MøME / GEOTIC (BATHS) / BLACK MOTION + more at 1015 FOLSOM
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DJ Dials & 1015 Folsom Present
Møme (LIVE)
Geotic (aka BATHS)
Mothica (LIVE)
Black Motion
Om Unit
Friday August 18th / 10P - 3A / 21+
Møme (LIVE)
When not surfing the Australian waves, the musician Møme (aka Jérémy Souillart) likes nothing better than composing. He has converted his van into a studio-on-wheels and, driving from coast to coast, he composes as he goes. Jérémy was raised in Nice and his ‘chillwave’ sound is proving a great hit back in his native France. Nevertheless, Møme’s latest EP, Aloha, owes much to artists like Flume and Chet Faker on the Australian Future Classic label.
Before releasing his first EP (Eclipse, 2014), the 26-year-old musician used to play the guitar in a rock band. He still plays, though he has gravitated towards the computer- and synthesizer-produced software that inspired the expanding Møme project. The new sound lay behind the track ‘Cyclope’ on his second EP (Cosmopolitan, 2015) which, along with the clip, got him noticed by the musical press.
The same creative dynamic is apparent in Aloha. Møme and the van started touring Australia last November, a venture that brought him into contact with other producers and with the singers who feature on his recordings. The sheer size of the country, coupled with exile from his European comfort zone, proved really inspiring. Some of Møme’s chillwave pays tribute to Diplo and Aloha which incorporates the Australian soul singer Merryn Jeann well testifies to its aerial and beat soul.
It’s not all life on the road. This fall (southern-hemisphere-style), Møme is taking time out to develop his next album, ready for studio work and a French tour in May 2016 when he readily abandons his material and musical comfort.
Jérémy’s musical experience ranges across jazz, to the French Touch and guitarists like John Butler. This breadth undoubtedly owes much to his love for the guitar and his formal piano training at Nice’s Academy of Music. From a composer with such a background, the neat yet startling sound of the Møme Project is hardly surprising. Starting out from the Soundcloud Community and now supported by the DDM Recordings label, Jérémy’s unique contribution to the world of music is on the road and destined, like his van, to go far.
GEOTIC (AKA BATHS)
Ask Will Wiesenfeld to contrast his project Baths with the music made under his Geotic alias, and you’ll get a simple response: Baths is active listening, Geotic is passive listening. But behind this straightforward duality exists two projects that are equally poignant yet starkly distinct, reflective of the emotional complexities of its creator.
Don’t mistake passive listening for anything remotely resembling apathy. Over the course of nine self-released albums plus a handful of singles & EPs (all released on Bandcamp), Wiesenfeld has certainly proved the contrary. With Abysma, his first release for Ghostly, Wisenfeld solidifies this notion as Geotic makes his label debut in tandem with the projects first ever physical offering.
Abysma might be dance music created for at-home listening, but it’s replete with a quiet beauty and private communion that can rival anything made to command the totality of your attention span. In a world riven by noise and distraction, Abysma is as subtle as Sunday morning ritual, a tender epiphany in a bombastic fireworks show.
Part of Wiesenfeld’s inspiration comes from his own domestic situation. A native of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, the classically trained musician has settled on the Westside, inhabiting an apartment a short ride from the ocean. “It’s a relaxing and slightly displaced vibe that informs the project. It’s full of art everywhere, all my comics, an amazing media set up,” Wiesenfeld says. “It’s all the stuff that I’ve saved for and wanted to have in my life but didn’t feel comfortable [setting up] until I moved in here. We nested the shit out of this place.”
“So much of dance music is about partying and going out and having a really hardcore social experience,” Wiesenfeld says. “Dance music has never been that for me. So much of my experience listening to music is being by myself – at home or in my car. Those feelings are especially apparent on the tracks that comprise Abysma: songs that feel lived-in and comfortable – imbued with feelings that cant be faked or compartmentalized.
Mothica
Mackenzie Ellis, who goes by the stage name Mothica, is an electro-pop singer-songwriter from Brooklyn, by way of Oklahoma City, OK, created an undeniable buzz around her lead single, “Sometimes”. Her latest EP, Heavy Heart does nothing to diminish that hype and if anything it will continue to push Mothica into the stratosphere.
While the majority of her songs are of the depressing variety, the upbeat tempos and her clear, haunting vocals create wonderful texture which is captured with stunning effect on the track “Fall”. It is filled with a myriad of vocal hurdles and fun, enticing riffs that keep the track interesting and fresh on every replay. It really is the same for any of the 6 tracks that grace Heavy Heart.
Mothica reaches out with her emotions with reckless abandon and put together a stunning EP that is focused on every detail from production, vocals and lyrics. The dark pop singer/songwriter is truly on the path to stardom. Do not be left behind!
BLACK MOTION
Black Motion is the Gold Selling duo, 2015 SAMA Best Dance album and Feather Award winner hailing from Soshanguve, North of Pretoria and started producing music in 2009. Both Thabo Mabogwane (31) and Bongani Mohosana (30) had been dancers in their early careers and were inspired to create music of their own, music they could dance to.
This led to a series of singles produced for DJ compilations before they could release their first successful 2010 song, Banane Mavoko which featured Richard Rakgwale aka Jah Rich. The song would later receive a Metro FM and Channel O award nominations, and also winning a Mungana Lonene FM music award for best dance song.
To date, the duo has released three studio albums – with their 2014 Fortune Teller album reaching gold status in just one month – and winning a 2015 SAMA for Best Dance album. On stage the duo makes use of DJ decks (Bongani) and a complete set of African and Latin drums and percussions (Thabo). The energy they bring on stage is livened by their dance routines they incorporate into their performances. Off stage Black Motion are style and fashion enthusiast who have the same synergy with their look as they do with their performances and recordings.
OM UNIT
As a producer and DJ, Jim Coles has been a significant and pioneering presence in various dance music circles for the past five years. Following a formative decade in the global hip-hop underground, Coles took the name Om Unit in the late 2000s and began to travel across genres and scenes in search of sonic tropes to cross-breed and re-imagine. Key to his approach is a desire to never settle for the destination and instead focus on what can be learned from the journey.
What drives Coles is a desire to keep challenging himself, and in turn his audience. Over the past five years, this has led him to distill various influences — hip-hop, dubstep, ambient, jungle, footwork — into a fluid take on sound system culture that sidesteps the pitfalls of genres and pastiche and creates new potentials for exploration and inspiration, with many following in his footsteps. It's how, in the early 2010s, he came to pioneer the stylistic and rhythmic links between jungle and footwork via a series of acclaimed edits that brought him to the attention of the drum & bass scene. This personal approach has earned Coles praise as a refreshing voice in dance music from both peers and the media.
On record, Coles' explorations into the deeper end of the electronic music spectrum have come via releases for Civil Music, including a critically acclaimed debut album, 2013's Threads, legendary drum & bass outfit Metalheadz, where he was given access to Goldie's personal sample archive as the inspiration for 2014's Inversion album, Planet Mu, for a collaboration with Machinedrum as Dream Continuum, All City Records, remixing Grammy-winning producer Om'Mas Keith, Plastician's Terrorhythm, and Exit Records, where he first collaborated with Sam Binga (leading to their BUNIT series of white label releases). The same exploratory approach has made him an in-demand remixer and BBC Radio 1, Boiler Room, Resident Advisor, FACT, XLR8R, and Rinse FM have called on him to provide mixes and showcase his sound.
In 2011, Coles set up a label, Cosmic Bridge Records, through which he has exercised an A&R sensibility that has created an exciting independent home for likeminded artists. The label's releases, pressed onto limited edition vinyl runs, regularly sell out within days of their street date. Through Cosmic Bridge, Coles has championed veterans such as Kromestar and Boxcutter alongside new voices from Europe and America, including Moresounds, Danny Scrilla, and Graphs. The label's breadth is best seen in the celebrated, and award-nominated,Cosmolog compilation series Coles began overseeing in 2014. Cosmic Bridge represents a dual path of inspiration: that which Coles found in others' music, and that which others have found in his.
Coles is also a sought after DJ, with over 300 appearances in clubs and festivals in more than 30 countries he has made the equivalent of over a dozen trips round the globe and counting. And in line with his desire to imagine new potentials for dance music has appeared on varied bills from the Montreux Jazz Festival to Bass Coast, Outlook to Mysteryland.
After two decades in London, Coles relocated to Bristol in 2015. From his new studio on the English west coast he continues his search through production work (the Torchlight EP series on Cosmic Bridge) and aesthetic exercises (the Gates mix series). A keen scholar of all music, he draws from the past and present to imagine the future, never content to remain in the same place for too long.
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