Filed under: Reccies, Uncategorized | Tags: B.E.A.R, Curb Crawlers, Dirty Bird, dubstep, Julio Bashmore, L-Vis 1990
It’s been a +ve week for B.E.A.R, a Bristol DJ collective that I co-formed with Crystal Death & Mr Juicy last year: We celebrated our first birthday with a low-key party on Friday last week, felt good to be back after our extended promotion hiatus (big ups to those who came down to support. & to those who said they would reach and didn’t, what’s that about?)
Majah Flavah
You can take the B.E.A.R out of Bristol but never the Bristol outta B.E.A.R. We made the 400+ mile round trip to Leeds last night, our first time out of Bristol as a collective, repping the south with L-Vis 1990 for the first MAJAH FLAVAH at the Faversham which was live — We always party hearty and everyone was seriously going for it during L-Vis’ set (and subsequent b2b with Juice) which culminated in a stage invasion more or less due to James dropping Public Domain – Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) & Josh Wink – Higher States of Conciousness; Old school rave styles… L-Vis makes his way back down these parts on May 29, tearing Bath’s Moles club a new hyperbass shaped arsehole before returning to Bristol on June 6 for SHIT THE BED 9 at Lakota.
If for whatever reason you’ve not heard of L-Vis 1990, I highly recommend you check ‘Flux’, one of my favourite tunes from late last year and, for me, the track that immediately caught my attention on Ben UFO & Bok Bok’s Sub FM Ruffage mix last November. A preview of forthcoming cut ‘United Groove’ and ‘Flux’ can be heard on his myspace. You know what to do.
As I’ve just noticed, James L-Vis is a recently added Curb Crawlers contributor, and our most promising creative talent Matt Walker of Crystal Death’s solo alter-ego Julio Bashmore has finally received some love from the blogosphere in the shape of a two track feature on the aforementioned C.C (which I’m sure you’ll agree is a nicely worked link back to some more shameless pluggin’.)
Julio Bashmore - Motion, Bristol - Photo copyright of Kane Rich
‘Around’ features the most blissed out vocal and summer vibe reminiscent of Foreign Beggars ‘Phlowing’ (without the vocals of course), complete with similar glistening glass shower-esque synth lines and a a tech-step riddim that nestles snugly in the narrow gap between UK Funky and Ramadanman. I remember hearing the vocal during Matt’s set at Sleepwalk on Saturday and was impressed when he told me it his own tune; now it’s been on repeat since I made it back from Leeds earlier tonight. Big love to Curb Crawlers on the plug because the lad works long and hard on his production and I’m stoked for him that that work looks to be paying off. You can cop ‘Around’, and the Dirty Bird does dubstep-esque ‘Um Bongo’ over at C.C.
As for me, well, I’m just trying to keep myself afloat at the moment with money worries, DJing as and when I can – I’ve got a big idea in the pipeline but it’s pretty ambitious and is going to take a lot to pull it off. Keep ‘em peeled.
- GRILLZ.
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