NYE Line Up Announced

Thank you to everyone that came to check out the Abandon Silence Best of 2010 Lists. We got some great feedback, even a retweet from the victorious Best Album Winner Flying Lotus. Over 5000 views in 3 days was, by sadly some distance, our greatest period of traffic ever! Thanks again to you all.

I am here to give you great tidings for this coming New Years Eve... We shall be hosting our own party! Well, we will be hosting the front INK room in Chibuku's legendary NYE party, to be held in The Masque, Seel St, Liverpool.

We are bringing back one of our favourite new producers of the year, MELE, for a third time to join our usual residents Rich Furness and Horza. As well as Mele, Rich and Horza, we have two new DJs coming along, Sheppard and Jake Daniel. Both have been on my imaginary waiting list for a long time, and I am so thrilled to finally be able to find a platform for these guys to party with us.

Abandon Silence NYE at Chibuku

MELE - Grizzly

Rich Furness

Horza

Sheppard

Jake Daniel

Firstly, we have Mele's latest release, I Swear Down, which is a fantastic grinding piece of 130 funky that evokes strong Deadboy vibes, but retains it's individuality.

Melé - I Swear Down by Melé

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And as a wee introduction to the two new guys joining us, here is a couple of mixes from the pair of them. I'm sure you'll agree that we have pulled these guys out of the top drawer to join us.

Both these mixes are available to download, just click on the arrow symbol to the right of the player...

Definition//Mix 2010 by SPD//SHEPPARD

Tracklist:

Horsepower Productions-HDN
Scratcha DVA-Jelly roll
Geiom-Eyl
Cosmin Trg-Since last night
Geiom ft marita-Sugar Coated Lover
Cooly G-Dis Boy
2562-Flashback
Sully-Sleazy
Pangea-Bear Witness
King Midas sound&Pupajim-Frequencies
Peverelist ft. Pinch-Revival
Addison Groove-Footcrab
Scuba-Three sided shape
Headhunter-In motion
Breakage-Higher
Commix-Bear Music
High Contrast-Tread softly
MRSA-Different
Spectrasoul-Mimic

Promo Mixtape (03-09-10) by Jake Daniel

Tracklist

Lusine - Two Dots [Pezzner Remix]
Minilogue - Second (Colour & Sound)
Johannes Heil & Extrawelt - Erdbeerfeld
Robert Babicz - Come Closer [Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix]
Moonbeam - Run For Me
Marcel Dettmann - Reticle
Martyn & The Spaceape - Is This Insanity? [Ben Klock Remix]
Matt Walsh - Honey Comb [Sei A & Logan Remix]
Kevin Gorman - Shakey Stripped
Peter Van Hoesen - Terminal
Glimpse - Employable Enjoyable [Marcel Dettmann Remix]

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Playing in the Theatre room in The Masque will be a selection of Chibuku's 'Residents and Friends', including James Rand, Mark Mac, Paul McGuire, Revo and Mr Paul.

Mr Paul is a Liverpool based artist who has a residency with Chibuku and fantastic underground house night Discoteca Poca. This mix is a great exponent for his DJ skills and a good indication at the kind of sounds to expect on NYE!

Bisco by mrpaul7t7

Tracklist

Mark E - Smiling [White Label]
6th Borough Project - The Formula (Dub Vibes)
Chaz Jankel -Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Türkatech) [Permanent Vacation]
The Revenge ft Danielle Moore - Just Be Good To Me (Ron Basejam Remix) [Needwant Recordings]
Timmy P - We Had Disco
Johnny Dynell - Jamhot (Tensnake Remix) [Needwant Recordings]
Disco Channel - Honey (The Ground Floor Chicago's Reworks) [Little House]
Kevin Irving - Children Of The Night (Disco Bloodbath) [Disco Bloodbath]
Jamie Jones - Say What? [Hot Creations]
Russ Yallop - Rock Me [Crosstown Rebels]
MSTRKRFT ft N.O.R.E - Bounce (Maya Jane Cole Remix)
Model 500 - OFI [R&S Records]

Tickets are available at www.Chibuku.com/shop -- see you all down there

Abandon Silence Autumn Dates

Abandon Silence 02

Thursday 23rd September

JAMES BLAKE -- hessle/hemlock/r&s
KillaHurtZ -- naiive/foul play
Horza -- squiggles
Rich Furness -- chibuku


£5 tickets at http://www.skiddle.com/events/11386301/
£6 on the door


join the guestlist at http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=117813361604398&ref=mf

Abandon Silence Presents... ink at CHIBUKU

Saturday 9th October

RAMADANMAN -- hessle
Horza -- squiggles
Kidheader -- ampersand
Grandav -- yam yams

also performing in different rooms are Shy FX, High Contrast, Andy C, Nero and Netsky to name a few.

join the guestlist and buy tickets at http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=142183352486640&ref=ts

Abandon Silence 03 - Saturation Point non-Dubstep night

Thursday 28th October

MOUNT KIMBIE -- hotflush
Rich Furness -- chibuku
Horza (Grime set)-- squiggles
Dalema (Hip Hop set) -- sessions

£6 tickets available at http://www.skiddle.com/events/11389605/
£7 on the door

Abandon Silence 04 - End of Year/ 21st Celebrations

Thursday 25th November


BREAKAGE -- digital soundboy
special guest tba
Rich Furness -- chibuku
Horza -- squiggles


tickets available OCTOBER

Chibuku vs Abandon Silence

Abandon Silence is proud to announce the second of our Autumn dates, as we host the INK room at Chibuku on October the 9th.

Playing will be the owner of the best name in music, Ramadanman, with local support from the ever present Horza, Irishman Kidheader and weird Brummy Grandav (2nd best name in music definitely Dav).

With other rooms at Chibuku hosting sets from High Contrast, Nero, Andy C and Shy FX, its set to be a memorable one. To celebrate this huge evening of events, Kidheader has put together a mix exclusively for Abandon Silence. Taking in massive dubstep from Tek One, reggae vibes from the fantastic Babylon System and some very nice chilled vibes from Breakage, this is a great exhibition for Kidheader's DJ skills.

Check it out, then come along on the 9th October and see him live. Link for more details forthcoming, but for now see all the Chibuku Autumn listings here.

Kid Header Abandon Silence Mix by Kid Header on Mixcloud

Chibuku 10th Birthday. A Review

Saturday night was quite simply fantastic. To cap it all off I bumped into Caspa and Rod Azlan (above) while watching Futurebound, I must say they are two proper sound fellas.

In a special preview, I will share my review of Saturday night as I have written it for the magazine. I'm sorry for the impersonal nature of the piece, I sincerely hope you enjoy it. PLEASE give feedback on this one, it's my first article for the magazine so it needs to be as near perfect as possible. Here you go... (I promise the mp3s will return by Wednesday. Be patient, enjoy the article, you're getting a world exclusive on this one haha)

Chibuku 10th Birthday – 13th March 2010-03-16

As I cast an eye over our fair city’s recent cultural regeneration, I found that Liverpool’s progression as a hub for Electronic music has been proportionally aligned with the growing success and popularity of the club night Chibuku. As the club night reaches its Tenth birthday, Chibuku gathered a lot of old friends, and some new ones, to have one massive party. The organisers created a very impressive line up, one that would’ve confused the unknowing, but would’ve captivated those in the know.

The line up effectively documented Chibuku’s progression from electro and house raves to the now familiar sub bass leanings of the dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass genres. The 3000 attendees had one hell of a choice in scheduling where their nights would take them, with all three rooms crammed with colossal DJ talent and some huge names.

Chibuku nights are usually played out at the familiar Masque, formerly the Barfly. However, for this special occasion they upped sticks and headed the short distance to Nation. In the early 90s Nation was home to the UK’s dance music scene as home of the infamous Cream club night. As the early 90’s ‘rave’ scene began its descent into a bottomless pit of drug fuelled recklessness and self inflicted implosion, so too did Cream fall. Continuous police raids lead to a plummeting reputation which forced Cream’s demise into ‘Superstar DJ’ no man’s land. In the ‘Naughties’ (whoever thought of that... why?) Nation has undergone its own regression. It is now Liverpool’s foremost contractor of high capacity nights in Liverpool, from Indie nights such as the SoundCity, pop tours such as Calvin Harris and of course the debauchery of nights such as Chibuku. Nation is once again coming back in to its own - in this new decade recycled popular music and artists, Nation stands tall as a venue for all and is surely one of the best hosts of memorable night that Britain contains.

Despite all the British tradition and pedigree installed in the venue, there was a distinctly foreign look to the line up for the Courtyard and Main Room’s (incidentally taking up nearly 4/5s of the venue’s floor space)

The organisers decided to fill the Main Room with six hours from high end electro from the very French super group Club 75. Supposedly created in Paris 5 years ago, Club 75 is made up of DJ Medhi, (one half of) Justice, Cassius and Busy P. Their set was a journey into the unexpected; the concept of four DJs playing back 2 back paid off fantastically, with a sense of one-upmanship leading to a great set.

Over in The Courtyard, one of America’s foremost minimal purveyors, Claude Von Stroke, played to a jubilant crowd. His strictly minimal set was a fresh change from the unpredictable nature of Club 75; the American producer came in hard with tracks such as Monster Island and Who’s Afraid of Detroit, plunging the crowd into wild hysteria.
With Von Stroke being joined in The Courtyard by Dutchman Joris Voorn and the Swede Adam Beyer, you began to wonder whether this celebration of a very British club night was descending into a continental affair.

However, in the lowly Annexe, fitting a mere 700 happy people very snugly, the Brits were coming! This room was colloquially titled as ‘The Dubstep and Drum n Bass’ room. Despite its comparatively small capacity, the most forward thinking and diverse music was being held in there.

The Annexe was begun in earnest by Mix Master Mike. The DJ extraordinaire has been The Beastie Boys’ resident DJ since co-producing their seminal album Hello Nasty in 1998. Anyone who has had the pleasure of watching DJ Shadow’s fantastic ‘On Tune and On Time’ DVD would have recognised the live video feed showing what Mix Master was up to – despite not being an original idea, it was most certainly effective. His attempts at MC’ing along to his music, however, were rather disastrous. “Hello England!” does not constitute a heartfelt and personal introduction.

Caspa, accompanied by the brilliantly enigmatic Rod Azlan on MC duties, followed Mix Master Mike. The increasingly sweaty, smelly and skanky crowd were treated to cuts from Caspa’s sole LP, Everybody’s Talking, No one Listening, as well as familiar dubstep anthems from Doctor P, Bassline Smith and Joy Orbison. Caspa only played for an hour, but in that short time he laid foundations for a heavy night of debauchery and basslines in the miniscule Annexe.

As we toured the large Nation venue, we asked around attendees as to whom they were there to attend. Truthfully, I would estimate that around 75% of the people we asked said they were there to see Chase & Status. The news that they would not be fulfilling their headline slot due to a mysterious ‘car crash’ would not have gone well with the hordes of fans that flooded the Annexe with the anticipation of greeting their heroes. To be honest, I’ve seen Chase and Status at nights across the country, and they really weren’t missing out. The dubstep-d’n’b duo have toured the country for many years now and with their forthcoming second LP seem destined for the shit heap of mainstream electro-rock-d’n’b that Pendulum have been consigned to since releasing In Silico.

Big respect must be given to Futurebound for extending his set a further hour to fill Chase & Status’ absence. His forward thinking drum and bass antics were more than enough to replace what the crowd were missing out on.

After two hours of very loud crashing high hats and cymbals, it was down to Dubstep co-founder Skream to conclude the night in style. His two hour set was an amalgamation showcasing all of his influences; Jungle, DnB, dubstep, Hip Hop, whatever you wanted, you would find here. Particular mention must go to his remix of Donaeo’s Riot Music which he started his set with. Quite simply, tune. Despite the fact that the crowd was witnessing by far the highlight of the night, I must be condescending in condemning the large numbers that fled during Skream’s set, seemingly frightened by the prospect of the rapidly approaching daylight. I must say that those people missed out on the best set of the night. Skream played until well after 6am, finishing with new album highlight Listening To The Records On My Wall to finally bring the house down on an absolutely fantastic and brilliant evening, night and early morning.

With their tenth birthday Chibuku have out mastered themselves - Bido Lito! thoroughly encourages them to continue to grow and succeed in Liverpool for the next decade and beyond. However, next time guys, don’t dump all good stuff in the smallest room, ok?

Andrew Hill

Go 'ead!

Skream, Caspa, Mix Master Mike, Chase and Status (well, maybe it'll be good) = one helluva line up

This is tonight's plan. Whether AbandonSilence will ever post again after all this bass, only the next 8 hours will tell :s

Stenchman vs Outkast

After Stenchman's mutilation of the Liverpool Barfly, I feel like sharing huge tune of his with you good people.

His set was pretty safe, including classics from Doctor P and Bassline Smith to name a few, but still did enough on a d'n'b orientated night to take the prize for me! Also, with a mask like that (picture) he did enough to linger long in the memory.

Firstly we have his remix of Outkast's Bombs Over Baghad. The original was voted Pitchfork's track of the last decade, and by adding a dubstep beat along with a few devilish drops, Stenchman has recreated a new perverted classic

Outkast - B.O.B (Stenchman Remix)

As a bonus, we have Killabitt's latest remix. The Toronto-based producer has been creating some ridiculous remixes for months now, and I'm sure this was dropped on Saturday night. This horribly wobbly track is a remix of a Louis La Roche track and has some great drops intervened with cries of 'MALFUNCTION'. Please check this out if you like the dirty stuff...

Louis La Roche - Malfunction (Killabitts Remix)

Chibuku feat Zinc

After the last two Saturday's sell-out shows Chibuku returns to the Liverpool Barfly this weekend with another stellar cast to bring in another messy evening of unregulated debauchery.

Zinc will be bringing his Crack House to Liverpool for the first time, alongside Radio One's Annie Mac in the Theatre, whilst up in The Loft we can find some of the most exciting names in dubstep and drum and bass. Stenchman will be making his Chibuku debut, bringing some well needed filth to proceedings - he will be followed by the mainstream d'n'b heavyweights Sub Focus and the ever present Friction.

It will be an absolute beeeast of a night, I hope you all get down there. If not, I hope you find yourself a cheeky session to attend near you.

For a break from the dubstep love in this blog has become, I will give you a couple of tracks from Zinc. He has attempted to create a genre single-handedly, titled Crack House, with some incredible creations. The music is similar to the bassline movement in the Midlands. However whereas bassline is utter shit (cannot express how bad it really is. Take my word for it. It really is) Zinc uses innovative synths and drum patterns to create tracks that a dubstep-head like myself can enjoy alongside your typical David Guetta fans. It really is some great music.

Wile Out is the most well known song, featuring Ms Dynamite(ee-hee) on the vocals. The track begins with Dynamite's vocals, and sounds very similar to Zinc's previous work on dubstep (after his d'n'b phase, before Crack House) before dropping into some brilliantly light choral vocals and synths.

As a bonus I will also give you a link to find an RAR of the Killa Sound EP, which incidentally was the original pressing that Zinc used as a carrion call for his genre.

Zinc - Wile Out ft. Ms Dynamite

Zinc - Killa Sound

Chibuku 6th Feb

Another week, another night. Chibuku this time down at the good old Liverpool Barfly. Crookers are playing, but AbandonSilence is more interested in The Others and Emalkay playing at the same time in a different room.... AND.... They're followed by the Original Nuttah, Shy FX! Sounds like a good night to us.

Hope as many of you viewers as possible will be going, or if not going to a similar night tonight. Let's get on it.

Chibuku Tickets Released

Just ordered Chibuku 10th Birthday tickets.

Despite the fact that no one has been announced I am relying solely upon past experiences.

I severely recommend anyone within walking, driving or flying distance of Liverpool on March 13th to head to www.chibuku.com/shop and get your cheaper Early Bird Ticket while they're available.