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Live from Dripping 2024

Celebrating 10 years of music magic! GROOVY GROOVY takes over the Barn at Dripping 2024 for two night of boogie time.

GROOVY GROOVY Showcase at Dripping 2024

Akanbi Live at Dripping 2024

10 Years of GROOVY GROOVY @ Dripping 2024

The Globeflower Masters Vol. 2 is the slightly edgier and more grown-up sequel to Mark and Glenn's 2021 debut album. For this excursion, the Brighton-based duo wanted to lean a little further into their European film soundtrack influences, with inspiration mined from the works of Stefano Torossi, David Shire, and Roger Webb. This expansion of their sound builds upon the rich tapestry of cinematic funk à la David Axelrod, Serge Gainsbourg and Morricone that fashioned Vol. 1.

The Deluxe Edition of the album features five new tracks, comprising two new original recordings, a piano solo version of the closing track from the original album, and two remixes from Project Gemini and Andres y Xavi.

‘Shaded By Your Side’ takes things right back to the moody, dark and Axelrod-inflected sound of their first album. Much of this track was played in single takes to try and retain as much of the urgency and spontaneity as possible. 

‘Return to Salvador’ is described by the duo as if “Shuggie Otis and Marcos Valle have one too many caipirinhas and decide to visit outer space”. It fuses together Mark's space sounds and floaty pianos with Spanish guitar and busy, melodic bass creating a musical trip from the grounded and earthy sounds of Vol.1’ to the more upwards-looking and musically diverse sound of Vol.2.

The remixes give a different flavour to the release, but both pay homage to the original recordings. Sharing a mutual admiration for each other’s work, it seemed like a natural choice to ask Project Gemini to contribute. Here is what he had to say about his rework, “I’m a big fan of both volumes of Mark and Glenn’s ‘Globeflower’ LP’s and it was a huge honour to get a chance to rework one of my favourite tunes from Vol.2. There are many great layers to ‘A Voyage North’ so it was a lot of fun to choose my favourite elements, then put some Project Gemini flavours and sounds into the mix and create something new whilst hopefully keeping some of the spirit of the original track. A darker, fuzzier take on the album version”.

When Glenn first passed the original album to Steve KIW, his collaborator in Balearic production outfit Andres y Xavi, this was one of two tracks which he picked out as having some particularly Balearic DNA. As such, pushing this concept to its logical conclusion seemed like the obvious thing to do. There’s a shaded sunset sound paired with a 4/4 beat of Latin-leaning.

Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Ely To Chi

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal music.
Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodious chord progressions, Malibu’s music is an immersive nostalgic journey in a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-21st-december-2023

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Carmen Villain live from The Inn at Dripping 2024

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Carmen Villain at Dripping2024

Gaze live from The Inn at Dripping 2024

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GAZE at Dripping 2024

Elena Colombi live from The Inn @ Dripping 2024

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Elena Colombi at Dripping 2024

Nailah Hunter live from The Inn at Dripping 2024

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Nailah Hunter at Dripping 2024

x3butterfly live from The Inn at Dripping 2024

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x3butterfly at Dripping 2024

Visual artist and founder and editor-in-chief of The Editorial Magazine Claire Milbrath joins us for an hour of ambient, classical, and italian library music.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/claire-milbrath/episodes/claire-milbrath-30th-september-2024

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chuki live from the Barn at Dripping 2024 for the Groovy Groovy Showcase
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chuki at Dripping 2024

Akanbi closes then Barn at Dripping 2024, capping off the Groovy Groovy showcase.

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Akanbi at Dripping 2024 - Closing set

Akanbi opens the Barn at Dripping 2024 for the Groovy Groovy Takeover

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Akanbi at Dripping 2024 - Opening Set

The Large live from Dripping 2024 at the Groovy Groovy takeover
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The Large at Dripping 2024

LOIF closes The Barn at Dripping 2024 for the Groovy Groovy Takeover

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LOIF at Dripping 2024

Ayanna Heaven at Dripping 2024

Taken from the upcoming album Both Lines Will Be Blue, out July 12th on Smalltown Supersound. Produced by Carmen Villain. Flute performed by Johanna Scheie Orellana. Mastered by Matt Colton.

Observable Future

Live recordings from our festival and event series focused on fearlessly singular voices in dance music and transportive modern composition.

Akanbi at Dripping 2024 - Closing set

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