Debruit

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.

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

(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.

TOKiMONSTA

Eventually found the Jazz Place after initially going down the wrong street (does anyone else still have trouble navigating the south lanes?) all the while getting heavily rained on.  It’d been a while since that last time I’d been down in the Jazz Place and it was good to be there again as I’ve some fond memories of that cosy basement.  Blue Daisy took the controls as first live act of the evening and was warming into his set when I arrived.  Playing what I suspect were mostly his own cuts, Blue Daisy played a set with a lot more groove than I had been expecting, mixing some very deep and atmospheric sounds with precision assaults of crushing beats.  It put me in mind of one of my favourite Warp artists, Clark.  Especially the crushing mile-wide repetitive beats of what I think I recognised as his own ‘Hunterz’.  On tonight’s evidence I got the distinct impression Blue Daisy will among the most interesting artists in electronic music over the next few years both live and producing beats.

TOKiMONSTA came straight after Blue Daisy’s seamless groove with 45 mins that veered between cosmic hip-hop and some good old-fashioned rave inspired anthemic moments.  Chief among the latter and getting a great reaction from the crowd were her own cuts using samples of of Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘I Chase the Devil’ and The Loonies ‘I Got Five on It’.  It all got very muddled up during TOKi’s set as her concoction of gnarling sub-bass and shimmering scatter-gun beats combined to addle my mind.  The only thing I clearly remember is not being able to leave the dancefloor.  And there I pretty much stayed until the end of the following set of Slugabed.

Big ups to Donky Pitch for putting on a night of such unique quality.  One of the organisers told me they are simply interested in playing music and putting on artists that they really want to hear, and hopefully this will be what a number of others will want to hear also.  The crowd was a good mix of those who wanted to have a bit of a party and those more content to head nod, but it was clear the vast majority were drawn there for the music.  With a music policy at the intersection between British dubstep, west coast hip-hop and Scandinavian skwee, a place where a great deal of innovative and exciting artists are creating some amazing music, Donky Pitch is well placed to showcase it in Brighton for our distinct pleasure.

Donky Pitch DJs have a residency every 3rd Saturday at The Globe. 9pm-1am

Find out more about Donky Pitch here

Listen to Donky Pitch guest mixes here

Review by Paul Clare

Throw Some Shapes

If you’re in Brighton this weekend, this should be an interesting night of music and definitely one worth checking out.

Throw Some Shapes headlines Bullion, a West London hip hop producer who I can only compare to a UK version of DJ Shadow in terms of mind-altering productions at a slightly downtempo pace and who’s ego must be massive with the number of fans he’s won over, including Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs and Zane Low, Busy P, and Goldie. With gigs like Sonar, Glastonbury and Big Chill, this intimate Brighton one should be gentle mid-summer treat.

Support comes in the way of chilled out ambient sound from Brighton act Atalanta, who’s doing a DJ set, hip hop goodness from Figure of Wax and some floor-cutting funk and soul from promoter Dave Richtor.

What they say:

“After listening to the new Bullion joint, i drove back to Detroit, and punched my mom in the stomach. FILTHY.”
House Shoes (USA)

“Insanely good!”
Busy P (Ed Banger Records, Paris)

“If only I had this guys range of music at his age, 2009 is going to be Bullions year, so you better watch out for him”
Goldie (Metalheadz)

“Absolutely loving this”
Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1)

“Sounds great!”
Osborne (Spectral Sounds, USA)

“This is future music…”
Zane Lowe (BBC Radio 1)

Try before you buy:

Download audio file (FaderMixbyBullion.mp3)

Fader mix – Bullion

Throw Some Shapes – Friday 24 July, 10pm-2am. Jazz Rooms, Ship Street, Brighton. 5 pounds. [facebook page]

From June onwards DONKY PITCH will be bringing the finest of a new crop of forward thinking producers to the clubs of Brighton. With more splinter groups than a barrel of beavers this explosive scene is rooted in Hip Hop while taking cues from the Dubstep community in Bristol and London. Leading the UK charge are Glasgow’s Lucky Me collective forging transatlantic alliances with Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder crew from LA. And while the industry attempts to ‘genrify’ the burgeoning scene with hotly debated labels – Glitch, Wonk, Laser Bass, Crunk, Wonky, Purple Funk, Glitch-Hop, Skweee, Purple Wow, Wonk-Hop, Experimental and or Instrumental Hip Hop, Dubstep 2.0, Electronica – DONKY PITCH is concentrating on playing the finest sounds to have resonated muso ear drums in years.

For the unmissable launch we’ve carefully selected three outstanding beatmakers who will give you an addictive introduction to DONKY PITCH.

GEMMY
(Planet Mu / Punch Drunk Records)
http://www.myspace.com/djgemmy

Alongside JOKER (Kapsize / Hyperdub) and GUIDO (Punch Drunk) GEMMY makes up Bristol’s now infamous Purple Trinity. Forging unfathomably irresistible links between sub-low bass frequencies and early 90’s G-Funk his first 12″ dropped last year on PEVERELIST’s Punch Drunk Records. The A Side, Bk 2 The Future, sent platter-shattering-synth-driven-bass-quakes reverberating through the Dubstep community. He has another 12″ (the crunk-juiced Supligen) and an album forthcoming on Planet Mu Recordings (STARKEY, JAMIE VEX’D, MILANESE, BOXCUTTER). Is it Dubstep? Is it Hip Hop? Who knows? In all honesty, who cares? He calls it Purple Wow. We call it some of the most forward thinking, blazing electronics we’ve heard since time began.

“One of our producers to watch in 09″ Fact Magazine
Head here for 25 minutes of Purple Wow
http://www.mediafire.com/?mywzn5gzvyy

SLUGABED
(Stuff Records / Ramp Recordings)
http://www.myspace.com/slugabedmusic

SLUGABED is a 20-year-old Bath-based beat machine. His debut 12″ dropped on Glasgow’s Stuff Records (RUSTIE) a few weeks ago, a limited white label taster featuring refixes of Rick James and Ol Dirty Bastard. Sluga tracks have already found their way into the boxes of MARY ANNE HOBBS, MARK PRITCHARD aka HARMONIC 313, BENJI B (One Extra) and VARIOUS PRODUCTION. His second plate has found its way into Ramp Recordings (ZOMBY,FLYING LOTUS, COMPUTER JAY) release schedule. The only way to fully comprehend exactly what this man does is by clicking on the below link. Donky Pitch advise you turn it up loud and hold on to your bottom jaw.

‘Like Flying Lotus drinking neat vodka with the Skweee crew’ – Boomkat
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=47383369&blogId=450008148

REKORDAH
(Pollen / Senseless Records)
http://www.myspace.com/rekorder87

Born in Bristol, based in London, Rekordah makes glitched-out hip hop beats of magnificent proportions. He also co-runs Bristol-based night / record label Pollen with EFA. They’ve played host to many of the best beatsmiths from this disparate scene, with the likes of MIKE SLOTT, METSKE, BULLION, SLUGABED, LONE and LUKID gracing their nights. This man’s got taste. As a label they’ve just put out their debut 12″, with a 7″ of his own forthcoming. Rekordah completes our triple-fantastic line-up.

Head here for an interview with the man himself and some sample beats.
http://sonicrouter.blogspot.com/2009/02/interview-rekordah.html

DONKY PITCH
http://www.myspace.com/donkypitch

JAZZ PLACE – SHIP ST – BRIGHTON
ADV TIX: £5 FROM RESIDENT / ROUNDER / EDGEWORLD
ON THE DOOR: £5 / £6 AFTER 11

11/06/09

I don’t think I’ve been to the Jazz Place for nearly 10 years but this may just get me back through the doors. In February they’ve booked a DJ set from a key player in the UK’s early Electrofunk scene – Greg Wilson. He was last booked to play in Brighton by the Broadcast Loft Party and is making a return to source out the funk once again.

…Electro-Funk’s legacy is huge. It announced the computer age and seduced a generation with its drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers, dub mixes, bonus beats and samples… Its influences lay not only with Kraftwerk, the Human League and Gary Numan, but with Miles Davis, Sly Stone, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Norman Whitfield and George Clinton?

- Greg Wilson

Over the years Greg has remixed artists such as Chaka Khan, Kool & the Gang, Yello, Human League, Chic, Talking Heads, Rockers Revenge, Brenda Taylor, Scritti Politti, Chicken Lips, Groove Armada and Grace Jones – the list goes on.

Expect some Revox reel-to-reel tape recorder action and enough healthy funk to make Stevie Wonder see again. So do it, whip out those old Chaka khan and George Clinton records. You know it makes sense.

Tickets: £5 in advance from Rounder Records 01273 325440 + Dance2 Records 01273 220023 from mid January.

Jazz Place
10 Ship Street,
Brighton
BN1 1AD

contact 01273 328 439

27/02/09