Experimental/electronic producer Barry Cullen releases audio and video
work under the name BEW (Barry’s Electric Workshop). Part of the Dodgy
Stereo collective, Barry blends sounds and images from old junk with
hi-fi sounds and graphics, trying to find a balance between creating
something new and making it fit along with something recycled.
Namedropping hits include audio/visual support for: Liars, Four Tet, Surgeon and Regis, Buck 65, Le Fly Pan Am, Les Georges Leningrad, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Boxcutter, the Alphabet Set,
Filaria, Jupiter Ace, Digital Mystikz, Wolf Eyes, Roni Size, David Holmes and many others...
Shows so far include: Belfast (Belfast Film Festival / Illegal Picnic), Paris (Les Eschafodages), Venice (Bienalle), Prague (Stop, Look, Listen), Roscommon (Mantua),
Dublin (Project Arts Centre hosts Factotum),
Brno (NewNew festival), Antrim (Home Made Jam) New York (Share).
A recently put together video for Cashier No. 9...
The brothers John and Paul Healy, collectively known throughout the world as Somatic Responses, are still native residents of a small industrial mining community snugly located in the southwest region of Wales. Somatic Responses are into complex dislocated & broken beats, distorted intelligent constructions, fascinating sonic structures, force and sweetness intertwined.
If their early productions were of the hardcore and techno kind, and while they later moved on to breakcore territories, Somatic Responses have now embraced more up-to-date and modern sounds and tackled the current dubstep sound that has taken their native UK by storm, and are ready to out-bass pretty much everybody else.
Mercury is definitely an important release for SR as it displays their progression further into dubstep & it's ever mutating siblings. A shape of things to come AND some of their best material for some time.
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Beathoker Podcast 003 is now online, an all Irish producer mix from System 47
MAD EP live (Acroplane, Ad Noiseam) MOTHBOY live (Acroplane, Ad Noiseam) + a Mad EP v Mothboy soundclash at the end. NEZ (Acroplane, Grub) DJ Acroplane Recordings
Live visuals
Fri 5th June @ The Menagerie, Belfast Admission £7. 9pm - late.
Matthew Peters (aka Mad EP) has been influenced by Bach's 'Well-Tempered Klavier' and Shostakovich's '24 preludes and fugues' for years, and so decided to do something similar for the breakbeat.
Like Bach & Shostakovich, originally the project was supposed to be a composition exercise to compose a breakbeat in every major & minor key, but soon it really hooked him and he ran with it, trying to offer as much diversity as he could while still having the group make sense as a whole.
Igorrr (aka Gautier Serre) is a French composer of electronic and acoustic music who mixes with astonishing ease genres as different as electronica, baroque music, death metal and trip hop among others.
"a mangled maelstrom of classical coupled with modern synthesised and virtual instrumentation, resulting in a breakbeat-black metal-opera exercise in madness." "anything this original and fresh (there really is nothing even vaguely similar available anywhere) as this selection of eleven pieces of brilliant lunacy deserves great praise. He may be reinventing what he began previously, but it is evolving into something far cleaner, more technically accomplished and much, much darker - without a doubt, an artist worth watching for any fan of experimental (and practically unclassifiable) fusions of electronic music." - David vander Merwe, Connexion Bizarre.
Our newest release from Dave Filaria (Acroplane/Kinnego Flux/Bugklinik).This is an album of mixed styles, some quite recent, some quite old, some in between. They are all generally dancefloorish. It starts with some acid breakbeat, detours into some dubbish step down converters,and finishes with some drum and bass cadet melodic jungle licks...Nice.
586 returns to McHugh's Basement Bar, Belfast, this Friday 3rd April featuring DJ's from The Gox, Ordinary Days and Cheap Thrill playing Electro, Disco, Post-Punk, Rock N Roll, and whatever else takes our fancy.
DITCHING Friday 27 March 7PM MOVIE HOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD £6 / £5.50
Northern Ireland, the future: in a post apocalyptic landscape of decaying towns and primitive technology, two people set out on a journey. Ulster has become a depopulated, feudal and dangerous wilderness where people have forgotten the past and are confused about the ruins that surround them. They distract themselves with improvised ceremonies and games but feel threatened by a world they do not understand. What will await the travellers at the end of their journey?
Ditching is the first feature by Factotum, better known as the publishers of irreverent newspaper The Vacuum. It stars a host of local talent including Mary Lindsay, Lalor Roddy (Hunger) and Jonathan Harden with astonishing locations and set design by Paddy Bloomer and Nicholas Keogh. It also features an original soundtrack by a host of local musicians including David Holmes, Kinnego Flux, Deadman, BEW and RL/VL. See the future Northern Ireland as it has never been seen before.
Our 2nd release from Dublin's Ewan Hennelly, aka Herv. In recent years he has become one of Ireland's best-known electronic musicians, amassing a considerable catalogue of releases on labels both at home and abroad.
Check out his live show if you get the chance. While much of his recorded output concerns itself with complex melodic and percussive interplay, his live sets lean more towards the harder end of the electronic spectrum, mixing chaotic chip tunes alongside breakcore and gabba. In the past, Herv has played with artists such as Venetian Snares, Shitmat, Jason Forrest, Duran Duran Duran, Dev/Null, Xanopticon, Hrvatski, Chevron, Aaron Spectre, Dj Scotch Egg, Ove-naxx, Doddodo, and Max Tundra.
