YES! We are incredibly excited to announce that this year you will find an extensive Wah Wah attendance at one of the summer’s finest festivals – Soundwave Croatia.

This year, beside the seaside, you will be able to hear Scrimshire playing with his full live band including Faye Houston from Resonators and Stac on vocal duties. Scrimshire will be playing new tracks from his album The Hollow along with live remixes and dub versions made perfectly for the sunny setting. Expect afrobeat, house and soul.

Stac returns to Soundwave this year to play classic tracks from Turn That Light Out alongside plenty of exclusive new songs. Last year when a massive storm set in Stac relocated to the warm and intense indoors of Barbarellas and then performed one of the festival highlights to a packed room. A mesmerising set that captivated a rowdy crowd of festival goers.

With her new EP alongside Royce Wood Jnr out now, a week of exclusive session tracks on Mary-Anne Hobbs’ XFM show out of the way and a new album in the making, expect to be mesmerised once more!

Stac will also be running around and putting on stunning performances with the OneTaste collective including the likes of Eska no less!

Celebrating the release of their 2nd album Lightfalls, the Part-Time Heroes will once again be in attendance. Expect several bouncing, beautiful DJ sessions to keep your weekend in exactly the kind of spirits it should be.

Our very own DJ legend Dom Servini himself will also be on board this year to grace the Soundwave decks with his own unique brand of afro funk, soul, beats and boogie and party classics – not to be missed.

And Scrimshire will also be playing a record or two…

And that is not all!

On the Friday Evening Wah Wah 45s will be hosting a KILLER boat party to really heat up your weekend!

Live music, beach bar DJ sets, a boat party, all in classic Wah Wah style! How big is THAT?!

Get tickets for Soundwave Croatia at their website right now, and follow Soundwave on facebook here too.

Our annual Scala party is upon us and now as is tradition, we like to give away an EP of music that you will be able to hear on the night.

This year we have a four-track beauty featuring the sounds of Colman Brothers, Stac, Scrimshire and even a little cheeky Colman Brothers mashup with Q-Tip!

So get downloading now. This capsule of loveliness is only up til the end of Scala weekend!

And if you haven’t already got tickets yet – why not?! Gilles Peterson, MC Earl Zinger, Greg Wilson, Colman Brothers, Scrimshire, Stac, The Boxettes, Jazzman Gerals and much more – for only £15.

Get more info and tickets here: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=453268&RFID=Webnews

FEATURING HACKNEY COLLIERY BAND, JEHST, STAC, MIKE L, RESONATORS, TANYA AUCLAIR, THE PARK AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

We are proud to announce the debut of the Wah Wah Live! tent at Lovebox this year.

The Wah Wah Live! tent will be open for business every day of the festival from twelve noon until 8pm bringing you a selection of top quality talent from London and beyond.

Friday

Wah Wah 45s hooks up with one of its favourite labels, First Word Records, who’ll be bringing artists including the East Park Reggae Collective, dubbed out Ethio-jazz specialists Ye Mighty, hip hop superstar Jehst, and DJ and producer extraordinaire Mike L to the stage.

Saturday

Music and spoken word collective OneTaste take the reins, with chanteuse Tanya Auclair, indie soul boys Amber States, poet Dougie Hastings, the wondrous Fiona Bevan, the stomping Frankie & The Jacks and Wah Wah 45’s very own Stac amongst those playing live.

Sunday

Two of the label’s biggest acts go head-to-head, as Hackney Colliery Band and Resonators ensure the Wah Wah roof will be well and truly raised! Add to that funk super-group The Park, direct from the U.S.A. and playing both Friday and Sunday, Belarus’ finest DJ Laurel, and your favourite DJs and hosts led by Wah Wah 45s head honcho Adam Scrimshire, and you’ve got one of the highlights of the Lovebox weekend right there!!

Download free tracks from Hackney Colliery Band and Resonators here:

 

More?

And don’t forget to check out the Wah Wah Shop for all your exclusive merchandise including signed CDs, t-shirts, bags for life, vinyl and stickers. Plus, we have our very own in-house bar, so why go anywhere else!!?

Optical delights come courtesy of our favourite light surgeon, Jim Hairy Eye.

Get your tickets now!! The rest of the festival isn’t too shabby either!

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NEAREST TUBE/TRAIN : MILE END

Following on from last year’s magnificent event, which once again saw over 1000 people attend, we return to The Scala to showcase some of our finest acts, new discoveries, new friends and welcome a couple of the UK’s most legendary and influential DJs.

On Saturday October 15th we’re bringing together another enormous soundclash of musicians, DJs, beatboxers and VJs to once again give you the biggest and greatest Wah Wah Party known to man.

We’re holding a few names back for now (you need something to look forward to) but we WILL tell you that the massive line up for this event includes:

• Colman Brothers LIVE
• Scrimshire LIVE
• Stac & Blue Daisy LIVE
• The Boxettes LIVE
• Greg Wilson,
• Gilles Peterson,
• AND MANY MORE!

Tickets will be £20 on the door, £15 in advance – BUT for a limited period you can book TEN POUND early bird tickets. Get them right now through ticketweb, don’t even hesitate!

Wah Wah Live at the Scala – £10 Early Bird Tickets!

Our friends over at Fresh & Noble have just got our Stac in to write a piece for their “Under The Influence” series.

It’s a quality blog series and well worth delving deeper into but get started by hearing about some of Stac’s favourite songs!

Under the Influence with…Stac

BIG NEWS!

We’re very excited to announce that Stac will be joining forces with bass heavy producer Blue Daisy to support the incredible Little Dragon at their London show at Heaven on May 11th. And if that wasn’t enough, Wah Wah head honcho Dom Servini will be on the decks too!

Buy tickets here

Check out the Facebook event here

Our first ever remix competition proved to be quite a success. We had to choose 2 winners in the end, the quality was excellent.

But there were two remixes that deserved special attention. They are unique, inspired flips of the original track (Balls Bounce) and from two production outfits that were entirely new to us.

So we thought we would share them with you. Download this little two track release today – just hit the links below.

And don’t forget, Vol. Two of the remixes is out soon featuring mixes from Hint, Herma Puma, Yult, Blue Daisy, Kid Kanevil and lots more. Get on our mailing list to keep up with all this!

Mr Blue Movies

Mr Blue Movies is a dj/producer/instrumentalist from South London. Having learned to play the piano at an early age, and being brought up on a strict diet of Jazz and Jefferson Airplane, his influences have increased over the years to include music from all around the world. He maintains his love of mid 90′s Hip Hop, Funk 45′s and absolutely anything that James Brown went near….

He has featured as a Keys player on the Healer Selecta album “Lets Get It Started”, done remix work for Jettricks, and has released under the pseudonym “Joint Effort” with London Rapper Oliver Sudden.

He runs a monthly night, “Soul Food”, at London’s Marketplace.

Bob Gnarley & The Mailer

Bob Gnarley & The Mailer are Dj Vytol and Dj Maxwell. They have been djing different genres on the same circuit since 1999. Both Birmingham based artists they both scored their 1st residency in 2000 at the same bar – The Blueprint on Corporation Street, Birmingham; which is where their friendship began.

Over the years Vytol and Maxwell have played alongside some of the biggest names in their fields; from Andy Smith to Andy C, Gilles Peterson to Bryan Gee, Dom Sevini to Dillinja and Lemon D. Continually crossing paths on the DJ circuit and a mutual love for left field music it was a natural progression for them to put their heads together on some tracks as Vytol had been dabbling in production since 2002, and in 2008 it finally happened.

With a passion for music and an unwillingness to conform; in 2011 Bob Gnarly & The Mailer was born.

So we are extremely excited to announce the winners of our first remix competition at Wah Wah 45s!

We selected two amazing remixes from the massive variety we received to our Soundcloud dropbox and they are:

Stac – Balls Bounce [Ambassadeurs Remix] by Ambassadeurs

Stac – More (Quirx Remix) by quirx

It was not an easy job. No set tempo and those intricate but sometimes confusing rhythms of Stac’s left a few entrants confused but there were also many beautiful versions.

Thank you to everyone who put the time in to produce a remix for this competition. Quirx and Ambassadeurs will both be appearing on the forthcoming Stac – Turn That Light Out, The Remixes Vol. Two, to be released in April and will get airplay on Dom Servini’s Colourful Radio Show and the Wah Wah Radio Show (we might even drop in some runners up – so keep listening).

Volume One of the Remixes can be listened to right here and keep your eye on here for more details about other Stac releases – including a KILLER Ashley Beedle remix!

In the next week or two we’ll round up some of the runners up for you too – so check back.