• Rave New World (17/6)

    June 17, 2016 - By 

    With Aidan Hanratty off on a well-earned holiday, Antoin Lindsay delivers a look at the best electronic gigs, tracks and mixes of the week. GIGS Twitch Present Objekt at QUBSU, Belfast Saturday, June 18 It’s been a long time coming, but Objekt is coming to Belfast, specifically Twitch, and it will probably be absolute carnage. With his lethal combination of deep cuts and bangers he’ll almost certainly be a huge hit with the crowd. Warm up comes from the fantastic Manchester crew Meat Free. TRACKS Ian Pooley – Cold Wait (Bicep Edit) Drafting in local favourites Bicep for a remix…

  • Rave New World (14/8)

    August 14, 2015 - By 

    Very much the man with the plan, Antoin Lindsay takes a look at the very best electronic gigs, tracks, releases and mixes of the week. GIGS Head Front Panel, Sunil Sharpe and Defekt at The Button Factory, Dublin Friday 14 August John Heckle has been releasing some brilliant techno as Head Front Panel recently, and you can catch him doing a live set down at The Button Factory tonight. He’ll be accompanied by the ever-present Sunil Sharpe (pictured) and another live set from Defekt. T’will be a heavy one. Twisted Pepper Closing Weekender, Dublin Friday 14 & Saturday 15 August In…

  • Rave New World (7/8)

    August 7, 2015 - By 

    Antoin Lindsay takes a look at some of the best electronic gigs, mixes, tracks and releases of the week, including Florist, Klaus and KABLAM. GIGS Beat BBQ – To The Bone EP 48 at The Treehouse [am:pm], Belfast Friday 7 August Timmy Stewart is a familiar face around Belfast, and he’ll be celebrating 20 years of DJing with parties around Belfast. Tonight, he’ll be joined by Feel My Bicep’s Hammer, Twitch and other local DJs for a free night in The Treehouse with no shortage of techno, I imagine. Tw!tch – Livity Sound Night with Peverelist & Kowton at Queens Student…

  • Rave New World (19/6)

    June 19, 2015 - By 

    We have it on pretty good authority that it’s the weekend. Celebrate that very distinct possibility with Antoin Lindsay’s latest traipse into the world of all things electronic: Rave New World. GIGS Jika Jika! present Danny Tenalgia at The Bunker, Derry Saturday, June 20 After the unmitigated success of the last night at The Bunker with Marcel Dettmann, Jika Jika! return with Danny Tenalgia. He’s playing a 3 hour set so if you fancy catching a dance music legend in a massive car park this weekend, then Derry is the only place to be. Celtronic present Recondite and Fort Romeau…

  • Rave New World (17/4)

    April 17, 2015 - By 

    It’s Friday, the sun is shining (kind of) and Antoin Lindsay, befitting his custom, is here to deliver Rave New World, his weekly dose of all things electronic. Get stuck in. GIGS Twitch & Nocturne present – Move D at The Bunatee, Belfast Saturday, April 18 Move D’s been in the game for over two decades so you can be assured you’re in safe hands if you make the wise decision to head to Twitch on Saturday. Expect the finest and funnest selection of house, techno and disco from Mr. Moufang who gets as into it as the crowd does.…

  • Rave New World (9/4)

    April 9, 2015 - By 

    In the latest of installment of Rave New World, Antoin Lindsay delves into very best new electronic tracks and mixes of the week, as well as various unmissable upcoming nights and releases. GIGS The Respected Beggars present Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham at The Menagerie, Belfast Saturday, April 11 I have been absent. Please forgive me and pay heed to my suggestion to go to Belfast’s Menagerie on Saturday to catch Andrew Ashong and Kaidi Tatham. Ashong has released on Sound Signature, which means that his brilliance has personally been noticed by none other than Theo Parrish. He’s a renowned crate-digger…

  • Levon Vincent – Levon Vincent LP

    February 18, 2015 - By 

    Considering it’s a debut record, there’s a lot of interest in Levon Vincent’s self-titled album. Levon Vincent isn’t your regular LP debutant, though. A steady release of a couple of 12”s and singles as well as occasional mixes and a relentless global touring schedule means that Vincent is now one of the most recognisable names in techno and house. Vincent’s music also has an ethos – the title of the first track we heard from the record Anti-Corporate Music should give you a fairly rough idea what that would be. There’s been rumours that Vincent has been leaking his own…

  • Ken & Ryu – Fantasy Ink

    December 5, 2014 - By 

    Space and electronic music are seemingly intrinsically linked. It’s understandable; the initial development of electronic instrumentation happened when the Space Race was in full swing. The sounds themselves feel otherworldly and wondrous and though synthy space music is by now a path well-trodden it’s far from an exhausted source of interesting sounds and good vibes. This is none more evident than on Fantasy Ink, a solid record of stellar funk from Belfast’s James McConville, aka Ken & Ryu. Clocking in at just over fifteen minutes, the EP treats us to a short and sweet galactic trip. Opener ‘Backbone of the…

  • Arca – Xen

    November 25, 2014 - By 

    Understandably Arca’s debut album Xen has been eagerly anticipated in electronic circles and beyond. A couple of strong EPs in Stretch 1 and Stretch 2, his astounding &&&&& mixtape, productions for FKA Twigs and some guy called Kanye West as well as forthcoming productions on the next Bjork album – the London-based Venezuelan producer is hot property. Xen is supposedly an androgynous alter-ego of Arca whose “mere existence is kind of repulsive and attractive at once” he told The Fader and it’s this idea of these two opposites co-existing that makes Xen so endearing. The hip-hop focus of Arca’s previous…

  • VA – Slowly Exploding: 10 Years of Perc Trax

    November 14, 2014 - By 

    Techno is in a very different place from when Ali Wells, better known as Perc, started up his Perc Trax label with his own ‘Ice Cream for Kenton’ single. A solid 62 (thus far) 12”s later, a bunch of digital releases and a handful of albums later, here we are in 2014 where Perc Trax’s brand of blistering machine funk is in vogue to an extent not seen since the 90s. To celebrate a decade of the label’s existence we’re given two CDs; a compilation of new Perc Trax material from both label regulars (Perc, Truss, Forward Strategy Group) and…