This Sunday, Monorex have kindly offered up a room at ONE OF TEN at The Queen Of Hoxton. If you are free, come have some drinks and get involved with us as we deliver our usual mix of UK Bass, underground classics, dancefloor bangers and more. We are proud to welcome Tunetourist and pictures music to the fold who I am sure you will be hearing a lot more of in the next few months. If you haven’t GOT SOME before, come and GET SOME this Sunday…
A little late, but they are here at long last!!!!! Thanks to SSG for taking the snaps. Holla if you’re in any of them… click on the thumbnails to enlarge the gallery of images.
We are back and hitting Gramaphone for the first time in 2010. Check it out:
GET SOME
17TH APRIL 2010
2100 – 0330
THE GRAMAPHONE
60-62 COMMERCIAL ST
LONDON, E1 6LT
MOSCA
DANCING ROBOT MUSIC
ELIJAH & SKILLIAM
DARK ARX
PRINCESS OF WALES
SSG
WHISKEY + OUZO
On the 17th April, Get Some returns home to the The Gramaphone with a card stacked full of talent.
Tipped by Fact Magazine as one of their producers to watch for 2010, Mosca (www.myspace.com/deejaymosca) is leaving no stone unturned this year. When not working on Bruk Magazine (www.brukmagazine.wordpress.com) with Unknown Soulja, or promoting their club night U Dun Know, he’s busy in the lab cooking up beats. Super fresh production, genre smashing club music. Square One is out now on Night Slugs.
With remixes under their belts for Hot Chip and Gorillaz, a pioneering 3D rave night, a radio show and a record label, Dancing Robot (http://www.dancingrobotmusic.co.uk) look set to stop at nothing but world domination. Their live shows are pure hype and the lads’ sets at packed out Coronet and Koko are sights to behold.
Badboy Rinse FM DJ’s Elijah and Skilliam have been rocking out shows across Europe with the toughest grime and dubstep sets. It can’t be overstated how much they do for the scene with their Butterz blog (http://verybutterz.blogspot.com/) pushing the sound far and wide. And with a record label on the way, the levels continues to be kept high. Dubplate pressure not to be missed.
As per, resident Get Some selectors will keep you niced up all night with the right blend of old and new. Stick it in your diary.
5 POUND ALL NIGHT
If you want to keep up to date with our movements on Facebook, click here: EVENT, GROUP. Don’t forget to check back for all the usual GET SOME exclusives, mixes and interviews building up to the event! Should be a large one, see you there!
YO! Hello from Copenhagen people… I have wanted to do something with Tom Scott, a friend over at Chemical records, and was talking to him before Christmas about bits and bobs. After chatting I realised that it was Chemicals 10th year as an online store (pretty good going if you ask me) and that now would be a good time to ask him some questions. Watch this space as Chemical and Get Some may have something up their sleeve for 2010! So here is the interview, hope you enjoy. Thanks very much Tom!
PEACE&OUZO!
Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Tom Scott and I’m responsible for marketing at Chemical Records. I’m involved in too many things to list them all here, but mainly focus on music-related fashion marketing, PR and advertising. If you’ve ever seen a Chemical Records vinyl giveaway on Dubstep Forum, that’s me as well.
Where are you currently based?
I live and work in Bristol. Bedminster, South Of The River.
When did you first get involved with music and what were you doing?
Chemical is actually my first music industry employer. Before I came here I was running the show online at Drooghi, which was a great menswear retailer in Cardiff.
How has the music industry changed since you first got involved? In your opinion, has the online revolution has a positive effect on what you do and the music industry?
I think the biggest change has been the shift in importance for artists of live performances over record sales. It’s something that many DJs and producers have known for years now: record releases are important for establishing your name, DJ sets and live PAs bring in the regular income.
As for the online revolution, I think the general assumption that digital music sales are killing off vinyl couldn’t be further from the truth. Being an online vinyl retailer allows us to sell to scores of emerging markets and our vinyl sales are stronger than ever. That’s the real benefit of the internet on the music industry, it’s opens it up to many more talented people who never would have had a look in previously. If you’re making great music, geography shouldn’t be a limiting factor in getting it heard.
It wasn’t very long ago that the music industry pronounced vinyl dead. In the last couple of years digital music has begun to find its feet, how has this affected your business and has vinyl made a comeback?
Vinyl was and continues to be the foundation of our business. As I mentioned in my previous answer, the internet has allowed us to sell to a number of countries that most people would have dismissed offhand if they didn’t know any better. Hopefully, access to our music has been a contributing factor in the growth of their local scene.
Do you find there to be a prejudice against DJ’s who use MP3′s and is software like Ableton Live bridging the gap?
I think it’s a fairly typical response to new technology, especially when the existing way of doing things has been around for so long. Personally I think once people realise the versatility these digital interfaces give you they’ll be more open to them. I know guys in the US like Starkey work closely with manufacturers on testing and development and speaking to Starkey about it, he’s said it’s opened up so many more options to him in terms of the music he can play. What DJ wouldn’t want to broaden their range, increase the number of bookings they can get and the number of people they can play out to?
What can we expect from Chemical in 2010?
2010 is the 10th year of the Chemical website, so we’ve got one or two things lined up to mark the occasion. Without going into specifics and giving the game away, we’ve got a number of products and events coming that are going to make this a year to remember.
If your career in music was to end tomorrow, what would you do instead?
If wasn’t working in music or fashion, I’d like to think it was because I’d gone off in a MK1 Range Rover to build a vineyard in the Cornish Riviera.
Who should we be watching in 2010?
Kastle, Mensah and Cosmin TRG are the three I’m watching.
Kastle is a new project from B.Rich that’s remixing and producing on a Roger Troutman/Zapp level.
Mensah is H.E.N.C.H.’s prodigal son. I’ve been lucky enough to see him go B2B with Jakes at Run and you feel the future of this music’s in safe hands!
TRG needs no introduction – he’s one of those very lucky people that can turn their hand to any style of music and produce amazing things.
And finally, please complete the following sentence…
GET SOME… Sun!
It has been a long time coming but it is finally here, Binary Sequence – 66/31, the debut release on the Dark Arx imprint has dropped and is a very fine debut at that! It is reminiscent of all things that were great about Electronica in the 90′s with a big nod to the pioneering bass lead music now being produced in the UK. 66/31 would be more than at home if it was released by the infamous WARP RECORDS which is testament to the quality of production and hybrid of styles. If you like Autechre or are a fan of Boards of Canada, then this release is for you.
Here’s a little knowledge about Binary Sequence. Based in London, Binary Sequence has been playing, writing and producing music for 20 years. Before being swept up in the electronica of the late 90s, he spent years tackling the mind-bending harmonics and rhythms of 60s & 70s jazz as a saxophonist and pianist. While starting to write his own music, he began to explore the possibilities of electronic production and after much experimentation and refinement he has created a unique sound, combining dusty distortion with pristine production values. Sonic comparisons point to Pole, Dabrye and Burial – but Binary Sequence’s musicality is rooted in “Artificial Intelligence”-era electronica (Aphex Twin, Autechre, Black Dog).
Track 1, ‘Arc’, takes you on a hypnotic journey through the Dub-Techno sphere, mellow enough for your headphones yet big enough to hit your chest on a dance floor. You move through the spectrum with ‘Below The Ice’ which is more akin to Autechre and Boards, a spatial, gritty electronic experience, which I would say is a darker version of something you might hear on Four Tet’s definitive ‘Rounds’ release in 2003. Finally you reach the peak, in my opinion the track most likely to be heard at a GET SOME dance, ’66/31′. This one creeps up on you. It has been at least six months since I first heard this and I only got it a while ago. It has energy where it shouldn’t have and is dangerously dark. You can really hear the Techno and Electronica influences in this track, the way it builds, the layers that is has to it and the atmosphere it creates. I think this will be right up there in the end of year stakes when we look back at 2010 debut releases. Watch out for this label, big tings to come!
So hats off boys, I know how much hard work it has been to get this record out, congratulations and we here at GET SOME look forward to your next release.
A great mix, definitely worth a listen. I was blown away at the back end of last year when London based producer Greymatter dropped his ‘When I Was Lost / Grot’ EP, and have been loving his work ever since. Expect big things in 2010, and who knows, maybe more of Greymatter here on GET SOME…? Look out for his forthcoming Album, ‘Mind Over Matter’, due to be released at the back end of next month.
As the year draws to a close, and the dust settles on Friday, we thought we would post up the pics of another great night! If you see yourself, please comment.Thanks to everyone who came, and to EXEL, ISHU, GREENA, DARK ARX, SSG, and everyone else involved. So, we hope all of you have a great X–Mas, and NYE, and we’ll see you in 2010…
It’s kinda like an advent calender, and this is the third day of GET SOME! Today we are proud to bring you an exclusive mini mix by DJ Greena which you can listen to and download here! Check it out and enjoy!!!!! Friday is looking BIG.
PEACE
Tracklist Julio Bashmore – um bongo (dead boy remix) (dub)
Karizma – how fly this life is
Pangea – sunset yellow (forthcoming hessle audio)
Jam City – underpass (dub)
Martin Kemp – after the night ( forthcoming blunted robots)
Mosca – square one (greena rmx) (forthcoming night slugs)
Mya – free (brackles rmx) (dub)
Zed Bias – neighbourhood (steve gurley rmx)
KMA – cape fear
Aardvarck – nosestep
Peverelist – esperanto
Davinche – buzz lightyear
Wiley – you would get wileup
It’s coming quickly now, and our resident bad man selector SSG has dropped another promo mix and it’s another banger! Don’t forget to check out the Facebook group and event for more info and set times.
As we kick off this week in the warm up to the party on Friday night, we bring you Exel’s interview and mix from Reggae Roast’s latest show at the Jazz Cafe featuring Ishu.
Name(s):
EXEL & MC ISHU
Where are you from? Where do you live now?
I was born in Hackney and still reside at London fields.
Who are you and what do you do?
I am 24 years old, I run an event & label called Reggae Roast and generally hustle.
A day in the life of you consists of….
Wake up, cup of tea, shower, switch on the mac, do the emails, work, cigarette, work, eat, cigarette, work, Coffee, work, meet my girl, chill, cigarette, eat & sleep. Roughly.
What was the first record you bought?
Cypress Hill – ‘Tequila Sunrise’ 12″
Who influenced your musical career?
Solution Sound System, Ghetto Priest, Adrian Sherwood, David Rodigan, Roni Size, Sizzla
Who are your influences now? (not necessarily musicians)
It’s here and it looks BIG! This is what you need to know…
After the success of our launch party at the Gramaphone in October, GET SOME moves to The Book Club in Shoreditch for the follow up. For our Christmas spesh, headlining are some of the most exciting DJs in Lond…on – GREENA (www.myspace.com/ukgreena) and EXEL & ISHU. The Book Club (http://www.wearetbc.com) is a new venue in Shoreditch, offering art, film, food, drinking and dancing over two floors with excellent lighting and sound.
GREENA’s mixes represent so much of what is great about UK underground music past and present. Full of energy his sets incorporate Grime, 2-Step, Baltimore, Funky, Hip-Hop and Dubstep and always technically on point. Check the Fact magazine mix [http://www.sendspace.com/file/w280dx]
EXEL & ISHU are two artists from the Reggae Roast collective. Regularly rocking out parties across London and abroad the duo stand for positive vibes as they lay down pure fire sets of Dubstep, Reggae and Dancehall. Watch out for forthcoming Reggae Roast releases: Exel & Moodie Reggae Roast Mix Cd ‘Roots Uprising’ Coming out on December 14th, Exel produced ‘Willing & Able’ released on October 12th – Getting plays from Rodigan on Kiss.
Supporting our headliners will be residents SSG (http://soundcloud.com/ssgssg), Dark Arx (http://www.myspace.com/darkarx), Whiskey & Ouzo (www.getsomeuk.com) laying down an eclectic mix of UKG//DUBSTEP//GRIME//HOUSE//FUNKY//TECH.
It is here!!!! Thanks to everyone who represented at GET SOME 001, it is because of you that we are able to announce that we have arranged 002. Check back in the next couple of days for information on the line up, but the GET SOME DJ’s, WHISKEY & OUZO, plus resident SSG, Princess of Wales (P.O.W.) and Dark ARX will be reppin’ in full force.
We have also moved to The Book Club which is a new venue in Shoreditch (which we have already played at and can vouch for) and we are really looking forward to bringing the GET SOME sound and vibe too.
The line up is looking tasty and, as always, we will be bringing you interviews and mixes from all of the artists. So come on down for another night to remember and don’t forget… TELL A FRIEND, TO TELL A FRIEND, TO TELL A FRIEND… GET SOME!!!!
