So those guys over at Planet Mu have been championing the footwork / juke sound over in Europe for a while now as we explained in our Juke feature last year.

Well now they have got a Footwork tour starting tomorrow and hitting a city near you very soon with a formidable line-up of DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Chrissy Murderbot and a whole gang of footwork dancers (yes!!).

Catch them at:
21/04/2011 Thursday UK Brighton, Jam
22/04/2011 Friday France Paris, Batofar
23/04/2011 Saturday Switzerland Geneva, Electron Festival
28/04/2011 Thursday UK Leeds, The Wardrobe
29/04/2011 Friday UK London, The Big Chill Bar (Chrissy Only album launch)
29/04/2011 Friday UK London, Village Underground
30/04/2011 Saturday UK London, Sadler Wells (Dancers Only) http://www.breakinconvention.com/breakin-convention-2011/line with repeat performance monday and a discussion panel too.
06/05/2011 Friday BE Antwerp @ Petrol
07/05/2011 Saturday UK London, Corsica as part of planet mu night
11/05/2011 Wednesday DE Berlin, Get Wavey at Magnet Club (Chrissy Only)
13/05/2011 Friday UK Camber Sands, Butlins, Bangface Weekender
14/05/2011 Saturday UK Manchester, The Deaf Institute

We have a pair of tickets to give to the Village Underground show in London, the Leeds show at The Wardrobe, and the Antwerp show at Petrol.

To win, simply tell us your best dance move and why. Answers to be sent to info@bleep.com.

To celebrate all this lovely footwork footy-ness, we have reduced a bunch of the major footwork releases to a brilliant price so head over to the Planet Mu page on Bleep to get yourself some bargain footwork albums.

Om Unit – The Timps EP – out next week on Civil Music

OK… our friends over at Rinse and FWD are teaming up again for another party of gargantuan proportions. The line-up is HUGE and includes Roska (pictured), Skream, Geeneus, Marcus Nasty, Jackmaster, Zinc, SBTRKT, Horsepower Productions, Ill Blu, T. Williams, to just name a small portion of those playing… The event takes place on the 1st April at Fabric and more details can be found on their listings page.

To win a pair of tickets to the event, simply head to the Bleep Facebook page and post on our wall why you think you deserve a pair of tickets… That simple!

In January, we launched a Bleep DJ competition to win a Rane SL 3 for Serato Scratch Live Digital Vinyl System; an Ableton Live 8 Software Package; a pair of TMA-1 headphones, and a chance to DJ at the Bleep stage at Bloc Festival.

We were overwhelmed with the response. We had over 160 entries to the competition, with nearly 40k plays across these mixes. There was some really great mixes and it was really difficult deciding the winner… But there can only be one…

The winner of the competition is DJ Leighton. His mix can be found above and you can catch him DJing at the Bleep stage next Sunday at Bloc Festival…

2 weeks ago, we were pretty happy to tell you that we were hosting a showcase at Bloc this year. The festival has now totally sold out, but for those of you who can’t make it we have decided to give you 2 exclusive mixes from the artists at our stage. As well as that, we are also throwing a Bleep x Bloc party in Paris as a special preview of the event.

The event will take place at La Machine du Moulin Rouge and the line-up includes Joy Orbison, Lone, Boxcutter, Max Cooper and Bleep DJs.

Thursday 10th March – Bleep Presents Bloc
JOY ORBISON / LONE / BOXCUTTER / MAX COOPER / BLEEP DJs
More Info / Facebook Page /

La Machine du Moulin Rouge / PARIS 18
80 Boulevard de Clichy – metro Blanche
Paris, France

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If you have been lucky enough to get a ticket to Bloc, make sure you check out our showcase on Sunday 13th March (the closing night of the festival).

- Lone
- Kyle Hall
- Boxcutter
- Luke Abbott
- Jacques Greene

More Info on the Bleep showcase / Bloc website

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In the meanwhile, check out these 2 exclusive mixes from Boxcutter and Lone.

Both of these music videos are available to download in high-quality on the
Autechre – EPS 1991 – 2002

Music taken from Konx-om-Pax – Light in Extension

BLEEP: You made a welcome return back to recording after 14 years with the release of the Faults EP in September 2010. Can you give us your reasons for such a long hiatus?

Mark Clifford – Seefeel: Originally we just got a little tired and frustrated so we decided to have a break. We did occasional sessions between 1996 and 2000 but I never really felt that anything new was happening so each time it got shelved again. I think its only really interesting to myself and Sarah if we feel we are creating something new and it wasn’t really happening at that time.

B: 14 years is an extremely extensive period for you to have evolved and matured. Can you tell us what you got up to in that time – both professionally and personally? And how has your approach to making music changed because of it?

MC: We’ve both been through ups and downs really which i think has made us better people. We’ve both continued to make music but without really a focus maybe but at the same time those processes have added to our musical outlook so we have a better arsenal now. Also we have grown up because we were quite young before and we didn’t communicate very well and we didn’t deal with stressful situations. we are much more rounded people now.

B: What motivated you to reform and to release new material?

MC: ‘Quique‘ was reissued four years ago so i was forced to listen to it again and also to dig out unreleased recordings and for the first time in a long time I realised that actually we were good. We had something special. So when Sarah and I got together to do some interviews we decided to exchange ideas. It was refreshing because we both had a new outlook. It was also coincidental that it was Warp’s 20th anniversary and we were asked to play their Paris event so we had the motivation also.

B: You’re back with two new band members – Shigeru Ishihara aka DJ Scotch Egg and Boredoms drummer Iida Kazuhisa aka E-da – what can we expect from the new band formation, and how have the two new members individually contributed to the new material both in terms of musical output and concepts?

MC: The most obvious thing was that having new members in the band gave us a completely new dynamic. Old tensions weren’t there anymore. Shige especially brought a new vitality. In the past I had very much had to think about every element of the music whereas now i can start a track with Sarah and very much leave the bass to him and he always has a twist that then makes me think about what i am doing in a different way. Its feed myself up every much.

B: Today is the release of your eagerly awaited self-titled album. Can you tell us what to expect from it, and a little about what went in to the production process behind the new record?

MC: It was a very easy record to make. Its quite a mixed bag really because we started recording very much as we re-started the band and we grew very quickly and are still growing and the album reflects that. So generally the first half of the album are much newer recordings than the second half. The album is us finding our place again, not least Sarah i think who grew in confidence over the recording process. But myself also. It was a mixture of home and studio recording, built songs and improvisations.

B: You’re soon to be embarking on a tour, starting tonight in London on the 31st January and taking in the UK, Europe and Japan. In the past you have voiced your dislike for touring, is this still true? And if not, what has changed?

MC: Touring was not really enjoyable in the past largely due to the technological constraints. we were very much tied to backing tracks and it was very unflexible and stressful because we were at the mercy of machines that really were not very reliable. Obviously technology has moved on greatly since then and we are much more liberated as a live band, much more open to improvisation or deviation and this is something we hope to take advantage of more and more as we develop as a band.

B: What does the future hold for Seefeel?

As happy as we are with this record I do think its a small step for us to better things. we have already written new material which i think surpasses what we have done till now…

Seefeel’s self-titled album is out today on Bleep.

forthcoming on Planet Mu and playing at the Bleep stage at Bloc Festvial 2011.

Bloc 2011 from Bloc. on Vimeo.