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Lolina (Inga Copeland) @ Echoes, Aug 17

17 August 2016

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Inga Copeland‘s latest project called Lolina is performing at London’s Echoes on August 17.

Appearing as part of Soundcrash festival and supported by Acolytes, the artist best known for co-founding Hype Williams has carried on solo with several projects, producing alone and in collaboration with artists like Scratcha DVA, John T. Gast, Martyn and Actress.

The Estonian artist, also known as Alina Astrova, released an EP RELAXIN’ with Lolina in February this year, and a follow-up album Live in Paris in July. Continuing to experiment within the context of electronic music, the album builds on her previous lofi and discordant work that can be characterized by a digital and minimalist composition with repetitive voice arrangements.

See the Soundcrash website for details.**

Copeland – ‘Fit’

28 August 2013

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Strange things have been happening to Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland (surprise), even since before their typically weirdly-worded ‘split’ via their soundcloud a couple of weeks ago. That profile is credited to “cplnd” and had been hiterto used by both the Hype Williams off-shoots of the original London-sprung duo.

But now, following a surprise drop from a Russian hotel room by Blunt, we have a YouTube for Copeland, reduced to a mononym and muffling her idiosyncratic vocals under a mire of woozy synth lines and clacking beats. Hopefully there’s more to come but we won’t know until it happens.

See the Hippos in Tanks website if you want to try and figure it out. **

Dean Blunt Euro tour

17 July 2013

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Dean Blunt puts out music far more frequently than he plays live, which is why his upcoming Autumn European tour features one date for September and October before dropping into an uncharacteristically full(ish) schedule for the following month in November.

After years of anonymity, jealously guarding his face from fans with Hype Williams, the London-based artist has been showing a lot more of it with the promo shots around The Redeemer, his debut out in May of this year, and the recent ‘Felony / Stalker’ 7-inch. That came accompanied by a video featuring Blunt and a dog standing around, near some cars, on a cliff-top that looked suspiciously like Australia, where he performed with Inga Copeland of Hype Williams earlier this year. He also played at CTM Festival in January and, by all accounts, it was worth it. See the tour dates and video below. **

TOUR DATES

SEPTEMBER

Wed 11 LONDON, 100 CLUB

OCTOBER

Fri 11 BARCELONA, CCCB

NOVEMBER

Thu 7 LISBON, TEATRO MARIA MATOS
Thu 21 BRUSSELS, AB
Fri 22 BERLIN, FESTSAAL KREUZBERG
Sat 23 COPENHAGEN, JAZZHOUSE
Mon 25 AMSTERDAM, BIMHUIS
Tue 26 PARIS, POINT EPHEMERE
Fri 29 BRISTOL, ARNOLFINI
Sat 30 LIVERPOOL, BLADE FACTORY

DECEMBER

Sun 1 GLASGOW, THE ARCHES

A new Inga Copeland mixtape

23 May 2013

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Ever since branching off on their own, Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland have not stopped surprising us. Blunt with his high def romanticism in last month’s The Redeemer and Copeland’s dub step deviation in Martyn collaboration Don’t Look Back, That’s Not Where You’re GoingEP, released on Hippos in Tanks in March.

This characteristically impromptu drop of six tracks on her Soundcloud, called Higher Powers, pens with smoky RnB number ‘BMW’ and a pounding ode to apocalypse ‘A World in Danger III’, featuring Scratcha DVA. As no stranger to being alienating and feeling alienated, ‘Faith’ opens with a field recording over which Copeland asks, “Hi, can I have some hope, please?” before dropping into an ear-piercing pitch that obscures and ultimately repulses her very listener. Listen below. **

PVT – ‘Vertigo (Hype Williams Snapback Remix)’.

23 April 2013

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As masters of making things awkward, Hype Williams have taken London and Sydney-based trio PVT‘s ‘Vertigo’ and turned it into a sardonic social comment on race. Taking a vox pop from 1984 cult classic Sixteen Candles and placing it alongside another long-winded conversation about interracial relations the band shines a stark light on the stereotypes that live on. Defacing the original rhythms with mindless teen chatter and rendering Molly Ringwald (finally) ‘of her time’, the mangled PVT track is certainly an interesting one, not to mention entertaining.

Hype Williams have been mutating in and out of synchronicity over the past few years, with rumours of a split circulating since before the release of last year’s Black is Beautiful as Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland but while both artists have struck out on their own, Hype Williams lives on and Blunt has an album coming out just next week. PVT’s Homosapien is out now. **

Inga Copeland EP due March 4.

27 February 2013

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After hearing Inga Copeland‘s brilliantly moody ‘BMW’ last year, suddenly the prospect of Hype Williams potentially disbanding became easier to bear. That, along with the great work on her cohort Dean Blunt‘s ‘The Narcissist’ and the unfairly short teaser of an upcoming EP produced by Holland’s Martyn (aka Martijn Deykers) and London’s DVA, means things aren’t just looking up but are potentially even better than before.

That’s why the aformentioned 12″ with Deykers and DVA, Don’t Look Back, That’s Not Where You’re Going is another welcome addition to the post-Hype Williams empire. Available for pre-order on Boomkat the record is out through Hippos in Tanks and Blunt/Copeland-run World Music Group, on March 4. It features Martyn and DVA sinking deeper from their combined dubstep and DnB past into a dub-infused haze, while Copeland carries on with the fractured universal hip hop of Hype Williams along a uniquely smoky vocal.**

Dean Blunt’s ‘Narcissist II’ reviewed.

11 December 2012

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Dean Blunt is one half ever-evolving art and music project Hype Williams. Working across media, the east-London native has been creating sounds and works informed by and in opposition to the post-modern sensibility since his debut with other half Inga Copeland in 2009. Since then, the duo have released a handful of EPs and albums, developing a substantial cult following around their own self-created and spectral non-image.

Dean Blunt. Image courtesy of Hippos in Tanks.

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Cooly G’s ‘Playin Me’ reviewed

Jean Kay, 16 July 2012

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