On 13th November 2021, we landed and returned home once more: back in our rightful place of Dare To nightclub. Picture the scene...

Super-sub DJ Boursin had stepped in last minute for COVID-fallen DJ Mooncup, pulsing his heavy as a house super subs through the main room, leaving no unaddressed club-cum-capitalist trauma untouched. Elena Colombi then slipped right on in, warping the UV paint on the walls to a new shade of weird. Her signature idiosyncratic chug, tampered with a charming yet chilling darkness, that on a slow and steady boil, tickled the room, tendon to toes. Then, energy, flash; Oceanic stepped up. Locked and glued and grooves of colour coursing through rhythm on rhythm, lifting souls into the ceiling. A sax solo here and tempo change there and a marvellous new state of being had been built and destroyed in one fell swoop.

Existing in the underworld of this enlightening fray, the dungeon was writing another story: the warmth, luscious ambience of Guest's inception was soon scratched away by the tickling rolls of amen and apache, as she sent us into the magnetically lean and dark side of a hardcore wormhole. Flicking the direction of the continuum train with the swiftness of an Uno reverse card, MJK launched the delirium straight back to the future, slamming a blinding frenzy of UK r00d with no straight lines, searing paths between old and new, packing fingers with gunpowder and filling the air with banger after banger.  

And even with the fulfillment of all this beautiful chaos, there was still room for a whole lot more: it was LNR's time to launch. It's honestly amazing to witness a player so new to the game with such powerfully raw, rave rich and deliciously misbehaving selection. The lasers of simpler times dancing in the minds so bright, of a dungeon full of people channeling the NRG of ravers decades before them. It was so intense and wild that before the end of the set, the room imploded and everyone was sucked into a black hole, leaving the track to roll out to an empty room. Not even lying, I swear it was that supermassive!

It was a bloody special one, to say the least. So to give you all a chance to re-live/enjoy a slice of the nawty rave-pie, here's the recording of LNR's mighty closing set.

The next Get Loose is on 18/02/22. Grab your ticket when they go on sale at 6pm this evening to not miss out!


GET LOOSE #4 - LNR

On 13th November 2021, we landed and returned home once more: back in our rightful place of Dare To nightclub. Picture the scene (once more):

Super-sub DJ Boursin had stepped in last minute for COVID-fallen DJ Mooncup, pulsing his heavy as a house super subs through the main room, leaving no unaddressed club-cum-capitalist trauma untouched. Elena Colombi then slipped right on in, warping the UV paint on the walls to a new shade of weird. Her signature idiosyncratic chug, tampered with a charming yet chilling darkness, that on a slow and steady boil, tickled the room, tendon to toes. Then, N-R-G-FLASH, Oceanic rises from the waters...

Liquid fire licking and scolding; rigid and shifting steel structures. Pure BODY music. Bumping hard all the way through from hip to skull. The eclecticism of styles are held tight in a vice of lean and mean method and movement, slowly shifting shades in the blur of frenetic fray. 

Here is the sound of an artist who knows just when to lean into the lean grids of lights and when it's time to let go, lean back and let the music do the screaming. Also, that wiiiiiild midset tempo shifter? It's beauty in the madness and I'm so so damn happy he came through so hard.

He may be Dutch, but Oceanic's understanding of broken poly-riddims makes you wonder if he was born under the (continu-)Nuum-shaded moon. Damn, he even stressed how un-UK my "tech-house with colours of other" closing set was. And yeh coming from a performance like his, I had to take it tbh. Especially when he opened with a special dub comprised of voicenote I'd sent him. Big fucking lols. We love to see it.

SO get your teeth in there. And see ya on Friday for the next one. You may wanna bring a towel xoxo

GET LOOSE #4 -  Oceanic

My forthcoming debut for Livity Sound - 29/9/14

Bruce - Just Getting Started / Tilikum [Livity Sound]

My guest mix from when Ben and Dave had me down 

Hessle Audio Show On Rinse w/Bruce - 4.12.14

The Trouble with Wilderness

Waves (For Yasmin)

Steals

HEK027

Sweat

Before You Sleep

Very happy to be asked to do a guest mix for Benji B's show!
Check the rest of the show here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hl89b

Tracklist:
Andy Mac - B2_10 [Idle Hands]
Jabu - On [Forthcoming]
Geneviéve Pasquier - Tu Es Le Star [Kess Kill]
Porter Ricks - Bay Rouge [Tresor]
Talaboman - Six Million Ways [R&S Records]
Decius - Bitch Tracker [More About Music]
Aardvark - HOE [Skudge]
Batu & Lurka - Struck [Fringe White]
Cute Heels - Cabaret Literal [Schrödinger's Box]
Bruce - Post Rave Wrestle (Mosca's Dead Leg Version) [Forthcoming]
ERP - Lodestone [Semantica Records]
J.G. Biberkopf - From Infinity To Here [Knives]
Beatrice Dillon - Can I Change My Mind [Boomkat Editions]
Bruce - In Line [Hemlock]
T++ - Cropped [Honest Jon's Records]
Machine Woman - UK funky fast forward to Berlin Sunday [Self-Released]
Tom Trago - Lost In The Streets Of NYC (Actress Remix) [Rush Hour]
Jiri Ceiver - Focus2 Implan [Harthouse]
Zomby - The Lie [Ramp Recordings]
Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - New Wren Kitch [Slip]

Bruce's Guestmix for Benji B 03/17

Here's the recording of my DJ set from the Hessle Audio 10th Birthday celebration at Bussey Building on 13th October. I took it real slow to offer a contrast to Objekt and Call Super absolutely shelling it upstairs! Going so slow was particularly fun and it was an honour to play on such a huge bill of artists. So, thanks to the Hessles and Hydra for having me and bigups to all that came, danced and cheered - it shall definitely be a special night to remember in years to come!

Tracklist:
Lutto Lento - Living Hell [Where To Now?]
Metrist - Talk All You Like, I Haven't Got Leaves [Dubplate]
Cera Khin - Ants Don't Have Lungs [Lazy Tapes] 
Rider Shafique - Lion Sleep [Forthcoming]
Thomas Gandey - Experiment One Variation Three [Planet E]
Simo Cell - Feel Di Kouala Vybz [Forthcoming Livity Sound]
Om Unit & Sam Binga - Electric Riddim [Exit Records]
33.10.3402 - III33 [ESP Institute]
Kowton - More Games (MM​/​KM More Names remix)[Livity Sound]*
Mosca - Fever Version [Forthcoming]
Frank Bretschneider - super.trigger [Raster-Noton]
The Durian Brothers - Oni Baba [Kontra-Musik]
????? - ?????
????? - ?????
Lurka - Full Clip [Hotline Recordings]
????? - ?????
Untold - Stereo Freeze [R&S Records]*
????? - ?????
Ninos Du Brasil - Algo ou Alguém Entre as Árvores [Hospital Recordings]
Tapes - Persian Pulse Width [Jahtari]
Lily - Memory Jacket [DBA Dubs]
Szare - Weird Sister [Frozen Border]*
Joe - Claptrap [Hessle Audio]*
John T. Ghast - wygdn_bashmenttk9 [Blackest Ever Black]
Miss Red - Lock Of The Dance [Sounds Of The Universe]
Naum Gabo ‎– Sleep C'mon [Rubadub]
Jam City - Direct Drums [Night Slugs]
Rrose - Wet Silk Will [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
Actress - The Kettle Men [Honest Jon's]
Kelela - LMK [Warp Records]
Trus'Me - The Unexplained [Prime Numbers]

*played at 33 rather than 45

Bruce @ Bussey Building LDN - Hessle 10th Birthday 13/10/17

Sonder Somatic

Torn

Cacao

Æon

What

It'll Pass

Meek

Patience St Pim

Serotonin Levels Low

Baychimo

Very happy to share with you all Jacob Amos' mega marvelous hunk of heat, straight out the dungeons of Get Loose #1 
⚰️☣️🏁
Following the dark and powerful @wearekiarascuro and majestically frantic Jon K, he took the reigns and rode with great haste into the burning sun, bringing the first GLC to a marvellous close. 
🔥⚔️🌄
Out to @gigi-fm , @kitseymour , @laksauk , @ossiamusic also for being on terrific form. But most of all, thanks so much to all that came to the party - you are the ones that make it truly special
🐰🍒♥️
Hope you're all excited for the next one 25/01/20

GET LOOSE CLUB #1

GET LOOSE #1 - Jacob Amos

It feels like a lifetime ago now: 25th Jan, we had no idea what 2020 had in store for us all; Cleyra was finishing off his set of elegant, tripped out and slinky rnb-meets-Techno upstairs; Mehtola had sealed the brick in the dungeon with an extra varnish of "tuff", punching holes in the air with mean, broken, bass wrecking sluggers; it was time for the French lads to step up.
. 
The Fusion Mes Couilles residents delivered three hours of a fuckin mental hammering of everything "ball breaking": hardcore, acid, techno, ghetto tech, trap, jungle and everything inbetween. Mean and fringe burning; people were pulling themselves up the the stairs, out the dungeon, needing a break, having no idea what just hit 'em!
. 
Here is the final 1.5h of what was a really special set. Needless to say, you can hear everyone present, well and truly got loose. 
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Big love and thanks to all those that performed, attended and helped make GET LOOSE #2 a real special night to remember.

GET LOOSE #2 - Emma DJ + Toma Kami

Sleeping is great: it's super good for you and dreams really are special; sometimes, even when they are scary (sometimes). Mine can be pretty crazy but they often help me come to ease with issues that I'm struggling to handle whilst awake, even when I'm not aware of it! 

My friend Saskia has put on an exhibition at sta. in Tokyo questioning this strange but sometimes lovely blur of reality, and kindly asked me to be part of it.

So I've made a sound piece called 'Just Another One Of His Dreams: A piece of three parts'. It's basically a long soundscape that tries to translate the various lucid stages of a dream, typical to one I might have, but maybe you can relate...

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The dreamer tucks up under the sheets and different thoughts chime in and out, keeping them from nodding off, before eventually drifting out of mind, lulled into a soft empty space.

Then slowly, the dark side of the subconscious creeps in and takes over, exploring the dreamer's suppressed fears and anxieties, stalking them to a terrifying climax, before fear itself is broken.

Finally, a warming calm washes over in waves, as memories of the past are relived in the only place they can be, before the dreamer is slowly washed back to a shore of consciousness, and the sound of morning birdsong.Sleeping is great: it's super good for you and dreams really are special; sometimes, even when they are scary (sometimes). Mine can be pretty crazy but they often help me come to ease with issues that I'm struggling to handle whilst awake, even when I'm not aware of it! 

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Thanks to Saki Yamada for the opportunity to delve into the world of audio art, and to all the poor fools that are victim to my long and bizarre dream telling stories!

DL Link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3pc4k9znflfyt9/A%20piece%20of%20three%20parts.zip?dl=0

A Dream Of Three Parts

Larry McCarthy - Just Another One Of His Dreams: A piece of three parts

I DON'T EVER CHECK MY SOUNDCLOUD MESSAGES
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Bruce

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