This week a small contingent of the more clued-up party heads in the UK are preparing themselves for one of the highlights of the calendar, as the second FreeRotation Festival takes place. Based in Baskerville Hall in the beautiful Welsh countryside, last year saw an intimate crowd of like-minded people coming together to celebrate everything great about minimal techno, micro-house and dubstep in a comfortable, relaxed setting. This year should have cranked up a notch with an expected higher turn out and an additional stage on the lawn, so who's playing that we can get oh so excited about?!
Dandy Jack & Sonja Moonear - Junction SM - combining DJing and live performance like few others out there, the psychedelic, tropical sound of Chilean maestro Dandy Jack collides perfectly with Sonja's vast record box for a set that never plays the same way twice.
Lawrence - Dial Recordings bod with a lush, deep techno sound that washes through you like some kind of relaxing matter. My personal fave of his is the 'Spark' EP on Ghostly - every track a winner!
Shackleton - dubstep bad boy extraordinaire, his live sets have been evolving at an exponential rate, with his appearance at Bloc earlier in the year damn near tearing the roof off. A juggernaut of bass with more than enough trippy percussion to keep you locked down.
Andy Stott - wasn't too sure about his live head to head with Claro Intelecto at Bloc (on paper it should have been genius!) but Andy's album 'Merciless' on Modern Love simply cannot be argued with. Emotion-heavy, introspective techno with gorgeous melodies and original sound-design.
Portable/Bodycode - The mad professor of modern techno, Alan Abraham's various projects all fizz and pop with the kind of hectic creative energy that people heard in early Detroit or Chicago business. His Bodycode full-length on Spectral is a masterpiece of spannered rhythms, and his live set
will pack in more of the same. He's got a Perlon record coming out soon too!Tom Ellis, Leif, Joe Ellis, Steevio, Tom Demac, Duckett - The producers most closely involved with FreeRotation (and Steevio who runs it), and they're also some of the most talented peeps on the bill.
And that's just the icing on the cake. A full (damage) report will be issued at some point next week. For now, keep safe...
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