As part of the 11th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival…www.cqaf.com

Rudimentary Records presents…

Glasgow’s No.1 sound system champions Mungo’s Hi-Fi.

Support: Rudimentary Dj’s & Chuck(Homespun)

The heavyweight selectors make their début appearance in Belfast at this year’s festival, bringing you bass-line pressure in Dub, Reggae & Dub-Step

Already touring the globe dropping their low end dub-plates from Rio to Malmo, Hong Kong to Helsinki, these boys are working hard spreading the love with dozens of releases & collaborations featuring eminent vocalists like Brother Culture, Daddy Freddie, Warrior Queen, Tippa Irie & Soom T and producers like the revered digital dub dynamo, Disrupt (JAHTARI).

The warmth and sub-bass rumble of the Homespun rig will be on hand to deliver the deep frequencies needed to wobble your nose and rumble your belly.

“Aside from numerous DJing spots earning them the title of Veteran Selectors, Mungo’s Hi-Fi have long been producing tracks for play on Jah Shaka’s mamoth rig, and have garnered support from a wide range of heads from the late great John Peel to Mr Scruff.” – Boomkat

www.mungoshifi.net

www.scotchbonnet.net

www.myspace.com/mungoshifi

Pleased to announce our first away gig. We will be hitting the upstairs bar, Sandino’s in Derry. There be a bit of a birthday tip to this and we’ll be giving the first 20 of our guests a free mix CD of some sort.

Fono One will also be joining us to deliver a mesh
of live gear and a Dj set, Jan Jaffer will be at hand to serve up some nice house/techno, Beckett will give us some DnB/Dubstep and J.King will down with all sorts of everything.

Come down for the japes it’s £3

Rudimentary are delighted to announce a Hotflush showcase, in the intimate surrounds of The Menagerie in Belfast on Friday November the 13th 2009.

Hotflush is easily one of the best labels around, regardless of genre, and Scuba is on fire right now. Also on the bill Sigha, with releases to his name on a wide variety of labels, and one of the main men behind the superb Medium nights at Plastic People in london.

Don’t miss.

Check out a mix and profile here: www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2008/11/dubstep-2008-scuba

Space Dimension Controller + DJ Acroplane Recordings + Rudimentary DJs + BEW visuals

Saturday 5th September / 10pm / Black Box / £5

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Doing some kind of Djing this Saturday in support of T-Woc and Space Dimension Controller. If your about and fancies some dubby goodness please pop into the Black Box! Rudimentary will be on the wheels from doors followed by the good man behind Acroplane. I’d say there will be all sorts of nonsense on the go here.

Explore more:

http://www.myspace.com/spacedimensioncontroller

http://www.myspace.com/twocdub

Continuing our explorations of deep electronic sounds we are delighted to announce Shackleton will be appearing for the first time in Belfast @ The Black Box on Saturday 13th of June 2009.

As well as the dubstep pioneer we’ve also got one of Ireland’s very own trailblazers in the form of Micky from NakedLunch, he was just too good at the menagerie not to get back again.

Also on the bill, your old pals the rudimentary DJs.

This is going to be one heavyweight gig.

Shackleton

Shackleton co-runs Skull Disco with Appleblim. His maverick take on big bass-lines and complex beats doesn’t fit into easy categories and that’s how it’s going to stay. He has been carving out his own brand of eclecticism on Skull Disco releases with intricate, snaking percussion, hypnotic melodies, seriously deep bass lines and dubwise sensibilities.

Shackleton doesn’t make the trip over here very often so this is a rare chance to catch him in action.

www.skulldisco.com

Micky (NakedLunch)

Hailing from Carlow, via the netherlands, Micky formerly known as DJ Pressure is the main man behind NakedLunch, a label releasing killer electronic music crossing the divide between dubstep, techno and blissed out electronica. With releases from stellar talents like Breakage, TRG and Instra:Mental already in the bag, and cuts lined up from Scuba and Jus Wan you can expect NakedLunch to blow up in a big way in the near future. Micky’s DJ’ing is exceptional, as his many mixes available from his myspace will testify.

Tickets available for £8 from http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/

Price on the door is £10

Discounted entry on the door for members of our facebook group!

Just a little newsflash to keep you up to date with goings on at Rudimentary HQ. First of a big thanks to everyone that came along to the Flevans gig down at the Menagarie. Shexy Tymesh for shure. Noel Watson and Flevans played some cracking music, the funk was flowing, as were the drinks…hopefully we will have a little mix from the man himself in a few weeks time.

In terms of gig action, the next one up is Shackleton and Micky (NakedLunch). Micky was awesome last time we had him along, and well, Shackleton, nuff said. It’s going down at the black box in belfast on June 13th. Get down for that one.

Rudimentary Radio is ploughing away real good, so tune in to us if you can, in belfast on 103.2FM or online at http://www.feilefm.com. We have some good shows lined up including a chat with acroplane recordings head honcho, some choice mixes and some other good bizzle.

Anyway, keep an eye on the site for updates…more audio and so on coming soon! Including some choice free taster tunes from Beckett.

Catch you soon!

Peace.

Rory.

Oh. Here are some photos from the Flevans gig:

Soul,Funk and fun!

Well this gig has come and gone…great little night this one! In fact it was a most enjoyable weekend all round.

Flevans got in Friday afternoon, we got a few beers in,  a bit of food and headed down to the venue.

Noel played some cracking tunes for us after Beckett did some warming up and some sound engineering to get the monitors working, and the man Flevans killed it at the end with a booty shaking selection of funk, soul and beats.

As is the usual story, Richie and Kev and his lovely assistant did a smashing job with live visuals.

The aftermath resulted in a glorious score of food from a late night eatery on the Ormeau Road, and a beer round in Andy’s.

Big hooray for Flevans in general.

Massive F*ck You to Ryanair, who are thieves. Boycott ‘em.

Some photos from the night:

Flevans

Date: 29th May

Venue: Menagerie

Time: 9.00pm

Adm: £5

Gloriously catchy songs, infectious hooks and dancefloor-delighting beats from the multi-talented instrumentalist, composer, producer and sometime vocalist.

Flevans began making music in his home town of Brighton using a 4 track cassette recorder on which he’d spend hours looping breaks and hooks to create tracks. It was on the back of a demo created solely using this and a 10 second sampler that Tru Thoughts initially snapped him up, recognizing his innate knack for crafting irresistibly infectious hooks, and commissioning a number of EPs and an album. After a string of sold out 12″ singles, Tru Thoughts released the highly successful ‘Make New Friends’ album in 2004. Combining disco and funk with cut and paste sampling sensibilities and infectious basslines, the album – a collection of Flevans’ EP singles – was instantly likeable and irresistibly danceable. It proved very popular on the so called ‘electric-soul’ scene, with the piano tinged, disco infused “The Notion” scoring a place in the Unabombers’ highly respected Electric Souls Vol. 3 compilation.

Find out more at: http://www.flevans.co.uk http://www.tru-thoughts.co.uk

DAEDELUS (buy tickets online here)

http://www.cqaf.com/2009/m_daedelus.html

Plus Men In Speedos & Rudimentary Djs

3rd May 2009

Black Box Belfast

Tickets: £6/£8 on the night

Live electronic performance with support from Belfast based trio ‘Men In Speedos’ and Rudimentary Dj’s.

Daedelus will also be on hand for a short talk/workshop during the day all inquires should be directed to info@rudimentaryrecords.com or richard@queensstreetstudios.com

Music and Videos (which are really cool)

http://www.myspace.com/daedelusdarling

DAEDELUS – BIO -2008

Alfred Darlington isn’t your average cookie-cutter musician. From how he looks (early Victorian Dandism),to how he makes music, to how he expresses himself and views the world, his is a very individual, a ‘bespoke’ outlook.

Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child he was classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments, but his interests were broad and varied – less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales. As a 15 year old he finally persuaded his parents to take him to the Principality. Whilst in a YMCA in London he flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. “It was my first ‘Eureka!’ moment in music,” he says.

Back in the US he joined local rock bands, jazz bands and ska bands, which he enjoyed but felt limited by,too. At home he was listening to Warp, Ninja and your harder electronic stuff. He started DJing out the more leftfield side of drum and bass and making his own rudimentary productions. They were meant to be drum & bass but they kept turning out different and from his outsider’s experiments his own style was born. He chose the name Daedelus as he had a childhood obsession with invention, and what was he doing, after all, if not tinkering and fiddling and experimenting like the “gentleman inventors” of old?

In 1999 he started DJing on Dublab.com for his “Entropy Sessions” and began dropping in his own early demo productions. Carlos Nino (of ammoncontact) had the show after him and usually pushed Alfred out the studio as quickly as possible as he was not so into Daedelus’ confrontational DJ style, but when he heard a tranquil Daedelus production he took, in typical Nino style, Daedelus under his considerable wing around the LA scene. Nino placed Daedelus tracks on two influential compilations and then persuaded Plug Research to release his debut album, “Invention” in 2002, Remixers included Madlib, who later took Daedelus’ accordian parts and used them on the Madvillain record, closely followed by his “The Household” EP on Prefuse 73’s Eastern Developments label.

In 2003, he was booked to play a show in San Diego by Brian Crabtree and Peter Siegerstrong and they asked him to test out an early prototype of the Monome box. “It’s a Non-traditional electronic instrument,” Daedelus explains. “Basically it allows for massive improvisation.” Since then Daedelus has continued to use this revolutionary box, bringing much genuine liveness to the sometimes static world of performed electronic/dance music.

In 2003 he did “The Weather” album with Busdriver and Radioinactive and the remix album “Rethinking the Weather” on Mush records (home of cLOUDDEAD, also on Big Dada/Ninja Tune). 2004 saw the release of “Of Snowdonia” on Plug Research, the album with which Daedelus says he first “felt true artistic confidence, finding a true voice. I was finally in the right zone.”

There was certainly no let up in his creativity. Also in 2004 he released the concept album “A Gent Agent” on tiny German label Laboratory Instinct. The 2005 album “Exquisite Corpse” on Mush album featured the likes of TTC, Mike Ladd, MF Doom. Ninja signed Daedelus for UK/Europe (a relationship which has reached its full expression on “Love To Make Music To,” his first album for the label worldwide and put together with the help of their team). In 2006 “Denies the Days Demise” came out, a record showcasing his love of Brazilian music. Last year he released his first live album, “Live At the Low End Theory,” and “The Fairweather Friends EP”. Later this year will see the release of his collaboration with his wife, Laura Darling, as Long Lost!

And while his reputation has grown internationally, his place in the LA scene has also solidified. The musician that many of the hottest names in the city turn to for everything from bass clarinet licks to advice on obscure electronics, Daedelus has worked extensively with Taz from Sa-Ra, the pair of them opening for the likes of DJ Assault, Justice and Two Live Crew as well as appearing in Erykah Badu’s most recent video.

Men in Speedos

http://www.myspace.com/meninspeedos

“They wandered aimlessly along the streets, ignoring the looks that
passers-by gave them. ‘Could all red armbands please leave the pool?’  the
strange voice had said. They had been wearing red armbands so the voice had
obviously meant them … ‘Men In Speedos’. It was time … they had been
called … into the light before them … bleeps, squeaks, buzzes and bass
were now in control.”

Men In Speedos are a Belfast based trio and some say have similar powers to The Incredible Four or The X-men, except there are only three of them…. With a soft spot for film samples, the tracks have a definite sound track quality, some with dance floor appeal. We thank kindly all the various record stations & DJs round the globe who’ve played our music … and for those who’ve said they loved it, the bottle of whiskey is in the post. Our style is very diverse, and remarkably difficult to pinpoint in terms of genres, so just listen to it, and enjoy!

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

For more information on the absolutley stellar Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival please visit the official website:

http://www.cqaf.com/

Date: Saturday 28 March
Doors 9.30PM
Adm £10.00
Venue: Black Box

MAD PROFESSOR Live Dub Show with MC Singer and Support DJs (including Rudimentary in the Café)

In association with Jameson Belfast Film Festival and the Black Box

The question is often asked, just how sane is the Mad Professor? Judging by the contents of his character, the results of his recordings and the variety of the artistes that have passed through his Ariwa Studios, then he is certainly one of the sanest producers around.

Neil Fraser christened Mad Professor by school friends who were amazed by the experiments he was carrying out began his musical career as a service engineer. With a raft of technical skills and a good ear for ‘on key’ music, he began to build a 4 track studio at his home in Thornton Heath and by the turn of the eighties launched the legendary Ariwa label which grew into one of dub’s most influential labels.

A multitude of artists from Sandra Cross, Pato Banton, Macka B. and Kofi to The Boom, Massive Attack, Jah Shaka, Sade and The Orb have all benefited from the Professor’s brilliant touch.

www.ariwa.com

Fri January 30, 2009, 9:00 pm

Rudimentary Presents: NakedLunch
Rudimentary DJs
Quick heads up for y’all on this one…

Friday Jan 30th @ The Menagarie, Mick, head honcho of Naked Lunch records will be dropping some gear alongside the Rudimentary DJs

Here’s some Mick, and Naked Lunch related audio!

Naked Lunch 001 and 002 on his myspace featuring TRG, Breakage, Instra:Mental and Jus Wan

http://www.myspace.com/thenakedspace

His recent Electronic Explorations Selections:

http://electronicexplorations.org/podpress_trac/web/69/0/ElectronicExplorations_039_NakedLunch.mp3

[01] – Chase and Status – Eastern Jam – [Ram]
>> – Photek – UFO – [Science]
[02] – F – Septem – [Dub]
[03] – Scuba – Twitch (Jamie Vex’d Remix) – [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
[04] – RSD – Forward Youth – [Forthcoming 'Tectonic Records']
[05] – Pendle Coven – Iamnoman – [Modern Love]
[06] – Pangaea – Router – [Forthcoming 'Hessle Audio']
[07] – Mount Kimbie – Maybes – [Dub]
[08] – Eero Johannes – Natt I Spårvagnen – [Planet Mu]
[09] – Al Haca – Cryptonite (TRG Remix) – [Dubplate]
[10] – TRG – Missed Calls – [Subway]
[11] – Relocate – Origins – [Dub]
[12] – Grovskopa – Sex And Violins (Surgeon Remix) – [Token Records]
Nakedlunch Records – Exclusive Showcase Mix for Electronic Explorations

01 – JusWan – Submersive (Scuba Remix] – [Nakedlunch Dub]
02 – Breakage – Chakra – [Dub]
03 – Madd – Untitled 2025 – [Nakedlunch Dub]
04 – Breakage – Latenight – [Nakedlunch Dub]
05 – Narcosisst – Codamol – [Nakedlunch Dub]
06 – Shackleton – El Din – [Mordant]
07 – F – Unsung – [Nakedlunch Dub]
08 – TRG – Generations (Breakage’s VIP Mix] – [Nakedlunch Dub]
09 – JusWan – Trifelin – [Nakedlunch Dub]
10 – Shackleton – Shortwave – [Skull Disco]
11 – Narcossist – Metronome – [Nakedlunch Dub]

[13] – Martyn – Natural Selection (Flying Lotus Cleanse mix) – [3024]

October Mix:

http://www.getdarker.com/gotdarker/file/837ff725f353ec0fc65d81a0c705b7ad/

martyn – jd on a good night(version) – dub
breakage – together – dub
juswan – submersive(scuba version) – dub
F – phantom – dub
quantec – ray of hope(made up sound remix) – echochord colour
indigo – osiris – dub
howie b – royal sound(ramadanman refix)
narcossist – metronome(LV remix) – dub
flying lotus – roberta flack (martyn’s heart beat mix) – dub
madd – subslide – dub
narcossist – coldbrew(logos remix)- dub
quest – stand – deep medi
shackleton – you bring me down(peverlist remix) – scape
F – rumours – dub
thom york – nude(narcossist remix) – dub

Admission: 5

Venue Info

The Menagarie, University St, Belfast BT6