Magic Pony Productions, Elizabeth Davis & more

**120 table seats available - first come first served!**

Strange Brew presents

South of North Records: Label Showcase

Magic Pony Productions LIVE
Elizabeth Davis LIVE
Lyckle de Jong & Kim David Bots LIVE
Marathon Man DJ

7pm - 10:30pm

A four-act showcase of one of our absolute favourite record labels around: South of North (Amsterdam / Paris). Founded by Marathon Man in 2018 whilst working at the legedary Amsterdam record shop / Radio Station Red Light, the label has since been exploring the far reaches and hidden corners of music, spanning ambient, dub, electronic, garage rock, and noise, from artists such as Ronald Langestraat, Nicolini, Brokenchord, CV Vision, Devon Rexi, and Jacob Dywer. While the label doesn’t champion a particular genre or sound, its foundations are built on a sense of curiosity and constant experimentation.

Magic Pony Productions

Initially driven by improvisation, Magic Pony Productions occupies a space between structure and chance, where gimbri, drums, guitar, keyboards, voices, loops and digital effects converge towards various possible genres. Roles shift, instruments circulate, eventually developing a shared, unstable language.

“I have another gift for you, a Magic Pony, don’t make fun, this is very very small, and has a saddle and very long ears, ride it if you wish, though never part from the magic pony, not in this world or the next, it will be your friend, your best friend”

Elizabeth Davis

Elizabeth Davis is a musician, writer, and audio engineer whose work uses the interplay of technological limitation, algorithmic processes, and human expression/intervention as subject matter. Her music—under her own name or prior alias Wilted Woman—has been released by labels such as Alien Jams, Psychic Liberation, Phantasy, and Superpang. She has presented her work at Sonic Acts (Amsterdam); MaerzMusik, 3HD Festival, and Transmediale (Berlin); Cafe Oto (London); ZKM (Karlsruhe); Fylkingen (Stockholm); and Triennale (Milano) amongst many other venues, festivals and art spaces across Europe and North America. Davis was born in the United States and lives and works in Berlin, Germany

==H==er most recent EP 'Flowers' on South of North dismantles war protest songs and rebuilds them as stark, minimalist meditations using bleeps, arpeggios and glitch beats. Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” becomes a contemporary paean to classical war poetry, less protest song than installation-grade reflection. War is framed not as spectacle or drama, but as a sorry system, procedural and self-sustaining. Tracks lean into drink-hazed atmospherics: plucked strings cycle as rote figures, tightening towards an insistent climax that never quite resolves. The effect is quietly damning, evoking the absurdity of global maneuvers that funnel young bodies toward corporate decisions dressed as necessity.

https://virtual-slap.net/

Kim David Bots & Lyckle de Jong

In 2017 Kim David Bots and Lyckle de Jong met in the water-basin of one of the earliest concrete structures in the Netherlands, a bunker that was part of Amsterdam’s defensive line, built around the 1890’s. Something that used to house water was now empty. For three days they recorded improvised music that is still on a hard drive somewhere. Since then they have performed and recorded together, with a bunch of releases still to come. Recently the 7 inch split mini album ‘Land of the Few and Far Between / Songs for St. Michel’ was released by Amsterdam/Paris based label South of North which adds to a growing collection of recordings for environments that are somehow sticky. Kim David Bots and Lyckle de Jong perform intricate musical figures, using clarinet, kawai k1, ukelele and an assortment of other material, making chains of brief and somewhat improvised mini compositions inspired by browsing (digital and otherwise).

Marathon Man

South of North label boss spins freaky dubby records in between - one of our favourite DJs out there!

Poster artwork by Elizabeth Davis