Unité.22: Hi Rosie, Goldie B b2b Gipsyan, RAVL b2b Smogo

At Animals Industry and Unité.22, we love a family affair. And when one of our own has something to celebrate, we put everything on pause, take over 22 rue Jobin in Marseille and throw a party. It’s our love language—and the perfect way to welcome this line-up cooked up by our very own RAVL.

The latest addition to our pack of residents, our favourite imp released his South Steppas EP on Electric Shapes last month. Born under the Sète sun and dreamed up alongside Gipsyan and Hi Rosie, the project sits somewhere between dub, dancehall, breaks and bass music, bringing basslines together with fractured rhythms and influences from across the Channel.

To celebrate the release, we’ve handed the club over to the crew of producers involved in the EP, who’ll be taking charge on 28 November. RAVL has brought together the whole gang who helped bring the record to life, ready to immerse us in the world of South Steppas.

Joining him will be Gipsyan, his partner in crime on the EP, along with Goldie B, Hi Rosie and Smogo, who each put their stamp on the project through a series of remixes. Five artists, five distinctive worlds, and a shared passion for electronic music that ventures off the beaten track and brings something fresh to the French electronic scene.

A night among friends, a collective story, and an excuse to get together around a sound system.

On 28 November at Unité.22, RAVL is serving up the goods.

- Gipsyan
Gipsyan is a producer and DJ from the south of France. A fixture of the Montpellier scene, he has released music on labels including Nehza Records, Tratratrax, Omakase Recordings, Silence Collapse and Monstart. On stage, he shapes a blend of sharp percussion, heavy bass and dub textures, moving from mutant dancehall through leftfield sounds to deconstructed techno, weaving sonic collages and leaping between tempos.

- Goldie B
Goldie B is a DJ, producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and MC whose work defies fixed categories. Her instinctive, hybrid approach to electronic music draws on UK garage, breakbeat, house, bass and nu-jazz. After moving to Marseille in 2017, she co-founded Omakase Recordings, a home for her early releases, before attracting the attention of labels such as D.KO Records. Alongside her studio work, Goldie B maintains a busy performance schedule, both as a DJ and a live act.

- Hi Rosie
DJ and producer Hi Rosie, who caught Laurent Garnier’s attention and earned the approval of internationally recognised artists such as Tzusing and Sinjin Hawke, makes music rooted in contemporary bass, shaking up the genre’s boundaries. Guided by a minimalist ethos in which finishing a track means taking things away rather than adding more, he finds his voice by stripping out excess and getting to the essentials.

Combining raw FM synthesis, operatic vocals, Romantic orchestral instruments and fractured rhythms, he explores two distinct aesthetics: one centred on the energy of the club and the dance floor, the other more sensitive and romantic.

- Smogo
A producer for nearly 15 years and the driving force behind Blue Night Jungle, Smogo is a musical all-rounder raised on UK bass music and 2000s techno. Also a sound designer and dark ambient composer under the name Primal Era Worship, he enjoys developing complex sonic environments that often border on the experimental, focusing on narrative structure and its emotional effects. His DJ sets share that same desire to transport listeners: his selections are packed with deep dubstep, druidstep and deep techno gems, occasionally veering into drum’n’bass or tribe.

- RAVL
DJ and producer RAVL creates a melancholic, break-driven world, pairing the warmth of analogue synthesisers with icy percussion through intricate sound design infused with textured hard drum, UK garage and rumbling techno.

His productions reflect his influences: rooted in bass music intertwined with British and American techno, at the crossroads of IDM and jungle, and sometimes coloured by shamanic South American club culture, they forge a hybrid, contemporary style. A member of the Animals Industry collective, he collaborates with artists including Aloka, Cardozo, Tim Karbon, Leese, Lisa More, Hyas, Pura Pura, Goldie B and others from the bass music scene.

Timetable
00h00-01h30: Hi Rosie
01h30-03h30: Goldie B b2b Gipsyan
03h30-04h30: RAVL b2b Smogo