That’s right. Our Glaswegian friends LuckyMe are heading over to New York this Friday for a very special show with Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, Mike Slott, The Blessings, Eclair Fifi, Lunice and more…

To win a pair of tickets, e-mail info@bleep.com and tell us a story about your luckiest day…

Check for more details of the show HERE.

This year’s Field Day Festival has an incredible line-up featuring Phoenix, The Fall, Andy Weatherall, Caribou, Silver Apples, Ramadanman, Four Tet, Hudson Mohawke, Walls, Toro Y Moi, Gold Panda, Dam Funk, Joker and L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok.

To win a pair of tickets to this one-day festival on the 31st July, Victoria Park, London – simply e-mail info@bleep.com and simply state your favourite field activities and why…

Melted Zone from Konx-om-Pax on Vimeo.

This year, we are partnering with Sonar Festival. Firstly we have created a special download compilation for Sonar Festival showcasing some of the incredibly talented British artists performing at the festival this year. We will be giving away 2 free tracks a week to download right up until the week of the festival… But they will only be available for one week at a time.

We have rare and exclusive material from Hudson Mohawke, Broadcast, Roska, Fuck Buttons, Sandwell District, King Midas Sound, The Blessings and 2020 Soundsystem. Go get this week’s downloads here before it is too late.

If that wasnt enough, we are also going to be given away a pair of tickets to this year’s festival. To win, simply join our Facebook page and post on our wall your ideal Top 5 artists playing at Sonar Festival 2011.

The most interesting post will win a pair of tickets to the event. The competition closes on Tuesday 1st June.

Friday 30th April sees Hudson Mohawke performing a full live set at Hoxton’s intimate The Macbeth pub to celebrate Dummy Mags 1st Birthday . More details can be found HERE.

To win a pair of tickets, simply e-mail info@bleep.com and state Hudson Mohawke’s real name.

More details of this music video and his upcoming tour dates in the UK and North America are available HERE.

New work from Konx-om-Pax who recently has designed and created music videos for the likes of Hudson Mohawke, Jamie Lidell and Capracara.

We decided to catch up with the man himself to talk about his influences, what he has planned for, and just how and what he does does to create his own unique buttery sound.

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What’s behind the name of the new album, ‘Butter’?

I just wanted the title to reflect the production and I felt that word was the perfect description in so many different ways, whether you interpret it literally or you think of a more far out buttery concept.

It’s also partly just because I just really love short-bread.

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We heard a rumour that you were asked to put forward some tracks for Michael Jackson. Is this true?

well… it was discussed at one point…it was very much just in initial stages though… but who knows what could have happened if it panned out….quite gutted about that…I am working on submitting tracks for a few other major artists though

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In an ideal world, who would you like to collaborate with?
CeeLo, Grace Jones, Busta Rhymes, Tunde Adebimpe, Jay Z, Dexter Wansel, Andre3000, David Bowie, so many…

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How did you end up collaborating with Dam-Funk and what was he like to work with?

We were just fans of each others work and I decided to go to him with some tracks to try and involve him in the record. He was great to work with, amazingly humble and genuine guy, we’ll have some more joint goodness coming soon with any luck.

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From what we can hear your music has incredibly rich texture and multiple layers of sounds. Can you give us an insight into your technical process of making beats?

Its not a really complicated process, I keep it quite simple, nothing more than just whats flowing out of my head at the time, once I have 1 or 2 elements I kind of get an image in my head of where everything else has to sit on the track and from there it just flows. technically speaking, its all sequenced in fruityloops, I have a few keyboards, a piano and a load of drums and percussion instruments, and also just got a talkbox hehe. I used to be really into sampling but at the moment Im trying to kind of create my own samples, making sort of mini/condensed tracks playing all the parts and melodies myself and then chopping those mini tracks up as if i had sampled them off vinyl.
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Who are your top 5 producers of all time?

tough question…theres more than 5, but in no order, 5 of my classics; Quincy Jones, Just Blaze, Timbo, Premier, Neptunes…

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How do you feel your music, your aspirations and yourself as an artist sit amongst being part of Warp Records?

For me I think Warp is my ideal home, Its the only place I can get away with basically doing exactly what I want musically, right accross the board, and still know that the label will give me full support and artistic freedom or at least some good crit if its total shit heh. It’s also just a good home for the more twisted end of a genre and so while I sometimes think my my music doesnt necessarily sit with alot of their previous releases, it does definitely fit the principles and ethos of the label and I think that is more important. In terms of my aspirations Warp are right behind me and are helping to push me continually so that hopefully soon I’ll be able to do these collabs and everything else that only exists as a dream in my head at the moment, and even if i end up broke and homeless next year, I at least got to release a record on Warp and a couple of years back even that wouldve been a completely unrealistic aspiration for me, so its alll gooood!!

Wild Angels from LuckyMe on Vimeo.

featuring Hudson Mohawke, Floating Points, Mark Pritchard, Mike Slott, Rustie, Starkey, Nosaj Thing and Joker to name a few… compiled by Mary Anne Hobbs.

Available soon on Bleep.com