Livebeats Streaming Tonight: Charles Widmore + Takis!
Written by Liz McGrath
Today we have a livestreaming for LIVEBEATS.COM from Charles Widmore (Perplex) featuring Takis (Get Physical). This will be superlative house music from Mr.Widmore with Takis performing his special brand of freestyle lyrics over the top of the beats - so, something a little different this time!
Click the player below at 19.00 to enjoy the gig in HD Quality and as always, for free!
More on Charles Widmore:
Since the early 90's Charles Widmore has contributed notably to hip-hop culture – from graffiti to break-dance. Through the latter, Widmore was first exposed to electronic music, culminating with the establishment in 2008 of his label Perplex Recordings. Inspired by the hip-hop movie "Wild Style," Widmore embraced spray-can art, subsequently forging a reputation as a impressive graf artist. In 1998, Viva TV recognized Charles Widmores talents in the renowned Aerosol Art Battle, launching a career in Communication Design work which endured for many years, finessing and developing his uniquely individual creative aesthetic.
In the mid-90's Charles Widmore first discovered the muscular, loop-based, dance-floor electronics of Josh Wink, Carl Craig, Moritz von Oswald and Daniel Bell. Impressed and immediately fascinated by both these sounds and by Berlins unique club-culture, (including legendary clubs such as Planet, E-Werk, Ostgut, WMF and Bunker), Widmores involvement in the scene increasingly deepened. Radio programs including André Langenfeld on DT64, the X-mix series of K7!, unique DJ-sets of Tanith, Wolle XDP and Ellen Allien as well as Steve Mason on BFBS London, fueled this passion. Widmore was one of a new generation of DJs and ravers changed uniquely by this formative time.
Through cutting-edge and counter-cultural influences, Charles Widmore has grown musically astute and now is the creative pace-maker and leader of Perplex Recordings, a refreshing young Berlin vinyl label providing a dynamic platform for forward-thinking, deep and thoughtful contemporary house and techno music.