31/01/2025
Carnival is all about MUSIC. Its music expresses the joy of life, and celebrates the movement of the body. We watched the classic old award-winning movie Black Orpheus (1957) last night, Orpehus & Eurydice reimagined in a Rio mountaintop favela, and relished the feverish, psychedelic, almost-crazed endless dancing to the ceaseless soundtrack. The film, now deeply dated, is almost more like a long music video, where drumming hands and dancing feet just cannot stop…
Our events are complex, intricate & immersive - but ultimately we all converge on the dancefloor; we focus on the music, and the gorgeous, mysterious ways it moves our bodies & souls. So we are ecstatic to finally share our luscious DJ lineup - a pantheon of geniuses that come to us from all corners of the globe - a diversity perhaps slightly mirroring Brazil’s unparalleled richness.
Room 1 is our spectacular pulsing TechnoDrome, the largest room of what was once the biggest club in London, strewn with stages and floats and lights and aerialists and performers, powered by an all-star all-female krew playing driving melodic techno & deep house, with hints of afro-house & carnival, sas & Rio - 3 of our 4 DJs have Brazilian origins; 1 is from Rio. Caroles (awesome insta tagline: “"Energy conductor💓 A ritual of connection and presence") kindly flies in from there, pumped with the vibes of a city that is already in full swing practicing preparing for the Carnival that starts a fortnight after ours. YazzMin (with the perfect Carnival tagline - “laughter is the best sound”) also has Brazilian roots (her Dad is from Salvador, the birthplace of Samba), and recently relocated from Ibiza to Dubai, from where she joins us to close Room1 with her stunning Afro-infused sounds and own productions.
Meanwhile, Dayane Leanndro, born and raised in Santos near Sao Paolo, and who also runs the Brazilian talent booking agency Batida Perfeita & runs Brazilian nights at The Ministry of Sound (who we’re still trying to convince to let us run a night with them), will be curating a unique set accompanied by lots of Brazilian moments and rituals.
Our sole, deeply soulful local Londoner, Ann Lov (perfect Valentines name!) steps up to open, suffusing a more driving version of her entrancing dubby techno with her gorgeous live vocals.
Room2 is our more intimate jungle upstairs, immersing our ecstatics in foliage and greenery, with a more approachable relationship to the DJ to really create sensual crowd vibes, inviting our carnivalgoers to grind together and get lusciously hot & sweaty & ecstatic. We’re again working with amazing Katie Breen (DJ kayḆe from our MadMa### & Summer of Love events, who runs the Sanctuary Sessions) who has helped curate and manage this room, developing a dreamy, tropical, seductive space with a slightly lower mid-tempo BPM and a deeper, more organic feel, suffused with jungle sounds, gentle sophisticated psychedelia, and the unknowable mysteries of majestic Brazilian landscapes.
Don Son (born in Bucharest) journeys from Basel not Brazil, bringing his signature deep driving grooves, creating epic and enigmatic moments infused with ethnic hypnotic elements. Sophie Joe*, originally from Singapore, crosses the channel from the mountains to bring her gorgeous classically-trained sound, a hybrid live set overlaid with her haunting live vocals, singing Brazilian Portuguese vocals. Finally, South African-born, Amsterdam-based Poizon Ivy will then unfurl amidst the foliage to close with a stunning infusion of tropical and tribal beats infused with the sound of nature, mixed with organic percussion and vocal samples from indigenous inhabitants of the Brazilian Jungle.
—- CARNIVALENTINES DJ LINEUP —--
Room 1 - The TechnoDrome
10-12 Ann LoV (UK) https://www.instagram.com/annlovmusic, https://soundcloud.com/annlovmusic
12-2 Dayane Leanddro (UK/BR) https://www.instagram.com/dayaneleanddro/, https://soundcloud.com/user-914423281
2-4 Caroles (BR) https://www.instagram.com/djcaroles/, https://soundcloud.com/djcaroles
4-6 Yazz Min (UAE/ES/BR/NL) https://www.instagram.com/yazzminmusic, https://soundcloud.com/yazzminmusic
Room 2 - The Jungle
10-1230 Sophie Joe (FR/SGP) https://www.instagram.com/ssophiejoe, https://soundcloud.com/ssophiejoe
1230-3 Don Son (CH/RO) https://www.instagram.com/donniemusic, https://soundcloud.com/donniemusic
3-530+ Poizon Ivy (NL/SA) https://www.instagram.com/saskia_diem, https://soundcloud.com/user-778262776
We’ll post more info on all these deities over the coming days - and just cannot wait for you to hear and experience them; they are each treasures, and we are deeply grateful to them for making their journeys to us.
A reminder that you can always explore some of our previous DJ sets at https://soundcloud.com/fox-badge/sets/fox-badge-events
And of course, for this theme especially, all rooms will be saturated with RHYTHM - the thing we all worship, accompanied by a troupe of live, pounding drummers - which will also include you! We are investigating whether we can provide and orchestrate a heap of Jembe drums for our guests to get involved in - if you’re an ace drummer, please drop us an email at fox@badge@gmail.com so we can share our plans with you; more participation means more noise and vibes - and love!
This night we invite ALL our guests to arrive in the true spirit of Carnival - and bring your sounds & instruments - tambourines or Tamborims de Brasil; Agogôs or cowbells; Chocalhos or Caxixis; shakers or Maracas; Ganzás or rattles; Apitos or whistles; horns or Vuvuzelas!
Our penultimate phase of tickets are about to sell out; please snap them up at https://bit.ly/carniValentines (we still have bulk-buy options, which are 20% cheaper)
We deeply hope you can come join us & revel in all these gorgeous soundscapes!