H7’s Control Freak will be dropping dark, ethnic, mutant dubstep at this brand new party! Come down and check it out on Friday 26th June at UQAN!

Yup, it’s finally getting off the ground. All you dub crazed bass heads out there in Tokyo town and beyond, get yerselfs down to Toritsudaigaku (on the Toyoko line from Shibuya) Friday, June 26 for some dusk-till-dawn booty shakin’. The club is called UQAN (say ‘you Q an’) and the cost is a measly 1000 yen, which includes one drink, so hey–what’s your excuse? I’ll see you on the dancefloor mofos.

The new Made In Glitch podcast is about Laptop Battle Tokyo and features an ethniglitch mix by Control Freak.

Check it out the Made In Glitch website and subscribe to their podcast on iTunes.

If you’re up for a bit of Industrial Flamenco vs Progrsv House vs Hardcore IDM vs Techno Pop vs French Club music vs Experimental Electronica vs Hard Techno vs Digital Scratching, then you ought to get down to Super Deluxe in Nishi Azabu on Friday June 19th for the 5th Laptop Battle Tokyo! Yours truly will also be making a live appearance in an all out death match battle against fellow organizer Cloud.

Full details on the Laptop Battle Tokyo website.
Book in advance for a discount on the Super Deluxe website.

Control Freak is hip deep in Laptop Battle Tokyo 5, check the site for details but all the Heavy7 crew will be in attendance in one capacity or another.

Me, being Laazerbeat, has a track up on Hexawe, yes it an acctual Lazerbeat release. Its a ten minute minimal noise track in the sense that only 300 bytes of sample is used in the whole tune but don’t let that fool you, its a monster. Interested parties might enjoy the interview I did with Oliver Wittchow, the highly groovy creator of Nanoloop.

Our friendly neighborhood one man riot Luke Chaos hacked and slashed a couple of videos together for fun. You might recognise and old tune or two?

After the rather awesome release of Desert Fox not much has happened on the H7 this week. A few little bits an pieces for you though.

Create Digital Music has a rather interesting article up on edIT of The Glitch Mob, he goes over his live set up. Well worth a read.

I attended Lo-Bit playground 12.0 and was blown away by Quarta330, Hally and Utabi. I wrote a review for True Chip, you can check out the the first part and the second part for details.

Finally, in theory, I should have a ten minute ish noisy track out on Hexawe complete with source files sometime in the not too distant future.

For fans of the nascent Ethniglitch scene, the last few months have been akin to a long, dry, slow crawl through the blasted wastes of Northern Africa. Fear not though weary traveller, the oasis of distorted, sexy goodness that is Desert Fox is finally on the horizon. The H7 servers are braced for the onslaght of downloads.

Hit the discography page and get down my foxy brothers and sisters…

Just a very quick note, in theory this shouldn’t effect anyone but we moved the Chaos Royale site to the H7 host. As far as we can tell everything is working just fine but if you notice any wierd behavior, broken links or anything, please let us know.

For all those of you on soundcloud. Go check out this mix of nasty dubstep from Control Freak

http://soundcloud.com/heavy7productions/brutal-dubstep-mixtape-by-control-freak

01 Flower Of Flesh And Blood - King Cannibal
02 War In The Making - Broken Note
03 Koncrete - Distance
04 Angels - Vex’D
05 Parasites - MATHHEAD
06 Smart Bomb - Vex’D
07 Dirty Lust (Kidnappa Remix) - Broken Note
08 Bloodline - Ital Tek
09 Arigami Style - King Cannibal
10 The Rogue - Emalkay

Might tide you over till Matt finishes his artwork…..

I write an irregular article for a Chip Music news website called True Chip Till Death where I interview various people connected to the Chip Music scene. Over the past couple of month I did a couple of realy interesting ones.

The first was with Ethan Bordeaux, the developer of the horribly underrated and very powerful PSP music app, PSPseq. You can get parts 1 & 2 of the the interview from TCTD. The second interview was with Marc Nostromo, dev of the excellent multiplatform tracker LGPT, again the first and second parts can be read at the same source. Hope you enjoy them.

Also, I heard the pre release versions of what will be H7011, Control Freak’s “Desert Fox” and it really is good. Hopefully it will go public this week…