music that doesn’t drop.

Quite often when people hear my music they’ll tell me it doesn’t drop. It doesn’t quite ‘go there’.  I definitely agree with this.  However, I used to want my music to drop, and after working for the past 6 months on my new material, and indeed developing a new sound, I’ve reached a musical understanding with myself, that the intention of it is to just teeter on the edge of going there, and not actually commit to becoming a dance track.  It seems that my talent lies in composing tunes that flirt with the idea, but don’t take you there.  Whether this is just a fancy disguise for being lazy, I am yet to find out.

I’ve had people draw different conclusions and make vastly different comparisons of my work, which I love.  Its fantastic that people can all hear the same piece of music, but all have a different way of listening to it, and therefor have a different experience to the person sat next to them.  So I thought i’d put a few songs/artists on here that people have mentioned being similar to me, so you can have a listen and completely agree or disagree, or remain indifferent to!

Arguably, those tracks do have very dance based elements.  The music I like to reference and enjoy listening to is a mixture of full on dance tracks, and ambient/electronic soundscape pieces, which I think is how I arrive at the product I now have.

Its all quite exciting from here on in really.  Although its taken what feels like a big chunk of my life to get this project finished, its finally there. I am so relieved I can draw a line under it, and move on to noisier and tastier ventures!

‘A Very New Everything’ [2013] will be released through Bit-Phalanx, watch this space for more info.

Next Show

November 1st 2012.

Looking forwards to this show, should be a lovely audio visual night from Drawn Recordings.

Stantz

Warp Speed Orchestra

and meeeee.

£3

9pm

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Drawn Recordings 02.08.2012

What a gig.
Played at Mr Wolfs, Bristol.

I started the night off with some of my usual blip blip beep boom boom de dum dum dum.

T-toe. no shoes.

 

Materia. Globular midi controller!

The good photos are courtesy  of Jan Warnstam, thanks. The bad ones are from my phone. my iphone. showing me up again.
Oh what a night.

Materia can be found: http://www.materiamusic.com/

T-toe can be found: http://t-toe.net/

No Need To Shout Presents.. – Start The Bus 11.07.2012

Tomorrow I’ll be playing a set down at Start The Bus on Corn Street.  Start The bus is a nice place to hang out. Going to be sharing the stage with these folks:

Katie Sky

Nicholas Krgovich

and Nite Jewel

Looking forward to seeing you there! Anyone that wants to join email me your names for entrance on a £5 cheaplist. missDOTkaylaDOTpainter@gmailDOTcom .
Facebook event can be found here.

Sunday 10th June – The Croft, Bristol

Its been a little while since my last post.  (As I seem to be getting in the habit of going on little jaunts to Europe after a busy gigging week, I have arrived back and feel refreshed.)
The last gig I did before I disappeared was the one at The Croft with Vibratronic, Microdeform and Spaces Between.  This was a wicked night, really chilled sunday of live music.  I was blown away by Liam McConaghy’s (Microdeform) set, and was very surprised to hear this was his first gig as this particular set up.  Me and James were getting into the vibe of what he was doing so much that James took some pics of his set up so we could later argue about which sounds where coming from what.

First up was Spaces Between, who I have shared a stage with before at a Drawn recordings Event back in February.  He’s changed his live set up dramatically from when we last played and now is using a guitar and multiple pedals, created some really nice sounds or noise however you want to look at it.

Then we had Microdeform

myself..doing my usual thing..

and of course the wonderful Vibratronic,

Was a real pleasure to play this gig, thanks a lot to Vibratronic for providing the promo and making it a wicked night.  Really hope to be on a stage with all or any of the people from this night, was a blast.

Photos from James Nathaniel Southall: blog

update and hello.

As I’ve been a bit quiet lately, I thought it might be nice to do a little post update thing.
I’ve been busy writing a new track, a snippet of which has appeared in a few of my you tube videos and my new set. . seems to have had a positive response so I’m working on getting that done and ready to release as a single along with a secret track that i’ve held back from putting online.. but has been very popular live.

I have been fortunate enough to be asked to play a few events over the next week.

• Firstly Im playing a set at Drawn Recordings All Day event on Bank Holiday Monday 4th June, check out info here.

Its a drawing musicing and pizza eating event followed by another bank holiday we’re all being a bit spoilt arent we.

• Secondly Im playing a set at a new event by a new team of peeps which im really looking forward to.
  On the 8th of June I’ll be doing an hours set at Timbuk2 for a night put on by Ilkin. Link to the event here.Bringing us a night of fresh contemporary electronic sounds. Ilkin have put on another fantastic line up, at the top of if we have the likes of ELIPHINO. The unbelievable success of his latest ‘somethinksounds’ release has shown that this is set to be a massive year for this young producer.I am very excited to see this night and am so glad to be on the line up with such great artists.

• Thirdly, 10th of June, Sunday.  The Croft.  My second time at the croft will be a good one, I’ll be in the back room this time allowing a more easy set up of projections.  I’ll be joining these fellows on stage: Vibratronic, Microdeform, Spaces Between.  Tickets £3 advance, available here.

So thats (nearly) it for me for June.  Apart from this I will be doing a radio interview for Ujima FM, as well as a live set on air.. date and link to listen coming soon!

Big up Queenie.

Simple Things Festival – 6th May 2012

On Sunday I played at Simple Things Festival.
I opened the Thekla stage – upstairs.  I was anticipating playing to a slightly thin crowd at 3 pm, but by my second song the room was bustling with people and a really nice atmosphere.

I played a brand new set for this gig as I thought it was a good occasion to air a new tune. which is unnamed at the moment, but sounded great live and is going to progress on to be my next single.  I played this new set warily - but appeared to go down really well, so much so I’ll probably keep some of the changes for my next gig – at No.51, Stokes Croft – June 4th.

It was such a good afternoon which turned into an even more brilliant night with acts such as Cloud Boat, Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, Squarepusher and so on.

Cloud Boat.

Three Trapped Tigers

Face + Heel.

Great event , looking forward to the next one already! Thanks Simple Things.

Promo Video

Live at Thekla 19/04/2012 and The Croft 23/03/2012

Rock The Boat Thekla – 19th April 2012

On Thursday I played a gig at Thekla supporting the wonderful Uh Huh Her on their European tour. I arrived at Thekla to Uh Huh Her sound checking. I have to admit I found it strange being in Thekla in the day time, and when it was empty. When i set up i was surprised how everything just fell in to place and worked perfectly, having a fixed projector and a permanent screen helped a lot. I didn’t really feel ready for the gig as I had to rush down straight after my day job and my head wasn’t really in the mode I needed it to be, and seeing people queuing up outside the door at 6.30pm (to see Uh Huh Her) didn’t calm my nerves. Getting on with the set, I began whilst the crowd were already positioned right the front of the stage to see the much anticipated performance of the headliners.  After i’d got to about six minutes into the set I started to really get into it, and I suddenly heard someone behind me playing live drums along to my track.  I was a little too confused as to who it might be, because I only know one drummer who can drum like that and she’s rarely in the country.  Without wanting to take my eyes off what i was doing I just continued playing and really started getting into the live drums mixed with my wonky beats. The chap stood up after we’d jammed out for a while and picked up the microphone, – turns out it was Josh the drummer for Uh Huh Her.  He gave a big hello and shout out to the audience for me which really was more than I could have hoped for from the band.  The rest of the set flowed along and I managed to make a better stab at my Lana Del Rey cover this time, and also snuck in a little cheeky Celine Dion (My Heart Will Go On) with respect to the recent anniversary of the Titanic’s voyage.  This seemed even more suitable as we were playing this gig on a boat.

By the end the crowd were dancing and cheering and I really felt well recieved despite being a fairly different genre to the headline act.  As I usually stand and bob around facing the front I never get a chance to see the visuals in their full glory but luckily I have some great footage and photographs from the night too so I can sit back and watch it from the audience’s view.

Big thanks to Camila, Leisha, Josh and Jamie.  It was wonderful to meet you all , you really made my night a lot of fun and I really hope we cross paths again perhaps on your side of the pond….
Also cheers to Mike, Harriet and Patrick.. thanks for having me was a real pleasure to play on Thekla and I’d love to come back anytime you’ll have me.

 

Gig at Thekla this Thursday.

This week i’ve got the exciting opportunity to play at Bristol’s Thekla (for those non Bristol people Thekla is a club/venue on a boat, with a famous banksy piece on the side of the boat).

I am getting the opportunity to play on Thekla’s stage which has had some huge and respectable artists. The last gig I went to there was the amazing Caribou a year or so back.
On Thursday I am going to be supporting a band called Uh Huh Her, a two piece female band from California. Signed to Nettwerk ’Uh Huh Her’ are on their forth big tour with ten dates across Europe.  After releasing two full albums and two EPs the band seem to be a huge success across the globe, and im excited to share a stage with them this week.

If you are coming along this week.
Thursday 19th April
Thekla Bristol
Doors at 7pm
age 14 +
tickets £12 adv available from Thekla or Bristol Ticket Shop.
If you are coming to support me and pay on the door, please let me know and i’ll be able to get you on the cheap list (missDOTkaylaDOTpainterATgmailDOTcom) – you must tell me before 5 pm thursday.