Cosies

Trance heads take note! Realist Alive assembles another super-crew from the fringe-club vanguard with madame3swords’ breakcore industrialism + DJ Dolphin Dive/M Eleven doubling up with eurodance and makina ascension, alongside a serving of blistering digi-rap. Big tip FFO: Kane West, Baby Pantera, Europa. Realist Alive return to Cosies with co-founders of London's Four of Wands collective and Sucker Punch godfather M Eleven for a night of crooked UK bounce, trance-trap and destructed bass.

Free entry! One of underground rap’s greatest right now, Illinformed presents a live spesh to celebrate his second link up with Gaza Glock – a gritty boom-bap love/hate-letter to the flake. It’s Cosies Games Night too so expect frantic Tekken button bashing and resident beat battles in this feverish UK hip-hop essential FFO: High Focus, Jedi Mind Tricks, Klashnekoff, Roots Manuva. Beats, Video Games, Vibes

Essential delivers another pedigree live rub-a-dub PA in the Cosies blues party basement, with Babylon-burning lyrical chants on the mic from Aloka and Golden Guild’s Guire + local lathe cut specialists Crispy Sounds running things on the decks. Eclectic soundsystem fare for the rootically hearted! Essential Sessions returns to Cosies next month, an we've been cooking up a serious dose of roots and culture for you

Another proper amen education in the Cosies dungeon with Cardiff’s ambassador of the Rupture sound, Lubi J. Expect darkside dnb rollers and junglist ruffage + the usual old skool / new skool vinyl-only delights from the Education Sessions crew FFO: Tim Reaper, Source Direct, AKO, Metalheadz. Education Sessions with Lubi J

Essential Sounds deliver another pedigree live rub-a-dub PA in the Cosies blues party basement. Prince Jamo has distilled the defiant Brummie rootikal spirit of Steel Pulse for modern times, with swaggering plates on Muffet’s Roots Injection, 2Kings and Firmly Rooted – UK roots revival doesn’t get much better than this right now! Prince Jamo - w/support from Essential Sounds