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Meet Grace! In October last year, I ran an Instagram competition to celebrate my first anniversary in this studio. The prize was a year’s worth of Pilates with me: twelve private sessions (one per month) and access to all of my online mat classes. And @graceyfig won!!

Today was our last session, and Grace kindly agreed to let me film it in commemoration of this past year working together. Sound on for chitchat! And doesn’t she look fantastic 😍

I’m so thankful to have ended up with such a brilliant winner, Grace was so committed throughout. She’s an excellent human, and a brilliant DJ who plays about town a lot. Follow her, get down to one of her gigs. ❤️

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New press pics for our @graceyfig 💐

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THIS SATURDAY 🌅⚔️

Amongst the number of our fair land’s strangest traditions is the yearly terminal descent of THE SKIN SHIP. We know from informal record holding- mainly by merchants allied to the members of the crew- that the captaining of this vessel has changed hands/paws/tarsus many times, often bloodily; despite this, the frankly insane tradition of purposefully crashing their wooden zeppelin into the fields of the SOUTHERN LOWLANDS has been kept unaltered since the ship first sailed up off the BAD MOUNTAINS. The plan is simple: all members aboard abandon their posts, make their (way) into the central chamber of the zeppelin and engage in diabolical debauchery. After a few hours of this- as the SKIN SHIP starts to pitch downward without pilot- power from the wooden generators is completely diverted to large speakers and lights. This carries on for as long as the ship is airborne until its iron keel sythes roughly through the meadow below. It is at this point the SKIN SHIP crew hurry back to their posts, to save their vessel from destruction.

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Some pics&vids from the last Positive Harmony with @graceyfig Pulses and @hamie_jouse 🪲✨

Stained glass and lights magic by @bz_stained_glass and @hamie_jouse 🧚

Little making off post coming soon obviously 🤭

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Kickstarting the weekend with a couple of clips from some CROP favourites and special guests who have been delivering the goods inside the kitchen over the past month. We are back in full flow with lots of exciting announcements to come.
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1 - Dig My Box - Allius
2 - Fig
3 - Dropteau Twins
4 - DJ Chaise
5 - Petit Problème
6 - Fastlove
7 - Nadz
8 - DR MYSTERY
9 - Dustbin Digs
10 - Dig My Box - Cersy
11 - d. clemente
12 - Dig My Box - Ngoma
13 - Dustbin Digs
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cropradio.live // M1 2EQ

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Sauntering into autumn while looking back at the brilliant summer guests who graced us over the past few months. We are well and truly back in action, bringing you the best sounds in the North West, delivered straight to your eyes and ears from Port Street, Manchester🌸

Strength In Numbers🍑

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Introducing Fig!

Prolific radio host, podcaster and devoted digger within the outer edges of both club and world music. Fig’s sets weave a plethora of influences from the likes of dub and trip-hop, just as much as post-punk and grungier tendencies.

Between two residencies with Manchester’s Crop Radio and Bristol’s Psychotherapy Sessions, Grace’s selections sit comfortably in warm, cosy corners, as well as the stranger, whimsical side of things.

Catch Fig at the next Positive Harmony on September 19th!

@graceyfig spinning on the local @crop.radio 🌸

Introducing Hamie Jouse!

Jamie’s influence on the Positive Harmony project is seismic. An ultra-curious artist whose sensory experiments span sound, light, and very much the delightful in-between.

Not only is he returning with his beautiful crystal-light work, Jamie will also close out the party with an extended meander through his tastes. Textural chug, peculiar house jams, you name it. We can’t wait to hear the sonics in his bag.

@hamie_jouse gorgeous Seeds mix 🌱

Introducing Pulses!

Two minds close to the heart of PH. Nikol and Opul, aka Chris and Oliver, are joining forces for a collaborative live set. Connected through their penchant for subtlety, restraint and texture, their music lends itself to the ethereal ends.

Jamming in tandem with their Elektron machines, expect long, airy tracks filled with colour.

Pulses’ new Bandcamp release ☁️

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A fig is no ordinary fruit. The dominant ingredient in the packed-lunch favourite Fig Roll, the fig is a luxurious fruit which was first cultivated by donnies in the Middle East approximately 5000 years ago. A prevalent and manifold motif in artistic traditions and symbolic storytelling in cultures ranging from Ancient Egypt to Judaism to stoicism, the Fig has been used to symbolise peace, prosperity, wisdom, and the cycle of life as an inevitable and universal experience across humanity.

What makes the fig unique is that its reproduction and pollination is entirely reliant on the fig wasp - a primordial, symbiotic relationship between beast and plant, one that entails the search, struggle and sacrifice of one being for the creation of something beautiful to be enjoyed by the wider world around us. What a fruit man.

But there’s only one fig that knows how to take a crowd on a journey through chugged-out techno to fizzy-pop downtempo via forgotten vocal house classics. Only one who aint afraid to sling out a curveball to get a dancefloor smiling and waving in unison. Only one that has people from far and wide chatting about their sets at 3 Wheel Drive, Psychotherapy Sessions, Dirtytalk, Saccade and every other good shubs the underground has to offer. Only one that even knows who DMZ are! And, most importantly, there’s only one that’s playing at Fully Peppered.

And that’s our mate Grace - the best fig of all. Another scholar of the Manchester -> Bristol -> Manchester pipeline who we have had the pleasure of having on at our parties and who always brings a vibe as sweet, spicy and full of brandy as your nans fig pudding. Gun-fingers, wafts, pumps and any other motion your hands can form should be primed and ready for this one.

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HALLOWEEN

⛤ Pearson Sound
⛤ Shannen SP
⛤ Iced Lattina
⛤ fig x meterman

Music in the Back Room
Lighting by ex.icon
Chillout Room in the front

Our 7th annual Halloween party and first time hosting it at Strange Brew, we’re joined by UK dance music behemoth Pearson Sound, Mzansi Bass vanguardist Shannen SP, Brussels’-most-blunted Iced Lattina and a special warmup bestie2bestie from fig & meterman.

⛤ Pearson Sound
Emerging from the murk of the mid-00s dubstep continuum as Ramadanman, Pearson Sound has spent the best part of two decades twisting UK club music into ever stranger shapes. His skeletal, pressure-heavy productions sit somewhere between the weirder fringes of UK bass and techno, built from clipped percussion, cavernous negative space and rhythms that seem to move when you’re not looking.

Alongside Ben UFO and Pangaea, he co-founded Hessle Audio, a label that helped redraw the map of UK dance music in the post-dubstep era and remains a defining force in the UK underground. 2016’s monolithic ‘XLB’ became an unlikely festival weapon, while more recent transmissions through Hessle, Timedance and TraTraTrax find Pearson still conjuring strange forms from the dancefloor.

⛤ Shannen SP
Operating at the forefront of London’s nexus for Afrodiasporic dance music, Shannen SP has become one of the leading voices pushing forward the sounds of South Africa’s 3Step, gqom and amapiano, pairing them with an uncanny ear for bassweight drawn from the UK’s soundsystem lineage. From her iconic NTS show to the cult Ø parties she co-curated for Hyperdub alongside Kode9, through to the acclaimed ‘Mzansi Bass’ compilation, her work has built vital new connections between scenes, sounds and dancefloors across the globe.

⛤ Iced Lattina
Kiosk Radio resident and curator of Brussels’ unruly ZaZa parties, Iced Lattina digs through the scuzziest corners of rap’s online underground, pulling from plugg, drill, grime, hexd and a litany of other microgenres. A syncretic selector with a taste for the deep-fried, blown-out and hyper-online, she makes her Bristol debut with us this Halloween.

Warm up comes from PTS resident fig in a special b2b with long time friend of the party meterman

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Three wheel dreams <3 @thethreewheeldrive

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This week at Avalon… come by for a ceilidh for a broken fiddle, experimental American folk music from Cameron Knowler and Adeline Hotel, Friday night club and techno flavours with SLG intl., and celebrate trans+ pride with for a G.L.I.T.S x Ormside projects x Avalon cafe special ✨

Monday 20th: Avalon Choir
/ A drop-in community choir singing a fruity blend of folk/pop/jazzy sounds in acapella harmony, including original compositions and songs of resistance. Meeting for fun, performing sometimes, everyone welcome! £8 a session (cash or card)
19:00-21:00

Tuesday 21st: Ceilidh for a Broken Fiddle
/ A ceilidh hosted by the Stool of Repentance band to fundraise for Alice’s fiddle which was tragically sat on. When we reach our goal the remaining funds will be donated to Feed the Hill SE14 an amazing organisation which addresses food poverty in New Cross
19:30 - 00:00

Wednesday 22nd: Pick Me radio presents:
/ Cameron Knowler and Adeline Hotel
Experimental American folk music and songwriting from Cameron Knowler (Yuma, Arizona) and Adeline Hotel (New York, New York).
19:00 - 23:00

Friday 24th: SLG Intl. w/ Conrad Pack & Fig
/ SLG Intl. welcomes you back for a thrilling evening of club and techno flavours, featuring top track selectors Conrad Pack and Fig alongside our usual team.
19:00 - 02:00

Saturday 25th: True Pride
/ An all-night extravaganza hosted by G.L.I.T.S on the occasion of London Trans+ Pride
19:30 - 04:00

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Early Birds have sold out, and momentum is rising.

Join us on Friday 24 July as we return with a summer transmission, hosted for the first time at @avaloncafebermondsey. @conradpack_ and @graceyfig lead an exploration of new industrial energy and leftfield UK club sounds.

We encourage your attendance as we observe this occasion in the era of Computer Music (TM).

Tickets via RA - link in bio.

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