Peaches Geldof, the daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, has died. According to the BBC, police say they were called to an address near Wrotham, Kent following a report of concern for the welfare of a woman on Monday afternoon. Geldof was later pronounced dead by South East Coast Ambulance Service. “At this stage, the death is being treated as unexplained and sudden,” said a statement from Kent Police.
Hyperdub, the venerable bass label run by Kode9 (read our 2011 interview with Steve Goodman here) known for quality releases covering UK funky, grime, hip-hop and footwork, has announced plans to celebrate its 10th anniversary in a big way with four compilations and various events taking place all over the world. The first compilation, a two-disc package titled Hyperdub 10.1 due out May 19, will feature new music from Kode9, Kuedo, DJ Rashad, Mala, Kyle Hall and others, with the second featuring older tracks from the imprint’s catalog including Burial, Cool G, Mark Pritchard and others. All of the parties take place in Europe, but it’s probably safe to bet that Hyperdub will be hitting North America and Asia to celebrate their milestone.
Tracklisting for Hyperdub 10.1
Disc 1
01. DVA – Mad Hatter
02. Kyle Hall – Girl U So Strong
03. Mala – Expected
04. Kuedo – Mtzpn
05. Kode9 – Xingfu Lu (Helix Remix)
06. Morgan Zarate – Kaytsu
07. Flowdan – Ambush (produced by Footsie)
08. Taso & Djunya – Only The Strong Will Survive
09. DJ Spinn – All My Teklife
10. DJ Taye – Get Em Up
11. DJ Earl – I’m Gonna Get You
12. Heavee – Icemaster
13. DJ Rashad & Gant-Man – Acid Life
14. DJ Earl – Bombaklot ft Rashad & Taye
15. Kode9 & The Spaceape – Chasing A Beast
16. Quarta 330 – Hanabi
Disc 2
01. Burial – Spaceape ft Spaceape
02. Cooly G – It’s Serious ft Karizma
03. Champion – Bowsers Castle
04. DVA – Natty
05. Funkystepz – Hurricane Riddim
06. Ill Blu – Clapper
07. Walton – Aggy
08. Ikonika – Idiot
09. Kode9 & The Spaceape – Am I
10. Morgan Zarate – Hookid
11. Mark Pritchard – Wind It Up ft Om’mas Keith
12. Terror Danjah – Dark Crawler ft Riko
13. DOK – East Coast
14. Terror Danjah – Bruzin VIP
15. LV – Sebenza ft Okmalumkoolkat
16. Kode9 – Xingfu Lu
17. DJ Rashad – Let It Go
Hyperdub 10 Dates up until end early June
Friday 18th April
Glasgow – School of Art
Kode9, Ikonika, Scratcha DVA, Terror Danjah.
Friday 16th May
Milan – Dude Club
Kode9, Rashad & Spinn, Cooly G, Scratcha DVA.
Sat 17th May
Rome – Warehouse
Kode9, Rashad & Spinn, Cooly G, Scratcha DVA.
Fri 23rd May
London – Fabric
Room 1 – Kode 9 W.Flow Dan, Cooly G, Rashad & Spinn, Laurel Halo LIVE
Scratcha DVA, Ikonika, Okzharp.
Room 2 – Mala, Fatima Al Qadiri, Terror Danjah & Riko, Morgan Zarate, Champion, Videeo & Nitetrax.
Room 3 – Ossie, Ill Blu, Walton, Funkystepz.
13th June
Berlin – Berghain
Kode9, Laurel Halo, Cooly G, Scratcha DVA, Kuedo and more special guests.
14th June
Barcelona – Be Cool
Kode9, Rashad & Spinn, Cooly G, Scratcha DVA, Ikonika.
On the heels of her acclaimed debut album, Comfort, Maya Jane Coles will lend her golden mixing touch to Fabric’s heralded compilation series. Due out on April 21, Coles’ 17-track fabric 75 includes an array of techy and house offerings from the likes of Trus’me, Mathew Jonson and Paul Woolford. The mix features an unreleased track by Coles called “Premonition.”
Obligatory press release gush from Coles: “fabric was one of the first clubs that I partied at, so it’s quite mad to have gone from being a punter to a headliner, playing the midnight set at NYE and now my own fabric mix. It feels like the club has been symbolic in the evolution on my career with a lot of good memories and milestones.”
Tracklisting for fabric 75:
01 Trus’me – Somebody [Prime Numbers]
02 Ksky – Madness (Volta Cab Remix – Maya Jane Coles Edit) [Sad But True]
03 Dapayk & Padberg – Close Up (Exercise One Remix) [Mo’s Ferry Prod.]
04 Mathew Jonson – Level 7 (Dixon Remix) [Crosstown Rebels]
05 Heiko Laux & Alexander Lukat – Lucho Part 2 [Ovum]
06 DJ Yellow & Flowers And Sea Creatures – No One Gets Left Behind [Compost Black Label]
07 Konstantin Sibold – Romin [Snork Enterprises]
08 Maya Jane Coles – Premonition [unreleased]
09 Baikal – Why Don’t Ya? (Ripperton Remix) [Maeve]
10 Paul Woolford – Erotic Discourse (Dense & Pika Remix) [2020 Vision]
11 Paride Saraceni – Dissolute [unreleased]
12 Negru – Concubinaj [Natural Rhythm]
13 Shall Ocin – Forgive Me (Edu Imbernon Remix) [Culprit]
14 Yenk – Basement [Baumhaus]
15 Chesus feat. Kofi Tarris – Monster [4lux]
16 NT89 – Purple Garden [Food]
17 Fran Von Vie feat. Cio May – Lonely Nights [Sudbeat]
Brian Eno and Underworld’s Karl Hyde collaborated on an album set for release in May on Warp Records. The nine-track Someday World, which was produced by Eno with 22-year-old Fred Gibson, features a string of prominent guests including Tessa Angus, Nell Catchpole, Marianna Champion, Will Champion, Kasia Daszykowska, Don E., Darla Eno, Georgia Gibson, Andy Mackay, John Reynolds and Chris Vatalaro.
Obligatory press release gush from Brian Eno: “A lot of the nicer cities I know are cities built on hills, and the cities are beautiful because the buildings have a challenge to adapt to. They have to mould themselves around the geology that they’ve formed upon. And that always makes for very interesting buildings, because they can’t just be blocks, they have to somehow morph around the environment. A lot of the constructions on the album were deliberately irregular and awkward. I had a big collection of ‘beginnings’ sitting around waiting for something to galvanise them into life, to make them more than just ‘experiments’. That something turned out to be Karl Hyde.”
Obligatory press release gush from Karl Hyde: “It’s a bit like being nine years old again. You have no idea what you’ve just been given, the record button has been pressed and you’re on. And then these unlikely patterns start to happen. The biggest surprise was discovering we both had a love of Afrobeat, Cyclical music based in live playing. When Brian played me these early tracks it was, ‘Oh my god, this is home! Can I borrow a guitar?”
A special double-CD version of Someday World featuring four bonus songs as well as CD, double gatefold vinyl and digital formats are available for pre-order from the Underworld.com store.