HomeSounds is a collective that’s being set up to play locally produced Bristol electronic music.
We’ve found that what keeps a lot of music producers off the dancefloor is that it’s difficult to get a distributer, and doing a vinyl press is expensive. This means that a lot of the wonderful electro that gets produced never gets heard.
Instead of playing commercially produced records, the playlist will consist exclusively of homegrown Bristol material that people send in to us. So far, the playlist contains a nice bit of dub, some breaks and some dum and bass, but we want stuff from all genres to make an eclectic night. It’s a kind of open-access playlist. Our DJs will have the task of stitching it together on the night, using various bits of technology.
There will be a one-off HomeSounds night around mid-March. If it’s successful we’ll do some more. So … why are we announcing it when we haven’t got a date yet? Because we need your music. If anyone has original material that hasn’t had a national distributer, see the site: http://www.homesounds.org. We want everything from hip hop to techno. We can’t guarantee to play it, but we’ll listen to it and try to fit it in.
Hopefully, we can make a real homegrown electronic music night, for people who want to dance to it, and for people who make it. Electro lovers can hear marvellous sounds they have never heard before, and producers can get to a new audience.
TO SEND US MUSIC, or for an update on the night, see http://www.homesounds.org and go to ‘send us music’.
Cheers –
Al Radar
