"Division seems to characterise our daily experience. The secondary products of lying and corruption - frustration, anger, sadness - seeping deeper into the bones of our society, of all our experience"

In the last few weeks of October 2022 Scrimshire wrote a new collection of songs with the descriptive working title "Scream". A direct response to the absurdity of the breakdown in the UK government, the horror of the treatment of refugees arriving on our shores and the callous disregard for the trauma being caused to anyone considered "other" - class, skin colour or otherwise. Self-preserving conservative MPs fought for their jobs, record profits were announced by energy companies, while gouging crippling amounts of money from people's pockets, the sense of living in a dystopian fantasy was frequently overwhelming.

Originally named “Scream 8”, Unity Gain was one of the early outpourings from those sessions. Piano and drums bubble up until it fully boils over with huge stabbing synthesiser and string sounds in an outburst of frenetic energy. One of Scrimshire's most powerful deliveries to date.

Unity Gain follows, 2022s Music for Autumn Lovers and the much loved 2021 album Nothing Feels Like Everything.

Unity Gain

Rob's Timeless Remix

Originally, the title was The Amazing Inflatable Man... I like the idea of invented super powers. 

BOUNCE!

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In Duo formant, 955 is:
Tracey Kroll: electronic percussion, loops, samples
Greg Conte: Guitar, drones, effects

All music is inprovised in real time with no overdubs and minimal editing.

Parisian based duo @weareofenbach, conquered the European dance floors rapidly with their massive hit 'Be Mine'. Ofenbach will debut this year at Amsterdam Dance Event under the wings of Bakermat at Bakermat's Circus in the prestigious venue 'The Melkweg'. A perfect reason to invite them for Big Top Beats #11

Make sure to follow our monthly podcast 'Big Top Beats' on Spotify, with this months curator Ofenbach:
https://BigTopAmsterdam.lnk.to/BTB

TRACKLIST
Ofenbach - Katchi
Martin Solveig - Places
Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly
Feder - Back For More (Mr Belt remix)
Robin Schulz & James Blunt - OK (Ofenbach Remix
The Clash - Should I say Or Should I go (JL, after man remix)
Kungs - Don't You Know
Martin Solveig Intoxicated
Aretha Franklin - Think (Funk Sinatra edit)
Years & Years - King (Florian Paetzold remix)
Nirvana - Come As you are (Evoking Remix)
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack (Dion Edit)
Sigala & Jhon Newman - Give me your Love
Duke Dumont-Ocean Drive
Twoo Door Cinema Club - Bad Decision ( Purple Disco Machine)
Ofenbach - Be Mine

Big Top Beats presents #11 Ofenbach (ADE let's go to The Circus special)

01 The Projector

As legend has promised, so it has been fulfilled. Through the magic of the melismatic Melotron, the hidden whisperings of retro-psycho-prog-adelicism wafting odors of mind-altering kindness and dark flowers of fungal majesty. Behold....

Call Of The Mushroom Forest

Suggested by "Drop, Slow Tears" by Phineas Fletcher.

Slow Tears

Another neopsychedelic excursus, Ravel-inspired

Bolero Aetherielle

Live at the Sanctuary

Dram

The laboratory.  Ableton Live and an Axiom Keyboard.

... and nobody likes a high hat on the two and four as much as we do!

Mix it up people.

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