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Straight to business:
This Sunday sees the start of the vespers sessions - three summer sunday sessions presented by our bestest buddies Kinky Voodoo and curated by us. There are two reasons that we got involved in this - the main one is that Pool is one of our favourite London venues and the idea of putting together a really solid regular sunday session, with a strong emphasis on live acts and the more melodic, sunny side of electronica really appealed. Our ulterior motive however, was to have a place to experiment in - to stray away from the safety of our core set that we've been pimping around for the past couple of months, and push into a new way of performing electronic music live. These sessions are to be our playground as we test the waters, both with new material and new techniques.
For the first session, happening this Sunday, the 22nd of June at 6pm - we are proud to invite two unique live acts to support us:
First up will be Sheffield's Media Lounge. AV pranksters, merchants of the obscure and forgotten - they splice up the television that nobody wanted and represent it in masterful fashion. They were responsible for the much praised visuals at the Dustpunk gigs, and have material being shown this week at the Cybersonica festival at the ICA. With an emphasis on entertainment over artyness...as they put it themselves - They're here to remind us that if we watch too much tv, we may start enjoying it.
Next up, some truly unique soundscapey electronica from Dissolved. This Glasgow based musician played with us at Vent last year and we've been looking for an excuse to get him down to London ever since. I literally do not know what to expect from him, other than utter quality. It's difficult to provide points of reference but imagine if you can, Goblin, John Carpenter, The Cocteau Twins, Coil, Slowdive and Boards of Canada collaborating on a track, and the whole thing being produced by Future Sound of London and Orbital. and even that's not quite adequate. With a debut release last year on Benbecula offshoot Alba Absurdia, as well as scoring duties on a load of Ant Carpendale's dv nightmares, Dissolved is one to keep a close eye on.
DJ support is provided by the venerable duo of Kinky Voodoo's John Power, tearing himself away from his liver crushing rockrave madness and expressing his more sensitive side, and the ever resourceful TomM, who is guaranteed to playing stuff that you won't hear for months yet.
Here's the listing:
Vespers - warm electronic music for summer sundays
Session #1 - Sunday June 22nd
Digitonal (toytronic/seed) live
Dissolved (alba absurdia) live
Media Lounge VJs live
Djs JohnP (kinky voodoo), TomM (wfmu)
The Pool
104 Curtain Road, London
6pm till midnight
Free entry all night
www.digitonal.com/vespers
Future Sessions include:
20th July
Default response takeover.
Wherein the Birmingham default response crew have the run of the night. Known for their incredibly successful sessions up in Brum (and for which the template for vespers is largely cribbed), which have included live performances from Arovane, Ulrich Schnauss, Metamatics and Brothomstates...the boys from default will present nothing short of the finest warm electronica you can hear, alongside a very rare live performance from Xela (neoouija/city center offices).
31th August
Full program TBC, but we are pleased to confirm a live performance from one of the young rising stars of electronica, Ochre (repeat/toytronic).
.:July's live action:.
Busy month will July be...
It kick's off on July the 6th at the Cheltenham Festival where we're doing a night of more classically orientated material at The Strand bar. Beats will still be in full effect, but we'll be returning to our roots with a more reflective set worthy of our billing. Alongside us will be perhaps one of the most creative DJs on the scene, Richard Lannoy of Subvision. See
http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk for more details.
July 17th - The Selector Live @ the Spitz. Still awaiting some more info on this, but we'll be doing a short set at this showcase for the British Council's Selector radio show.
July 30th - Watch This Space: outside the National Theatre. Pray for sunshine as we perform in the open air down on the South Bank. It kicks off around 6pm - keep an eye on the website for more details.
the latest info on all this and more is, as ever, available on our website: www.digitonal.com .
.:Recordings:.
The Seed Records sampler should now be in all good record stores - it's quality, it's a fiver and we've got an exclusive track on there. go pick it up. There's a lovely review of it here:
http://www.delta-9.net/show.php?id=/features/seedvol1.html and it's also in stock at the very reliable Warpmart.
We have recently completed a stringedup remix of the Multiplex tune 'With Hands + With Feet'. It should see a release at some point in the near future.
.:Other things to make and do:.
A quick shout out for another couple of events happening this week:
Thursday July 19th
Our mates at Kinky Voodoo throw down the gauntlet at Turnmills in the second debauched Sick Love night:
Sick Love - ROCK vs. RAVE
Turnmills, 63 Clerkenwell Rd, London, EC1M 5PT
Nearest Tube: Farringdon
9pm till 3am
£5 before 10, £8 after
In the Bar, raising their fists in a salute to ROCK!
The Queens of Noize
Jo Perfect + The Dirty Rocker
Ruth + DJ Jeff Mills & Boon
Stuart P
In the Lounge, making strange box shapes with their hands and representing RAVE!
DJ Maxximus (kool pop / warp / schematic)
Paul Blackford (Breakin')
Tom P (warp djs)
DJ Central (wwfm.co.uk)
filling in the gaps, and batting for both sides John Power (kinky voodoo)
Trashy sleazy rock and rave like you've read about in the overpriced pages of lifestyle monthlies. Thrill as girls dress in bin bags and the boys dress as girls. It's a brave new world of bleeding edge haircuts and cheap sexploitation.
Enjoy the glamour before next years big beat revival kicks in and it all goes to shit.
'awesome...' - Jockey Slut
'genius... stiff competition for the likes of Trash and Nag Nag Nag' - ID
Friday 20th June
Fine left of center cinematic entertainment from the Synaethesia boys:
Synaesthesia Film Night
8PM - Friday 20th June 2003
HOXTON HALL
We have a packed programme of quality short films,
opening with a short burst of live music by cinematic
electronica genius - Dissolved.
In true Synaesthesia fashion you will be witness to
the bizarre and the unusual..
Book in advance on 0207 739 5431 or pay at the door.This event is likely to sell out so please reserve tickets if possible or arrive early to avoid disappointment.
LOCATION: 130 Hoxton Street, London N1 6SH
TUBE: Old Street
MAP:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=n16sh&Z=1
START: 8 PM
Interval 10 mins
END: 10.15 PM
On show....
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Current Listening: Ulrich Schnauss, Ms John Soda (cheers to Katie for the introduction - it's our new soundtrack!), King Seven, Xela, Fourtet, Metamatics (at 5am as the sun rises over london which is probably how all music should be heard for best effect), First Day Back (watch this space for details of a london date of the potential future of rock music) and lots of trashy bootlegs (*so* last year i know, but nothing better for playing at house parties).
Our Favourite people: Warren and all at Nizim for an unusual and cracking night, JC at shotdead for the vespers flyer design, all at Seed for the best night out in memory, the Kraked boys and girls for making us welcome in Reading and Feedle for the bits and pieces. Someday that man will rule the world...
.:cheers for listening!:>
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