Phenomenal Handclap Band play Noise of Art’s Psychedelic Curiosity Show
by Noise of Art Team on Jan.11, 2012, under Events
New York’s Phenomenal Handclap Band are teaming up with London music and art collective, Noise of Art, to play their surround club experience, the Psychedelic Curiosity Show, at Village Underground, London, on 24 February.
The London show marking the release of Phenomenal Handclap Band’s new LP (Form & Control), sees New York’s purveyors of psych, soul, and cosmic disco enter Noise of Art’s psychedelic steam punk world.
Phenomenal Handclap Band broke through with their US and European club hit ‘15 To 20’. Their sound has roots in New York, San Francisco, San Paulo and London. Imagine Curtis Mayfield and Deee-Lite throwing a Nu-Yorican party with Afro-beat, Cosmic Italo-disco, Turkish psych and ‘70s West Coast music spinning on the decks. Kaleidoscopic grooves doesn’t begin to describe their live sound.
On the 45th anniversary of the UK’s Psychedelic movement, Noise of Art’s new show is inspired by contemporary steam punk and the 19th Century imagery that inexplicably became prevalent in the late Sixties. It imagines that Sergeant Pepper, Pink Floyd and The Avengers were the result of two universes colliding in 1967; throwing people from a parallel steam punk world into swinging London.
The resulting psychedelic Victoriana features coal-fired flower power, contemporary dancers, curiosities of nature, magic lanterns of psychedelic imagery, steam-powered cosmic house, psyched-out-disco and coal-fired techno.
Press about Phenomenal Handclap Band
“Punchier, grander and more focused than their debut… NYC glam dance collective reach for the stars” Q ****
‘…encapsulates the nostalgic elements of ESG, ELO, Tom Tom Club, The Doors and Sly And The Family Stone, applies a gloss of New York cool and then re-packages it with the modern production of the LCD soundsystem, CSS and Beck variety. Forget the handclap, they’ll take a standing ovation.’ – NME
‘With guitars, keyboards, percussion, and two very chic female singers (who seriously know how to rock leather leggings and sleek jumpers)—the crew took its worldly, genre-spanning sound and turned it up about a thousand notches’ -Elle
‘The PHB are astronauts of progressive soul, moored at the stellar point where rock, funk and psychedelia bloom into cosmic-disco amazingness.’ The Guardian
‘Musically diverse, incredibly melodic and dance-floor ready.’ – New York Post
‘With their multitudinous influences, blending funk, soul, reggae, dance, hip-hop and Brazilian beat, as well as rock, disco and electro, they encapsulate the spirit of the Brooklyn underground.’ – The Sunday Times Culture UK
Slipped Disco and The Magic Wheel Friday 27 January
by noise of art on Jan.09, 2012, under Events
DJs: Hyena Stomp aka Severino (Horse Meat Disco) and Nico de Cigelia, Serge Santiago (Retro/grade), Ben Osborne (Noise of Art/ Re:Play), Mystic Rock (aka Horton Jupiter – They Came From The Stars I Saw Them)
Live Acts
Kal Lavelle, Kevin Pearce Band, Tiny Dragons, Peter Hepworth, Antonio Lulic, Evokoteur
More to be announced…
333 Mother
333 Old Street London EC1V 9LE.
£5 8pm – 3 am Friday 27 January
Slipped Disco celebrates its seventh birthday by returning to its Shoreditch roots to start a new residency at the multi floored 333 Mother – one of SD’s first venues. To get the party started Slipped Disco has invited a typically diverse selection of talented acts to play. It’s also hosting the debut outing of The Magic Wheel, which will test the DJs’ versatility by randomly switching music genre.
The 333 Mother launch night sees Slipped Disco returning to its DJ and live music format, with Italo disco and house DJ Severino lining up with Pete Tong’s aide de camp, Nico de Cigelia, as house remix duo Hyena Stomp. Severino is also one of the residents behind the power house of disco that is Horse Meat Disco. Joining them on the decks are disco and techno maestro Serge Santiago, half of Retro/ Grade with Tom Neville, and Slipped Disco host, DJ Ben Osborne.
Meanwhile members of the audience in the Magic Wheel room will spin the Wheel and determine a new genre. Expect to hear music from the sublime to the ridiculous, see wheel-based performances, and have your life changed – or at least turned up-side—down – every half hour or so…
In the live room the selection of fast rising talent sees singer songwriter Kal Lavelle top the bill. Lavelle is Ed Sheeran’s support act of choice and the voice on Artful’s club hit; ‘It Must Be The Bass Line’. Joining her is Music Week’s hotly tipped electronic act Kevin Pearce – live voice of I Monster’s Daydream In Blue hit. Catch him here first.
Brighton’s Tiny Dragons have been storming the UK recently, fronted by one of the most powerful bass playing front women in the country. After a long break, singer songwriter Peter Hepworth signals a renaissance by returning to London for the second time this year. London based Mexican electro act Evokateur caught the attention of Gary Newman last year – who kindly offered to remix their debut single. They join the line-up here in the run-up to their second release.
Amongst the first club nights to embrace London’s neo disco scene, Slipped Disco takes disco as the root of modern dance music, but accepts it’s slipped a bit into other genres. Over the last seven years Slipped Disco’s invited acts from a diverse range of genres to get their groove on. It’s been responsible for introducing many of Paris’ leading electro acts to the capital, alongside leading lights from the Amsterdam house, Norwegian electronica and Italian disco scenes, hosting sub bass and funky jams and diving head first into the capital’s re-emerged house, techno and psychedelic scenes.
7 Year Itch – Friday 20 January
by noise of art on Dec.05, 2011, under Events
Slipped Disco kicks off its celebration of seven years of forward thinking music with a night of semi
nal DJs and up-and-coming bands.
DIESEL + JUSTIN ROBERTSON + BEN OSBORNE + BLEEDING HEART NARRATIVE + KEVIN PEARCE BAND + FRED’S HOUSE + RYAN KEEN + PETER HEPWORTH
93 Feet East
150 Brick Lane
Whitechapel
London
E1 6RU
7pm-1am FREE entry all night
Split over two rooms, a live room and a club room, and featuring everything from bumping b-line house to live electronica, alt folk and deep techno. The DJ line-up sees Justin Robertson (Madchester mainstay and Lion Rock founder) and Diesel, half of Xpress 2 (who release their first album in five years in January 2012), spin alongside resident DJ Ben Osborne.
The live room is a double header, as Bleeding Heart Narrative, who’ve been turning heads with their Brain Love released Bison mini LP, are joined by hot new electronic talent, Kevin Pearce, whose debut single, Don’t Fall Down, has just been chosen for Music Week’s best of 2011 CD. Expect to hear a lot more from these two acts in 2012.
Singer songwriter Ryan Keen is another act whos threatening to breakthrough this year, as is Cambridge based Fred’s House, whose vocal harmonies take their cue from the late Sixties. Starting off the live music on the night will be East-Anglian troubadour Peter Hepworth.
New Year’s Eve: Noise of Art’s Psychedelic Curiosity
by noise of art on Dec.04, 2011, under Events
Noise of Art’s New Year’s Eve event at Sketch, with Ben Osborne, Luca Santucci, The People Pile, Overlap, Your Mum, Walkabout/ Prick Image, Kevin Pearce, Peter Hepworth, Fred’s House, The Medicine Shop, Louise Golbey and special guests to be announced.
New Year’s Eve at Sketch, London
31st December 2011 – 1st December 2012
Sketch, 9 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2XG
The Noise of Art entry list for this event is now full. If we’re not seeing you on the 31st we hope to see you very soon at our next events in 2012.
Noise of Art returns to the stunning party space at Sketch for NYE 2012, with a new immersive club event featuring music, art, film, performance, dance, surround projections and occurrences of curiosity.
On the 45th anniversary of the UK’s Psychedelic movement, Noise of Art’s new show is inspired by the 19th Century imagery of the late Sixties (think Blake’s iconic cover art and inner sleeve cut out moustaches). The immersive club event imagines that Sergeant Pepper, Pink Floyd and The Avengers were the result of two universes colliding in 1967; throwing people from a parallel steam punk world into the Carnaby Street scene of swinging London (which happens to be two minutes walk from the venue).
The resulting psychedelic Victoriana features DJs, coal-fired flower power, contemporary dancers, and folk singers, curiosities of nature and, visiting the capital for the very first time, the drawing room disco that is a Benefit For Mr Kite, and 360 degree magic lanterns of psychedelic imagery.
Musical acts will begin with Sixties folktronics, and rise to steam-powered cosmic house, psyched-out-disco and coal-fired techno.
“When it comes to mega multimedia events, Ben Osborne and his collective, Noise of Art, are all over it.” Time Out“… plenty of great music and top visuals for your dollar.” CMU
“Unique venues… and quality electronica” iDJ
“The idea’s brilliant” FACT
“… bound to free the crowd from any… torpor.” The Guardian
“This gets a very big Londonist thumbs up.” The Londonist
“You’re unlikely to attend another event in London like this, so our advice is to get your ticket sharpish.” DJ Magazine
Private View Launch Night
by Noise of Art Team on Nov.19, 2011, under Events
Private View at Star of Kings, 2 December, 2011
“Justin Robertson and Ben Osborne’s new night that’s a private view of exciting new beats on the decks in the brick-lined basement” Time Out
“Justin and Ben crack open a very special new night. Encouraging musical innovators to showcase and road test their new stuff, Private View is a down to earth night with free entry and pub prices.” Spoonfed
Friday 2 December
The Star of Kings
126 York Way, London N1 9AX
Free entry 7pm – 2am
Launch Party with… Si Begg, Serge Santiago, Danton Eeprom, Will Dutta, Fred’s House Plus resident DJs and hosts Justin Robertson and Ben Osborne
Private View encourages musical innovators to show case their new music in this intimate brick lined dance space. The first night pulls together a multi-faceted roster of influential and new artists.
Justin and Ben are joined on the decks by legendary bass line innovator Si Begg, Italo disco don Serge Santiago, hot Gallic deep techno maestro Danton Eeprom (who releases a new single on Southen Fried this month), and left field electronic and ambient composer Will Dutta playing his debut DJ set (showcasing his forthcoming LP release on Just Music). Starting things off, at ground level, will be Cambridge’s rising acoustic quartet, Fred’s House.
The evening begins at ground level at 7pm and spreads to the rest of the venue, including one of London’s best hideaway basements, from 9:30pm until 2am.
Free Entry and pub prices all night long
Noise of Art NYE 2012 at Sketch
by Noise of Art Team on Oct.24, 2011, under Events
Noise of Art will be returning to the sleek and salubrious environs of London’s Sketch for New Years’ Eve.
The immersive club night will feature DJs, dancers, performers, film, live music and projections across four rooms.
The third Noise of Art NYE at Sketch will see Seventies sci-fi retro-futurism meet themes inspired by late Sixties Psychedelica. Steam-punk strands continue with a neo Victorian curiosity.
Full details to be made available on www.noiseofart.org soon.
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Slipped Disco @ Big Chill House
by Noise of Art Team on Oct.14, 2011, under Events
Ben Osborne DJ Mixes
“The wonderful crew behind SD dig out all sorts of electronic oddities, cosmic wonders and disco-ified gems”
Noise of Art: Traders Unpacked
by noise of art on Oct.03, 2011, under Events
DJ Ritu
Noise of Art: Traders Unpacked
Thursday 6 October
Free 6pm 10pm
National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF Free, 6-10pm.
DJ Ritu (Kali), DJ Rita Ray (The Shrine), DJ Ben Osborne, Portfolio, Jason Singh, The People Pile, The City Sea Shanty Band, Dec Shoes, Your Mum, Avaes Mohammed, T.J Jeffrey, Cosmic Onion Field, Strap On.
Opening the Traders Unpacked season in the new high tech East India Gallery and new wing of the NMM, Noise of Art takes inspiration from the way Eastern sea routes have brought new cultures into London, and changed our art, music, film and clubs.
The programme sees two of London’s longest running club nights unite, as DJ Ritu, of London South Asian club Kali and BBC Radio, lines-up alongside Rita Ray, of the influential London African club, Shrine.
Singaporean act Portfolio will be playing deep house (the East India Company established its first base in Singapore), alongside the Afro -Indian singer of Dec Shoes. Japanese fronted Krautrock act Cosmic Onion Field will add live music, while Overlap unveils the new version of an evolving film-as-art portrait of Anna Mae Wong – the first Chinese film star, who made her debut in a film set in nightclubs in the 1920s in the East London docks.
Sikh beat-boxer Jason Singh, who started working with film after winning a PRS for Music Foundation Award in 2010, is creating a new collaborative work, with poet Avaes Mohammed and film maker T.J Jeffrey, specially for the night.
East London’s finest salty sea dogs, The City Sea Shanty Band, singing the odd song about bottles of rum. Contemporary dancers The People Pile will be performing a themed piece and 360 degree projectionists Your Mum and mobile movie projector Strap On will be adding their unique imagery… and more.
Noise of Art: Paris, Rome, Prague and London, 93 Feet East
by Noise of Art Team on Sep.30, 2011, under Events
Friday 30 September
93 Feet east, 150 Brick Lane London E1 6QL
7pm – 1 am Free
Acid Washed (France)
Hyena Stomp aka Severino and Nico de Ceglia (Italia)
Dec Shoes (London)
Hentai Corporation (Prague)
Ben Osborne
The People Pile
Your Mum
Beef Warehouse
Cosmic Onion Field
Rupert The Brewer
Overlap
And more to be announced
Continuing Noise of Art’s cross London, pan-European celebration, which sees sister events taking place in Paris and Rome, Noise of Art steps into 93 Feet East for a Rome vs Paris, Prague and London four way dance off.
Signed to hot Parisian label Record Makers (home to acts as diverse as Sebastian Tellier and Kavinksy and originally set up by Air), Acid Washed are a live electronic duo who squelch a myriad influences into their post acid techno sound. Comprised of Richard d’Alpert and Andrew Claristidge, the duo takes Chicago house and Detroit techno, add some Giorgio Moroder and end-up somewhere in a late Sixties cyber world.
Italian partners in crime Severino and Nico de Ceglia, have made names for themselves on the London scene through their associations with Horse Meat Disco and Radio 1’s Essential Selection. Hyena Stomp, their joint Italo project, kicks out the finest house sets this side of Nineties Rimini.
New London act Dec Shoes have spent the summer playing everything from festival main stages to low ceilinged street bars this summer with their live vocal and vinyl sets. Their sound combines, house, techno and bass.
Hentai Corporation are what Led Zeppelin would have sounded like if they’d formed after drum n bass had been invented – and grown-up listening to traditional Czech music and Napalm Death. Prog rock done Prague style.
Holding it all together, Noise of Art founder and resident DJ Ben Osborne will be heading-up the mix down in the Pink Room with homeboy Rupert The Brewer kicking things off with a fine selection of his home made funky jams.
Reading and Leeds Festival favourites, Beef Warehouse, will be bring their stadium filling sound to the Red Rooms smaller ambience, mashing through the genres in their inimitable DJ style, while Cosmic Onion Field will be providing their warped brand of psycho-delic atmospherics
Visuals, dance and performance come courtesy of the awesomely creative project The People Pile, and the stunning projections of Your Mum and Overlap.
Noise of Art vs Slipped Disco Big Chill House
by Noise of Art Team on Sep.21, 2011, under Events
Saturday 24 September, Big Chill House, 257-259 Pentonville Road King’s Cross London N1 9N. 7pm – 2 am. Free.
Noise of art is taking an unexpected electro twist this Saturday with electro acts Evokoteur (Live) and special guests Dpplgngrs joining Sipped Disco resident Ben Osborne (Noise of Art) and Dec Shoes.
Electro heads Dpplgnrs celebrate their new single (out this week on the Hotwerks) and anglo-Mexican outfit Evokoteur continue the neo electro theme with a live set from the DJ booth. Vinyl and Vocal duo Dec Shoes take the beats into house and bass territory while Noise of Art founder and Slipped Disco resident, Ben Osborne, will be digging out tracks from his old electro set, including a few Ed Banger classics.
