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31.07.12 WAREHOUSE BASS KARNIVAL W/ SENSELESS CREW AND SPECIAL GUESTS
CALL: 07507162708 & 07563808687 on the night for location
Heavy bass karnival with the Senseless Records family and special guests. Two rooms of music all night in a secret London warehouse location. Heavy systems guaranteed and the only rave we know in London featuring a skate park in room two.
Part of a week of events, raves, talks and more, check www.siren-net.co.uk. Technicolour bass music from:
No Names (Foreign Beggars)
The DJ behind the UK’s best hip hop crew as well as touring DJ work for Unkle and Kyza but just as well known as a DJ in his own right. Hip hop and grime meets future heavy bass. Check his monthly mixes online.
Jerome Hill
http://www.swervingthecommunity.com/
An underground hero who draws from old and new records from his extensive selection of house, techno and acid. Loved as much round the world as he is in London his set is likely to be something special for the late night crew.
Ghosttown ft Special Guest MCs
http://www.myspace.com/backwardbeeps
‘You Know’ ft Badness was Ghosttown’s first solo release, before that he was a beatmaker for Foreign Beggars, Frank and Dank, Dudley Perkins and a whole load of other world class MCs. Wonky hip hop meets bashment, funk and grime. 100% his own productions with special guests on the MIC.
DeVille (Senseless)
Co-owner of the label DeVille is known for mixing up the full spectrum of UK bass with international influences from the Carribean, Africa and South America. Heavy bass meets rave in a karnival fashion.
Sarantis ft MC Dialect (Black Acre/Senseless)
Sarantis is known for his wildly inventive production and heavy, dirty sound. A mix up of dubstep, techno and grime with Senseless Records’ resident MC Dialect on the MIC.
Daddy Nature (Urban Nerds)
One of the brains behind the mighty Urban Nerds and a fine DJ to match, a love of old school jungle meets an extensive heavy bass collection across all genres.
Beat3
soundcloud.com/beat3productions
Representing a UK take on the West Coast USA sound of glitch hop in less than a year Beat3 have played Secret Garden festival and Fabric with a string of releases forthcoming.
Balki
http://www.myspace.com/ononebalki
Wonky electronic beats across the board from a legendary Leeds DJ and Graf artist, a rare chance to catch him in the Capital
Absnif
The man behind the mighty Z Shed raves, host to countless huge names over the last few years. Expect the Shed’s trademark mix of no holds bared heavy bass.
Sasquatch (Senseless)
Co-owner of the label, well known for his prolific production output and hi energy sets as raves across the UK and Europe. Mashes up everything from dubstep to soca to drum and bass like no one else.
Out of this world flyer artwork by Vesna, venue will also be decorated by a number of well known grafitti artists.
Zarbak Mr Gasparov RMX on Soundcloud about NOW
THIS WEEKEND : DEVILLE AT ZSHED VS COIN OP :: SASQUATCH AT GLASTO

Senseless vs Mungo's Hifi inna Copenhagen
Pocz and Pacheko - Zarbak EP Audio is HERE
FACT Mag, Untold, Starkey, Murderbot, Mad Decent Podcast, Cardopusher.
Blurb:
The phrase ‘tropical’ is currently getting used to describe a lot of different music; some good, some bad, some ugly. To save on confusion Senseless went out and travelled the world to find some music from the actual tropics, Venezuela to be precise. Somewhere buried deep in the mysterious rainforest, or possibly just in a studio in Caracas, they found Pocz and Pacheko. It’s so near the equator maybe we can ditch the 'tropical bass’ tag and go for something new, ‘equatorial bass’ perhaps? Maybe not.
Pacheko, Francisco Mejia, will be familiar to some for his solo releases on Lo Dubs, Murder Channel, Seclusiasis and for his work with legendary Venezualan expat Cardopusher. His partner in bass Pocz (Carlos Majoral) is a classically trained musician and production engineer. Along with a select few others they run Abstractor, a collective of producers, artists and designers, who promote parties, run a blog and do a fine job of representing bass music in Venezuela pretty much solo. The collective includes graphic artist Design or Die who is responsible for the incredible artwork and pretty special video for ‘Zarbak’.
Together by day Pocz and Pacheko run a sound design studio in the rum fuelled pressure cooker of political and social unrest that is Caracas. Their training in high-end audio engineering is evident in the quality and weight of the production. Nights are spent in the tropical heat cooking up beats. Over the years an audio diet that includes salsa, merengue, reggaeton and other local music mixed with old jungle tapes, Rinse FM sets and lots of dub has helped them to build a unique and captivating sound that combines all those things.
The spirit of hardcore, jungle and garage from the UK are all evident from the UK Funky rhythms and rumbling sub bass in ‘Zarbak’ to the melancholy melodic refrains of ‘Dorado’ but there’s something else there too. There’s something tribal in the drums that taps into a deep history of Latin American percussive rhythms and adds a dimension that is clearly their own. If UK bass is about the energy and pressure of the city at night then Caracas bass about the point where the intensity of the city meets the wide open space of the jungle, the beach and the mountains under a carpet of stars. Put the needle on the record, close your eyes and imagine it. Also, there’s remixes from Brackles (Blunted Robots/Planet Mu) and Mr Gasparov (Soul Jazz).
Pocz & Pacheko - Zarbak Video
So is the slo-mo dinosaur decapitation at 2:20. It reminds me of some of the elements from this for some reason, which is something we're pretty into.
SENSELESS LABEL PROFILE IN KNOWLEDGE MAG

Senseless Records is a bass music label founded in Leeds, now based in London but with an international outlook. They sum up the music they release as "the spirit of rave past, present and future". DeVille, one of the co-owners, explains all...
When did your label begin & why was it set up?The label started in Leeds in 2004 with a self-funded white label from Sarantis featuring a Leeds MC called Taurus. It got played on 1Xtra and Channel U and those kinds of places and it went from there. The whole thing grew out of soundsystem culture - there's a lot of it in Leeds - from inspirations like Iration Steppas to systems like High Pressure, who Senseless cut their first tunes for. Things really kicked off with the Warrior Queen track which got played all over the place. Skream, Mary Anne Hobbs, Appleblim and lots of other peeps were on that one and we got distribution on the back of it.Eleven vinyl releases and two CDs later we're still going strong, and I think putting out the best and most exciting music to date. Initially the label was set up to release our own music, because we felt separated from the London scene. Now we live in London and put out other people's music so I guess we've either succeeded or betrayed our ideals, can't decide.Who is involved with running it?Me and Sasquatch (Liam) run the label, mainly out of his studio in North London. Sarantis was one of the original founders of the label but doesn't do so much day-to-day stuff. Let's call him a very silent partner, that makes him sound dead though, he's not dead.What other labels, new or old, have inspired you?
I find XL a big inspiration, I like the fact they came from hardcore and The Prodigy to being the diverse label they are now. Warp as well has managed to stay relevant for over 20 years, as has Ninja. Planet Mu has managed to release consistently interesting music and move with the times. I've always respected Rough Trade as well, for what they did back in the 80s and now. Factory for their commitment to artwork over profit.
A sense of the experimental whilst still maintaining an ear for what works on the dancefloor. An awareness of how to promote your music is useful, labels can't necessarily do it all. It also helps if you aren't a complete fool, hanging out is part of the fun. Also although we're very open, it helps if an artist has a feel for what we put out, we get sent some weird stuff.
We sum it up as technicolour international bass music. It has to have bass and not be too fixed in one scene, increasingly we're finding it will have international influences too. We like music that works at the margins and mixes elements together to come up with something new. Also we like vocals, hence the CDs last year. Apart from that we're very open to new sounds, hopefully that's reflected in out releases. Up until now we've mostly been a dancefloor label but we have a few potential releases coming up for the iPod as well as the club.
Difficult to say, depends how you measure, but the More Than Money EP by Sarantis and Warrior Queen has been our biggest selling release, and the Starkey remix was one of the biggest of 2009. Early on as well we released the debut from Jack Sparrow which was really popular.
We're increasingly taking a really active interest in our label artwork, every EP now is being designed by an artist from around the world and we're working out how to start being able to offer prints either for sale or packaged with the releases, so look out for that.
SASQUATCH OUT OF THE FISHBOWL

2.BloodRiddim
3.GudRide feat Honey B
4.Up In The Tub
5.Don don Chic le feat Aeon Crunc (SQ RMX)
6.Pueblo Riddim
7.Zombiezz - Kanji Kinetic (Cracks RMX)
8.24 Hours Of Dark
9.Hangman
10.Entre-e-sai feat Zuzuka (SQRMX)
11.Afrika feat ash b - enrico (SQ RMX)
12.Crabba Riddim
13.Shakna 34
14.Dangerous Bath
15.B-boy to the deaf
16.Outside ear
17.Out of Mind
18.Voodoo sound - Aeon Crunc (SQ RMX)
19.Kickboxer Riddim
20.Mad again - Ja Lanzo (SQ RMX) courtesy of Blacklindy/Charmax Records
KANJI KINETIC - ZOMBIEZZ EP. AUDIO IS HERE!!
The Kanji Kinetic Zombiezz EP is out on April 26th and its a stormer! Check the audio here and read all about it...
<span>KANJI KINETIC - ZOMBIEZZ EP by Senseless Records</span>
Senseless have always believed that the spirit of rave never died, it’s everywhere, but now in 2010 we’ve discovered that spirit distilled into its purest form, let’s call it essence of rave. Kanji Kinetic makes it, a monstrous hybrid of electro, bassline, jungle and, yes, rave. It doesn’t just deny classification, it smashes it to pieces. These tracks look backwards but sound like the future, they’re cheeky but deadly serious, they’re rough and smooth, sweet and sour, bouncy, wonky, hyper and just a little bit insane. In short, the ultimate party music.
The EP is a game of two halves, easing you in at 140 BPM with a wonky mixture of future-bassline and pitch bent synths (ToyGuns) then rolling into the monstrous Scientist. Reach-for-the-lazers rave stabs and scorching bass collide to make something seriously dangerous. We then take a quick diversion for a remix from Kaiser, a newcomer with releases coming on Starkey’s Slit Jockey, who twists Toy Guns into a devastating mix of grime, 8bit bleeps and UK Funky syncopation, this is what it sounds like to be one of those ghosts being eaten by Pacman.
Next up we turn up the pace for ‘New Era’, weighing in at 175 BPM, it’s the fastest thing we’ve ever released but its half time weight makes it feel like jungle chopped and screwed in the fifth dimension. Quite simply it has the biggest drop you will hear this year, possibly ever. It’s jungle tempo but drop this in a dubstep set and watch the floor ignite. The title track, Zombiezz also rocks 175 BPM on the half time but does it 4x4, cheeky cartoon samples and strings building to another seismic sub frequency workout.
Finally Zombiezz gets two remixes, Cracks turn in something pretty special, taking things back down to 140 and turn in a mix they’re calling ‘Horror House’, a visceral mixture of techno, grime and lots of bass. Then just for fun we asked legendary breakcore producer Johnny Sideways to see if he could make Zombiezz a little harder, and he did. Enjoy!
NB New Era and Zombiezz are being released as a split with our good pals Tigerbeat6, thanks guys.





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