Archive

• LittleBig at ADE 2017

  

   

  18.

  Ben Frost
  Muziekgebouw
  20:30 – 23:00

  19.

  Jon Hopkins (DJ)
  DGTL / NDSM Werf
  02.00

  Matrixxman
  Radion
  19:00

  Objekt
  Radion
  03:00 – 05:00

  Tzusing (DJ)
  Reaktor @ Elementenstraat Warehouse (Room 2)
  02:00 – 03:30

  20.

  Aleksi Perala (Live)
  Shelter
  00:30 – 01:30

  Benjamin Damage
  De Marktkantine
  03:30 – 05:30

  Clark
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Danny Daze
  NDSM Werf
  03:00 – 05:00

  Hubie Davison (DJ)
  Club Up
  04:30 – 06:00

  JoeFarr (DJ)
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Jon Hopkins (DJ)
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Max Cooper
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Nathan Fake
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Powell (DJ)
  Banlieue presents Diagonal @ ADE – Radion (Room 2)
  02:00 – 04:00

  Photay (DJ)
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Randomer (DJ)
  H7
  03:15 – 05:00

  Rival Consoles
  Het Sieraad
  02:00

  Roman Lindau (DJ)
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Terr (DJ)
  De Marktkantine
  22:00 – 08:00

  Tzusing (DJ)
  Zeezout @ Undercurrent
  00:00 – 02:00

  21.

  Clouds (DJ)
  Shelter
  13:00 – 15:00

  Headstrong (DJ)
  Verknipt
  05:30 – 06:45

  Max Cooper (DJ)
  Het Sieraad
  05:00 – 07:00

• Photay reveals new singles ahead of album launch

  Photay unveils two brand new singles from his forthcoming album – ‘Onism’ due for release on the 11th of August.

  ‘The Everday Push’ is a sublime piece of music. The groove will get you moving, but the textures might well stop you in your tracks. The stuttering beat beeps like a phone that’s been knocked off its hook; the electronic bass puts an especially heavyweight spin on the 808’s typical gut-punch, while subtle electronic sound design lends a glistening, high-tech touch. The melody comes from the balafon, a West African mallet instrument that sounds part xylophone, part screen door. Put together, those contrasting elements make for an electrifying range of timbres—and a striking sense of cognitive dissonance, wherein a centuries-old percussion instrument catapults ’80s funk deep into the future.

  
  The rhythm is familiar: slow, deliciously syncopated, and with a slinky cadence that’s not too far off from the kind of thing that Floating Points did on his early records. But when have we ever heard classic boogie dressed up in sounds like these? – Pitchfork

  The second of these singles is the delightful ‘Aura’ – an exquisite piece of modern R&B that features glittering synth work and dreamy vocals from Photay himself.

  

  As well as his own sizable offerings, Photay has been bestowed the honour of remixing Jordan Rakei’s ‘Sorceress’. Released on Ninja Tune on the 29th of June, it maintains the soulful integrity of the original but deftly repurposes it as a stealthy dancefloor killer. Jordan’s angelic harmonies swim through a breakbeat shuffle and a rumbling 80s-style wet bass for the ultimate groove. As the track breaks down, a xylophone-style chorus rings out alongside what reminds us of a west African highlife-style guitar riff. No matter where you place the sounds, this is guaranteed to light up dance-floors all summer.

• LittleBig welcomes Photay

  

  Following a string of much loved EP’s and remixes for the likes of Astro Nautico and Ninja Tune, we are thrilled to announce that we will now be representing Photay for shows across Europe, in line with the release of his next album ‘Onism’, set for release on August 11th. Having received strong support from the likes of Gilles Peterson Worldwide, BBC 6 Music, Fader and Self-Titled, Photay will embark on the European leg of his worldwide Onism tour in Autumn 2017.

  Familiarise yourself with his music and forthcoming album below, and get in touch with Phil for EU tour availabilities.

  “Nature documentaries of the 1970s used synthesizer music to score messages about species endangerment and environmental disaster prevention. Electronic instrumentation was in itself an ominous warning of the reckless advancement of technology and an effort to audition a utopian harmony between people and machines and nature.

  Onism inherits the same historical tension in an age of climate change and social media addiction. It is also a reaction of personal conditions, a meditation on place, community, and its creator’s own embodied history. The word ‘onism,’ invented by John Koenig, means the frustration of being stuck in just one body that inhabits only one place at a time.
  To grasp onism, is to be apprised of how little of the world you have experienced, are experiencing, or will ever experience. Photay (Evan Shornstein) composed Onism in the heart of Brooklyn and shrouded by the silence of national parks or on trips home to the woodlands of the Hudson Valley in between touring the urban centers of foreign countries. Scattered but connected, Onism’s music is a constellation that rips across the night sky of time, charting an emotional reality dened by sadness and joy, dread and wonder.
  
  

  Shornstein contrasts spacious near-silence with bombastic saturated peaks. Fangled robotic tones (“Screens”) meet with forest oor ambience (“Storm”), evoking visual designs for the built and natural worlds, while the overwhelm of metropolis (“Balsam Massacre”) and the digital age (“The Everyday Push”) is eased by the liberatory forests of Woodstock (“Outré Lux” feat. Madison Mcferrin) and assumptions into imagined realities (“Bombogenesis”). The demonic swing of “Balsam Massacre” imagines the sounds of a tree’s innards as it is felled with a chainsaw, while ’Storm’ thunders distantly in triumphant reverie. On ‘Aura,’ Shornstein sings for the second time in his career (“Take the time to hear yourself”). The message hints at a common denom- inator to his meditations, resonating also as a warning to the world, an everyday push to the role of electronic music in storytelling the future of the global environmentalist movement.”

• Live Set: Boiler Room / Brownswood Basement 2016

• Video for ‘Monday’, nominated for Giles Peterson Track of the Year 2016