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maryanne

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THE FIRST SONAR FILM IS HERE!!
HIT: www.youtube.com/maryannehobbstv
to see more films of our showcase artists
MUCH LOVE AND MAXIMUM RESPECT TO THE SONAR '08 MASSIVE....
this week highlights from my BBC Radio1 SonarLab stage:
online at bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs
MALA - DIGITAL MYSTIKZ
FLYING LOTUS
SHACKLETON
MARY ANNE HOBBS
Mary Anne Hobbs presents ‘Evangeline’
the new compilation album..
***OUT NOW!!!***
Album Title: ‘Evangeline’
Format: CD album and limited edition 4X12” vinyl … various artists
Label : Planet Mu
Release Date: June 16th 2008
Mary Anne Hobbs.. BBC Radio1 firebrand at the helm of the Experimental show presents a collection of future beats.. underground dubstep, grime, dark dancefloor, techno and electronica.. including 10 exclusive tracks created especially for the compilation, denoted with stars*** .. and two tunes from producers with top secret identities..
‘Evangeline’ tracklisting:
1.Ital Tek – ‘Archaic’ ***
hot on the heels of his debut album, this gifted new breed Brighton based dubstep producer delivers his most mercurial beat yet…
www.myspace.com/italtekmusic
2. Unitz – ‘The Drop’ (CD Only)
17 year old newcomer from Epsom comes with the sickest sound that’s been mashing up dubstep dancefloors proper this season…
www.myspace.com/djunits
3. Shackleton – ‘In The Void’
a haunting and masterful passage from the producer who heads up one of dubstep’s most ambitious labels Skull Disco... he will play for Mary Anne at her Sonar Festival showcase in 2008..
www.skulldisco.com
4. Cult Of The 13th Hour – ‘The Way Of The Gun’***
top secret identity… no artist information available…
gunmen lay down your arms..
5. Wiley – ‘Local Lad’
the godfather of grime delivers his tuffest bars of 2008… untouchable UK LDN E3 MC..
www.myspace.com/eskiboywiley
6. Headhunter vs Ekelon – ‘Timewarp’ ***
fast rising Bristol bass builder Headhunter and young Greek Ekelon come with a heady dancefloor roller… check the extraordinary breakdown in the centre..
www.myspace.com/dubstepheadhunter
7. Darqwan – ‘Universal Wan-ting’ ***
devastating roller from the Sheffield legend who pioneered the original dubstep sound from the ashes of dark UK garage… aka Oris Jay
www.orisjay.co.uk
8. Ben Frost – ‘Theory Of Machines’
Australian born Reyjavik based producer, who wears green plastic bags on his hands and feet.. and builds elemental sonic firestorms for a living..
www.myspace.com/theghostofbenfrost
9. Flying Lotus – ‘Flattery (Sympathy For The Biters)’ ***
an exquisite melt of sonic textures from Fly Lo... this boy grew up in the bosom of the Coltraine family in California.. got weaned on dutty hip-hop and is now beloved of the UK bass community… he will play for Mary Anne at her Sonar Festival showcase in 2008..
www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
10. Dakimh - ‘Done’***
top secret identity… no artist information available..
fluid, loose and stunningly beautiful…
11. DJ Pinch – ‘E. Motiv’ ***
King of the Bristol dubstep scene, the boy who heads up the Tectonic label brings a piece of music that becomes more and more heavenly as it unfolds…
www.myspace.com/tectonicrecordings
12. Magnetic Man – ‘Ligma VIP’ ***
dubstep’s hottest star Benga working in collaboration with the man behind the legendary Big Apple label and shop in Croydon, Artwork - as Magnetic Man.. (recently joined by Skream too..) this is a VIP remix of one of their most sought after dubplates..
www.myspace.com/bengabeats
13. Tes La Rok feat Uncle Sam – ‘Up In The VIP’ (CD only)
sure fire summer smash already setting dancefoors on fire the world over.. from the gifted Helsinki beat builder…
www.myspace.com/teslarok
14. Surgeon – ‘Right Road To Dubland’ ***
notorious Midlands based techno producer (half of British Murder Boys) aims straight for the dark heart of the dancefloor with this crushing, humid and intense beat…
www.dj-surgeon.com
15. Boxcutter – ‘Kab 27’ ***
young Irish magician who rarely leaves his bedroom studio, other than to ride his bicycle in the fields nearby his house….
www.myspace.com/barrylynnmusic
16. Claro Intelecto – ‘Beautiful Death’
Manchester’s Mark Stuart… better known for his immaculate minimal techno delivers a heart-stopping vapour trail to close the album..
www.myspace.com/claro_intelecto
BBC Radio1 massive November 2007
producers... send your beats to me here:
PO Box 4365
Sheffield
S11 0DS..
FOR DJ BOOKINGS PLEASE CONTACT: [email protected]
he's a lovely man...
***DJ DATES***
JUNE
26th - Derry, Celtronic Festival
27th - Southend, Technisis
JULY
4th - London, Fabric
19th - Japan, Tokyo, Unit with GothTrad and Darqwan
20th - Japan, Osaka, Noon
26th - Birmingham, with Bobby Friction
SEPTEMBER
5th - Isle Of Wight, Bestival
12th - Barrow In Furness, Cinema Room
20th - France, Lyon Riddim Collision
OCTOBER
3rd - Belgium Vooruit, Gent AND Petrol, Antwep
4th - Hull Lamp
11th - Malawi, Lake Of Stars festival
18th - Romania - TM Base
NOVEMBER
3rd - Lincoln Sakura
15th - Bangor, Hendre Hall

My Interests

work..Mary Anne Hobbs: Radio 1 firebrand at the helm of the pioneering experimental electronic show Tuesday nite Wednesday morning 2.00-4.00am)… reppin' next generation dubstep, grime, drum&bass, hip-hop, techno, and radical electronic flavaz in every form... (formerly known as the Breezeblock)Here are just a handful of guests you'll have found mixing and in session on the show... Burial, The Beastie Boys, Squarepusher, Skream, Bjork, Richie Hawtin, Digital Mystikz, Ricardo Villalobos, Matt Groening, Oris Jay, Amon Tobin, Shackleton, Skepta, Jeff Mills, Benga, LFO, Breakage, Ruichi Sakamoto, Sub Swara, Trentmoller, Vex'd, The Bug & Warrior Queen, Klute, Remarc, Rhythm& Sound, Wiley, Enduser, Chris Morris, Virus Syndicate, Doc Scott, Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Murcof, Andy C, Justice, Kano, Amit, Loefah, Calibre & DRS, The Mighty Boosh, LTJ Bukem, 0=0, Cannibal Ox, KTL, Luke Vibert, Andy Stott, Leftfield, Surgeon, Ben Frost, Hatcha & Crazy D, DJ Hidden, Orbital, DJ Distance, Radiohead, Envy & Mz Bratt, N Type, Bad Company, Roots Manuva, Venitian Snares, Ed Rush & Optical, Andrea Parker, DJ Pinch, Metallica, Reso, Mixmaster Mike, Drop The Lime, Various Production, Photek, Jimmy Edgar, Vaccine, Mike Patton, Spank Rock, Boxcutter, Alex Smoke, Irration Steppas, Bizzy B, Team Doyobi, Kool Kieth...Mary Anne released a definitive underground compilation album in October 2006. 'Mary Anne Hobbs.. Warrior Dubz' features exclusive dubz from some of her favourite artists operating on the UK underground scenes she supports: dubstep, grime, dark dancefloor, techno and drum&bass... and went on to curate the historic UK Dubstep Showcase at Sonar Festival in 2007... taking the sound out of small humid clubs for the very first time and onto an international festival stage infront of 8.5 thousand people plus.. Mary Anne left school at the age of 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week. She quickly ran away to London with a hard rock band and lived on a bus with them in a car park in Hayes, Middlesex for 12 months, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer… and mechanic. Her great ambition was to become a music journalist. She figured the next logical step would be to produce her own fanzine - Krush. She sent a couple of issues along with a demented CV detailing her adventures to the Editor of Sounds music paper and landed a job with them at the age of 19. At 21, having been profoundly influenced by a snapshot of Metallica, Mary Anne sold all her worldly goods and bought a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she lived in a garden shed. She spent a year as Sounds US correspondent in the dark underbelly of LA writing about the fledgling thrash metal scene, Jane’s Addiction, Guns N' Roses et al. At Sounds Mary Anne met fellow teenager James Brown (legendary writer and publisher, not the Godfather of soul) who became a lifelong friend. James moved to NME as Features Editor and when Mary Anne returned to London from LA, he promptly poached her to work with him at NME. Mary Anne spent three years on the newsdesk and also worked as a major feature writer there, authoring cover stories on everyone from Ice Cube to Nirvana. She went on with James Brown to form part of the original team he put together to launch Loaded magazine. She worked there as Music Editor, and writing major undercover stories about private detectives, cocaine dealers to the stars and most notoriously a Soho sex club. Mary Anne got her break in radio at BBC GLR on Sunday mornings alongside Mark Lamarr. She presented groundbreaking shows on XFM during their trail broadcasts, which helped to win their licence. She was poached by Radio 1 in 1997 after a particularly confrontational interview with Radio 1's then Head Of Production (Trevor Dann) was bootlegged around the BBC and found the desk of the Controller of the day, Matthew Bannister. Mary Anne's time at Radio 1 has been hectic… she has hosted shows from all the major award ceremonies: Q, NME, Brits, Kerrang, Mercury Music Prize… and made documentaries about artists as diverse as David Bowie and The Sex Pistols… She championed comedy god Ricky Gervais in his pre-Office days… hosted a movie review show with Mark Kermode called Cling Film… founded and fronted the award-winning Radio 1 Rock Show for five years. TV... there’s quite a lot, M.A. hosted live coverage of the ‘World Superbike Championship’ for British Eurosport… she made a series about global biker culture in India, Russia, Japan, the US and Europe for BBC Choice,‘Mary Anne's Bikes’… fronted 27 hours of live coverage at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC… and has guested on everything from BBC2’s ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ to ‘John Peel’s Record Box’ for Channel4. Mary Anne can ride any motorcycle you care to park in front of her...

I'd like to meet:

John Peel again... in this life.. not the next

Music:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs

Movies:

Shottas

Television:

it's all about You Tube

Books:

The Teachings Of Don Juan

Heroes:

the author of this truth:
"Like a wind crying through the universe, time carries with it the names and deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, and all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way but for a brief moment..."

My Blog

BBC RADIO 1 GUESTS 2008 and beyond

BBC RADIO1 Guests 2008January 2nd - Clark mixJanuary 9th - BengaJanuary 16th - Robert LoganJanuary 23rd - SantogoldJanuary 29th - Mark Pritchard aka Harmonic 313 February 5th - N-TypeFebruary 12th - C...
Posted by maryanne on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:42:00 PST

DUBSTEP SOULJAHS

Mary Anne Hobbs presents 'DUBSTEP SOULJAHS' documentary on BBC Radio1the Dubstep Souljahs PODCAST is here!!!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/r1dance/ listen online at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/...
Posted by maryanne on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:01:00 PST