Friday 7th June - Hollow Point V: The Final Shot
Line Up: Hamacide, Downstate, Drunk Monk
Entrance: 20rmb
Bullet-proof beats and bass all night long. This is the final session that the 3 of us will play together for quite some time. Kevlar recommended
As SVBKVLT is now online and picking up speed, we have put together a little compilation of choice cuts from our current releases as well as previews of forthcoming SVBKVLT material and some upfront tracks from some of our favorite local producers, including the first taste of Laura Ingalls’ killer cassette release, some fresh beats from Downstate and Hamacide, TzuSing’s first officially released track, a stunning preview of Bent Lynchpin’s (Caliph8’s band) forthcoming debut and SLV’v deadly VIP version of ‘Killers’, as well as a few other tracks featured on our first few cassette releases. The comp comes in the form of a digital download card, designed by Kim Laughton, and only 300 have been made, with around 150 already given out around Tokyo last weekend. We have put aside a bunch of these cards to give out to the first 100 people at this Saturday’s Sub-Culture / Stockholm Syndrome collab at Shelter with Jimmy Edgar. Get down early!
Tracklist:
One of our favorite labels at the moment, Darker The Wax, have just put out this great EP from Hong Kong’s Floyd Cheung. We’ve been liking Floyd’s productions for a while now and this EP sums up exactly why! It features a few of the beats included on his SVBKVLT Beat Tape (which will be on general sale very soon) as well as a bunch of fresh tracks too. I believe its limited to 200 downloads so get on it quick!
Thursday 16th May – Hula Honeys Showcase feat. Bit-Tuner (live), NHK’KOYXEN (live), Feldermelder (live) + Nik! & Soult
Line Up: Bit-Tuner (live), NHK’KOYXEN (live), Feldermelder (live), Nik! (djset), Soult (dj set)
Entrance: 40rmb
Hula Honeys is a label for *emotronic sunshine* based in Zürich, Switzerland. We aim to provide your musical reproduction devices with special, intense, true school, open minded, imaginative and inspired music.
In the past years, the Hula Honeys have focussed on releasing music digitally and on vinyl with loose connections to the electronic spheres. It could be loud, aiming at your peaktime thrills. But it also might be quiet and thoughtful, deep or crackled – the influences go from Electronica, Bass Music, HipHop, Leftfield, IDM and beyond. The Honeys’ artists to date include Feldermelder, Bit-Tuner, Hepp, Buvette, Fell and Somtek / Schnauz, among others.
NHK’KOYXEN (live)
NHK’Koyxen was born in Osaka, a musician and drawing artist. He lives in Osaka and Berlin. He started drawing in his childhood under the influence of his grandfather. He grew up listening to hardcore-techno and hiphop, studied architecture and has been making music since 1992.
His 1st album “Upside Down” was released by Mille Plateaux (Germany) in 1998. Since then, he has collaborated with Merzbow, Sensational, Autechre’s Sean Booth, Mika Vainio, Conrad Schnitzler, Anti Pop Consorium’s High Priest and many more. He is working under many aliases like NHK, Koyxen, etc. Over the last 15 years he has released albums on seminal labels including Raster Noton, SKAM and most recently the amazing PAN label
BIT-TUNER (live)
“Bit-Tuner is the master of booming basswalls and sweeping noises” – 20minuten
A Bit-Tuner live show means heavy beats, blown up bass sounds, gloomy athmospheres, acid-driven melodies and uproaring soundscapes. His musical field of expression reaches from HipHop Beats to Electronica, Noise, theater productions and film soundtracks.
In his energy-driven concerts, Bit-Tuner oscillates between Downbeats, Electronica and Post-Dubstep, while he pulls his tracks together to become a gloomy, but still euphoric bass monster. Live, he has shared the stages with Acts like Kelpe, Jon Hopkins, Ben Frost, Modeselektor, Shackleton, Jimi Tenor, Zomby or Actress.
Bit-Tuner has collaborated with and / or remixed various rappers like Bleubird (Florida), Oddateee (Deadverse Rec.), Sole (Anticon) or Sensational (WordSound/NYC), Filewile (Mouthwatering Rec.), Omega Takeshi (88:Komaflash), Audio88 (Berlin).
FELDERMELDER (live)
„He creates music that was once aptly described as the lost art of keeping a secret“ – Spezialmaterial Records
Feldermelder has been performing on stages all over the world for over ten years – clubs in Switzerland know his music just as well as the museums, forests, raves and festivals all over Europe, Russia, Japan, USA, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He is also an innovative remixer for Sinner DC, Scrubber Fox, Mochipet, The Sign & the Opposite and many others. Equipped with analogue synthesizers and controlled digital equipment, Feldermelder creates ever evolving sound universes in which rhythm, simplicity and complexity interlock elastically.
With his album “The Echo Circus” on Spezialmaterial, Feldermelder makes clear what he means by this: athmospheric, deconstructed tracks mutate into stomping beat-tracks. His new album “Henriks Fishing Catapult” is scheduled to be released on Everest Records in 2013.
NIK! (dj set)
DJ & producer Nik! has been causing disturbance with his sets, sounds and events for years.
As one half of the DJ-tag-team The Dean Soniks (w/ Soult), as promoter, as a co-founder of the label Hula Honeys or as solo-DJ: his activities are always about the connections between related music and styles, about music between tradition and innovation, about heavy basslines and hymns.
He is known for sets that oscillate between styles – bring things together – opening windows to musical dawn, or doom. His Releases and Remixes on Hula Honeys and Quiet Records develop their grooves based on Dub, HipHop and Electronica.
SOULT (dj set)
Soult has been active as DJ, producer and master of chaos for years. Together with Nik!, he forms the DJ-tag-team The Dean Soniks.
Soult is unpredictable – breaking the limits of styles and rolling over the dancefloors of the world with shining dance tripping hazards. Back in the 90ies, Soult organised excessive nights in clubs and forests as one of the founders of the legendary Jungle Crew Tsunami.
As Soult, he is releasing his own music on his mysterious Tape Label Inner Noise and on Hula Honeys. Since January 2010, he runs the monthly mix series Soultmonth, on which he digs through his record collection and deals with styles or moods of music, one at a time.
We are finally getting things together and SVBKVLT is now online!! Just the cassettes are available at the moment, but in the next week or so our full line of clothing, stickers and slipmats will be up, as well as a few new bits and pieces we’ve been working on including some beautiful art prints, new slipmats and a lot more music!
To celebrate us getting our shit together finally, we have uploaded the whole if side a from Floyd Cheung’s killer beat tape! Enjoy…
Saturday 4th May – Sub-Culture presents: Shackleton (live)
Line Up: Shackleton, Downstate (live), Faded Ghost, Drunk Monk, Steven Lorenz, ChaCha, Didje, Ubec
Entrance: 60rmb
@ The Shelter – 5 YongFu Lu
Co-conspirator of the infamous Skull Disco, along-side Appleblim, Shackleton’s maverick take on big basslines and complex beats doesn’t fit easily in to any category. Thundering bass, tribal rhythms, snaking percussion, hypnotic melodies and dubwise sensibilities, his sound is like no other. Taking influences from the UK’s dubstep sound, Berlin’s techno expertise and drum and percussion rhythms from every corner of the globe, Shackleton produces a sound which is hard to describe but even harder to resist.
2012’s The Draw Bar Organ EP’s/Music For The Quiet Hour was some of his most inspired and groundbreaking work to date, and his new live show has taken his sound to a whole other level. Shackleton rarely travels, but his last 2 shows at The Shelter (2011 & 2010) made such an impact that he has agreed to come back once more with a brand new live show. Special guest support from Downstate (live).
This month’s deadly poster was designed by Shanghai’s Twin Horizon.
Today marks 14 years since the tragic passing of a DJ which made a big impact on me when i was younger, Kemistry. Back in 1997 I attended my first proper dance music festival in London’s Finsbury Park, The Essential Weekender. I had been to music festivals throughout my childhood with my parents (mainly Jazz or Folk stuff), but this was the first festival i was genuinely excited by and was an experience that i would never forget.
The festival was split into 2 days, a ‘dance’ day and a ‘roots’ day. Me and my Dad travelled down to London from Manchester and the deal was that i could choose what we went to see during the dance day and my Dad was in charge of what we went to see the following day. I’d been listening to Jungle for a few years, mainly from Radio 1′s ‘One In The Jungle’ show every Friday, but due to my age ( I was 14 at the time of the festival) I hadn’t been to any proper DnB events, so this festival was the first time I heard the music on a big sound system.
Although I remember going to see Massive Attack, Reprazent, Talvin Singh and Red Snapper, most of the day was spent in the Metalheadz tent. For some reason, even though i must have been there during the majority of the sets, the 2 sets I remember the most are Randall and Kemistry & Storm. I remember the Randall set because my Dad had brought his Sony Walkman Professional (a huge brick-like walkman which was top of the range at the time) and sneakily recorded some of the sets, Randall’s being one of them. I don’t think we actually recorded Kemistry and Storm’s set, but for some reason I can remember it quite vividly, even to the point where I’m pretty sure they opened up with Krust’s Warhead (or some version of it). I think it was during this set when i first ‘got it’. I ‘got’ the sound, I experience the frequencies as they are meant to be experienced and not just at home listening to the radio. It very much changed my outlook on music and my listening habits, and also in turn kick started my vinyl addiction. I also believe it plays an important role in where I am now, and what I am doing.
Kemistry passed away 14 years ago today in a car accident due to a faulty/loose cat’s eye on the road. In remembrance of Kemistry, Metalheadz have uploaded this remastered recording of Kemistry, Storm and Goldie playing in Brighton in 1996.
R.I.P Valerie Olukemi A “Kemi” Olusanya aka DJ Kemistry - October 13, 1963 – April 25, 1999
Massive thanks to everyone who came out to the SVBKVLT Launch & Poster Exhibition last Sunday. It was a great day/night and very inspiring for us. We will be posting up pics and a bit of a review later in the week, but first off here is a deadly track produced by Laura Ingalls using solely a piece of equipment he purchased from MengQi at the event. For those who missed out, MengQi is a producer and mad scientist from Beijing and we brought him down to the SVBKVLT launch to showcase his creations and to give a short talk on sound synthesis. SVBKVLT will be collaborating more with MengQi in the near future so you will be hearing more about him very soon, but check out his site here
DETAILS :
Sunday 21st April – Sub-Culture + Idle Beats present: SVBKVLT Launch + Poster Exhibition
@ On Stage – A2, Lane 570, Huaihai Xi Lu, near Hongqiao Lu
2pm – Late ** Free Entry
**NEWS FLASH** Very very welcome addition to this Sunday’s line-up! The long over return of SIG!! He will be joining Faded Ghost, MengQi, SLV, LON, Redscale + APC and more at the SVBKVLT Launch + Poster Exhibition! 2pm start, free entrance you’d be stupid not to!
DETAILS :
Sunday 21st April – Sub-Culture + Idle Beats present: SVBKVLT Launch + Poster Exhibition
@ On Stage – A2, Lane 570, Huaihai Xi Lu, near Hongqiao Lu
2pm – Late ** Free Entry
