14 FRONTLINES
ALL ABOUT EVESON
The first release on Eveson’s new art/music fusion label GLOBAL BEATS
Channel 82 is almost ready. Look out for promos of Eveson’s
‘State Of Mind’ (ft. Redeyes) / ‘Hotwax’ at the start of June. Bloco Electro is the brainchild of Gavin Lombos, a It’s been a busy year for the band. They combined
As well as forthcoming vinyl and digital download options, musician and producer based in Reading. Gavin set recording and mixing their debut album ‘Global
featured artworks (also created by Eveson) will be released up Beatroots Bateria, Reading’s Samba school in
right alongside the beats as ltd edition prints, ltd clothing the mid-90s. The band became a WOMAD institution Beatbox - Part 1’. “The global beatbox idea comes
runs, and one off canvases. Tune in to www.myspace.com/ leading the massive parade for over ten years. Bloco from my love of world rhythms and old skool
channel82 to check out all forthcoming music and artworks. Electro became a way of taking the excitement of beatboxes,” says Gavin. “Over the last few years I
the festival shows into the clubs. The band takes have played with drummers from Rio to Mumbai and
Eveson also has a 12” forthcoming on Future Thinkin, ‘Dirty the concept Brazilian drumming group (bloco) and we have tried to distill some of those influences into
Habits’ / ‘Anywhere Anytime’, and his remix of Saburuko’s mashes up the rootsy Latin rhythms with other our tunes. ‘Global Beatbox Part 1’ showcases the
‘London’ is currently doing the rounds on dubplate. Also world beats, a generous helping of old skool electro tracks we have been playing live for a while now so
lined up for releases on Future Thinkin in 2008 are Brother and hip-hop beats and then tops it off with forward anyone who has seen us live should enjoy it!” The live
and Subject 13. Future Thinkin are also launching a digital thinking electronica. He’s joined by a core group of show recently wowed Radio 1’s Annie Nightingale
store very soon to provide customers an opportunity to buy drummers playing a mix of traditional percussion prompting her to play their demo CD on her show and
professionally mastered MP3s from the Future Thinkin from Africa to India and all places in between. The to invite them to join her live on her upcoming BBC
catalogue along with exclusive digital only releases. rules are that everything must be played percussively Introducing tour.
- no keyboards, no loops, no decks - just drums and
www.future-thinkin.com some cool technology from v-drums to space-drums. www.blocoelectro.com
FIRST RECORD YOU BOUGHT LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
I recall buying all sorts of cassettes when I was really Not sure: either some Will-Ferrell-starred soccer
young; I bought some early euro-techno stuff that got coach comedy or a movie called Wolf Creek. I’m
me into electronic music. However, the first records writing this on the plane while flying to USA for a tour
I bought were Goldie’s Timeless’ LP and Run DMC’s and I’m actually taking a break from watching Fast
‘Down With The King’ 12”. Show Season 1 DVD... brilliant!
FIRST CLUB YOU WENT TO? LAST VIDEOGAME YOU BOUGHT?
Can’t remember any names: I used to go to lots of Some PSP game...Killzone Liberation, maybe! I
underground raves with my friends in Finland when don’t own any other console; however, I’ve heard
I was around 16. Really really underground vibes... Fallout 3 is only coming out for PS3 and Xbox 360
best times of my life! so I may have to get either of those when the game
is released!
FIRST JOB?
Cutting grass in the countryside! I also damaged LAST TIME YOU GOT ANGRY?
my car when I was doing that... that was one of the I kind of got angry today when I was under a lot of
most embarrassing moments of my entire life. I did stress: my flight was badly late and I thought I’d miss
some post office stuff after that and worked in a the connecting one... it was sitting on the runway
clothing store. after landing and all I wanted to do was to run out to
the gate in order not to miss my flight!
FIRST PAYING GIG?
In the really, really small rural town I grew up in, LAST TIME YOU LIED?
must’ve been in 2000 or so? I was so nervous even I just finished a two-month substitute teacher job at
though hardly any people showed up! a school: I had to fill in a form every Friday and report
the amount of classes I’ve done and I think I rounded
FIRST TUNE YOU MADE? the figures up a bit a few times... does that count as
Oh man, can’t remember... I started making stuff lying? I think telling myself I could live without coffee
with Octamed in 1992 or so. was a big, ugly lie too!
FIRST GIG ABROAD? Fanu has just released ‘The Lodge’ on Karl Records,
Not sure, maybe in Amsterdam for Subversive a crazy breaks-jazz-funk-sampledelia collaborative
Renaissance (still the best D&B event in Holland!). album with Bill Laswell and a group of legendary
jazz musicians.
LAST BOOK YOU READ?
FIRST & LAST: FANU
Some pedagogics stuff for exams. Stuff on why it’s www.fanumusic.com
hard for some immigrants to do well in school.
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