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28-Mar-2007

Dubstep squat party, this Friday 30th March.

This current wave of U.K. dance is the most promising thing we've heard come out of the club scene in a long time. Underpinned by heavy old skool sub bass and half step dub rhythms that provide a canvas for sonic experimentation, the shear depth of sound gives producers the space to explore, re-invent and redefine a variety of influences from Jungle, Hip Hop to Techno, all punctuated by an undertone of urban decay and dystopian future.

You wanna find out if all the hype is deserved ? - Go check it out...Basssssss.....
Read below or check the e-flyer for details.


Abacus Sounds presents...
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D U B S T E P A F T E R H O U R S
FRIDAY MARCH 30
10PM to 10AM AND BEYOND
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DJs:

KODE9
LOEFAH
N-TYPE

T_! b2b R.Demon (Macabre Unit)
Rootsteady (Electrodub, reggae, dubstep)
HXW (Formerly Rivalry; dub, dubstep - Abacus)
Heva (Bashment, dubstep, grime - Abacus)
Bracket (Old skool, jungle, dubstep - Combat Recordings/Plex)
Mission Creep (Abacus)
$hy (Dubstep - afterdark)
Synthektik (Dub, dubstep - Abacus)
Easychord (Screwed & chopped hip-hop set - Vice/Do it!)
Pathfinder (Drum n bass, dubstep - Abacus)

MCs:

K9 (Macabre Unit)
...and a very special very favorite surprise guest mc...

Call 07974892670

£5 -- East London location -- £1.50 beers -- security tight but polite -- support the cause

18-Feb-2007

We've created a podcast of all our downloadable releases and mixes so you can keep up to date with the audio content from your favourite podcatcher. If your new to podcasting it's basically just on demand media content. You subscribe via a podcatcher (or aggregator) to podcasts from websites / channels that your interested in and the software downloads the content for you. The content is then available on your machine for playback at your leisure. Check this podcatcher list compatible software for your operating system.

22-Jan-2007

Next generation of synthesizer / digital audio performance tool anyone ? Reactable is a "state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface" The video demo is fairly self explanatory to anyone with a basic understanding of synthesis. We were totally blown away by this kit and we'd love to get our hands on it ! Hopefully tools like this will help to advance the performance aspect of digital music which is often comparable and about as exciting as watching someone check their emails..

22-Jan-2007

Bang is a book about Pure Data - the free and Open Source real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Bang was published towards the end of last year but you can download the chapters for free from the website. Chapters such as Pd & Synaesthesia, Basic Physical Modeling Concepts and Is Pd Art? No and Yes. Two Attempts ensure there is something for everyone. Go Consume..

22-Jan-2007

We're a little late in picking this up but there's a nice review of Sepia Hours from the excellent Belgian musical webzine Derives.net. Derives.net specialise in reviewing intimate and atmospheric indie music of the finest kind and are a great source of underground musics.
Happy 2007 folks :)