Bushwacka!

Likeminded Music and Space Invaders presents Bushwacka!

Come join us at Justine’s nightclub. A basement nightclub, and with plenty of atmosphere. Grab a rare chance to get up close and intimate with one of the greats of dance music. 

Expect a night of electrifying dance music all powered by Likeminded Musics Funktion One. 

Support lineup:

James Scoble

Jay Cole

Samiro

Ian Dunne

Matthew ‘Bushwacka’ B, a percussionist in the London School Symphony Orchestra

who was converted into a member of the infamous Rat Pack after a warehouse party

in ’88, has been DJing for over 30 years now. From that first Acid House experience

Matthew quickly started playing all over London, holding residencies at four of the

most famous clubs in town by the time he was 18 years old. From London the gigs

spread countrywide, doing up to 8 shows a weekend, and then into Europe and the

USA by 1992.

It was via a mutual friend Mr C that Layo & Bushwacka! first met, whilst Matthew

was working at his studio, and by the mid 90s the two had started writing music

together. Over a decade later, the partnership has yielded three artist albums, three

mix albums, internationally renowned club residencies and a superb record label.

By 1999 they’d already composed their debut album, ‘Low Life’, released on End

Recordings, the label spawned by The End. The album announced the arrival of the

duo as a force in electronic music, with a record that brought together electro, house

and breakbeat fused with blues, dub and downtempo, all underpinned and informed

by their collective experience of underground culture. This inclusive and open

minded approach to sound became the blueprint for their future work.

Their sophomore album followed in 2002, this time released on the mighty XL

Recordings. Entitled ‘Night Works’, the record featured their unforgettable top ten hit

‘Love Story’, and took their sound onto a bigger and broader canvas, charting all

over the in the process. The accompanying live show brought further acclaim with

stunning shows from Homelands to Sonar, whilst their famous DJ sets had now

garnered residencies at some of the world’s finest clubs including Space in Ibiza,

Warung in Brasil and of course The End in London. While this explosion was

happening, Matthew was also achieving huge solo success with his remixes for

Depeche Mode, his bootleg of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, and getting phone calls

from Madonna wanting him to work on her music. It was a crazy time.

Their End residency, known as All Night Long, became one of the capital’s most

revered nights with Layo & Bushwacka! taking the club through an edifying tour-deforce of electronic music.

When The End closed its doors for the last time in 2009, Layo and Bushwacka!

started the Shake It brand and threw amazing warehouse parties all over London,

booking Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Laurent Garnier and many other friends,

and created dancefloor destruction for 4 years. The parties were legendary, the

energy incredible.

Layo & Bushwacka!’s reputation as two of the world’s foremost DJ duos is rock solid.

Four artist albums have proven them remarkably talented producers, capable of

mixing styles, tempos and genres to create enduring and engaging electronic music.

Their trio of mix albums and international club residencies have shown they are

masters of the turntables, sonic connoisseurs who can guide a dance floor on an

epic journey through the many facets of their sound. Their label Olmeto meanwhile

has become a bastion for quality, a label that, much like its figureheads, has become

a rubber stamped seal of class, and many of their vinyl only releases have become

sought after rarities.

In 2013 Bushwacka! took some time out to focus on his solo Just Be project,

recording on Crosstown Rebels, Get Physical and Intec, while Layo created a new

empire in Soho, of world class restaurants, applying his magic touch to everything he

does. Five years later, Bushwacka! started touring and recording again under his

original name, only on select shows and keeping it special for the fans, old and new.

Fast forward to 2019, and Bushwacka! had been releasing massive tracks – starting

with his classic track The Healer, with remixes from himself, Carl Cox, Sasha,

M.A.N.D.Y and Denney – and just released a second banging single on Ultra

Records – Get Up, with remix from Mason Manyard.

After COVID, having to park 3 huge residencies, in London, Ibiza, and New York,

Bushwacka took time out to focus on his Vinyl Love Affair live streams, amassing

over 2 million views, keeping people all over the world entertained during lockdown.

As well as this, he released two albums – Listen Up Vol 1 and 2, remastered

versions of some of his classic and rarer productions.

Bushwacka is currently remixing and collaborating with Archie Hamilton, Darius

Syrossian, Carl Cox, Pig and Dan, Bedrock Records, Richy Achmed, and writing

new singles and albums. On top of this he is rereleasing vinyl only limited tracks from

his Plank Records catalog, and other rarities., and relaunching Oblong records. Gig

wise, this summer Bushwacka! has focussed on a select handful of shows as the

world opens up again, from London Kiev, Manchester, Liverpool and Brighton,

Glasgow to Ibiza, and more. He starts his London residency again in 2022, and will

tour his favourite parties around the planet, doing what he loves best