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The Fly is delighted to present Bibio at London’s Garage. A self-confessed “late-night worker”, Wolverhampton maestro Stephen Wilkinson, trading under the epithet Bibio, is now on his sixth full-length album. As his predilection for beavering away into the small hours suggests, Bibio’s back catalogue is flush with dreamy, slow-churning electronica, caressing loops and woozy, synth structures that reflect the kaleidoscopic nature... of the mind that concocted them. His latest, ‘Mind Bokeh’, is dizzy, lulling and pop all at once. A triumph indeed, it promises to be even better live…

Those already familiar with Bibio for his discography of acclaimed albums will experience what Bibio describes as a “balance of the familiar and the non-familiar” on Mind Bokeh, his latest and most accomplished album. Bibio’s signature ‘grainy’ sound is partly due to the use of analogue tape and vintage recording equipment. Bibio is on the brink of big pop things.

Over the past year, Nottingham-based producer Lone (a.k.a. Matt Cutler) has undertaken quite the reinvention, leaving behind the hip-hop flavored abstraction and hazy beatscapes of his notable Ecstasy & Friends and Lemurian albums for a quicker-paced sound that's much better suited for the dancefloor. Last summer's "Pineapple Crush" single was the first demonstration of Cutler's new-found love affair with Detroit techno and classic rave, but with his new mini-album, Emerald Fantasy Tracks, the transformation just might be complete as he showcases upbeat vibes, warm synths, hands-in-the-air moments, unbridled energy and glowing enthusiasm that is simultaneously naive and self-aware in its 'I'm just dancing with my eyes closed, but isn't it so much fun?' motif. We sincerely hope Lone's dance party never stops.!!

Letherette started life in a dark lounge hidden from the normal crowds and untouched for years, playing over and over the music itself sounded more and more dusty as the years grew. Country girls dressed in gingham from the surrounding areas where drawn in by the music and came from miles around to dance, there love for the music grew so strong they wanted to take it home. This was against the biggest rule of the ‘Letherette Lounge’ and so they stole cassettes and hid them in there bloomers smuggling them out, only now has it started to leak.