VS//YOUTHCLUB (versus youthclub) is the musical waste of Tom Lord & Dougie Brown, two jaded composers from the industrial badlands of Northern England and residing in Berlin and London respectively.

Since 2010, the duo have been plotting an escape route through dying Apple products; honing their dark breed of electronic music via the Internet, the vast digital expanse that has become their surrogate home. 2012 saw their debut release, WAVES, published digitally through notorious independent net-label Aural Sects. This was succeeded by TIDE OUT, a ten-track epic featuring three new original cuts and a collection of remixes by the likes of Koda, ∆AIMON, Funerals and kkoee. Meanwhile, their remixes of Crystal Castles' Untrust Us and Purity Ring's Belispeak both charted in the top 20 remixes on Hype Machine, with the former reaching the top 10 of the overall charts after it was recognised by the band as an official remix and posted to over one million followers on Facebook and Soundcloud. All of this has garnered them praise from popular blogs such as Vice Magazine's Noisey blog, Golden Scissors, Mishka Bloglin, Majestic and Black Black Gold.

CONTACT:
versusyouthclub@gmail.com

booking agent:  melissa@armige.com
contact Jess direct:  jphlip@gmail.com

After 25 years behind the decks, J.Phlip still hasn't figured out how to crush the art of pretending she's doing something when she's not-so she just keeps busy actually mixing. She has built her rep on fearless, genre-melting sets packed with bass, acid, punk-electro, bootytech-whatever she damn well pleases. She flips the script-and sometimes the bird-as easily as she flips from 4/4 kicks to breakbeats, taking you on a sonic joyride with zero regard for speed limits. A founding Dirtybird original since 2006, J.Phlip didn't just help shape the label's sound-she nurtured its ride-or-die community, fiercely protecting its scrappy, open-hearted ethos. From the legendary SF Golden Gate BBQs to building Dirtybird Campout from the dirt up, she's been central to one of dance music's boldest and most beloved collectives. She's lit up everything from Movement Detroit to EDC, Fabric London to Space Ibiza, Coachella to your grandma's basement.

But screw the industry name game - sometimes Jess just wants to jump rope like it's middle school. She'll show up with ropes at festivals and kick off a Double Dutch session open to anyone. Her favorite spot is the Friendship cruise where shes backed by her East Bay ride-or-dies, the Twerkaholicz. Their booty-powered madness nearly broke Dirtybird Campout as they rolled in on a gold-plated "Twerkulator" bus, after J.
Phlip herself brought them into the flock in 2019. At Outside Lands, they co-created a show so far outside the box of today's "Dance Music / DJ culture" it shoved it off the rails - colliding fast-BPM beats, ass-jiggling acrobatics, and pure absurdity into a crowd-screaming blowout. Treefort in Boise got it! - the dancefloor snapped into two hours of unfiltered mosh-raving. Jess isn't here for your sunny-day vibes or safe dance moves. After far too many lost years-dragging herself through pandemic fallout-she's back to start some shit.

i make stories, images and tones to be induced alone or not-so-alone

FOBE, formally known as Witch Mob aka Thee Kvlt Ov Kristy is a crew of rotating artists who came together to make improvisational pieces in the down times between band practice with varying projects. Initially  established in 2010 at the now defunct studio known as The Sound Box, Members include and have featured Wayzout Psychedelic (Future Reference, B☆SIDE THIEVES) Nimrod/Omnism (Future Reference, B☆SIDE THIEVES) Strange Powers (Men In Burka, Cloud Spell, The Strange Us) Joelle Moushati (Cloud Spell) Kamran Khan (Men In Burka, Modern Witch, Future Reference, The Strange Us) Mario Zoots(Men In Burka, Modern Witch)3RD PRSN, (Dan Gobi, Future Reference) UZIEGO, DJ Seque, DJ Eyeam, David Soto (Sine Mountain, The Strange Us)

Not much has been put up here in the last few years but we aim to change that and even release the material in album form here: https://fobemusic.bandcamp.com

last update: 11/16/17

Mech Pie began their journey in 2011.
With a strong background in club-oriented electronic music, the duo decided to move beyond the dancefloor and launch an experimental project inspired by a wide spectrum of genres.
Their sound blends broken rhythms, deep atmospheric textures, and fragile vocals — where melancholy meets motion, and soundscapes open into new worlds.
Though their most recent releases came out a few years ago, Mech Pie remains an unfinished story — a project that lives wherever sound turns into feeling.

mechpie@gmail.com

 If you would like to submit a mixtape message us on our official soundlcoud or my personal Face book page whichever works best for you!

Men in Burka got its start in September 2011, just as Khan's previous project with Mario Zoots and Kristy Fenton, Modern Witch, was becoming less active. Up to that point, Khan, the son of a white American woman and a Pakistani man, hadn't had the chance to fully express his own mixed-culture reality. But as his involvement with Modern Witch was winding down, he began writing music that was reflective of his background, and he showed it to Zoots and Strange Powers, his longtime musical collaborators, who were both fans of Kahn's '90s-era hip-hop crew, Future Reference. Their self-titled debut with the Bay Area's Tundra Dubs label was released on the 15th of May 2012. The album was a blend of various Middle Eastern themes and influenced by the rhythms of modern dance music including Chicago House, Hip Hop, Bass, Electro and Bounce- or as Khan liks to put it, "It's influenced by everything I grew up on, from American traditions to the Middle Eastern traditions of my father". Techno Allah explores the sound of Men in Burka further - with the A-side representing their signature sample-driven Dance tracks, and the B-side exploring a more psychedelic mood. Since their first release, the group has gone on to share stages with Balkan Beat Box, Chelsea Wolfe, SSION, Pictureplane, Tanlines, oOoOO and many others. In 2012 MIB played over 30 shows including the two biggest Denver music festivals (Underground Music Showcase and the Westword Music Showcase), played several shows at SXSW and self-released a follow up album titled War / Magic. So far in 2013 MIB played the Artopia festival, opened for Strange Famous Records artist B. Dolan and are booked again for the Underground Music Showcase in July. "Samples of gun blasts, militaristic shouts, and arabic synths permeate the music, creating something dark, mysterious, and exciting." - Travis Egedy aka. Pictureplane for Ad Hoc "Men In Burka are the sultans of making an impression on your mind. It’s unforgettable. - This is real intelligent danceable world music heralding from the USA." - Theway Peoplestare on MishkaNYC Bloglin "Not surprisingly, the outfit's proclivity for defying convention carries over into how the music is recorded. In an era where Ableton has become the norm, Men in Burka uses an eight-track machine and other devices and instruments to compose, giving the band its unique sound." - Tom Murphy for Denver Westword 

War / Magic LP Released Halloween 2012 available here: http://meninburka.bandcamp.com/

Self Titled LP Released May 15th 2012 available here: 
https://meninburka.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled
direct contact:  meninburka@gmail.com

booking:  meninburka@gmail.com

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