Crash of Moons with Chroma and ZenSay

Thursday 24th January 2019
UCA Bar, Canterbury
 

A set from In'ovative, the main man behind the ZenSay collective, some extraordinary beatboxing from Mista (Dom) Wolfe, then a collaboration between the two. Chroma = Bobby C + Ash Noremac, quite trap-oriented, but thoughtful and well done, good energy. Good crowd, really into it. Then the cypher, with hastily assembled jam band: Matt from Witchdoctor on drums, Richard Armstrong on keyboards, etc, Neil from Lapis on guitar, Andy Prowse on bass, Ellen Tasou on flute, and three saxes - Oli Genn-Bash, Jules Madjar and someone called Nigel. No time for soundcheck and monitoring issues meant the band struggled to hear themselves, but the beats and basslines were strong, the horns, guitars and waveforms unintentionally smearing all over the soundspace in a Sun Ra Arkestra kind of way. And the MCs (Humble Pious, Reminisce, Jack Mythos, In'ovative) passed the mic and spat endless bars over this pulsing sonic weirdness, with a solid crowd of people dancing enthusiastically to the whole thing. Nice to see. Laszlo (Humble Pious) was gently pressured into compering the event, and did an excellent job of creating a vibe and drawing the crowd up the front.

Here are my DJ mixes (operating as Profe$$or Appleblo$$om on this occasion) from before/between/after the acts. We got to carry on til almost 1a.m., so there's a lot of hiphop here, starting fairly introspective, getting more party-oriented in the later sets: