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SHAPE UP
New Zealand D&B band Shapeshifter tour the a hard thing to quantify but it feels like we have May 16: La Maroquinerie, Paris
UK in May so we spoke to them to find constantly improved our live performance with May 19: Bongo Club, Edinburgh
out more… a love for being on the stage, playing music and May 21: The Rainbow, Birmingham
bettering ourselves as a band. May 22: Forum, London with The Nextmen ft.
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT WITH YOUR MC Wrec & Pmoney
LIVE SHOW ON THIS TOUR? WHICH DATES ARE YOU LOOKING FOR- May 23: Dot To Dot Festival, Bristol
A crazy amount of energy and heavy soul! Half WARD TO? May 24: Dot To Dot Festival, Nottingham
the set is stuff off the new album, so lots of new London at the Forum in Kentish Town will be May 27: Academy 3, Manchester
tunes as well. massive, and always Melkweg in Amsterdam is May 28: Concorde 2, Brighton
heaps of fun. May 30: Crawdaddy, Dublin
HOW HAS YOUR LIVE SHOW CHANGED May 31: Pavillion, Cork
OVER THE YEARS? WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING
Well, it’s been ten years since we played our ON RECENTLY?
www.shapeshifterlive.com
first gig, and thinking back to that show we have Mainly our new album which we have been re-
www.myspace.com/shapeshifterlive
come a long way. Our sound has progressed in cording the old fashioned way in a studio live.
many ways, obviously picking up a vocalist and May 14: Melkweg, Amsterdam
new technologies have contributed. I guess it’s May 15: Paard Van Troje, Den Haag
JUICY FRUIT
Musical Magical Midi Machine EP)
9. Anything Can Happen (original) (1991,
from white label promo)
10. Fallen Prince Of Heaven (1998, Juicebox
34, from Radar Systems EP)
Go to
http://aguycalledgerald.ithinkmusic.com where
you will also find new productions and
more exclusives.
Instead of releasing “frozen” music Gerald pre-
fers to keep his tracks in fluid form. “Why should INTENSE DECADE
A Guy Called Gerald is cracking open the vaults, a piece of music ever be finished?” he says. “I’m
dusting off the DAT tapes and making his entire not into creating what I call a frozen perfor- The Intense Records record shop situated in
back catalogue available online as high qual- mance – a piece of music for MP3 or vinyl.” And Chelmsford, Essex is ten years old this year and
ity 320 kbps MP3s. A recent sampling includes now that technology allows him to take his studio is celebrating by organising a year long tour
Juice Box Concentrate 1 with rarities and unre- on the road he is taking people into his studio at venues across the country. As a record shop
leased tracks from Juice Box ‘91- ‘98 era: in sessions from one to fourteen hours! Here’s they diversify into various different genres so
where you can find him in the coming months: will be representing the full spectrum of what
1. Cops (original) (1992, Juice Box 03, from 28 they supply including breakbeat, dubstep and
Gun Bad Boy EP) 22 May: Hacienda night, Birmingham drum & bass. Catch The Decade Of Intense
2. Ease The Pressure (1993, Juice Box 14, from 29 May: Cable, London Tour at Cave, Chelmsford on May 2, at Mass,
The Glok EP) 30 May: Petrol, Antwerp Brixton on June 13 hosting room 2 at Mayhem.
3. Keep On Moving (recorded 1996, previously 5 June: TBC, Italy There are future dates planned in London,
unreleased) 6 June: De Ja Vu, Bari, Italy Essex and Nottingham, and many more over
4. 7th Science Of Levitation (recorded 1994, 20 June: Tape, Berlin the course of the year (any promoters wanting
previously unreleased) 27 June: Get Perlonized, Zurich the tour to pass through their club should email
5. Ses Makes You Wise (vocal mix) ft. MC Tunes 15 August: Flow Festival, Helsinki
info@intenserecords.co.uk).
(recorded 1992, previously unreleased)
6. King Of The Jungle (1992, Juicebox 004, Gerald is also putting the finishing touches to a As a special tenth birthday promotion Intense
from Ses Makes You Wise EP) new Loopmasters Producer Series sample CD. are offering 10% off all online orders at
7. Kickin Da Jungle Beat (recorded 1994,
www.intenserecords.co.uk - simply quote ‘DECADE’
previously unreleased)
www.guycalledgerald.com in the shopping cart when placing your order to
8. Free Africa (1992, Juice Box 05, from The
www.myspace.com/aguycalledgerald receive your discount.
www.kmag.co.uk
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