Max Lane Mini Euro Tour With Syndicate

Together with the Syndicate crew Max Lane embarked on a mini European tour to France & UK. The first stop was Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival where they played on the opening day at the Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain in the beautiful town of Sète at the south of France. Playing alongside Awesome Tapes from Africa, Leftoo, Christian Prommer & Alexander Barck, they got the five-day music mayhem going to a crowd from all over Europe.



From the sunny mediterranean coastal town, the entourage then headed down to gloomy London where they did a live Ustream show together with Kidkanevil & Daisuke Tanabe for Maisonette Electronique hosted by Laurent Fintoni. Click here for the archived show. And do watch out for the glitch-craft by Daisuke San.

The Syndicate team also organized the first ever Singapore x London Bass Exchange for a night called SuperHelix with two rooms featuring DJs, producers & visual artists from the two cities. Om Unit, Blue Daisy, Digital, Morphy & Need for Mirrors joined the Singapore contigent for a bassy night out.



[Photos by Kelvin Lee]

Rounding up the trip, Max Lane & Cherry Chan hit the Jus Like Music online radio show on NTS. Both of them played a short set live on air and had a quick chat with the Jus Like Music man himself, Gavin Handley. And what didn't go on air was a surprise visit by Kutmah to the studio.



[Photos by Jus Like Music]

The Jus Like Music Show-2011-07-16-18:00:00.mp3 by NTS RADIO

SYNDICATE(D) NEWS: The Beat Buffet

Yesh, Max Lane will be back on the Syndicate long table of gears & controllers come this Saturday. Somewhere next to him will be the non-Jewish/non-accountant button-pushing partner in crime, Izaak Stern. Here's a wikked wikked mix from him. Stretch the table longer you will find Cherry Chan with tricks from London post-RBMA stint. And as we learned a couple of weeks ago, occupying the smallest of space on the same table will be Ikuma. Last and definitely not least serving beats in the line is the man with the phat kicks & snares from Australia, Dizz1.

Before the beat buffet table opens this Saturday at Home Club, below are some bites for a beat tasting session.

DIZZ1'S RIRR (FROM HIS 3RD TIME LUCKY EP)


IZAAK STERN'S SELF-TITLED EP (QILIN)


IKUMA LIVE @ BLIP FESTIVAL 2008 (NEW YORK)


MAX LANE'S A TASTE OF ORANGE (UPP001)



And we strongly suggest you give the Download link a click for A Taste of Orange. Generosity prevails!

Anyway, here is the visual lo-down on what took place last month:



Bottom line is, SEE YOU on Saturday!

SYNDICATE(D) NEWS & OTHER UPP/DATES

Max Lane will be taking a break from this third installment of Syndicate. But do come down to check out Rafi Dean's live set. Here's a mix from him to tease your ears.

RAFI DEAN / SYNDIZIERTEN by SyndicateSG

Meanwhile, if you have not been to any of the Syndicate nights, this is what you have been missing out.....


Max Lane & Syafii dropping the beats at Syndicate 02:


Some testimonials courtesy of Rcgntn:


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OTHER UPDATES!!!



We can't wait to drop our maiden monthly mixtape podcast later this week. As mentioned before we're going to have 2snide from the Harmitage and Frijsfo Beats fam. He will be rocking it out with resident, Rora Realis.

The tongue-twister of a name Rora Realis will also be making an appearance as his other self - who is apparently without a doubt a true pioneer in Singapore's burgeoning dubstep scene - at Good Times. So if you want to get down with it:



Back to some home news; the crew has been working pretty hard with their eyes glued to their laptops the past weeks trying to perfect that particular kick thuds and snare crunches. Yes, our very first compilation, UPP001, will be out pretty soon. And there are some really really tasty beats waiting to be unleashed.