A surprise encounter between Alfred and Juha recently at the Lloyd Hotel
This is not an official Viral Radio event but since one of us is doing bits and pieces of live electronic music concerts here and there in Amsterdam, we thought you might be interested. And since you seemed to like the Brainfeeder attack last Friday, knowing that another artist from that Los Angeles pedigree is visiting Amsterdam hardly seems a burden.
Therefore we would like to invite you for this Wednesday at De Verdieping where two of the kindest people of electronic music will be performing live: Daedelus and Pierre Bastien. The former hails from Santa Monica, played bassoon and clarinet before solitarily enjoying rave music at a young age, and participating in the development of one of the sleekest music devices known to man, the Monome. The latter is a French composer, multi-instrumentalist and literature Phd from Rotterdam, idolised by Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Icarus, who constructs his own landscapes of automated music machines, forming an orchestra of kinetic instruments.
Bastien will premier new work, while Daedelus will talk about the Monome. This event takes place in the underground basement of Trouw Amsterdam. Doors open at 8.30 PM, and admission is a mere 8 euros. Here are the links for Last FM and Facebook. We hope to see you there.
Every first Friday of the month Viral Radio takes over Trouw Amsterdam. After the Brainfeeder takeover of yesterday, with a vicious Gaslamp Killer, a Doggpound-meets-Nintendo Samiyam and a the new-and-improved-never-going-under-150-BPM Flying Lotus, it is time for two signature producers and outstanding bass music innovators: Joker and Coki. The former is a 19 year old from Bristol whose music is released by genre-defying label Hyperdub, the latter the architect of multiple mutations of dubstep’s identity. Both have earned their credentials as unique individuals in the recent English experimental bass music scene.
We look forward to their coming, joined by DMZ host MC Sgt. Pokes. And we hope to greet you next month at Trouw.
Despite the fact almost everyone at Trouw last night was there for Warp prodigy and Amsterdam favourite Flying Lotus, it is fair to state that there was one man who deserves the credit for the massacre on the dance floor: the mother%*&^#@ Gaslamp Killer. Samiyam and Flying Lotus played diverse sets of electricity-laden broken beats of varying speeds and moods, while Viral Radio residents Cinnaman and Juha added agility and depth with abstract dubstep and hyped up speedbeats. Have a look at the 21 videos on YouTube, and these pictures taken by Rosa Koolhoven on Flickr and relive the agony.
Thank you very much Brainfeeder family - Flying Lotus, Samiyam and the Gaslamp Killer - for making this epic. Thanks everyone for your support, we hope to see you next month at the next Viral Radio with Joker and Coki.
Tomorrow’s Viral Radio with our Brainfeeder family from Los Angeles has sold out all presale tickets. We have reserved 150 tickets for people that have not been able to buy tickets in advance. These will be available at the door from 10 PM. We hope to see you tomorrow.
In the second show we play new and sometimes unreleased music by Dabrye, Starkey, Harmonic 313, Flying Lotus, the Blessings and Joker, artists from Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Sydney, Los Angeles, Glasgow and Bristol. We range from the Hyperdub realm to the Bristolian continuum. Subscribe to the podcast, or download the mp3 directly.
Playlist:
Mark Prichard w/ Om’mas Keith - Wind it up (unreleased)
Joker - Purple City (Kapsize)
Quarta 330 - Sabacco (Hyperdub)
The Blessings - Faberge (unreleased)
Robot Koch vs Cerebral Vortex - Vortex Cookies (fLako remix) (Up my alley)
Nadsroic - Room mist (Lucky me)
Clause Four - Black Destroyer Hill (CD-R)
Daedelus - Touchstone (Ninja Tune)
Danny Breaks - Zappity zip zip (unreleased)
Harmonic 313 - Dutty (unreleased)
LL - Turf Day (unreleased)
Dabrye - Walk (Fat City Records)
Starkey - Drip (Creative space)
Guido - Orchestral lab drunk (Punch Drunk)
Joker - Do it (Kapsize)
Gemmy - Supligm (Planet Mu)
RSD - Accepted (R8 records)
Flying Lotus - AB original (unreleased)
Tony Oheix - Galaxy on the Table (Jarring Effect)
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.
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.
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