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Something of a new direction for Goldielocks as she teams up with Gut Instinct label-mate Futurecut. All I can say is HEAVY! Can’t wait to hear what the collab with Kashmir Kid on flip sounds like.

Another installment of On The Buttons in November showcases the talents of female rapper Baby Blue and a Q&A with the mighty Loefah. If you don’t know what this is about, here’s a little example of what goes down from the last event. Swindle is mind boggling with the speed in which he builds this beat, very impressive stuff!

DJs Kashmir Kid and Tanzanite will keep things rolling with their mix of experimental underground sounds while you grab a drink, network with other like minded musicians, and maybe challenge them to a game of ping pong!

They are also putting on free drinks and it free to attend, can’t beat that really, can you? Sign up to the Facebook event to make sure you get a place on the guest list. FACEBOOK ON THE BUTTONS

Alternatively, email names to onthebuttons@gmail.com to get on the guestlist

SEE YOU THERE!

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2-6pm at The Red Bull HQ (3 mins walk from London Bridge station)

We have posted about Kashmir Kid before and posted up a mix or two and now his first release is finally available to buy! Kashmir Kid makes his debut release on Goldielocks’ label Gut Instinct with ‘Return To Bombay City’. Already gaining support from DJs such as Swindle, Redlight, Klose One and Seb Chew who gave it’s first airplay on Rinse FM just hours after hearing it.

Sarah has been chatting to us about KK for a while and we will be doing some bits with him in the near future, so watch this space! He is of British and Pakistani heritage, Kashmir Kid makes electronic music with an influence of Dubstep, UK Funky and Future Garage, all with his signature Eastern subtleties hidden within each track. A product of Pakistani immigration and Goldie’s Inner City Life set to a backdrop of post 7/7 London, KK makes gritty inner city music for those slightly more conscious of concepts and themes.

If you haven’t heard it already, give it a go here, it’s defo worth a listen!

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Everyone has had a go at production or thinks they have the skills to make beats and could always ‘do it better’, right? If you’re an up and coming producer, or beginner, and are trying to tighten up your skills then this website might be right up your street.

Goldilocks’ new event, On The Buttons, is ‘a Bi-Monthly music event, with Q+A sessions with recognized music producers and live performances from new musical talent’. They have a different producer at each event come down and do a workshop on how they make beats and Swindle is doing the next one. Their website is full of tutorials and videos with lots of useful information on beat making and I highly recommend it! Check it out…

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Kashmir Kid is a new artist on Gut Instinct records, a label headed up by the formidable Goldielocks. All in all I think this track a nice debut. ONI is a total roller with a bass line so low I can’t pick it up on my headphones listening to this on Soundcloud. The more interesting of the two tracks in my opinion is MY TIME. I think it has has fresh take on the glitchy half step stuff that has been around for a while now, also incorporating what I think is a TLC vocal sample in there (I may be wrong on that), but none the less a nice track. According to Goldielocks there is lot more to come form Kashmir Kid, so keep your ears peeled!

Kashmir Kid – Oni by Gut Instinct Records
Kashmir Kid – My Time by Gut Instinct Records

Jut in case you haven’t heard this, wile on the subject of course, Falty DL has done a remix of Goldielocks’ last track ‘ADDICT‘. Have a listen:

Goldielocks – Addict (FaltyDL Remix) by Gut Instinct Records