TERRORIST UPSTAIRS AT THE BLACK LION
TERRORIST is a night of electronic music brought to you by the almighty trinity of KBeard, Afi Khan and James Sizen Bell.
The aim is simple - to play and please with dance music covering all bases underground, leftfield & electronic; mixing genres like purist electro, minimal, micro, Italodisko, nu/old rave, electronica, grime, dubstep, beats n breaks, 80s electropop & 70s electronics, breakdance soundtracks, IDM, electroklash and everything inbetween.....if it fits the set they'll throw it in...expect the obscure and underground along with the classic & jurassic!
On top of this every month sees special guests of their fave electronic live acts & DJs to dazzle your ears...
THE LINE UP:
Legowelt
Legowelt is the long running brainchild of Danny Wolfers. The music has been a rare hybrid of slam jack electronics combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and Euro soundtracks - the sound that comes out the other end is hard to pigenhole but it sure as hell slams the pit!
Legowelt has released on the seminal dutch label Bunker Records, has one of 2002's major hits on the dance underground with Disco Rout' and recently released The Rise and Fall of Manuel Noriega, made with a Yamaha QY70, Korg Vocoder and MS20 synthesizer! We are pleased to welcome a true master!
Digitonal
Andy Dobson's cinematic electronica project has been going since 1999 and has seen releases through cult UK labels like Toytronic, Seed and Cactus Island.
Now in a new home at leading UK chillout label Just Music, and with second album Save Your Light for Darker Days released in 2008 to great acclaim, Digitonal's collision of string drenched beauty, melodic electronics and expansive beats continues to push electronica into new territory. Uplifting, emotive and beautiful.
English Electric
English Electric's cosmiche dancehall sound has been gaining plaudits over the past couple of years, with releases on Mighty Robot Recordings and Dumb Terminal, and a handful of live sets up and down the country. Blending italokraut arpeggiations, OST moods and micro- produced beats, English Electric's live sets are a positively floor pleasing mind trip.
www.myspace.com/englishelectric
BOPS
If you've been to any underground dance/electronica events in Bradford over the past 10 years, chances are that you were at a BOPS event.
Now with the BOPS label ready for launch, featuring such techno luminaries as Alex Under, Mark Broom & Gaetano Parisio and tracks from the bops boys them selves, world domination appears imminent (arf,arf). So to coincide with the launch of the label BOPSTAG,BOPS will be playing for the awesome TERRORIST crew, expect a mish-mash of technoise and houso and lots more in-between!
Mark Jones
Mark Jones has been creating electric music for over 10 years working under the names Indigo Mews, Loomer and Electro Pocket Pussy. In 2006 he released his debut album 'Slush' on HippoCamp records and released singles on French label Digitalbiotope in 2007. After a year or so in the creative wilderness and spending the summer DJing out in Vancouver he has returned with a new style fusing techno rhythms, electro sounds and dark melodies.
Dorian Wood
Avante artist/musician Dorian Wood makes a rare appearance following from his live set at Homoelectric two years ago where he seduced and blew everyone away with his raw, loosely improvised, piano/guitar set which went off on tangents of howling blues soaked soulsearching.
Dark, soulful compositions, with themes ranging from fiery lakes and modern-day plagues to love's incurable diseases, come alive via the spiraling wail/battle cry of Los Angeles-based singer/composer Dorian Wood. With a sound that echoes both Scott Walker and Nina Simone, Wood's work has been presented in a wide range of formats: piano, accordion, a cappella, or accompanied by a Bulgarian women's choir or 25-piece.
Gordon Tinnitus
Originally from Northern Ireland, Gordon Tinnitus is an up-and coming electronica artist based in Manchester. His unique sound covers a broad spectrum of genres ranging from beautiful, melodic, progressive electronica right through to heavy break-beats and chaotic noise. Certain influences can be recognised from record labels such as Warp Records, Reflex and Planet Mu. Last year his EP, Unhealthy Obsessions was played on Radio One, despite never being released commercially.
As far as the live show is concerned, it could go cheerful and funky or dark and nasty! Expect a variety of genres mashed together as Gordon plays a wide range of his material, new and old, LIVE!
Troubleshooter
Rob Holloway produces unique electronic music under the alias of 'Troubleshooter".
For over the past 20 years he's been fascinated with sound, within his Troubleshooter everything is either uniquely synthesised or personally sampled from around the World.He has previously released on Berlin based record label Iwari, and his music has been played by many established radio & club DJs worldwide have played his music including the late/great John Peel.
Troubleshooter has played live gigs @ 'Ghetto Sessions' in Istanbul, 'Tronic' in Glasgow and 'The Latitude Festival' in Norwich. Local Manchester Electronic nights have been with 'Sequence', 'Il1ectro' and 'Music is Better'.
The Troubleshooter live set will demonstrate from the smooth, tricky, dark musical with plenty of sub-bass to fast-paced, unique, underground, experimental, dance-floor sonic engineered creations.
DJs
Resident Terrorists
Afi Khan
James Sizen Bell KBeard