Rudimental are an electronic music group from England. The group consist of Piers Agget, Kesi Dryden, Amir Amor, and DJ Locksmith. Piers, Leon, and Kesi (DJ Locksmith) grew up together in Hackney, East London. The three have known each other before since they lived on the same street, and they met Amir a year later when they did a studio session together. Before working as a group, Amir has worked as one of the producers for names like Plan B. After doing some remixes of Ed Sheeran’s together, the four seemed getting their clique and found out they would work out really well, the quartet came up for a formation as band, and Rudimental were born.

In 2011, the quartet released three singles, ‘Deep in the Valley’ and ‘Speeding’. Both of the singles didn’t really put Rudimental’s name on the map, but it seemed like just a matter of time for the band to strike the music chart. And then the band worked on their soon-to-be massive single, ‘Feel the Love’, the band also found John Newman would perfectly suit to song for their single. When the single was all set and released in the end of 2012, it was like dropping a chemical liquid, the single was such a hit and became the No.1 track in UK. The track also ranked at No.3 in US’ music charts, as the single spreaded out like a virus, Zane Lowe even featured it as the world’s hottest record at the moment. The success was followed by the band’s another single, ‘Not Giving in’, which once again peaked at No.1 for UK’s music dance chart. Rudimental’s electronic music that is wrapped by bass and drums loops with a nice horn riff has hypnotized the dance music lovers to get addicted on their phenomenal tracks. Having influenced by musicians like Dr.Dre, Marvin Gay, and Todd Edwards, Rudimental’s music has its own richness.

On April 29th 2013, Rudimental finally released their debut album, ‘Home’. The debut album also contains of their previous singles, one of them is ‘Waiting All Night’, the another series of successful track from the band. The song also received a gold certification in Australia and a platinum in UK. SPIN Magazine’s Philip Sherburne wrote “…Rudimental are clearly determined to look beyond those limits. Around its buoyant drum’n'bass core, this music ranges widely, taking in neo-soul, retro soul, deep house, hip-house, garage, R&B, and more, often hitting several genres in a single song.”. With Home’s great material, the debut album is surely giving you zero boring moment.

Rudimental have become one of the best group of dance music that will run to the highest peak, by brining up the underground music of London, the band will thrill you with edge music and the hottest tunes of Hip/Hop. Brit Awards nominee and being nominated for Mercury Prize 2013 , Touring from the hypest place like Ibiza to pump-up the sound at world’s best music festivals, and got their slot on Jools Holland under their belt, the quartet knows that it doesn’t happen over night and have known where their musical journey will be heading in the future.

Emily and The Woods, a four piece London-based band are kind enough to compile us a mix for this week’s #MixtapeMonday even though they are in the middle of producing their newest EP. “This eclectic list is made up of many tracks that are important to me. I have a funny mix on my iPhone, but they tend to be the most important songs to me; they inspire and illuminate. Either the lyrics or the singing itself jump out at me first and each of these tracks have a stand-out quality to me!” said Emily. We really enjoy this mix and we hope you can enjoy it as much as we do!

Tracklist:

1. Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree
2. Bob Dylan – You’re a Big Girl Now
3. Willy Mason – Oxygen
4. Kendrick Lamar – Growing Apart (To Get Closer Together)
5. Hannah Cohen – Crying Game
6. Haitus Kaiotye – Malika
7. Fyfe – St Tropez
8. Foals – Late Night
9. Frank Ocean – Monks
10. Atoms For Peace – Ingenue
11. Erykah Badu – Certainly (live version 1997)
12. Ane Brun – Do You Remember
13. Amy Winehouse – I Heard Love Is Blind

The atmosphere of KOI Restaurant and Gallery 3rd level was warm and intimate, like a private standing party where everyone knows everyone. Around 7 pm, the hosts stepped on the stage and began the event.

It takes two to tango, so is fashion sense and business sense. Both needs to be intertwined beautifully to dance among the industry. So while the Fashion Design students crafted their collection, the event was entirely organized by six students from Fashion Marketing and Management courses. They are Alexandra Roselyn, Kristel Halim, Michelle Othman, Stephanie Sekar, Indah Nugrahanny and Meitia Rizky.

After the opening band by Sounday and make-up tutorial by Clinique, the fashion show started. Inspired by the style multiplicity of Oxford Circus, the twelve Fashion Design students presented their ready-to-wear couture collection. There were various interpretation of the busy intersection of Oxford street and Regent Street in the West End of London; like Emily with her elegantly sexy collection from recycled denim, Lydia’s collection in a mixture of Majapahit Kingdom and China, or Jennifer Jean and her projection of a forest beautiful mess.

To create fashion collection and to held the show, we’d say that the tango was performed nicely.

“No! We’re like Birmingham’s biggest buzz band but we just want to represent London,” said Ellie Rowsell, the frontwoman of Wolf Alice, to NME. We’ll put that as a starter just in case you guys will put them along with Birmingham’s bands like Peace or Swim Deep. Wolf Alice might be your average indie band, but they are starting to be the ones to watch. The band consist of Ellie Rowsell, Joel Amey, Joff Oddie, and Theo Ellis, were formed in 2010. Wolf Alice’s early root was basically a country slash folk-infused psych rock but later when the rhythm section joined, they turned into rock-pop with some fiery and loud tunes in it.

At the beginning, Wolf Alice was Ellie Roswell’s solo project. The story is simple, Ellie and Joff were planning to create a MySpace’s page, then later completed by the additions of Joel Amey and Theo Ellis. If you listen to their ‘Leaving You’, you’ll recognize them as a solo affair, but the song gradually shows a sound of a fully-formed band. The name of the band was picked from an Angela Carter’s novel.

In 2012, they released their first self-titled EP and a single, ‘Leaving You’. Wolf Alice’s Leaving You has earned an airplay on BBC Radio, the band also have spotted by NME to their Radar’s list and featured as one of the most exciting new bands in 2013. In the same year, Wolf Alice did some touring with Peace. The band are not bringing some heavy material music (that contains of random idealist thoughts) but they bring this sweetness, light, full of friendship stuffs, especially in their song ‘Bros’. Ellie Roswell described their music as “It was teen self-indulgence in a way, if that makes sense. When you’re 16 and you hate your parents, boys don’t fancy you and your friends didn’t invite you to their sleepover. You think you’re going through something no one understands so you write a song about it and it makes you feel better. Also I just wanted to be Avril Lavigne…obviously.”

Wolf Alice might be known for their sweety friendship songs, but you can get yourself to listen to ‘Fluffy’, which was released in February 2013. Fluffy is more to a pop-rock loud song that will snab people’s ears with the repetitive loud part, “Set Free! Set Free!”, on its chorus. Wolf Alice are just a pure work of the London four-piece that will suit your life’s soundtrack. You may ask more about Wolf Alice’s songs, just wait for them as Ellie confirmed the band have bunch of songs that they would like to show to a wide listener, but they are only available for the live shows. So, we can only say “keep calm and listen to Wolf Alice”.