Really happy to have received @helpmusicians 'Next Level' funding and support in 2025. They are a really great organisation!
Would encourage any musicians to apply - feel free to DM me for help with an application :)
photo credit: Rob West @several.world
THIS FRIDAY: @interworldmedia takeover the @forge.sheffield Workroom with @sleepsang , @aminaminaa , @gwilym_evans , @josh_jde and Psi!
In celebration of Sleepsang's new EP of high-BPM industrial / experimental techno, the Interworld crew and friends will be bringing the audio and visuals.
Pre-order Calico EP on Bandcamp and get two tracks "Calico" and "Affectionate" now - releases everywhere this Friday!
Get your tickets now via Skiddle and RA. See you there! xoxoxo
ONE WEEK to go until we return to @forge.sheffield to celebrate our newest EP from label mainstay Sleepsang -- with a primo line-up of four genre-defying acts, the crew are ready to flood the Workroom with forward-thinking bangers and vivid CRT visuals. Let's get it...
🌐SLEEPSANG: Producer, DJ and live coder @sleepsang brings industrial breakdowns and emotional breakbeats, crunchy mashups blending high-res techno and juke workouts, and much more
🌐MYNA: Founder of Calabash! and core team member of The Beatriarchy, @aminaminaa has a penchant for bassy drum-heavy music, mixing an expansive range of music from the African diaspora, alternative/nu-metal/punk, and whatever else she wants
🌐GWIL & J-DE: Part of the legendary Amledd collective, Cardiff-raised best friends @gwilym_evans & @josh_jde show their love of footwork via a carefully curated mix of frenetic drums, heavy basslines, and silly selections north of 160 bpm as well as J-DE’s own productions.
🌐PSI [LIVE]: The incredible Sam Schorb (aka Damu) with long-time collaborator Matt Rhodes (Bexlr), Psi will perform a "totally improvised rush of hardgroove techno inspired by live coding and free jazz" – huge hardware business incoming
Friday 18 July 2025
23:00-04:00
FORGE Workroom, S4 7YS
£10 advance £12 on the door
Get your tickets NOW via Skiddle and RA xo
PREORDER NOW: Sleepsang - Calico EP
1. Sentient Dawn
2. Calico
3. Affectionate
4. Denial Lot
5. Crushed
Producer, DJ and live coder Sleepsang returns to the Interworld label with his EP, Calico – the result of falling back in love with the weirder strains of club music. Entries such as Affectionate and Sentient Dawn rhyme with the artist’s early love of industrial techno, whilst the project was written in a subsequent period of nostalgia. Its five tracks are decorated with sounds that have been re-constructed from live-coded performances, field recordings, disembodied vocal takes and other sound sources.
Tracks like Sentient Dawn, with its rushing glitchy sequences, and the spacious Affectionate span the range of possibilities within the EP. Denial Lot is a rolling head-shaker with the persistence of techno and a weight you might find in further UK extensions of bass music – a crouching and ominous ascension that stays at a certain height, giving it an intimidating and stealthy effect. Crushed is tightly wound but gradual, and its 3-minute runtime is just enough for Sleepsang to get his point across. But it’s all within the scope of Calico’s theme, with uneasy atmospheric elements melding into a nervous, throbbing dancefloor energy.
The EP’s title track has a bridging purpose that connects Calico together. It's a fresh representation of what Sleepsang is capable of with his production, capturing what live performances from him in a club setting can sound like: musical data in dark and bass-heavy form with jittery rhythms and a slight touch of weirdness that unifies much of the project.
Enlisting Sam Schorb for the project’s mixing and Declared Sound for its mastering, Calico has the polish such experimental club music deserves – designed to ricochet off a loud soundsystem, it successfully captures the feeling of losing your bearings in a dark venue.
Releases 18 July. Check our Bandcamp (link in bio) for more info and to get the track ‘Calico’ now
Written and produced by @sleepsang
Mixing by Sam Schorb
Mastering by Declared Sound @d.glare
Artwork by Louis Pohl Koseda @lalit_madhav_
Words by Akeem Balogun and Interworld @writtengallery
Work (Audio) - Sound Design, Dialogue Edit and Audio Mix for @jashanw documentary about Sheffield's Bleep Techno scene.
Shown with Q+A at @icalondon 2024
Working with Studio Koseda, I once again provided creative sound design and music for trailers teasing the Royal College of Art’s gradute shows 2024.
This included individual videos for each school (Arts & Humanities, Architecture, Communication, Design) and an overall teaser combining all.
“ This Summer, see work from graduating RCA students at #RCA2024 – a series of exhibitions, events and activities from 20 June to 4 August!
📆 School of Arts & Humanities postgraduate exhibitions and events, 20–23 June
📆 School of Design postgraduate exhibitions and events, Part 1: 12–14 July 2024 and Part 2: 19–21 July 2024
📆 School of Architecture postgraduate exhibitions and events, 12–14 July 2024
📆 The Festival of Communication – a series of events and exhibitions from the School of Communication, selected dates between 17 July and 4 August ”