7 Sides of Sea Bed [Interview & mix] | Selector Afterdark

This week’s interview & mix comes from Sea Bed



Introduce yourself and tell us about the part of the UK you’re from?
We are Sea Bed an Organic Electronic Band from Brighton.
 
Can you tell us a bit about what you’ve been working on recently?

We have been holed up in our studio working hard and writing new
material that will debut next year. Our live set has also been getting a
swift upgrade as we head towards bigger venues and potentially some tour
supports as the weather turns for the worst.
 
And can you talk us through the mix?

It was recorded in two parts live from our digital turntables and into
my laptop. The first 15 minutes were strictly British artists which I
then combined with a 40+ minute set featuring a selection of well known
and more underground artists from mainland Europe and America.
We wanted to represent a mix that encapsulated our love for a wide
variety of musical styles, not pinning ourselves to one sound or mission
statement. We could have gone full on elitist and played very obscure
white label vinyl only tracks or swung the complete opposite way and
have all the well known heavy hitter electronic artists but… it
wouldn’t be a full representation of who we are, and this mix just
barely scratches the surface.
 
Talk us through the British music featured in this mix?

Given the chance to play just British music we choose to place as many
different creative styles together under the same flag. You have
producers, songwriters, bands, rappers and even the national anthem all
mingling together. Its predominantly artists that most people would know
straight away but there is a huge amount of talent still flowing from
Britain.
 
Which British artists are you most excited about?
We are most excited about artists like Glass Animals and producers like
Ghost Culture who take a lot of the same cultural markers that we do and
create new and exciting ways to push our culture forward through the
unknown.
 
Nice, and talk us through some of your British DJ Heroes?

You have the obvious guys like Andrew Weatherall, David Holmes, Dave
Clarke and Carl Cox who have helped push dance music (and Techno in
particular) into a global phenomenon along with the Chicago and Detroit
DJ’s of America. But also guys like James Zabiela and Dj Yoda who push
DJ-ing as an art form into new and expressive ways that go far beyond
the deceptively simple process of mixing two tracks together!

 
Great and what’s on the cards in the immediate future?
We have some great support slots and potential festival appearances
coming up, with a huge one on November 10th supporting another amazing
British band HAELOS at Heaven in London.
 

And finally, where is the best place in the world you have performed and why?

It’s not as intense as Fabric, Oval Space or Dance Tunnel but the Hotel
Pelirocco in Brighton for our close friends Birthday last year with 60+
guests and friends crammed into the lower bar going mental to a vinyl
only set was something to behold… Sorry about the walls guys.