Shangri La Countdown

[Harry3]

One things for sure.. we wont be seeing Wiley...

[Cieran]

Benji B is having a deviation party at Glastonbury and one of his line ups at xoyo had Wiley, Skepta and Zomby

It could be anyone he brings along, might not even be anyone playing at one of his deviation nights at XOYO.

[Northernsoul45]

Er, there isn't any grime in the South East Corner (to date) and I think the sole representation of it was in some of the stuff Toddla T was playing but I don't recall any grime artists on the bill last year...

Grime is a big UK musical scene full of innovators and people working their arses off often with little commercial backing and deserves to be represented.

Hey Fuzzy Dunlop - Manchester? Yes? Do you know DRS? And some good stuff on at Antwerp Mansion and Soup Kitchen.If you're interested.

Thanks Northern Soul, will check out the 2ManyDJS mix

I was talking about my experience in 2013...thinking about it more, I would suggest the lack of decent house music in the south east corner leads to the amount of people who just pass through as the kind of stuff theyd hear on the hell stage for example (a horrible breaks/edm / skrillex shite from what I remember) (that's without needing to queue to get into anywhere) wont be to many tastes....the only real exception was genosys, which had some great sets, but may (greg Wilson aside) have been too techno for most 'casual' dance music fans at a festival. (bez's acid house, perhaps being too 'ravey' / old skool by the other extreme.

still I take on board that silver hayes probably does cater for the more house head. and you have the downlow for disco....

Id also like to see a bit of northern soul this year though (no surprise!;-))

[zeppelin]

I remember that Blawan set. My friends weren't happy with me for taking them there. It was way to heavy for what they were after at the time haha!

[FuzzyDunlop]

I saw Blawan at awakenings festival in 2013 - brilliant.

I want to see Gaiser playing somewhere. I doubt it would be the SE corner, but he'd be great.

[Untz]

That Blawan set was great and almost worth the 45 minute queue to get in. I have seen/heard some poor Blawan sets elsewhere though.

I've been craving for some heavy techno in the London Underground ever since as it's a great venue, but alas it seems not to be.

Until then I'll just down suggestively named cocktails in the NYC Downlow.

Edited April 21, 2015 by Untz

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

Just noticed that at Koko on the Thursday of the festival they're having 'The Gaslamp Killer Experience' surely must mean he's nailed on for a few sets? Hell Stage Low End Theory takeover, just off to start the petition now....

[rikkirascal]

Just noticed that at Koko on the Thursday of the festival they're having 'The Gaslamp Killer Experience' surely must mean he's nailed on for a few sets? Hell Stage Low End Theory takeover, just off to start the petition now....

Holy shit. Didn't notice this! That would be epic.

[LaLa77]

Ghetto Funk playing Hell - https://www.facebook.com/ShangriLaGlasto?fref=nf

[rikkirascal]

Just noticed that at Koko on the Thursday of the festival they're having 'The Gaslamp Killer Experience' surely must mean he's nailed on for a few sets? Hell Stage Low End Theory takeover, just off to start the petition now....

Ahh just noticed he's playing in Holland on the Friday and Denmark on the Saturday. Still there's always hope about Sunday.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

Ah rats - hadn't even thought to take a look, back to the ever dwindling drawing board of ideas then.

[zeppelin]

Ghetto Funk playing Hell - https://www.facebook.com/ShangriLaGlasto?fref=nf

I know nothing about Ghetto Funk...?

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I know nothing about Ghetto Funk...?

Nor do I actually, but I'm going to their festival in a month so I shall report back

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

The new area 'Brainwash' tweeted this to me today. Whether this date is universal for all Shangri-La announcements, who knows?

Brainwash ‏@bwshglasto 1h1 hour ago

@SPTFRE first announce 11 May But i CAN tell you our afterhours music policy is: Fri. electro (live hardware) and Sat. darkside jungle.

[Harry3]

Live hardware and Darkside jungle, excited already!

[Memory Man]

good work on getting a date, interesting to see how that applies across the late night areas and indeed the rest of the festival

there was a live electro hardware room one night at Bloc and i think it went down well.

Edited April 27, 2015 by Memory Man

[Gnomicide]

What differentiates Electro Hardware from other dance genres?

[klipper]

The new area 'Brainwash' tweeted this to me today. Whether this date is universal for all Shangri-La announcements, who knows?

Brainwash ‏@bwshglasto 1h1 hour ago

@SPTFRE first announce 11 May But i CAN tell you our afterhours music policy is: Fri. electro (live hardware) and Sat. darkside jungle.

11 may seems like a reasonable day to announce the full line up for the festival (well stages and most of the acts if you know what i mean).

However, I'm probably just being overly hopeful.

[Harry3]

What differentiates Electro Hardware from other dance genres?

Electro but played on hardware like Roland synthesizers and sequencers rather than just a DJ set or played off a laptop

Usually its like acid house or techno played on hardware

Edited April 27, 2015 by Harry3

[rikkirascal]

Legowelt would be ideal for an electro hardware set.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Another Brainwash update:

Thursday night - "freestyle fun"

Sunday night - "channel flipping electronica"

So they're open for four nights

[morph100]

Where is brainwash going to be? Which field in the SE corner?

[Memory Man]

it says on their twitter they are a late night nano venue appearing exclusively at shangri la. so i expect that particular field.

i think they will have a slightly different layout down there this year, would be great to have a few more tiny places to stumble upon.

its always so busy down there tho due to the hell stage. more room in common / latino

Edited April 28, 2015 by Memory Man

[Harry3]

Last year they had tiny venues in Heaven, like the Leisure Centre, so sounds like Brainwash are something similar - they wont host any particularly big DJs.

Never did find any of the Heaven venues last year... cant really be fucked to push my way through the crowds to find them

Edited April 28, 2015 by Harry3

[gaxsa]

Ghetto Funk .. get in