Modeselektor, Justice, Amon Tobin, Jackson & His Computer Band, Autechre, Tim Exile, The Tuss, Aphex Twin/AFX, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, edIT, DJ Shadow, Kid606, Mike Patton, Amit, 0=0, Venetian Snares, Soulwax, Luke Vibert, Prefuse73, Chris Clark, Battles, Surgeon, DJ Scotch Egg
For this Forest of Sound we’re getting together with our good friends at Misplaced Music to celebrate the release of Gareth S. Brown’s new album, The Gallows on Misplaced Music (order here).
Bracken makes simply stunning music - walls of ambient sound, dark dub bass and atmospheres, destroyed and re-claimed found sound, beats that range from over-powering to perfectly understated.
Gareth S. Brown creates gorgeous work of layered beauty with nods towards Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Michael Nyman as well as latter day travellers such as Max Richter, Yann Tiersen and Aphex Twin.
Sketches for Albinos makes a sound that manages to be both truly heartfelt and organic, but also encompassing the majestic glacial soundscapes that would make the likes of Tim Hecker or Fennesz proud.
The Declining Winter are a new musical project, led by Richard Adams, the co-founder of Domino Records group Hood, and is influenced by the music of Low, The Durutti Column, Songs of Green Pheasant and more. They have recently toured with ambient legends, Stars of the Lid. Live they’re a wonderful, beautiful, pastoral experience.
Friday: 1/8/2008 @ The Packhorse, Leeds. Doors 7.30pm. £5 on the door. Join the last fm fun here.
Efterklang are astounding on record - a fusion of electronics, sea song, rock and ambience that envelops you slowly and beautifully. Live, they take this core of beauty and project it with such force in to the audience that it takes on a whole new life - every emotion amplified, every note laden with passion. If you caught them last time, you know you can't miss it again. If you didn't... well, you know what you have to do...
Bracken , led by Chris Adams (co-founder of Hood), make simply stunning music - walls of ambient sound, dark dub bass and atmospheres, destroyed and re-claimed found sound, all topped with vocals & lyrics from a man who knows his own heart.
James Yates’s solo show is something to behold - organic electronics, perfect drums, spot on percussion and mad-as-a-hatter inventiveness.
Flucturion_-_Facts_About_Fluctuation Artist: Flucturion Album: Facts About Fluctuation Type: Digital Album (Free Net Release) Genre: Psychedelic Style: Dark Trance Play Time: 62:02 Label: Psymoon-Records Catalog Nr.: psymoon_rec/002 Url: http://www. psymoon. info Release Date: 15.06.2008. Tracks: 09
Flucturion is from Russia and he decided to experiment with psy trance music, mixing psychedelic, techno and trance elements all together, music is a very powerful energy bringing to the dance floor a storm of emotions mixed with colorful memories. His first track was released in 2006 in Insomnia records, as a result of collaboration with Kraft, owner Organic Alchemy records
Hey there, I'm sorry if you've already checked out, but I've uploaded a song with guest vocal from Mikee Goodman (ex-SikTh) and another new song, please check them out if you are into tech-metal...
KONCRETE Fri 13th June 08 Jacks Club, 7-9 Crucifix Lane, London Bridge, SE1 3JW.
For our third party to keep with the underground feeling we take you to Jacks in London Bridge for another night of hard, stomping techno mayhem! Located in Central London, well known for it’s relaxed atmosphere and friendly staff home to clubbers and squatters of suburban parties. If you like more bouncy, hard dance music then don’t miss the second room, hosted by Londons’ hardtek and hardcore DJs from the squat scene, with massive support from Under Konstruction crew. Expect a fun night of hard techno with groove and solid bass lines for everyone who likes to seriously party!
ROOM 1: TECHNO / HARD TECHNO / SCHRANZ
TOMASH GEE LIVE (Methadon Rec, Kne Deep Rec) POLAND CHRIS LIBERATOR (Stay up Forever, Maximum Minimum) JEFF AMADEUS (Squat Records, Cluster) ONIKS (Funk You) ITALY MAXX (Polymeric, Generator UK, Koncrete) KYMO (Koncrete, Hard party Productions) MISS MOUSE (Koncrete, Hard Party Productions)
ROOM 2: HARDTEK / HARDCORE
SPY K (Stonka) SPACERUNNER (Under Konstruction) NNEA (Under Konstruction) NKS (Under Konstruction) DJ WHIZZA (Ketwork 32) THE OCTOPUS LIVE (Mixtomatoz) FURIUS ‘Support your Czech Tek’ NOD (Koncrete)
10pm – 6am
ENTRY £8 10 - 1, £10 After, Adv tickets £7 plus bf available from Access all Areas and Cyberdog, Camden. www. accessallareas. org
Koen Holtkamp is no stranger to producing beautiful music. Expect layers of warm organic noise and found sound combine to make pieces that are both gorgeously minimalistic and endlessly deep. He's making the trip over from New York to celebrate the launch of his new album on Type records, and you'd be a fool to miss him!
Gorgeously organic music that washes over you and through you - the best of all ambient music understands the importance of holding back, of understatement, of beauty - Pausal achieve this, and more. Stunning stuff for a night of pure sonic bliss.
Forest of Sound's favourite one man laptop genius, randomNumber, comes back to regale us with his excellent and deeply inventive brand of electronica. There's a reason that he's so energetic in his performance - his music is brilliant. Simple. As.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’ll be £5 on the door, and doors are at 8pm.
Subdub&Exodus, New Bohemia, Vagabondz & The Doctors Orders have joined forces with Compost Records and the radio show Soulsearching to bring you an incredibly special weekend of music covering the best in Dubstep, reggae, hiphop, broken beat, drum & bass and dance-floor soul music on a setting taken straight from paradise.
The festival site is in the gorgeous surroundings of Petrcane, close to Zadar, A fishing village on a peninsular where the Dalmation Coast meets The Adriatic Sea. For those in the know it will be recognised as the same sight that the Garden Festival is held. It has an outside Amphitheatre for live acts, a Beach Side Terrace for day & night time dancing and a 1000 capacity nightclub for the beats to go on right through the night.
At this beautiful site you can swim in the glistening Adriatic, dance on the beach under the stars, join us aboard the swashbuckling Argonaut Boat Party, get your groove on to a Funktion 1 Soundsystem in a retro Studio 54 styled nightclub or relax beneath the pines along the forested coastline.
Other acts confirmed include:
Foreign Beggars Dj Chef/Chefal Bun Zero Ruckspin SMB INC & Medison Fliptrix Mc's Jila Andlar & Gusto + more to follow
For the full line up, travel and accomadation and all other information please visit
