Late notice for this I know, but brain busting fun can always be accomodated. Lesson No.1 are your guarantee of quality, (and don’t forget Friday’s Nadja gig, with Fallen Painting replaced by Black Cesar) and these are their breathless words:
LESSON NO.1 PRESENTS:
SHITMAT
This is the first Cardiff show for Henry Collins for a few years. Hopefully it won’t be the last, at least for anyone who likes his overdriven, straight-up rofflin’ brand of breakcore, rinsin’ jungle, rave and mashed pop samples as much as Lesson No.1 does. He was going to ‘die’ at the end of this (very long) tour, presumably something to do with the release of his new album ‘One Foot In The Rave’ on the PLANET MU label, but I guess he isn’t now. Whatever. This will be a midweek blast to the power of infinity you CHUMP.
DON LEISURE / JAMAL (DJ)
Don Leisure/Jamal are two guises of the Cardiff-based producer/DJ best known by the latter alias. Spanning everything from electronica to, latterly, dubstep, drum’n'bass is where Jamal made his name, however. Aligned with Cardiff’s Aperture crew, Jamal worked for DILLINJA & LEMON D’s Valve Recordings while living in London, but is now back as a resident of Wales’ capital city. He’s just had a single out on DJ HYPE’s Ganja-Tek label, which to these ears sounds like jungle being messily fed through a dubstep steel crusher, oiled with a love of thumping hip-hop beats.
SOUNDFIEND (DJ)
One of the major pushers of dubstep in Cardiff thanks to his Mud and, brand new on the block (in the Tafod venue, FYI), Phase Two nights, James Lawrie aka Soundfiend has spent a few years now honing his large, rumbling, dancefloor-friendly yet subtly steppin’ dubstep jams. Recently he even got Radio 6 airplay. This should be great!
PARASITE (DJ)
Parasite is a hero of the Bristol electronic scene with a hand in promo (the Toxic Dancehall and Bashout nights), a label (the awesome Death$ucker Records) and a distro (the equally awesome dSWAT). His DJ set here will probably smash together jungle, breakcore, ragga and anything else you can link up with those genres.
DEMON CABBAGE
When you make inroads into the music genre ‘breakcore’ you are likely to encounter some silly names. You have to steel yourself and wade in because often it can hide some pretty corking ruff jams. Demon Cabbage, a guy called Ben who lives in Bristol, is proof of that. Associated with Shitmat’s excellent Wrong Music label, he will offer laptop-based live turnouts encompassing jungle and breakcore.
ALL HAPPENING AT: Undertone (basement of 10 Feet Tall), Church Street, Cardiff
9pm-3am, £5 on the door
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