Where I'll be going tomorrow night...

Essential night this. Massive respect to Pinch and Blazey for pulling together such a stonking line up. If you're in the area, there's no excuse, and definitely worth the journey if you're not.

SATURDAY 29th APRIL 2006
@ THE BLACK SWAN, STAPLETON RD, BRISTOL
SUBLOADED IV

main room DUBSTEP/SUBLOW:
DIGITAL MYSTIKZ & LOEFAH & POKES
PLASTICMAN
VEX'D & MC JAKES
YOUNGSTA & TASK
BLAZEY b2b PINCH
HEADHUNTER
JOKER

upstairs DUB, DANCEHALL, DUB-JUNGLE:
MORE ROCKERS (ROB SMITH & PETER D ROSE W/ MC KELZ) :: 2HR SPECIAL!!!!!!!+ HEATWAVE DJS
DUB BOY
BEAVIS

TIME: 10PM - 5AM
TAX £5-£8

Atki2 - Guilty Pleasures

Single of the week at Boomkat

"Despite a ludicrous back-story involving otters and the Bronte Sisters, Atki2 (aka Sam Atkins) is as serious as Paxman when it comes to his beats - with this brand new 12" dubstepping it's way straight into your cranium. Undoubtedly attracting most attention due to it's jaw-breaking Pinch remix, 'Guilty Pleasures' is an EP overflowing with sonorous bass, chunky-knit beats and ruptured vocals - the wholesale effect being both aurally bewildering and finely detailed. Opening with the title track, Atki is up to his elbows in seething dubstep; as 'Guilty Pleasures' rattles around the more electronic end of the Grim spectrum and makes sterling use of Indi Kaur's sliced/diced Persian/hip-hop/folk vocals. Heavy without ruining your appetite, Atki2's original version is put on a bass-fed diet by the man Pinch - dredging the very depths of the dubstep canon for a shuddering low-end that compliments the spacious upper reaches (austere choirs, Kaur's drifting vocals) to perfection. It's a proper stonker. On the back, both 'Distillers Riddim' and 'Duty Paid' maintain the high water-mark set on the A - where Atki2 further develops his well honed production acumen with two tracks of smoldering digital bluntness. Killer."

Out now on Werk Discs.

Plummet this thursday

PLUMMET
Thursday 20th April 2006

Live Breakcore/Mash Up/Jungle/Gabba/Electronica

Room 1: EBOLA (Wrong Music)
BinRay (Zod/Entity/Werk)
Shoutput (Plummet)
Defazed (1 Man Army Records)
Punksi (Bashout/Toxic Dancehall)

Room 2 (Hosted by Boggle):
ATKI2 (Werk Discs)
M.A.I.O.F. (Geisha)
Brother Wetlands (Boggle)
Boggle DJ's: Decks and FX

Timbuk2, 22 Small Street, Bristol, BS1 1DW
£5 EntryDoors: 10pm - 3am

Noise Club returns...

NOISE CLUB RETURNS! THURSDAY 13TH APRIL
@ FULL MOON, STOKES CROFT, BRISTOL
8PM - LATE (LAST ENTRY 12PM)
£4/3/2 DOOR

TOECUTTER + XIAN (System Corrupt)
BINRAY (Zod / Ad Noiseam)
ATKI2 (Werk / Shadetek)
D'KAT - last minute addition to lineup (Peace Off / Death$ucker)
DEAR JOHN
SOL SEIZURE

This night should be bonkers. Full on aussie breakcore! Great to be playing again with the old Noise Club crew (last time must have been 2002!). Can't wait! Aptly enough, I hear it's even meant to be full moon that night...

Atki2 on Dark FM

Thoroughly looking forward to joining Wedge on his weekly dubstep show this tuesday night (11.04.06) on Bath-based Dark FM internet radio. It goes out between 10pm and 12 midnight (GMT). I'll be playing a live set on air (not quite sure for how long yet), bookended by Wedge's mean selection of exclusives. Definitely worth checking out his show if you haven't done so already.

Indi Kaur

1st May 2006 sees the release of the “Guilty Pleasures” ep on Werk Discs. Featuring on the title track (not to mention the Pinch remix) are vocals by Indi Kaur, who I met last year at a gig Renée and I did at Deal Real Records off Carnaby Street in London. Indi describes her vocal style and music as “a melting pot of cultures and distinctive flavours” taking influence from “Indian music, electronic beats, Persian singing, modern R'n'B impro, acoustic pop/folk textures and much more”. She and I had a handful of amazing studio sessions last summer, and I can certainly vouch for her amazing ability to switch musical styles and techniques, not to mention her real warmth and enthusiasm! Indi’s involved in a number of other projects as well, and has two other releases to my knowledge, an album with her long time producer Majiker, and an EP called “Keep On Walking” which is a series of songs about four heros of Sikhism. Check out her website, www.mus1k.com which explains all about it much more succinctly than I can!