Hobbes

09/11/2024

My warmup mix for recorded .edinburgh last month is now streaming via the Soundcloud (link in usual spot).

Swipe for snaps & full track list (plus from two more events since then: slides 3 & 4).

Looking forward to doing it again tonight alongside .og and can’t wait to welcome fire-crackin’ London party-popper back to Bongo! 🥳🧨

Upstairs: & 🔥🔥🔥

Big up everyone’s who’s already well in…. Tickets have been flying and we’re gearing up for another heater. ♨️

📸 Aidan Yeaman

03/11/2024

Next edinburgh live show from Exterior in just three weeks at Hidden Door.

Also: Glasgow next Saturday for the ace Golden Days party at Bloc (free entry).

More music news! 🎶

Delighted to announce that Exterior has joined our Friday night line-up.

Promising "synthesised music with a human touch", Exterior (AKA Doug Macdonald) returns to Hidden Door to present a live performance of HOLOCENE, a stunning body of work emerging from three years of studio and live experimentation.

Expect seamless reimagining of electronica which collapses the purported distinctions between dance and rock.

Exterior launches this new album at a special event THIS FRIDAY at Leith FAB Cricket Club and the Hidden Door team can't wait! Tickets to that event available via RA 🎟️

29/10/2024

Exterior launches new album Holocene at Leith Cricket Club this Friday 1st November, 8pm-1am.

LINE UP:

Exterior (live)
w/Panos Baras (live VJ)
The Reverse Engineer x Atzi x TVS (live)
Hobbes
Zoe From Finance

Tickets via RA // OTD

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NB Cash Only Bar
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29/09/2024

Panos Baras’ ace artwork for new album, Holocene, by Exterior.

Due out Friday 1st November.

Vinyl & digital available up on Bandcamp now for pre-order. Black & white print included with first 50 copies.

🔗see bio

25/09/2024

Absolutely loved playing my wee sister and her friend’s birthday party in London last weekend. 🥳

Proper buzz looking up at one point and seeing literally everyone in the room getting down and my sis and pal having a hug while I played another one of their faves…. 🖤

Needless to say, the only pix I grabbed were at the start of the night and not a phone in sight all night! Good times. 💃🏻

Big up Conor for sending me the first snap. 👊

And props to the girl asking for some Sean Paul. Would have been right on the money if I’d thought to bring some….! Next time.

06/09/2024

Hello,

Just here to let you know:

1) Edinburgh legend George T / George Demure / Allnoise’s Dandy In Dub bonus album is now available on all streaming platforms - the lush flip side to the equally lush Ear Candy Dandy. 👂🍫🎩

2) You can get 15% off all HM stock this Bandcamp Friday (today).

Use this code at checkout: indian_summer_24 (expires 23.59 UTC) 🛒

3) I’ve just made some new Ear Candy Tees featuring amazing artwork by Leith legend Bernie Reid (below) and some new Maastricht Research Tees (sky blue & white). 👕

Lots of other goodness available, some in short supply. Swipe for a selection.... 👀

Tees and tapes are cheap to ship! All products free delivery to some EH addresses (pls DM for info). 📮

Triple toot. Happy Friday! 📯🥳

New releases (vinyl included) coming v soon.... ⏳

Thanks for listening.

02/09/2024

Devastating news. RIP.

16/08/2024

Managed to grab a recording of my debut gig in Ibiza at the gorgeous Agroturismo ATZARO ibiza courtesy of Bekka Rawkins [For The Record Ibiza].

Follow ze link below to listen via Mixcloud. 🔗🎧

More info & full tracklist below. 👀⬇️

Also, I’m playing a free open-air party on the rooftop at Eve this evening alongside a host of local talents. I’m on b2b with Lobos, 8-9.30pm.

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Atzaro is a hotel set in a magical location in the hills, with outdoor dance floor, bar, restaurant, pool, spa, gardens etc. 🌴🌞

With so much nature and space around me and zero dance floor pressure, i was free to explore the outer reaches of my taste and the recent HM catalogue (plus some upcoming exclusives), from ambient and dub, through soul, boogie, afrobeat and gwoka to more familiar house, electro etc. 🌊👾🌍💃🏻

[See tracklist & link in comments]

08/08/2024

TBT Pikes Ibiza poolside last week. ☀️🌴

Big up Helen Sadler for sending me this snap. Blurry seems apt for my experience of the white isle. 📷💨🙌

Didn’t expect to add Kylie to the list of artists I’ve supported over the years but Ibiza is full of surprises, as I found out….. 🍺👩‍🎤

Still recovering from the sleep-deprivation but very much looking forward to supporting Man Power - up from Newcastle to headline Club_Nacht at The Mash House - this Saturday. ⏳🥳

You can be sure we will be celebrating love & castigating hate via the unifying power of music. ✊

Where’s the emoji for N***s & Fascists in the bin? ⛔️🤬⚔️

30/07/2024

Been popping my Ibiza cherry this week, to celebrate another year on this crazy planet, meet up with / make friends new & old, do a few wee gigs etc - first foreign sortie in a wee while...! 🌞🎂🎧

Many thanks to all at the beautiful for making me feel so welcome last night. 🌅😍

Looking forward to playing around the pool later today. 🌊

Had a ball there on Sunday night - dropping heavy vibes….. Word on the street is somebody VERY special will be making an appearance right after I finish this eve….?! 💫

Finally I’m at tomorrow (Wednesday). Pls come and say hello if you are in the area…. :)

Big shouts to my hostess (with the absolute mostest) behind the mighty and the inimitable - proper pair of legends. ✨🙌

13/07/2024

1, Grenoble, c. May/June ‘96. Perfecting that gangly move…. 😉

The tail-end of an incredible year, playing out for the first time while “studying” (thank you, Erasmus scheme, RIP), throwing parties in the city’s bars & clubs with one of my best friends (“James et Andy presente….”), buying records from Ozone records, serendipitously just around the corner from our flat (!), getting to know ‘la scene techno Grenobloise’, invited to DJ at wee raves in the mountains, introducing dnb to confused locals… 🇫🇷🗻

2, The vinyl I’ve pulled out for tonight’s old school set for Pulse at the Bongo’s Summer Closing Party* alongside Shaun Resist, Sean Laird & Darrell Pulse. 🔊

All informed by life-changing nights at Pure, Final Frontier, the above etc etc… 🤯

Magical times!

*[last night at Bongo until after the Festival]

20/06/2024

The full Tape Mix of our Pockets of Light album is up on streaming platforms now, if you fancy a deep(er) dive: 80 minutes of ambient, downtempo, electro, house, dub, space music and more... 🌊📡🛸

As per the physical cassette, it’s a continuous mix, with two different versions from the 12”. 🎧

This is the antithesis of today’s music consumption models: bite-sized singles, fast product shat out as ‘content’ for the algo etc etc... 🤖⛔️

But it seemed churlish not to make it available in this way, regardless. 🙃

Links via bio, as usual. 🔗👀👆

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.🌞✌️

13/06/2024

Slightly belated post to share a few snaps and say a very BIG thank you to Dave Waugh for having us all on the air at Limbic TV last week… 🙏❤️

Everyone played an absolute blinder 🔥

And I had a wee chat with each act between sets, which was fun. 🗣️

Also, huge thanks to .hit.3 for making it all look so sh*t-hot, in spite of h/w failure etc… 🙌

Plus Scott 'Scotch Broth' whose videos for Sarah/Shaun made their set even more special. 📹😍

The archive should be up on YouTube for a few more days… ⏳👀

See bio to get a wee snapshot of HM in 2024. 🔗

Hope to do another session before too long with more HM acts, including (potentially) some international ones…. 💻🤞

Big up also Shaun & Alan for the images. 👊

03/06/2024

Tuesday 4th June

First ever HM *online* live showcase via Limbic TV 📺

Performing live:

Exterior ⚡️
Gaming 👾
George T / George Demure / Allnoise presents Accident Machine 🎙️🥁
Sarah/Shaun 🎤🎹🎸💻

Watch live on YouTube from 8pm (UK) 🖥️👀

🔗see comments

02/06/2024

Summer is here and so are the new Rags of Time Tees, to accompany the 12” re-press we just did…. ☀️

Had an intensive print session last week and *really* happy with the results - all the details from this intricate design came out so well. 🎯

Lush soft-feel cotton shirt with a loose neck; 100% Organic ring-spun combed cotton, 150gsm. 💯

Royal Blue print on Vintage White or Sky Blue cotton.

Each colour is a limited run of 35, with no plans to re-print. ⏳

Many thanks as always to Ryan for his invaluable guidance... 🙏

Full back story below...

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The Rags Of Time EP first came out in 2017. We made 100 copies on 10”, all beautifully screen printed (many thanks, Lindsay Todd / Firecracker)...

Leo Mas, Nancy Noise, Sean Johnston and all called the lead track, Web Of Intrigue, their Summer Anthem.

Andy Weatherall (RIP) declared it was “going to be massive”; Tony Humphries said “it reminds me of Chic”…

Kenneth Bager made it Hot Track Of The Week on radio in Denmark…

And just about everyone else from the international house/disco/Balearic scene seemed to fall in love with it, too. The 10” sold out before the vinyl was even finished. We’d never seen anything like it! 🤯

And then it ended up being voted #1 Record Of The Year by all those DJs and many more on Bill’s DJ History podcast... 🤯🤯

We had repressed (12”) that Autumn but those disappeared a while back, people still seem to love/play this record, calling it a classic, so here it is again, some 7 years later, with a brand new pair of Tees, to boot....

Many, many thanks to *everyone* who got behind this record at the time and helped us to create our own wee slice of what now feels like dance music history. 🙏

09/11/2023

Having another wee party to celebrate 10 years of running my label at The Bongo Club this Saturday, after kicking things off with Optimo's JD Twitch and Exterior (live) last month.

Leonidas will be up from London and Jacksonville (aka Chris Lyth aka 'The Best Set Of Ears At Bongo') is bringing out one of his storming live sets.

Between them, these two have taught me just about *everything* i know about studio production: HM couldn't have come this far without them.

I've made and released a fair few records with both Leo and Chris now and this clip features audio from a couple of new ones with Leo (coming soon)...!

You can expect more groovy, feel-good vibes like these from our set on Saturday.

Video ID: Leo DJing for HM at Bongo (2022)
Audio IDs:
1, Leonidas & Hobbes, 'Funky Joint'
2, Leonidas & Hobbes, 'Together'
(both forthcoming via HM in 2024)

Full line-up etc below.

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ROOM 1:
Jacksonville (LIVE)
Leonidas & Hobbes
playing house, acid, electro, afrobeat

ROOM 2:
Nameless Bros (playing house)
Uplands Roast
(playing dub/breaks/jungle)

Tix via RA /// Bongo

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NB Free b4 11.30 & Early Bird Tickets SOLD OUT.
1st Release Tickets (£6) available until Friday night (21:00)
2nd Release Tickets (£8) available until doors open