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Sammy Virji Creamfields 2027 takes over APEX on Sunday 29 August. Creamfields has put him down for a huge APEX takeover at Daresbury, Cheshire. It lands on the closing day of the festival’s 30th-anniversary weekend. The booking went live on the Creamfields site today, 6 November, in the news and updates strip. Virji now appears...
DM (Dom Mayes) gifted us the 4th instalment in the Shella Mode mix series for Halloween. It runs 18 tracks in just under 39 minutes, “Dropped just in time for the Halloween pregame!” It opens in dark garage and closes on a dubstep tune from 2009. On the way there’s grime, a short house stretch...
Weekly Wrap 30 October is three tracks long. efan put out two dubstep cuts that last under five minutes put together. 1111 got Yizzy on her first Gotta Move single, and Pretty Girl named her new one after the beach at Seaford. Weekly Wrap 30 October opens with efan going 140 efan put up “and...
1111 and Yizzy have a new one together. “1, 2 Step” landed on 23 October through Gotta Move, the house and garage imprint run by Insomniac. It hit 1111’s SoundCloud on Tuesday morning, and we liked it straight away. It’s a UK garage cut with a grime MC up front. 1111 tagged it UKG, UK...
Interplanetary Criminal will play Alexandra Palace on Saturday 6 March 2027. It’s the biggest headline show the Manchester garage producer has done, and he’s taking the Great Hall for it. The ATW Records co-founder has spent the last few years at the front of the UKG revival. B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All), his record with...
The Two Shell Essential Mix is now up on the duo’s own SoundCloud. The masked London pair took over Radio 1 on 10 October. Their album Infinite Now followed six days later. It’s a full two hours. The BBC’s tracklist runs to 73 entries, and it opens on the intro to D’Angelo’s “Really Love”. Their...
Sammy Virji Open Late arrived with no rollout at all. On 21 October, Virji posted a link on social media. It led to a website where fans queued for an online listening premiere. That stream ran over a visualiser of city footage from around the world. By the end, the whole thing was live on...
Gorgon City and MPH went back to back at Breakaway Utah on Saturday 3 October at America First Field in Sandy. The duo uploaded the whole thing to their SoundCloud on 16 October, and it runs just shy of 75 minutes. Going by the tracklist fans have pieced together, Gorgon City open with “Only Love”,...
