BY:LARM: Drippin + East India Youth + Den Sorte Skole (DK) + Hey Elbow (SE) +
7:00 PM – Drippin
Erik Spanne, aka Drippin, is a young beatmaker with a flair for unique and compelling takes on club music of all types – eerie, erogenous and evocative. Based in Norway, he produces duly icy riddims, drawing inspiration from hip-hop, kuduro, grime and dancehall, flexing his chops across a spectrum of tempos. Recently, Spanne’s scintillating sounds have seeped out of Scandinavia and into sets by some of the planet’s most forward-thinking dance music producers, including Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, J-Cush, Visionist, Slimzee, Evian Christ, Cashmere Cat, and Sinjin Hawke. The Fader calls Drippin’s sound a fusion of “nitrous oxide-pressurized Jersey club, larger-than-large 808s, and crystalline grime melodies.” Silver Cloak”, his debut solo EP on the New York based label Lit City Trax, draws from a cinematic palette of textures and hybrid club compositions, part organic and part machine. Spanne’s sounds are often stark and metallic, rooted by a confident rhythm, reminiscent of a shiny sci-fi soundtrack.
8:00 PM – East India Youth
Leaving behind his former indie rock band, William Doyle spent three years giving painful birth to his new project East India Youth, and a debut album appropriately titled Total Strife Forever. The work brings together glorious orchestral pop, noise and motorik Detroit techno, threaded together with ambient and contemporary classical passages. At once uplifting and bleak, both brutally cold and gloriously buoyant, Total Strife Forever sounds like it could only have been made now, by one particularly driven individual, marking the arrival of a significant new voice in British music. The Guardian, placing East India Youth at the top of their Breakthroughs Of 2014 list, spoke of “a hugely self-assured debut from an artist who knows exactly what he’s doing, marking Doyle out as a rare, idiosyncratic talent”. Time Out – who awarded him their Album of The Week – advised “Its legend is well-deserved: a brilliant bedroom album of piercing electronic pop.” The crescendo of East India Youth’s year came in October when he was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize, alongside FKA Twigs, Anna Calvi, Royal Blood and Damon Albarn. As Uncut said, in their 9/10 review: “A major new British talent is born.”
9:00 PM – Den Sorte Skole (DK)
When Copenhagen DJ/composer duo Den Sorte Skole take to the stage, there are no genres and no boundaries. Armed with turntables, samplers and FX, they shape narratives that range across time and space. Their latest magnum opus, “Lektion III”, is made from thousands of samples lifted off more than 250 old vinyl records from 51 countries on six continents. A 90 minute dark musical odyssey that blends everything from Moroccan traditional songs, Indian hymns and field recordings of Cameroonian Pygmies to forgotten Yugoslav psych, French avant-garde noise and early German electro.
10:00 – Hey Elbow (SE)
Hey Elbow was formed a couple months into 2013 by Ellen Pettersson (horns, electronics) and Julia Ringdahl (vox, guitar) with Liam Amner on drums. The trio makes dreamy, experimental pop with strong melodies and a massive soundscape. The sound and passion from the three members is evident in the totally uncompromising way of expressing themselves. Their music has attracted comparisons to Chelsea Wolfe and Portishead.
11:00 PM – Slick Shoota
Slick Shoota hails from Norway and has been steadily rising in the bass music scene with releases on some of the most respected labels around. His own take on juke, footwork & uk inspired bass music has gained widespread support, ranging from Radio 1 tastemaker B Traits, to Rinse FM and Hyperdubs Scratcha DVA, Chicago legends DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad and many more. With his productions being released by major players in the game like Mad Decent and Kitsuné, Slick Shootas prolific output has also led to remix duties for top names like Lindstrom, Kito & Reija Lee, Zebra Katz, and DJ Vadim to name a few. 2014 proved to be a successful year, with his second EP for Mad Decent named «F Dat», was picked up by Pitchfork with a great review, and the official video being premiered at Spin Magazine. With continued support from renowned DJ’s on BBC Radio 1 and Rinse FM, aswell as playing clubs across Europe on a regular basis, there’s no doubt that there’s alot more to come in the future from Slick Shoota!
