Local Love: WED 2.10 TGTHR Presents, UNTOLD @ Goodlife

If there is one TOGETHER event not to miss this week, this is it. Hands down. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of other solid producers and DJs playing Boston in the coming days; there just isn't anyone else currently hitting their creative stride while redefining sub sections of electronic genres quite like Untold is.

He is one of only a handful of producers that really doesn't put out any filler or half arsed tunes and with his recently released double pack on his own Hemlock label, (which was easily our 2009 release of the year) is in the midst of an unprecedented two year streak of high quality releases dating back to the 2008 Kingdom/Purify/Test Signal 12" on Hessle Audio. With an upper level remix of Islands by the XX and a joint release with LV on Hemlock in the near future, it doesn't look like he's slowing down either. Now we just have to wait to hear the direction he will bring bass in next.

As if you needed any more reason to hit up the Goodlife tonight. In the recently renovated upstairs, DJ's Kon, 7L & Nomadik will be holding it down all night with a motha f'en J Dilla tribute. Doesn't get to much better than that folks.

Get there early for Houston's DJ Wheezie opening downstairs, followed by our good mate and BASSIC resident C Dubs, who will surely be playing some heat to get the groove in motion for Untold. I don't think I've anticipated a show this much since Kode 9 last spring.

Fuck the snow, just make it out. You will regret not going to this.

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TOGETHER

Untold

Hemlock

C Dubs

edit. Search the blog for Untold to listen to previous tunes we've put up.

On Repeat: Untold - Stop What You're Doing (James Blake Remix) Hemlock

I realized we never posted this tune when Gaslamp Killa threw it down last Thursday at the Middle East. After hearing Air and Lack There Of the day it was put up on Boomkat in middle of last summer, I knew James Blake had some incredible tunes in him.... but shit, I was not expecting a track of these proportions. I literally had goosebumps on my neck the first time I heard those haunting and possessed synth lines. It's one of those tunes that you consciously refrain from playing over and over again so you don't get yourself burned out on it. Easily one of my top 5 tracks of 2009. Unfortunately, I am still waiting for the second pressing on wax though.

Our boy and contributor Henry Frankenstein reviewed this track back in 1931. "Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE! "

Untold is playing @ The Goodlife on Feb 10th for TOGETHER and he might very well drop this. I expect to see all of you there. The full schedule and lineup has been posted on the Together website, link below.

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James Blake

Untold

TOGETHER

TOGETHER: Initial Lineup Announcement! UNTOLD!

So here we go, the first artist announcement for Boston's own electronic music festival TOGETHER. All I really have to say is UNTOLD, yep the hands down producer of 09, UNTOLD. Brain meet wall.

Other highlights and not to miss sets include, DJ Rupture, Dirtybird, and Tim Hecker. Be on the lookout for further additions in the coming weeks. The excitement grows!

Links

TOGETHER Website

@TGTHRBSTN

TOGETHER Facebook

Untold myspace

TOGETHER: The New England Electronic Music Festival 2.8 - 2.14

So this is fucking incredible, I feel like we've all witnessed the Boston electronic music scene come of age in the last 3 - 4 years. With a growing reputation around the world of having a legitimate electronic scene, with nights and events like BASSIC, Make It New, Thunderdome, Beat Research, Basstown, etc etc, I think we've proven that a self sustaining scene can thrive in Boston. For how small this city is, I find it pretty remarkable that there are anywhere from 2 - 5 DJ nights going on every night and usually to a packed house.

In terms of "dubstep" I'd say that Boston can pretty solidly on the map by bringing the elite DJ/ producers Martyn, 2562, Clouds, Ramadanman, Falty DL, Mike Slott, Starkey, and Kode fucking 9, all in the last year. Its been a pretty ridiculous ride to say the least.

Now its time showcase what this city has to offer and celebrate how far we've come in recent years. This will be the first of a plethora of coverage for this festival. Please read the deets about what's in store for what is sure to be one of the most ridiculous weeks in my life. Be on the lookout for artists announcements.

Without further ado

TOGETHER ANNOUNCES FIRST ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL - February 8-14th in Boston

Together: The New England Electronic Music Festival announces it’s first-ever annual electronic music festival, held from Monday, February 8 to Sunday, February 14 at various venues around the city of Boston. Over 100 artists will participate in nearly 40 events during the 6-day event, designed to celebrate and promote electronic music in all its facets. Complete programs and schedules will be announced January 13, 2010.

There is no doubt Boston nightlife has undergone a transformation in the past few years, as it has in much of the world. With the growing acceptance of dance music as a venerable staple of nightlife, electronic music in all its forms has seen an explosion in the underground. Along with have come visuals, collaboration and creativity galore.

Beginning with a kickoff reception on Monday Feb 8th, the festival will ramp up through the week with launch events like Hearthrob and Throwed. Together will hold daytime panels at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Schools such as New England Conservatory will show off some of their newest technology with tours. Wednesday and Thursday include award-winning nights Midweek Techno, Elements, Work! and Make It New with guests from inside the city and out. Additionally on Wednesday, Red Bull Music Academy partners with the Together team and group of party innovators from the local community for a special event at Estate.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the festival culminates in a series of even larger events at signature venues like the Middle East Club, the Paradise Rock Club and Downtown Crossing’s Good Life bar. Other weekend festivities will include a VJ symposium, a record fair and trade show, all-ages concerts, film screenings and after-hours celebrations at Rise.

Throughout the week, there will be more to enjoy as well. Activities include classes in the art of DJing and tours of famous collections of synthesizers. To ensure that the young "mixing generation" has a chance to participate, there will be all-ages shows and many different parties open to those 18 and over, including all after-hours events at Boston’s Rise nightclub.

Righteous!

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TOGETHER TWITTER

TOGETHER FACEBOOK

Moderat - Seamonkey (Untold remix)

If you only casually follow this blog, our love for Untold should be fairly apparent. He's by far one of the leaders in future bass right now and his unique style is unparalleled at the moment.

Solar system size releases popping up soon with his Gonna Work Out Fine EP and the Stop What You're Doing 12" with a hot James Blake remix.

Hesslin'

As Dubstep continues to spiral outward internationally it's sound is quickly becoming more and more fractured, splintering into what seems like dozens of 'wut u call it?' sub-genres. Summer 09' is proving to be one of the most exciting times in recent memory for new sounds and new rhythms. Much of the best tunes being wheeled right now slow things down to 130 steering ears towards Funky, Dubbage or whatever you'd like to call it; regardless it's all about the House vibes, a breath of fresh air away from the brain melting aggro dubstep that was seemingly the status quo for a good two years. Now however there is plenty of interesting music being made on the fringes of the hardcore-dubstep crowd and perhaps no label is more forward thinking at the moment than the one and only Hessle Audio.

A mere 8(and soon to be 9) releases into their existence, Hessle Audio is slowly sneaking up on Hyperdub as the go to label for tunes which push the boundaries of the whole UK Garage sound and are primed to influence a new generation of producers and DJs. Perhaps the most exciting thing about this label is the youth of its founders, Ben 'UFO' Thomson, David 'Ramadanman' Kennedy and Kevin McAuley aka Pangaea. 3 friends with great taste, great talent and limitless potential.

Back in January, Resident Advisor did a well informed piece detailing the backstory of the Hessle Audio crew(read it here) and made it apparent that the groundwork had been laid for 2009 to be a breakout year for the label. David Kennedy lays out the mission statement for the Hessle sound.

"We just want to put out stuff that you're not going to stop playing after a few months because it's been rinsed—I think that's my interpretation of what the label's about. I think there's a lot of good music out there, but not a lot of really good music, and I think that sometimes not every tune has to come out just for the sake of it."

As of late, Ben UFOs 'Ruffage Sessions' on Sub FM have been amongst some of the most exciting mixes you can find anywhere, connecting the dots between UK Funky, US House, Dubstep and a good bit of w**ky hip-hop(Get locked every Thursday from 3-5 Eastern Time Sub.FM). Ramadanman surprised a few people when he revealed himself to be the man responsible for A Pearson Sound whose track 'Wad'(forthcoming Hessle 009) is one of the most wonderfully alien sounding things around right now, a percussive beast which reminds one of a more Funky slanted take on some of Untold's more bare moments(his refix of Ramadanman's Revenue comes to mind unsurprisingly.) And speaking of Untold, Hessle released his debut 'Kingdom' last year and in 09' the absolutely essential 'I Can't Stop This Feeling/Anaconda' 12", lending no small hand in the breakout one of London's most exciting producers. All this and we haven't even gotten to Pangaea's 'Memories' yet, a gorgeous garagey track with an amazing vocal hook that just dropped on white label and is second only to Joy Orbison's 'Hyph Mngo' for anthem of 2009. Exciting times for Hessle Audio.

Here's a sick mix Pangaea did a while back

Reprise.011.Pangaea. by Reprise Music Group

Also if you lot love these sounds as much as I do don't sleep on seeing Ramadanman on his US tour. He plays Boston next Friday July 24th at BASSIC, I for one, can't wait.


Hessle Audio
Ramadanman
A Pearson Sound
Ben UFO
Pangaea
Untold
Sub.FM


Ramadanman US tour

Jul 17 2009 8:00P	Dub War @ Love	NYC, New York
Jul 18 2009 8:00P	Surefire Sound	SF, California
Jul 24 2009 8:00P	Bassic	Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 25 2009 8:00P	Bazzaar	Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 31 2009 8:00P	Gallery	Washington DC, Washington DC
Aug 1 2009 8:00P	Pure Filth	LA, California
Aug 5 2009 8:00P	Weight	Austin, Texas