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May1

London club Cable closed with immediate effect

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Cable London’s web site is now displaying the following message:

We Have Closed with Immediate Effect:
Official Statement

Dear World,

It is with a huge amount of sadness that we announce Cable has closed with immediate effect.

We have been forced to close following two years of ongoing legal battles with Network Rail, who took possession of the venue this morning with an entry order, putting us out of business and leaving our 70 staff without jobs. This is due to them allegedly requiring the space back for the redevelopment of London Bridge station. It is an utterly devastating blow to what is a much loved, hugely successful, well respected music venue and media business.

This is not only a huge loss to the loyal fans and staff of Cable, but to London’s clubbing community as a whole. With enormous pride, we delivered the very best talent in an environment that upheld the history of the early SE1 rave scene and supported as many musical styles as possible.

We are obviously devastated and still in shock by the news and know there will be questions. As you can appreciate, there is much work to be done and many arrangements to be made behind the scenes. A full press release will follow.

If you are presently a ticket holder for an event that was scheduled to take place at Cable, please do not worry – further information will follow in due course.

Our sincerest thanks,

The Cable Team x

Full story and photos at Cable London

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Apr19

BASSIC w/ DISTANCE & JACK SPARROW, Moldy & Dabu (TOGETHER EDITION)

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Distance and Jack Sparrow at BASSIC

BASSIC Presents
DISTANCE (Chestplate, Get Darker, Tectonic) London UK
JACK SPARROW (Deep Medi, Tectonic) UK
Moldy (Embassy, TUBA, BASSIC) Boston
Dabu (Boston)

GoodLife Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston, MA
21+ | $5 B4 11 $10 after for flights & fees

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Apr18

Uncle Dugs interviews Goldie

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Uncle Dugs Interviews Goldie

Uncle Dugs’ Rinse FM show is perhaps the last radio slot dedicated to old skool drum and bass currently riding the airwaves, his shows have become known for the relaxed but in-depth interviews from some of the genres biggest names.
To date he has spoken at length to the likes of Nookie, Slipmatt, A Guy Called Gerald, and Kool FM founder Eastman.

This interview is probably the most fascinating, and it would be, as the interviewee is arguably jungle’s most interesting and enduring character, Clifford Joseph Price.

This three hour interview takes you from practically the birth of Goldie, to present day, and almost everything in between.

Full story and listen at Drumtrip

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Apr6

Elements April 2013 Lineup

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Elements April lineup

Elements March
11 A Sides (Eastside | Clear Skyz) UK
18 Black Envelope (Going away party) Boston/Russia
28 Residents: Crook, Lenore & Fox
DrumnBass Thursdays since 1999
Residents: Crook, Lenore and Fox
The Phoenix Landing
512 Mass Ave
Central Square, Cambridge

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Apr5

Too Slow Mix (SXSW 2013)

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Apr4

BRISTOL MAN BANNED FROM THE ROAD AFTER “DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUM’N’BASS”

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Banned for driving under the influence of drumnbass.

I suppose if it was Dubstep, he’d have been driving sloooooowwwwwwllllyyyy and sticking to tunnels.

And today’s most absurd story is in.

A white van man in Bristol has been banned from the road, after driving not under the influence of drink or drugs, but “the intoxicating effects of drum and bass music.”

Aaron Cogley [not pictured above; that's d'n'b legend Goldie] was followed by police after driving suspiciously through the streets near the city’s Royal Infirmary, rolling through two sets of red traffic lights, cutting up another motorist and “round[ing] a corner so sharply the whole van rocked on its chassis.” Formerly of Portishead (the town, not the Bristolian band), Cogely is currently homeless according to reports.

Full story on FACT

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Mar26

Nickdawg-The Past Sound of London (1991-94 Breakbeat Hardcore mix)

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Mar24

RBQMA: Skream

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Skream and dubstep: the two words are practically inextricable. Or at least they were. As a teenager, the Croydon-raised Oliver Jones was instrumental in taking a sparse, forbidding musical form and turning it into a world-beating behemoth. Tracks like “Midnight Request Line” showed that dubstep could do hummable melodies just as easily as urban paranoia. Jones’ career has since gone stratospheric. In 2010 and 2011 he had chart success as part of Magnetic Man, a trio with fellow Croydonites Benga and Artwork. Last year he produced tracks for Kelis and Miles Kane and landed a weekly Radio 1 slot.

As a figurehead of contemporary British dance music, then, it’s perhaps appropriate that Jones is about to leave dubstep behind. There’s no doubting that UK electronic music is experiencing a boom-time, but the poster boys of the new generation – Disclosure et al. – are increasingly of a house persuasion. It’s a development Jones has been following with keen interest, showcasing an increasing amount of house and techno in his sets over the past year.

With his contribution to Pete Tong’s mix series for Defected out this month, it seems the transformation is complete. The mix is a bold, colourful trip through sunny disco and more aggressive UK sounds, spanning from Dusky and Midland to Justin Martin and Duke Dumont. RBMA caught up with Skream shortly after a triumphant “classics set” at dubstep institution DMZ to find out why such sets will soon be a rarity and discuss the inspiration behind his new mix.

Full story at Red Bull Music Academy

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Mar15

Local producer Moldy digs for the roots of a misunderstood sound

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Moldy - Photo: Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff

There’s a vocal sample laid over the recent track “Too Slow” by Boston dubstep producer Moldy that essentially lays out his overarching musical thesis: “People like you, I think, are starting to realize there’s too much speed in the system,” a voice intones over the clipping percussion, languorous rhythm, and minimal sound architecture. “There’s too much busyness and it’s time to find, or get back to, that lost art of slower rhythms,” it says, just before the deep bass pulse comes in. It’s a much different style of dubstep than how the genre has come to be understood, and Moldy is trying to dial things back…

Full story at The Boston Globe

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Mar14

WHAT’S GOING TO KILL THE HOUSE REVIVAL?

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Taken from the Twitter account @DisclosureFans

Vice or as I like to call it “The Onion of Hipster news outlets” chimes in with some witty observations about dance music culture in England today.

At some point in 2007, a bunch of people realised that they hadn’t been laid for the entirety of the four years they’d been listening to dubstep, and fucked off to make something that sounded like the exact opposite of it.

It began life without a name, but pretty soon music hacks realised the jig was up for dubstep because no one wanted to feel like they were trapped in a submarine in the Thames having a panic attack any more, and so “post-dubstep” was born. A few years later, and here we are: with the first British club music built on a 4×4 kick to soundtrack a T4 ident since “Where’s Your Head At”.

Modern-day house is undoubtedly the movement of the moment, currently occupying a territory somewhere between the internet underground and the stereo of your mum’s favourite shop on the high street. Some of its facets have broken through into the mainstream, but the heart of it definitely remains in the “sub” part of culture. “Latch” may have made the top 20, Bashmore might be blowing up on your workplace radio, but if they did another Live Aid tomorrow, nobody from the scene’s ready to be up there singing “Let it Be” with Paul McCartney and Emile Sande quite yet.

Full story on Vice

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Mar13

Elements March 2013 Lineup

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Elements March 2013

Elements March

07 Subreaper (M.I.A | True) Boston

14 Bailey (Metalheadz | BBC 1Xtra) UK

21 Dara (POTD | Breakbeat Science) UK

28 Loadstar – Future Perfect album tour (Ram Records) UK

DrumnBass Thursdays since 1999
Residents: Crook, Lenore and Fox

The Phoenix Landing
512 Mass Ave
Central Square, Cambridge

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Mar13

BASSIC w/ V.I.V.E.K. (Deep Medi, SYSTEM MUSIC) UK

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V.I.V.E.K & Moldy @ BASSIC Boston, 4.12.13

V.I.V.E.K. (Deep Medi, SYSTEM MUSIC) UK
Moldy (Heavy Pressure, Embassy, Tuba, BASSIC) Boston

Good Life Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston, MA
21+
$5 B4 11pm

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