Black Sun Empire represents the finest in dark and tech fuelled dance-floor drum & bass. Since bursting onto the scene back in 2000, they've continued to develop their own unique style and sound, releasing numerous singles as well as five full-length LPs and establishing themselves as leaders in the field. With their impressive DJ skills and inspirational productions, Black Sun Empire has reached far beyond their native Holland. They've toured around the world, with highlights including Glastonbury and numerous other festival appearances, and continue to build on their growing reputation as some of the most exciting and consistent performers in the scene.
From their base in Utrecht, Holland, the Black Sun Empire trio have truly gone global, taking their own brand of high-octane techno-infused drum & bass to audiences worldwide, with over 100 appearances at live stages and clubs in the last year alone.
Their own club night, Blackout, celebrated it's ninth year anniversary in February 2012 and has seen guest appearances from some of the very best artists in drum & bass and dubstep including Goldie, Dom & Roland, Klute, Optical, Spor, Nero, and Bar 9. In 2011 and now onto 2012, Blackout goes on tour with guests and related artists from their three labels (BSE Recordings, oBSEsessions, Shadows of the Empire) and now has a highly successful residency in London at Cable.
Some of the artists who played at Blackout are:
Noisia, Audio, Jade, Nymfo, SPL, State of Mind, Ed Rush, CounterStrike, Gridlok, Dom & Roland, Calyx, Spor, Klute, Concord Dawn, Eye-D, Teebee, Chris.Su, Vicious Circle, Break, The Upbeats, Phace, Optical, Bad Company, Total Science, Matrix, Futurebound, Brookes Brothers, Fresh, Mindscape, Spectrasoul, Ulterior Motive, Dieselboy, Optiv, Cause4Concern, Andy C, Goldie, Camo&Krooked, Marcus Intalex, Prolix, Bar9, N-type and many more.
This podcast serie is all about that sound!
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Tracklist:
01 Dissidenten — Jungle Book Pt. II (Sven Vath's Mantra-Trance Mix)
02 Human Beings — Phase (Speedy J Remix)
03 Tata Box Inhibitors — Insane (It's Getting Too Much)
04 Astralasia — The Seven Pointed Star
05 Capricorn — Walking On The Moon (Jamez Remix)
06 Spicelab — Feathers (Terry Lee Brown Junior Remix)
07 OJ Project — Locator
08 Liquid Art — Liquid Art
09 Framic — Status X
10 Razor's Edge — Sleepless (Underground Contribution Mix)
01 Solid State — Welcome
02 Luke Cage — Tightrope
03 E & B Project — Feel The Love
04 Jim Clarke — Paraguay
05 Quadran — Naked Light (Trance Mix)
06 Transverse — I Am House
07 Milk Inc. — La Vache (Mad Cow Mix)
08 Sean Dexter & Frank 'Farmer' Simon — Bass
09 Unitone Rockers — Sun Arise
10 Matthew Grey — Indian Lights
Q-dance presents: Headhunterz LIVE — Opening Show and set
Опубликовано: 23 окт. 2012 г.Here you can watch at and listen to the complete opening show of Q-dance presents: Headhunterz, followed by the first 40 minutes of Headhunterz' set.
Q-dance presents: Headhunterz
Hard With Style
Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
Late Night Tales welcomes Jon Hopkins with a beautiful and hypnotic sequence of songs, instrumentals and cinematic electronics.
Requiem for a dreamstate. It’s possibly somewhere between heaven, hell and high water, down the Thames Delta towards Eden. It may involve techno and a distorted state or simply mates sat listening to music together, drifting on the open sea of their minds. This is Jon Hopkins’ world, not so much joining the dots as colouring the whole damn picture in.
After releasing his debut album 'Opalescent' at the rookie age of 21 in 1999, he’s gone on to work with Brian Eno, David Holmes, the Mercury nominated King Creosote collaboration 'Diamond Mine' and on three Coldplay albums. His soundtrack work includes scores for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, How I Live Now, the BBC Zane Lowe rescore of Drive and 2010 film Monsters; nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Score. He released the breakthrough album 'Immunity' in 2013, which was also nominated for the Mercury Prize.
The story arc with which Hopkins succeeded on 'Immunity' makes its appearance on Late Night Tales too with a perfectly sculpted excursion on this widescreen mix. Opening with the unreleased 'Sleepers Beat Theme' by composer Ben Lukas Boysen, ghostly pianos skip elegantly hither and thither, among rising strings, as on Darkstar’s ‘Hold Me Down’. Nils Frahm is here, his sonic palette perfect for the job, while labelmate A Winged Victory For The Sullen contribute ‘Requiem For The Static King Part I’. Sigur Ros offshoot Jónsi & Alex’s heroic ‘Daniell In The Sea’ sends us forth towards the Baltic with tears streaming.
Beats occasionally appear, as on the Grace Jones-sampling ‘Yr Love’ by Holy Other or the pair of Black Country acts Bibio and Letherette, whose ‘After Dawn’ is almost spry in comparison to the minor key symphonies on display here. The perfect contrast to this comes from Alela Diane’s wistful ‘Lady Divine’ or even Four Tet’s mesmerising ‘Gillie Amma I Love You’, with its enchanting kids’ choir. Exclusive to this release, Jon Hopkins provides a startlingly vulnerable new piano version of Yeasayer’s ‘I Remember’.
Poet and fellow Brian Eno collaborator (their joint album 'Drums Between The Bells' was released by Warp in 2011) Rick Holland narrates the exclusive spoken word closer 'I Remember', underpinned with new music by Hopkins.
«Putting this album together was a unique opportunity for me to present music that I have been listening to for years, free from the constraints of a club setting or from trying to stick to one genre. I chose tracks not just because they have been important to me but because of how they sit together, putting as much thought into the transitions and overall narrative as I did into the track choices. I mixed by key and by texture more than anything else, using original sound design, pivot notes, and often recording new synth or piano parts to link things together in a way that flows as naturally as possible. I hope you enjoy it.»
— Jon Hopkins, December 2014
