Winners announced for Audiotarky’s Future Sound of Bristol Competition

Winners announced for Audiotarky’s Future Sound of Bristol Competition

Posted on: 24 Apr 2023

The competition has been organised by Audiotarky: Bristol’s very own independent grassroots streaming platform, built to champion local musicians and labels.

 

Applications for the competition closed earlier this month with the winners announced today and the first prize going to Bristol rapper B of Briz, Read on for a lowdown of all the competition winners! 

 

The ‘Future Sound of Bristol’ Competition has seen as many as 110 talented entrants, 220 unique tracks and over 15 hours of diverse music from artists from Bristol and the surrounding area. 

 

Visit the Future Sound of Bristol website for more information.

 

 

Winning the competition’s top prize of £5,000 and a one-month membership at Barton Hill’s Factory Studios is masked rapper B of Briz. With an eccentric, alternative brand of hip-hop that lyrically draws on feminism as a muse.

 

With a masked persona reminiscent of hip-hop luminaries such as MF DOOM, B of Briz has big plans to make use of her prize. She will use her time at Factory Studios to refine, develop and practice vocal techniques while the grant will be used for the creation of a new concept album with the working title: Patriarchy, a gentle reminder; Volume 1: Toxic Masculinity.

 

The second-place prize – which includes £2,000 and 18 hours of studio time at Factory - has been awarded to Lorcán, a musician whose output traverses the space between dream pop, ambient and indie rock, exploring the transience of lived experience. 

 

Lorcán’s plans are to reinvest the grant into his music through the purchasing of new equipment, direct funding to promotions, as well as using the budget to record his debut album.

The three third-place prizes of £1,000 and 9 hours of studio time have been awarded to three unique and worthy artists. Emily Magpie – a dream pop artist-producer from Bristol who has been championed by the likes of BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson – is the first recipient of the award.

 

The other winners are Heyouki, a nine-piece neo-soul and modern jazz collective experimenting with heavy hip-hop rhythms, and Dwell, a musician with a trance-like style that creates a beautiful echo chamber of strings, jazz instrumentation and guitars.

 

These five competition winners were selected by an esteemed panel of guest judges including Elder Island’s David Havard, Trinity Centre’s Aysha Tailor-Whyte, award-winning record producer Ali Chant and many more with applicants judged talent, creative vision, and artistic merit.

Audiotarky is a Bristol-based independent streaming platform with a distinct mission to help foster a thriving community of musicians, who are celebrated for their work, and reimbursed fairly; better enabling them to do what they do best - focus on the music. Artists can upload their music to Audiotarky on the platform’s website.

 

Find out more about Audiotarky’s Future Sound of Bristol Competition HERE.

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Article by:

Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.