Tenkai

Style: Bass music

Tenkai Say: We make bass music with a post-rock twist. We try to avoid conforming to standard dance music templates, by taking extra care in making sounds and experimenting with unorthodox techniques to make something fresh that we ourselves find interesting but will still work in a rave. We've just recruited an awesome new vocalist and our live show is going to melt your face.

Controvert says: A group of talented musicians with very different backgrounds, the newly-formed Tenkai are moulding a cutting-edge sound that fuses their various musical heritages. In addition to the few short teasers they’ve release so far to whet our collective appetite, Controvert has been given a sneak peek of what’s to come, and it’s tremendous. In the future, there won’t just be a choice between bands or DJs. In the future there will be music like Tenkai.

Find out more: www.facebook.com/tenkai.uk

Subverse

Style: Eclectic

Subverse says: I don't like the idea of being in a box, the music I make has common trends running through it, but I try to never make the same track twice. I love working with real musicians as well as digging for samples, for me trying to get sound from outside of the computer is so important; everyone has the same sample packs, the same plug-ins and has watched the same YouTube videos on how to make that certain bass sound, so that stuff really bores me. I also love recording random stuff from around the house, or doing field recordings and using them in my productions.

Controvert says: The point Subverse makes is a valid one. In an age where more or less anyone can produce electronic music, overall the output has become more homogenised and altogether less interesting. Subverse’s deliberate and admirable effort to seek out sounds and samples that are out-of-the-ordinary pays off; giving his music a warm, almost analogue feel. So, if you haven’t heard Subverse before, you can guarantee you haven’t heard Subverse before.

Find out more: www.facebook.com/SubverseMusic

Free E.P. download: http://subverse-music.bandcamp.com/

Gorgeous George

Style: Gypsy/Jewish/Slavic/Polka/Cossack/Cockney/Chav Folk

Gorgeous George say: We write and perform our own mix of different Eastern European folk music, with a distinct South London wisp. All of our songs are based on people we have come across and either admired, hated or been jealous of. We felt that with this book of acerbic South London folk-lore of ours, we needed a musical backdrop that would really set us apart from acts who cover similar topics to us, from The Streets all the way through to The Enemy. We didn't (and still don't) want people to liken to us to bands like The Jam or The Clash, because when people say that, what they really mean is you sound just like them and you're ripping them off. So we all went through our heritage and ancestry and decided to sound like a Hungarian Bar Mitzvah. Then we got our heads down, got in touch with some serious musicians and learned to play like a Rabbi on drugs.

Controvert says: Often, the music that stands out is created by those musicians that take their influences from less obvious places, and musical influences don’t come much more eclectic than those of Gorgeous George. They have masterfully concocted a blend of cockney shuffle and Balkan gypsy folk, with subject matter seemingly based largely on people they’ve encountered that they think are total wankers. But the originality of this combination of influences isn’t the main thing that makes them interesting; it’s the end result, which is absolutely brilliant.

Find out more: www.facebook.com/gorgeousgeorgetheband