Meet Mitchell Crown, local DJ for Ironside records

12th Jul 2022 — Leave a comment

A University of Lincoln student has been signed as Resident DJ to Ironside records . After releasing his latest EP in March 2021, Mitchell Crown, who goes by the stage name subcortex_dnb , has had a successful start to his DJ career.

Mitchell Crown creds to instagram

As a Resident DJ to Iron side records when the clubs reopen and they host a set Mitchell will be DJing a set with them. Iron side is a drum and bass record label which promises ‘room shaking rollers and heavy-hitting jungle tracks’ and describes itself as a ‘Veteran of the underground DJ scene

Inspired by big names @alcemist.uk, @diagnostix_dnb and his friend in the industry Mitchell finally bought himself a pair of decks and now he has released two extended plays and 25 unique tracks gaining him 335 followers on Soundcloud. He describes his tracks as, “gritty,heavy roller/reece bass style alongisde more jungely drum patterns whcih are rapid and heavy with synthesised sound”

He said: “I usually stick with sub-heavy, gritty siunds but I am planning to experiment with jump up stabs .” This will echo his introductions that already use a lot of orchestral instruments. Listen for yourself here.

With Drum and bass becoming a global culture, emerging from underground raves and gaining popularity in the United Kingdom it makes sense that creators are jumping on the trend with SoundClound seeing 25 million users, an increase of three million from the previous year.

It reached popularty again over Lockdown with DJs live streaming their sets on social media which is why Mitchell said: “Now is the perfect time for any wanna be desk junkies to claim their trade and perfect their talent…

…The best advice I could offer to aspiring DJs is to make and mix music that you enjoy listening too.Create content that you enjoy, not just in the hope of pleasing others, butfor yourself. This will keep you motivated to continue”

Using this mentality he was able to get two of his tracks, Bromance bootleg and Coming Home bootleg onto the Hypeddit top 100 drum and bass charts which he describes as his: “Proudest moment”

After having big names such as Debunked records, Miss Bliss DJ and EJ kitto in the industry play his music he said he’s “excited to see where 2021″ takes him”

Meet Jazz Lingard, musician from Lincolnshire

12th Jul 2022 — Leave a comment

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@jazz_lingard

Jazz Lingard is a self taught, local musician who recently released her latest single I Think I’m fine which she wrote last year with @dearsidmusic

After being gifted a guitar for her fifteenth  birthday and  trying her hand at poetry in her first year of secondary school , it is clear as to why Jazz now has over a hundred monthly listeners on Spotify and frequent appearances on both  BBC radio Lincolnshire and BBC introducing Midlands.

https://www.instagram.com/jazz_lingard/

Only a month after the release of her latest single, I Think I’m Fine, Jazz is already working on more songs, one to be released in June featuring the artist  @alessiaartist

Alvvays make their return with new single Pharmacist

12th Jul 2022 — Leave a comment
ALVVAYS

Made up of Molly Rankin (vocals and guitar), Kerri MacLellan (keyboards), Alec O’Hanley (guitars), Abbey Blackwell (bass), and Sheridan Riley (drums), has been making moves in the indie genre since 2011.

2018 proved a successful year for the band after they received a SOCAN Songwriting prize for their song”Dreams Tonite”,at the Juno awards they were nominated as Group of the Year and their second album, Antisocialites, won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year.After these accolades the band took a well deserved hiatus before being impeded by the pandemic.

Pharmacist by ALVVAYS

Perhaps it is unfair to pigeonhole this group into the indie genre as their instrumentals bleed into sub-genres as well as incorporating main stream pop/punk elements it is no wonder the success of this band continues despite their absence. Their latest release, Pharmacist is a ballad of unrequited love, trying to get to your destination by following misdirections and working to make peace with it all.If anything this single is closest to shoegazey with its distorted affects, emphasising the disorientation you feel on coming back to a familiar place to find most things have changed.

“…I know you’re back,

I saw your sister at the pharmacy

Picking up, said you had that new love glow…”

Lyrics to Pharmacist.

Blue Rev cover art

The lyrics call out to those of us who have faith we have moved on until we return home and focus more on the people in our peripheral vision than those in front due to the lingering hope that we may see our old love, see if they still hold on to the piece of ourselves we feel we have lost. But it is not because of them we are lost, because we are never really lost, we have merely changed, filled out in places that weren’t there before, read different books and look at different website. We are different and so are they. So even when we travel back home, on the look out for old love if we do find them, we must know they are not the memory we have of them, they are someone new.

Pharmacist has been hailed by fans as a supersonic comeback, tears of joy and revelation flooding down their cheeks. The single is a sneak peak into the bands new album “Blue Rev” which will be released October 7 of this year. It may have been a long wait before we heard them again but my god has it been worth it.

ALVVAYS on Spotify.