Witness Presents Claude VonStroke

It might be mad, but it’s true. Sneaky’s is going super-sized for the night as Witness host the big-fun maximalism of Claude VonStroke in an intimate warm-up for his appearance on Soma’s roster at Rock Ness. And all for the price of a Red Stripe (in a bar). 

The Detroit-raised, San-Francisco-based Barclay Crenshaw, founder of the prolific Dirtybird/Mothership set-up, has acquired a distinct vocabulary for bounding guttural bass and eccentric vocal samples through a varied musical upbringing. Starting as a schoolboy rapper, Crenshaw then DJed his beloved drum ‘n’ bass before finally arriving in production with the big ‘n’ bouncy house that largely dominates his output.

Since taking the world by curious storm with his first release, the gloriously funky, stomp-driven ‘Deep Throat’, all gurgling vocals and quirky attitude, VonStroke has gone on to headline stages worldwide, racking up BBC Essential and Fabric mixes on the way. His recent remix of Girl Unit’s ‘Wut’ under the alias The Grizzl has aligned him with the UK scene and his latest release, ‘Le Fantome’, departs entirely from those distinguishing bird squarks and chimp squeals, featuring instead the smouldering vocals of Jaw on a still funk-kicking backdrop.