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EMPTY POCKET COLLABORATION: SPRING 2015

MAKALA CHEUNG - EMPTY POCKET REVIEW

When Jay Unearthed and Phantom Trophies mixed a few fresh beats and sounds together to create a jungle inspired dinger, they never envisaged they would be featuring in the video, yet alone seeing the track receive so much critical acclaim. After getting well and truly Makala Cheung'd the reception of it has been truly enthusicatic to say the least! Coined by one review as shockingly awesome this release by Makala Cheung has had music reviews over Bristol all avid to share their appreciation for this up-beat up-spirited track. You can read the review live here:

http://www.bristollivemagazine.com/issue-37-february-2015/

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DEATH ROW TECHNO, RETURN OF THE FALLEN: AUTUMN 2014

DEATH ROW TECHNO - 20th MARCH 2014 - LAKOTA BRISTOL
If you remember The Depot in Easton Bristol, a decade or so ago, you would have heard of DEATH ROW TECHNO the biggest south-west gabba techno crew! Death Row Techno was born in the early hazy days of the 1990's. It was a rebelisation of community people stuck into one squatty little area, who had been left to rot by the elected - from lack of community amenities, broken down environments and a demoralised youth. In a hundred different ways it represented different people, twisted minds, twisted machines and twisted life-styles. They created their own sound, their own place - and they called it DEATH ROW TECHNO.

Taken from a small venue in Bristol to the mighty Sanctuary in Milton Keynes, the support grew and grew with the 100's strong DEATH ROW TECHNO posse getting stronger and bigger every time. Not forgetting the cities public houses banging out the gabba and DEATH ROW TECHNO support (with a special cheers going out to one of the DESTROYER's fave The Red Hart). DEATH ROW TECHNO grew with the support of Bristol districts Hartcliffe, Withywood, Whitchurch, Knowle and Stockwood. After which it got so big people knew of DEATH ROW TECHNO far and wide. By the end of the 90's every raver in the UK had either heard of or been too a DEATH ROW TECHNO night.

If you want to hear the evolution of inner-city life, what it is all about, then at DEATH ROW TECHNO you could just go on forever. The originator Pietro Kowalski aka THE DESTROYER is coming back, for a special one-off: 'PURE ENERGY - RETURN OF THE FALLEN' an all-nighter of DRT proportions. Bringing a twist of the old and new techno sounds for this decades jilted generation to get down to real hard-beat sounds, amongst tons of old skool techno ravers, eager to get back on the DRT dance-floor and loose themselves just one more time amongst like-minded techno heads.

DEATH ROW TECHNO has always been friendly place - because everyone shocked out - no time to chat with the beats banging and everyone flying! So you need to get yourself connected to the DEATH ROW TECHNO events page as March 20th 2015 already looks set to be a road-block event and tickets will go on a first come - first served basis.

DEATH ROW TECHNO - 20th MARCH 2014 - LAKOTA BRISTOL

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PHANTOM TROPHIES, THE ONE TO WATCH 2015: SUMMER 2014

THE 1 TO WATCH: PT/WEB - PT/FB - PT/TWITTER

PHANTOM TROPHIES is a musician, producer, and vocalist Lewis Campbell.

After producing electronic music 'on the side' - whilst playing as 1/3 alongside Bristol Indie band COPYCLUB, PHANTOM TROPHIES is now releasing his songs out into the wild. The PHANTOM TROPHIES Project is still in it's infancy but will be already accompanied by live shows in the near future. Check out the PHANTOM TROPHIES website to listen to current audio and get yourself prepared for what he has in store for you next. I defy you not to hold a chill when you hear his newest minimally melodic and hauntingly beautiful piece which will obliterate any genre defining mix to this date.

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KING PRAWN, DONE DAYS / SOLEMN MAN: SPRING 2014

KING PRAWN

KING PRAWNS new single is a massive sonic blow of Northern Punk Rock n Roll flipped with a chunk of flamenco dub ska. The band last 'left the building' at a sold out London Forum in 2003. After four albums and hard touring the London based band had gained themselves a dedicated following to their punk, ska, funk sound.

It took a call from Boomtown Fair asking if the band would be available to headline their Devil Kicks stage to break the hiatus. Once new was out slots in Reading and Leeds Festivals, a flood of enquiries from promoters across the country. The original line up still stands, Al Rumjen (vocals), Devil Hands (guitar), Nikoli (drums), and Dr. Nelly (trumpet) only bassist Babar Luck has been replaced by new recruit Zac Chang and an expanded live horn has been added to the mix.

Straight after Leeds festival the band drove to the remote Baked House studios near the Norfolk coast. The mission to lay down two tracks for a limited edition 7" for sale on their November tour.

The band have definitely got the thirst with an album planned for Spring 2014. This two track single is a joint collaboration with Music / Clothing label Yo-Silver. Released on the 11th of November 2014 as a download and limited tour 7" vinyl.

UK PRESS CONTACT: simonsayspr@yahoo.co.uk

LABEL: yo.silver@aol.co.uk / http://www.yo-silver.co.uk

STREAM THE TUNE: http://yo-silver.co.uk/news/2013/10/23/king-prawn-done-days-stream-and-competition

FIND THE BAND: http://www.king-prawn.co.uk

SNW FOR KP: http://www.facebook.com/officialkingprawn

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DREAMSCAPES, MIND ESCAPES AND SUB-STATES: WINTER 2013

DREAMSCAPES, MIND ESCAPES AND SUB-STATES

The history of rave has been a surprising evolution, of a state of mind of a generation, into what is now a sizeable chunk of the public economic market. No-one even bats an eyelid anymore when an old raving organisation is re-packaged as a dance music brand, or even questions the re-sell of names or the lack of adherence to the originals.

Rather than opposing the politics and ethics of the years that legally repressed many peaceful human beings, it has developed some strange practices to sustain a presence in this highly captalised era of the scene. Many genres and sub-genres have notorious politics of their own, often dominating and hindering co-existence and positive evolution of what rave stood for. Though all of this is too often quickly forgotten.

What on earth does this have to do with raving you may ask? Well nothing really but everything at the same time. Understanding from a long-toothed perspective how things are, really answers a lot of the questions inevitably surfacing within the present dance music scene at the moment.

Like many raver we get over-joyed, excited and welcoming the return of the mighty rave organisations from yester-year, especially when they stop off in Bristol's fine soil. Expecting a a tinkle or knock on the door from some old friends, I eagerly anticipated hearing the first bit of news on these old raving giants. Time oddly passes and as the waves remain silent I decided to seek, what I was becoming to think, was a mirage of post-raving days.

So before any of you old school ravers get excited and ready to pay to revisit your rose-tinted memories please be lest hasty. For those of you just breaking into this scene; be as you are, think as you are, be who you are and in doing that you will get the same vibe and memories we did way back when. Chasing a brand to re-live an ideology that has an appealing package was what we were all running from not too! So be the next generation of ravers not consumers and in 10 - 20 years time will be able to tell old raving stories with as much passion as you hear today.

PEACE, LOVE, UNITY AND RESPECT TO YOU ALL AND PLEASE RECOGNISE THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE AS ONE.

words by: AcidBunny / pictures by: UNEARTHED