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  • Got a download code?

    Got a download code?

    If you bought a copy of the new Lopez EP, you should have noticed you're entitled to a free download of the new release. To claim your free download, visit http://downloads.keepup.co.uk/ and fill in your download code. The code can be found on the dead wax of the 12", it's a 2 word code in capitals. All future Keep Up! releases will feature download codes, so even if you like the digital, you can keep loving the vinyl.

    Invisible A, May 17, 2010

  • Tom Central appears at the Drop Beats Not Bombs festival

    Tom Central appears at the Drop Beats Not Bombs festival

    Tom Central has just been confirmed on the bill for the first Drop Beats Not Bombs Summer Camp festival. The festival is in aid of CND and all acts are donating their fees to the cause. The weekender takes place on the last weekend in July on the South Downs overlooking Brighton. Tom will be appearing on the Saturday. The full line-up is yet to be decided, but you can keep up to date here and also check back to this site for more information nearer the time. If you're early with ticket...

    Tom Central, May 13, 2010

  • Debruit Live !!

    Debruit Live !!

    Right, pay attention Saturday 1st May, New Perspectives presents one of the hottest up and coming artists you're going to see this year. Originally hailing from the other side of the channel, Xavier Thomas, better known as dÉbruit, is a true wizard of new era funk. Just back from wowing crowds at SXSW with a sound that jumps and skips between african rhythms, broken hip hop drum machines and heavy synth lines, we're very glad to have him in such an intimate venue. With such a wide range...

    Ave Blast, Apr 21, 2010

  • Architeq Live!!!

    Architeq Live!!!

    Following last month's well received musical excursions, New Perspectives is very proud to present the first of our live guests for the year, the mighty Architeq. From the moment we heard the Bird of Prey EP, way back in 2008, with it's raw synth and echo unit action, we knew that Samuel Annand, aka Architeq, was destined for big things. Skip forward to 2010, and the release of his critically acclaimed first album, Green + Gold on Tirk Records, we decided The Social would be the perfect venue...

    Ave Blast, Mar 18, 2010

  • New Lopez EP forthcoming on Keep Up!

    New Lopez EP forthcoming on Keep Up!

    Our favourite Paraguayans Lopez are gearing themselves for the release of their brand new EP titled Zapping. It's a five-track journey with one foot back in the synth-based 80s boogie sound and the other firmly in the present. If you loved Jellybean (which received love from such luminaries as High Contrast and Mr Scruff), then Zapping will hit all the right notes. To celebrate Zapping's release, Lopez have made a mix of past, present and future boogie including tracks forthcoming on the...

    Tom Central, Mar 14, 2010

  • New Perspective 6th Of March

    New Perspective 6th Of March

    After last months packed affair, March sees the New Perspectives DJs bringing back the boom bap, and looking for the perfect beat, as we explore the sounds and scenes of the new beat. From the latest MPC masters and heavy synth wizards, we'll take an all points journey through the future old school, and paying special attention to where we came from and where we're at. As the night goes on, we'll be sliding the up tempo, and turning the filters on, in preparation for our exclusive live...

    Ave Blast, Feb 24, 2010

  • Forthcoming: Alex Nut joins Keep Up! @ New Perspectives

    Forthcoming: Alex Nut joins Keep Up! @ New Perspectives

    Joining us on our adventures this month will be Rinse FM resident and acclaimed DJ of the moment, Alexander Nut. If you've managed to catch his Mixed Nuts radio show, Saturdays 1pm till 3 on Rinse FM, you'll know that his broad spectrum of musical interests spans a worldwide family of the latest and greatest new era hip hop, post funk and soul (plus everything in between). In fact, his selection skills go so far that Phonica Records (one of London's leading record shops) named his Rinse:08...

    Tom Central, Jan 23, 2010

  • Tom Central in Eastern Europe. 1 more gig to come

    Tom Central in Eastern Europe. 1 more gig to come

    Tom will be shortly embarking on a little jaunt around Eastern Europe in the beginning of February. Taking in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania Tom joins Solid Steel's incredible decknologist Cheeba on three nights. First stop Thessaloniki, Greece on Friday 5 February. From there we head to Bulgarian Ski resort and pick of the clubs Oxygen on the following night. The final leg (although Tom might be staying a little later than Cheeba to complete a forth gig) will be in the Romania Capital...

    Tom Central, Jan 23, 2010

  • P. Lopez in new Hip Hop video

    P. Lopez in new Hip Hop video

    P. Lopez, one the Lopez crew has been working hard in the studio. Beside finishing mixing the next Lopez EP for Keep Up! he recently just produced this new track for Paraguayans Hip Hop collective Denots Mc's, out on Universal real soon. Check the Video here: Find it here

    Ave Blast, Jan 10, 2010

  • MFT takes a Christmas vacation

    MFT takes a Christmas vacation

    Music for Film & Television, Tom Central's midweek movie music night is taking a little sojourn for the Christmas and New Year. It'll give Tom a chance to stock on TV themes and you to recover from the festival season before it all starts again mid-January 2010. Keep an eye on the [http://www.keepup.co.uk/nights](Nights) page for more information as soon as it breaks. Or you could even join the MFT Facebook group here

    Tom Central, Nov 30, 2009