Viral Radio in 2009
It has been an incredible year for Viral Radio. We would like to use this opportunity to thank you all for your support: the artists for their music, TrouwAmsterdam for their excellent club and commendable ambition, 3voor12 for taking us on board, Studio 80 and Red Bull Music Academy for their studios, the Bimhuis and De Verdieping for the Viral Radio Festival and CDR, Doornroosje and Appelsap for our special events, Burntprogess, Brainfeeder, Raids Mag, Rush Hour, Nalden, Future Vintage, Kindred Spirits, Sonic Warfare and Lockdown for their friendship, and most of all you the audience for visiting, listening and disseminating.
2009 was the year of:
February >> Beat Dimensions at Bimhuis with Dorian Concept and Knalpot live
March >> Kode9 & the Spaceape
April >> Clark live
April >> Beat Dimensions at Bimhuis with Dimlite and Kode9 & the Spaceape live
May >> Brainfeeder with Flying Lotus live, Gaslamp Killer and Samiyam
June >> Joker and Coki
July >> Icarus live, Furt, Mamiko Motto, CDR, Hudson Mohawke, Daedelus live and Bullion
August >> Mala and Sgt. Pokes
August >> Appelsap with Hudson Mohawke
September >> Beat Dimensions with Computer Jay live, Nosaj Thing live, Danny Breaks, Jay Scarlett
October >> Harmonic 313
October >> Amsterdam Dance Event with Knalpot live, Bibio live, Clark live, Gaslamp Killer and Martyn
October >> Doornroosje with Nosaj Thing live and Gaslamp Killer
November >> Hudson Mohawke live, Ras G live and Mamiko Motto
December >> Lorn and Alex Nut
More to come in 2010.
Juha & Yuri
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Viral Radio x Beat Dimensions
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Suspect name: William G. Killer. Status: apprehended
The Gaslamp Killer resisted arrest at Rush Hour record store in Amsterdam, while officer Cinnaman lurked in the back.
On Monday 20 July 2009, reported trouble maker William G. Killer was apprehended by local authorities at Rush Hour record store, a known viral radio ’cell’ within the beat dimension. The suspect was taken to the city’s red light district for further investigation today. The result will surface at 3voor12 and Red Bull Music Academy later today as a one hour enhanced interrogation technique (streamed online and available as podcast).
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Beat Dimensions surprises with allstar line up
To celebrate our international friends from L.A., Vienna and Glasgow, we have decided to spontaneously organise a Beat Dimensions special at the Flexbar tonight. From 10 to 3 you can hear the most imaginative music from the electronic realm. As epic as it gets, we are as privileged all of the artists are participating in this allstar line up: Hudson Mohawke, Gaslamp Killer, Dorian Concept, The Colonius, Mamiko Motto, Aardvarck and Juha & Cinnaman. We hope to see you all tonight to look back on a memorable 5 days off festival.
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Viral Radio Festival 2009
Next week the second Viral Radio Festival will take place in Amsterdam. After the first edition in June 2008, that took place on one night at the Bimhuis and 11, we have grown to three venues in three nights. On Wednesday1 July we will have a CD-R night with Hudson Mohawke, Cinnaman, Icarus and Gavin and Tony from London. Bring your own beats and get feedback from the pros. On Thursday we will have Icarus, Furt and Mamiko Motto at the wonderful Bimhuis. And on Friday, the grand finale of the festival will take place with Daedelus, Hudson Mohawke, Bullion, the Blessings, and Juha & Cinnaman.
Tickets are 5 euros on Wednesday (but free if you bring beats), 15 on Thursday, and 12 on Friday. If you send an enthusiastic e-mail to info at viralradio dot net with, your ticket on Thursday will only be 10 euros.
As always, we look forward to seeing you at these nights, and we thank you for your support.
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These are tunnels of turbulence
On Friday 24 April 2009, stealth musicians Kode9 & the Spaceape, a British duo with followers from the streets of Croydon to the columns of the New Yorker, gave a rare live performance at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Here is a first impression of a new piece called ‘Other Man,’ due to appear on their long awaited second album in the end of 2009.
The performance of Kode9 & the Spaceape at the Bimhuis resembled, in duration, complexity and repetition, a traditional symphony. Their physical movement on stage was a bonus: a dark ballet of invisible limbs and ghostly vocals forming an architecture of abstraction. The track ‘Other Man’ can be added to the canon of electronic music, such imaginative power and urgent force it conveyed. Wireless electricity.
(From: audioculture.org)