► Keep Bristol Weird is Boiler Room’s new documentary in partnership with the British Council.
The 21-minute film spotlights an independent community in the West Country enclave, responsible for some of the most exciting music coming out of the UK right now. The multi-voiced story is told by a series of local names key to this Bristol scene: Idle Hands supremo Chris Farrell, the Young Echo crew, Bad Tracking, Mix Nights, Giant Swan, Batu, Hodge, Danielle, E B U, Ossia, Franco Franco & Kinlaw.
With their sounds, this group of artists, DJs and performers is fighting against algorithms, influencer culture and the mainstream-ification of electronic music. As music culture shifts ever-more online, Bristol’s underground scene try to keeps things IRL, grassroots and experimental; their boundless artistic energy a reaction to club closures in the city.
This thriving DIY scene is pushing the city’s dense musical history in exciting new directions, and creating new sounds from established forms. The documentary traces the roots of this sonic outpouring back to Bristol’s Caribbean community and soundsystem culture, through to Bristolian Dubstep, Grime and Drum & Bass, and beyond to punk, noise and metal. This music community is defined by its eclecticism.
In the documentary, Bristol comes across as a supportive place for creatives, where collaboration is prioritised over individualism. The city bristles with sprawling collectives and more independent labels than one can count, including Livity Sound, Timedance, Idle Hands, and Ossia’s multitude of operations.
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Soundtrack:
Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come - Hessle Audio - Copyright Control - 2011
Restriction - Four Point Plan - Copyright Control - Thanks to Bristol Archive Records - 1984
Pinch - Qawwali - Planet Mu - Deep End Publishing - 2006
Hi5Ghost - No Sleep - Hotline Recordings - 2017
Toma Kami - Negative Extasy - Livity Sound - 2019
Hodge - Mindgames - Hotline Recordings - 2014
Bruce - Æon - Hessle Audio - 2018
Bruce - Baychimo - Hessle Audio - 2018
Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru - Livit Sound - 2018
Boofy - Mask And Glove - Bandulu Records - 2016
Kahn & Neek - Shimmer - Unreleased
Sunun - UK - Unreleased
Young Echo - Baron - Young Echo Records - 2018
Sunun - How Not To Use an MPC - Unreleased
Ossia - Dub Hell - Blackest Ever Black - 2018
Ossia - Tumult - Berceuse Heroique - 2017
Ishan Sound - A Wa Yu Want (Instrumental) - Hotline Recordings - 2015
Batu - Shiratini - Timedance - 2019
Batu - Groundwork - Timedance - 2017
Peverelist - Roll With The Punches - Punch Drunk - 2007
Batu - False Reeds - Timedance - 2019
Bruce - Post Rave Wrestle - Timedance - 2016
Franco Franco & Kinlaw - Fat Come - Avon Terror Corps - 2019
Franco Franco & Kinlaw - Positivo - Avon Terror Corps - 2019
Sunun - Z0 - Cold Light (CL003)
Sunun - How Not To Use an MPC - Cold Light (CL003)
R & D - Trick Track - Burden Imprint - 2018
Bad Tracking - Unnamed Jam - 2019
Burden - Thr3e - Burden Imprint - 2018
E B U - Slivver - NoCorner - 2019
Giant Swan - Earn - FuckPunk - 2016
Giant Swan - The Plaque - Whities - 2018
Hi5Ghost - Holy I$$h - Bandulu - 2017
Relapse - DreIIams - Avon Terror Corps - 2019
Keep Bristol Weird Team:
Hugo Jenkins - Director
Anaïs Brémond - Boiler Room Creative Producer
Nathan Greenwood - Editor
Holly Wolfers - Black Dog Films Producer
Joel Honeywell - Director of Photography
Evan Campbell - Sound Designer
Jack McGinity @ Cheat - Colourist
Josh Wiley - Art Director
Stefan Ipaya - Senior Motion Designer
Seth De Silva - Senior Motion Designer
Alice Bloomfield - Animator (Hodge Bath Animation)
Shawn Soh - Senior Motion Designer (Hodge & Bruce Animation)
Martin Roker - Black Dog Films Executive Producer
Joe Walker - Boiler Room Executive Producer
Joe Alexander - Boiler Room Head of Film
13 авг 2019
