Download: Jade 'Don't Walk Away' (JBS remix)

2010 summer anthem alert! Our friends at Pollinate Records are giving away a free download of their latest track, a dizzying kwaito-style remix of Jade's r&b classic 'Don't Walk Away' by Jumping Black Slash.

Download: Jade 'Don't Walk Away' (JBS remix)

If you want to hear more in a similar vein then join label boss Rob Pollinate as he touches down at our Stop Making Sense party next Thursday at Favela Chic (deets below) with a bag-load of bass-bothering beats.

We can't wait...

STOP MAKING SENSE PARTY
THURSDAY 29th JULY
@ FAVELA CHIC
LIVE: LOOSE FIT
DJS: ROB POLLINATE + MADERA VERDE
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am
www.favelachic.co.uk

Party time: SMS bring the beach to London!

You can't say we're not good to you...following on from roadblocked SMS parties back to back in East and West London earlier in the year we're back, bringing another sun-kissed taster of what you can expect from our first festival in Croatia this September.

On Thursday 24th June we hit Favela Chic with lives bands Rogue Nouveau - the jazz-hip-hop-soul brainchild of sassy singer/MC Natalia Sheppard (pictured, above) - and Hannah and the Heartbreak, whose previously toured with Martina Topley-Bird and is part of North London's vibrant warehouse scene. Support on the night comes from SMS favourite cumbia-championing world music renegade Russ Jones and resident Madera Verde.

The night after, on Friday 25th June, we return to Notting Hill Arts Club with an all-out electronic affair headlined by secretsundaze resident Giles Smith with special guest Lakuti of sud electronic fame. Expect cutting edge house and techno with a distinctly cool, continental flavour.

See you 'pon the floor...

THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
@ FAVELA CHIC
LIVE: ROGUE NOUVEAU + HANNAH AND THE HEARTBREAK
DJS:  RUSS JONES + MADERA VERDE
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am

FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
@ NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB
DJS: GILES SMITH (secretsundaze)+ LAKUTI (süd electronics)
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
Nearest tube: Notting Hill / Tel: 020 74604459
Free entry before 8pm, £6 before 11pm, £8 after / 7pm – 2am

Stop Making Sense takeover London!

Following our riotous, rammed-to-the-rafters party at Favela Chic last month, at the end of May Stop Making Sense will be taking over clubs in East and West London to bring the capital a flavour of the musical delights and good times-writ large that you can expect at our debut festival this September!

On Thursday 27th May we return to Favela Chic with a live show by Giles Peterson faves The Worm, specialists in West African blues and riffs, with support from DJs Gringo Da Parada and SMS resident Madera Verde.

The next night, on Friday 28th May, we head across town to take-over Notting Hill Arts Club with tripped-out house and disco specialists Loose Fit and Culprit 1, with SMS mix heroes Allez Allez ably manning the ones and twos.

Back East, on the same Friday, we hit fast-rising new venue The Camp, with the quite frankly amazing Joana and the Wolf (pictured, above) playing live alongside teen stars Fran and Josh and DJs from our friends at FACT magazine ripping it up.

Join us!

SMS LONDON PARTIES

Thursday 27th May
@ FAVELA CHIC
LIVE: THE WORM
DJS: GRINGO DA PARADA + MADERA VERDE
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am

Friday 28th May
@ NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB
LIVE: LOOSE FIT + CULPRIT 1
DJS: ALLEZ ALLEZ
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
Nearest tube: Notting Hill / Tel: 020 74604459
Free entry before 8pm, £6 before 11pm, £8 after / 7pm – 2am

Friday 28th May
@ THE CAMP
LIVE: FRAN AND JOSH + LONGJON LA FLECHA + JOANA AND THE WOLF
DJS: FACT
The CAMP, 70-74 City Road, London EC1Y
Nearest tube: Old Street / Tel: 020 7253 2443
Free / 7pm – midnight

Stop Making Sense presents...East vs West

Get a flavour of the musical anarchy and sun-kissed freewheelin' spirit of Stop Making Sense next week at our East meets West double-header of sure-to-be riotous London parties.

On Thursday 29th April, SMS mix stars (download below!) Latin Dub Soundsystem and Movimentos' Cal Jader will be bringing their cumbian-latin-dancehall-dubstep soundclash to the good people (er, that's you) at Favela Chic.

The following night, on Friday 30th April, SMS hits the Notting Hill Arts Club with super-talented teenage flamenco troubadours Fran and Josh, who are bringing their genre-trashing musical fusion to our first festival in Croatia in September.

Join us!

Thursday 29th April
LATIN DUB SOUNDSYSTEM, LONGJON LA FLECHA, DJ CAL JADER & SEBILIO @ FAVELA CHIC
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HZ / Tel: 0207 6134228. Nearest tube: Old Street
Entry free before 9pm - £3 after / 7pm – 1am

Friday 30th April
FRAN AND JOSH, LONGJON LA FLECHA & DJ RICHARD NORRIS @ NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
Nearest tube: Notting Hill / Tel: 020 74604459
Free entry before 8pm, £6 before 11pm, £8 after / 7pm – 2am

SMS party at Favela Chic!

Get a taste for what our sun-kissed festival on the Adriatic Coast is gonna be like by swinging by Favela Chic in Shoreditch next Thursday night for the second in our series of free monthly club nights (last Thursday of every month) showcasing talent appearing at Stop Making Sense.

Playing live on Thursday 25th March are City Reverb, a hotly-tipped trio influenced as much by Kraftwerk as Nick Drake who played at the Tate last year and are sure to deliver a smattering of the eclectic styles we can expect from this years inaugural SMS festival.

Also appearing on stage will be Brightonian female duo The Wellingtons (pictured, above), whose enchanting folk pop will stir even the hardiest cynic. On hand with the platters that matter are long-time Balearic and melodic house champion Chris Coco, need2soul head honcho Alex Ruello and global soundclash renegade Madera Verde.

See you 'pon the dancefloor people...

Stop Making Sense, volume 2
'A new breed of musical anarchy'
Thursday 25th March 2010
7pm-1am, Free entrance before 9pm, £3 after
Favela Chic
91-93 Great Eastern Street
London EC2 (nearest tube: Old Street)

3 days & nights of musical anarchy by the sea!

So, here we go...welcome to the Stop Making Sense blog, a beatific, sun-kissed showcase for this summer's brand new international music festival with an irreverently independent vibe.

Each week, you can get a taste of Stop Making Sense right here on the blog, where we'll be providing you with exclusive DJ mixes from SMS' extended friends and family (more below) plus in-depth artist interviews, promoter profiles, competitions, videos, festival updates and much more besides!

Showcasing quality live acts & DJs in the sunshine and under the stars, Stop Making Sense brings London, Glasgow & Paris’ hottest club & concert promoters to come together from 3-5 September 2010 in paradise - a beautiful woody peninsula in the village of Petrçane on the stunning Adriatic coast of Croatia.

With beach and boat parties galore, and a soundtrack ranging from Detroit techno to Afro-beats via jazz, house, disco and a whole swathe more - revellers can do as much or a little as they please!

Complete with a sterling line up soon to be announced, SMS is curated by music lovers and promoters NEED2SOUL, THE C.A.M.P, SWAP-A-RAMA, DEVIATION, OPTIMO, SUB CLUB, SUD ELECTRONIC, SECRETSUNDAZE, MOVIMIENTOS, WARM, FACT, DON’T PANIC, FAVELA CHIC, ALLEZ ALLEZ & FANTASY ISLAND.

We'll be announcing our quite-frankly mind-blowing (if we do say so ourselves) line-up right here next week, so be sure to make this your first point of call come Monday morning. Till then amigos...