Force Field PR Jan. 2016 Playlist

Once upon a time, V.I.V.E.K Sharda was unhappy with the sound at UK nightclubs and parties—sound that he felt couldn't capture the deepest, truest vibrations of the music he wanted to play and hear—so he just made his own sound system. (Naturally, he called it System.) That should give you an idea of how seriously Sharda takes his wubs and his sub-bass, and if you have even a passing interest in UK sound system culture or dub's crossover with dance music—including, yes, dubstep—then you've probably heard of V.I.V.E.K, or at least heard one of his chest-rattling records.

Along with producers like Om Unit and Kryptic Minds—both of whom feature in the mix below—Sharda has never been one for following trends or concerned about scenes. Instead, he's fully devoted to the pulse of dub and the luxury of bassweight. He's put out slow but steady stream of ultra-heavy releases on his own labels System Music and VIVEK, and now he's on a mission to change perceptions of what 140 BPM music can sound like. That's what you'll hear on his RA Podcast, a meditative and occasionally tectonically-shifting mix that highlights dubstep, dub and its many offshoots—not just staggered drums and subterranean low-end but smooth swing and soulful melodies, too.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/879

RA podcast

RA.879 V.I.V.E.K

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 6 for Mary Anne Hobbs 🌹 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027c6d

Fragments Of Dubstep [ICONS Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 6]

Josi Devil with Low End Activist - 11 March 2025

Kessler b2b Koboro @ Elicit Records Showcase - Brancaleone - 17.05.2025

Kessler B2B Koboro @ Elicit Records Showcase

An artist with minimal online presence, Commodo is one of an increasingly rare few who make waves through the strength of their music alone. He builds bass-focused beats with soul and substance that never perpetuate a formula. Together with Gantz he just released a monster record on our ITX series. Enjoy!

ITPS117 COMMODO

Axle b2b Syz - 13 June 2025

Dom Carlo - 06 July 2025

Dom Carlo - 03 August 2025

OUTMIX009: Dual Monitor [Live From OO25]

Dom Carlo - 07 September 2025

THE CIRCUITS THAT CANNOT BE CUT

Alex Smoke - Manacles - Love Over Will LP released 22/1/16

Bandcamp - http://bit.ly/22TYUX0 R&S - http://bit.ly/22TYYGm 
iTunes - http://apple.co/22TZ1lk

Love Over Will

Alex Smoke - Manacles

From the album Commontime, out 5th Feb

Preorder on CD, Double LP or Digital here:
Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/commmontimeitunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/commontimeamazon
Field Music Shop: http://smarturl.it/fieldmusicshop

On tour in the UK and US in 2016 - full dates here:
http://www.field-music.co.uk/live.html

www.field-music.co.uk
www.facebook.com/fieldmusic 

Field Music - Disappointed

Buy "Hearts In Motion": http://smarturl.it/yuckheartsinmotion

Pre-order new album Stranger Things on vinyl, Hearts In Motion picture disc 7", and more at http://smarturl.it/strangerthings

Pre-Order digital at http://smarturl.it/strangerthingsitunes and get "Hearts In Motion" and "Hold Me Closer" instantly.

YUCK ON TOUR:
Feb 26: Moth Club, London
Feb 27: Moth Club, London

Mar 11: Savannah Stopover, Savannah GA
Mar 12: Aisle 5, Atlanta GA
Mar 13: Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge LA
Mar 14-18: SXSW, Austin TX
Mar 19: Spillover Festival, Dallas TX
Mar 21: Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix AZ
Mar 22: Bunkhouse Saloon, Las Vegas NV
Mar 23: Soda Bar, San Diego CA
Mar 24: The Echo, Los Angeles CA
Mar 25: Cellar Door, Visalia CA
Mar 26: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA
Mar 28: Mississippi Studios, Portland OR
Mar 29: Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver BC
Mar 30: The Crocodile, Seattle WA
Mar 31: Neurolux, Boise ID
Apr 01: Metro Bar, Salt Lake City UT
Apr 02: Larimer Lounge, Denver CO
Apr 04: 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis MN
Apr 05: High Noon Saloon, Madison WI
Apr 06: The Empty Bottle, Chicago IL
Apr 07: The Loving Touch, Ferndale MI
Apr 09: Silver Dollar Room, Toronto
Apr 10: The Haunt, Ithaca NY
Apr 11: The Sinclair, Cambridge MA
Apr 12: Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
Apr 14: The Space, New Haven CT
Apr 15: Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington DC
Apr 16: Phuzz Phest, Winston-Salem NC

May 12: Arts Centre, Norwich
May 13: Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh
May 14: Broadcast, Glasgow
May 15: Deaf Institute, Manchester
May 16: The Boileroom, Guildford
May 17: Oobleck, Birmingham
May 18: Sticky Mikes Frog Bar, Brighton
May 19: Exchange, Bristol
May 20: Bodega, Nottingham
May 21: Gold Sounds, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
May 22: Esquires, Bedford

Hearts In Motion

First single from the new Woods album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light, out April 8, 2016.

WOODS
CITY SUN EATER IN THE RIVER OF LIGHT
LABEL: WOODSIST
CD / LP / CS / DL
Street Date: April 8, 2016

"Woods have always been experts at distilling life epiphanies into compact chunks of psychedelic folk that exists just outside of any sort of tangible time or place. Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl’s lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It’s a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It’s still the Woods you recognize, only now they’re dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is concise, powerful, anxious—barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world." -Sam Hockley-Smith


WOODS - SUN CITY CREEPS

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