Madlib Crazy Cousinz
corporate shadow of its former self? Will Nickelback be
headlining? Will it be renamed the Big Chilled Glass of
Coca Cola festival? Most likely not.
TRUNK FUNK
One of dance music’s best-kept secrets, the Electric
Elephant festival is an annual weekender curated by
Manchester’s Electric Chair crew and held in the gorgeous
FOALS’ TECHNO FODDER peninsula of Petrcane, in Croatia. Last year’s event saw
The sophomore album by indie dance outfi t Foals is lined up for an early Andrew Weatherall, Idjut Boys, Theo Parrish and Horse
summer release, which ought to get you excited if only for the fact that Meat Disco (amongst many others) entertaining the
their debut, 2008’s ‘Antidotes’, led to a raft of masterful remixes from such sunkissed masses. If that sounds like your kinda par-tay,
expert knob-twiddlers as Ewan Pearson, Michael Mayer, Kieran Hebden and early-bird tickets for the 2010 instalment (running 27th
Henrik Schwarz. Even if you don’t dig Foals’ jerky maths-funk, you’ve got – 29th August) are available now.
to admit that they know their tasteful techno onions.
YE OLDE NINJA
WONKY TAKES OVER Following Warp’s 20th anniversary in 2009, that other
So it looks like this new-fangled mash-up of hip-hop, soul and techno has great British institution of leftfi eld far-outness — Ninja
settled on the moniker “wonky” — beating out “lazer-bass”, Tune — celebrates its two-decade milestone in 2010.
“bouncement”, “wub” and (oh deary dear) “ragga-clash”. With that We’re promised all sorts of birthday shenanigans,
settled, wonky can get on with graduating from blogs run by moustachioed including new albums from trip-hop pioneers DJ Food
hipsters to misinformed Next Big Thing features in broadsheet arts and Coldcut (intriguingly, the latter are working
sections. Expect the BBC’s Culture Show to be interviewing the likes of alongside Santogold/MIA/Major Lazer production wizard
Rustie, Hudson Mohawke and Alexander Nut by July. And if any jaded Switch). Plus, expect a retrospective box-set to rival — or
old-timers try to tell you that wonky is basically just trip-hop all over again, even out-do — the massively desirable ‘Warp20’
kick them in the dentures. collection.
CLIPZ BRANCHEZ OUT HOBO-HOP
The wilfully daft Casio-step of Bristol’s Clipz is revered by some junglists With the recession biting, sales plummeting and The
and reviled by others, so it’ll be interesting to see how his 2010 album Guardian and The New Yorker declaring the death of
under his Redlight guise will be accepted by dubsteppers — we’re guessing hip-hop, rappers are likely to lose some of their smirking
the Caspa fans are gonna love it, while the Hyperdub heads... not so much. swagger and bejewelled sparkle in 2010. Expect to see
Besides his Redlight project, Clipz will also be releasing an album with more rappers in the mould of hotly tipped new Lewis
Kraak & Smaak/Jazzanova collaborator Ben Westbeech, which a label Records’ signing Stig of The Dump: he’s fat and unshaven,
spokesman informs us will be “soulful electronic music with a gritty edge to he used to be homeless, and he sometimes goes by the
it — kinda like Hot Chip, but more banging”. alias Stevie Dickhead. Behold the dishevelled future of
hip-hop.
FONKY TAKES OVER
This cross-pollination of funky and wonky doesn’t actually exist yet, but APPLE’S SECRET WEAPON
we’d bet our own legs that it will by the end of the year — even if it’s only in Apple have repeatedly denied its existence, but
the minds of Wire magazine readers and record shop staffers keen to industry-wide rumours still persist that the geniuses
invent new fi ling sub-divisions for the vinyl racks. behind the iPhone are secretly beavering away on a
“tablet” — basically a clipboard-sized, touchscreen Mac
BIG CHILL REHEATS — that’ll be unveiled to huge fanfare in late 2010. In
Citing a drop in ticket sales and attendee spending levels, the independent terms of digital DJing and music production, such a piece
company behind the Big Chill festival declared bankruptcy in October, of kit would defi nitely be game-changing: we fully expect
shortly before the all-conquering Festival Republic conglomerate swooped to see Tiësto strapping one on and playing it like an ’80s
Breakage in and snapped up Big Chill for a song. So, thankfully, there will be a Big keytar by Christmas. Providing, of course, that it does in
Chill festival this year (5th – 8th August), but will it now be a harshly fact exist...
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