To celebrate a whole year in the blog game Sonic Router are hosting Room 2 at [dissident] in Bristol on the 6th Feb 2010. We've invited some of our favourite DJs including Brackles, Jack Sparrow, Shortstuff and Gemmy to mark to occasion.
The rest of the line up across the club is stacked too. Join us...
06/02/2010 @ Lakota, Bristol. 10 - 6am // £10 advance/£12 OTD Tickets available from Bristol Ticket Shop/Rooted Records/Drop Records (Bath)
Main Room - [dissident]:
Ed Rush (Virus) Teebee (Subtitles/Momentum) Doc Scott (31 Records) Icicle (Shogun Audio) Ulterior Motive (Subtitles) Incite & Breach [dissident] Noisy Boy [dissident] Distilled (Torque)
MC'S: Stapleton, Fokus, Mantmast
Room 2 - Hosted by Sonic Router:
Brackles (Planet Mu/Blunted Robots) Jack Sparrow (Tectonic) Shortstuff (Ramp/Planet Mu) Gemmy (Planet Mu) Reecha (Dirty Canvas) The Kelly Twins (UFO) mlr (Sonic Router)
Room 3 - Hosted by Idle Hands Records:
Peverelist (Punch Drunk) October (Caravan) Kowton (Keysound) Atki2 (Steak House/Idle Hands) Chris Farrell (Idle Hands) Richard Carnage (RA/Tape)
Keysound have stepped up a gear this year dropping more 12”s than ever before and doing it fine style too, with unique takes on the bass sounds of the underground. Starkey and Durrty Goodz dropped a killer 12” of hyperactive street bass anthems, Zomby did his aquatic gloop & bass rendition of label bosses Dusk & Blackdown, DVA showed off the dark side of grime and Grievous Angle re-fixing a jungle anthem into a rolling garage number all to great effect. But with Kowton they come with something all together different that manages to sit so well with Keysound and expand it’s sonic pallet.
‘Stasis (g mix)’ gets things rolling: here Kowton takes garage and deep dubbed out minimal techno and fuses it to a Youngtsa-esq half stepping dubstep sound. But lowers the tempo and ups the groove to create a really unique zoned out groove led number, which just rolls out like a long lost garage joint that Basic Channel and Youngsta forgot to make back in 2001. The deepness is hypnotising.
Things get minimal with ‘Countryman’, a four to the floor pump and a relentless bass pulse replaces the garage vibes with something altogether darker and sinister. The track builds and rolls with dub samples and a subtle groove, it feels so simple but ends up greater than the sum of its parts. The minimal half step house rhythms really feel like a fresh slant on the dubstep techno sound.
Kowton takes it deep with this 12” and showcases his unique vision in full effect, plus it’s yet another example of bass heads lowering the tempo and upping the groove, an experiment that’s working wonders at expanding the whole scene into different territories by bringing DJ’s and producers from all sides into the mix in a multi-sided tempo shifting genre skewing bass monolith. Kowton and Keysound bring the goods on this hypnotic platter, it’s a 12” not to be missed.
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To celebrate a whole year in the blog game Sonic Router are hosting Room 2 at [dissident] in Bristol on the 6th Feb 2010. We've invited some of our favourite DJs including Brackles, Jack Sparrow, Shortstuff and Gemmy to mark to occasion.
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