New Manchester music

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catalog

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Been thinking of making a thread for this for a while, just to collect Manchester, North West, and "now" music.

So I would've put the blackhaine post in here and will do a write up in a bit of this conor Thomas tape pack I got a few weeks ago, which is really good.

Let's start with boogz tho

boomkat.com

RATBLOOD. - RATBLOOD

Proper, cult properties Michael J. Blood (blood, blood) + Tom Boogizm aka Ratheart join forces as RATBLOOD: debuting an hour of untouchable crooked funk on their new label BodyTronixxx and filling the spaces between Urban Tribe, Arthur Russell, Actress/Thriller and Turinn in a seemingly...
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The excerpts for this are just what I like. Sludgy, workout, bit of vocals off in the corner, mix of tempos. I bought the tape, think it's sold out now, but he's got a bandcamp as well

shottatapes.bandcamp.com

Shotta Tapes

Bookings: chloe@annexagency.co.uk
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catalog

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that rat blood tape is really really good. the only place he goes wrong in it is where he has too much tempo and it sounds a bit off. when i close my eyes and listen to it, it's like i'm in the white hotel. i don't need to go.

(i mean, i would like to go, but not enough at the moment, cos you have to sit at a table i think, which seems weird vibe really).

but, even better than the tape is the new album which is vinyl but you can listen to it all on bandcamp

think it's already sold out on vinyl otherwise i'd buy it.

i love it. sludgy, chugging, covers. dean blunt similarities abound, but also completely different. i don't think it's necessarily fresh or exciting in other ways, but it does a good job of capturing the sound of the Manchester i know, in a different way to the "deconstructed club" vibe of aya, mutualism as others. it's not very technical, feels quite improv and done off instinct.

i dunno if it's him singing or it's samples, but even that's good. and it seems less of the faster pace which doesn't suit it.

10/10.
 
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william_kent

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I've just had an email from boomkat to confirm the vinyl is in the post - I've only listened to the first track of the digital version, a couple of seconds in I was thinking "oh, he's just stuck a sample from what sounds like the popol vuh Nosferatu soundtrack through some reverb and a comb filter, easy, I could do that", but then mid-track it switches up and becomes Arthur Russell trying to do skippy speed garage and getting it wrong in a way that's good.
 
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catalog

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yeah exactly. it's all bits you've heard before but he's doing something decent with it nonetheless. i've had the bandcamp on repeat all yesterday and today.

he's doing a night at TWH, as part of their birthday celebrations, in couple weeks, but it's sold out

STUDIO 54½HRS
Non-Stop at The White Hotel
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DATE & LOCATION:
Friday 23rd - Monday 26th July 2021
{The White Hotel ~ Dickinson Street, Salford, England. M3 7LW}
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54 ½ hours…
For the first time ever on UK soil…
3270 minutes…
An event like no other.
196200 seconds…
Over three days.
Start the clock…
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TICKETS via:
TWH on Resident Advisor
{full & part-time hours available}
ra.co

Studio 54½hrs {Non-Stop at The White Hotel} at The White Hotel, Manchester ⟋ RA Tickets

ra.co ra.co
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Part 1.
P13 X 18
Fri 23rd July {10pm} - Sat 24th July {4pm}
10 years of P13 for 18hrs. Line-up not-TBA.
Addled adulthood has been reached.
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Part 2.
The Art of Crime/The Crime of Art presents ~ MUSCLE
Sat 24th July {4pm} - Sat 24th July {11.59pm}
A screening of MUSCLE followed by a Q&A with Gerard Johnson (Dir). Ft. a live set by Luke Byron Scott and VENDEL sound-tracking the before/after.
With nightmare clarity, we watched the world filmed inside a dying organism.
Then went home to sleep.
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Part 3.
$HOTTA RAVE
Sat 24th July {11.59pm} - Sun 25th July {6pm}
TOM BOOGIZM ALL-NIGHT-LONG.
w/ backroom support from Mother, DJ Lyster, Acidhousedeathsquad + Annabel Fraser.
Push the locals to the limit.
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Part 4.
TWH Presents ~ ROLY PORTER {live} + FLORA YIN-WONG {live}
w/ CONOR THOMAS {dj} & ROSA METHOL {dj}
Sun 25th July {6pm} - Mon 26th July {4.30am}
~
{live} 8pm - 11pm | {club} 11pm – 4.30am
Among all the stones in the sky and the folk in the air, there is nothing like you.
The bigger minutes are ours to behold.
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Note: your ticket allows a carry on into the next event for free (on us). What does that mean? That means you leave it to your own disgraced discretion when you want to back-door it.
 
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catalog

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he's even got ghostbusters theme in there somewhere.

when i briefly lived in rusholme, i used to walk down the curry mile to go to work, and cos it's so hectic, i used to sometimes take the back way, on the side streets.

and saw a lot of rats, round the back of the takeaways, by the bins etc. like way more than i ever expected to.

put a new spin on eating out there for a while.
 
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catalog

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but one of my favourite ever things to do in manchester, or anywhere really, is getting a takeaway of seekh kebabs and chicken curry, naans and all the trimmings, and sitting in the car, on the road, on a summer's eve, windows open, tunes on, watching everyone go by.

then getting an ice cream or a falooda, or a mango.

it's the best way to have a curry.
 
luka

luka

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craner said:
No, it's Bristol, but Manchester comes close.
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id say Manchester is worse i really would. i understand your argument and Bristol is bad but it seems a more benevolent influence
all things considered.
 
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Simon silverdollarcircle

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luka said:
id say Manchester is worse i really would. i understand your argument and Bristol is bad but it seems a more benevolent influence
all things considered.
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But Bristol takes good things - jungle, garage- and makes them shit. It is a destructive force.

Manchester seems more inward looking and hence benign to me

Anyway Brighton is the worst right?
 
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thirdform

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Simon silverdollarcircle said:
But Bristol takes good things - jungle, garage- and makes them shit. It is a destructive force.

Manchester seems more inward looking and hence benign to me

Anyway Brighton is the worst right?
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nah, Cristian Vogel!

Would agree with Ollie for once on Bristol, except for early Full Cycle/krust and them lot. But Bristol has always been home to trip hop, which is the worst music in the world. albeit I'll probably include something close to it in the next mix I do to infuriate Lucius
 
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