HYPE WILLIAMS

Room 237/MARIObong/Coby Sey present....

"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian

HYPE WILLIAMS + 1 More TBC.
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Doors 7.30 - 10.30 end

Thursday 25th November 2010 @ Nation Of Shopkeepers

£4 advance - Tickets at Jumbo & Wegottickets.

Followed by LIMN - Clubnight (Live illustration, dj's play electronica, techno, italo etc)

HYPE WILLIAMS

http://www.myspace.com/hypheewilliams

Hype Williams is an elusive project conceived by two "illegal immigrants" who for now we will know as D. Blunt and Inga Copeland. The duo are touring on the back of a super-limited LP on Carnival (hot off the press), with EPs out on Second Layer (September) and De Stijl EP (November) plus a Hippos In Tanks full length (March 2011) round the corner.

The Hype starts here... a totally unique, alien, addictive sound that ransacks the musical filing cabinet: disjointed psych-pop rattles around the channels, smooth-edge soul is refracted into disorientating dream tracks, murked instrumentals stumble through your psyche, disembodied samples of cult rapper Drake float around and into other, less familiar voices ... recorded exclusively in “magic hours” this is music that requires you to lift its shroud and climb inside. The spectrum of approving listeners to date is full – BBC Radio 1’s Benji B has premiered tracks, and The Wire has already devoted a page to trying to unpick the myth via a glowing review of their debut album.

With a catalogue of weird tall tales already tethered to their (borrowed) name – including an “18 year relay project”, plus alternative names including sounds of Hate, Paradise Sisters and Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band – the band exists as part of a bigger picture completed by a 360° range of art activities (“all about abuse, be it drugs, culture or equipment’, according to D. Blunt).

To date, infrequent but Hype-worthy concerts have been complemented by art happenings including “Gyptian Lover”, a series of exhibitions at London’s SPACE that have drifted fluidly around media including video, sculpture, installation and performance, Upset The Rhythm's Yes Way festival, plus shows with kindred spirit Sun Araw in the pipeline.

"What do we actually know about Hype Williams? ... an obscure, lo-fi form of dub-inflected half-pop as much akin to the post-industrial funk of 23 Skidoo and early Cabaret Voltaire as the scratchy psych of The Skaters et al ... music which fascinates largely because of its refusal to commit" - The Wire

"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian

Watch/listen here:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupR1k7QZdE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbfJpEigOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsad3s3hk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aN0JQcAsrc&feature=related