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Online magazine for Brighton club listings, event spotting, comment and more

Jan 1st, 2004
by MarekTheCzech.
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Brighton Fusion has been running as an online magazine since 2004, starting our infancy with a flash-clunky site and music writers’ opposing penchants for electro, techno, breaks, free parties, experimental music and indie. Since the site’s formation, we’ve stuck to our guns, offering honest articles about Brighton events and nightlife. While other magazines / sites have business suits, corporate ownership and sushi, we have shared passion, cigarettes and meetings in pubs.

We now cover culture, technology and art, but we still keep music at the heart of everything we do – with the aim of telling you the inside scoop on going out in Brighton.

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Dave Clarke @ The Concorde

Aug 27th, 2010
by MarekTheCzech.
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Dave Clarke bringing it home to Brighton!
This is for those who live down my end of our fair island, or those who realise the genius of this guy and are prepared to travel for what will be a legendary night in Dave Clarke’s home town.
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Talking Big BlackBox presents DAVE CLARKE Sat 11th September, Concorde 2, Brighton
BIG BLACKBOX presents
THE TECHNO LEGEND DAVE CLARKE
SATURDAY 11th SEPTEMBER
CONCORDE 2
11.00 til 05.00
After the massive success of the first Big Black Box Techno in January, with the Orbital legend and local dance music hero Sir Philip of Hartnol. It’s onwards and ever upwards in our quest to bring local heroes back to play in their hometown. Blackbox is proud to present the techno baron that will never be part of the establishment, the legendary talent that is Dave Clarke! With skills on the decks that are unsurpassed he’s a true dance music pioneer, constantly looking for new ways to deliver sounds to the people. Brighton’s been denied a performance by this man for years and now he’s coming back what better place for his return than smashing up Brighton’s number 1 venue: Concorde2!
MAIN ROOM – BLACKBOX TECHNO
DAVE CLARKE – 2 Hour Exclusive Set
Alongside Blackbox residents
TONY MONTANA
TAYLORTRONIC
JIMINY CLACKETT
and Sicknotes own
SKETCHY STEVE
ROOM 2 – In Ther Face with extra 10K of sound Bassline / Dubstep / Rave / Fidget wobble
SCRAMBLED ED (Life4Land)
SIMTEK (Sleazeone)
FUCKNOSE
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KATCH PYRO
GASH
FUCKRAG
ROOM 3 – Erisian presents Motion Sickness Hardtek / Jungle / Technoid dnb
MECHORGA
ROMAN
DARKNESS
DUALITY
EL MUTANT
QUANTUM NOIZE
Saturday 11th September Doors 11.00 til 05.00 Concorde 2 Madeira Drive Brighton
Advance Tickets
7.50
Available from Rounder, Resident, Dance 2, RK Bass
Online at
https://www.concorde2.co.uk/bookTickets … 2010-09-11
Early bird tickets only £5.50 from here!
http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/bu…s/?id=10012240

Dave’s Clarke’s back in Brighton! Let’s let the guys at Black Box fill you in:

After the massive success of the first Big Black Box Techno in January, with the Orbital legend and local dance music hero Sir Philip of Hartnol. It’s onwards and ever upwards in our quest to bring local heroes back to play in their hometown. Blackbox is proud to present the techno baron that will never be part of the establishment, the legendary talent that is Dave Clarke! With skills on the decks that are unsurpassed he’s a true dance music pioneer, constantly looking for new ways to deliver sounds to the people. Brighton’s been denied a performance by this man for years and now he’s coming back what better place for his return than smashing up Brighton’s number 1 venue: Concorde2!

MAIN ROOM
BLACKBOX TECHNO

DAVE CLARKE – 2 Hour Exclusive Set
Alongside Blackbox residents
TONY MONTANA
TAYLORTRONIC
JIMINY CLACKETT

and Sicknotes own
SKETCHY STEVE

ROOM 2
In Ther Face with extra 10K of sound Bassline / Dubstep / Rave / Fidget wobble

SCRAMBLED ED (Life4Land)
SIMTEK (Sleazeone)
FUCKNOSE
x119
KATCH PYRO
GASH
FUCKRAG

ROOM 3 -
Erisian presents Motion Sickness Hardtek / Jungle / Technoid dnb

MECHORGA
ROMAN
DARKNESS
DUALITY
EL MUTANT
QUANTUM NOIZE

Advance Tickets: £7.50
Available from Rounder, Resident, Dance 2, RK Bass

Online Tickets:
http://www.concorde2.co.uk/bookTickets

Early bird tickets only £5.50:
http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/

11/09/10
Doors 11.00 til 05.00 Concorde 2 Madeira Drive Brighton

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Black Rock 2010 – cancelled due to popular request?

Aug 8th, 2010
by Amythefilmmaker.
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Photo from: westbrightonbeach.net

Photo from: westbrightonbeach.net

So the police have finally done it – they stopped one of the last remaining free parties on Brighton beach, Black Rock. That is except Fatboy Slims’, which I don’t think is happening either.

Black Rock was the alternative party to all the Pride after hour clubs and bars, running every year for a number of years. It utilised Brighton’s beach when the city is at its warmest, running on voluntary soundsystems, usually providing up to 5 or 6 soundsystems throughout the night.

Everyone came down, and usually without much problem. In the past few years, the party has attracted a lot of younger, rowdy kids than usual and I heard that last year someone got stabbed. However, the Sussex Police commented that there was no real problems at 2009 Black Rock party, as reported in The Argus. So why was Black Rock 2010 stopped?

It wasn’t for security reasons. Stabbings happen with more regularity at clubs where there’s ramped up security, such as Concorde2 and other seafront clubs. Security in the city is a serious concern. Black Rock, just down the road from C2 and far from residential areas, has always been a place where the party can happen and there’s a general sense of safety for the whole night.

In fact, every year there is always police presence. They usually arrive to turn the soundsystems off, but through diplomatic and reasonable negotiations, the parties are allowed to continue. If there was ever any safety threat or environmental complaint, they were on hand the whole night to sort it out.  This never was the case.

I honestly don’t know why this year’s Black Rock Party was cancelled. Last night my friends heard that the police had fenced off the road so we went down there at 1am to check it out with our own eyes.

Indeed Maderia Drive looked like a war zone – they police had fenced off the entire road and were manning a doorway, stopping people and cars, and we heard that they were arresting people who tried to go past.

Have the police taken extreme measures because the Conservatives are in power? Or is it just because they want to have a final go at maintaining the licensing issue? For a night where no one really profits in a commercial sense, it could appear that they’re simply killjoys.

Photo from: westbrightonbeach.net/

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Donky Pitch 2.0 @ Volks // 20.05.10

May 14th, 2010
by paulthemasterchef.
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Donky Pitch is back yet again with another heavy hitting night of high quality electronic beat mastery.  This one is their 1st Birthday Party so all the stops have been pulled and the holds certainly are not barred!  With a line up consisting of various members of the Donky extended family as well as a couple of specially acquired headliners for the evening, this will be a night not to be missed. It’s their second night since moving to the Volks and while the Jazz Place will be missed by some, the beefier Volks soundsystem gives everyone the opportunity take it to that next level.

*FULGEANCE (LIVE)* [All City, One Handed, Musique Large, Dod Pop]
http://www.myspace.com/fulgeance
ELECTRO, DISCO AND HIP HOP MERGED INTO ONE BASS MONOLITH
Fulgeance is a busy man: he co-runs Musique Large with former DP headliner dEbruit, makes beats under Souleance & Peter Digital Orchestra and has had beats on numerous labels including the faultless All City 7×7 series & the now legendary Beat Dimensions compilation. For some time, we’ve been enviously ogling videos on You Tube of Fulgeance banging out twisted hip hop rhythms at parties around the world. He keeps it traditional, using an MPC2000 – the classic hip hop beat machine we have to beg / borrow / steal especially for the occasion. But his sound is firmly rooted in the dreamy electronic pastures of Donky Pitch.
See him merk it live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ot2QlbZpbI&feature=related

*RANDY BARRACUDA (LIVE)* [Harmonia, Flogsta Danshall]
http://www.myspace.com/randybarracudaofimatranvoima
EXPECT ‘SKWEEE LIKE A MUTHA-FUCKER’ LOBBED OVER CRAZY SYNTH MELODIES & INFECTIOUS BASSLINES
Born & raised in the heart of Skweeedom, Randy’s early tracks on Flogsta Danshall & Harmonia Records in 2006 laid the groundwork for all of the minimal synth n bass funk that has followed. Undoubtedly one of the stars of the ‘We Call It Skweee’ documentary we showed in January this year (”Making Skweee is like when you learn how to masturbate – one day you just start doing it nature will help you find a way”). Mr Barracuda is an early innovator, a forefather, (truly) a legend of the scene. For his Brighton debut he brings with him a full live hardware show – a rare and delicious treat.

*SLUGABED* [Planet Mu, Ramp, Stuff, Donky Pitch]
http://www.myspace.com/slugabedmusic
SQUASHED 8 BIT HIP HOP & LO-FI MANGLED BEATS FROM OUR RESIDENT DANCEFLOOR SLAYER
Download his Starkey remix, given away on the NME website: http://bit.ly/9Kdfcb

*REKORDAH* [Lo-Fi Funk, Pollen]
http://www.myspace.com/rekorder87
GLITCHED-OUT, SLANTED HIP HOP BEATS FROM POLLEN RECORDS’ HEAD HONCHO
Download his mix for Fenchurch / BLOC: http://www.fenchurch.com/bloc/dj/?/Rekordah/437

*GHOST MUTT* [Lowriders Recordings, Donky Pitch]
http://www.myspace.com/ghostmuttuk
HIP HOP + SQUELCH + FUNK + BASS FROM RISING STAR AND LONG TERM DP FAMILY MEMBER
Check out his debut EP: http://soundcloud.com/lowriderscollective/ghost-mutt-sasquatch-rude-03/

*BOSS KITE (LIVE)* [Donky Pitch]
http://www.myspace.com/bosskitemusic
LOCALLY SOURCED, FREE RANGE SKWEEE WITH BUCKETS OF MELODY THAT PACKS A TASTY PUNCH
Read an interview / download a mix from The Quietus: http://bit.ly/dmKpJ9

*ALPHABETS HEAVEN (LIVE)*
http://www.myspace.com/alphabetsheaven
SYNTH DRIVEN HIP HOP AND FRACTURED MELODIES
Download this 20 minute beat tape http://soundcloud.com/alphabetsheaven/low

+ DONKY PITCH & GET YUH OWN crews

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Carl Craig @ Jam

May 6th, 2010
by MarekTheCzech.
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Oh yes… now here is something to get excited about!

*This is DEFINITELY NOT a STOMPA PHUNK party!*

Event info from Facebook

Carl will be playing a four hour freestyle set, encompassing music old and new from all areas of his musical spectrum – so expect jazz, hip-hop, disco and funk alongside his fabled techno-house sound.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

16/05/10 – 01:30 – 06:00

£7+ bf.
Only available here:
http://lifeclubbrighton.fatsoma.com/home.php

Dance music is prone to hyperbole, but you’d be hard-pressed to come up with anything but words like “legend,” “titan” and “giant” when describing Carl Craig’s impact on the electronic scene. Producer, remixer, label boss, DJ, the list goes on and on.

Emerging at the end of the 1980s as the leading light of Detroit’s ’second wave’ of techno artists, Carl Craig has been relentlessly inventive, prolific and inspirational for over 20 years. His production work (as BFC, Psyche, Paperclip People and more) stands among the best electronic music ever made, while his esteemed label Planet E is without doubt one of electronic music’s most treasured and important imprints.

He’s been nominated for a Grammy, performed his music with a symphony orchestra and traveled the world evangelizing for forward-thinking house and techno from Detroit and beyond – and that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface.

It goes without saying that this very special intimate show is a unique opportunity to catch the man himself spinning the music that made him who he is today.

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Beat Redemption // Concorde2 // 12.03.10

Feb 18th, 2010
by paulthemasterchef.
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Flying Lotus

Not Avon Barksdale from 'The Wire'

New Brighton night Beat Redemption has sure got me excited about their next event in March. The inaugural one at the back end of January was a stonking success with a packed out crowd shovelling the deepest depths of bass marshalled by Hyperdub’s Kode9 and Cooly G. Concorde’s system pounded like I haven’t heard it in a while.

The next one on 12th March will be headlined by Los Angeles’ beat maestro, retro computer game enthusiast, jazz legend nephew and premiere orgasm inducer to radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbes. Oh, he also has a big hand in LA record label Brainfeeder (Ras G, Gaslamp Killer, Nosaj Thing, TOKiMONSTA).  Flying Lotus has a new album out in May, which said radio 1 dj is getting her knickers very twisted over. He’s been confirmed for Bestival and before that he’ll be a Butlin’s weekender BLOC. All in all, his shit is red hot!

If that wasn’t enough the promoters have also crammed a couple of other quite capable headliners on to the bill. Dutch dub man Martyn (author of recent fabric50) will be doing a 90-minute set. Then there’s a live performance from King Midas Sound which is musical alter-ego of The Bug (skeng!).  All that and a load of other stuff including Greena from Bristol’s Apple Pips playing in the front room. Check here for all the details.

See you in the dub-pit.

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Got a spare £750,000? Why not buy the Ocean Rooms.

Feb 17th, 2010
by MarekTheCzech.
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Got a spare £750,000? Why not buy the Ocean Rooms

As far as clubs go in Brighton, Ben Gill and team have held on to their reign at the Ocean Rooms for a good run. Though no one thought it would crumble down the way it has. Following a death at the venue on New Year’s Day, the venue was shut by the council and put up for sale by the owners.

If you have a spare £750,000 and fancy being a club boss, get your fanciest chains on and whip out your cheque book. Let’s hope for Brighton that this doesn’t turn in to a wasted flat development. Even though the Ocean Room’s hasn’t been at the top of its game for a long time doesn’t mean the venue should be scrapped. Its demise is down to the management, which for a long time have run the venue without much regard for the punters. Reports of violence, imaginary bookings and poor promotion have all culminated in its downfall.

With all the negativity around the venue, and we knew this day would come, it is a shame for it to be gone. They delivered some great nights over the years, and it not being on Brighton’s club landscape is a sad fact. Even if you only went there once a year, which was probably part of its problem to compete at the same level as other clubs. The Ocean Room has never been the kind of club you would go to for a shot-in-the-dark good night out. It’s always been to see a particular DJ or band. This is unlike for example Audio, which is probably Brighton’s most popular venue when you put aside the shit places like the Honey Club and Oceana’s. It just doesn’t have the same pull.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-14466861.html?pageNumber=1&backToListURL=/property-for-sale/East-Sussex/auction.html

Let’s hope it can be replaced with something worthwhile.

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Donky Pitch 1.3 @ Jazz Place

Jan 12th, 2010
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The Donky Pitch crew return for 2010 with another line-up blending hip-hop, dubstep and all things electronica which is both heavy on cutting-edge experimentation and also damn good fun to dance to!  They’ve lined up two live performances; headlining will be Paris-based Debruit and Brighton-based “Skwee” producer Boss Kite will play his debut live show.  On top of that you get arch-dancefloor destroyer and Donky resident DJ Slugabed. For bio’s read below.

Donky Pitch return to the Jazz Place in Ship Street on Thurs 18th Feb.

And if you love/like/are curious/don’t-know-what-the-hell-it-is-but-think-it-sounds-funny Donky Pitch will also be holding a screening of the film “We Call It Skwee”.  Its at The Globe pub on Tues 2nd Feb from 8pm with Donky Pitch DJs playing their favourite ‘Skwee’ tunes subsequently.

DEBRUIT (live)
(Civil Music, Musique Large)
myspace.com/dbruit
debruit.com

Parisian synth magician Debruit makes hip hop music, but not like you’ve ever heard it before. Forging a sturdy alliance between tropical synth lines, bottom-heavy crunk and classic hip hop beats, he has been destroying dance floors across the planet for the last 12 months. A graduate of the infamous Red Bull Music Academy he has three solid EPs under his belt, two released on his own Musique Large label, run alongside fellow Frenchmen Fulgeance, with one on Reso’s Civil Music and another due to drop this month. He has a plethora of amazing mixes floating around on the internet, including a set for Mary Anne Hobbs, but we advise you check his live set for Sonar Festival from last year, it’ll blow you clean away.

SLUGABED
(Donky Pitch / Planet Mu / Stuff / Ramp / Numbers)
myspace.com/slugabedmusic

Slugabed’s squashed 8-bit hip hop and lo-fi mangled beat structures have earned him releases on Glasgow’s Stuff Records (Rustie) and Ramp Recordings (Zomby, Fying Lotus, Ras G). He also has a debut EP for Planet Mu (Starkey, Boxcutter, Milanese), Ultra Heat Treated, forthcoming this month, all at the youthful age of 20. If you’ve made it down to DP before or if if you’ve caught this man in a club somewhere else in the world, you’ll know why we made him resident, if you haven’t … Check out his recent mix for Rob Booth’s influential Radio Show Electronic Explorations

BOSS KITE (live)

(Donky Pitch)
myspace.com/506166353
soundcloud.com/bosskite

Boss Kite, aka local Brighton chap Ross Flight, is a victim of Skweee. Like the rest of the Donky Pitch family Ross fell in love with this Scandinavian phenomena on first listen and in the 9 months since he has been knee deep in synths and computer programs forging his own melodic take on this ’synthetic funk.’  “I started making Skweee music because I really wanted to be part of something I thought was exciting, fresh and completely unlike most electronic music that was coming out of the UK at the time. The simplicity of the sounds really grabbed me and I found a strange sort of personality in the music that was different in every Skweee track I heard.” The results of his labour have gained him recognition from the rest of the burgeoning Skweee community around the world, and we’re really pleased he’s chosen to share it with us first.

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Blackbox present Phil Hartnoll, Sicknote, Coin operated & Wonkay @ Concorde2

Jan 10th, 2010
by Amythefilmmaker.
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Photo by Marek Richter

Feeling dirt poor, broken and a bit SAD?

There’s always at least one night that comes along in January, just when you thought ‘I’m not going out for at least another two pay cheques’ and ‘I really should rest up/drink less/stop blacking out’ and by the end of the month all of resolutions you made on the 1st seem stupid and pointless. It’s time to go out.

On 23 January, BLACKBOX have pulled together a night of dirty bass music that won’t break the bank – 3 quid before midnight down at the Concorde 2.

DJing on the night is the legendary Phil Hartnoll (Orbital), who’s apparently taken a break from gigging since the band re-formed last year.

In Room 1, there’s Coin operated Records founder Mustard Gunn playing bass heavy wonky techno,  Sicknote resident, techno anarachist Sketchy Steve, and BlackBox residents Tony Montana and Jiminy Clackett.

In Room 2, it’s all about the psy-trance, hosted by Wonkay Music, with DJs Hugoblin, Dez, Hugo Nation, DMT, and Kayaman.

They say:

Complete club transformation
Lazer and Light show
Massive soundsystem
Cheap Drinks deals all night

Saturday 23 January 2010, 11pm – 4am Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton

£3 Advance tickets – only available online at www.concorde2.co.uk
On the night : £3 Before midnight, £5 After

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Aka Aka Roar with Appleblim @ Life

Jan 9th, 2010
by MarekTheCzech.
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A new year and a new night to hit our shores – Aka Aka Roar. They really seem to have hit the nail on the head with their concept:

Amid the rapid commercialisation of dubstep, we are looking towards those artists who are developing the sound and its related sub-genres. With dubstep being heavily influenced by 2step we feel it’s important to look back as well as forwards and dig out those artists and sounds that made the genre what it is today. Brighton has its fair share of dubstep nights, but AKA AKA ROAR is distinct, not only in the artists it welcomes on to the bill, but in its unrelenting attempts to provide a quality night of progressive music at a cheap price. More than being “just another dubstep night”, we look to the broader genre for inspiration. Dubstep has moved on and whether you call it ‘funkstep’, ‘future garage’, ‘Progressive dub’ or even ‘techno’ we love it and we think you will too!

It all kick’s off with the fantastic Appleblim on the 11th of January at Life.

For now here’s a Aka Aka Roar promo mix, from Ben White, to keep you satisfied over the weekend: http://www.mediafire.com/?2ddzqdwmywd.

Source: http://squeakybleeps.blogspot.com/2009/12/aka-aka-roar-promo-mix.html

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New Years Eve 2009 in Brighton

Dec 10th, 2009
by MarekTheCzech.
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With Kachings reminisent to the beginning of Pink Floyd’s 1973 hit Money, it’s time for another new years even in Brighton. This list is a work in progress and will be updated with any changes up till new years day.

Our backings with Life, Supercharged and the Slackers Convention.

£32 to go to Digital?? Two words… blow me.

Happy New Year

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