CREWDSON + CRACKLE + SIGNALS

Event information

Slowfoot Records hosted night featuring south-east London producer Crewdson who's recent debut album 'Gravity' has been drawing huge praise and murky experimental electro-jazz trio Crackle.


CREWDSON



South East London's acclaimed producer Crewdson who has recently released his debut album 'Gravity' on Slowfoot and has been hailed as one to watch amongst his 'post dubstep' peers, "...blowing Jazz and glitch into the vessels sails". His live set incorporates live sampling of voice, saxophone and miscellaneous objects which he manipulates with his idiosyncratic electronic set up including midi motorcycle handlebars.


Reviews for 'Gravity' -

"A fantastic debut from the London-based producer, full of intriguing promise." [BBC]

"Eleven fantastic post-dubstep/micro-house tracks from Matthew Herbert's tech assistant and fine south-east London producer Crewdson" [Time Out]

" 'Gravity' is a wonderful achievement. A sensual marriage of skippy 2-step rhythms, throbbing bass and delicate arrangements. Crewdson is moving bass music beyond its post-dubstep moniker." [Clash]

"Crewdson is a fresh UK producer soon to be inducted into the Hall of Precious Electronic Sounds, particularly following the release of his debut LP, Gravity." [XLR8R]

"The album is great hodgepodge of crafted songs by Crewdson that only solidifies his stand-out talent amongst his peers." [Planet Notion]

"a fantastic debut album... ... I implore you to check this guy out." [Igloo]

"Crewdson harks back to the skeletal post-garage of Burial - emotive, introspective and shrouded in mystery." [Clash Magazine]

"Gravity establishes Hugh Jones as a beatsmith on par with any of his contemporaries mining the fertile soil around the edges of modern soul, dubstep and esoteric electronica." [Cyclic Defrost]

CRACKLE



Murky experimental electro-jazz trio of Nick Doyne-Ditmas [Monkey Puzzle Trio, Pinski Zoo] on bass, cornet and electronics, Frank Byng [Snorkel, Robert Logan Trio] on drums and electronics, and Ben Cowen [Snorkel, 7-Hurtz] on keyboards and electronics.


Reviews for their 2008 album 'Heavy Water' -

"So varied and fabulous an album that we have trouble selecting this one cut, but fans of Miles Davis, Augustus Pablo and Isotope 217 alike will fall fast for its ineffable cool." - [Time Out]

"South London duo dodge ambient electronica conventions to striking effect.." - [Uncut]

"...the pair take in the heavy, messy art-funk of Material and other downtown types, the lateral thinking and mixdown trickery of Brian Eno or Holger Czukay, and the textural understanding of This Heat." - [The Wire]

"Anyone interested in the outer limits of Afro-Dub Jazz from the likes of HIM and Isotope 217 could do a whole lot worse than dive headfirst into Heavy Water" - [experimusic]

"...a loose, shifting album of cross-cultural surveillance, a living, breathing expedition into our petroleum fuelled city streets through evolving and involving free-jazz electronica" - [Future Music]

"The deliciously murky world of Crackle" - Verity Sharp - [Late Junction, Radio 3]

"...an electrifying cross between slumberland-trekking In a Silent Way minimalism and heavy, heady dub." - [Kruger magazine]


SIGNALS -



Signals was formed by Chris Gowers (Karina ESP, Evelyn Records) and Phil Julian (Cheapmachines, Authorised Version) during summer 2004, initially to work on collaborative performance for the 2004 London Headphone Festival.



During November 2005, Mark Beazley of Rothko joined Signals to play live as part of the on-going Evelyn Records evenings in London, cementing the core line-up.



The trio's live performance's consist of 15 to 20 minute drone and melody explorations, utilizing bowed and effected guitar, live laptop manipulations and sampling, bowed ceremonial bowls and effected bass guitar.