The Beast is ever curious about musical goings on in his
underground musical kingdom. It also comes to Beast’s attention that Minotaur
Resident DJ Lee Williams is being headhunted for other rather delectable
club-nights in Bristol. In times of olde our Beastie would have picked up his
sword and wrought it with vengeful steely fury on whoever threatened his
musical terrain - but as we live in a modern time where labyrinthine slaying is
no longer allowed, the Beast needs to eat a bit of humble pie and honour those
who enjoy and organise the same sort of nights for all to enjoy. Perhaps even
look at forging future epic alliances and consider heroic collaborative exploits.
There appears to be no end to a growing list of promoter and DJ talent and
that’s when The Beast met with Sam Jepperson (aka DJ Sikora) who runs
club-nights Sutra and Divide. Read on for an exclusive Beast Interview with Sam
who talks about the inspiration for his night, spreading techno mindfulness and
why you need to go and watch and hear Lee Williams play at his next night.
Sam’s enthusiasm for music, particularly techno and
progressive tech is contagious. He tells Beast how inspired he was to setup
Sutra after travelling in Australia with friends in 2015 and seeing how awesome
their techno nights were. “With all this inspiration building up and ourselves
making connections, we wanted to start a brand that symbolises everyone
becoming one on the dance floor, no matter what walk of life. For us techno is
like a form of meditation.” Beast interjects, his only experience of meditation
is attempting to listen to a cassette tape of clicking whales and swishy waves.
Sam clarifies “not where you sit down and close your eyes, it’s a meditation
where you can be whoever you want to be and express yourself in a grooving,
drum rhythmic fiesta. We want you to leave the party and feel like you had all
your worries completely disappear and only left with a warm feeling in your
stomach that everything will be ok and that you will be at a techno party again
soon”.
Beast is now very excited to find out more. He finds out
that not only does Sam manage Sutra but also another night called Divide.
Divide was born 1 year ago between 4 like minded lads with a love for techno
and a drive to bring high quality events to various cities in the UK. Sam
intends to concentrate his efforts on Sutra to turn into a fire spinning
festival stage and Divide will be high end events in and around Bristol.
Between both nights Sam has brought a Sankey Ibiza resident DJ Lindsey Matthews
to Blue Mountain, organised a boat party on the Thames in London and hosted a
room at Egg London for DJ Mag Sessions. Beast has it on good authority that
there are some big Sutra and Divide plans
for Bristol in Feb 2018 so keep your eyes open!
Sam is very excited to add Minotaur Sound Resident DJ Lee
Williams on the bill for his upcoming Sutra 2nd Birthday night at Blue Mountain on Thursday 2nd November. He tells Beast that he found
Lee through one of his personal inspirations, John Digweed, from the record label Bedrock. He’s
heard such positive things about Lee and his Terminal night. It’s no surprise
that he’s one of the most sought after DJ’s in and around Bristol at the
moment. “We were impressed and had to get him down for a mix. Lee is also focusing on live production using hardware which is a big plus to us, we rate
that highly”.
Join Sam at the next Sutra night on Thursday 02/11 to catch
Lee Williams lighting up the Blue Mountain decks. This is one highly rated
Beast approved night that is not to be missed.
Links:
https://www.Facebook.com/uksutra
https://www.facebook.com/DivideEvents/
https://soundcloud.com/samjepperson
Links:
https://www.Facebook.com/uksutra
https://www.facebook.com/DivideEvents/
https://soundcloud.com/samjepperson
