Music

1st Fri­day of the Month:

Beats and Bass

Runs every first Fri­day of the month, with AON res­id­ent DJs Nicky D, Spi­gel­tron and Akuma. Between them they have played along­side the likes of Tim West­wood, Shut Up & Dance and DJ Krust, and have been host­ing nights at Hive since 2008. The night brings you all the best in breaks, dub­step, dutty house, rave clas­sics, 2-step, grime, uk funky, drum & bass, jungle, and any­thing else that’ll get the crowd mov­ing their feet. So come party with us!

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1st Sat­urday of the month: Sidetraked

Side­traked is a newly expan­ded night at Brixton‘s Hive venue com­bin­ing the soul­ful strains of deep, melodic drum and bass with the same eclectic array of beats and breaks from a whole host of jazzy and down­beat genres the night was foun­ded on. Brought to you by pro­duc­tion duo and learned DJs in their own right, Theo Ack­royd and Alex Sar­tori A.K.A Sys­tem­at­ics, the night brings together some of the key d&b dub­plate spe­cial­ists and esteemed vinyl crate dig­gers united in their desire to provide a hearty altern­at­ive to the com­mer­ci­al­ity and chees­iness on offer else­where in clubland.

For the past few months it’s had the same tight team of res­id­ents build­ing on its suc­cess, with Chris Inta­face, the Future Thinkin crew and Sar­tori play­ing d&b upstairs, while Theo Ack­royd, Jazz John and Stu­art Wade down­stairs provide a nimble, play­ful array of dusty vinyl gems, from acid jazz and hip-hop antiquit­ies to chunky broken beat or samba beats.
Start­ing out life as a live music jazz/funk jam in Guild­ford and expand­ing before relo­cat­ing it in Lon­don, Side­traked wel­comed Alex Sar­tori to its fold after he returned from a year long stint in Bris­tol, where he had staged the first Move­ment night in the city and manned the decks at big nights such as Ran­dom Concept at Bris­tol Academy. Shortly after team­ing up with Theo Ack­royd, they were mak­ing d&b together in the stu­dio. It seemed only logical that Alex should use his expert­ise in d&b, stretch­ing back to his long run­ning stint at weekly Tempo at the Dog­star in 2002, to cur­ate a d&b room at Sidetraked.

Hav­ing soundtracked a few sweaty sum­mer evening’s fest­iv­it­ies dur­ing 2011 they took up the offer to con­tinue as a monthly, on every first Sat­urday of the month and New Years’ Eve 2011/12.


THE RESIDENTS


UPSTAIRS: Soul­ful Drum & Bass

FUTURE THINKIN’ CREW
As well as being respons­ible for a suc­ces­sion of exclus­ive 12”s by Skitty, Sur­vival, Sabre and Tech­nical Itch via their label of the same name, the Future Thinkin crew have joined the Side­traked line up as res­id­ents on a monthly basis, DJs Danny Exile and DM Cut rep­res­ent­ing at the decks, bring­ing you their latest dub­plates and digital exclus­ives, while MC Shylo, Lady Mc and I-One whip up the assembled with some nimble mic skills. Just hear their long run­ning Monday night show between 7pm and 9pm on KoolFM 94.5 and www​.kool​lon​don​.com for fur­ther proof of their all round brilliance.

CHRIS INTAFACE
The list of nights and clubs around the world that Chris has played the infam­ous Move­ment, Hos­pit­al­ity, Intrigue in Bris­tol, Marky and Friends, Fab­ric, Herbal, The Bass in Brazil, and many other hot nights includ­ing his res­id­ency at the equally legendary Swerve. His radio shows, mean­while, first for Kiss 100, then Min­istry of Sound and Kool FM, are so sought up after that he recently dis­covered old edi­tions selling on dodgy Rus­sian web­sites selling for $19.99 a pop! You can cur­rently hear him on KoolFM 94.5 / www​.kool​lon​don​.com every Monday from 9pm-11pm..


SARTORI
Res­id­ent and pro­gram­mer of the upstairs d&b room. Sar­tori is best known for being the pro­moter and DJ who brought the legendary Move­ment night to Bris­tol, but cut his teeth on the Brix­ton scene such as Tempo at Dog­star and Tele­graph, One Nation at Brix­ton Academy, Night Vis­ion at Jamm, and oth­ers. Finally find­ing him­self on the same bills as his old skool her­oes like Fabio, Nicky Black­mar­ket and Bryan Gee after years put­ting in the graft, his more recent sets have con­cen­trated more and more on the sound he’s found in the stu­dio as one half of Ack­royd & Sar­tori, slip­ping in hand­fuls of tunes from else­where in the more relaxed, party-friendly end of the drums spectrum.


DOWNSTAIRS: Jazz Lounge

THEO ACKROYD
Theo Ack­royd DJ, pro­moter and pro­du­cer for over a dec­ade, but always a music col­lector at heart – he‘s even been known to dis­ap­pear to Brazil to try to sat­isfy his insa­ti­able thirst for elu­sive vinyl. His sets are a crate digger’s delight, tak­ing you from a rare jazz find to the exhil­ar­a­tion of Brazilian bossa, to the throb of Afrobeat and right back to home-grown broken dance-floor fillers and left­field dub­step exper­i­ments. After exper­i­ence on pir­ate radio and on the live jazz/funk scene in Guild­ford, not to men­tion high pro­file slots at the Cam­den Jazz Café, and increas­ingly com­puls­ive vinyl buy­ing, he teamed up with fel­low crate dig­ging enthu­si­ast DJ Jazz Jon and relo­cated Side­traked in Lon­don in 2009. “For me, it’s all about tim­ing and bring­ing audi­ences into the pro­cess,” he says, “One minute we can be get­ting down to Roy Ayers and the next, Phar­oah Sanders, fol­lowed by Burial or Four Tet’’ Theo loves look­ing back whilst keep­ing his feet firmly in the day, and leav­ing no gem left unheard!

DJ JAZZ JON
Soul/funk/jazz and broken beat spe­cial­ist Jon star­ted his DJ career in Guild­ford, Sur­rey at the start of the acid jazz boom and is fam­ous for his ori­ginal vinyl col­lec­tion and has even been known to travel to the far corners of Amer­ica to find the unknown. He was one third of the fam­ous Melt­ing Pot crew who played all around Sur­rey back in the 90′s, but break­ing away he star­ted his own night called Stomped & Wasted with north­ern soul icon Ian Clark then joined the Acid Jazz Magic Bus along side DJs Chris Brown and Mark Web­ster. Also play­ing guest spots every­where from Crete to Chicago (at the fam­ous “Funky Budda Lounge”), Cam­den Jazz Café and 100 Club in Oxford Street, he’s also done numer­ous radio shows with long time DJ buddy K.J.

STUART WADE
Stu­art Wade is the cre­ator, dir­ector, pro­du­cer and main man of Down To The Bone, lead­ing lights of the live jazz/funk/acid jazz scene who recently dropped their 10 track album ’The Main Ingredi­ents‘, fea­tur­ing a host of tal­en­ted musi­cians formerly from pion­eer­ing jazz/funksters like Snow­boy and his Latin Sec­tion, the Incog­nito live band, Joey Negro’s Sun­burst Band and even The Spe­cials. Hav­ing sold over 500,000 releases with the band, Stu­art isn’t averse to spin­ning a few records him­self either, hav­ing col­lec­ted through­out his entire career and amassed a col­lec­tion to be envied. 


All set in the uniquely friendly and relaxed Hive Bar just off Brix­ton High Street towards the recre­ation centre, with its pulsat­ing mod lounge upstairs, and brightly lit chill out space, not to men­tion a smoker-friendly out­door street garden giv­ing it a café feel, admis­sion is FREE and the bar also serves a mean array of food. If you’re tired of queuing in super­clubs like cattle and moody punters but don‘t want to miss out on your cut­ting edge sounds, Side­traked at The Hive is the altern­at­ive you‘ve been look­ing for!

Second Fri­day of the month:

Pest

Chand­ler and Mar­ri­ott grew up together in Mat­lock, Derby­shire, Eng­land. Chand­ler stud­ied music in Liv­er­pool, and Mar­ri­ott in Lon­don. It was there that Mar­ri­ott met the oth­ers and the band began.
After releas­ing their first music on white labels, they were signed to Ninja Tune and have released two albums so far. The band is cur­rently work­ing on their third stu­dio album, rumored to be released in late 2010.
Pest set up their own record label in 2006, called Panic Bridge. The label has released has so far released the band’s 12″ single Zuper­man, and a white label EP fea­tur­ing Ben Mal­lott (under the name Ben Pest)
In 2009, Matt Chand­ler released a jazz album, entitled After Mid­night. The album is some­times lis­ted under the col­lect­ive name Matt Chand­ler Trio, and fea­tures Karl Bing­ham of Pin­ski Zoo and Ian Beestin.

3rd Fri­day of the Month:

Reclaim­ing the soul

Play­ing the best in pro­gress­ive soul, funk , afro, latin, jazz and bey­ond from past, present & future with select­ors DJs manVSwife (United80)& Phoenix Black.