The Bug - new Razor X album just out + live shows
November 16, 2005
The Bug releases a compilation of his most incendiary, uncompromising productions via Rephlex in Jan 2006. Entitled 'Killing Sound', it gathers together the most brutally intense bashment explosions detonated by The Bug thus far, and previously released on The Bug/Rootsman run Razor X 7" label.
Featuring Cutty Ranks, Daddy Freddy, Wayne Lonesome, Tony Tuff etc, the album contains all the previous Razor X singles plus previously unreleased mash ups, including a seriously blitzed version of the now legendary 'Killer' featuring Warrior Queen(Re-titled 'Killer Queen'). Under the guise Razor X Productions, 'Killing Sound' amplifies The Bug's burial sound at it's most raw.
The Bug have been rocking the most earth shuddering ragga show this side of the sun. Anyone who caught the Glasto & Glade sets know what we're talking about. Live and direct - they just get better & better.
With loads of press about to drop for the Razor X album and a Radio 1 Breezeblock show lined up for Feb along with plenty of live shows around Europe, dont miss your chance to have a Bug Party!
We are now taking bookings for The Bug live + MCs Ras B & Warrior Queen.
email ned@littlebig.org.uk with offers for uk/ire/fra/spa/ita/scandinavia/jap
Permalink | November 16, 2005
Clark supporting 65 Days Of Static UK tour
November 13, 2005
Chris Clark will pull himself away from the studio to play live supporting the 65 Days Of Static UK tour in Feb/March2006. The excellent up and coming Sheffield electro rock band are chuffed to have Clark playing before them on all dates. Expect a lushess mix of live band electronics and visuals.
FEB 2006
Sat, 25th: NOTTINGHAM, Rescue Rooms
Sun, 26th: NEWCASTLE, Academy 2
Mon, 27th: EDINBURGH, Gig
Tues, 28th: ABERDEEN, Moshulu
MARCH 2006
Wed, 1st: STOKE, Sugarmill
Thu, 2nd: LEEDS, Cockpit
Fri, 3rd: SHEFFIELD, The Leadmill
Sat, 4th: MANCHESTER, Academy 3
Sun, 5th: BRISTOL, Bierkeller
Mon, 6th: BIRMINGHAM, Academy 2
Tue, 7th: LONDON, ULU
Wed, 8th: NORWICH, The Waterfront
Thu, 9th: OXFORD, Zodiac
Fri, 10th: BRIGHTON, Concorde 2
As well as playing slammin live shows all over Europe, Clark has been tweaking the final tracks for his anticipated 3rd album for Warp. There will be a limited release around the tour and then a full length in the summer. Early listening sessions at Clark HQ have left us speachless and excited.
65 Days of Static + Chris Clark – UK Tour 2006
Despite what some would have you believe, it isn't 1981 anymore. While many lesser artists are content in their desperate scramble to relive the glories of a distant era some of us demand more from our 21st century rock 'n' roll. Something more relevant. Something to truly call our own. In a future that seems increasingly daunting, the rich musical past may offer comfortable sand in which to bury our heads but 65 Days of Static want no part of it. Do not be afraid of future. Come join them and meet it head on.
Formed in Sheffield in 2000 65 Days of Static have dragged post-rock kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Electronic music has always been tentative in its absorption of live instruments. Similar rock music has been similarly conservative or unsuccessful in expanding into an electronic field. 65 Days of Static are among the first to convincingly fuse and balance intelligent dance music with the most leftfield of avant-guitar music. Their current long player 'The Fall of Math' (Monotreme) is one of the few records that could genuinely be described as a successfully adventurous crossover bearing equal resemblance to the glitch noodlings of Aphex Twin and the expansive and schizophrenic landscapes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With much of the national media united in its praise as well as play on MTV and Radio 1 this could be the last chance to witness 65DOS's stunning live show in such intimate surroundings.
"Go home, take your play safe indie-punk records and burn them. 65 Days of Static have their heads in 2007 and everyone else is thirty years behind…Magnificent." - Simon Smerdon, Playlouder.
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Also on the futurist bill is Warp Record's glitch electro brainiac Chris Clark who is probably best explained in his own words:
"I grew up on Prince. Used to bust moves to it on my lawn in the summer. I think my music sounds a lot like Prince's music. No- one else does but I don't really care that much about what other people think. Although I do care a little bit I suppose. I care about 5.34 per cent."
"When I was seven I used to divide my emotions up into percentages to decide which ones were the best. After a year of pie charts I got pissed off with this. I've hated maths ever since."
"I never really had lessons on the harp. But I've never really enjoyed lessons in anything. My drum teacher told me that if I bought a drum machine then he would give up all hope in the development of my talent and musical ability. I bought a drum machine quite soon after he said that."
"I have no idea who this man is, but chances are, if he's anything like this chime-skating chill cabinet epic then he's fucking safe." – Gareth Dobson, Drowned in Sound
Additional support comes from The Mirimar Disaster. Visuals will be provided by The Media Lounge.
Permalink | November 13, 2005