Noise of Art

“If you only attend one gig this month make it this…” DJ Magazine.

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.

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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’s sound has roots in New York, San Francisco, San Paulo and London. Imagine Curtis Mayfield and Deee-Lite throwing a Nu-Yorican house party with Afro-beat, Cosmic Italo-disco, Turkish psych and ‘70s West Coast music thrown in.

“Brooklyn collective TPHB bring their justly acclaimed psych-rock-cum-cosmic-disco party to town.” (Time Out London)

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

“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 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 rolls back into Big Chill House in Kings Cross this Saturday (15 October). Check Time Out for details (click on the Quote below for link to Time Out):
“The wonderful crew behind SD dig out all sorts of electronic oddities, cosmic wonders and disco-ified gems”

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.

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.

It was with great sadness that Noise of Art heard about the passing of DJ Mehdi. He played Noise of Art five years ago and we’ve known each other for sometime. He was always happy, smiling and glad to see everyone. He was an inspired DJ and a kind, generous person. Our thoughts are with his loved ones.

The Guardian carried a half page obituary by Ben Osborne last Saturday. You can read it online here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/15/dj-medhi-obituary

Time Out’ has made Noise of Art and Trees for Cities’ Metiss’age club night Critics Choice.

Time Out’s piece about the event is HERE

And tickets are on sale HERE … but hurry…

The Metiss’age Street Art Festival is taking place in Paris, Rome and London, and is supported by the Cultural Programme of The European Union. 

London’s Metiss’age Day takes place in London’s beautiful Battersea Park and runs from 10am until 3pm.

Designed as an art and music picnic, and taking place alongside the Tree-athalon, the 5k marathon that raises money to plant trees in inner cities, Metiss’age will feature an inter-active street painting, created by artist Miss Led and painted on-site by children and members of the public.

There will also be a stage with live bands and DJs playing on a solar powered mobile stage, street performers, contemporary dancers, family entertainment, food and refreshement, games and environmental information stalls and resources.

Acts appearing during the day include; 6 Day Riot, Tiny Dragons, Kevin Pearce, Rupert the Brewer, The People Pile, Artwork and two Sonicbids supported acts, Fred’s House and Dpplgngrs.

Noise of Art and Trees For Cities present: Metiss’age Nite, Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ, 9:30pm – 4am.

Featuring: Peter Kruder (Kruder and Dorfmiester/ G Stone), Si Begg (Mute/ Mutate), Ashley Beedle (Outhear Audio/ Dark Star/ Xpress 2), Ben Osborne (Noise of Art/ Slipped Disco), Dec Shoes, Portfolio (Mighty Rumble), Your Mum, Overlap, The People Pile, David Jenkinson (C21), Rupert the Brewer, Mark Scott Wood and more to be announced.

Tickets on SALE now here

Following a day of music and art events at Battersea Park, Noise of Art and Trees For Cities continue the Metiss’age activities with a night of electronic music, surround visuals, costumed contemporary dancers and immersive clubbing.

The evening sees pioneering deep house maestro, Peter Kruder, making a rare London appearance. Kruder rose to prominence as half of Kruder and Dorfmiester in the mid Nineties, and has continually contributed to electronic music’s evolution through deep house and broken beat. His DJ sets are both imaginative and floor shaking.

Kruder is joined by Si Begg, a similarly influential and restless musical soul, and Ashley Beedle, whose never ending projects and pseudonyms (including Black Science Orchestra, Dark Star, Delta House of Funk and X Press 2) have seen him continually re-define house, neo-soul, reggae, acid jazz and psychedelic funk. New act Dec shoes are a vinyl and vocal double act who’ve been raising the temperature at festivals and low ceilinged clubs throughout the summer. Producer and DJ, Portfolio, cut his teeth as resident DJ at Singapore’s celebrated Zouk club. Having recently moved to London, his new sound has become darker and deeper and has already been picked-up for compilations by Steve Lawler, amongst others. David Jenkinson has been busy exporting his C21 club around the world, but tonight returns to his home turf, while Trees For Cities regular Rupert the Brewer will be bringing his collection of smouldering funk to the table. Noise of Art founder Ben Osborne will deliver a trademark round of roof and floor bumping music.

Completing the immersive club experience there will be surround visuals, performance art and spectacular contemporary dance pieces provided by Noise of Art’s regular contributors Your Mum, Overlap and The People Pile, plus an alien anti-fashion show by artist Mark Scott Wood.

Money raised from the event will go to Trees for Cities to plant Metiss’age trees in inner cities.

Metiss’age is supported by the cultural programme of the European Union.

London 2011 Events 17 September – 14 October

Noise of Art’s forthcoming London programme will run from 17 September to 14 October, including the Metiss’age Street Art Festival, supported by the Cultural Programme of the European Union.

Following recent events at Latitude, Sketch, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Spot Festival Denmark, the month of London events will include club nights, street art painting, contemporary dance, costumes, performance art, street performers and circus acts, all set around Noise of Art’s core of electronic club music.

Noise of Art is also supporting Tree For Cities and the Treeathalon, to raise awareness and funds for its work planting trees in inner city environments.

Venues include:
Battersea Park, London SW11; Village Underground, London EC2, Big Chill House, London N1, 93 Feet East, London E1, National Maritime Museum, London SE 10

Artists include:
Peter Kruder, Si Begg, Ashley Beedle, Acid Washed, Dec Shoes, Ben Osborne, Serge Santiago, DJ Ritu, Miss Led, Your Mum, Severino and Nico de Cigelia, aka Hyena Stomp, Overlap, The People Pile, Portfolio, Jason Singh, 6 Day Riot, Beef Warehouse, David Jenkinson, Rupert the Brewer, Tiny Dragons, Peter Hepworth, Mark Scott Wood and more to be announced.

Highlights:

Saturday 17 September Day Event
Noise of Art presents
Metiss’age Junior Street Art Festival and Music Picnic
@ the Treeathalon, Battersea Park, London SW11
Free entry: 10am – 3pm
The Metiss’age street art festival and music picnic is an all ages family event celebrating life in the city and cultural and ecological diversity. Organised by Noise of Art, it will run alongside the Trees For Cities Treeathalon event in Battersea Park.

The centre piece of Metiss’age is an interactive street painting celebrating cultural and eco diversity in London and designed by London artist Miss Led. It will be painted by young people and members of the public. The day is part of two sister festivals being held in Rome and Paris. It will feature a barefoot 100 meter world record attempt, performance art, acrobats, jugglers, a solar powered mobile music stage, costumes, dance, music, cross platform art and trees.

The Metiss’age events are organised in partnership with Global Warming in Paris and Explora in Rome and are suppoted by and part of the European Union’s Cultural Programme. Acts to be announced soon.

To join the Treeathalon race go www.treesforcities.co.uk
More information at www.noiseofart.org

17 September Night Event
Noise of Art and Trees For Cities present:
Metiss’age Nite
At Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ
10pm – 4am
Tickets £10

Peter Kruder (Kruder and Dorfmiester/ G Stone), Si Begg (S I Futures/ Noodles), Ashley Beedle (Outhear Audio/ Dark Star/ Xpress 2), Ben Osborne (Noise of Art/ Slipped Disco), Dec Shoes, Portfolio (Mighty Rumble), Your Mum, Overlap, The People Pile, David Jenkins (C21), Rupert the Brewer, Mark Scott Wood and more to be announced.

Money raised at the event will go to Trees for Cities to plant Metiss’age trees in inner cities.

Saturday 24 September
Noise of Art Vs Slipped Disco
Big Chill House, 257-259 Pentonville Road King’s Cross London N1 9N. 7pm – 2 am. Free
Continuing Noise of Art’s cross London, pan European celebration of cultural diversity and street art, Noise of Art returns to King’s Cross’ Big Chill House for a night of live electronics, deep house and bumping techno music. Noise of Art founder, DJ Ben Osborne, is joined by Dec Shoes (live), Rupert The Brewer, The People Pile, Overlap, Your Mum and a further line-up of special guests, to be announced.

Friday 30 September
93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, EC2
Noise of Art presents: Paris, Rome and London
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), Ben Osborne, The People Pile, Beef Warehouse, Cosmic Onion Field, Rupert The Brewer and more to be announced

Mirroring sister events in Paris and Rome, Noise of Art steps into 93 Feet East for a Rome vs Paris and London three way marathon.

Thursday 6 October
Noise of Art and National Maritime Museum presents:
Traders Unpacked
National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
Free, times and line up to be annunced.

To mark the opening of the new East India Gallery and wing at the former hub of Britain’s Navy, Noise of Art takes inspiration from the way Eastern sea routes have brought new cultures into London, and changed our art, music and film.

Full line-up to announced soon,

15 October
Noise of Art Vs Slipped Disco
Big Chill House 257-259 Pentonville Road King’s Cross London N1 9NL. 7pm – 2 am. Free

Serge Santiago Vs Ben Osborne and more to be announced