For those looking for one last summer burnout we have five pairs of weekend tickets up for grabs to the inaugural LED (London Electronic Dance) festival at east London’s Victoria Park this Friday and Saturday (27th & 28th August). Headlining the event is the slightly spooky man child David Guetta and rave veterans Leftfield, although the pick of the weekend will surely be extreme bass botherer Aphex Twin with Boy Better Know, Belgian mash up masters Soulwax and the freakishly compelling Die Antwoord all the way from Johannesburg, also well worth checking out.
And to win a pair of tickets all you need to do is email us at mailbox@bonafidezine.com with ‘I would like to go to LED Festival’ in the heading and an address to send the tickets to in the body of the email, first come first served.
Soundcrashhave gathered together some of our favourite producer/DJs of recent times for a monster line-up of bass and beats over at Camden’s Koko on Saturday 4th September.
Headlining the event is none other than boogie-funk maverick Dam Funk together with his insanely good live band, Master Blaster and Glasgow’s Rustie. …Read More.
“No player is bigger than the team”, is a well worn footballing cliché that rings poignantly true at the business end of this World Cup and one that could easily apply to music genres, but in the case of dubstep few have been able to match the levels of prolificness and creativity of Kode9. The producer, DJ, lecturer and author has released a slew of seminal releases through the Hyperdub label he founded, while nurturing talents and releasing music by the likes of Joker, Zomby and Burial. …Read More.
Way back in Bonafide 02 we did a feature on one of our favourite producer mans Kidkanevil. It’s been a while but if we could still be arsed to use MySpace, he would be in our top friends for sure. And I’m talking top 8 shit, before it turned jokes. Consistently dope and consistently unpredictable, one of the most genuine and original producers in the UK today. If you haven’t heard his latest album Basho Basho then erm, you really need to. …Read More.
If recent alleged reports of administration are to be believed, clubbing stalwart Fabric may be drawing its final breath as London club land …Read More.
After The Bamboosretro-tinged mix we have rising talent BUG’s “electronic-future-beats-club-type-shit”. An effort that is so cutting edge it could have been made in 2020, mp19 format delivered via kinesis. But it wasn’t, I got it from his FTP last week. …Read More.
Bonafide is proud to have been selected alongside 23 other creatives to represent London for the Nike (RED) TIED TOGETHER campaign, a noble initiative to raise awareness and support for fighting AIDS in Africa. Here’s the low-down;
“TIED TOGETHER is an epic journey in response to a global health crisis. Five cities. 120 hours of racing. 24 hour relays. …Read More.
Those purveyors of good taste and bass over at Fabriclive have pulled together a stonker of line-up this Friday (the 18th) including Benga, Scratch Perverts, Andy C and Mista Jam.
And we have 2 tickets up for grabs, to stand a chance of winning just leave a joke in the comments section below remembering to leave your email address in the user name. Funniest joke wins, simple really. Winner will be notified by 11 AM Friday.
North London based producer Richy Pitch created Blackstar to build a bridge between contemporary electronic hip-hop and African inspired raps. The producer teams up with Ghana born MC Manifest for the (almost) eponymous lead single, one of a number of West African MCs who features on the project sees the album as a chance for connection ‘Blackstar is somewhere between an artistic autobiography and a collage of snapshots of life as a youngster in Ghana.”it was all a dream, but i never had word up magazine.” It’s also an allusion to the name of Ghana’s beloved soccer team, the “Black Stars.” The entire country gets religious/fanatic when they play.
So being a black star to me, a diasporic Ghanaian, symbolizes doing things in my artistic journey to represent and thrill my people like the Essiens and Abedi Peles of our history. ‘ Glad to see i’m not the only one very excited about the World Cup this summer.
This Afromix eases the listener into the sound of the upcoming LP entitled Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch, due out on BBE Records later this summer.
