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Trap, Footwork & Juke

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Bristol's Footwork Scene

While no producer would regard themselves creating ‘footwork’ alone, the influence of the footwork and trap sounds have had a healthy knock-on effect within bass music in Bristol. Local heavyweight Addison Groove throws down his banging electro 808’s in footwork patterns (live!) while Sam Binga combines orchestral stabs and MC collaborations into the footwork mix. Bristol’s Artifact takes a different approach sprinkling syncopated footwork patterns amongst pristine techno.

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Our recent footwork recommendations

For the initiated, only Willikens will do. The Salon GOAT gets real deep with a rare-opening set, stretching minimal synth slayers and acidic chug to psychedelic breaking point before Saskia fires up the subwise hardware explorations and Anina & Lynne absoultely wipe the floor with junglist domination. Secret Shade, we salute you. The Secret Shade: Lena Willikens, Lynne b2b Anina, Saskia at Strange Brew.

Sell out warning! Absolute go-hard-or-go-home belter for Zone 1 and Bris-Tek’s big birthday bash! Storming The Boxing Gym: Barcelona tekno firecracker Amygdala, bassline boss Jenny Sparks and donk sommelier DJ Bax touching down in Bris + Grandma Wubplate’s hard-dance swag and jungle euphoria from Betsy Mae. And that’s not even half of it…. ZONE 1 x BRIS-TEK / AMYGDALA, DJ BAX, JENNY SPARKS, VANDAL at The Boxing Gym.

Sleek club futurism with two spinners packing serious sub pressure and off-kilter rhythms! Ehua brings her percussive bass workouts alongside LWS’s ice-cold UK techno rollers, twisting dance machinery into stranger shapes for devotees of Timedance, Fever AM, TraTraTrax and Pressure Dome. Forma: Ehua, LWS, Dom Carlo, severine at The Island.

Sell out warning! Following 5 years of sold out parties and what we thought would be their biggest event ever, Brown Excellence are taking over The Boxing Gym with this truly mahooosive celebration of South Asian culture. 4 rooms fusing live ragas, sitar club heat, percussive dek bass, Bollywood disco, food stalls and much more - ain't nothing else like it! Brown Excellence 5th Birthday Festival at The Boxing Gym.

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What our editors say

“⛤ Shannen SP Operating at the forefront of London’s nexus for Afrodiasporic dance music, Shannen SP has become one of the leading voices pushing forward the sounds of South Africa’s 3Step, gqom and amapiano, pairing them with an uncanny ear for bassweight drawn from the UK’s soundsystem lineage. From her iconic NTS show to the cult Ø parties she co-curated for Hyperdub alongside Kode9, through to the acclaimed ‘Mzansi Bass’ compilation, her work has built vital new connections between scenes, sounds and dancefloors across the globe.”
From: PTS Halloween ϟ Pearson Sound, Shannen SP ++

“Expect the unexpected as we set off for a free-flowing night of genre-bending mastery, gear shifting inventiveness that'll touch all the bases of techno, electro, bass, jungle, grime, footwork and who knows what else. >>”
From: Netham Trax w/ Jay Carder + Sir Hiss + Residents

“sean pain - One of the longstanding architects of Evolver, sean pain has shaped the promotion into one of contemporary club's underseen progenitors. The legacy of associations with everybody from Drain Gang to their early support of contemporary stars like Oli XL and Malibu speaks for itself. As selector, sean pain is as comfortable with murky experimental bass as they are in the darkest regions of uptempo, drawing on jersey, footwork, nightcore, grime and gabber. Virtuoso.”
From: Realist Alive x Evolver - Maniken05, exmantera, Mvcoko, CU-SITH & more

“Mixtress is a London-based DJ and producer who has spent the past decade crafting a sound that’s both technically fierce and emotionally resonant. Rooted in jungle, hardcore, footwork, and bassweight, her sets are future-facing and fluid, deeply informed by rave history but unbound by genre. Whether drawing for percussive chaos or melodic tension, she brings a sense of storytelling to the dancefloor, blending intensity with soul and connection. Her style is as much about feeling as it is form — intuitive, crate-deep, and always evolving.”
From: S-Line: Mixtress + Support

“So come join us for a big global knees-up on Friday 11th September with everythinf from amapiano, Afrobeats, jab house, baile funk, shatta dancehall, Bollywood beats, Arabic techno, Punjabi trap, gqom, reggaeton and possibly some more homegrown riddim'n'rave too.”
From: Terrain - 'Bangers Without Borders'