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
This entry was written by , posted on December 3, 2009 at 3:02 pm, filed under 3voor12, Beat Dimensions, Bimhuis, CDR, Festival, Trouw, Viral Radio, beats, dubstep and tagged 2009, Cinnaman, Juha, Viral Radio. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Viral Radio invited CDR to kick off the Viral Radio Festival 2009
The first night of the Viral Radio Festival 2009 was a modest, albeit incredibly inspiring, success. An intimate crowd of producers, DJs and family and friends visited the first CDR night at De Verdieping. Thanks to everyone for their support, and Gavin, Tony, Mamiko, Hudson Mohawke and Icarus for their involvement. We look forward to the next one, which will most likely take place in August.
The second day of the festival will take place at the Bimhuis tonight, with Icarus hailing from London and Melbourne to bring electronic music by the guidelines of the International Standards for Jungle Music: 175 BPM straight for 12 years now, engineering their hyperrhythmic speed beats with MAX/MSP like scientists at the CERN Hadron Collider. They will be joined by another electroacoustic duo from the UK, Furt. ‘One of the most blisteringly energetic and experimental partnerships over the past twenty years.’ (The Guardian). In the cafe around the concerts we will hear Mrs. Mohawke herself, the ubiquitous Mamiko Motto (Samurai FM/Kindred Spirits).
Mind you, readers of our site get a 5 euro discount tonight. Just comment to this post with your name and correct e-mail address and we’ll put your name down.
As always, we look forward to seeing you tonight.
This entry was written by , posted on July 2, 2009 at 1:10 pm, filed under 3voor12, Bimhuis, Viral Radio, Viral Radio Festival 2009 and tagged Bimhuis, Cinnaman, Furt, Gavin, Hudson Mohawke, Icarus, Mamiko Motto, Tony, Viral Radio Festival. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
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.
This entry was written by , posted on June 23, 2009 at 12:11 pm, filed under 3voor12, Beat Dimensions, Bimhuis, Event, Festival, Trouw, Viral Radio, Viral Radio Festival 2009, beats, dubstep and tagged beats, Bimhuis, Bullion, Cinnaman, Daedelus, De Verdieping, dubstep, Furt, Hudson Mohawke, Icarus, Juha, Mamiko Motto, the Blessings, Trouw, Viral Radio Festival 2009. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
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)
This entry was written by , posted on April 27, 2009 at 10:52 am, filed under Beat Dimensions, Bimhuis, Event, beats, dubstep and tagged Hyperdub, Kode9 & the Spaceape, live. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Kode9 & the Spaceape (photo: Georgina Cook)
To celebrate 1 year of Beat Dimensions concerts at the Bimhuis, we have invited three of our favourite musicians to perform live in Amsterdam. Kode9 & the Spaceape will demonstrate their Bass Fiction live set, a rhythmically desolate and sonically dense architecture of sub frequencies, whilst Dimlite will display yet again why he is a master of mosaic textures and imaginative drum patterns. Digikid Cinnaman and laureate Juha will play music from a not so distant future in the bar before, between and after the concerts.
Doors open around 11, and the concerts start at 11.30. We look forward to seeing you there.
This entry was written by , posted on April 24, 2009 at 12:00 am, filed under Beat Dimensions, Bimhuis, Event, beats, dubstep and tagged Bass Fiction, Cinnaman, Dimlite, Juha, Kode9 & the Spaceape. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
This entry was written by , posted on October 23, 2008 at 4:46 pm, filed under Beat Dimensions, Bimhuis, Event, Viral Radio, beats, dubstep and tagged Aardvarck, Amsterdam, Beat Dimensions, beats, Bimhuis, Cinnaman, Dimlite, Mike Slott, Take, Viral Radio. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.