This week it’s all Glastonbury this, Glastonbury that, but if you’ve been left behind, forget Glasto and come and get drunk up with the Nerds crew this Saturday instead ‘cos House Party is back!
Saturday 26th June | 8pm – 2am
@ The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, Shoreditch, London, N1 6LP
£5 all night!
ONLY 350 CAPACITY SO FIRST COME FIRST SERVED!
DUBSTEP | ELECTRO | GRIME | GARAGE | D&B + ALL THINGS BASS HEAVY!
JONNY RAP ATTACK (Beer & Rap)
Urban Nerds’ monthly mash-up brings a regular dose of Nerds madness to our favourite East End boozer on the last Saturday of every month, showcasing our favourite up and coming acts, producers and DJs in the dubstep, garage, electro and UK bass game!
This month BBC Radio 1Xtra’s latest recruits, True Tiger, present two of the homegrown UK label’s most prolific producers in the form of dirty, dark dubstep and bass aficionados Stenchman and Sukh Knight!
They’re joined by the Urban Nerds resident squad…garage and grime merchant, Ordio Kid. Dubstep hard nut Drama, hip-hop & dancehall don Dusty Lungs, plus the Beer & Rap C.E.O. notorious party starter and hip-hop commander, Jonny Rap Attack!
On Saturday night Urban Nerds return to Shoreditch, taking over the incredible two floored Scrutton Street Warehouse for the first time! As well as the amazing turntablist showcase from the DMC DJ Championship London Heats and hip-hop madness from DJ MK, Harry Love & Martelo with the Fun House Live takeover upstairs, we’ve got some major warehouse BASS on the cards…
We’re very pleased to announce that Ibiza Rocks resident, Annie Mac favourite and all-round UK dancefloor destroying don, DOORLY has been added to the line-up last minute as a very special guest!
To celebrate Doorly’s given us two massive remixes to pass on to the Nerds crew FREE! Click the links and get your download on:
Urban Nerds catch up with the UK’s latest dance production bad man, Redlight, ahead of his set at the Urban Nerds warehouse rave on Saturday 19th June here!
Yes Redlight, you good?
Yeah I’m good, just recovering from a big weekend!!!!
This is your first Nerds rave since NYE, how was that?
Yeah really good, played early as I had another gig that night, but thought it was a really good vibe…
Why ‘Redlight’? Does the name have any connection to Amsterdam’s glorious back streets?
No Redlight means when the red light comes on the beats are loud!!!!
In another life you were DJ Clipz. What sparked the transition from D&B to this new sound?
For me I had done what I wanted to do with that genre of music and was ready for the switch up into something new, I’ve always made other beats and it was time 2 start again and push my new music out there, also the UK music scene is at a very exciting time at the moment with a lot of different styles and genres coming together.
The sound…you call it junglestep, right?
No I’ve never called it that haha.
Shit. No junglestep.
Yeah I’ve done a couple of beats that sound like slower old skool jungle bits, but I wouldn’t say that’s all I’m doing right now, I’ve got a new track with Ms Dynamite called What You talking About forthcoming on Chase & Status’ label, just finished working on some beats for Mz Bratt and Roses Gabor, and also been remixing artists from Kelly Rowland, Tempa T to Magnetic Man, and the main thing for me is to make each beat I make different from the last and not the same style or tempo.
Jenna G and Jammer feature on your tunes. What drew you to that pair?
I’ve only used Jenna G and Jammer on One Track called Pick Up The Phone which came out late last year on the Lobster Boy E.P. I’ve known Jenna for years and worked with her on a project a few years back and new she’s capable of trying new things and experiments with different styles, so thought she we be good to try a Redlight track. She came down to my studio and we made the track in a couple of days, then thought it would be big to get Jammer on the last verse as I had just finished working on a track for his album called Get It In.
In person Jenna’s pretty chilled and Jammer’s mad as a hatter. Got any joke moments to share from your time in the studio with them?
Sorry what happens in the studio stays in the studio. LOL (check my autobiography soon to be published).
You’re reppin’ Bristol. Why do you think the scene’s so healthy there? Bristol seems to churn out producers, artists and music gold like it’s nothing!
Yeah Briz is a good place for music and parties; it’s a small city with big musical aspirations and heritage. Certain artists from there have always pushed their own style and developed vibes and swam against the tide, and that is how I’ve been brought up to think about making and listening to music.
Redlight has exploded over the past year. Got any highlights?
Hearing Stupid getting played on Jonathon Ross on Friday was pretty funny.
EP on the way soon?
I released an EP last year, with Feel So Good ft. Dread Zaniah & Redskin (check it here). I also released Stupid on Digital Soundboy ft Roses Gabor a couple of months ago (check the video here). And, I’m just about to release What You Talking About ft Ms Dynamite and MDMA on MTA records. We are also just about to film a video for it too…
What bangers can we expect to hear at Nerds this month?
All the new shit, bare brand new dubplate specials really looking forward to playing may even make a special for it ; )
Another one for the bass heads, Hyponik join Stag & Dagger’s East London venue takeover this weekend, invading Shoreditch’s East Village with some grade A dubstep, future garage, house and electro headed up by man like Sinden!
Twitter came up trumps this morning when one of our favourite producers Roska threw a freebie out to the world. Get your download on and cop his ‘ard food remix of Hardhouse Banton’s funky ‘Reign’. Definitely a dancehall smash, especially with the classic Roska touch. Roska, Roska, Roska!
Tonight Man Like Me launch their new ‘Lovestruck’ EP (out May 24th) at Electric Ballroom in the heart of Camden. They’ll be playing the 3 tracks off the record (listen at the Man Like Me website) , even newer stuff, and all the oldies.
All Urban Nerds will be attending on concessions so email your names quickly to info@manlikememusic.com for £6 concs on the night. Last two London shows sold out so get down early!
Watch Man Like Me Live Here Also on the night they’ve got support from credible artists such as Othello Woolf (Live), Graffiti 6 (Live) and the mighty Maccabees (DJ set). So either way you’re covered.
Urban Nerds are providing the beats at this year’s Streetfest, ‘London’s Number One Street Culture Festival’ which will see the best of the city’s street clothing brands selling their garms alongside a massive line up of underground music (including our very own Rattus Rattus & Klose One)! They’ll also be skate ramps, graffers, break dancers and of course, food & booze! You know the venue…Hearn Street is one of Urban Nerds’ favourite Shoreditch warehouse spots….this time, Streetfest are coming with road closures and taking over the whole street!
This will also be the first time in a long time when we’ll be selling our very limited Urban Nerds t-shirt range off the website, so come down for a rare opportunity to cop one for cash at our own Nerds Streetfest stall!
GET DOWN TO URBAN NERDS HOUSE PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE FOR A CHEAP ENTRY STREETFEST WRISTBAND! SATURDAY 29TH MAY @ THE MACBETH, 70 HOXTON ST, SHOREDITCH, N1 6LP!
Our pals over at Ego Thieves are back on their mix game with a fresh edition from the bass crazy Tomba…bringing you his new mix called Disturbed. Warped bass, sub low wobbles and brain shaking sounds (and thats the polite way to describe it). Let the bass weight do the talking…
Urban Nerds take underground London to the slopes of Mayrhofen, Austria and hit Europe’s biggest, messiest, loudest ski and snowboard festival for a week of non stop partying at Snowbombing 2010! We teamed up with Mishka and drove over on the massive Snowbombing roadtrip in our very own Volvo XC90 4×4!
Check it & watch out for more footage and big interviews up on YouTube soon…
Our NYE party cohorts, London’s finest graffiti crew and long time Nerds family tree, ATG are back on the East London party circuit with another massive DO ONE mash-up this month at the Gramaphone, Shoreditch! Urban Nerds / ATG residents Klose One and Rattus Rattus join DnB master Nicky Blackmarket, dubstep ones to watch Chasing Shadows, Rinse FM’s Marco Del Horno and all the ATG Do One resident DJ squad, with the host with most, MC Illaman. Nerds crew will be reppin’ ARD as always, make sure you get involved…
This Friday the weekly clubbing, events and all-round London to-do people in the know that are Time Out present an all new club night (their first of the year) that promises to bring a slice of bloc party Harlem to Shoreditch’s East Village! Nite Sessions will play host to hip-hop’s premier AV party don, DJ Yoda, spinning his finest alongside YoYo exports Greenmoney, bass champions CNTRST & SDUK alongside some mash-up bizz-niss (just the way we like it) from Heavenly Jukebox upstairs in the bar. There’s only one place to be this Friday to get your skank on, so head down to the bass-bin basement at East Village for this weekend’s number one party fix…Nerds will be reppin’!
To get things warming we’ve got hold of an exclusive Greenmoney mix! Load up your headphones and check it HERE
For those of you hitting the slopes with us next week at Snowbombing 2010 we’ve compiled a little something to keep you on track with all the Urban Nerds chaos at this year’s festival. Plus, check out our huge forthcoming London dates!
Yes yes…there’s less than two weeks until Urban Nerds head out to Snowbombing 2010 in the Urban Nerds x Mishka NYC Volvo XC90 to host some epic parties at Snowbombing in Mayrhofen, Austria!
Big thanks to Volvo and Snowbombing for hooking us up with the XC90 R-Design!!!
To celebrate Rattus and Klose have mixed up an essential set of top bass bangers. You know these mixes need no introduction now. Download it and crank the bass.
Saturday 26th June | 8pm – 2am
