Annex welcomes Chino Amobi + Szare
+ Roster update: Acre / Batu's Timedance / Endgame / IVVVO / Jesse Osborne Lanthier |
At the head of a critical year for new music, Annex is proud to welcome NON's Chino Amobi & Szare to Jacob's roster. Read on for biogs and updates on Acre, Batu and his Timedance label, ENDGAMƎ, IVVVO and Jesse Osborne Lanthier.
CHINO AMOBI
Born to Nigerian parents and based in Virginia, USA, Chino Amobi - alongside his counterparts, Congolese-Belgian, Nkisi, and Portuguese-South African, Angel Ho - forms NON: a collective of African artists, and of the diaspora, using sound as their primary media, to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society, and in turn distribute power.
NON's collective voice cut thru all the noise in 2016, demanding worldwide attention to a wave of interrelated sounds which they boldly defined on their own terms. Key releases such as Chino's Airport Music for Black Folk and his Izlamic Europe collaboration with Rabit wove music and politics in a way other artists of his generation often don't dare, exemplifying his strengths in providing unified themes and subversive insight to the wider consciousness at a time when, as ever, racial issues are central to the public debate and need to be addressed across society in music and the arts.
Chino epitomises the NON ethos; from his role as selective, consummate hyperconnector - linking w/ Yves Tumor, Elysia Crampton, Rabit a.o; to the way he diffuses and solidifies their corporate-baiting aesthetic in muzak-ripping ambience and hyperreal collages of noise and R+B. His output has given shape and colour to NON's output and brought their manifesto into practice at shows including Boiler Room at MoMA and Unsound, Krakow.
Recently Chino has played a core part in staging NON Worldwide: The Great Disappointment, featuring Ligia Lewis, Nkisi, Angel-Ho, Embaci, and DJ Lady Lane in a 3-day takeover of Haus der Kulturen der Welt for CTM festival, Berlin, as well as various, as yet-unannounced live actions.
Summer commencing, we invite your live booking enquiries for one of this year's most thrilling, visionary artists.
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SZARE
The enigmatic bass-techno hybrid dyad Szare are gearing up to release some of their most ambiguous and definitive works thus far for 2017, with news of an LP in place for the MCR-based P13 imprint scheduled for Q2 2017. Late last year saw an appearance on Tommy47's eponymous 47 labels most recent compilation; 47007, following up from an EP for Delsins off-shoot imprint Field recordings, alongside a slew of live dates inc support of Modern Love and Lee Gamble. Availability for live bookings on request.
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ACRE
Manchester-based mutation, Acre is gearing up to issue some of his definitive works in coming weeks and months after leaving us hanging since his twisted banger with PAN/Lost Codes and Tectonic. Recently he's been forging unique collaborations with Visionist and Imaginary Forces, with a uniquely wigged-out EP imminent on BrainMath, plus a supersolid follow-up to his fractal debut album due out on Project 13 in spring.
New live set available to book c. the album drop. Please get in touch for previews and promo.
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BATU + TIMEDANCE LABEL SHOWCASES
Batu is currently prepping the Murmur EP for release on Timedance in February - Mixmag premiered the track Whisper recently. He also has a mix for FACT mag scheduled for the 13th February, as well as a guest mix for Ben UFO's Rinse FM show (16th Feb) and an exciting collaboration with Lurka set to drop in the next few months.
Plans are also in place for a Timedance Remix EP, with some exciting names remixing tracks from
the Timedance back catalog. The roster contains: Batu, Bruce, Ploy, Lurka, Laksa, Metrist/L.SAE - all of whom are available for showcases in any combination.
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ENDGAMƎ
We'll let these mint mixes persuade you to his brilliance. Then shout us for DJ booking enquiries.
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IVVVO
Notable by his absence since the Mark Leckey Made Me Hardcore banger in 2015, IVVVO has been working intensively on new material due to surface on Halcyon Veil in February 2017 with the Good, Bad, Baby, Horny EP.
His follow-up to a distinctive tranche of material for some of today’s most exciting labels promises a searingly emotive and visceral alloy of teenage nostalgia, rave and grunge influences which will also be refined into a unique live show ready for summer bookings.
Catch up below and please forward you enquiries for an exciting new live set with huge potential for both festival stages and the darkest of clubs. IVVVO is also taking requests for his trademark limitless peak-time DJ sets.
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JESSE OSBORNE LANTHIER
Contemporary electronic musician, visual artist and designer Jesse Osborne Lanthier is one of the most exciting actors in his field right now. Over the last year, his amorphous style has persistently subverted and warped the contours of modern dance music and avant-garde disciplines on releases on Halcyon Veil, Cosmo Rhythmatic, Where To Now? and Raster-Noton.
He's just dropped the glaring Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night EP on Raster-Noton, which was conceived in only two hours before a performance in Paris; serving elements of the best taste of his current live show. Tiny Mix Tapes and XLR8R showed it some love here and here, and we can expect much more press coverage, interviews and features in The Wire, RA, and Thump as well a recent Solid Steel mix.
Check out his latest for NTS and Radar mixes here, and here and keep an ear out for Jesse's upcoming collaboration with v1984, an eloquent series of releases with Bernardino Femminielli as Femminielli Noir, an EP and remix in the works for Milan-based Haunter Records and plenty more secret projects focusing on Halcyon Veil.
Jesse's repertoire extends from solo - DJ sets, Live, A/V, Talks and installation - to special collabs (live, installation and DJ) with v1984, Grischa Lichtenberger, and in Femminielli Noir. Please contact Jacob for more details.
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Jacob.
W www.annexagency.co.uk M +44 (0) 7533 031 731 E jacob@annexagency.co.uk
REPRESENTING Acre - Batu - Chino Amobi - Dedekind Cut - ENDGAME - IVVVO - Jesse Osborne Lanthier - Szare
Label showcase: Project 13 - NON - TimeDance
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