Aphex twin, Squarepusher, Timbaland, Arvo Part, Chris Clarke, Autechre, Meshuggah, The Bug, Shitmat, Venetian Snares, Old School Rave, Gyorgy Ligeti, Pan Sonic, Sean Carpio, Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Plaid
LAKKER are Ian McDonnell and Dara Smith who make everything from abstract glitchiness to rampaging gabba using only a couple of laptops, the occasional microphone and their considerable musical smarts. They have been mainstays on the Irish electronic music scene since their inception in 2003. Described in the Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) as "one of the best electronic acts in Ireland", their output has ranged from electro-acoustic soundscape pieces to mashed-up death-metal-sampling breakcore: a diversity reflected in their releases to date on labels such as Risc Records, Go Away Recordings and the online EP ’Cosas’ with The Alphabet Set. Live, they have played alongside a plethora of acts like Andrew Weatherall, Tim Exile, The Bug, Aaron Spectre, Pamelia Kirstin, Chevron and Cylob, and have made a number of appearances at the DEAF, Mor, Leechrum and Mantua festivals. Their long awaited debut album ’Ruido’ is being released on Lazybird on 5th October.
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Download the Cosas EP free from www.alphabetset.net
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"Lakker bring a dark melodic angular rhymical monster to bear ’pon this release, with the assurance that not one Amen break even got a sniff of what they were up to while buried away creating this beast of ultimately beautiful horror... harrowing church bells, worshipping at the heels of rave; chambers that resonate with classical music during the day are overrun, twisted and turned over to the darkside by night.. " -Alphabetset.net May 2006
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Interview @ Mantua 2006:
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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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3 YEARS OF BREAK-DOWN - Come Party May22nd@Twisted Pepper
It's hard to believe but we've been throwin the very unique Break-Down parties for 3years now. We are delighted to be celebrating it in the Best Club in the City right now - the Twisted Pepper on Abbey St, Dublin. Come Join the Break-Down Band in a Straight up mash of Hiphop, Funk, Reggae, Breaks, Drum n Bass and More.
It must be said that theres not alot of clubs in Dublin mashing the Live Vybes Like the Break-Down Band, Come and Check it yourself - Free T-Shirt giveaways on the night and also a free Break-Down Compilation featuring originals and Bootlegs from the producers in the Break-down Camp aswell as some 3rd birthday mixes
THIS NIGHT WILL BE HUGE - Taking place UPSTAIRS in the Twisted Pepper on fri May 22nd - DONT MISS OUT - BIG thanks goin to any and everyone who has come to any of our parties over the last 3years, its been SERIOUS FUN!!!!!
Thanks for accepting our request. Hope all is well? We would like to make you aware of our latest deal. Recording in Loscann studio for an introduction price.
Koen Park gets all political in his old age ;) Don't let that put you off tho! He's delivered another amazing record free of charge
"The idea that our lives revolve around computers so much is depressing and a little soul destroying. Inanimate objects essentially controlling what should be the animate. The more we get into the internet social cycle, the less we actually are part of a healthy society. This is the personal level.
Government, poorly run as is nearly always the case, controls us just the same...they push us down into inanimate objects, ostracized from each other with the apathetic burdens of crippling taxes, war and greed. This is the social level.
I want to walk out my door and just hug a stranger, not facebook with someone I knew when I was 5. I want to see non-violent protest, a people intelligent and strong and able to stand up for their individual rights. And most of all, I want to see people KNOW their rights and individuality, to get out there and live a little more. I want the people who go out and do this to include me." - Koen Park 16/03/09 21:02 Tokyo Time
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