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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.

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    • The Krays, Uffie, Sexy Sushi, James Yuill

    • UK

    • London

    • Koko

    • 2011-04-23

    • The Playground brought some of the top names in French electro to Koko and lived up to its name with a spectacularly crazy performance from Sexy Sushi helped fuel a night of party electro. The Krays of Yuksek and Brodinski, Ed Banger star Uffie and Moshi Moshi’s folktronica act James Yuill took to the stage but it was Sexy Sushi who stamped their mark the hardest at London’s Koko.

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    • Para One, South Central, Teenage Bad Girl, autoKratz, Paul Chambers

    • UK

    • London

    • Scala

    • 2011-04-09

    • The Playground’s night at Scala saw an impressive array of electro stars line up to for a night of dancefloor action. Para One, South Central, autoKratz, Teenage Bad Girl and Paul Chambers were among the performers at London’s Scala and there was a sense those who knew their electro were in attendance with a lively mix of DJs and live acts over two rooms.

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    • Arbouretum

    • England

    • Brighton

    • Jam

    • 2011-03-18

    • With their second album Rites of Uncovering Arbouretum gained a host of fans with a fascinating mix of psych rock jams and plaintive country-tinged folk that tapped some elemental, earthy essence in a similar way to Lungfish’s meditative, primal take on post-hardcore. Forward to the present and the group’s fourth album The Gathering, just released on Thrill Jockey, retains less of the nuance that made the 2007 effort great, with most tracks offering a similar bassy, fuzzed-out sound whether in the slower, melodic moments or locked into the bluesy grooves, however this is rife for revelling in live.

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    • Soundcrash present Wagon Christ

    • England

    • London

    • XOYO

    • 2011-03-19

    • Soundcrash have an ear for finding the more forward-thinking music out there and giving artists a London stage to present their creations, with their residency at XOYO attracting electronica fans with a soft spot for hip hop. Wagon Christ, aka Luke Vibert, headlined the night, taking a break from his usual dancefloor acid and amen breaks to revisit his hip hop alter ego to celebrate the launch of new album Toomorrow with guests Ceephax, dÉbruit, Infesticons providing support.