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    • Electric Deluxe featuring Speedy J

    • England

    • London

    • Electric Brixton

    • 2012-04-28

    • Speedy J’s “Electric Deluxe Presents” techno party touched down in London at Electric Brixton at the weekend with a resounding boom. The label boss brought with him the sounds of Berlin’s infamous Berghain club with Marcel Dettmann, Marcel Fengler and a live set from Sandwell District for a night of forward-thinking techno.

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    • A Night With... Xpress2

    • England

    • London

    • Basing House

    • 2012-04-21

    • House duo Darren ‘Diesel’ House and Darren Rock ‘Rocky’, better known as Xpress2, got behind the decks for the latest A Night With… session at London’s Basing House. Putting them in control of eight hours of music gave them the chance to treat the dancefloor to all of their influences, spanning the acid house of the 1990s to the more collaborative nature of their recent endeavors which has helped them evolve beyond purely house beats into deeper, techy or more disco stylings.

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    • A Night With... Patrick Bodmer

    • UK

    • London

    • The Loft

    • 2012-03-10

    • One half of M.A.N.D.Y. took the controls for eight hours of revelry as A Night With… welcomed Patrick Bodmer behind the decks for one of its epic mixing sessions. Relocated to The Loft in Willesden, west London, the journey to the venue was something of a pilgrimage for many M.A.N.D.Y. fans, but they were repaid with a lively atmosphere in an environment befitting of a swanky flat party complete with table football for added entertainment.

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    • Nicolas Jaar

    • England

    • London

    • The Roundhouse

    • 2012-02-02

    • Billed as a Clown & Sunset Showcase, the star of the show was undoubtedly the label’s boss Nicolas Jaar. More than 3,000 fans packed into Camden’s Roundhouse for his live performance, and were repaid with an engrossing set of finely-crafted electronica with a splash of live guitar.

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    • UKF Bass Culture

    • United Kingdom

    • London

    • Alexandra Palace

    • 2011-11-25

    • The train to Ally Pally and the walk up that big hill were littered with bassheads, most with an air of giddiness punctuating their fast-paced nattering. There was a sense of anticipation about UKF Bass Culture’s heavy-hitting line-up. The gargantuan venue sold out weeks in advance and brought together some of the scene’s most well-known crossover acts along with a crafted selection of up-and-coming artists.

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    • Glitch Mob

    • United Kingdom

    • London

    • Electric Brixton

    • 2011-11-05

    • These three guys from Los Angeles have been plying their trade for a good while now and they’ve nestled into a distinctive space. Most of the beats are slower, stomping, four-on-the-floor heaviness with electro tones and a patently hip-hop vibe. The style is slick, well-produced, and mid-centric but their best moments come when they break from type and and dirty it up a little bit. They’re very creative and keep moving through highly varying aesthetics. There are nods to most relevant styles of electronic music during the last twenty years in their tracks.

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    • Flying Lotus

    • United Kingdom

    • London

    • Roundhouse

    • 2011-10-20

    • Steven Ellison broke electronic music. His gig at Roundhouse in Camden on Saturday was one of three as part of a collaboration with visual label ANTIVJ. The converted railway shed was sold out and the diversity of the crowd stands testament to FlyLo’s genre-hopping style of hipster-approved hip-hop slathered beat heavy post-everything electronicism.

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    • True Widow / Teeth of the Sea / Lasers From Atlantis

    • UK

    • London

    • The Macbeth

    • 2011-10-12

    • Released earlier this year, Texan trio True Widow’s As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth debuted their awesome blend of slow-core, shoegaze and sludge to UK audiences. The songs recalled a fantastic range of late 80s/early 90s alternative rock like Codeine, Low, My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth, but all shot through with a stoner-like heaviness

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    • Grumbling Fur / The Haxan Cloak / Die Farbe (film)

    • UK

    • Brighton

    • Komedia

    • 2011-10-13

    • The October edition of Brighton’s “Uncanny Audiovisual Monthly” The Outer Church opened with Huan Vu’s adaptation of the HP Lovecrafts classic “The Colour Out of Space” – Die Farbe, a film which offered more than the required dose of the uncanny with it’s moody black and white photography and eerie sound design presenting the elusive characters and mysterious plot.

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    • Dudamel conducts Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie

    • USA

    • Los Angeles

    • Walt Disney Concert Hall

    • 2010-10-14

    • Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, the twenty-nine year old music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, found himself conducting the ten movements of Oliver Messiaen’s post-war Turangalila-Symphonie at the Walt Disney Hall. Providing four performances over the weekend, this review was fortunate to experience Thursday’s opening night, which saw the interior of Frank Gehry’s almost animate design near capacity.