HH's Best Of British!

In honor of Best Of British talent, i thought id do my own run down of the British talent that inspires and amazes me.

Goldfrapp

One of my favourite ever bands. 4 amazing albums, each with enough depth, sex, beauty, warmth and originality to take you to another planet.Alison and Will aka Goldfrapp are British eccentrics all the way. I had the privilege of working on some documentary style filming with them on the Supernature tour and also on a few of the Black Cherry videos. Working with them blew my mind and inspired me no end.


Planning To Rock

This girl is one of the most powerful performers ive ever seen. Her voice is just massive and soulful, agianst a backdrop of her incerdiable video art pieces. DFA, Kill The DJ, CHicks on Speed, Peaches, The Knife are among fans and people she's toured and released records with. PTR has a new album about to drop, with production involvment from Hotchip, this is going to be an absolte cracker, cant wait to hear it.



Jonny Woo

Performance artist, drag, tranny, comedian, poet, survivor, bingo caller, singer, actor, playright, genuis. This man is the king of London as far as im concerned, him and his drag artist house make London the eccentric creative spontaneous place i know and love.



Alex Noble

Artist, designer, curator. Alex is an amaizing illustrator , as you have seen from the Batty Bass artwork, plus his skills in clothes designing have led to bespoke pieces for Lady Gaga, Vogue, Paloma Faith, Selfridges and much more. His creativity and skill is endless, and he is seriously one to watch....



Benga

His album, diary of an Afro Warrior is still one of my favorites, leading dubstep man, the sound is completly London in a very new and futuristic way.



Untold

mad production skills, completly orginal sound, rooted in dubstep, garage, house...british.



Jamie Jones

Consistently one of my favourite producers...his basslines never fail to satisfy, with his funky deep layers of groove. Check out his brand new amazing album Do You Remember The Future? out on boundary pushing label Crosstown Rebels, boss Damian Lazarus is another important, British, musical, eccentric export!


Jungle / Hardcore / Pirate Radio

Omni Trio, Shy FX, Rufige Cru, Hype, Zinc, Grooverider, Metalheadz ... plus so many more.. the energy, the bass, the straight up jump up madness pulled me into dance music by the scruff of my neck aged 12..the old tunes never get boring, the vibe never seems to date... a true british invention , true British bass!!

Best of British

Since i last posted on here afew big things have been happening in my musical life. Firstly, i moved to Berlin, which has been utterly inspiring and really fired me up for making some new material. I've been nominated for Best Breakthrough DJ , in the Dj Mag Best of British Awards, feeling dead happy and honored about that :), plus i have a new single coming out on Playtime in Dec, also i did my first Beatport chart!! cccheck it out

Mama never fails to keep me entertained too.



She did her 2nd live show for her debut material, and its something quite special... cant wait for you to see it @ The Batty Bass Xmas Allnighter



Early bird tickets available here!!

Hannahx

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BAK IN TOWN...

Back to bizness in London town this wkd!!!! Cant wait to get to the decks.

This Fri Egg!!!


Sat!!
Massive 15 year Bugged Out birthday!!!! So goddamn excited about this. Pulling out some serious classics for this one. It's a complete honor to be part of this legendary night and im playing the last set in the main room with Chickaboo for the first hour then settling into some bass techno space rides with electro royalty. This is ganna boooom, line up is sikkkk. xxx

E.P'S

Batty Bass on Beatport

Batty Bass on Juno

digital and vinyl available from all good record and online stores!!!

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BB03 - "NAMEDROPPER" - JAHCOOZI
REMIXES BY SOLO AND HANNAH HOLLAND



VIDEO


Jo Ranson - Kiss FM
Tune Of The Week

Aston Shuffle
"Great record, the Solo remix is the one for me, will be playing the SHIT out of this one ...HOT!!!"

Phon.o (Boysnoize)
"Smash!!!! i like the ep a lot. fresh and pumpin'. i will play it for sure."

Tayo
"namedropper remix is disgusting and despicable and aces."

Shir Khan
"Nice dancehall feel of Solos rework. Didnt expect him to do something like this. Will play it out
for sure and also drop it at Radio Fritz. Nice to see the Jahcoozi's making moves in 2009 with 2 hot releases sofar."

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BB02 - "DUTTY CHARGE" FT. MC CHICKABOO AND MAMA - DR. WOOGIE
REMIXES BY DR. WOOGIE AND HANNAH HOLLAND



VIDEO


Radio support from Annie Nightingale, Jo Ranson, Kissy Sell Out, Plump Djs, Doorly, Mistajam. Radio One, 1Xtra, Kiss FM.

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BB01 - "SHAKE IT UP" FT. MAMA - HANNAH HOLLAND



VIDEO

Ashley Beedle
"A real killer and genre bender. Proper modern urban dance music."

Kissy Sell Out
"Loving the Reshake!"

Ali B
"Dope record... nice one Hannah!"

Azzido Da Bass
"Really like it! Heavy support from me!"

Tommie Sunshine
"Top notch!"

coming soon on Batty Bass Records... RE-BOK ROBOT BY POSH! THE PRINCE. REMIX BY MIKE MONDAY.

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CANT WAIT FOR THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS!!!!

BATTY BASS ALL NIGHTER W/ THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS VENUE ANNOUNCED!!!

£10 TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

£15 ON THE DOOR.












PICS BY DAVE SWINDELLS

BASTARD BATTY BASS IS 3!!!

Bastard Batty Bass is 3 this month!!!

It's a celebration and a fairwell to the monumental monthly sessions, which have been very very special , thanks to YOU!!! We've been through a lot together haven't we?!! On the first thurs of the month, the spirit of batty bass comes to possess a room, with your medium Hannah Holland channeling the force, and preachers Mama and MC Chickaboo saving your souls!!!!! and no one really knows what it's like unless they've experienced it , right? Except to say that you freakin danced your lil batty off!! We've seen the birth of a record label, clothing label, videos, exhibitions and our very own Batty Bass anthems, (Not to mention abortions, but that's a whole different story!)

Come shake that batty and celebrate our birthday, with Hannah Holland, Mama, MC Chickaboo, Miss Bailey and Deboa,

@ The Star of Bethnal Green.

3rd Sept. 9til2am

£3b410£5after.

PLUS Fear not!!! a badass new night is starting up on the first thurs @ The Star. with Batty Bass's MC Chickaboo, Miss Bailey and Deboa, which can only mean one thing. AMAZING. watch this space.

"Namedropper" Jahcoozi OUT SOON!!!

Latest members to join the Batty Bass Records family are Jahcoozi.

I first heard them back in 2003 on Damian Lazarus's excellent compilation series Rebel Futurism. Sasha was singing about fishing and meeting eskimos, to the sounds of experimental electro, with this sweet and twisted voice. A wiiiicked tune. The band are proper out on their own sphere, visually, sonically and stylistically and im very proud to have them part of the label. Big Up Jahcoozi. and their sikkk bassy bassy "Namedropper". Solo's remix is absolute killer too, a dancehall meets brazil at 4am rhythm. And ive got my oar in there with a dubbed out ahem affair.

Its out 28th AUG

check out the video made by Hugo Schneider @ 3Mulgator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6mikY84rLk


and here is their song Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIf-j-wleQ&feature=PlayList&p=6740447AB0AA5474&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=67


Hannahx


The Biog.
Both musically and culturally speaking, Jahcoozi are a mash up operation who have consistently managed to deliver their very own mongrel style of electronic pop music. Those behind this creative alliance are stage animal /song-writer /MC Sasha Perera (London/Sri Lanka), Beat-freak producer Robot Koch (Germany) and the bass-playing sound-tech fetishist Oren Gerlitz (Tel Aviv, Israel).

Having got to know one another during a long, coal-fuelled winter in Berlin back in 2002, Jahcoozi have been making music
together ever since. Songs such as Black Barbie and Fish are what gained them early recognition back in 2003, the latter having been played as a CD-R by the legendary John Peel.

Jahcoozi's unique and ever-changing blend of avant-dub-glitch-step based sound suceeds in combining honest, communicative pop sensibilities with warm sub- basses and a crunchy, precise yet organic sound texture. With two full-length albums ( 'Pure Breed Mongrel on Kitty-Yo, 2005 and 'Blitz 'n' Ass' on Asound in 2007 ) and numerous EPs, Picture Discs, remixes and features to their name, Jahcoozi have released music on various international labels such as Kitty-Yo, Asound, Playhouse, Ninja Tune, Bpitch, Citizen Records; Crosstown Rebels, 1965 and WMF Records just to name a few.

Over the years, Jahcoozi have collaborated with a refreshingly wide range of artists including Modeselektor, Asian Dub Foundation, Stereotyp, M Sayiid (Anti-Pop Consortium), Buraka Sound Sistema, MC Soom-T, Missill, RQM, Lexie Lee, Ata & Sasse, Cassy, Luomo, Siriusmo, Lethal B, Kano, JME, Skepta, , New Flesh, Infinite Livez, Alhaca Soundsystem, Puppetmastaz, Hannah Holland, Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Rustie, DJ Maxximus, Mochipet & King Cannibal.

As a result of the interdisciplinary nature of their music and irresistible live show, the band has led a blazing and unrelenting trail across the planet. This intricate journey has seen them play everything from prestigious music festivals (eg. Transmediale, Today's Arts, Lowlands, Electrowave) to raves in Transylvania or even an illegal bring-your-own boombox soundsystem in a Berlin underpass. Jahcoozi have managed to ignite almost any kind of dancefloor, event space or mosh pit-in-waiting ; somehow they always seem to morph the situation into a people-power style happening;-



Having toured 4 continents in 2008, Jahcoozi are back in the studio putting together their 3rd album. In the meantime however there are a few EPs coming up to to keep the Jahcoozi junkies going, with EPs on Ninja Tunes, Sugarcan and now Batty Bass.


The Jahcoozi live show is a fairly unpredictable experience. For some bands, a live concert means you get to hear all your favourite tracks sounding exactly the same as you've heard them at home on the cd and by all means some bands and some fans are more than happy like that! But Jahcoozi also tend to play a variety remixes, versions or bootlegs of their own songs as well as other unreleased material they've made purely for love and fun of ripping up the dancefloor. 


A Jahcoozi classic for all the ketemina heads out there!!!

Black Barbie (Stereotyp remix)

http://www.myspace.com/jahcoozi

TRAILER TRASH

Join the TT crew soon on bank holiday wkd with more carpark rave action! :

BATTY BASS ALL NIGHTER....

We're very excited to announce that tickets have now gone on sale for the Batty Bass All Nighter w/ The Martinez Brothers on Sept 19th. GRAB CHEAP EARLY BIRD ONES HERE!!! plus JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT HERE!!. Sept the 3rd will be the last of our monthly sessions at The Star OF Bethnal Green but Sept 19th will mark the first in our All Nighter sessions with some very special guests, warehouse venues and Funktion One sound!!

THE DOUBLE

Our very favorite film makers Emily and Nev aka The Double, They have to be the cutest duo ever, Nev generally towers over Emily, who will be taking the piss out of him, always having the best and proberly most debauched (emily) time at Batty Bass. They made the incredibly amazing Shake It Up and Dutty Charge videos for Batty Bass... a very talented pair...watch this space.

emily & nev with chickaboo

THE DOUBLE BLOG

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Hannah Holland Bleeps, Bass and Heat

1. Re-Bok Robot - POSH! The Prince
2. Mr. Crack - Megatonic Boys
3. Take Care - Chloe
4. Swallowed Too Much Bass feat. Paris The Black Flu - Steve Bug
5. Diamond Hearts - Pan Pot
6. Stick And Move - TRG
7. Blind Date - Martin Eyerer and Namito
8. Shanghai Spinner - Oliver Hunetmann
9. Hurt - Matthew Dear and Seth Troxler

Join us next thurs for the intimately frenzied monthly danceoff

hello people. so the summer is fully underway and batty bass has been spreading through the land. Myself and Mama played at Fusion Festival in Berlin, which was simply mind blowing. So much great electronic music, in the middle of the woods, everything is very eco friendly, you get your 50 euro ticket money back if you pick up a load of rubbish. amazing food, amazing people, amazing music, not one advert or over priced burger, bliss!!!. fully recommend going to Fusion.
Next up was Exit Festival, wow. I went a day early to check out my mate Heidi and Justin Martin play b2b, they tore it to pieces, was so goood. Caught Ritchie Hawtin b2b Dubfire, Loco Dice b2b Magda. lots of fun was had. Tayo and myself played the next night and had a lot of fun in the stunning medieval fortress with 20000 crazy ravers :) Next up im off to infect some young minds at Underage Festival in London, looking forward to mental teenagers :)

CATNIP MIKE MONDAY

This always cheers me up! From the album Songs Without Words, fully recommend it. hx

MAMA!!!

Batty Bass's Mama has been working away on her Solo project in electronic music mecca Berlin....i can feel that place's magnetic force from here....it pulled Mama in and her work is sounding absolutely wicked...watch this space...

This is why we all love her, Check out the recipe for a Mama song...



www.myspace.com/mamalondontown

EXIT FESTIVAL !!

This weekend is Exit Festival's 10th bday. A monumental festival set in the grounds of a medieval fortress, the dance arena is built onto the side of a castle, which is where myself and Tayo will be playing back to back on Sat....im sooo excited...Other acts include Ritchie Hawtin, Green Velvet, Kraftwerk, Carl Cox, The Prodigy and loads more, all the djs on dance arena are playing b2b for a special 10th Bday treat :)

here's my Exit Festival 09 Mix for ya xx

1.Summertime - Jamie Jones (CrossTown Rebels)
2.Below - Shinedoe (Intacto)
3.Will Be Mine ft. Alexander East (Ian Pooley mix) - Manuel Tur (Freerange Records)
4. Aloha (Dub) - Renaissance Man (Sound Pelligrino)
5. Air Race - Style Of Eye (Dirtybird)
6. Galactic Space Bar (Dub) - Jamie Jones (CrossTown Rebels)
7. Follow My Heart (DJ Hell Mix) - Abe Duque ft. Virginia (Process Recordings)
8. Bad Side (Hannah Holland remix) - Worthy and Yankee Zulu (Playtime Records)
9. United Groove - LVis 1990 (Mad Decent)
10. Cool (Afrojack remix) - Spencer Hill (Tiger Records)
11. Dutty Charge ft. MC Chickaboo and Mama (Dub) - Dr. Woogie (Batty Bass Records)
12. Hold The Line (Todally Krossed Out mix) - Major Lazer (Downtown Records)

FABRIC!!

Batty Bass Room was jumpin off the wall !!! Big love to Solo, Jahcoozi and N-Type who alongside myself and Mama stirred up some crazy vibes and cutting edge music....watch out for Jahcoozi's release with Solo and Hannah Holland remixes coming soon on Batty Bass Records!!!!

here's a lil clip from Solo's set:

The Bad Side!!

So things have been nice and bubbling in the last few months, our first Batty Bass Records releases underway, some crazy good HH gigs in, Berlin, Ukraine, a festival called The Fix in a beautiful place in Norway called Bergen, i managed to catch Angie Stone and Flying Lotus in the same night!! Played in a converted cinema, the with the seats still in, quite surreal!! People were jumping still :) Many London gigs and a quick stop off in Amserdam for a Burlesque party , yes yes!! The Bugged Out presents Mad Decent vs Crookers party was pretty insane, massive two arches in Southwark, usually a car park, big systems , many ravers = madness!!! Bristol for another Bugged out, Batty Bass, Nottingham and a really cool party in Manchester which was held in an 17th century CHapel, which the promoters had originally squatted but now rented it for parties, a perfect setting for a twisted shindig :) Lovely.

big love to all the promoters and all the wicked dancin peeps i met :) xxx hannah xxx

Next Stop Batty Bass take overs: Batty Bass @ Fusion 26th June, 2nd July @ The Star Of Bethnal green , 3rd July @ Fabric, with guests N-Type , Solo, Jahcoozi, Deboa and the crew














Taken @ Batty Bass and Bugged Out Presents..Pics by Maxime Antonin www.maxipix.fr

BRAND NEW BATTY BASS RECORDS VIDEO!!!

DUTTY CHARGE - DR. WOOGIE FT. MC CHICKABOO & MAMA OUT 29TH JUNE!!!!

HERE IS A MIX FROM OUR VERY SPECIAL GUEST DEBOA, WHO IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE DJS RIGHT NOW, AS WELL AS MIXING THE MOST AMAZING WARM UP SET OF DEEP HOUSE, WARM MINIMAL AND AFRO BEAT TUNES, HE CAN SMASH THE SHIT OUT OF A SPECIAL OLD SKOOL JUNGLE SET. DEBO'S AN OLD FRIEND FROM SOUTH LONDON, ADDING TO OUR COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL BATTY BASS SOUTH LONDONERS :) !

DEBOA MIX

Dj Koze vs Sid Le Rok - Naked (DJ Koze Rmx)
Hicc Up – DJ Koze
I Think About You – Heiko Voss
Durch Die Nacht – Dorau Kohncke (Geiger Mix)
Roforofo Fight (Tease) - Fela Kuti
Uli, mein Ponyhof (Tease)– Deutsche Grammophon (Villalobos Rmx)
Home Entertainment - Carl Craig
Detriot – Moonstarr
Roforofo Fight (Tease) - Fela Kuti
Kilode – Tony Allen (Carl Craig)
I Exist Because Of You – Henrik Schwarz (Dixon Stripped Down Edit)
Moojbits - John Tejada
Jombon Beurre – DJ WLD
Torque – John Tejada
Unknown – Unknown White (Einfach 002)
Uli, mein Ponyhof – Deutsche Grammophon (Villalobos Rmx)
Roforofo Fight - Fela Kuti

BATTY BASS RECORDS IS LAUNCHED!

Shake It Up Video!!!! big thank u to Nev Brook and Emily Mc Donald for putting it together. Shot @ Bastard Batty Bass 08/09. Art work by Alex Noble.




At long last you can purchase our record "Shake It Up" ft. Mama from all good record stores!!!

BEATPORT

PHONICA

JUNO

elllo, so my last Trailer Trash at On The Rocks ended dramatically by the police closing it down, after somebody kindly slipped into a KHole outside the club, an ambulance was called..etc etc. A slightly sour but fitting end to my 5 year residency!!! the next day i headed off to Brussels for Mort aux Jeunes party in a fab club called Recylcart, i played there last year, in fact my "Live In Belgium" mix was recorded there. i love this place, its a train station in the week and a club on the wkd!!! Great crowd, loads of cross dressing going on, which reminded me of early Trailer Trash days!! Thanks to all the guys.





Batty Bass last thurs was pure good vibes and a huge dance-a-thon, massive shouts to Miss Bailey and Debo for their simply beautiful sets! I will get one of their sets posted on here for download soon. and will have a little video edit soon...

Fri, off i hopped to Helsinki in Finland for a gig in a basement venue, which had a great soundsystem, but hardly any punters, due to a festival down the road...one of dem ones!!!

Back in London was the Trailer Trash 5th birthday warehouse party, held in a new space in shoreditch, it was loads of fun, proper old skool sweaty rave stylee!!!




Studio wise been ive doing something a bit different, just finished a track for comedy, tranny, performance artist, genuis, Jonny Woo, he is supporting Peaches at The Royal Festival Hall on Fri and will be performing the track among other spoken word and musical pieces. Its pretty avant gaud , sci fi hard core techno, berghium styleee, to fit his menacing drool about Killing!!!! Hopefully there will be a video of the performance.

last night at le trash can!!!

Tonight is my last ever gig at On The Rocks, for Trailer Trash. Ive decided to stop playing at the club to concentrate on other projects, plus 5 years is a hell of a long time and a great round number to finish at !!! I will still be playing for the other Trailer Trash events. It really is an end of an era and i have many many fond memories of nights in that sleazy dirty disco!! Thank u to all the dancefloor crew for being so much fun to play for and really supportive. HAPPY DAYS BIG TUNES DANCEFLOOR CARNAGE~!!!
xxxxxx

ITS THE 5TH BDAY NEXT WEEK....!!!



THIS WAS FROM THE 1ST BDAY...SECRET PRISON RAVE...ONE OF THE BEST PARTIES IVE EVER BEEN TO AND PLAYED AT !!! WE MANAGED TO PARTY IN A 500 YEAR OLD PRISON, THE LARGEST IN LONDON FOR ITS TIME, USED BACK IN THE DAY FOR PETTY CRIMINALS , RATHER FITTING!!


BANGED UP from hannahholland on Vimeo.