George FitzGerald has laid down a really nice remix of Gang Colours’ latest track ‘To Repel Ghosts’. Both artists are...

Festival No. 6 has expanded, with Richard Hawley, Death In Vegas and more being added to the bill. Held in the beautiful, bizarre Welsh town of Port Merion, Festival No. 6 is a unique addition to the summer calendar. Running between September 14th - 16th, Festival No. 6 has already confirmed appearances from Factory icons New Order, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, British Sea Power, Summer Camp and more. Announcing a swathe of new additions, Festival No. 6 has confirmed an appearance from Richard Hawley. Sheffield crooner turned psychedelic wanderer, the songwriter joins an ever expanding bill at the Welsh event. Still capable ...

The 405 team was out in force for The Great Escape this year, so rather than bringing you a band-by-band account of our time in Brighton, our editors/writers have chosen their five favourite bands from the event. Who came out on top? Read on to find out... Photos by Tim Boddy James Canham Swords">Forest Swords - Tim and myself arrived partway through Swords">Forest Swords set (they started at the same time AlunaGeorge finished) to a stunned and mostly silent crowd. The two of them on stage (one at the mic, laptop and electronics and another on the bass ...

GANG COLOURS – The Keychain Collection (Brownswood) Who: UK post-dubstep upstart. What: Gang Colours, or Will Ozanne, is doubtless well aware of what happened to dubstep as we used to know it – thus, taking the genre’s bare-boned original essence and adding a clutch of minimalist, often piano-led melodies was a smart move for the Brighton resident. The Keychain Collection, his first LP, is a wholly unpretentious debut, primarily driven by sanguine beats and unobtrusive vintage sub-bass. Like ...

405 Photography editor Tim Boddy put together some of his favourite shots from The Great Escape 2012 - from the manic energy of Retro Stefson, to the people queued up in the hope of watching Grimes. Same again next year? Retro Stefson Odonis Odonis NCZA/Lines Half Moon Run The Queue for Grimes Grimes Gang Colours Yacht AlunaGeorge Swords">Forest Swords The Warren Lonely, Dear Perfume Genius Regal Safari Novella Vondelpark Crowns Doldrums

Gang Colours, like so many British producers, has been on our radar for quite some time. Crafting an eclectic blend of instrumental music, it is nice to see this innovative artist continue to push his minimalist sound to the next…

Gang Colours will be releasing a new single via his recent album The Keychain Collection in just a few weeks time, and 'To Repel Ghosts' is certainly one of the spookier tracks from the record, sporting a silky smooth, minimalistic piano ballad that hides itself under a duvet of gently throbbing bleeps and bloops. The single drops on 28th May and will see remixes from Troy Gunner, George Fitzgerald and Stray. Give your ears a treat with the stream below.

Gang Colours – To Repel Ghosts

Festival season is now so close you can nearly touch it, and The Great Escape is not only one of the first, but is also guaranteed to be one of the best. This year's event is taking place from Thursday 10th May and culminates on the Saturday 12th of May. Across the three days three hundred plus bands will be providing Brighton rock, indie, electronica and more in 30 venues on the south coast. Listing all the great acts playing may break the internet but some names we’re excited about include: Perfume Genius, Niki & The Dove, Alt-J, Shabazz Palaces, Grimes, Friends, Zulu Winter and Django Django. There will be shows in the Brighton Dome, in churches and pubs around the city. Add to that an array of fringe events, club nights and a daytime conference - plus a bar on the famous Brighton pier - and you have all the ingredients for a very special time indeed. Amazingly tickets are still available and you can get them here . For a full of who’s playing and for more info visit escapegreat.com . See you there, yeah? Listen to our Great Escape playlist by clicking here . ***** Editors Picks: James Canham (Live Editor): Retro Stefson Possibly the most interesting and entertaining live act I've ever personally witnessed, Retro Stefson would need no introduction in their homeland of Iceland. Renowned on the Reykjavík circuit for their unique mix of pop ethics and peculiar, yet stunning, execution they're definitely one to catch. [ Listen ] Performances: 10th May - Latest Music Bar - 23:15 11th May - Above Audio - 14:30 11th May - Green Door Store - 19:30 Fever Fever Art punk isn't dead, and with bands like Fever Fever it never will die. On top of their fantastically literate lyrics their layers of dissonant yet raw guitar and pounding drums give the festival one of the best and most interesting performances. [ Listen ] Performance: 10th May - The Hope - 20:30 AlunaGeorge With an EP coming soon on the illustrious Tri-Angle records, and with an arsenal of future pop hits to hand, now is the time to see AlunaGeorge before they make it huge. Every song they've released so far is dredged in a fantastic drape of smooth and sexy vocals with rich synthy backing, and their near-midnight show at Coalition on the Friday is shaping up to be one of the best of the festival. [ Listen ] Performance: 11th May - Coalition - 23:30 Seams While Seams will be playing the sounds at his Corn exchange, the real reason anyone will be going is to see his fringe jumping excitedly on stage. We've loved him from the word go (especially his remarkable Tourist EP, a piece of work focused and composed from sounds heard in Berlin, the city he's now based in) and by all reports his live show is just as great as his recordings (mainly because of his fringe...). [ Listen ] Performance: 12th May - Corn Exchange - 21:30 Micachu & The Shapes Along with many others we've eagerly awaited the next move from Micachu and The Shapes . After a few interesting diversions (most notably their chopped and screwed mixtape performance piece with the London Sinfonietta Orchestra) they've finally got a sequel to 2009's Jewellery in the pipeline and, with any luck, we'll hear something new from the makers of one of the last decade's most fascinating albums. [ Listen ] Performance: 12th May - The Haunt - 21:45 ***** Alt-J Editors Picks: Wil Cook (Music Editor): As they prepare to drop one of the albums of the year, Alt-J are the band to be excited about. Engaging, melodic songs full of depth, songs that linger on longer than you expect. Remnants appear in your head for days after and they are welcome. I cannot wait to see this band play live. [ Listen ] Blind Tiger Friday 21:15 Jonquil I have been screaming from the rooftops about Jonquil since 2006 when I caught them playing in a horrible little bar in Ipswich. It's been fascinating to watch them evolve from a folk band who evidently had a bit of a crush on Boards of Canada into this massive summery behemoth of a band. I love this band more than I could ever put into words for you, which says a lot, because I love to talk. [ Listen ] Prince Albert Thursday 22:15 Green Door Store Friday 14:00 Cloud Nothings Since releasing the wonderfully nihilistic Attack on Memory earlier in the year Cloud Nothings have been on my "must see" list. It's a crunching punk rock pop fix that simultaneously restores my faith in my ability to feel alive and reverts me back to a mindset where I wanted to die. Basically, they are the hipster Nirvana. I just hope they are as ramshackle and urgent in the flesh as they are on this record. [ Listen ] Above Audio Thursday 21:45 Perfume Genius I'm not who St. Mary is, but she doesn't half know how to book a gig, last year she hosted Dustin O Halloran and Richter">Max Richter for one of the shows of the festival. This year it's the turn of Perfume Genius who plays after Loney, Dear making one of the sexiest double bills of the three days. The chance to see songs like Hood and Dirge performed in the beautifully intimate surroundings of the church is not something that you should pass up. [ Listen ] St. Mary's Church 21:15 Tall Ships One of my favourite memories from last year was the mass sing-along during Vessels, mid afternoon in the Pav Tav, it placed in my mind an idea that has been reaffirmed several times since, Tall Ships have it. They have whatever it is that every band is trying to achieve when they write songs, that feeling. Y'know that feeling when your hairs prickle up with your skin bumps as you realise that you are lucky to be alive and in a world full of potential. Yes, that is quite a bold statement, but have you seen Tall Ships play? If you haven't, then you really need to catch them soon, this years Great escape is the place. [ Listen ] Pav Tav Friday 1am The Hope Saturday 22:15 ***** Editors Picks: Tim Boddy (Photography Editor): Gang Colours The 405 have been following Will Ozanne's Gang Colours closely since the release of the violently monikered EP, In Your Gut Like A Knife , last summer. Recently the chap from Southampton released full-length debut album The Keychain Collection on Brownswood Recordings, to positive appraise. It's the kind of album that rewards enormously on repeated listens, the reflective soundscapes burying deep into the skin, and cut-up homages to garage swirl smoothy through the bloodstream. The result is rather Beautiful stuff, like if Mount Kimbie went into ballad territory - but with a very definite Gang Colours personal grace to proceedings. [ Listen ] Swords">Forest Swords Oh Swords">Forest Swords , where have you been? The solo project from Liverpool-based Matthew Barnes has been quiet of recent, following the release of 2010's gorgeous and beguiling LP Dagger Paths . Beguiling in that a myriad of differing styles are sewn into each other; Barnes' passion and knowledge ...

Deft came to light recently as one of the featured remixes on Gang Colours‘ Fancy Restaurant single release, and  the chilled out dubs continue with this great little two track EP, 2000. Deft has been kind enough to offer it as a free download on his Soundcloud page, so...

Everyone ready for a right royal knees up? On the 4th and 5th of May Land of Kings returns to Dalston’s Kingsland Road for a party that’s as densely fun as it is musically and geographically unexpected. Scattered across 12 venues, the two days plays host to 73 artists as diverse as Trevor Jackson, Toy, The Invisible, Slow Club, Gang Colours, O. Children and Bullion. Hurl in such reputable hosts and party starters as Brownswood, Rough Trade, Dalston Darlings, Walala Greasy Spoon, NTS Radio, Dollop, Disco Bloodbath and many more. But Land of Kings is far from simply ...

WHAT : +(PLUS) Fest WHEN : May 4 WHERE : Austin, Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston, Chapel Hill, Columbia, New York, Miami, and Washington, DC WHO : Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, MSTRKRFT, Freedia">Big Freedia, Rob Garza (Thievery Corporation), the Hood Internet, more WHAT : The Great Escape Festival WHEN : May 10-12 WHERE : Brighton, England  WHO : Shabazz Palaces, Perfume Genius, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Alabama Shakes, Willis Earl Beal, Kwes, Com Truise, YACHT, the Twilight Sad, Bass Drum of Death, Django Django, Ben Kweller, Porcelain Raft, Gang Colours, Stay+, Shelly in Athens">Keep Shelly in Athens, Milagres, Willy Mason, Pond, Jam City, more WHAT : Los Lobos Festival ...

Gang Colours is Southampton native Will Ozanne. His new debut album ‘The Key Chain Collection’ is a collection of tracks which feature a glitchy RnB beat with discarded burnt out