London Remixed Festival is back with a full live line-up at Rich Mix Arts Centre on 25th and 26th March 2022 and, after a year spent in virtual reality, it will be kicking global London into the future with a live music culture clash by a wealth of artists and partners from around the world.

The two-day indoor festival will showcase over 25 cutting edge bands and DJs from a range of cultures offering up the best in Latin Grooves, African Rhythms, Tropical Bass, Vintage-Remix, Desert Remix, Balkan Beats, Urban Roots, Acoustic Soundclash and Brass Band Remix, as well as offering creativity, fun and madness, complete with a buzzing atmosphere, but without the mud, rain or hassle of camping.

On Friday 25th March, London Remixed will be celebrating 25 years of Continental Drifts with a brass band spectacular including sets from DJ Chris Tofu, DJ Dials Davis, Intergalactic Brasstronauts, London Brass All Stars, New Car Smell, as well as the launch of Festival Lab, a new stage curated by a group of producers from its new course of creatives.

Saturday 26th March will see four incredible stages filled with an eclectic selection of live acts, performers and DJs playing music from around the world meeting the 21st Century; from Future Arabic music, African, Latin remix all the way to new UK folk and very funky DJ’s, with sets from Daytimers, James Riley & Rooftop Assembly and Mina & Bryte, plus much (MUCH!) more.

Chris ‘Tofu’ Macmeikan MBE, director of Lost Horizon, Shangri-La, Continental Drifts and Global Local comments: “London Remixed is where the festival calendar really starts; full of amazing acts from across the global menu of the UK, with each of them bringing an incredible amount of vibes. This is an absolute winter warmer of an event, with the sole purpose of shouting about this amazing, diverse isle we live in.”

The Continental Drifts Festival Lab programme is designed to support the next generation of event producers in developing their ideas, skills, and knowledge through a mixture of talks from industry specialists, workshops, and hands-on experience. Over 12 weeks, the young producers are learning about production, programming, marketing, sponsorship and audience development, culminating in them planning their own programme of activity on the Friday evening of the festival.

London Remixed Festival is brought to you by some of the most dynamic festival organisers, venue promoters and music agencies the UK has to offer, with a collective aim to highlight the sounds of remixed culture and create the perfect festival experience; indoor areas to chill out, a fully converted disco lift to navigate between the stages and a silent disco café.

Continental Drifts; the producers of the most rocking festival stages across the globe are joining forces once again with their Global Local partners Movimientos, Fire in The Mountain, Front Room Songs, MARSM, Bobby Friction and Nutkhut / Mela Partnership.

The Line-up

Friday:

Brass Off Stage – Continental Drifts

Continental Drifts presents a brass filled celebratory line-up made up of, musical maverick and pioneer of Vintage Remix and the UK Festival scene, DJ Chris Tofu, far from your typical brass band, 12 piece outfit, Intergalactic Brasstronauts, who will be bringing transglobal rhythms, heavy bass, blistering solos and sci-fi themes to the stage.

Joining them will be a team of horn vanguards from across the capital, Frankensteined into one copper and zinc demigod, London Brass All Stars, and New Car Smell will be offering up infectious blends of Drum ‘n Bass, SoCa and Hip Hop to drive a raucous blare of sound that holds but one intention; to move everyone within its sonic radius.

Also on the Brass Off Stage bill is DJ Dials Davis, who will be spreading smiles and vibes across the dance-floor for the entirety of his time behind the wheels.

Saturday:

Tropicarnival Stage – Movimientos

The UK’s NO 1 Latin Remix Organisation, Movimientos, will be filling the Tropicarnival Stage with a stellar bill of acts including Bushbby who will be blending the likes of Cumbia, Champeta and Dembow with high-energy electronic beats, and Juanita Euka with her own unique musical palette influenced by African and Latin styles, Hip-Hop, Soul and Jazz, Esteban Card with a distinctive twist on folkloric Colombian music, while four-piece band of international aliens Xaman X will keep your soul moving on this sonic rocket into outer space with the power of a deep bass supernova.

Also hitting the Tropicarnival Stage will be, key member of the award-winning Latin powerhouse WARA, Fedzilla, as she weaves between Hip-Hop and Ragga-Dancehall with a Latin twist, Mina & Bryte who fuse together styles from the UK, Ghana and around the world to create exuberant, passionate, forward-thinking club music, and talented multi-instrumentalist from Guinea N’Famady Kouyaté.

Joining the party will be, regular fixture of Bournemouth’s nightlife and UK ‘s music festivals, DJ Mr Pacho, as he mixes a world combination of sounds from Cumbia, Afro-Dance, Champeta, Soca, Ragga, Hip-Hop, Tropical Bass and Afro-Kuduro House, Ru Robinson with a set packed with diverse tropical influences of Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean, whilst dipping and delving into countless other party sounds, and ten-piece collective TC & The Groove Family ft. Franz Von will be exploring grooves and genres from the UK and around the world, including Afrobeat, Breakbeat, Jungle, Jazz and Highlife.

Beats Bazaar Stage – MARSM UK & Nutkhut / Mela Partnership

Amplifying the contemporary music scenes of the Arabic-speaking world in the UK and beyond, MARSM UK brings you Iranian Roots Music project Ajam Band with an epic and soulful sound that draws inspiration from different elements of Iranian ‘peoples” music such as that of the street and market places as well as native performances and recital, and London-based international DJ Nooriyah with her unique blend of Arabic genres, grooves.

Joining them will be, ground-shaking drum rhythm, Palestinian and Jordanian songwriter, rapper, drummer, and producer El Far3i, as well as TootArd with a captivating and nostalgia-inspired homage to the era of synthed-out Arabic disco pop, and DJ, producer, event organiser and eclectic music enthusiast, Leila Moon.

Representing new culture from the Asian Diaspora, Nutkhut / Mela Partnership in partnership with Bobby Friction (BBC Asian Network) presents power-house vocalist and Sarangi player Amrit Kaur who’s music is known as the place ‘where Aretha soul meets Punjabi folk’, as well as a line-up of DJs from Daytimers, a collective that celebrates South Asian artistry through events, streams, radio shows, releases, fundraisers and festivals, and recently co-hosted the first all South Asian music festival, Dialled In and the iconic first all South Asian Boiler Room.

Ajay Chhabra, director of Nutkhut, London Mela and the Mela Partnership says: “Partnerships are at the heart of our creative collaborations. London Remixed is a unique showcase platform, which not only tells the story of our underrepresented musical voices but also the story of our nation, it’s a moment in time to support the next generation!”

Also on the Beats Bazaar Stage bill is Eternal Taal, a Birmingham based entertainment team which specialises in Female Dhol Drummers and Bhangra Dancers; established in 1999. Eternal Taal is the first group in the country to be taught by UK’s first female dhol drummer, Parv Kaur.

Folk Attic Stage – Fire in the Mountain & Front Room Sounds

Brought to the Folk Attic Stage by Front Room Songs will be banjo-whacking, guitar-shredding, fiddle-sawing, foot-stomping, whiskey-soaked, all-female assault on the senses, Dana Immanuel & The Stolen Band, and James Riley & Rooftop Assembly with his own award-winning brand of folk ‘n’ soul backed up by his rooftop house band.

Fire in the Mountain will be adding Song of the Year Winner at the UK Americana Awards 2022, Lady Nade to the line-up, as well as half rave, half highland ball dancefloor fillers, Remix Reeling, combining traditional reels, barn dances and ceilidh with banging beats and basslines, and The Destroyers, Birmingham’s leading Doom-Pah band and exemplar of Megafolk with their trailblazing take on the whole mix of Eastern, Balkan and Klezmer music and Western culture.

Also on the Folk Attic stage will be Don Kipper with a powerful sound drawing influence from modern Electronic Romani Club Music and bone-deep rural Folk traditions.

Silent Disco Café

Bringing the noise to the London Remixed Silent Disco Café will be Bristol DJ, Producer and Radio Presenter Drifty, DJ and veteran of London’s infamous pirate radio scene Energy and the Pimps, high energy DJ duo playing colourful Afrolatina Electropical, with elements of House, Disco and Rare Grooves, Tashfro, horn led Day of the Dead group The Marching SKAletons, and DJ Mr Pacho and Eternal Taal.