We are happy to announce that we’ve been added to the Playgroup festival line up. We’ll be onstage on Friday night and debuting our reworking of Beautiful Machines and Heartstrings. Dom is playing a DJ set later in the evening and I do believe :Kinema:’s own Boss Kite will be rocking his super Skweee funk on Sunday.
There are still a few tickets left for this event so head over to the festival site and make that purchase.
Slutty Fringe have done it again: Filthy Dukes (DJ Set), Silver Columns (live), Danimal Kingdom (live), Moshi Moshi DJ’s, the Slutty Fringe guys themselves and :Kinema:.
Date: Saturday 14th August 2010
Venue: 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1 6QL
Time: 19:200 – til 1am
Free before 8pm / £5 after
More info: www.93feeteast.co.uk & www.sluttyfringe.com
Having just celebrated their 4th birthday, bloggers Slutty Fringe are looking to the future and launching a brand spanking new quarterly compilation, fanzine and party, appropriately called NEW!
A celebration of the best new electro/indie/disco bands, DJs and producers around. NEW! Will be showcasing those making their first tender step out of their garages to acts on the verge of superstardom, and to kick things off they’ve pulled together a trio of acts who are all destined for greatness.
Headlining the main room are Silver Columns, the synth pop duo who burst onto the scene earlier this year with the Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) produced slice of falsetto genius Browbeaten. Since then they’ve signed to Moshi Moshi and released the critically acclaimed album Yes, And Dance.
They’re joined by Brighton’s :Kinema: who arrive hot off the back of their debut single, Circles. Having been compared to the likes of Phoenix and Hot Chip, this soulful electro disco trio are now being tipped for big things with everyone from The Guardian to Dummy falling for their superior pop charms.
Finally we have Danimal Kingdom, the solo project of Dan Murtha, having previously provided vocals on Kissy Sell Out’s debut album, Dan is now making a name for himself with his hotly tipped electro-art-pop, and gearing up for the release of his debut single later this year.
Supplying the sounds between the bands we have DJs from Moshi Moshi Records, who having launched the likes of Hot Chip, James Yuill, Casiokids and Florence + The Machine onto the world know more than a thing or two about discovering hot new things.
Meanwhile keeping the beat going all night in the Pink Bar we have the Filthy Dukes. Taking time out from their Kill Em All night at Fabric, itself a launch pad for many a new act, they’ll be showing off the talents that have made them in demand DJs the world over and that ensured their debut album Nonsense in the Dark was critically acclaimed by everyone from DJ to The Daily Mail.
Joining them mixing up a heady brew of disco, house and electro we have hosts Slutty Fringe (aka Tony Poland and John Power Jr) and acclaimed production/DJ team Lovers & Gamblers, whose recent credits have included remixes for the likes of Marina & The Diamonds and Young Fathers.
Date: 07 August 2010
Venue: The Brunswick, Holland Road, Brighton
Time: 19:30 – til close
Line up: Shock Defeat , Yokoko Bugs Raplin (DJ).
I think it’s called ’synchronicity’ – when lots of people in various different places appear to have a very similar idea at the same time. The skeptical among us prefer just to call it coincidence I guess. However you choose to explain it though, it seems that Table-Tennis has suddenly ceased to be a minority sport and has become the leisure pursuit of choice for the modern cosmopolitan hipster.
Due to some government initiative or other (I’m told that Boris actually had something to do with it but we’ll pretend that’s not the case because he’s an insufferable toff git) London is currently sprinkled with 100 ping-pong tables in locations such as Heathrow’s Terminal 3 and the Tate, and a pop-up ‘Ping-Pong Parlour’ is halfway through it’s month-long residency in the city.
New York has of course been home to plenty of boutique table-tennis clubs for quite some time, but recently The Fader (one of our favourite blogs – and not just cus they said nice things about us a while ago) started to put on Ping-Pong events with top DJs. This pretty much confirmed the sport as the only way for the discerning music fan to get some exercise without losing any of his or her cool.
If a recent episode of Entourage was anything to go by, ping-pong even seems to have become the sport of choice for the Hollywood glitterati (Jonny Drama was actually pretty damn good as well!)
Of course, I’m only mentioning this because :kinema: are hosting a Ping-Pong night in our home town of Brighton, and we’re going to do it in style! You can just come for the table-tennis if you like but we’ve also invited our Hot Pockets labelmates Shock Defeat! (how could we not when they are so aptly named) to come down from London for their first show by the sea. Being from ‘team Hot Pockets’ we’ve obviously had the pleasure of playing on the same bill as them a few times and they are one of our favourite live bands. Check out Shock Defeat at Hot Pockets
It’s become quite a common remix technique to take the vocal stem of the original track and write something entirely new underneath it, and that is often how we like to do our remixes. However, when we received the parts to Husky Rescue’s They Are Coming, we thought that everything had been recorded so nicely it would be a shame not to use some of the original sounds.
We decided then to use this remix as an opportunity to branch out from a typical :Kinema: sound and do something a little different. It wasn’t an obvious choice, but we decided to try and turn the song into a kind of loose-feeling dance track – as if the band were playing a kind of eerie Chicago-House tune. Obviously the original song is in entirely the wrong tempo for this so we had to chop all of the parts into tiny fragments (which included chopping the vocal into separate syllables) and stick them back together in different ways that still, hopefully, sounded quite natural. It took rather a long time.
We added some piano and strings to really push home the house music angle, but apart from that all of the sounds used are from the original recording. We hope you like it. If you do it’s available from iTunes right now!
:Kinema: will be headlining the Camden Proud Galleries on Saturday the 24th of July for Be @ Proud. We have 10 free tickets to give away to the first 10 people who email us at kinema.info@googlemail.com !
Date: Thursday 24th July 2010
Venue: Proud Galleries London
Time: 8pm –til late
Line up: :KINEMA: / 2 HOT 2 SWEAT/ DANCING ROBOT MUSIC (DJ SET)
