“Beat Dimensions laat de bezoeker geboeid luisteren”

Dimlite live tijdens Beat Dimensions in het Bimhuis (foto Benjamin van Witsen)


De Beat Dimensions editie met Dimlite, Mike Slott en Take van afgelopen vrijdag is door 3voor12/Amsterdam positief gerecenseerd.


“Je zou het bij de naam dance event niet snel denken, maar vanavond is dansen een taboe. De muziek leent zich er weliswaar prima voor, maar door de opzet van de zaal is de bezoeker al snel gedwongen om te gaan zitten en aandachtig te luisteren. Het zeer goed afgestelde geluid laat de gelaagde muziek heel goed uitkomen en doordat iedereen rustig kan zitten en luisteren dringt het geheel nog beter door.”


Beat Dimensions vond voor de tweede keer in het Bimhuis plaats, na de eerste editie in mei met Flying Lotus en Hudson Mohawke. In 2009 zullen er meer volgen.

Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke, the story of a sold out Beat Dimensions at the Bimhuis

«It’s on in this motherfucker. This is history.»

The words of Steven Ellison before his first-ever abstract-experimental set as Flying Lotus in a seated venue that is home to the trio or the quartet. Not tonight. A crowd of some 400 twenty-your olds, drawn by the appeal of seeing these two prodigy Warp artists perform together for the first time in Amsterdam, caused havoc at the place so used to civilised discourse after a concert. Not this time. Aardvarck and Cinnaman, runaway cult figures from the 7,5th floor of a Spike Jonze film, meticulously murdered the crowd until 5 am with wonky, crunky and junkie bass and beats. FlyLo cameod like he ran the place; HudMo said «Ooops.»

Flying Lotus on deck after his live show at the Bimhuis on Beat Dimensions (photo: Nalden)

This was Beat Dimensions. Let’s do it again. There will be pictures and videos up soon. Thanks to Steven, Ross, Mike, Yuri, Huub and all others involved for making this possible.

Two nights of Warp Records in one week

02/05/2008 Bimhuis Amsterdam
Flying Lotus // Hudson Mohawke // Cinnaman // Aardvarck
23:00 - 04:00 // 10 euros // bimhuis.nl


10/05/2008 Flexbar Amsterdam
Harmonic 313 // U Dub // Cinnaman
23:00 - 05:00 // 10 euros // flexbar.nl

And in another dimension, beatdimensions.net was created

It might have taken us some time, but finally the BD family has a place of its own on the web. After the releases and events in the past year, we have decided to keep you more updated and involved on current developments in our dimension.


First up will be the extraodinary de-luxe Warp Records version at the Bimhuis on Friday 2 May with none other that Hudson Mohawke and Flying Lotus, supported by Cinnaman and Aardvarck. The week after will be one at the Flexbar on Saturday 10 May with Harmonic 313, U Dub and Cinnaman.
But more on all of this very soon.