After the collaboration with Kiat and Max Lane for SYNDICATE Sessions at Esplanade last year, Koflow is set to unleash an exclusive solo live set for our second anniversary. Here’s a sneak peek of what the turntable instrumentalist has in-store for us. This special mix includes tracks from Eprom, Max Lane, edIT, DJ Food, El Michels Affair, 16Bit & Freddy Todd.

A warm laid back mix that features music from Max Lane, Slugabed, Tokimonsta, Cherry Chan and B Bravo amongst others.

Some of you might have heard or seen it but we are here to confirm it. SYNDICATE will be gracing the stage of Worldwide Festival 2011 in its hometown in Sète, France.

Flying the Singapore flag high, Kiat, Cherry and Max Lane will be dishing out their beats live under the European summer sun on the opening day of the 5-day festival.

To commemorate our official announcement, here’s a special mini-mix filled with many exclusive and unreleased beats from the crew.

The air seems strangely calm, husbands kiss wives, children play unaware of the pending change, life as they knew it would never be the same again. The spread of information intensifies, people are more aware.

// JPS (The Operatives)

DJ Irk steps back up to the Solid Steel decks for the first time since winning last year’s MOTY title, bringing with him his usual knack for juxtaposing quality track sequences with detailed scratch prowess and absurd sampling.

Throw in a Bonobo track from the NinjaTune XX celebrations and a couple of UK hiphop giants on the way then it’s over to the dubstep and breaks for a solid landing.

Great mix to check out before the SYNDICATE audiovisual show featuring JPS from The Operatives on 2nd April. See you all on Saturday!
 

A track by Max Lane has been recently featured in a free beats compilation released by Belgium-based label, Urban Waves.

Exploring all kinds of urban music featuring artists from all over the world, this compilation is totally free. It’s made of new and exclusive material, some tracks that were already posted but never accessible to download, and another few that came from recent releases. In other words a lot of fine artists to discover or rediscover.

Download the Urban Waves Compilation album on Bandcamp.

Gonzo returns from the excellent dub odyssey and drops us a fierce Happy Birthday SYNDICATE! mix featuring tracks from Antipop Consortium, Foreign Beggers, Tha Trickaz, Tokimonsta & Mt Kimbie. We can’t stop this guy’s awesome selection!

Come early to the next SYNDICATE on 5th Feb 2011 @ Homeclub and catch his debut set. We want his crate!

Slightly more than a year ago, a bunch of us got together to mastermind a new movement that will take sterile Singapore by storm.

Well, not really. We were just a bored bunch entertaining our delusions by thinking of a monthly night that blends the earworms in our collective play-lists and eye-candy clips we so often see on createdigitalmotion.com.

Despite the delusions, there was somehow a silent consensual agreement amongst our adult selves that the concept will fade away after 6 months and we will resume with our lives till the next crazy idea hits us. Fast-forward 12 months later, well, that didn’t happen too.

What better way to wind down after a crazy year of beats, bassbins and vibes than to have a year-end mix prepared for us by the one and only Gonzo, SYNDICATE’s unofficial favourite downtempo DJ! Slip this mix on, turn down the lights, turn up the bass and drift into dub bliss…

About Gonzo

adj. [ˈgän-(ˌ)zō]

1. idiosyncratically subjective but engagé
2. freewheeling or unconventional especially to the point of outrageousness
3. bizarre, weird, crazy, eccentric

Gonzo is all about discovering strange things that have been ignored and rediscovering old things that have been forgotten. A regular flea market enthusiast in all the countries he calls home (Mexico, France, Singapore to name only the last three), he looks for forgotten music, unknown films, discarded photos or abandoned furniture, and always manages to transform them into something appealing.

http://the-gonzo.com/
http://8tracks.com/gonzo440

Max Lane’s western end crew, upp/circular, presents another round of podcast that marries his two collectives together. Kiat plays the special guest this time round as the two serve their staple of bouncy beats & rumbling bass.