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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

Sell out warning! PTS gifts us another heavyweight Halloween to remember! Taking the far-reaching club continuum to Brew with Hessle Audio longtimer Pearson Sound, Shannen SP’s Afro-diasporic bass explorations, a BRS debut from blown-out digi-club-rap queen Iced Lattina + PTS fam Meterman and Fig going bestie-to-bestie. PTS Halloween ϟ Pearson Sound, Shannen SP ++ at Strange Brew.

Sell out warning! The power of kink-witch Snorlax compels you toward the gayest garage night in town! Headset always goes all-out with proper profesh drag dancers strutting the place up and the usual 4x4 excellence / swung wobbles from GG residents and NasstyCity's Maze. Headset's Gay Garage - Halloween Special at Loco Klub.

Sell out warning! ‘Fancy dress’ is already the Club Love lore, so swerve the cheap plastic spiders for this latex fantasy Halloween homage to our dear departed Dolly. Expect live bodily transgressions from Co Kendrah and Drag Race fav Ginny Lemon, thumping dancefloor euphoria from House of Molly + queer-run play-party etiquette guiding you to your wildest dreams. CLUB LOVE HALLOWEEN at Loco Klub.

Sybil opens an Island wormhole to the deepest realms of techno, trance, breakbeat, ambient and deep froggy proggy. in a truly mind-bending club catharsis from one of the best in the game. A total no brainer if you dig: Konduku, Kia, Vlada, DJ Nobu. Wormhole: Sybil, Plantera & Stefan Brown at The Island.

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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

“* Mangled Mingus: Planet Wax selector bringing deep crate-digging knowledge and a genre-bending mix specialising in jungle and footwork. * OSD: Returning to the circle with his signature relentless hardcore selections. * Recepta: Delivering deep, pressure-heavy jungle selections. * Panik Pusha: Rinsing out classic and contemporary breakbeat hardcore. * Acid Bloom: Driving the energy home with hard trance and high-octane hard dance.”
From: Ritual Frequency - With Worsleyy + Sensi Sounds

“Mina makes vibrant, euphoria-driven tracks rooted in collaboration, connecting the dots between genres and styles from around the world. She will be performing a live electronic set featuring her own productions, expect a mix of soca, footwork, dancehall, trance, distorted bass and euphoric melodies.”
From: Club Soft with Mina, Teddy Kitano, Josephine Gyasi, SLAGGA

“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