We’ve bowed to the sheer number of requests to make some of the Signals tracks available in a digital format. We’ve licensed the LJ Kruzer/Plaid track to Fabric for John Tejada’s Fabric44 mix cd, out in the new year, so it made sense to do so. Please note that this new digital edition contains only 5 of the 13 tracks from the vinyl set, of which we still have a few available. Here’s the lowdown:
We’re hitting the road for two Uncharted showcase events in the Midlands of the UK. Both feature live sets from Cyan341 and Line, with Kone-R on record playing duties, in addition to guests and residents. Here’s the full low-down:
Island Bar, 14-16 Suffolk Street, Birmingham B1 1LT
Friday 17th October, 8.30 til late
3 quid on the door or a pound if you come dressed as either a robot or a dinosaur.
Free pin badge on entry and a massive selection of cocktails available!
Cyan341, Line, Kone-R plus RvsD dj’s
Blueprint, 509-511 Alfreton Road, Nottingham NG7 5NY
Saturday 18th October, 10pm-3am
6 quid on the door Peverelist, Pangaea, Spam Chop vs Metaphi, Brackles, Cyan341, Line, Kone-R, Bizmarc
In the meantime, you can also catch Kone-R dj’ing from Midnight til 3am this Saturday the 11th of October at Ginglik. Doors open at 8pm and it’s 6 quid on the door. What’s more, the Central Line tube station at Shepherds Bush is now open again, replete in all it’s space age refurbishment glory.
New records ahoy!
First up, years after volume one first graced the racks of record stores worldwide, volume two of our ‘Dub Plate Sessions’ 10″ series of dancefloor stormers is dropping in early November. This one is brought to you by one of our favourite collaborators, Mark Streatfield, under his Cyan341 alias, a dubby slice of techno with added wonk. On the flip, the man like LJ Kruzer brings the remix pressure with a deep and brooding 4/4 outing.
More good friends drop fresh vinyl – Octavcat, spread though they are across England, Wales and Norway, deliver what is surely one of the best electronica albums of the year in the shape of “Hard As Snails“. Available mid-November on blue vinyl and a slightly extended digital version.
Finally on the new release front, our good buddy Wil who did such a sterling design job on the Signals series (as well as providing the fab label art for UNCHDUB2) has designed a brand new t-shirt for us. It’s available in various sizes and printed on good quality Fruit of the Loom shirts.
The Uncharted shop has all these items available for purchase right now, and the vinyls will be in all good record shops next month. Digital versions will be appearing on Bleep, Juno and Peoples Music Store in due course. The tees are exclusive to the Uncharted shop.
Finally, massive congratulations are due to both LJ Kruzer and Wil Russell and their respective partners on the birth of baby boys, William and Luca respectively! Champagne and cigars all round :O)
Protest against the closure of one of London’s finest venues this Saturday, the 20th of September.
Come down at 5pm for free music, bbq and drinks on the roof of Ginglik, and add your voice to the clamour against the local council and their proposed closure of Ginglik early next year. If you can’t make it, please sign the petition online. And if you are coming down, why not stick around for the whole evening to be entertained further.
Just a quick interim missive to let you know about some of the stuff that has happened and is about to happen.
First up, a word about gigs.
Kone-R is going to be busy in August, with two resident dates at Ginglik on the 9th and the 23rd. Keep an eye on their website for more line-up info – it’s now got a 3am license so even more bang for your buck!
Additionally you can also catch the ua head honcho dropping techno science on the turntables for the peoplesmusicstore launch party as part of nitefreq on Friday the 8th – playing from 4.30 til 6am at Jack’s near London Bridge, this event also features such legends as 808 state, Arthur Baker, i-f and DMX Krew so not to be missed! Apparently jacks has had a total refurb and is now state of the art, so make sure you get down to this.
Finally and not least of all, uncharted have hooked up with our good friends at rednetic to start off a new electronica showcase called microclimate. This one is a Thursday evening, the 21st of August with thoroughly civilised hours, taking place on a boat on the thames and costing only 3 quid. Head over to the microclimate myspace for all the details.
The first instalment of microclimate doubles as a release launch party for our next shiny vinyl – The Dub Plate Sessions Vol. 2 (five years after the release of Volume 1 – sorry for the delay). This one sees Cyan341 who some of you will already be familiar with from the signals 7″ series dropping some serious mechanised tech, backed with a deep and lush remix from LJ Kruzer. You want this! 10″ vinyl and download coming soon – watch this space.
Whilst we’re on the subject of new releases, Octavcat‘s album “Hard as Snails” is currently being mastered and will be next to drop on nice blue vinyl and download, followed by Line‘s much anticipated debut lp, which is in the final stages of mixdown. And bloody fantastic they all are! We’ve got loads more in the pipeline as well – busy days ahead!
So what have we been up to apart from organising all this good stuff? Well, we’ve recently extended our digital reach – you can know find most of the back catalogue available for download at Juno – including a couple of configurations not previously available on download, notably unch003 in it’s entirety. We’ll also have catalogue available on peoplesmusicstore when it launches next month, an exciting new download service/online community, be sure to check it out. Additionally, we’ve started twittering – feel free to investigate, share, add and all the rest of it.
This weekend sees west London’s finest celebrate it’s sixth year of bringing you the best of, well, pretty much everything. As per every week at this most intimate yet rockingest of venues, the Saturday night is given over to bringing you the finest electronic music around – a mantra shared by us here at uncharted audio, and that’s why we’ve been working so closely together for so many years. Come and raise a glass with us all – here’s to the next six!
SHUT UP AND DANCE
ECHASKECH – LIVE
LIBERATION JUMPSUIT – LIVE
MILES TILMANN – LIVE
KONE-R
DJ STAYHOME
“Every Saturday for the past 6 years Ginglik has brought you the tastiest electronic beats and visuals on the scene.
Tonight some of our favorites return: Old skool legends Shut Up And Dance, Echaskech live (‘The best hypnotic technotronica since the demise of Orbital’ – The Big Chill), Liberation Jumpsuit live (keyboards, turntables, theremin and electro beats for the masses), Miles Tilmann live (deep atmospherics & warm synthetic textures) plus exotic new offerings from DJ’s Stayhome & Kone-R”
6 pounds AFTER 8PM / 7 pounds AFTER 10PM / 7PM – 3AM
What the press says about Ginglik:
“An ace bunker bar chokker full of warmth and character…. a gem of a place”
Time Out
“Ginglik is a whirlwind of bohemian expression”
Itchy London
“Not just a super-cool hideaway, this place is also a friendly wonderland, a truly unique venue… Among the best spots of any size in the capital”
londontown.com
“Five out of Five”
viewlondon.co.uk
“West London’s premier electronic evening”
angryape.com
Voted Best Club in Hammersmith and Fulham by myvillage.com
Nominated as one of the Top Ten Local London Bars in the Independant/LBC Living London Awards
What more do you need to know?!!
The following week (sat 31st of May) Kone-R will again be manning the turntables, this time supporting the ever wondrous Digitonal.
Uncharted Audio is proud to present a six hour showcase at this year’s Firegathering Festival in Sussex. Kicking off around midnight on Friday 16th of May, on the pool room stage and going on til the wee small hours of Saturday, we have:
Joining us on the bill over the weekend are our good friends Octavcat, Digitonal and Lost Idol, among a host of others from across the musical spectrum. Get your tickets – a snip at only 65 quid for the whole weekend, but be quick as they are selling out fast.
Before that, Kone-R continues his much-loved Ginglik residency, warming up for live acts Lifecycle and Libelula on Saturday 10th of May. Come down early for big screen Wii action!
Long before the likes of hypemachine and bit torrent put every piece of music ever released at the fingertips of the public, good old fashioned radio was the conduit through which most of us received our education from musical mavens like John Peel. Transmitting through the night, specialist shows and pirate radio stations were a lifeline for those growing up in the suburbs and an entire blank cassette industry was kept afloat by teenagers hovering over the record button on their battered tape players.
If you had any interest in techno, ambient or electronica in the early to mid nineties and lived in London the chances are that you would have been setting aside Tuesday and Thursday nights to lock into the sounds coming out of Kiss FM when DJs Colin Faver and Colin Dale took to the airwaves. For two hours each night some of the most futuristic, exciting and out there music being made at the time by producers from all over the world was beamed into the bedrooms of the capital, entertaining and educating in equal measure.
Fast forward over a decade and fashions and music styles may have changed but the sounds that these two legends introduced a generation to still sound as fresh as ever and now for the first time in over five years these two titans of techno are back playing together for one very special night. Brought to you by Uncharted Audio and Don’t Fake The Funk, Future Shock is a celebration of techno and clubbing, held at the wonderful Corsica Studios, one of the few venues left in London with the barely legal vibe that all the best parties had back in the day combined with a cutting edge soundsystem and facilities. With a line-up that matches some of the most important names in British techno history with some of today’s freshest talents, Future Shock is the perfect start to the long bank Easter weekend.
In the main room we have the frankly unassailable combination of Dale and Faver, playing everything from the original Detroit jams of the eighties to the very latest techno cuts, joining them are Uncharted Audio boss Kone-R and producer/promoter DJ SP and EG689. Whilst in the back room, we take our foot off the pedal, take the bpms all the way down and dig out the beanbags and sofas as we create that all too rare thing these days, a proper chill out room. And who better to take control of the decks than possibly the most chilled DJ on the planet, Mixmaster Morris, who will be joined by electronica sensations Digitonal & Posthuman and on vinyl and samplers John Power.
Finally, if you’re in Shepherds Bush this Saturday the 15th, come down to Ginglik:
Sat 15th March 2008
@ Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, London W12 8PH
Fiver on the door after 8pm, free before
9pm-2am (no admission after 12.30am)
Dub Kult
Stayhome
Kone-R
Fresh from his speaker-bursting appearance on our signals series, we welcome Neilon Pitamber aka Dub Kult, for his second appearance at Ginglik, this time dropping a special audio visual combo set. With releases for the likes of Warp’s arcola sublabel, traum and raum, the quality is guaranteed. Residents stayhome and kone-r complete the bill.
FULL MEMBERS FREE / PAYG MEMBERS & GUESTS 5GBP AFTER 8PM / 7PM – 2AM / NO ENTRY AFTER 12.30AM
Uncharted Audio present two of their flagship artists, performing material from their forthcoming albums in public for the first time. LJ Kruzer‘s debut album for the label “This Is How I Write” garnered widespread critical acclaim, culminating in a triumphant performance at last summer’s Big Chill festival. It’s follow-up “Manhood & Electronics” is due later this year and is eagerly awaited – hear tracks from it first, tonight at Ginglik.
Nottingham based Neil Wells aka Line has kept us hanging on for his own debut, nearly two years on from his Joy Division-meets-Drexciya debut 7″ “A Snowstorm In A Globe”, but “Hearts” is finally upon us. Get a sneak peak tonight!
DJ support comes from label boss Kone-R and special guest, Dontfakethefunks’ SP, dropping techno and electro science for your ears.
FULL MEMBERS FREE / PAYG MEMBERS & GUESTS 5 POUNDS AFTER 8PM / 7PM – 2AM / NO ENTRY AFTER 12.30AM
at Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green W12 8PH
(yes we know the central line station is closed but there’s a free bus from white city, or you could wander down from holland park. there’s always the hammersmith & city line. alternatively, there’s loads of local buses!)
“John Metcalfe’s strings and electronics are impeccable” (The Guardian)
A chance to hear ex-Durutti Columnist John Metcalfe and the Bays’ drumming legend Andy Gangadeen performing Metcalfe’s music in a rare London appearance. They will be joined by The Bays’ sonic genius Simon Richmond and the leader of the world renowned Duke Quartet, Louisa Fuller.
Metcalfe’s music dissolves boundaries between electronic and modern classical styles demonstrating the best in deep and inspiring instrumentalism. With influence from Bach to Eno via Schoenberg and Kraftwerk, Metcalfe’s sound world is beguiling and hugely powerful. Pieces range in scope from electric intimacy and lush cinematica to searing orchestral drum’n'bass.
“… crossing all manner of boundaries. Melding avant-pop and electronica, film music and contemporary classical…a set of highly melodic, sonically compelling songs without words…the ideal item for classical fans wanting to investigate a pop-leaning, contemporary sound world or for electronica fans who crave far more musicality than they’re used to getting” (Billboard)
Hearing the music live is an intense experience. The level of musicianship and technical skill is second to none. Audiences are simply blown away by the visceral focus and variety of emotion on offer. More often than not a set from the band provokes descriptions of “absolutely jaw-dropping”, “brilliant” and “awesome” on website forums. The press too. Of a recent show The Guardian stated, “The event starts brilliantly with viola player/composer John Metcalfe. They play a smartly written, sharply defined repertoire (as demonstrated by Metcalfe’s album Scorching Bay), but Gangadeen’s supercharged style reveals an extra dimension in Metcalfe’s material; the drums sit right on top of the beat, synchronising precisely with the urgent attack of the strings.”
plus support from:
Ebbs & Flows….
Ebbs and Flows is a musician / producer from a combination of northwest London and the rural confusion of the West Country. Dark droning loops are employed to create multi layered hooks that build and grow until they have morphed into fractured krautrock maelstroms, combining distorted and warped textures, mixed with hard (occasionally nasty) basslines and beats. Both sparse and sonically dense, you will find yourself hypnotised in calm pastoral fields, only to wake up in the middle of a squat party.
Kone-R
“…a dexterity few DJ’s can harness”
(One Week To Live)
Kone-R is the man behind the Uncharted Audio record label, which has introduced the likes of Cursor Miner, LJ Kruzer, Kings Have Long Arms and plenty of other weird and wonderful sonic tomfoolery to the world. Manning the turntables since 1992 when he discovered the joy of warehouse raves, the spirit of that era lives on in his sets today, with a liberal sprinkling of ambience, techno, breakbeats and plenty of low frequency oscillations. Despite the length of time he’s spent in the booth, he maintains a cutting edge – you’re as likely to hear him drop fresh dub plates by up and coming acts alongside the latest cuts from Berlin to Detroit as you are to hear vintage rave, classic disco and timeless electro. What’s more, every Kone-R set is expertly mixed entirely on vinyl to preserve audio and artistic integrity – just like in the good old days.
