Queen Bee, Mr Benn, Daddy G, Souls Liberation and various other merry players
Influences
Rum & ginger, cut & paste, party people, Cutty Ranks, De La Soul, Toots and the Maytals, big speakers, small hours, ska dancing, ODB, Fred Wesley, A Tribe Called Quest, soundsystem bleeps, rocksteady knees, boom bap beats, Fela Kuti, Skatalites, Kenny Dope, large bass bins, rewinds, James Brown, Damian Marley, The Specials, chicken scratch, crackly vinyl, Roy Ayers, Busta Rhymes, Biz Markie, Bristol, cider, Big Daddy Kane, The Haggis Horns, Gwen McRae, 80s soul, 90s rap, ragga jungle, Rhythm'n'Booze, Smiley Culture, Leon Hayward, Ethiopian beats, Jamaican treats, English weather, Mighty Casey, Sly and Robbie, Brand Nubian, Hi-life, low lights, Jungle Brothers, Sharon Jones, Top Cat, all the mash up styles...
Sounds Like
A fun-filled, first-rate mix of reggae, afro beats, latin bass, rare grooves, funk, party hip hop and plenty of mash-up treats
Bristol’s first lady of Reggae Queen Bee, mash-up maestro Mr Benn and Massive Attack’s Daddy G first came together as Crucial Business (formerly Massive Tubeway Army) a little over a year ago, each bringing with them a different take on their shared love of bass culture, and have been consistently rocking dance floors ever since.
Their unique sound - built on a solid foundation of reggae basslines and hip hop beats - is focused on the party and the dance rather than any serious posturing. There are no restrictions to their playlist, so Fela Kuti or The Clash are just as likely to get a look in as Eek-A-Mouse and KRS-One.
The legend that is Don Letts, king of the re-rub JSTAR, Blood and Fire's Dom Sotgiu, YESKING's Rhys Adams and Soho's finest, Soul Jazz Sound System, have already made an appearance at the night.
The Crucial Business crew are a well-connected bunch so expect some choice reggae-flavoured selections from names you may or may not expect over the coming months!
Crucial Business takes place at Tube, Bristol, on the third Friday of every month. Click here to check out the Tube website.
WoC Gallery's 2nd installment of some of the UK's finest Graffiti artists. Group show opening invite
Saturday 13th June 5-10pm. Free entry Exhibition runs until the Sunday 5th July 2009
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hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
Weapon of Choice Gallery. OPENING NIGHT Friday 8th May 2009 6-10pm. On until 2nd June. Artists include: Stanley Donwood Inkie Mysterious Al Jody Jeff Row Lokey China Mike Mr Jago Acer Andy Council Yaka 45RPM Sepr Kai1 Nikill & more.
Live painting. Clothing. Paint pens. Fairtrade tea/coffee. Books and more
RNDM SLKTR RITES OF SPRING ALL DAY-R SATURDAY 21st of March / The Croft £5
the bands DETHSCALATOR GUM TAKES TOOTH THE COLOR OF THE SUN COWMAN
the DJs Antoni Maiovvi (Seed Records) - Italo Disco Future Space Love Party Machine Christopher - Flooded Treehouse Morpho - hard psych, kraut G - Russian Records Reliant - left electroniks, dark swing
this is where you should be on SATURDAY! MOTHER'S RUIN
Rampant Rabbit.
Continuing Leeds' strong tradition of exciting DIY noise rock, Rampant Rabbit are a rare and strange blend brewed in 2007. Musically, the dual bass trio deftly manoeuvre between complex math funk out riffs not dissimilar to Faraquet or Oxes and sludge-laden doom drones for fans of Boris or Melvins. Also they have fit young faces and lots of shouting.
Numbering just 8 strings between them members Henry Myers (Hank Haint, Zoob Toob) Luke James Webb (Dawn Chorus) & Adam Nodwell (Signuls, Massive Heron) have grown a maze of entangling rhythms on a solid foundation of mega-loud rock that celebrates influences including Fugazi, Shellac & Zu. Rampant Rabbit have already stunned crowds supporting the likes of I'm Being Good, Action Beat, Bilge Pump, That Fucking Tank, Take a Worm for a Walk Week, Lords, Nisennenmondai, Cleckhuddersfax & Oxes.
Rampant Rabbit will have a stricly limited edition EP 'Power Trio 2007 - 2009' on tour with them available only at the gigs!
ahh valentines day, how nice. here's a decent idea after dinner. come down to bristol county sports club and experience
dethscalator http://www. myspace. com/dethscalator ++plan b review++ "Despite being fronted by Hokaben's chief organisational driving force, the presence of stoned-squall rockers Dethscalator here is entirely justified on their own merits. With riffs the size of London itself, their only two self-confessed influences - Black Sabbath and Scatch Acid - are undeniable. Considering any band that claims zero musical hat tips are ordinarily balls-out liars, though, you may as well choose the best. Hollering singer Dan Chandler paces on a trajectory only he can visualise, a bear with a shaven, sore head. And in 'Bradford Cockfight' they wield a memorable mid-Atlantic scrap played out halfway between Birmingham and Texas." - Adam Anonymous, Plan B, Issue 40/Dec 2008
Nøught are an instrumental three-piece who eschew the traditional confines of guitar-based rock & roll, choosing instead to fuse improvisational noise experimentation onto a clinical endo-skeleton and coating it all in an unholy racket. Ace.
THE JELAS Straight outta Yate & Chipping Sodbury, The Jelas play experimental pop songs at breakneck speed for people with short attention spans. A strange and wonderful band.
IRON CREASE Debut show! Dr. Robbie Cooper of Geisha and Mr. Stevie Windows ex of Safetyword employ the ancient art of taking drum beats and adding guitar riffs to create ROCK MUSIC.
THE COLOR OF THE SUN Sample heavy guitar pop from this Bristol via California duo. More effects boxes than you can shake a stick at, and some damn good tunes to boot.
FREEZE PUPPY (acoustic performance) A rare chance to see this incredible songwriter and performer present his songs in an acoustic setting. Absolutely unmissable.
+OLO Radio DJ's & [aZa] RUMBOT on the decks.
FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER, 8PM TILL LATE MOTHER'S RUIN ALL FOR A CREDIT CRUNCH BUSTING £2 ON THE DOOR.
hi there we posted some new songs that we recorded recently at toybox. just thought we would let you know. we played this last saturday and it went pretty much without a hitch. thank fuck. thank you to the people that showed their support. you rule. we're gonna try and create another shit storm of noise and tunes down at the louie on the 2nd. please come down if you can. would be much appreciated. hope you enjoy the new ones. see you round xox a
RNDM SLKTR presents FUCK THE SABBATH Nov 22nd @ Mother's Ruin
w/ DJ Set from SJ ESAU and live The Color of the Sun
hey there P and Me are looking forward to this one. we haven't played out for a little while so it will be a sesh. Also there will be sweet DJ sets from SJ ESAU and Stevie Windows it will only cost £2 wooo yeah please come down. ox a
yep! RNDM SLKTR presents fuckery witchcraft halloween disco friday 31st of october starts at 9.30 pm cover £3
The band "il Goblini" - by no means an average cover band. these guys perform the mighty songs of Goblin (Dario Argento's Films). They will most likely have a few other classic horror film songs as well - it is halloween after all!
DJs - old red (heavy RB,dirt rock,punk) lunchtime decision (shiny pop, postcore, blissm) aZa[RUMBOT] (bomkat, brooklyn,3step)
sunday all dayrr at ruin with like oh my god 6 or 7 DJs
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 1:00pm
i have other plans for friday the 19th so i moved RNDM SLKTR to sunday the 21st. starting nice and early (evil). sorry about the short notice on this event (i've been away and without interweb access) but this should be a pretty interesting day. in no particular order i have 5 confirmed guest DJs Nadoone - illegal seagull, splashback, black rainbow sound system true Max Webertron - Guy bronnt industries kapital cranking out the psychotronic party musik Phantom Paradise - regular guest Phil enlightens us with eastern euro funk and welsh grit Anna Phallatic - Suzi Atom Bomb Goblini - suprise suprise Stevie Windows - Safetyword's undisputed DJ champion of the infamous "obscure off" coz he just don't give a fuhhck [aZa]RUMBOT - me. beard or no beard. surfing no waves, flexing what some call riddim.
we're on first so come early. we're gonna try something a little different than our last couple shows. the spectre folk are from brooklyn and are all spooky goodness. here is what boomkat say - yeah!
Spectre Folk is the solo moniker of Magik Markers' Pete Nolan, and in a form true to the scene this latest album is a hand made cdr, and guess what - it's super limited! Coming in a thin black plastic cd case (something akin to the cases you get DS games in, but thinner) this is a psychologically intense trip from the very beginning as delicately strummed guitars are led into a darkened wood and abandoned to allow the noise to abuse them rampantly. The second piece takes things down a notch with a fourteen minute jam that reminds me more of outsider rock from the 60s and 70s than anything else, but it's the other three tracks that really nail it for me with bubbling analogue synthesizer joining the guitar to create quite moving soundscapes. Awesome.
so yeah it's a monday night. we appreciate that you may be fragile after either being at green man or because you wrecked all weekend in brist-arrr. still would love it if you can make it. xoxo a
hi there we are the mega-rad bookends of this coming weekend! come see. x a
ahh the end of "summer" is nigh. it's that time of year when it's so hot you gotta either go up into the mountains and swim in the lakes or head to the beach and surf in the ocean - oh wait, i forgot i don't live in California anymore. we had no summer because we all live on an island in the north atlantic. so if you ain't doing GREEN MAN then you should really come to this. For Realz. the Phantom Paradise nite moves into Mother's Ruin for some friday fuckery on the 15th of August. Under the new title of Death DJ's RIch and Phil will freak you right the fuck out with choice psych, rock and horror film selections from Istanbul to Brecon to Rio. Consider this an Eastern Block Party. you know what i'm sayin? no? then come get educated. YES! then get in the ruin and shake those hips. the other me - [aZa]RUMBOT will be hosting this party and occasionally interrupting the flow with his own selections. please do come
The RNDM boys will be back at The Mother's Ruin on FRIDAY 16TH MAY to deliver some more eclectic snacks for the smörgåsbord for a special, one-off Scandinavian night.
Countries' music we will be including are Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. So get yer requests in now.
oh! and it's free.... and open 'til 1 at least.....
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