Imogen Heap is an angelic singer from Britain. Brasky Sweethearts have taken to her style, especially with her juxtaposition of nature and instruments on her sets.
Imogen Heap Track:
Hide & Seek
Frou Frou Track:
Let Go
Imogen Heap’s piano:
Source
“Since 2001 every year in April a growing number of people from all over Europe (23,500 in 2008) to the largest fantasy event in Europe organized the Elf Fantasy Fair. This event takes place around Castle Haarzuilens. Two thirds of these visitors have transformed themselves to Orc, magician, dragon, knight, vampire, elf, unicorn, gothic lolita, manga comic or a combination thereof. The costumes are every year find richer and useful arts. Among the thriving nature of the Chateau, which is the largest castle in the Netherlands, dipping the fantasy lovers are in a pleasant bath of medieval music, dance, lectures, theater performances and parades.” – Kee Spruijt
Attention 305: Thursday, May 20th, Machine Drum returns to Miami to headline (((Shake))) / Get Low at the Vagabond. Shake is a weekly event at the Vagabond that showcases hip hop music. Once each month Shake takes on the moniker “Get Low” as part of a showcase of bass music. Hip hop and bass are definitely two popular ingredients in Machine Drum’s music, but let us take a step back to properly mark the significance of this show.
Back before the chirpy, pop-sampling “glitch hop” that we know today, there were a few guys out their blazing the trail for re-sampled hip hop and funk. Prefuse 73 you probably know. But not far behind was Machine Drum a.k.a. machinedrum a.k.a Travis Stewart, bringing a more aggressive sound to the game, with more emphasis on rap and early hip hop (pre-Diddy).
Travis has been on the “indie electronic” trail since the early 2000s, mixing up his own blend of surgically modified hip hop music from his then-headquarters in Orlando. His connection to Miami comes way of Merck Records (2000-2007), Miami’s almost-famous IDM label that helped boost the career of Tycho, among others. There he established himself as one of the progenitors of experimental hip hop, going on to score some commercial success – like selling beats to Adult Swim. Not bad. Travis currently resides in Brooklyn, where we can only assume that chin-stroking hipsters (yes, that awful word) are debating the merits of album art as we speak.
Interested, but not sure if you’re down with his music? Rumor has it Bill Brasky will be there. Also, performing will be Miami’s dubstep alpha, Juan Basshead as well as friend-of-the-blog, Afromonk. And if that’s still not enough, then try a few of these:
