A big thanks to everyone who has supported dollop over 2011!

Video: Michael Holyk
Track: Eliphino – More Than Me

Claude Vonstroke

Eats Everything

Lone

Buy tickets here.

Attend the Facebook event here.

The Creators Project is an ongoing global arts and technology initiative created by Intel and Vice in order to support visionary artists, musicians, and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression.

The project includes an online community featuring daily editorial and documentaries, the most recent of which features the man who headlined our 7th Birthday celebrations in Nottingham, Jamie xx.

Since first performing at dollop in 2008 as one quarter of The xx, Jamie Smith has produced hit records for Drake & Rihanna; released his “We’re New Here” collaborative LP with Gil Scott Heron; remixed Radiohead, Adele, FaltyDL & Florence & The Machine; released his debut solo single ‘Far Nearer/Beat For’; won the Mercury Music Prize with The xx and DJ’d all over the world.

With a new XX album in the pipeline The Creators Project managed to grab some time with Jamie to discuss his musical background, production techniques and influences.

Visit The Creators Project website for interviews with the likes of Squarepusher, Laurent Garnier & previous dollop guests Diplo, Brodinski & DJ Mehdi (RIP).

Just before Jackmaster and Oneman started their 3 hour set at dollop on Friday, Gabriel from RadioLab had a chat with the influential DJs. Listen in below…

Jackmaster & Oneman Interview by The RadioLab

This New Years Eve we are looking forward to hosting the main room of Stealth in Nottingham as part of Countdown 2011. Having sold out for the last 3 years, Countdown is set to be best way to start the year, with over 30 artists playing across 7 arenas to a capacity of 4,000 people.

Playing in the dollop room:

Hudson Mohawke (Warp Records)

Hudson Mohawke – Satin Panthers (Snips) by Hudson Mohawke

Pearson Sound (aka. Maurice Donovan/Ramadanman) (Hessle Audio/Swamp 81)

Pearson Sound BBC Essential Mix (03-12-2011) by PearsonSound

L-Vis 1990 (Night Slugs/PMR Records)

L-VIS 1990 – Forever You (ft. Shadz)

plus dollop DJs & lots more tbc.

Countdown NYE takes place on Saturday 31st December, 2011 at Stealth, The Rescue Rooms & Rock City in Nottingham. Advance Tickets are on sale now.

For more information (and for the full artist lineup) check out the dollop Facebook event or the Countdown Facebook Page.

Not content with presenting one of the most forward thinking radio shows on the planet, Radio 1′s Benji B also runs one of London’s most successful club nights, Deviation. Back in October the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour came to London, taking over the London Eye for a memorable night of musical entertainment; and Benji and the Deviation gang played host to one of the ‘pods’. In each of the 30 capsules, crucially influential producers, DJs and bands presented the latest upfront London sounds making waves around the globe, and to make the night even more special Benji B performed a DJ set alongside the Deviation String Quartet.

For those of us not lucky enough to have gt hold of one of the fifteen-or-so tickets for the event, the set was recorded and can be viewed in full on Vimeo HD. Highights include their versions of Joy Orbison, MJ Cole, Jay Electronica, Joker & Roy Davis Jr. Seriously special.

DEVIATION STRING QUARTET: FULL PERFORMANCE from Deviation on Vimeo.

Also well worth a watch is Benji B’s recent video interview with David Kennedy for RBMA, where David discusses his musical past (via his productions as Ramadanman, Pearson Sound and most recently Maurice Donovan) and the birth of his label Hessle Audio.

Lecture: Pearson Sound (Madrid 2011) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Benji B plays at dollop Nottingham on Friday 2nd December alongside James Blake, Oneman, Jackmaster, Boddika, Dark Sky, Eliphino & more.

For more information check the Facebook Event and advance tickets are advised (available via Fatsoma).