? Keep Bristol Weird is Boiler Room’s new documentary in partnership with the British Council.
The 21-minute film spotlights an independent community in the West Country enclave, responsible for some of the most exciting music coming out of the UK right now. The multi-voiced story is told by a series of local names key to this Bristol scene: Idle Hands supremo Chris Farrell, the Young Echo crew, Bad Tracking, Mix Nights, Giant Swan, Batu, Hodge, Danielle, E B U, Ossia, Franco Franco & Kinlaw. With their sounds, this group of artists, DJs and performers is fighting against algorithms, influencer culture and the mainstream-ification of electronic music. As music culture shifts ever-more online, Bristol’s underground scene try to keeps things IRL, grassroots and experimental; their boundless artistic energy a reaction to club closures in the city. This thriving DIY scene is pushing the city’s dense musical history in exciting new directions, and creating new sounds from established forms. The documentary traces the roots of this sonic outpouring back to Bristol’s Caribbean community and soundsystem culture, through to Bristolian Dubstep, Grime and Drum & Bass, and beyond to punk, noise and metal. This music community is defined by its eclecticism. In the documentary, Bristol comes across as a supportive place for creatives, where collaboration is prioritised over individualism. The city bristles with sprawling collectives and more independent labels than one can count, including Livity Sound, Timedance, Idle Hands, and Ossia’s multitude of operations.
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Soundtrack:
Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come - Hessle Audio - Copyright Control - 2011 Restriction - Four Point Plan - Copyright Control - Thanks to Bristol Archive Records - 1984 Pinch - Qawwali - Planet Mu - Deep End Publishing - 2006 Hi5Ghost - No Sleep - Hotline Recordings - 2017 Toma Kami - Negative Extasy - Livity Sound - 2019 Hodge - Mindgames - Hotline Recordings - 2014 Bruce - ?on - Hessle Audio - 2018 Bruce - Baychimo - Hessle Audio - 2018 Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru - Livit Sound - 2018 Boofy - Mask And Glove - Bandulu Records - 2016 Kahn & Neek - Shimmer - Unreleased Sunun - UK - Unreleased Young Echo - Baron - Young Echo Records - 2018 Sunun - How Not To Use an MPC - Unreleased Ossia - Dub Hell - Blackest Ever Black - 2018 Ossia - Tumult - Berceuse Heroique - 2017 Ishan Sound - A Wa Yu Want (Instrumental) - Hotline Recordings - 2015 Batu - Shiratini - Timedance - 2019 Batu - Groundwork - Timedance - 2017 Peverelist - Roll With The Punches - Punch Drunk - 2007 Batu - False Reeds - Timedance - 2019 Bruce - Post Rave Wrestle - Timedance - 2016 Franco Franco & Kinlaw - Fat Come - Avon Terror Corps - 2019 Franco Franco & Kinlaw - Positivo - Avon Terror Corps - 2019 Sunun - Z0 - Cold Light (CL003) Sunun - How Not To Use an MPC - Cold Light (CL003) R & D - Trick Track - Burden Imprint - 2018 Bad Tracking - Unnamed Jam - 2019 Burden - Thr3e - Burden Imprint - 2018 E B U - Slivver - NoCorner - 2019 Giant Swan - Earn - FuckPunk - 2016 Giant Swan - The Plaque - Whities - 2018 Hi5Ghost - Holy I$$h - Bandulu - 2017 Relapse - DreIIams - Avon Terror Corps - 2019
Keep Bristol Weird Team:
Hugo Jenkins - Director Ana?s Br?mond - Boiler Room Creative Producer Nathan Greenwood - Editor Holly Wolfers - Black Dog Films Producer Joel Honeywell - Director of Photography Evan Campbell - Sound Designer Jack McGinity @ Cheat – Colourist Josh Wiley - Art Director Stefan Ipaya - Senior Motion Designer Seth De Silva - Senior Motion Designer Alice Bloomfield - Animator (Hodge Bath Animation) Shawn Soh - Senior Motion Designer (Hodge & Bruce Animation) Martin Roker - Black Dog Films Executive Producer Joe Walker - Boiler Room Executive Producer Joe Alexander - Boiler Room Head of Film,