Our residency and exclusive festival commission Fieldlines is about discovering new grounds for cultural expression and the fourth edition featured Manganiyar artists Bhanwari Devi, @kutlakhan.music , Mahmud & Yusuf Khan, Kambhira Khan, Krishna Kumar and Alser Khan collaborating with British dub figure @viveksystem . Visuals for this special performance were created as part of a collaborative residency with @eyemythfestival called Sightlines, by visual artists @optikbloom@parizad_d and @miss.kotton .
The result was a mesmerising cohesion of sounds, styles and cultures at the 10th edition of Magnetic Fields earlier this month.
📷 @g.shrey@theorionproductions@mjofnone
At Fieldlines 2024, deep frequencies collided with desert melodies as UK bass pioneer @viveksystem joined forces with the esteemed Manganiyar musicians Bhanwari Devi, Alser Khan, Kambhra Khan, Kutla Khan, Krishna Kumar, Mahmud & Yusuf Khan.
In the spellbound halls of Badal Mahal, they lived, jammed and created a sonic tapestry woven from centuries-old traditions and sound system culture before opening up their studio for the festival and presenting a finale in the palace gardens.
Witness a residency where borders blurred and basslines carried stories with our Fieldlines 2024 documentary.
🎥: Elefant @babe_roots@michael_versa@pharaohstyle
We are excited to promote a cover story of @viveksystem , who joins Black Rhino Radio’s 5-year anniversary on May 16, at @clubcontrol .
🎫 Tickets from the link in bio
V.I.V.E.K is one of UK bass music’s under-the-radar builders. As a producer, DJ, label head, and soundman, he has a mythology that begins in Southall, where he absorbed sound-system culture as a teenager. In this context, Southall is more than a birthplace or London suburb. For a British Indian artist working within Jamaican-rooted sound-system culture, it was a lived lesson in musical diaspora, where Punjabi, reggae, dub, and UK streetbeats coexisted without being categorised into neat, little heritage categories.
He describes Aba Shanti-I and Jah Shaka dances as formative experiences, specifically in how a bassline can be skeletal while the rest of the track moves around it.
🔗 Read the full story from the link in bio
Industrial and pensive. A lingering sense of ‘what have we done to this place?’
Construction, smoke and a thick orange haze.
A city defined by scale and progression. Much like the sound of Dubstep itself.
A powerful track by a true legend V.I.V.E.K.
🎶 - V.I.V.E.K ‘Mantra’ (SYSTEM)
@viveksystem@systemmusicuk
#dubstep #london
Thanks to everyone who made it to our 14th Birthday .
Very grateful to everyone who made it out .
Video of @djflight tearing it on the sound .
Bass was heavy !
Next SYSTEM May 9th Bristol TrInity Centre with RUPTURE
we’ve upgraded our subs to the @vasaudiogermany new 18” drivers .
The difference was noticed within 20 minutes of playing .
- Deeper subs
- Deeper tone . Much more tone !
- No smearing when pushed hard .
Running off the infinite 8’s , in those boxes , with our custom mostec “growl” this baseline is DANGER !
OLD SKOOL dirty bass !
