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Photos from AboveGround presents: Sam Binga b2b Bianca Oblivion – November 3rd, Cantab Lounge, Cambridge, MA – Joseph Paparazzo

All photos by Joseph Paparazzo

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Hold Tight - A UKG Massive

Hold Tight – A UKG Massive

This is it! The long awaited all garage massive featuring a selection of UK and US garage music. Often taking the backseat to other genres in New England, UK and US garage is the best of house, jungle, grime, juke, dubstep, hip hop and vocal house with shuffle steps, break beats, and warbly basslines that will provide a taste for every ear.
Select DJs and crews have pushed this sound in New England for decades. Garage Sale, AboveGround and Robot Haus are coming together to celebrate this genre and create a safe space for you all to join us!

3 ROOMS of nazty, funky, swingin beatz

Getchur EARLY BIRD tickets below. Ticket price goes up when the lineup drops!….

Platforms in Providence, RI
165 Poe Street
November 18th, 2023
8pm EST – 2am EST

Contributors:
Garage Sale: Phibonacci
AboveGround: Sinhaus and Louie Lanka
Robot Haus: Andrew Kasi, Shay, John D, et al.
DJ Konvurt
Rob Dunn: flyer
More info TBA

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How did UK garage become dubstep? | Resident Advisor

While I disagree with the title of this video in that UK Garage didn’t BECOME Dubstep (UKG is still it’s own entity and continues to spawn other genres and subgenres) I would say Dubstep evolved from UK Garage while incorporating many other influences, and this is a pretty good account of how the one came from the other.

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A Lasting Impression – G Notorious

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LINEUP POSTED – Third Annual Good Deed DJs Christmas Marathon

Check out our Gofundmepage and get in on the Good Deeds early πŸŽ…
www.gofundme.com/gooddeeddjschristmas

It is that time of year again where we as a DJ community try and get on Santa Claus’s nice list and what better way than giving back.

For the third year in a row we will be raising money for Cumberland Happy Baskets and this year adding Toys for Tots. We will have 48 hours of continuous music, promoter discussion and some other shenanigans.

The first 24 hours will he hosted by Hennessey Sound Design and the second 24 will be hosted by Supreme Sound & Lighting.

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Grime artist Stormzy has launched a scholarship for black students in a bid to tackle the chronic lack of diversity at the UK’s top universities

  • UK grime artist Stormzy has just announced the Stormzy Scholarship.
  • With the help of YouTube Music, he will fund two black students to go to Cambridge University this year, and two more in 2019.
  • There is a chronic under-representation of black students at the UK’s top universities.
  • It comes down to a number of factors, including a lack of support in applying, the fear of not fitting in, huge competition for places on certain courses, and racism.

Grime artist Stormzy has just announced he will fund two black students this year and two in 2019 to go to Cambridge University, which is currently ranked the 2nd best university in the UK, and the 6th in the world.

The Stormzy Scholarship will pay for tuition fees and money the same value as a maintenance grant for up to four years on an undergraduate course at the university.

“It’s so important for black students, especially, to be aware that it can 100% be an option to attend a university of this calibre,” the rapper said.

Stormzy will fund one student per year himself, and the rest of the funds will come from YouTube Music.

Both Cambridge and Oxford β€” the top two universities in the UK β€” haven’t got the best reputation for giving places to students of colour.

A Business Insider investigation found that the number of black students applying for, receiving offers from, and attending Oxford and Cambridge universities is chronically low. Only 40 black students were accepted out of 2,210 placed UK applicants to Cambridge in 2016. And only 35 black students were accepted out of 2,210 placed UK applicants to Oxford.

Full story at Insider

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SoundCloud Accepts $170 Million Rescue, Taps New CEO to Replace Alex Ljung

Kerry Trainor, formerly of Vimeo, will lead the beleaguered service. Founder and outgoing CEO Alex Ljung predicts a “strong, independent future for the company.”

The SoundCloud death watch has ended.

The struggling digital music service today secured a fresh round of funding that assures SoundCloud will remain independent, even as a new executive team takes over to steer the service into the future.

The Raine Group, a boutique merchant bank, joined with the Singapore-based investment company Temasek, in leading a $169.5 million investment round that infuses SoundCloud with much-needed cash.

Former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor succeeds founder Alex Ljung as chief executive, and Michael Weissman, another former executive at the video platform, was named SoundCloud’s chief operating officer.

“All of this together — the capital, the capital partners — with Kerry and Mike joining our team — it puts our company in a really great position to stay strong and remain independent,” Ljung said in an interview with Billboard. “We see a strong, independent future for the company.”

Full story at Billboard

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Happy VD everyone!

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New SoulChampion shirt, hoodie, etc design “Classically Trained”

Available now from G Notorious’ TeePublic store…

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fabric london to reopen

fabric to reopen after striking deal with Metropolitan police and Islington council

Highbury Magistrates Court has today approved the agreement.
London’s fabric nightclub will reopen soon.

After it emerged that the club was in talks with Islington council and Metropolitan police to have its license reinstated, an agreement was rubber-stamped today at Highbury Magistrates Court. The agreement will see fabric reopen with a new set of licensing conditions. The exact reopening date has not been decided.

Philip Kolvin QC, one of the lawyers who’s been representing fabric since its license was revoked in September, told the court that fabric “has always set about trying to lead the industry,” and has engaged in a “root and branch reappraisal” of its operating procedures.

The 38 new conditions in the agreement have been outlined by fabric and the police in a joint statement, which you can read in full below. They include the use of a new ID scanning system, enhanced searching procedures, physical changes to the club, and lifetime bans for anyone found in possession of drugs or attempting to buy drugs in the club.

Read the full story on Resident Advisor

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