MADNICE Marauders 1st Birthday Part 1 feat. Kutmah, DJ Amir Abdullah, Abigail Wyles, Almighty Sion
To celebrate our first year of parties we continued to bring the freshest in Beats, Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz and Soul with an exclusive transatlantic line up where East Coast Crate Digging met The West Coast Beats Scene...
We started MADNICE with a J Dilla Tribute night back in Feb 2012 and we had to show some love once again. This year Almighty Sion, the latest signing to the Original Cultures Label, took us on a journey through their favourite Dilla Joints as well as their own material, heavily influenced by Detroits Finest!!!
Easing us into the party we enlisted the talents of one of the most exciting artists to emerge from the UK in 2012. Abigail Wyles has recently signed to Chase and Status' MTA Records and is working on her debut LP. Her burnished folk-soul vocals and stripped back production are a massive diversion for the label and have made her one to watch for 2013. Abigail's electronic soul ballad with Doc Daneeka 'Toby Jug' featured on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Family Compilation and was one of THE standout tracks of 2012, in any genre.
Kutmah made his MADNICE debut back in March 2012 and took the roof off the Shipping Forecast...his all encompassing set was a highlight of our year so we set out to get him back for our birthday. 2012 was a stellar year for Kutmah with shows around the world with his Brainfeeder friends & family, incredible mixes for Boiler Room, NTS Radio and Fact Magazine, and curating and mixing the second installment of Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Family Compliation...we were stoked to have him back to kick off 2013 and the homie did not disappoint!
Finally, the man that closed the night with what went down as one of the illest sets ever heard at MADNICE so far and where to start with Amir Abdullah? One half of legendary vinyl excavating duo KON & AMIR, Amir is responsible for unearthing and sharing some of the world's rarest and dopest records through his 'On Track' mixes, BBE Compilations, worldwide DJ sets and now through his own re-edits, his 180 Proof Label and his work with Detroit's Strata Records and the world famous Wax Poetics label. We brought Amir over from NYC to take us on a musical journey through disco, jazz, funk & beyond... and he did just that. An unbelievable way to end the night and props to Amir for being a true gentleman!
