Liverpool Sound City comes to a rousing finale with an epochal party in the city’s most celebrated and famous venue, Nation. The week long festival comes to a close after staging a huge range of live gigs in many venues, from international stars through to unsigned acts. This much anticipated shindig which showcases the festival’s ambition in sublime style, bringing together a smorgasbord of international talent for the North West to salivate over.
Liverpool Sound City is the biggest festival and conference of its kind to happen in the fabled musical city and it’s quite fitting that Chibuku are drawing the final curtain over an incredibly special event.
Headlining in the main room is Chi Town groove shaman Felix da Housecat, the beat-smith that continues to push music forward with his genre excursions. One of the first to give rise to the electro phenomenon, Felix was years ahead of his time when he was welding gritty industrial bands like Nitzer Ebb and DAF to the jacking grooves of his Chicago peers, splicing them with synth driven melodies from Europe. Liverpool loves him, his sets for Circus, Bugged Out and Chibuku over the years always rapturously received, and as an international talisman for the city’s rave impact, he remains peerless.
He’s joined by German wunderkind Steve Bug, the modern day acid house hero of mainland Europe. Steve’s record label Poker Flat has been symbolic of the resurgence of German house and techno over the last five years, riding the cusp of the wave as it reverberated around the world. As a DJ Bug is equally as ebullient, firing acid flaked house alongside sonorous techno and razor sharp grooves out at intermittent speeds through his expertly chopped and spliced laptop sets.
But this isn’t a purely international affair, with Liverpool’s electronic music ambassador Yousef flying the flag for his own city. No one else deserves the slot more than Yos, a guy who has put the city on the map through his residency at Cream, his stunningly successful Circus club night and his regular jaunts around the world (a recent one seeing him earmarked as the first international DJ to play Syria). To not ask him to be involved would fail to uphold him as the city’s leading light, Sound City alongside Liverpool rightfully proud of what the man has achieved for the music scene. Liverpudlian ex-pat Dom Chung also returns home for the party.
Over in the annexe one of the biggest drum n bass acts in living memory will be DJing, a group revolutionising the impact of the genre and certified big hitters who have destroyed Liverpool on many occasions. Their joined by the sickest acts in drum n bass, Dillinja & Lemon D are notorious for their dysfunctional sound ruggedness that has torn speakers apart across the globe. Their notoriety was assured when Fabric banned their Valve Soundsystem on account of the rupturing damage it inflicted upon their own, and they will be ensuring the heaviness continues to reverberate around the club. Special guest Skream brings his twisted dubstep future sonics to the forefront alongside Hatcha and Richard Furness.
Chibuku Presents: Liverpool Sound City Closing Party
Friday 30th May
@ Nation, Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, L1 4JJ
Main Room
Global Underground presents…
Felix Da Housecat
Yousef
Steve Bug
Dom Chung
Annexe
Valve Soundsystem
Pendulum DJ set
Lemon D and Dillinja
Skream
Rich Furness
10pm – 6am
£15 Early bird / £16 NUS / £18 other
Info – 0151 708 5051
Ticketline: 0161 832 1111
www.chibuku.com
www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk
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