VAMP Sonic is a platform for LGBTQIA+, womxn and non-binary artists to unleash their full experimental magic in electronic music & sound.
It's about breaking rules and botching them back together.
Plainly speaking, the weird shit you may not find on the D floor. Club but make it wonky.
Sound That Bites.
After a smoll rest, the occasion for vamps to bring their strangest returns with a batch of some of London’s finest.
THE ARTISTS
A'Bear (LIVE SET)
A'Bear is a multi-continental avant-garde synth electronic producer and DJ making cosmic inspired piqued out pop layered through with messed up frenetic beats. South African born, Australia-raised, and London grown, A’Bear has been described by RA as ‘wonderfully unhinged’ for her combinations of psychedelic polyrhythms with distorted bass lines and warped vocals. Her regular radio show TweaK on Bristol’s Noods and guest spots on Netil, New Rivers, NTS and Red Light radio; hypnotic live analogue synth club sets; and transcendental track releases on labels including Elestial Sound (USA) and Система (RU). A’Bear’s remixes have garnered international attention appearing on forums including female:pressure, RA and Digital in Berlin. Her recent remix on Term Records received praise from the likes of Jeff Mills and Gabriel Prokofiev. A ‘rainbow-rap electronicist’ (Misfit City) with a natural affinity for twisted rhythms, wonky vocal loops and synth grooves, A’Bear strives to make meaningful, joyful and impactful new dance tunes delivered across the UK and European club scenes.
Her debut album "Ear of the heart" is due to be self-released in cassette form on the 14th March 2020 via Bandcamp.
https://soundcloud.com/abearsounds
Big Dyke Energy [BOUJI BOI + ELLIOTT]
One of London’s most exciting new nights on the map, BDE creates a safe, inclusive and liberal space for all queer womxn to party without prejudice. The collective – made up of fierce selectors Elliott and Meach - brings a fresh stance in re-introducing a much needed (and an enthusiastically greeted) gear-shift in clubbing environments, working towards fostering warehouse raves that prioritise the city’s widespread and diverse scene. Having held down a line of heaving sold-out parties at Venue MOT Unit 18 with the likes of IMOGEN, Club Fitness and Michelle Manetti headlining, these two will bring beats that bang while teasing apart the vast spectrum of club, incorporating breaks, IDM and all strands of house. You're in for such a treat here.
https://soundcloud.com/elliott_clem
https://soundcloud.com/meachdj
ORNOGRAPHY [ Threads Radio ]
Ornography landed in East London after riding a meteorite from Brussels when they ran out of ambient vinyl. They were born in Marseille, home to absolutely nothing music, which luckily for us catapulted them to the greener, jungle-ridden pastures of London Town. This tech-hoe will inspire some feeling and some thoughts whilst spinning an Avant Garde selection of synth, wave, post punk, dub, experimental, drums, club and bass music for your gorgeous ears. Listen up and listen hard. Welcome to the Orn hub.
https://soundcloud.com/boscornella
Sydd Viscose [ VAMP Sonic ]
London-based DJ / promoter / artist with plenty zest for exploring and expanding sounds beyond club enclosures. As co-founder of Edinburgh’s Miss World and founder of VS, and with bookings across London, Scotland and Berlin, Sydd has built a reputation for slow-build controlled sets that chuck you into all ways of curiosity and confusion. Working to promote safety and equality in the music industry, she has featured on an international range of radio stations including Noods, Threads, SubCity, Berlin Community Radio, LYL, Half Moon and EHFM. Her sets veer between IDM, experimental, new-wave industrial, breakbeat and techno, deliberately erratic, eternally seeking to convey emotion all the while encouraging hedonistic unaltered release.
https://soundcloud.com/syddviscose
VAMP WELCOMES RESPECTFUL POSITIVE PUNTERS TO COME BASK IN THE NOISE. THIS IS A SAFE SPACE. ENJOY. BRING YOUR FULL WEIRD. WEAR WHAT YOU WANT. WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE YOU 🌹
🎢🔥Ticket Info TBC 🔥🎢
Accessibility Info:
We apologise that the venue is in a basement accessed by a staircase and is therefore not wheelchair accessible. The main space is accessed by a single staircase with 12 stairs that has a single bannister along the entire length. There are no steps or stairs once you are in the basement.
There are two toilets in the basement space, each are gender neutral and have no steps to them.
There is a smoking area downstairs that closes at 11pm, however if you have access needs, please tell staff and you are welcome to use the basement level smoking area throughout the night.
There are benches along the space if you need to sit down.
If there is anything the venue can do to facilitate your visit to vFd then please contact info@vfdalston.com and we will do our very best to help in advance and on the night.
If you require anything else from VAMP, plz feel free to contact hellovampsonic@gmail.com.