The Hay festival has announced details of The Sound Castle , a new music venue that adds considerably to the music programme running at the internationally known literary festival this year. The Sound Castle is a new late-night venue in Hay on the Welsh borders and artists booked include Zara McFarlane , whose debut Until Tomorrow for Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label appeared to acclaim last year and who back in March was on fine form during Jazzwise To The Power of 15 at Ronnie Scott’s supporting the great Ron Carter. Also for Hay are Mancunian big band pacesetters Beats & Pieces ; MC ...

Kwes Meantime [EP] [Warp; ] by James Parker Rating: This is Kwes’ first solo release since crossing over from Young Turks to Warp at the end of last year. I’m struggling to wrap my head around why they wanted him. Okay, so for a guy still in his mid-twenties, he keeps some pretty impressive company. Production work for Damon Albarn and Speech Debelle , official remixes for The xx, The Invisible, and the Portico Quartet, and a genuinely decent couple of mixtapes with Micachu, including original guest vocals from the likes of Ghostpoet and Dels. There’s even an endorsement from ...

Bank holiday weekend dawns and it’s off to a Baltic Dalston for the optimistically-named Land of Kings festival. First stop on our stumble through the grimy kingdom of cool is the cavernous Magnolia for some fortifying Desperados, trippy projections and experimental electronica from the Public Information DJs. From thence we make our way back down Kingsland Road to the Eastern Curve Garden where Clash has decided to sock one in the eye to the British weather and hold a May day fete and reggae party, temperature be damned. We’ve sadly missed the maypole dancing, but we do arrive ...

Die Londoner Elektro-Musiker Kwes und Micachu stellen ihr 40-minütiges "Mixtape Vol. 2" als kostenlosen Download zur Verfügung. Das erste Mixtape erschien im Jahr 2009, und ist »hier noch immer frei verfügbar. Erst letzte Woche erschien die erste EP  " Meantime "  von Kwes  auf dem Label Warp Records.  Bereits vor einem Jahr veröffentlichte der 24-Jährige im Netz seinen ersten Song "Get Up", den ihr euch  »hier  herunter laden könnt.  Das aktuelle Set beinhaltet Kollaborationen und Neu-Arrangements zahlreicher befreundeter Künstler wie beispielsweise  Pete Wareham, Speech Debelle, Dels und Ghostpoet.  Ladet euch die elektronischen Dub-Stücke an dieser Stelle herunter und werft anschließend einen Blick ...

Back in 2009, the spare electro-pop singer and producer Kwes. and the twitchy postpunk-pop genre-combiner Mica Levi, better known and Micachu, got together to release a mixtape called Kwesachu. Today, they follow it up with a new one called Kwesachu Vol. 2. It’s a 41-minute continuous thing that features appearances from people like Speech Debelle [...]

Kwes and Micachu have unveiled their new mixtape 'Kwesachu Vol. 2'. Two of Britain's most adventurous and open minded musicians, Kwes and Micachu's joint mixtape 'Kwesachu' remains a perennial Clash office favourite. So news that the pair were working on a second instalment caused no end of excitement... 'Kwesachu Vol. 2' finally dropped this morning (April 30th). Available as a free download, the tracklisting is laden with exclusive material, guest spots and remixes - to grab the mixtape just enter your email address below. - - - Tracklisting: 1. HCHMWBIA - ft. Ghostpoet/Grant Armour of CLOUT! 2. DJ Set - Micachu & Kwes. 3 ...

Kwesachu , the project from Kwes and Micachu, have unveiled the follow up to their legendary debut mixtape with Kwesachu Vol. 2 . Check it out below (along with the tracklisting) and let us know what you think about it! 1. HCHMWBIA - ft. Ghostpoet/Grant Armour of CLOUT! 2. DJ Set - Micachu & Kwes. 3. Beast - Raisa.K ft. Evian Cafun 4. Awol - Amen (Micachu & Pete Wareham) 5. Plastic Coins - ft. Speech Debelle/DELS 6. (Ripped) Blossomshoes (excerpt) - w. CLOUT! 7. Visual Mind Control - ft. Speech Debelle 8. Bird Milk - ft. DELS/Bella Wilde 9. So What - ft. Bang On! & Lee Scott 10 ...

WHAT : Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival WHEN : May 4-6 WHERE : Memphis, TN WHO : Girl Talk, My Morning Jacket, Big K.R.I.T., Jane's Addiction, Florence + the Machine, Black Lips, Wiz Khalifa, Al Green, the Cult, Lupe Fiasco, War Kids">Cold War Kids, Little Richard, more WHAT : Camden Crawl WHEN : May 4-6 WHERE : London, England  WHO : Actress, Charli XCX, Rustie, Kwes, Niki & the Dove, the Raincoats, the Cribs, the Big Pink, Veronica Falls, Loney Dear, the Futureheads, Shelly in Athens">Keep Shelly in Athens, Glasvegas, Young Man, more WHAT : Asymmetry Festival WHEN : May 3-5 WHERE : Wroclaw, Poland ...

VIDEO KWES. / Bashful Der erst 24-jährige Londonder Kwesi Sey alias Kwes. hat bereits mit The XX , Hot Chip oder Ghostpoet zusammenge- arbeitet, auch produzierte er hinter den Kulissen für Speech Debelle und Dels . Jetzt tritt er endlich aus dem Schatten diverser Produktionen und veröffentlicht seine eigene Debüt-EP Meantime . Man könnte meinen, das sei wieder so ein Avantgardeähnliches Post-Dubstep Ding, welches von der Britischen Insel rüber- schwappt. Doch der junge Herr wäre nicht bei Warp Recrods , wenn er nicht etwas ungewöhnliches an sich hätte. The Guardian beschreibt ihn treffend als «Warp’s first experimental pop-prog stars». Kwes. geht mit seiner zaghaften ...

You can't exactly describe music man Kwes as lazy. With a new EP out on legendary electronic label Warp, Meantime comes off the back of extensive experience working with some of British music's biggest and brightest. Producing Speech Debelle's second record Freedom Of Speech , a joint project with oddballs Micachu & the shapes imaginatively titled Kwesachu and even a stint producing for last year's DRC music project alongside Damon Albarn, XL boss Richard Russell and Actress to mention a few. This is of course alongside his debut EP No Need To Run released in 2010 and a slew of singles including the insanely catchy 'Get Up' which emerged at the end of last year. With this much experience and a near spotless track record, Meantime was always going to be a pretty special release. 

 Impressively, Kwes fits in remarkably well with the Warp label, best known for pioneering often more experimental acts like Battles, Aphex Twin and Flying Lotus. His warp credentials are proved from the off with the EP's opener 'Klee', coming off as an ode to Warp legends Boards of Canada with its grand atmospherics and spacious bleeping. It's a morphing electronic instrumental which would find itself quite happily at home towards the end of BOC's seminal album Music Has the Right to Children . What follows 'Klee' is a slight departure, with Kwes' vocals coming into play. The same nonchalant delivery from previous tracks like 'Get up' is still very much present; his relaxed vocal approach that he employs should be boring and throwaway but in the case of 'Meantime' it displays that the real standout elements of Kwes' music are the instrumentals and the lyrics. 'Bashful' for instance sees Kwes' deadpan vocals enter the stage, but ultimately they ...

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*Summer Sundae Weekender* are delighted to announce the fourth wave of artists on 2012’s line up, establishing the event once again as an essential date in the summer music calendar. Soulful and raw, Speech *Debelle *blew up seemingly out of nowhere and delivered one of the critically acclaimed...

Summer Sundae Weekender have pulled the curtains on the latest list of acts to join the mid-August event. This fourth wave washes up the likes of Clock Opera, Loney Dear, Speech Debelle and Deer Tick on the shores of the event at Leicester's Victoria Park. The festival takes place from 17th - 19th August, and sees Agnes Obel, Bowerbirds and THePETEBOX also among those joining an already all-star cast consisting of Jonathan Richman, Francois and the Atlas Mountains, Django Django, Katy B, Death In Vegas, Friends, Hey Sholay and more. Check out the full fourth wave announcement below, and grab ...

Kwes - ‘Igoyh’ Judging by the commentator spat below this Youtube clip, getting a thumbs up from Pitchfork has tenuous clout - the anonymous altercation instead diverts from what’s important. For that reason I don’t post Youtubes of an audio track, preferring an MP3 or Soundcloud link. (OK, for layout and player reasons as well.) In fairness Pitchfork aren’t the only major music site posting about Kwes, for good reason too. Up until recently Kwesi Sey worked behind the desk for the likes of   the  xx, Joe Goddard, DELS, Speech Debelle, Zero 7 and Micachu. Like many other producers ...

'Big Ideas and little details from the ladies behind the original Big Chill Festival.' Where: Bignor Park, West Sussex When: July 6th - 8th Line Up: Fink, Jessie Ware, Ghostpoet, Norman Jay, Fionn Regan, Crazy P, tUnEyArDs, The Do, Jono McCleery, Speech Debelle, Kinny, Reeps One, We Were Evergreen, The Roundhouse Choir, Stumblin' Slims and The Black Kat Boppers, Mother Feather, The Staves, Chris Coco Krystal Klear, Psychemagik, Duffstep, The Good Times Sound System, Soul Jazz Sound System, DJ Food, DK, Hexstatic Solid Reel, Cheeba, JFB, Tom Central & Cosmo Lopez, DJ Shepdog, Mixmaster Morris, Tim Love Lee, Seahawks Anna Phoebe, Indigo ...