HEADS UP!
Staring in wide-eyed wonder at the oncoming 12 months? Think that’s
a long time to fi ll? Don’t be so ridiculous… there’s a shedload already
planned for 2010! Here’s our heads up on some of the things to look
forward to in the coming year…
Words: JOE MADDEN
MADLIB GOES MONTHLY AVAST YE, PIRATES
Acclaimed producer Madlib will be one busy loop-digger Label owners rejoice, copyright fl outers quiver: after years of sweaty-browed pressure
this year, as the brave man has committed himself to from the UK music industry, this April sees the government unveiling its Digital
releasing an album a month, from January through to Economy Bill, aimed at stamping out — or at least giving a Chinese burn to — online
December. The ‘Madlib Medicine Show Vols. 1 – 12’ will piracy. And, on paper at least, it could work: during 2009, both Sweden and South
comprise everything from wigged-out sampladelica to Korea cracked down on piracy, and both saw legal music sales woosh up by almost
mixtapes of esoteric jazz gleaned from Madlib’s 20% as a result. One likely (and controversial) measure would give UK web-cops the
four-tonne vinyl collection (Four tonnes! Remind us power to snuff out illegal downloaders’ internet access. So does this spell
never to help him move house.). Plus, he’ll be releasing “doooooom” for Britain’s legions of track-swappers and MP3 bloggers? Only time will
the eagerly-awaited ‘Madvillainy 2’ with MF Doom, and tell...
his ‘OJ Simpson’ album with Guilty Simpson. That’s 14
albums in one year — see how easy it is, Dr Dre? BREAKAGE BREAKS THROUGH
Breakage is much admired for his dusty, reggae-fi ed take on drum &
KODE 9’S THINKY-BOOK bass, and his recent excursions into dubstep have made a big, bad
January sees Steve ‘Kode 9’ Goodman — of the fl awlessly splash — little wonder that he was snapped up by Shy FX for his Digital
cool Hyperdub label — release his non-fi ction book, Sonic Soundboy imprint. Breakage’s second album — due in spring, and
Warfare: Sound, Affect and The Ecology of Fear — and it’s co-produced with his label boss — will be one of early-2010’s biggest
not going to be for the faint of brain. Here’s a brief releases for low-end lovers. All together now: bwwwoooomfff.
extract from the publisher’s foreword: “Possible
paradigms are many: autonomization, relation; FUNKY TAKES OVER
emergence, complexity, process; individuation, (auto) Yep, the most literally-named dance music genre since big beat looks
poiesis; direct perception, embodied perception, all set for a full-on invasion of the mainstream in 2010, as the bouncy,
perception- as- action; speculative pragmatism, bongo-fi ed sound of funky leaps its way off the pirates and style mag
speculative realism, radical empiricism; mediation, ‘hot’ lists and into the Top 40. We’d put cash on a single from London
virtualization; ecology of practices, media ecology; collective Crazy Cousinz being the fi rst to crack the Top 10, although
technicity; micropolitics, biopolitics, ontopower.” So, the breakthrough could also arrive via a pop track remixed by someone
then. Should be a laugh. (WTF is “ontopower”?) like Roska or Lil Silva — just as Skream’s remix of La Roux’s ‘In For The
Kill’ snuck dubstep onto Radio 1’s daytime playlists. Maybe a moody
TECHNICS R.I.P. Cooly G relick of a Jedward duet? That oughta do it.
February 2010: the last Technics analogue turntables roll
off the Panasonic production line. We should probably all ELECTRO-KANO
observe a misty-eyed moment of silence, or maybe Grime graduate Kano has seemed on the verge of winning himself
perform a clanging trainwreck of a beat-mix in their Manuva/Dizzee-sized fame since forever, but his fourth album (due in
honour. the spring) looks like it could be the big fi nal push he needs. Kano’s
WMC Miami
been in the studio with Hot Chip, Boys Noize and so-hot-right-now
MIAMI WMC IS 25 production trio Radioclit, so it looks like he’ll be workin’ that trendy
Kano
In 2010 Miami’s Winter Music Conference (23rd – 27th electro-hop crossover angle beloved of MIA, Diplo, Amanda Blank and
March) will celebrate its quarter century anniversary, and funny-haired graphic designers.
although belts have been tightened since the hazy, crazy
days when anthems like ‘Music Sounds Better With You’
got snapped up for 20 squillion quid, it’s still easily the
most important event on the dance music calendar. And
once again, it’ll all be going off at DJmag at The
Shelborne throughout the conference.
A.I. A.I. OH
Drum & bass may have lost some of its momentum over
the last few years, but it’s still producing crossover-
friendly acts. With Chase & Status and Pendulum having
pocketed themselves some of that mainstream moolah,
veteran duo Artifi cial Intelligence look set to follow suit
when their much-delayed, two-years-in-the-making
debut album — entitled ‘Stand Alone’ — fi nally drops on
V Recordings, in April. The pair have already garnered
attention outside d&b for their razor-sharp remixes of
Kelis, Missy Elliot and Eric Prydz, and collaborations with
Wiley and Roy Davis Jnr ought to win them a few more
admiring glances from non-junglists.
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