Just in case you needed another blow out weekend, our Brighton breaks night Slackers Convention is taking over London's Rhythm Factory for its 7th Birthday Party for a massive 8 hour session. Yes, 7 years since we started in someone's front room in Brighton, spending years trashing out the piss-smelling now-defunct Pressure Point, rocking the Concorde [...]
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A few months ago, I went with the Fusion photographer, who wanted to get some informal shots of two DJs and producers living in Brighton – Jean Marc and Ben, otherwise known as JFB (Battlejam) and one half of electro/breaks producers Geometri. JFB is legendary in Brighton and an old friend, but it was [...]
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I had first heard of Digitalfoxglove when he did a remix of “D.I.S.C.O.TEXAS Theme” by Xinobi and Moulinex. Apparently that remix and the quality of his own original productions which followed caught the attention of French label boss Freak You (see more on him here). And the wine connaisseur did the right thing: he convinced [...]
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I’ve got three mixes that have been burning holes in my i-Tunes player, and it’s disgraceful not to share them with you all.The first one is a Fabric mix from Matt Walsh, London electro DJ and producer who holds residencies at Turbo, Bugged Out! and new night “High Horse” with Casper C and SkullJuice. Matt, [...]
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The amount of bedroom electro producers that clog my inbox are nearly enough to screw in a disco-ball, nearly. I thank the progressive work of Bok Bok & L-Vis 1990 for inspiring a few fresh young things to get their UK Funky on and holler at a brotha. This tune from The Phantom out of [...]
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Heavy Feet come barging in like a herd of hungy hippos, grinding to dust the left over broken china from the Bull’s Greek party the night before. They’re animals. But don’t be fooled by the name, these Hot Steppers also know their way around the dancefloor like mice in balloons…..RHYS FACT #1: If you are [...]
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The 2009 edition of Melt! festival went down last weekend at Ferropolis in Germany. It was an incredible fest with good music, good people and not so good weather. As promised before, here are some impressions (pictures below the text).We started the weekend by confusing the updated line-up and missing Delphic’s show. We saw James [...]
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We’ve not been on a hiatus, we’ve been busy. And when it gets busy, there’s little time for staying up to speed with all the newness of music out there. (That is unless you’re a slave to ‘grindin’) So you get mixes and lots of them. This mix isn’t like all the others though, so [...]
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Trash Menagerie on thehype.fm is back tomorrow for our third show! This month our show features a fantastic breaks heavy mix from our esteemed writer and DJ, EvilKeg. Be sure to tune in tomorrow Wednesday July 22 at 4PM EST // 9PM GMT and give it a listen!! And if you like what you hear [...]
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Last month on our monthly show on thehype.fm we featured a stellar mix from Parisian basshead, Mike Gnacadja, aka MikIX The Cat. When he’s not mixin it up as the cat, Mike showcases a lighter, techier side, under his ‘Momma’s Boy‘ moniker, on Orgasmic and Teki Latex’s label Sound Pellegrino. Check the recent EP [...]
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Got this C-Ch-Cha mix tape hot off the nu raves presses from NROTB (nu ravers on the block), producer/djs and partymakers from Montreal, Canada.The mix features so many great artists and tunes I’d run out of breath naming them all – Harvard Bass, who I am loving since we featured him on the site, the [...]
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As hubs go, Unit.One has made one of the most compelling efforts to unite the forces of underground heavy bass music in the U.S. and abroad. Arising out of Dallas with a strong UK Garage/2-step surge in early 2000, the Unit One family has grown to New York City where Unit One co-founder Thanyen Nguyen [...]
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It must be a Dutty week here on Trash Menagerie. Dutty Artz resident advisor Taliesin graced our pages with his “Heavy Sick” mix, and today I bring you a preview of the Dutty Artz project involving Brooklyn singjay Jahdan Blakkamoore. Announced here earlier, Jahdan will be releasing his debut LP Buzzcock Warrior some time in [...]
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Come out tomorrow for a brilliant cause, the War Child charity!! Wednesday 15th July sees the return of War Child’s annual ARMY OF YOU London showcase, bringing together some of the most exciting names across the UK’s thriving new music scene, this year at The Tabernacle, Notting Hill.Filthy Dukes will be headlining, supported by We [...]
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Before you get fired up too much for this festival, let me tell you that the 2009 edition of Melt! festival is already sold out.Now that we have made this clear, let’s have a look at the facts and numbers of this amazing festival in Germany (because you might still get some tickets on Ebay [...]
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Summer 2009 seems to be the Summer of mixes, not jams. And certainly it’s mix season for Dutty Artz associate Taliesin, as he has shot 3 out of the proverbial cannon in just 3 weeks. It must be lonely in Budapest. The first of the series is Dubstep tour called “Definitely Maybe” for the Portland, [...]
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Off Modern, in collaboration with Too Pure Singles, Kruger, FACT, No Pain in Pop, Holy Roar and Backyard Records, presents 7 days of visual and aural stimuli at the upcoming SOUTH EAST IN EAST festival of music and art, showcasing new talent from South East and East London. It all pops off Friday 28 August [...]
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When you’re out celebrating your lives this weekend make sure to swing by Glasslands on Friday July 10th to celebrate Kingdom’s life as he celebrates his birthday with a special edition of Club Vortex. But if you don’t know Kingdom you may feel more cause to celebrate his music. The New York producer has officially [...]
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Everybody in the know about Valerie and the new romanticism movement in synth music seems to be going crazy for “Poly”, the new song by Sferro. Sferro is not only a musical mastermind, he also runs a record label called “Girlfriend Records”, for which he has assembled quite an impressive roster of artists.The most prominent [...]
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Directed by Ferry GouwThe much hyped “Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do” album, produced by Major Lazer, the alterpersona of Switch and Diplo, is chock-full of everything one might hear at their favorite island party – dancehall, dubstep, reggae, soca, raggamuffin, aggro punk, autotune, surf guitar, air horns and much more. If you’re unfamiliar, Major [...]
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