We are back for the second instalment this year & we continue to expand the sonic flavours of the event with exciting debuts and our favourite artists, selectors & MCs. A night of sound system music at a 300-capacity venue powered by custom-built setups Sinai Soundsystem in the main room live 3D visuals & RC1 Soundsystem in the basement.
Headlining the event we have DJ Stingray 313 Sherard Ingram, founder of Urban Tribe and associate of the mythical Detroit electro duo Drexciya. He is a menacing node in the vast tangle of electronic music's history, present, and future. As DJ Stingray 313 he propagates a seer-like, totalising concept of what it is to be engaged in thinking ahead by making people move. As both a DJ and producer, he is a master of light-speed, futuristic electro, preferring fast tempos and inventive beat patterns to more accessible, club-friendly rhythms.
Permit yourself to zoom out of your singular reality enough such that all activity, all that is knowingly accumulated and all that is unnervingly accepted on this earth, is a spectrum of information. This includes the thermodynamics of our own biological structure. Now consider that music is a segment of this spectrum, and DJ Stingray's 313 nexus of electro, house and techno a further specialised section forged in bypassing normalised circuits to confront the future, to articulate abstract dynamics. It's a slice of information, it is a bandwidth. Ingram's crucial and distinctive function in this system is to decode his particular nexus as a speculative software for others, and to encode its conspicuous qualities as a feedback system with the rest of the spectrum. If it sounds intense, it's because it is, and it's still just about sweating it out at a club.
A Detroit native, Ingram is an established figure in electro and techno from its earliest days. His Urban Tribe project is a testament to this. First appearing on the genre-defining 1991 compilation 'Equinox,' Urban Tribe has come to call Anthony Shakir, Carl Craig, and Kenny Dixon Jr. members of the group. Though perhaps what has thus far come to be Ingram's most finely calibrated and entirely natural manoeuvre was under the wing of Drexciya's James Stinson. Performing with Drexciya's live unit, Ingram took the 'Drexciyan DJ Stingray' identity and conjured a torrential storm from the DJ booth.
Spooky is a grime DJ & producer known for his classic and influential grime beats. Started off in the late 90s after finding a love for UK garage on pirate radio coupled with spending endless hours in record shops. Spooky dipped his toe in the musical waters after landing guest slots on various radio stations including BBC Radio 1Xtra, NTS, and Rinse FM to name a few and now holds it down with a weekly radio show on Mode FM. With material on Oil Gang and No Hats No Hoods releasing the infamous grime anthem 'Spartan' as well as producing and remixing for the likes of Slew Dem Crew, D Double E, Kele Le Roc, P Money, Blacks, Kozzie, M.I.K, Merky Ace and more Spooky is a seasoned vet in the grime scene.
? main room:
DJ STINGRAY 313 (Micron Audio / WéMè Records)
SPOOKY (No Hats No Hoods / Oil Gang / Mode FM)
DUB ATHLETE & LARA
MADAME LONGREE
DONGA
ED DUB
DUKU
hosted by SGT POKES, TOAST, GWENI, NO LIMIT
powered by SINAI SOUNDSYSTEM
live 3D visuals by DEXIML
? basement:
EKULA
JUNGALICE
SLOE
TUSK
DJ XS
MUTANT
FARCE
hosted by TOAST, NO LIMIT
powered by RC1 SOUNDSYSTEM
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