Dates: Saturday 1 June
Time: 10pm - 4am
Place: The Gig Space, Level 5
Access: There is step-free access via a lift
The South London Soul Train is back at Peckham Levels for a bruk beat special!
This June, SLST are dropping an almighty future soul special featuring one of the hottest Bruk Beat acts on the scene today - the sonically bubbling, keyboard drifting, dancefloor igniting WHEELUP (LIVE).
Support comes in the form of legendary South London DJs THE HANDSON FAMILY + special guest vocalist VANESSA FREEMAN and JAZZHEADCHRONIC who’ll be dropping an eclectic funk, soul, breaks and heavy broken beats set to kick off the show.
WheelUP is the moniker of West London’s broken beat revivalist, producer, DJ and Balamii resident – Danny Wheeler. Releasing his debut EP “Bulawayo” on the legendary CoOperation Records; singles “Self Healing Machine”, “Vitruvian Man”, EP’s “Ndebele” and “Wanezi” on his home label Tru Thoughts, as well as a double A side single for Future Bounce (Jamz Supernova’s imprint) – all in all Danny has cemented the WheelUP name as part of the new school of bruk – garnering approval from respected radio and club DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Toddla T, Mary Anne Hobbs, Ben UFO, Bonobo, Laurent Garnier and more.
Influenced by the likes of Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, LTJ Bukem, Krust and Kaidi Tatham, as well as being personally mentored by Afronaut and Adam F, Danny grew up inside the epicentre of BRUK, being studio neighbours with some of the key players in the game including IG Culture, Bugz in the Attic and Goya Music (the leading vinyl distributor of bruk music).
Originating from the drum and bass world as Danny Wheeler, Danny turned his hand to the burgeoning sound of West London’s resurgent scene, Wheeler was knighted the name ‘WheelUP’ by non-other than Afronaut, the founder of ‘Bugz in the Attic’ and a pioneer of the broken beat genre, who has cited WheelUP as “the best thing to come out of the broken beat scene right now!”
Local South London husband and wife team, Handson Family (Cyndi Anafo & Chris Ellis) have been DJing and promoting primarily independent music in the capital for over two decades. Passionate about South London’s legacy of Black music club culture and the community they were raised in, HF have turned their hands to many creative ventures beyond DJing including sound creation, booking artists, client tailored events, running pop-up spaces and social media content management.
VANESSA FREEMAN:
Singer, songwriter and exceptional performer Vanessa is one of the most exciting black female voices to the hit the UK in recent years and destined to be added to the pantheon of singers credited to the 'Nu Soul' movement alongside Erykah Badu, Angie Stone and Peven Everett.
'JAZZHEADCHRONIC' DJ Mickey Smith has been successfully promoting and DJ hosting his own progressive - eclectic jazz fused globalistic events for over thirty years. Renowned for his positively aggressive and highly charged eclectic good time sets of soul, funk, groove, motown, disco, latin and future sets of broken to afro beat, jungle to drum & bass + hip hop - One thing’s for sure, whenever or wherever Jazzheadchronic Mickey Smith plays, the dance floor blows up and the crowd always, but always feel it.
The South London Soul Train will be taking all passengers on a non-stop magical mystery tour through all things too damn funky. Passengers are requested to check their souls at the station, as this one's for good time party people only! See you on the dancefloor.