London
• Address:
  The White Hart Hotel
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £5 – £13
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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• More information
• Notes:
  Dom Servini, Bopperson & Many More
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Bland on Blonde: why the old rock music canon is finished

The 1970s brought about the idea that rock was important – and needed a canon of greatest albums to match. But in a digital age, is definitive musical excellence a ridiculous notion?

Rock’s flight into seriousness in the 1970s had many ill effects. There was prog rock, jamming, not releasing singles – and the idea that the couple of decades since Elvis had produced enough music of sufficient worth to produce a canon. In 1974, like a university English department sending out a reading list to undergraduates, NME polled its writers and published its list of the top 100 albums of all time. The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was No 1, Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde was No 2, the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds was No 3 – you could imagine just such a top three being published today.

A few period pieces aside – it’s a long time since Spirit, Frank Zappa, Johnny Winter, Joe Cocker or Country Joe and the Fish featured in a generalist greatest albums list – it set a template for the pop canon that has remained largely untouched for more than 40 years, by adhering to certain rules.

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Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #19 on Soho Radio

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Aretha Franklin – One Step Ahead (Featurecast Re-edit)

Osunlade – Music Had Appeal

Ty – Somehow Somewhere Someway (Kaidi Tatham remix)

Sam Wilkes – Tonight

Nick Kurosawa – What You Won’t Do For Love

Resonators – Miles Says

The Last Poets – Understand What Black Is (Mala Remix)

Soothsayers – Good Vibration (Radio Edit)

Ray Williams – Cosmopolitan London (Edit) 

Ralph Thomas – Big Spliff

Leo’s Sunshipp – Get Down People

Skymark – Flying Fantasy (Inst)

Profusion – Golden (EVM128 Remix)

Hagan & Gafacci – Yenko ft. Gafacci

Rick Wilhite – Technology Stole My Vinyl (Godson’s Cosmic Soup Mix)

Le Stim – Muhammad Ali (Kon Edit)

The Christopher Michael Band – You Make Me Happy (Serge Gamesbourg Edit)

G-Spot Edit – The Reason

Aeshim – Try Love feat. Alice Higgins

Aretha Franklin – Save Me (JR.Dynamite Edit)

Jonny Drop – Flash Light feat. Grace Walker

Nina Simone – Feelin Good (Nicolas Jaar reedit)

Leon Vynehall – Julia (Footnote IV)

The Third Wave – Maiden Voyage

John Coltrane – Untitled Original 11386

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Worldwide FM – Wah Wah Carnival Warm-Up with Dom Servini & guests Village Cuts

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Groupo Magnetico – Vulcana vs El Gato [Athens of the North] Irakere – Chekere Son [Milestone] Airto Moreira – It’s Time For Carnival [Venture] Tahira – Son’z Toque (Tahira edit) [Wah Dubplate] Winston McAnuff & Flexi – Big Brother [Wagram] Afro Cuban All Stars – Amor Verdadero [Nonesuch] Bolivar – Merengue [Wave] Lutchiana – Eki Bis [Sonodisc] Village Cuts – Party Specials 002 [unreleased] Lorenzo BITW x Konshens – Pull Up To My Goo (Snow edit) [unreleased] Champion – Expensive [RKS] Lokassa Ya Mbongo – Assitou (Uproot Andy remix) [unreleased] Nan Kole x Prynce Mini – Drop That [More Time] EVM128 – Gamma Riddim [Coop presents] Jowaa – Jo Keke [Akwaaba] Batida – Pobre E Rico (DJ Satelite Remix) [Soundway] Hagan – FWD [Push and Run] Village Cuts – ? [unreleased] Onipa – Woza [Mawimbi] Boa Kusasa – Shadows [unreleased] The Busy Twist – ? [unreleased] Qwasa Qwasa – Simba [Lowup] Fela Kuti – Unknown Soldier (Bopperson edit) [unreleased] Chambers – The Gentleman [Ad Hoc] DjeuhDjeoah & Lieutenant Nicholson – El Nino [Hot Casa] Ray Williams – Cosmopolitan London [Ray Edgar] Don Cherry – I Walk [Barclay] Carol Addison – Respect [Addison & Brown] Sparrow and the Troubadours – Witch Doctor [Ra] Ken Haywood – Waste Not Want Not [Hi-landers] Alex Sambat – Black [Sono Disc] Jackie Mittoo & Jo Jo Bennett – You Have Foresaken Me [Rite Sound] Resonators – Won’t Suffer [Wah Wah 45s] Errol Dunkley – A Little Way Different (Dennis Bovell Mix) [Arawak] Soothsayers – Good Vibration [Wah Wah 45s]

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Wah Wah Radio – August 2018

First show in our new format with a member of the Wah Wah family joining Dom and Adam to bring their musical flavour and real talk to the proceedings. First up, DJ Swu-ni AKA Matt Polly joins us for a typically tropical selection.

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Soothsayers – Good Vibration (Radio Edit)

Kodjovi Kush and Afrospot All Stars – Vonvononon

Hunrosa – We Know (Danvers Remix)

Jazzanova – Everything I Wanted feat. Charlotte OC (Yoruba Soul Mix)

Honeyfeet – Meet Me On The Corner (I Gemin Remix Radio Edit)

Grupo Magnético – Vulcano v El Gato (Medley)

Village Cuts – Party Specials 002

Bonga – Malalanza

Nyboma & Les Kamalé Dynamiques – Asso M’bele

Patapatapata – Jorge Ben

Tahira Edits – Gil’s Revolution

Resonators – Won’t Suffer

Aretha Franklin – Without You

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Creamfields review – inhibitions shed for sensory EDM overload

Daresbury, Cheshire
With Eric Prydz, the Chainsmokers and Annie Mac providing beats from breakfast to bedtime, hedonistic energy was needed for the 20th anniversary of the dance festival – and the audience delivered

Celebrating its 20th year, the festival run by the famed Liverpool club night returns to capture the breadth of commercial-leaning dance music, from 90s trance stars to modern EDM giants.

Ex-professional football player Hannah Wants delivers pumping house on a Friday afternoon, and by the time of Green Velvet’s house and techno-stuffed set, the whole festival is bouncing harder than most manage at 4am. There’s no gradual build up to ease you in, just an on switch and an off switch; beats from breakfast until bedtime. This all-or-nothing approach seems to shed inhibitions, and creates a fiery feeling of hedonism from the audience who throw themselves into the party with infectious aplomb.

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John Grant: 'I'm sensitive. I spent a lot of time trying to destroy that'

The rollercoaster-loving, Chris-Morris-worshipping songwriter is back with more mordantly funny and exquisitely painful songs about nationalism, Chelsea Manning and love

• The essential pop of 2018

John Grant was born in 1968 in Michigan and raised in Colorado, in a Methodist household that disapproved of his homosexuality. His mother, who died of lung cancer in 1995, called him a “disappointment”. He was a drug addict, the frontman of the Czars and a waiter before releasing three acclaimed solo albums of heartfelt melancholy and exquisitely raw lyrics that resulted in a Brit award nomination in 2014 for best international male solo artist. He says his new album, Love Is Magic, is “more of an amalgamation of who I am” and captures “the absurdity and beauty of life”.

On Love Is Magic, you collaborate with the electronic artist Benge [Ben Edwards, who plays in Wrangler with the former Cabaret Voltaire man Stephen Mallinder]. How did that come about?
I had an amazing time doing the Creep Show album with them last year and we clicked. I felt he could help me realise my vision. When Wrangler opened for me at the Royal Albert Hall, I went on stage to remind everybody that they were seeing British royalty. I wasn’t talking about myself!

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Felicita: the producer confronting Polish identity through pop

As a child, felicita was embarrassed by the ‘uncool’ world of Polish folk dance – but blended with his experimental pop, it became a way to explore Anglo-Polish frictions

“This whole thing is not about reviving folk cuture,” says felicita in reference to the impulse behind his debut album, Hej!, a surreal opus combining garish and fractured pieces of pop with a newfound appreciation for Slavic dance. “It’s about finding ways to make new ideas. At times I was imagining: if there was a Pixar about medieval Poland, what would the soundtrack sound like?”

The London-based producer is speaking through video chat from under the stairs of a studio, his mop of black hair parted in the centre, sitting slightly hunched as he talks to his phone screen while trying to catch the wifi. He’s a petite person with a formidable portfolio of music for millennials, a hyper-cute hardcore style that surfaced in a debut EP called (>’.’)># in 2013. That was followed by Frenemies in 2014, and A New Family, dropped via London’s PC Music, two years later. Hej! came out on the same label this month, but is a wildly different proposition.

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Dom Servini – Netil Radio Show #7

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Chillin’ On The Rooftop – Intro

Flamingosis – Cruise Control

The Supreme Jubilees – Do You Believe (Piekny Edit)

Sampology – After The Storm

Nitai Hershkovits – Robin

Rejoicer – Yesterday’s Forest Magic feat. Sefi Zisling

Tony Williams – Lawra (Volcov Edit)

Sacha Distel – Saki

Kamasi Washington – Street Fighter Mas

David Matthews – (Dune Part II) Sandworms

Los Irakere – Chekere Son

A Most Wanted Man – Hep Cat

DJ Counselling – Curt’s Jam

Hunrosa – We Know (Lavan Remix)

Bad Channel – A (Rhythm Section)

Skinny Pelembe – Not Your Friend, Not Your Enemy (feat. Yazmin Lacey)

Leonie Evans – Miles Away

Eyal Talmudi + Roy Chen – Whale Love feat. KerenDun

Resonators – A Telling Dub

Kodjovi Kush and Afrospot All Stars – Yiri Yiri Boum

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – The Message

Little Anthony – Your Love

Gino Vanelli – People Gotta Move

Mandigo Brass – Everything Looks Better From A Distance (McBoingBoing Edit)

MFSB – Good Lovin’ (South Beach Recycling Recycle)

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Everybody get up! The dance crazes changing the world

Drake’s In My Feelings is the latest viral sensation to get people moving. And from black culture to queer identity to feminism, the global reach of pop choreography makes it the perfect way to change cultural perceptions

When In My Feelings hit No 1 in the US last month, it meant not only that Drake had racked up more weeks at the top of the chart than any male solo artist in 60 years, it also established the latest in a long history of viral dance crazes.

The trend was kicked off by Instagram comedian Shiggy dancing along to the track, his moves perfectly synced to Drake’s lines: hands shaped into a heart when Drake asks if Kiki loves him; turning an imaginary steering wheel for lyrics about “riding”; waggling his finger back and forth when Drake asks Kiki to say she will never leave his side. Instagram users around the world followed suit, mimicking those moves and adding their own flair, often hopping out of a moving car while doing so, to the horror of the police. The #InMyFeelings challenge was born, making it the latest instance in which pop and dance have proved inseparable.

#Mood : KEKE Do You Love Me ? @champagnepapi #DoTheShiggy #InMyFeelings

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Ben Khan: Ben Khan review – singular coiled-lust electropop

Dirty Hit

There’s an appealingly raw, bedroom-recorded quality to this debut album from London producer-singer Ben Khan – if his bedroom had a Narnia-like portal at the back of his wardrobe. Producer Flood (U2, the Killers, PJ Harvey) brings little big-budget gloss, but there’s a singular and rather fantastical vision nonetheless. Sinister John Carpenter synth sounds emerge like neon beams through a hail of dust, but are put to the service of often extremely funky pop.

The magnificent Monsoon Daydream gets so caught up in its own groove it shudders and trips over itself – the dense arrangement, full to the brim with raunchily screwball licks and a flutter of glockenspiel, is reminiscent of early Jamie Lidell, as is Khan’s voice. There’s also a touch of Twin Shadow’s dramatic timbre, while Jai Paul’s still-classic Jasmine heavily scents Ruby. ATW (Against the Wall) has the taut funk and guitar strums of Justin Timberlake’s first tracks with the Neptunes, done lo-fi, and shares their same coiled lust. Indeed, Khan sounds perpetually on the verge of getting laid, with lots of loaded lyrics about honey and tempestuous weather, but he powerfully matches them with the production, which feels as humid as the air before a thunderstorm.

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Tirzah: Devotion review – quiet love stories from DIY R&B enigma

(Domino)
Making magic out of minimal patterns – with the help of old friend and producer Mica Levi – the singer spins alluring stories of intimacy and love

It has not been a vintage year for albums about love. Strenuous efforts by Beyoncé and Jay-Z and Dirty Projectors both had a whiff of protesting a bit too much. With lyrics about his “purple” rubbing against his wife’s “pink”, Justin Timberlake’s lumberjack turn on Man of the Woods functioned like an artisanal, hand-whittled chastity belt. Rapturous declarations of romance feel gauche in calamitous times, and so the few smitten records to stick out in 2018 have had a smaller outlook. If there was anything to unite Kacey Musgraves’ cosmic country opus Golden Hour and the scruffy soul of Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor’s Beautiful Thing, it was their shared sense of grateful relief: thank God I don’t have to endure this hellscape alone.

Related: One to watch: Tirzah

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by Laura Snapes via Electronic music | The Guardian

Blimps, runes and latte mummies: how Aphex Twin keeps fans guessing

The Cornish producer has released his first new music since 2016, and has been preceded by a typically twisted rabbit hole of clues for fans to decipher

You know where you are with pop fandom: construct homemade banner, queue up outside hotel or TV studio, scream, return home. But if you’re an Aphex Twin fan, this seems positively ascetic in its simplicity: the Cornish producer sends his fans down labyrinthine rabbit holes full of clues and in-jokes.

He has just released his first new material since 2016: the high-tempo stuttering electro groove of T69 Collapse. The first sign of it was the appearance of his rune-like “A” symbol in London’s Elephant and Castle tube station – perhaps a nod to the rumour that he bought up the silvery structure in the middle of the area’s roundabout – followed by the same 3D design printed amid the greenery on a wall of an Los Angeles record shop. Then there was an announcement of sorts, a distorted press release promising an EP called Collapse.

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

Dom Servini @ The Jazz Cafe on 07/09/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  07/09/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  Bussey Building
• City:
  Peckham, London
• Address:
  133 Rye Lane
• Venue phone:
  02077325275
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £10 – £15
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dom Servini @ The White Hart on 31/08/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  18/08/18
• Time:
  8:30pm
• Venue:
  The White Hart
• City:
  London
• Address:
  The White Hart Hotel
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dom Servini & Scrimshire @ Bussey Building on 08/18/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  18/08/18
• Time:
  8:30pm
• Venue:
  Bussey Building
• City:
  Peckham, London
• Address:
  133 Rye Lane
• Venue phone:
  02077325275
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £5 – £13
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dom Servini & Scrimshire @ Ghost Notes on 08/18/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini & Scrimshire
• Date:
  18/08/18
• Time:
  8:30pm
• Venue:
  Bussey Building
• City:
  Peckham, London
• Address:
  133 Rye Lane
• Venue phone:
  02077325275
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £5 – £13
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dom Servini @ Ghost Notes on 08/18/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  18/08/18
• Time:
  8:30pm
• Venue:
  Ghost Notes
• City:
  London
• Address:
  Peckham Levels 95A Rye Lane
• Venue phone:
  020 3735 3775
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  Free Entry
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dom Servini @ Spiritland on 08/13/18

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  13/08/18
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  Spiritland
• City:
  London
• Address:
  Merchants Tavern 36 Charlotte Road
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  free entry
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Hunrosa Single Launch @ Pop Brixton 09/29/18

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• Artist:
  Hunrosa
• Date:
  29/09/18
• Time:
  8:00pm
• Venue:
  Pop Brixton
• City:
  London
• Address:
  49 Brixton Station Rd
• Venue phone:
  020 7274 2902
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  Free Entry
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• More information
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Dele Sosimi @ Yellow Arch, Sheffield on 09/29/18

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• Artist:
  Dele Sosimi
• Date:
  29/09/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  Yellow Arch
• City:
  Sheffield
• Address:
  30-36 Burton Road
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £7 – £12
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dele Sosimi @ Yellow Arch, Sheffield on 09/29/18

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• Artist:
  Dele Sosimi
• Date:
  29/09/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  Yellow Arch
• City:
  Sheffield
• Address:
  30-36 Burton Road
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dele Sosimi @ Yellow Arch, Sheffield on 09/29/18

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• Artist:
  Dele Sosimi
• Date:
  29/09/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  Yellow Arch
• City:
  Sheffield
• Address:
  30-36 Burton Road
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £12
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• Box office:
  +44(0)114 275 7295
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50 great tracks for August from Travis Scott, Robyn, Halestorm and more

From Future’s cry for help to Jlin’s brutally funky footwork, here is the best of the month’s music – read about our 10 favourites and subscribe to all 50 via our playlist

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Gabe Gurnsey: Physical review – relentless, hooky dance

(Phantasy Sound)

While not a household name, Factory Floor – the band Gabe Gurnsey co-founded 13 years ago – owned their niche: sleek industrial techno cut with acid basslines made for a club-oriented live outfit, with intoning guitarist Nik Void recalling a robot Nico. Gurnsey insists that his debut solo album is a departure. It is, kind of: a saxophone line by Peter Gordon turns up on Sweet Heat. The club cultures he draws from here are markedly warmer than the stern clank of FF. A succinct funk bassline lurks inside You Can, and Harder Rhythm pays subtle homage to Michael Jackson. Really, though, Gurnsey remains consistent. A drummer by trade, his rhythms are unfailingly relentless. In Void’s absence, Gurnsey’s partner, Matilda Morris, provides vocal anomie. Gurnsey has structured Physical like a night out: driving to the club, stepping outside for a cigarette. But as with FF, Physical works as a seamless loop.

Not everything here is riveting: Gurnsey’s narrative arc is a little underdeveloped. Unlike your average dour beatmonger, however, Gurnsey has bags full of hooks. Heard a couple of times, Ultra Clear Sound’s refrain – “Crystal/ In the algorithm” – is hard to dislodge.

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Helena Hauff: Qualm review – zeitgeist DJ bends techno to her will

(Ninja Tune)

In five years, Helena Hauff has gone from a resident DJ at the sticky, sweaty Hamburg club Golden Pudel to one of the current techno club and festival circuit’s most thunderous selectors – blending acid house, electro, and post-punk into industrial techno, EBM and wiggling downbeat house jams. Her tastes comes not from a lifetime of crate-digging, though – she only started to DJ in her early 20s after buying her first record in 2009, Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden. Without access to a computer or physical music releases at home, Hauff trawled her local library for CDs and listened to the radio, recording what she loved from both on cassette. This approach to musical discovery, largely devoid of context and driven by feeling, allowed her to sketch lines between Stockhausen and the Cure, Belgian cold wave and British synthpop – finding melodies buried inside static and kick-drums, her ear attuned to finding charm within chaos.

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Readers recommend playlist: songs inspired by India

Artists taking musical inspiration on our final playlist include the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Monsoon and David Sylvian

The readers recommend series is coming to a close this week. Here are songs on the final topic of India, picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part – and hear more about the closure of the series at the end of the piece.

This week, Readers recommend has listened closely to the influence Indian music has had on other genres, with some surprising results.

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by George Boyland via Electronic music | The Guardian

Dom Servini – A Summer All Dayer on Netil Radio

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12 hours of radio with a killer selection of special guest DJs and live artists – featuring Andrew Ashong, Hunrosa, Dele Sosimi and many more!

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Scottish Album of the Year: Mogwai and Young Fathers among nominees

The Scottish music industry’s long list recognises 20 contemporary albums

Mogwai, Young Fathers and Franz Ferdinand are among the 20 acts long-listed for this year’s Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) prize. Now in its sixth year, the Scottish alternative to the Mercury prize awards £20,000 to the winning artist, with nine runners-up each receiving £10,000.

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by Laura Snapes via Electronic music | The Guardian

DOM SERVINI’S ALLO LOVE TEN :: JUNE 2018

1. Scrimshire – Disco Edits (Wah Dubplate Test 12)
2. Living Color – Plastic People (Rocafort 7)
3. Balako- Jungle Music (Greco-Roman Promo DD)
4. Tee Mango – EP#2 (Aus Music 12)
5. Joe White & Roots, Trunks & Branches – Rising (Jamwax 12)
6. Smith & Mudd – Janet 50 (Claremont 56 12)
7. JKRIV – Ferias ‘77 Reworks (Razor-n-Tape 2×12)
8. Acayouman – Funky Reggae (Beaumonde 12)
9. UKOKOS – Watcha Got (GAMM 10)
10. Tony Allen – Asiko (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)

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