Arkist & Kidkut - One Year Later

Proving Bristol's still a major hotbed for musical creativity Arkist's new tune with Kidkut continues their high level of quality productions. Released on Scuba's Hotflush imprint 'One Year Later' is a cool little number. It's got an affectionate synthline underscoring the syncopated house percussion that skips and shuffles along, perfect for warming up or coming down. The flipside 'Vanilla Imitate' is more of a 2-step affair with a deep bass and murky aquatic chords.

Vice Issue Launch Party

Next Friday (the 29th) Vice mag are throwing a party to celebrate the launch of their latest efforts - the annual Photo Issue. Typically one of the most sought after iterations of the magazine the party should be appropriately busy and if their video of the last launches is anything to go by it's gonna be a rowdy ol' affair.

Come party at Green Door Store to pick up your copy and catch live shows from Spector and I.R.O.K. then bang your booty to DJ sets by Sex is Disgusting, NuRaveBrainWave and Nicole De Leiburne. 

WatchOutNow - YouTube Playlist

A couple of weeks ago Rossio sent this fab playlist to a few of us on Twitter and so I had to reciprocate, compiling 'WatchOutNow' over the next 48 hours. It's all electronic, from Fantastic Mr Fox to Zinc via Figure, mostly recent releases although a few are from a year or two back. Hope you like, i mean, i only slaved away at it for a whole weekend, but ya know, whatever.

Plot Device

This short film was made to demonstrate the capabilities of video editing software Magic Bullet Suite 11 and it's exactly the sort of material we'll use in meetings with commissioners, producers and network execs, to show how the genre-specific episodes and scenes of GenreCom could look.


Plot Device from Red Giant on Vimeo.

BlahBlahBlah 4th Birthday @ Digital

We didn't run this in the mag last month due to a lack of photos, instead we wrote a retrospective on the BlahBlahBlah gang which you can check right here. Below is my original review of the BBB's 4th Birthday with London label Night Slugs.

BlahBlahBlah is 4, which in promoter years is a century, so while a letter from her Majesty is imminent, they're celebrating this evening with a Night Slugs takeover.

From their humble beginnings as a London club night, to their first release just over a year ago this label's already carved a reputation for itself as one of the go-to names for upfront club music.

It would appear that Brighton's clubbing elite aren't as forward thinking as they'd like to opine but despite the lackluster turn out the nocturnal mollusks give the loyal fans 110% and the extra space on the dancefloor allows us to move with even more vigor. The heavenly twinkling of Girl Unit's 'Wut' turns Digital into a melodic cornucopia of appreciative whoops and whistles. Then Jam City's 'Magic Drops VIP' hits us with its mechanized production-line beat and slide-whistle synth to result in a woozy paradise of blissful disorientation.

For their 4th birthday the BlahBlahBlah boys were surrounded by close family and friends with some of London's bass music pioneers providing the soundtrack.

Redinho - Whips

Recently discovered Redinho via Nmbrs, who have snapped him up after his Bare Blips EP rippled through the electronic scene last year. His style is pretty damn broad, from the rapid and delicate bleeps of 'Pitter Patter' - a tune reminiscent of Four Tet and softer Squarepusher, to the twitchy wonk of 'Nuff Prang's' bass, he touches on micro house, dubstep and glitch. I've posted up 'Whips' coz I find the warm kinetic synths irresistible and the funk influence resonates with a mesmerizing neon glow throughout the tune.

'Whips' is taken from his Edge Off EP which boasts other robustly diverse dance tracks like 'Power Look' with it's oscillating sink-hole synthesizers, the hectic, skittering juke of 'Slap' and of course the eponymous, Chromeo-esque 'Edge Off'. His live show sounds like an act to catch too, at SXSW he utilised keyboards and a talkbox as he performed with Jackmaster and Deadboy, hopefully he'll come to Brightopia soon.

Ye Ye Fever @ Green Door Store

Last month I got Ye Ye Fever, check the full review up on the Brighton Source site.

Photo by James Kendall

"When Ye Ye Fever featured as the Guardian’s club pick of the week under its Mama Ko Mama Sa moniker, its then venue The Bees Mouth started to accrue queues that snaked down Western Road. So, after a brief nomadic period, it’s now found new pastures to settle on with the cobbled floors of the Green Door Store."