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Gorgon City’s next single Go All Night is a straight up old-school flavoursome house banger featuring Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning Jennifer Hudson.  Wilkinson has taken this and twisted it in to a D&B slammer – transporting you from the New York clubs of 91, to a UK underground warehouse rave up.  Go All Night is lifted from Gorgon City’s album Sirens.

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Halloween parties were rife across the weekend and we were treated to an incredible treat up in Manchester, which was this year’s chosen location for Vevo’s annual Halloween bash.

The prestigious Victoria Warehouse, which also plays hosts to the city’s Warehouse Project, was transformed into a mock military base and the 5,000 strong revellers were treated to a terrifying apocalypse maze complete with various undead characters who were hell-bent on terrifying guests who were en-route to the main stage where each of the acts performed, to a sold-out crowd. Stars who performed at the party included show-opener Labrinth, Ella Eyre, Rixton and Gorgon City, who brought along Zak Abel, Laura Welsh and Yasmin to guest vocal on some of their hits.

It was a homecoming gig for the Rixton boys who all hail from the city. Lead singer Jake Roche said “We have a few family and friends coming down and its always special coming back here. The fans go crazy, they lose their mind and we love it.”

‘Waiting All Night’ singer Ella Eyre, who is no stranger to hit collaborations, performed in a full faux-leather clad cat costume and told us about how much she would love to collaborate on a track with Labrinth.  “I love the stuff he does – particularly the new stuff. I think out track would be upbeat – he has an amazing energy onstage and I like to move around so it would be really fun”.

Getting into the Halloween spirit, Labrinth, whose emotionally charged new video’ Jealous’ was out this week, told us the extent of just how paranormal his life is. “My pillow went missing from my bedroom the other night but it was just my missus”.

Catch the full show over on www.vevo.com

Photography: Edward T Cooke & Jack Bridgeland.

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What better way to spend our Tuesday afternoon than allowing dance duo, Gorgon City to envelope us with their audible delights.

The boys recently announced plans for their eagerly awaited debut album ‘Sirens’  which came alongside the announcement of their new single – ‘Unmissable’ ft. Zak Abel – which they kindly performed for us down at London’ s Joint Studio this week.

With a deft history of music making behind them individually as Foamo & RackNRuin, once Kye and Matt joined forces as Gorgon City things quickly began to snowball at a barely comprehensible rate. Their experiments with vocalists showed that they were as quick and proficient with real song structures as they were with beat-making, and had a knack of bringing out the best in collaborators. They quickly got the backing of the mighty Black Butter Records just as that label’s explosion into the mainstream, spearheaded by Rudimental, began in earnest. Further key features on the album include Maverick Sabre, Katy B, Erik Hassle and Jenifer Hudson. ‘Unmissable’ folows on from previous singles ‘Ready For your Love’ and ‘Here For You’.

Check out Gorgon City live at London’s Forum on November 15th.

Unmissable’ ft Zak Abel is out Sept 29th – Pre-order: http://po.st/UnmissableiT
‘Sirens’ the debut album follows on October 6th. Pre-order Sirens – http://po.st/GCSirens

Video: Edward T Cooke.
Words: Shane Hawkins.

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How did you guys meet and how did you start making music?

We met whilst DJing in the UK and decided to collaborate. It went really well and after making a few more tracks we decided to start a whole new project altogether.

You both make music as RackNRuin and Foamo – what makes the Gorgon City sound different from your solo stuff?

Matt: Gorgon City is deeper, groove-based house music. Whereas my RackNRuin stuff is more bass heavy, influenced by sounds like garage, jungle, and reggae.

Kye: For me, Gorgon City was the first time I’d really collaborated with vocalists, so that definitely sets it apart from my solo stuff. Also, the GC sound has definitely got deeper since we started it, and evolved into something completely different.

How do you guys make a song together – who comes up with the beats, words etc?

We’re always writing new ideas, normally we’ll start with some chords and melodies that we’ll write when jamming together. We’ll then work on the drums and groove of the track, and bassline. When writing the music elements of the tracks, we’ve found it’s more fun and hands-on to work with actual hardware synths, rather than software. When working with vocalists, sometimes we play them the idea and start writing the lyrics and melodies together. Other times we just start it all on the spot, as more of a full collaborative effort.

Why the name Gorgon City?

We decided we wanted a new name for the project, as we felt the music weren’t really our two styles combined. It sounded like something completely new altogether. It was quite random but we liked the greek mythology and reggae dancehall references – Ninjaman’s alter ego is known as “Don Gorgon”.

What can people expect from your live sets?

We play back-to-back and have a lot of fun! Our DJ sets go from deeper house to all-out bangers. We like playing longer sets when we can, I know it sounds cliche, but we like taking the crowd on a ‘journey’ through different kinds of vibes. We’re also planning on doing some kind of ‘live’ show in the near future.

You released Real last month – are you pleased with the reception it’s gotten?

Yes we are very pleased, to get on the Radio 1 and 1xtra playlists has been amazing. And thanks to Yasmin for doing such a sick vocal on the track. It wouldn’t be such a strong track if it didn’t have her on it.

You’re signed to Black Butter, who are releasing some of the best music right now. Who else do you rate on your label?

Black Butter is great as it’s a diverse label, but it’s all really high quality stuff. All the other BB artists are amazing, its a great camp to be in! Kidnap Kid is a great artist with loads of originality in his sound. His tracks get better every time as well.

Who would you rather play to: up-for-it London crowd at a warehouse, or Ibiza ravers on a beach?

Obviously both are really fun, but if we had to choose, it would definitely be in Ibiza on the beach. We love DJing outdoors. We’ve got quite a few Ibiza gigs coming this summer at Carl Cox’s night at Space. Really excited about that!

Who’s the one musician or DJ who got you into electronic music?

Matt: Liam Howlett from the Prodigy was a big inspiration. The way he uses samples and loops is incredible.

Kye: When I was a kid, I remember my parents loved the Chemical Brothers. They were often always playing the ‘Dig Your Own Hole’ album really loud on a Sunday afternoon!

Do you have any unlikely inspirations?

Matt: For me, playing Ice Hockey when I was younger was a big inspiration. I met some of my closest friends there and we have all kept in touch mainly through producing and DJing.

Kye: Sometimes an unlikely inspiration would be frustration. Making beats can often be a good stress relief!

What’s Wonderland to you?

Wonderland is the start of the summer, the first night of Glastonbury Festival, about to press play on the first tune of our set.

Real is out now on Black Butter. Download from iTunes here. soundcloud.com/gorgon-city

Words: Zing Tsjeng

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