By Kaptin on November 5, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor, Zeitgeist |
By spike on November 4, 2010
Posted in Socials | Tagged ARK, bike parking, bike race cardiff, bike straps, bike week, cardiff council cycling scheme, cardiff racing, chris hoy, couriers in cardiff, cycle couriers cardiff, cycle routes, cycle shops cardiff, cycling routes, cycling teams in cardiff, roadies, rollapaluza, roller racing, sustainable travel, sustrans |
By spike on October 31, 2010
Posted in Socials | Tagged 31st october cardiff, award winning roasts, free entry quiz, halloween event, halloween in cardiff, reggae sundays, squeaky hill, squeaky hill bristol, squeaky hilll pub quiz, sunday roasts, voodoo island weekender |
By Kaptin on October 30, 2010
Posted in Live Music |
By Kaptin on October 29, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor |
By spike on October 27, 2010
Ears of 2010, rejoice: it’s been a vintage year for forward thinking electronic music. The past twelve months have furnished us with the swirling melodies of Caribou’s Swim, the joyous clicks n bleeps of Four Tet’s There is Love in You, and a barrage of boundary-pushing bass music from labels like Hyperdub, Hemlock and Night Slugs. Sitting somewhere near the top of this mouth-watering list of are Mount Kimbie – the duo responsible for Crooks & Lovers, one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of the year. The Mount Kimbie sound is a patchwork of influences – crackling electronica, swooning neo-soul echoes and warm, snaking bass lines. Crooks & Lovers is what Massive Attack might have sounded like if instead of immersing themselves in the gloominess of trip hop, they had embraced the restless rhythms of two-step. When I caught up with one half of Mount Kimbie, Dom Maker, the band had just returned from a two week blitz of European dates. “We’ve been playing a few dates with the XX, a big festival called Lowlands in Holland, and a gig that was basically at the base of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. It really surprises me that people know our songs in these places, but it seems to go down really well” said Dom. It’s a feeling that the band are going to have to quickly get used to: they have received fawning praise from the unlikeliest of places. “Our label and press team have done a great job of getting our name out and getting us interviews. But when we got reviewed in The Sun that was just insane” laughs Dom, “I think the fact that the indie crowd have picked up on us as well as the DJs helps too”. There’s no doubt that dubstep started the revolution in electronic bass music that is currently taking place, but having splintered established dance floor genres into a thousand pieces, now only the trace elements of dubstep can be found in the wreckage left behind – a process that Mount Kimbie represent better than anyone else. “Dubstep was the reason we started making music”, said Dom. “We met at university in Brighton and started going to dubstep nights instead of the Fresher’s Week stuff that was on. But our label, Hot Flush, are one of the labels that have just become more and more creative over the years, and that’s given us a great opportunity to develop our own sound.”
Continue reading “Mount Kimbie”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged aperture cardiff, big chill set, c-y-n-t, cai mount kimbie, cardiff indie society, caribou, caribou thekla, crooks and lovers, cynt cardiff, dom mount kimbie, electronica, four tet, future fridays, gold panda, high contrast, hot flush, james blake buffalo, mount kimbie, nightslugs, one mission cardiff, swn, traffic cardiff, zwolf |
By ark on October 27, 2010
Posted in Socials, Zeitgeist |
By spike on October 26, 2010
No Sweat usually features local acoustic acts, but this week we have a wonderful treat from afar. Well London. Via South Africa.
Continue reading “No Sweat — Tuesday slot this week!”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged acoustic, adam donen, bethan nia, cardiff live music, gemma white, Huwie Price, live music every wednesday, no-sweat, open mic, swn, unsigned talent |
By Kaptin on October 26, 2010
Probably the most prestigious Podcast for new Electronic music is the XLR8R series. Previous guests read like a who’s who of Electronic music, from new and exciting artists such as Mount Kimbie, FaltyDL and Toddla T to legends like Moby, Todd Edwards and The Orb. We’ve dug out a couple from our forthcoming Future Friday guests Shortstuff and Cooly G but also noticed a brand new one today from Hyetal who was one of our previous guests over the Summer.
Continue reading “We Put Our Foot On The XLR8R”
Posted in Zeitgeist |
By spike on October 24, 2010
Swn Festival: Friday – CAI/plugged in’s blogger Alex Turner checks out what’s on offer at the premier UK new music festival
Continue reading “SWN — Friday Night Review”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged buffalo, clwb ifor bach, cocknbullkid, huw stephens, p money, raffertie, ras kwame, swn, swnfest, teeth, the keys, y fuwch goch |
By Kaptin on October 23, 2010
Posted in Culture, Live Music |
By spike on October 23, 2010
Posted in Live Music | Tagged alphabet backwards, Gomez, Mercury award winners, north wales surf music, OK, surf music, swn festival, SWN festival 2010, to the bones, Tom Gray, y niwl, zoo pop, zoo pop cardiff |
By Kaptin on October 22, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor |
By Kaptin on October 22, 2010
Posted in Culture |
By Kaptin on October 22, 2010
Posted in Live Music, Specials, Zeitgeist |
By spike on October 22, 2010
Swn: Thursday night Review
CAI/plugged in competition winner Alex Turner on Swn’s opening night
Continue reading “SWN — THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged bellini, brown brogues, crystal castles, headcoats, kutosis, nedry, swn, swnfest.com, white ring |
By spike on October 21, 2010
What do you think about cycling in Cardiff?
Come and tell us!
Continue reading “Cycling in Cardiff — Have your say”
Posted in Culture |
By spike on October 18, 2010
Posted in Live Music | Tagged aperture cardiff, CAI dancefloor, cAI future fridays, cynt cardiff, fail! cardiff, huw stephens, john rostron, mount kimbie, neuropol cardiff, Seams, swn festival, SWN festival 2010, swn festival cardiff |
By spike on October 18, 2010
For those of us who might be unfamiliar with the sounds of SEAMS, we’ve managed to get an interview from the rising star of electronica. SEAMS, plays Cardiff Arts Institute on Monday 18th OCT, supporting Toro-Y-Moi for the SWN FESTIVAL launch night.
Continue reading “SEAMS ADDED TO SWN LAUNCH PARTY”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged dam mantle, future fridays @CAI, huw stephens, john rostron, mount kimbie, Seams, shake aletti, swn, swn festaival launch night, SWN festival 2010, Toro-y-Moi |
By Kaptin on October 16, 2010
Posted in Live Music |
By Kaptin on October 15, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor |
By Kaptin on October 15, 2010
Posted in Specials, Zeitgeist |
By Kaptin on October 15, 2010
This time from Cardiff ‘Future Garage’ producers Didz + Chico. The video is for their excellent track ‘Something New‘, due for release on Doc Daneeka‘s 10,000 Yen label.
Continue reading “We’ve made it into another music video!”
Posted in Culture, Specials | Tagged cardiff, dubstep, future garage, wales, welsh |
By Jay on October 10, 2010
Posted in Socials | Tagged Alltimetop100, roasts, Sunday |
By spike on October 10, 2010
Unfortuneatly, we have had to postpone tonights Little Comets show due to Rob, the Singers illness.
Continue reading “Little Comets — Postponed Show”
Posted in Live Music |
By spike on October 9, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor | Tagged Afrobeat, bass, cardiff arts institute, cardiff funk band, Dance, Drums, Funk, Groove, Juju Nations, live music, mballax, Sadio Cissokho, saturday night, Senegal, Soul, the sweet spots, West African |
By Kaptin on October 8, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor |
By spike on October 4, 2010
Posted in Culture | Tagged attila poet, attila the stockbroker, cardiff spoken word, jam bones, mab jones, mab poetry, poems in cardiff, poetry evening, punk poet, spoken word event, welsh poetry events |
By Kaptin on October 3, 2010
Posted in Socials |
By Jay on October 3, 2010
Posted in Socials | Tagged Alltimetop100, roasts, Sunday |
By spike on October 3, 2010

The Beat Club Presents @ Cardiff Arts …
THE KABEEDIES
‘Rumpus’ – 9 in Artrocker’s Top 20 Albums of 2009
“Music can make people feel many different things, some makes you feel sad, some makes you think, The Kabeedies simply make you want to dance around the room, forget your troubles and have a bloody good time.” – 8/10, Clash Magazine
Continue reading “The Beat Club presents The Kabeedies”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged artrocker, beat club, buffalo bar, clash magazine, clwb ifor bach, connor cupples, kabeedies, live music scene, oui messy, swn 2010, swn cardiff, swn festival |
By Kaptin on October 2, 2010
Posted in Culture, Live Music |
By spike on October 1, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor | Tagged cardiff, cardiff freshers, cardiff solus, chiptune, cirque du traffique, cynt, dance scene, dubstep, kanji kinetic, october 1st 2010, one mission, traffic |
By spike on October 1, 2010
ROLL UP! ROLL UP!ROLL UP! ROLL UP!ROLL UP! ROLL UP!ROLL UP! ROLL UP!ROLL UP! ROLL UP!

We’re kicking off the TRAFFIC year in massive style as the circus comes to the best venue in our fair city, CAI. Not one, not two, but three fucking headliners folks!! Come forth all clowns, ring masters, lions, elephants, acrobats and candy floss, it’s time for a TRAFFIC mash-up.
Continue reading “TRAFFIC IS BACK!”
Posted in Dancefloor | Tagged cardiff freshers, circus party, cynt, dubstep, freshers fortnight, kanji kinetic, one mission, sold out solus, traffic |
By stephanie on September 30, 2010
THURSDAY 30th SEPTEMBER!
We’ve got something of a musical hamper for one and all on Thursday 30th Sept at CAI.
Not content on settling for half measures, we’re simply squeezing two events into one magical evening.
Our first installment consists of:
Continue reading “BUMPER THURSDAY!”
Posted in Live Music | Tagged Afro Cluster, Associated Minds, Blacktrix, cardiff dubstep, dubstep dance music, dubstep in cardiff, ganja white night, live dubstep, miniature music press, mmp, mmp first birthday party, ska, starving artists, Thursday, uwic |
By spike on September 27, 2010
This year Dumbwise has been collaborating with current budding writers to scratch and develop new plays for live perfomrance.The latest project, Baby, is a new play by Francis Ford which follows the story of three young adults and their attempt to escape a world of poverty and prostitution by means of selling life’s purest commmodity.
Continue reading “Dumbwise Theatre Takeover”
Posted in Culture | Tagged dumbwise theatre, national theatre of wales, rwcmd, theatre festival, two day theatre, undeb |
By Kaptin on September 25, 2010
Posted in Live Music |
By stephanie on September 24, 2010
Posted in Dancefloor | Tagged aperture, ASTROID BOYS, cardiff, cardiff dubstep, Dancefloor, DELS, dubstep, Funk, hiphop, ipswich, nueropol, PURPL POP, Socialising, sweden |
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