Season’s greetings! This Thursday 15th December, come on down to the Big Chill Bar, where Nick Luscombe will be spinning the best tunes from 2011, from 8pm-1am. Free entry all night.

Big Chill Bar
Dray Walk
(Off Brick Lane)
London
E1 6QL

www.bigchill.net/bar

Join us in celebrating another music packed Flomotion year!

Flomotion Live Presents…
Lucas Santtana @ Favela London
Tuesday 1st November, 2011
8pm-1am
£5 advance/on the door
Advance tickets available here

Lucas Santanna & the Sem Nostalgia Duo (live)
with DJ sets from:
Nick Luscombe (Flomotion/Resonance fm/BBC Radio 3 Late Junction)
Mais Um Gringo (Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira!/Mais Um Discos)

Favela London
91-93 Great Eastern Street
Shoreditch
London EC2A 3HZ
For restaurant reservations: 020 7613 4228
facebook event page: http://tinyurl.com/62tcags

In association with:
www.flomotionradio.com
www.beatunique.com
favelalondon.wordpress.com
www.maisumdiscos.com

About the night
On Tuesday 1st November, Flomotion Live is proud to present a night of cutting-edge contemporary Brazilian music at Favela London, presented by hyped Brazilian record label Mais Um Discos and featuring Lucas Santtana live, playing his only UK headlining date, alongside DJ sets from Nick Luscombe and Mais Um Discos record label boss Mais Um Gringo.

About Mais Um Discos
Mais Um Discos promotes the most exciting new music from Brazilian artists who fuse styles, disregard genres and irritate purists. Their debut release was the critically acclaimed compilation `Oi! A Nova musica Brasileira,’ a 40 track sonic-snapshot of the most exciting artists producing new music in Brazil now, compiled by label boss Mais Um Gringo that featured Lucas Santtana. Mais Um Discos are now proud to release Lucas Santtana’s album,`Sem Nostalgia,’ which has just entered the World Music Charts Europe at number 1! On 1st November, Lucas will be playing tracks from his widely acclaimed new album.

Find out more at www.maisumdiscos.com.

About Lucas Santtana
Equal parts Thom Yorke and Tom Ze, Lucas Santtana is one of Brazil’s most interesting, dynamic and experimental singer-songwriter-producers from the new generation of Brazilian musicians. On `Sem Nostalgia’ Lucas used only voices, acoustic guitars, ambient sound and samplers to create a textured, haunting, disorientating and forward thinking soundscape. Lucas will recreate the album live with the Sem Nostalgia duo of Bruno Buarque (percussion, samplers) and Regis Damasceno (bass, guitar). Drawing influences from dub, bossa nova and folktronica, expect to hear the band move from haunting reverb-soaked ballads to glitchy percussive workouts that showcase Lucas’s potent songwriting and the musicians’ unique re-imagination of space, texture and rhythm. What interests and inspires Santtana “are musicians that do not think of harmony, melody or rhythm but of layers of sound. I am not interested in the specific guitar chord, but in it’s texture – and overdubbing these layers, these musical textures, is what inspires me.” Santtana adds “Our music has international influences as much as Brazilian: it does not fit into any pre-disposed clichés of tropical, colourful music.”

What the press have to say about Lucas Santtana:
“Sonic provocateur Santtana subjects (bossa nova) to an adventurous, discordant deconstruction, employing every acoustic and electronic means at his disposal…” The Telegraph, August 2011
“Sambas laced with samples, a reggae-tinged instrumental, droll songs in English, dub-trickery… Santtana’s innovative approach makes for a refreshing excursion” The Observer, August 2011

Watch Lucas Santtana’s debut UK single Super Violão Mashup.
Watch Lucas Santtana Cira Regina E Nana’ (Studio live).

Find out more about Lucas Santtana at www.lucassanttana.com.

Here’s a date for your diary which you cannot miss! On Saturday 3rd September, Flomotion Live and Beat Unique present live sets from Echaskech and Subeena, with Nick Luscombe on DJing duty.

It’s all happening at Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, London W12 8PH, from 7pm ’til 3am.

Get down there before 10pm and it’s £6, after that it’s £8.

See ya there!

Here’s an amazing mix from Marcus Worgull, recorded live at Fabric. He’s just one of the incredible line-up for this year’s Stop Making Sense Festival in Croatia…

Click play to listen

Stop Making Sense 2011
12th, 13th & 14th August, The Garden, Petrçane, Croatia

Three days & nights of musical anarchy by the sea, in the sun and under the stars…

Featuring:
Martyn / Jackmaster / Optimo / Jerome Sydenham / Floating Points Ft. Fatima / Patrice Scott / Francois Kevorkian / Danny Krivit /Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell / Marcus Worgull / Harri & Domenic / Keith Worthy / Benji B & MC Judah / Chad Valley / James Priestley / Giles Smith / Chris Coco / The Correspondents / Elektro Guzzi / Mosca / Hannah Holland / Dan Beaumont / Nadia Ksaiba / Midland / Tropics / Mikki Most / The Lovely Jonjo / Rokk / Count Chocula / Ali Tillet / Gringo Da Parada / Nick Agha / Dark Sky / Paul Pre / Chris Tofu / Rob Summerhayes / Alex Jones / Ste Roberts / Mr Solid Gold / More Like Trees / Park Ranger / Sketchy / Oli Dab & Robin

Nominated Best New European Festival in its inaugural year, Stop Making Sense is held on the full moon weekend in August. It’s an international music festival with an irreverently independent vibe, an onsite nightclub, boat parties, guaranteed good weather, stunning scenery and accommodation ranging from camping to villas. With a ‘no introduction required’ line-up, the bar has been set sky high and SMS 2011 is massively appealing for electronic music connoisseurs, hedonists and sun-worshipers alike.

“Ditch the wind and rain for a new festival that’ll have you partying for three days on a beautiful Croatian peninsula surrounded by the Mediterranean sea” Mixmag

“SMS was well organised, well prepared and well attended. The vibe and enthusiasm were most definitely there” Resident Advisor

“A very tight line-up in the ever-beautiful garden complex” Clash

“Get there before everyone else does” Vice

www.stopmakingsense.eu

www.stopmakingsense2010.blogspot.com

www.twitter.com/Stopmak1ngsense

On Wednesday 22nd June, as part of Spitalfields Music’s Summer Festival, Nick Luscombe Presents…
The Simonsound
Ayota
Subeena

From 7.30pm-12.00am at:
Village Underground
54 Holywell Lane
London
EC2A 3PQ

Tickets are £15 advance, available here.

A night of live electronic music and visuals hosted by DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe (BBC Radio 3 Late Junction/Flomotion/Resonance fm). Featuring performances from intergalactic synthesizer duo The Simonsound, the dubstep/Detroit House/ambient stylings of Subeena as well as Ski Oakenfull’s project Ayota, (also featuring Simon Palmskin) with a special live audio visual performance that incorporates elements of time and sound shifting formed during Ski’s extensive travels to Japan. Nick will be interviewing the musicians as well as providing DJs sets throughout the evening.

Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. In association with Village Underground.

Tracklist (artist / track):
Zebrahim / Zizzle (Beat Session)
Nu Brand Flexxx / Spellbound
Shuanise / Africa (Jet Letts & 10Sumo Remix)
Belle / Open My Eyes (Quest’s Flyby Remix)
Benny Tones ft. MaraTK / On My Way (fLako Remix)
The Simonsound / Between The Wake And The Sleep
Ayota / Llamas
Subeena / Things Have Changed
Clams Casino / Waterfalls
Amon Tobin / Surge (Two Fingers Mix)
Tropics / Mouves
Karlmarx / Leaning Shadows
THEY / Fatback
CSLSX / Keep On Shining

Click play to listen

CHAOS THEORY PRESENTS… THE GLITCH KITSCHEN
SATURDAY 28TH MAY

FLUID BAR & CLUB
Lindsey House
40-42 Charterhouse St
Farringdon
EC1M 6JN

Farringdon/Barbican tubes

www.fluidbar.com

£4 BEFORE 10PM, £5 AFTER
7PM – 4AM

UPSTAIRS – DJS ALL NIGHT:
NICK LUSCOMBE
LARS_UNIT
ANISH K

DOWNSTAIRS – LIVE ACTS:
ALPHABETS HEAVEN
SURREAL
OXYNUCID
DJ G STARR

Find out more here!

Flomotion Live in the Linbury Studio Theatre
At London’s Royal Opera House
Saturday 17th July, 2010
6pm-midnight

Flomotion Live presents:
Stac (Wah Wah 45s)
Natalie Williams
Fatima (Eglo Records)

DJ and host Nick Luscombe (Flomotion)

Special guest DJs:
DJ Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45s)
DJ Nick Stroud (Jazznotjazz)

Where?
The Linbury Studio Theatre
The Royal Opera House
Bow Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 9DD

Tickets on sale now from the Royal Opera House Box Office. £15 (£12 Students). Standing only.

Buy tickets in advance to avoid disappointment! Box Office Tel: 020 7304 4000. Box Office Online: www.roh.org.uk/voices

Nick Luscombe’s Flomotion Live celebrates its third summer as part of the Voices Across The World Festival (the annual celebration of tradition, diversity and innovation in vocal music from across the globe) at London’s Royal Opera House, with very special live sets from three young, London based female performers, each pushing soul music to new heights in the capital and beyond.

As Nick puts it: “I’m very excited about the night – it’s a real all-star line up. Natalie Williams’ brilliant vocals on one of my favourite Drum & Bass tracks of the last 5 years (Nu:tone’s “System”) blew me away when I first heard it, and everything I’ve heard from Fatima and Stac to date have been super cool and very creative. We are in for a memorable one for sure!”

Nick Luscombe and special guests will also be on hand to DJ throughout the evening.

Natalie Williams
Born and raised in Berlin to a Hungarian mother and British father, Natalie Williams realised her love for music, in particular jazz, at the age of 15, discovering her Dad’s (the poet John Hartley Williams) immense record collection. Her early influences included singers Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Aretha Franklin, and these legends inspired Natalie to pursue a career in singing.

In 1997 she decided to take her passion further by moving to London to study at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama, becoming the first person to study both classical and jazz singing on the undergraduate course. She has gone on to tour extensively across the globe, whilst here in the UK has appeared as a featured artist with Goldie, Bugz In The Attic, The Heritage Orchestra, Shy FX and Nu:tone.

Natalie has released three albums to date, the last of which (”Secret Garden”) has so far achieved 80,000 downloads. The first single from her soon to be released fourth album has already received great support from BBC 1Xtra and Kiss 100.

Find out more about Natalie Williams here.

Stac
The artist otherwise known as Stacey Dowdeswell, began her career at the infamous Brit School (the same institution that spawned Amy Winehouse, Nash and former Flomotion performer Jamie Woon).

Her first release, “Balls Bounce”, featured a stunning remix from Bonobo, and was followed up late last year with the anthemic “Glory”. Her debut album, “Same Old Thing” features cameos from young trumpet genius Matthew Halsall, label mate Scrimshire, The Heritage Orchestra string section and Stac’s very own 15 strong choir!

Stac’s biggest influences are Lewis Taylor, Erykah Badu and Jamie Lidell, but it’s Stac’s unique vocal style and song writing that makes her off-kilter and highly original soulful sound stand out.

Find out more about Stac here.

Fatima
After featuring on many of last year’s biggest tracks including Shafiq Husayns ‘Lil Girl’, Floating Points ‘Peroration Five’, TettoryBad’s ‘Unite’ , FunkinEven’s ‘Kleer’ as well as live collaborations with I.G Culture’s Zen Badizm workshop, The Floating Points Ensemble and not to mentioned a recent live P.A with Slum Village, its plain to see why the Swedish born London resident is in such high demand! Featuring her full live band, including FunkinEven.

Find out more about Fatima here.

We hope you’ll join us for a truly memorable experience in a stunning setting…

Thur 12th Nov 2009
Life Bar
2-4 Old street,
EC1V 9AA

Admission: Free on guest list, otherwise £3
8pm ~ till late

Tokyo de Janeiro invites you to a new night of funky jazz, funk, soul, Latin and electronica from all over the world, featuring DJs Nick Luscombe (Flomotion) Nick Stroud (jazznotjazz) and Chika Nakagawa (Yami-nabe). Experience worldwide musical travels – without the hassle of the airport!

Plus! Life Bar offers you 10% discount for your gorgeous Japanese food. Advance booking is necessary.

For guest list and table booking, contact infodejaneiro@googlemail.com or visit Facebook.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Royal Opera House to see Little Dragon and Maki Mannami perform amazing sets in the incredible surroundings of the Paul Hamlyn Hall.

Our appreciation also goes out to the ROH and the Voices Across The World festival, Awdio.com for the live streaming of the event, and everyone at Henry T’s Entertainment.

We’ll be posting some more from the night soon, so check back…

Not long to go until Little Dragon and Maki Mannami take to the stage for Flomotion Live @ The Royal Opera House!

There’s still a few tickets left, but this event will be a sell-out, so get them quick to avoid disappointment.

Tickets are available at £16 (£14 students and ROH access scheme). Click here to get yours.

If you can’t make it along, you can listen to the whole event live at Awdio.com.

Huge thanks to our friends at the ROH, Awdio and Henry T’s Entertainment for all their help and support.

See you Friday night!