Cracking mix from Greymatter in the warm up to this year’s NYE celebrations. Greymatter plays alongside Scuba/SCB, Joy O, Wbeeza and a host of others including Kitsch & Sync at Tief, Corsica Studios.
Kevin McPhee – Your Side
Tornado Wallace – Insect Overlords
FaltyDL – Atlantis
KRL – Deep Down
Kevin McPhee – Sleep
Alex Jones – With The Hats
Mosca – Orange Jack
Storm Queen – It Goes On (Vox)
Darling Farah – Foregin
Aardvark – Just Washed That Pig (Extended Mix)
Mosca – Dom Perignon
The Crazy Brazilian – Hold
Paul Woolford & Psycatron – Stolen
Floating Points – ARP3
For the raving crew who wont take bed for an answer, check out Kitsch & Sync’s NYD party in Stoke Newington. It’s a guest list only occasion so head over to the facebook page and get your name down if you think it might be for you.
Blindingly good house track from the man like Greymatter. Out now on Wolf MUsic. Buy here. Quality video too, just make sure you watch it in full screen.
If you came to GET SOME on Saturday, thanks you. if not, here’s what you missed… A massive thank you to Greymatter, R1 Ryders, Pariah, G-Double and the Essex boys for making the night what it was, BIG!
The last of our featured artists, Greymatter, has kindly offered up one the tracks from his album, Raw Root, as a free 32o digital download here and here only! He is also giving away 50 copies of his album, Mind Over Matter, to the first 50 people through the door on Saturday night, what a guy… We interviewed Greymatter earlier this year, check that out here: http://getsomeuk.com/?p=577.
We are back with another event and can’t wait for it to happen!!!!
GET SOME
19.06.10
THE GRAMAPHONE
Spitalfields,
60-62 Commercial Street,
London, E1 6LT
2100 – 0330
£3 before 12, £5 after
Girls free before 11!
GREYMATTER
With a full length LP release under his belt and subsequent remixes from TRG, Illum Sphere and Karizma; Greymatter is steadily forging a solid reputation for himself. His deep and soulful 2-step sound has been getting props from Zed Bias, Will Saul, Jay Scarlett, Blue Daisy, Subeena and Laurent Garnier. Our first fifty party goers will receive a free copy of Greymatter’s CD LP, incentive if more were need to get down early!
PARIAH (R&S/Black Acre)
Blurring the lines between house, techno and garage, Pariah immediately grabbed listeners’ attention with some excellent remix work for Ellie Goulding and The XX. These have been followed up with a debut 12″ release (Detroit Falls) on legendary dance music label R&S records. Demand for this kid has soared, securing him sets across the UK and as far afield as Amsterdam and the Netherlands. His Sonic Router mix (http://fairtilizer.com/track/81775) encompassed what we are all about, upfront new sounds alongside club classics.
R1 RYDERS
Since dropping their debut EP Burnout last year DJ/Producer Karnak and MC Skeelo have been tearing up show after show. Through their unique funkitek sound you can hear all the underground scenes that have influenced the group, house, hardcore, jungle and rave coming together form something new. If you’ve caught an R1 Ryders set before, you know that these boys are live and if not then you’re in for a treat.
GET SOME resident selector Ouzo (http://soundcloud.com/ouzo) will be providing the goods as always and we are pleased to welcome Pictures to the roster.
On Saturday night I popped down to Corsica studios with a few peeps to see the Black Acre records show case. It was good to catch up with some heads that were lingering around and some that were playing on the night that you will see VERY soon playing for us too. The line up was ace and included Pariah, Greymatter, R1 Ryder, Dark Sky, Doc Daneeka and Julio Bashmore, very exciting indeed. One thing I wasn’t expecting was what I got from Blue Daisy.
I saw the engineers setting up on stage a couple of hours earlier and couldn’t believe my eyes, they were setting up an MPC (fairly normal) and a desktop PC, WTF?!?!?!? Later I realised it was for the guy in the gas mask, enter Blue Daisy.If you have ever seen any old school WARP acts and love Electronica or Techno then his performance would have been right up your street. He literally blew me and everyone else at Corsica away. I can’t tell you what he was playing or whether you will ever hear that set again but what I can tell you is he is officially my new favourite live act!
I love his productions and have been following him on Soundcloud for a long time, so if you don’t know his track, here they are…Well worth a listen.
We have been speaking to Graymatter over the last couple of months and have managed to get a mini GET SOME interview with him! He is a favourite of ours here and is definitely one to watch this year and from what I have heard from his new album, Mind Over Matter, he is bound to blow. We have also managed to book him for our June event at the Gramaphone so look out for that one… Greymatter is not only a great producer but he has some very interesting views on the music industry and sounds like he has his head screwed on. The album was released on CD on Monday and Digital version is available as of tomorrow, be sure to get your self a copy. Check out the interview below.
PEACE
GREYMATTER INTERVIEW
Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Graham. I spend all of my time working on music in one form or another.
Where are you currently based?
South London
When did you first get involved with music and what were you doing?
Been buying and listening for as long as I can remember. Dance music started with commercial dance when I was 11 or 12 – ‘Now’ compilations, Dance Mania etc. I liked piano breakdowns, particularly fast ones, dirty I know. That led me to hardcore and jungle around 1993/4 onto happy hardcore then trance funky house big beat electronica all forms of soul and jazz Brazilian African over 15 years….. now literally anything gets a run. I went through a stage of listening to music I didn’t like just to create reference points and a fuller musical landscape – knowing what something sounds like has
always been more important to me than knowing the name of the artist/track/label.
Started messing with DJing at 15 after a moment of clarity whilst listening to a United Dance 1 compilation I think; realising it was two records playing at the same time was pretty special. Went straight out and bought a 12”, modded a broken turntable I found in my loft and mixed to radio for a few months until I got some belt drives. The rest was step by step.
I grew up in Maidstone, which had a lot to offer in terms of dance music at the time – Club Class was rammed every Friday and live on Radio 1 a fair bit. There were also some good hip hop and drum and bass sessions around town. The big events were at Atomics, which was a 1000 capacity square room, face the front, elevated booth, big system. Influence wise that place is second only to Plastic People for me, it used to go off. We also had a couple of good record shops and there were a lot of raves in and around Kent so there was a decent scene.
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?
Big question, too big to answer properly here. Changes have been enormous – some for the good eg access to music, access to production software, discoverability of music. Some for the bad eg falling sales, falling publishing income, the increased speed at which scenes are born and die, less time given to attention given to individual tracks, increased hype level.
The whole game has flipped. There is no longer one answer to surviving in the music industry – you have to know your market inside out. And theyr’e all different.
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 there is yes, but people are going to have to get used to it. Personally I have always embraced new technology – I use everything be it Ableton, Serato, CD or vinyl. What comes out the speakers is the most important thing for me.
I do have issues with people playing low quality audio though. I recently heard about a night in Portsmouth that only allows music downloaded from blogs for example… I don’t have all the details but i’m guessing its a proper ear basher.
What can we expect form Greymatter in 2010?
Second album, a few collaborations and remixes, a jazz project, some techno, more on Wolf Music and a live show
If your career in music was to end tomorrow, what would you do instead?
Carpenter
Who should we be watching in 2010?
New stuff from Mark Pritchard as Afrika Hi Tek is BAD, Illum Sphere, KRL, Klic, Throwing Snow, Blue Daisy, VVV, Wolf Music, Subeena, Sampha, Americen Men
And finally, please complete the following sentence…
I badly need some at the moment so its definitely….
