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Netaudio Ping Pong

Netaudio’08 presents its first Taster event on Friday, 11th April 2008. For the occasion we have prepare a special feat of networked creative production, the Netaudio Ping Pong.

Netaudio Ping Pong is partly music performance partly a game for everyone to join in. It is based on “run around” table tennis, but it ain’t no ball game, instead players can lay hand on some cutting edge technology and produce some wicked beats.

There will be two session at 9pm and 10pm. You are invited to take part and if you book ahead you can even bring along your very own samples loops and sounds. To book your place in the game, send us an email. Please tell us briefly who you are and if you want to contribute some sound material. Note that places are limited, first come – first serve.

Before, between and after the Ping Pong sessions, we have got some wicked Netaudio acts booked. Jon J-Lab and Alex Fisher will play a joint live set as Super Sonic Transport. And with Andi Sparks and Russell Skellon, two residents of Netaudio’08 will play you the hottest of free internet music, flavours range from dubstep, tech-house and dub.

Lineup:
you! -live (takeing part in Netaudio Ping Pong)
SST -live (SST are J-Lab & Alex Fisher)
Russell Skellon (Motronic, run, Netaudio London)
And Sparks (After-Dinner, Netaudio London

When: 11th April 08 8pm-2am
Where: Korsan, 161-165 Kingsland Road, London E2 8AL
free entry

part of: Node.London
more info http://netaudiolondon.cc

After-Dinner Anniversary Special

It's time for the After-Dinner "Anniversary Special". It has been a while since we run a dedicated label night, so February 29th seemed just a perfect date for such a rare event. On the bill are two live acts, Audio Dependent and Alex Fisher. The first will grace us with a exclusive audio-video set - a premiere. Alex Fisher, co-host of the night, will consentrate on the music with his set, but surely convince with plenty of warm sounds and moving house beats. DJ support is given by our dear friends from Run, Chris Box and Russell Skellon, plus Djamila - I won't say more.... :) the night kicks off at 8pm, runs all strong till 2am (ish). Quality sound, lights, well stocked bar and smokers lounge ("a plain air") all provided... all for free (the entry not the drinks). Come and celebrate with After-Dinner.net!

lineup
Audio Dependent -live (Metroline, After-Dinner)
Alex Fisher -live (After-Dinner)
Chris Box (Run)
Russell Skellon (Motronic, Run)
Djamila (After-Dinner)
Andi Sparks (After-Dinner)

WHEN: 29th February 2008, 8pm-2am
WHERE: Korsan, 161-165 Kingsland Road, London E2 8AL
HOW MUCH: free

Fertilizer Festival

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Good Shit from France 15 - 22 Nov 07

This year’s Fertilizer festival is the usual genre busting feast of the best music from under the radar. After a good few nights trawling the best of France’s clubs and venues, we’ve condensed the best sounds we heard into three nights of the finest Good hit from France Fertilizer action. They’re each distinctly different, but all have that exact je ne sais quois you’ve come to expect of Fertilizer.

Expect a roadblock on 15 November when Fertilizer takes over the Scala for Le Grand Mix, a real mash-up of the hottest of what’s on offer in France. In true Fertilizer style our line up puts together artists you’d not normally see together, but all of whom create great, edgy music with a real message; the beautifully fragile yet totally commanding Piaf-style chanson of Barbara Carlotti and Emilie Simon; Klub des Loosers’ nihilist anti-bling hip hop, and the post rock electronica musings of dance combo Gong Gong.

On 16 November, Le Salon sees us getting seriously intimate at The Cross Kings pub, home from home for many of London’s singer songwriters and poets. On the bill: singer songwriter and producer David Walters, who harnesses afro beat, hip hop and electronica to create glorious pop; soon to be nouvelle chanson superstar, Babet, whose sultry, plaintive, gospel-influenced voice tells tales of love and loss, and Klima, whose beautiful, simple songs marry guitars and strings with minimalist electronics to overturn the stereotypical, kohl eyed image of the French chanteuse.

Finally, at La Nuit du Mecano at The Horse Hospital on 22 November, the robots take over! Composer and multi-instrumentalist Pierre Bastien, artist on the seminal Rephlex label, brings his truly amazing Meccano ‘orchestra’ to the Horse Hospital. You have to see it to believe it!

Like what you’ve heard so far? We hope so! Check out the Fertilizer site for more info about each gig, and to get a sneak preview of some of the sounds you’ll hear during Fertilizer. You can also sign up to for regular updates, and book tickets online.

A bientôt!

http://www.fertilizerfestival.com
http://myspace.com/fertilizerfestival