Donky Pitch 1.2 @ The Jazz Place

Blue Daisy

The first Donky Pitch night was only held back in June this year but is already proving to be a heavyweight addition to the underground music scene in Brighton, playing cutting edge experimental hip-hop and electronica, without the added pretentiousness but with a lot of fun(k). Next Thursday sees them put on two live performances by some rising stars of electronica from opposite sides of the Atlantic. TOKiMONSTA based in L.A. and part of the Brainfeeder label family which includes Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer is playing as part of her first UK tour. Expect some soulful hip-hop sounds set against some real dirty floor shaking bass. Blue Daisy from Camden is someone a lot of people are very excited about. A live set that should leave the crowds guts shaken and minds enriched. In his own words:

“Imagine yourself in a box, a normal four-by-four box, and you’re sitting in there, and you’ve got little holes to breathe….and different atmospheres are coming in- you’ve got the cold air coming in, the hot air coming in, and it overwhelms you. You pass out and wake up again in the same box, but that box becomes a new world. So now, where you’re sitting, it’s not a box anymore, the box becomes what you want it to be- it becomes your world. And that’s what I try to do with my music; you’re listening to my music but I don’t want you to just listen to it, I want it to grab you and sit you in the middle of the track.”

Resident DJs Slugabed and Ghost Mutt will also be playing some wonky, funky, bass-y goodness. Not many better reasons to start your weekend early, not that most of Brighton need much encouragement to do that.

Donky Pitch 1.2 is at The Jazz Place Thu 26/11/09

Words by Paul Clare