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• Stellar OM Source’s FACT mix & new tour dates

  

  Ever since the release of her LP Joy One Mile on RVNG Intl. last June (check out the outstanding single Polarity) Stellar OM Source a.k.a. Christelle Gualdi has been performing her cosmic techno extensively throughout Europe. This FACT mix showcases her wide range of influences and masterful ability to transport the listener to a higher plane of consciousness. Below are her upcoming tourdates with more TBA soon.

  September 27 @ Halles-St-Géry, Brussels, BE
  September 28 @ Auditorium Paganini, Parma, IT
  October 03 @ Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Liverpool, GB
  October 04 @ Berghain – Polymorphism #8, Berlin, DE
  October 05 @ Black Red, Leipzig, DE
  October 19 @ Unsound Festival, Krakow, PL
  October 26 @ Elevate, Graz, AT
  November 8 @ Re:Wire Festival, Den Haag, NL
  November 16 @ MIRA Festival, Barcelona, SP
  November 23 @ Electro-Mechanica Festival, St Petersburg, RU
  November 30 @ Le Guess Who, Utrecht, NL
  December 13 @ La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, FR

  2013 & 2014 booking inquiries for headline club dates and festival slots: brandon [@] littlebig.org.uk

• Littlebig welcomes Physical Therapy

  Brooklyn mainstay producer / DJ , Physical Therapy a.k.a. Daniel Fisher, is a dancefloor deviant about to unleash a new breed of house and techno. He is also 1/2 of Fatherhood with Michael Magnan (House of Ladosha) and dropped the ridiculously good single + video ‘Do It Alone’ on Hippos In Tanks earlier this year. With a number of releases scheduled this Summer and Autumn, starting with an EP on Sinden’s Grizzly label in August, things are heating up. He’ll be based in Berlin for July and August. Now booking DJ sets.

  brandon [@] littlebig.org.uk

• Littlebig welcomes Stellar OM Source, RVNG LP ‘Joy One Mile’, tour dates announced

  We are very pleased to welcome Christelle Gualdi a.k.a. Stellar OM Source to Littlebig. Stellar OM Source’s latest offering of spaced-out, hard-hitting analog techno transmissions, ‘Joy One Line’ just dropped on RVNG Intl. (check out rave reviews on Pitchfork + FACT) along with the official video for the first single, ‘Polarity’. The first round of tour dates are announced below with many more to come soon. Now booking headline club dates and festival slots: brandon [at] littlebig.org.uk

  July 05 @ Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam, NL w/ Maxmillion Dunbar
  July 06 @ BAR, Rotterdam, NL
  July 26 @ Norberg Festival, SE
  September 27 @ Halles-St-Géry, Brussels, BE w/ Kassem Mosse, Kelpe
  October 19 @ Unsound Festival, Krakow, PL

• TELEPORT feat. Halo, Herndon, Gatekeeper ++. 28.04 – Berlin

  

  Littlebig is proud to present a Berlin showcase of some of our cutting edge live talent, TELEPORT, including Laurel Halo, Holly Herndon, Gatekeeper as well as our partner agency Surefire’s exciting artists NHK’Koyxen and DJ Bill Kouligas (PAN). The concert will happen at Festsaal Kreuzberg on Sunday. April 28, 2013 – doors at 19:00. For more information on the artists and the event please visit the Facebook event page here. Tickets are 13€ and can be purchased in advance through the Facebook page or Koka36.

• Light Asylum play ATP, Spring Festival, tour EU in May

  

  Light Asylum will be hitting our shores again this May, kicking off their tour at All Tomorrow’s Parties, Camber Sands curated by TV on The Radio. Check out the awesome line-up here. They will truck on with a headline tour, including shows at XOYO, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Sinxen Festival, Spring Festival and more. For July / August avails be sure to hit up brandon [@] littlebig.org.uk

  5/11/2013 sat UK Sussex, Camber Sands – All Tomorrow’s Parties
  5/15/2013 wed UK London, XOYO
  5/17/2013 fri CH Le Romandie, Lausanne
  5/18/2013 sat CH Bern, Dachstock Reitschule
  5/19/2013 sun CH St.Gallien, Grabenhalle
  5/20/2013 mon BE Kortrijk, De Kreun – Sinxen Fest
  5/21/2013 tues NL Roubaix, La Cave aux Poètes
  5/22/2013 wed FR Paris, La Machine du Moulin Rouge
  5/23/2013 thrs FR Nantes, Stakhanov
  5/25/2013 sat RO Bucharest, Control
  5/26/2013 sun GR Athens, Death Disco
  5/29/2013 wed CZ Prague, Meet Factory
  5/30/2013 thrs DK Copenhagen
  5/31/2013 fri HR Močvara, Zagreb
  6/1/2013 sat AT Graz, Spring Festival
  6/2/2013 sun DE Munich, Feierwerk

• Littlebig welcomes Light Asylum

  

  Littlebig is excited to announce the latest addition to our roster, Brooklyn’s EBM heavy-weights, Light Asylum! With some prime festival dates in place for the Summer and a new album in the works, LA plan to hit the UK/EU hard this Summer!

  Shannon recently performed as part of Chloe Sevigny’s Opening Ceremony fashion presentation at St. Mark’s Church in New York together with Kim Gordon and other notable musicians.

  You can stream Light Asylum’s recent Arte TV feature here.

  NOW BOOKING: brandon [@] littlebig . org . uk

  Heart of Dust – Light Asylum from Grant Worth on Vimeo.

• Holly Herndon FACT mix + March UK/EU tour + Donau and Tauron Nowa Muzyka festivals

   

  

  Holly Herndon is on fire right now (and it’s not just because of her hair color)! After the great response from her recents shows at AB Club, Brussels, Berghain for CTM Festival, Berlin, and sold-out headline Cafe OTO show in London as well as Boiler Room appearance, she will be doing a run of dates March 21 – 30 (now booking!).

  She has just been announced for Donau Festival on April 27 and Tauron Nowa Muzyka on August 23.

  Check out a strange and wondrous vision of a not-so-distant techno future with her stellar FACT mix, also selected as Resident Advisor’s mix of the day!

  And listen to the killer NHK remix of ‘Fade’ here.

  MARCH confirmed dates:
  3/21/2013 thrs UK Manchester, University of Salford, Sonic Fusion Festival (w/Chris&Cosey)
  3/23/2013 sat UK London, Basing House (w/Hieroglyphic Being)
  3/24/2013 sun SE Stockholm, Sodra Theater (w/Andy Stott)
  3/27/2013 wed NL Amsterdam, OT301
  3/29/2013 fri PT Guimaraes, O Convívio
  3/30/2013 sat PT Lisbon, Galeria Zé dos Bois
  NOW BOOKING: brandon [@] littlebig . org . uk

• Littlebig welcomes Holly Herdon, CTM Festival announced

  

  We are very pleased to welcome Holly Herndon to Littlebig. Herndon’s ‘Movement’ just dropped on RVNG Intl. and her cyborg avant-techno is already making big waves. She is confirmed for CTM Festival in Berlin on January 31, 2013 and Cafe OTO for Bleed on Feb.2. Now booking a weeklong run for the end of January, Spring showcases, and Summer festivals. contact: brandon [at] littlebig.org.uk

  Check out these features and interviews:
  FACT
  Pitchfork
  DazedDigital
  The Quietus

• Squarepusher ‘Ufabulum’ out now on Warp + astonishing new live show!

  “I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive”.

  Squarepusher’s new album ‘Ufabulum’ was released May 14/15 on Warp and he has been performing his brand new live A/V overload show at festivals this Summer + headline tour in Sept/Oct.

  Squarepusher on the track ‘Dark Steering’:
  “For a while I had apocalyptic nightmares about trails of nuclear missiles in the night sky. So I aimed to recreate that strange combination of exhilaration, terror and sadness both visually and emotionally through this piece. It lead to the idea of a spacecraft leaving earth at vast speed to escape, but oddly the music also made me think of it flying through a library. So I generated the visual aspect such that, as the piece progresses, it seems as if the viewer is ever accelerating through massive corridors of books.”

  Check the video trailer for a peek at his brain-melting new music and immersive LED video live set-up.

   

• Mi Ami play INCUBATE and tour UK/EU Sept.10 – 17

  MI AMI are back to Europe after 2 weeks in Japan and South Korea and followed by a Laurel Halo / Ital / Magic Touch / M.Geddes Gengras USA tour. Damon and Daniel are supporting their ‘Decade” mini-album on 100% Silk and these will be their only dates in the UK/EU this year, so don’t miss out!

  SAT Sept 8th Manchester @ Wet Play *Magic Touch – FB event

  MON Sept 10th London @ Shacklewell Arms – FB event

  TUES Sept 11th Madrid @ Sala Siroco – FB event

  WED Sept 12th Barcelona @ Sala BeCool – FB event

  THURS Sept 13th Paris @ Fleche D’Or – FB event

  FRI Sept 14th Tilburg @ Incubate – FB event

  SAT Sept 15th Tilburg @ Incubate *Ital / Magic Touch

  SUN Sept 16th Hamburg @ The Golden Püdel

  MON Sept 17th Warsaw @ Cafe Kulturalna

• Jimmy Edgar Sex Drive Single + Majenta world tour!

  

  Futuristic-funk starchild, Jimmy Edgar, returns with the third single to be taken from his recent album, Majenta, out earlier this year on Hotflush. This time Edgar shoves his free-spirited sexual appetite in your face, with a slice of stripped-down, upfront electro-funk complete with J.G. Ballard-inspired lyrics of car-crash sexual fetishism.

  Alongside the original album cut, two alternate takes are reworked by a pair of producers at the very top of their game: Jon Convex and John Talabot. Check it >>

  
  Jimmy is hitting the road hard this Autumn so be sure not to miss his white hot live show and DJ sets!

  

• Venetian Snares touring EU/UK Sept. & Oct. 2012

  Winnpeg’s idiosyncratic breakcore hero Venetian Snares is finally back in Europe and the UK for a solid run of dates this Fall. Be sure not to miss this because you never know when the next time Mr. Funk will rear his ugly head on our shores!

  

   

• Leisure System : Dimensions Festival 07.09.12

  We’re incredibly excited to announce our full line-up for theLeisure System stage at Dimensions Festival! Jimmy Edgar,Machinedrum, Gold Panda, Objekt, Jon Hopkins, Nathan Fake (official page), Addison Groove and our residents DJ N<E<D & Puzzle will take over Pula/Croatia on September 7th. Subscribe to our newsletter to win 1×2 Tickets (worth 290€) for the whole festival:

  

• CLARK – Iradelphic Sessions + ‘Fantasm Planes’ EP

  After the release of his monstrous ‘Iradelphic’ LP earlier this year, hailed as Clark’s most masterful album to date, he has subsequently been releasing free downloads of the ‘Iradelphic Sessions’ from the copious amount of music he produced, and sounds he had collected, for the LP. That material will be followed up this September 3/4 with the ‘Fantasm Planes’ EP, featuring 3 reworks of key tracks from ‘Iradelphic’, as heard in his recent live shows, and 3 brand new tracks.

  Of the EP Clark says: This EP is more about conjuring the full mind-distortion that you get when you hear this music on loud sound systems…

  For more info visit his Warp page. The EP will be launched with a special headline show at London’s Koko on September 15.

• Battles remix album ‘Dross Glop’ out now on Warp!

  Battles have released the complete ‘Dross Glop’, their inventive remix album for 2011’s hot ‘Gloss Drop’. Check their Warp page to listen to the tracks as well as their recent FACT mix featuring tracks by the outstanding remix contributors.

  Track Listing:

  1 – Wall Street (Gui Boratto Remix)
  2 – Sweetie & Shag (The Field Remix)
  3 – Futura (The Alchemist Remix)
  4 – White Electric (Shabazz Palaces Remix)
  5 – Africastle (Kode9 Remix)
  6 – Inchworm (Silent Servant Remix – Edit)
  7 – Toddler (Kangding Ray Remix – Edit)
  8 – Dominican Fade (Qluster Remix)
  9 – Ice Cream (BDG #Gang Gang Dance Remix)
  10 – Rolls Bayce (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
  11 – My Machines (Patrick Mahoney & Dennis McNany Remix)
  12 – Sundome (EYE Remix)

  “The Best Remix Album ever? …sets a new benchmark for remix LPs. ‘Dross Glop’ isn’t just a great remix album, it’s a great album. Period.” NME

  “Dross Glop, this intriguing, rewarding remix collection… a smooth, assured, and always giddily exciting ride.” 7.8 out of 10 Pitchfork

  “Music can heal, and these remixes are proof of that” FADER

• Jacques Greene ‘Ready’ EP out now, announced as The Warehouse Project resident, touring this Fall

  Jacques Greene keeps it coming with his second EP this year, ‘Ready’, on Martyn’s label 3024. Already garnering “Best New Music” on Pitchfork, check it out here.

  From 3024’s press release: Lead track ‘Ready’ made it’s debut on Martyn’s Essential mix earlier in the year and the ensuing months of low res Youtube play have failed to tarnish what begins supremely understated. Shuffling breaks and aquatic subs support staggered wood blocks before a serrated ascending acid line helps the arrangement flare into a storming 4×4 pattern, sporadically lit up by that increasingly frayed acid melody until caving in on itself and rattling off into the distance. By contrast ‘Prism’ makes it’s true intentions clear immediately, a metronomic pulse in place as soon as the track opens, quickly joined by enveloping Energy Flash plates of bass and signalling the tracks arrival proper. A wisp of night flight melody snakes it’s way over the surface, partnered with a secondary hook’s wordless androgyny and what was monolithic bass shifts up into an altogether more limber pattern as a competing vocal presence and gemstone arpeggio combine before leaving hissing percussion and the ever present kick in a cloud of steam. Closing track ‘Dakou’ is perhaps closest to the sound that Greene has become known for. Stacked with treated vocal loops and keening synths, a reprise of ‘Ready’s driving but organic drum programming powers the track thought with a finely balanced momentum as a deceptively simple melody weaves between the spaces left by the choir of loops. Just as things settle into a seemingly pleasant groove a supremely ragged acid line breaks the rhythmic mill pond, billowing, swelling and circling the track and becoming more over driven by the bar, before finally flickering out of view for a coda of of chiming synth pads, clockwork breaks and ambient workshop atmospherics.

  Additionally Jacques has been picked as one of this year’s Residents, among other high profile producers, at The Warehouse Project in Manchester. Following up the success of his Summer tour, expect to see him back DJing across the UK and Europe this Fall.

• Adrian Sherwood – ‘Survival & Resistance’ out now

   

  Adrian is releasing his third solo album ‘Survival & Resistance’on August 20th on his On-U Sound.

  For more than three decades, Adrian Sherwood has been quite probably Britain’s finest and most consistently ground-breaking producer, working with acts including Blur, Nine Inch Nails, Sinead O’Connor, The Cure and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

  Check out his freshest mixes:

  ‘Resistance’

  Quietus mix.

   

   

   

   

  Album Press Quotes ::

  sherwood is on murderous, devastating form  – Uncut
  the fire burns bright – 4/5 Mirror
  this is the new music of the spheres – record collector 4/5
  exquisite – 4/5 Independent on sunday

• Oneohtrix Point Never debuts new collaboration with Nate Boyce, RELIQUARY HOUSE

  On December 17, 2011 PopRally premiered the multimedia performance RELIQUARY HOUSE by Oneohtrix Point Never and visual artist Nate Boyce, created specifically for The Museum of Modern Art.

  OPN and Boyce re-imagine the canon of modernist sculpture through hallucinatory reconstructions of works by David Smith, Jacob Epstein, and Anthony Caro, among other sculptures in MoMA’s collection. Boyce uses computer-generated imagery to transform these sculptures into kinetic apparitions that inhabit incongruous and “impossible” landscapes and architectural environments. Abetted by OPN’s sound design, Boyce reconfigures the museum setting, pulling historical art objects into a new context.

  This Fall, OPN and Boyce will bring RELIQUARY HOUSE to the UK/Europe for select dates.

  Contact ned@littlebig.org.uk for booking info.

  While you’re at it, check out the soundtrack he made for MEET YOUR CREATOR. Daniel composed music for a troupe of 16 quadrotors (flying robots) to dance to and manipulate sound and light at the Saacthi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2012. Watch here.

• Micachu & The Shapes new album ‘Never’ out now!

  London’s quirky vibrant electro-pop misfits are back in action this Summer infecting us all again with their playfully unforgettable style. ‘Never’, their much anticipated follow-up to ‘Jewellery’ was released on Rough Trade on July 23. Additionally, they have produced video for each of the fourteen tracks on their album which you can check out here! We are now booking their new live show.

  

  

• LeisureSystem.16 feat. Factory Floor, Kuedo, Joy O, Levon Vincent, DJ Qu, The Hacker, Lazer Sword

  

  LEISURE SYSTEM.16 |
  Berghain | Panorama Bar | 20.07.2012 | Einlass: 23:30 Uhr / Doors: 23:30 | Nur Abendkasse / box office only | Eintritt ab 18 Jahre / x-rated
  FACTORY FLOOR (Live) | KUEDO (Live) | LAZER SWORD (Live) | THE HACKER | N>E>D | BARKER | PUZZLE | LEVON VINCENT | DJ QU | JOY ORBISON | OSKAR OFFERMANN | EDWARD
  http://berghain.de/event/452

  Das Line-up der 16. Ausgabe von Leisure System braucht sich auch hinter manch ambitioniertem Festival nicht verstecken: Abenteuer, Gefahr und Schönheit – alles in einer Nacht. Die dreiköpfige britische Band Factory Floor zum Beispiel ist zur Zeit eines der spannendsten Acts auf DFA. Ihre Musik beschrieb der NME ganz treffend als »Post-Industrial, but it moves beyond that. This is post-apocalyptic, the soundtrack of an underworld-disco«. Wo, wenn nicht im Berghain, könnte ihr Sound besser aufgehoben sein?

  Eine Weltpremiere ist der Live-Act von Kuedo, der dafür mit dem Visual-Künstlerkollektiv MFO kooperiert hat. Den Live-Spaß rundet der Monkeytown-Act Lazer Sword mit seiner Bass-lastigen Post-everything Dancefloor Musik ab, und auch die DJs haben ordentlich Pfeffer in der Hose: The Hacker mit seinem Neo-Rave Hooverbasssound und natürlich die Leisure System Residents. Zeitgleich in der Panorama Bar: Classic House, UK Bass, Romantic Techno – eine musikalische Reise mit den Koordinaten New York, London, Berlin. Krass.

  Berghain:
  23:30 h – 02:00 h Puzzle
  02:00 h – 03:00 h Kuedo LIVE
  03:00 h – 03:45 h N>E>D
  03:45 h – 04:45 h Factory Floor LIVE
  04:45 h – 06:30 h The Hacker
  06:30 h – 07:30 h Lazer Sword LIVE
  07:30 h – End Barker

  Panorama Bar:
  23:59 h – 03:30 h DJ Qu
  03:30 h – 06:00 h Levon Vincent
  06:00 h – 09:00 h Joy Orbison
  09:00 h – End Oskar Offermann & Edward

  Facebook event

• Gonjasufi tour June 2012

  Gonjasufi is back in Europe this June. These are the first proper run of live dates since the release MU.ZZ.LE on Warp in January — tickets and more info below.

  GONJASUFI IN EUROPE – JUNE 2012
  01 FR Paris La Machine – Tickets / Info
  02 LU Luxembourg Rotondes – Tickets / Info
  03 BE Brugge Cactus – Tickets / Info
  06 DE Aachen Musikbunker Aachen – Tickets / Info
  08 DK Copenhagen KB18 – Tickets / Info
  09 SE Gothenburg Clandestino – Tickets / Info
  14 IE Dublin Button Factory – Tickets / Info
  15 IE Cork Cyprus Avenue – Tickets / Info
  16 UK London Village Underground – Tickets / Info
  19 DE Hamburg Uebel & Gefaehrlich – Tickets / Info
  20 DE Berlin Gretchen – Tickets / Info
  21 DE Leipzig Ut Connewitz – Tickets / Info
  22 DE Dresden Scheune – Tickets / Info
  23 DE Frankfurt Das Bett – Tickets / Info
  24 DE Stuttgart Speakeasy – Tickets / Info
  25 DE Munich Feierwerk – Tickets / Info
  26 DE Nuernberg Musikverein K4 – Tickets / Info
  27 DE Prague Meetfactory – Tickets / Info
  29 SK Bratislava Wilsonic Club
  30 AT Vienna Cafe Leopold – Tickets / Info