September 2nd, 2008 by niwa | posted in .nl, electronic, info, show |

Over the last months I got some comments about the music and styles we’re covering on thebeats.nl, and especially about the apparent lack of electronic beats. At first I was dismissive about incorporating more bleeps and bumps (especially the more ‘hip’ stuff) since there are a LOT of sites and blogs covering this already. But when I checked my music collection I found so many albums and artists that have been crossing beats with electronics over the years, that I can’t ignore the fact that synths have been around for decades and shouldn’t be put away like some bastard child.

Next to that we’ve got a lot of friends and acquaintances who are organising parties and putting out tracks, and promoting them in any way is the least we can do for them. Don’t worry, we won’t shift our focus from those sampled ol’ drums and loops, we’re just adding a lil’ bit of bzzzzzzz’ing flavour, starting off with this:

Next Friday, the 5th of September, the Boemklatsch guys are organizing a party in collaboration with the Amsterdam-based blogger Swurdin, called ‘Bangers’.

While Boemklatsch has become more than just an Utrecht resident name over the years with their monthly parties, performances at Lowlands and the freshly started BMKLTSCH RCRDS, Swurdin is creeping more and more to the Dutch surface by bringing interviews, reviews and the occasional win-tickets-for-a-party posts on the (mostly) Amsterdam scene and in-crowd.

Combine those forces and you get a line-up that may even be too big for the venue (Ekko) which, next to the usual suspects, includes theFringe, SUCKERPUNCH and Mightyfools.

>> the (Dutch) post about this event by Swurdin