PERTHQUAKE
Concord Dawn returns with his long awaited 5th studio album, ‘The Enemy Within’ on September 20th. Featuring the classic Concord Dawn sound with a plethora of vocal talent, including Rikki Morris, Paul McLaney, Nina McSweeney, Thomas Oliver, J Dubs along with guests Bulletproof, Cern and Rido. To celebrate the release of the new album ‘The Enemy Within’ Matt will return from Vienna for a nation wide tour.
Support: Phetsta, Muller, Sempy and Deflo
Hardest working man in show business? Trouper? Tireless? However you want to put it, be sure of one thing, when DJ Vadim first heard the phrase “Don’t sleep” he obviously took it literally.
Russian born and London, Berlin and New York residing, DJ Vadim has built a reputation as one of the world’s top independent producers; travelling the globe, performing and collaborating with established and developing talents that cross continents, languages and cultures.
Founder of the labels Jazz Fudge (1994) and Organically Grown Sounds (2010), A&R, band-master, record-collector, in-house producer of The Electric, One Self and Latin Grammy nominees 7 Notas 7 Colorez / Mucho Muchacho; Vadim has certainly been keeping himself busy… …And that’s before we even mention his DJ’ing which has seen him tour all over the world with the likes of Atmosphere, PE, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Redman, STS9, Kraftwerk, Fat Freddy’s Drop and Roni Size, playing at some of the worlds biggest most prestigious festivals like Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Roskilde, Exit, Big Chill, and Burning Man. 15 years of non-stop touring have seen DJ Vadim perform more than 2,500 times in over 60 countries!
Make sure you catch the master at work in an intimate Wednesday night show!
The Big Bad Wolf is coming to town, three big bad wolves in fact. They’re not coming to blow down houses though - they’re coming to blow heads. THE BLOW OUT goes down this Friday night at Shape courtesy of Knowledge Music and features what is probably the biggest, baddest dubstep line up this year. Three of the game’s biggest names; Opiou, Doctor P and Headhunter will bring real bass pressure and the beauty of the line up is that the sounds will span the whole spectrum of the genre. Break it down for more info and a couple of tunes.
From the far reaches of the globe we have pulled two of the galaxies most under-noted producers to fuse together a night of Dub fueled aural ferocity. Introducing 12th PLANET- A don of the drum-n-bass under the name of INFILTRATA, seven years deep he decides to flip it and gave himself a new name and a new sound. It was 2005 and the gentile beatmaker was inspired by sounds he heard spun by the likes of Technical Itch, Skream and Benga. It was dubstep. And it was his calling. 12th Planet was born, and the story really begins. The British dubstep movement takes hold in LA thanks to 12th PLANET and the events he aligns himself with; Smog, Media Contender, HARD, and his own club night Dubtroit. Like the mythological twelfth planet he flies perpendicular to the system. His wicked beats are off axis. His subsonic frequencies surround you in their own orbit. America’s first king of dubstep is ready for impact.
Adding to the sonar experience, United Kingdom’s RESO is simultaneously moving a whole spectrum of electronic genres forward while further cementing his place as the overlord of hi-tech dubstep. With Reso wobble, hypercrunk, breaks, wonky, hip-hop and DnB all receive the treatment. Reso’s deep musicality, incredible skill, intricate programming and wildly diverse references place him at the peak of a new breed of electronic producers. The sonic counterpart to roaring robotic futurism, Reso’s hybrid of rising ambience, hyper beats and speaker busting tech-basslines feels more suited to a post apocalyptic Tokyo than the contemporary concrete of most Dubstep. A truly inspiring experience his music’s mech-mania induced synthesesia conjures images of neon-tinged neo-Japanese cityscapes, powerful hulking automatons and violent bassline machismo.
Following a string of massively successful Australian festival tour dates in 2009, Canadian dancehall futurists SOUTH RAKKAS CREW will be stimulating dancefloors across Australia & New Zealand this September, returning with a swag of new material and a killer new live show featuring one of the UK’s best, MC SEROCEE, performing for the first time ever in Australia!
Rugged dancehall, shameless pop, hipster electro bangers, rude dubstep – f**k it, South Rakkas does it all. A duo comprised of veteran producers Alex Greggs and Dennis “Dow Jones” Shaw, South Rakkas Crew have been responsible for some of the hottest dance floor fillers around, both their own, and others. Heavy hitters M.I.A, T-Pain, Lily Allen, Kelis, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Justin Timberlake, Beck, Yo Majesty, Tricky and Duran Duran have all benefited from and SRC’s genius studio skills and talents for fusing hook-laden song structure with sound-system destroying beats.
Kicking off 2010 with energy, South Rakkas dropped their 16-track album STIMULUS PACKAGE (on Diplo’s tastemaker label MAD DECENT) to unanimous praise from critics and the blogosphere worldwide – and the Stimulus Package marks only the beginning of SRC’s plan for world domination in 2010, with a new genre bending single, “Robot’s Revenge” (on superstar DJ Adam Freeland’s Marine Parade label) already getting much love from BBC1.
2010 also sees the unveiling of SRC’s new live experience, to be witnessed for the first time in Australia this September, featuringToddla T’s hype man Serocee (UK) who recently joined them for the summer festival season in Europe, which included a blazing takeover of Serbia’s Exit festival in July.
At first it didn’t seem right to be getting as excited as I was about a first birthday party, but when it’s to mark the arrival on the scene of champion promoters Knowledge Music, any awkward feelings can be quickly dismissed. After all, these are the guys who have managed to continually bring the biggest and best acts from across the music spectrum to party in our lonely city. This gig was to be no different with Brazilian drum and bass legend DJ Marky headlining the proceedings and helping to put another notch in their belt.
Reso, Nas, Noisia, Chali 2na, Skream, Benga, Roots Manuva, Dilated Peoples, Cassius, Phace, Nero… the list goes on and on. Knowledge Music has been pretty damn good to us over the past year, bringing Perth the sweetest sounds in drum and bass, dubstep, hip hop and more. This Saturday night the gang are celebrating their first Birthday with a soundtrack provided by yet another heavy hitter in the electronic music scene, a true legend, Brazilian drum and bass superstar DJ Marky. It goes down at Villa and is sure to be a Birthday celebrated in style. Break it down for more info and a couple of tunes.
Gotta love heading out to see a highly regarded underground maverick, whose career has spanned three decades, influenced multiple generations of Hip Hop artists and has way too many aliases to care to mention: all on a school night!
Nobody could be certain of what was to come on Friday night when Ramadanman made his first appearance in Perth at Shape courtesy of Knowledge Music. Though it seemed he had been booked for his talents in dubstep production, the man is known to dabble in a wide variety of musical genres and the direction his set would take was anyone’s guess. The last dubstep artist to grace Shape with the deeper, minimal, more “boundary pushing” style similar to that of Ramadanman was Appleblim, and the turnout for that even was less than desirable. Which is why I was so excited when I arrived at Shape to find a packed out room around midnight. Break it down for the full review.
As you have probably gathered Kool Keith; who will be making his way to Shape on the 11th this month, is a Hip Hop artist that isn’t shy in utilising aliases in his musical endeavours. Having first come onto the scene as a founding member of the Ultrmagnetic MC’s, Keith has gone onto record successfully as a solo artist often under the aforemntioned plethora of different aliases.
Lyrically known for exploring the abstract with a unique sense of humour and a stream-of-coscience like flow, as well as this Keith is known for a style that focuses on sexual themes that he has dubbed ‘pornocore’. Keith also credits himself for the creation of the ’Horrorcore’ sub-genre.
Kool Keith will be at Shape on the 11th of August, get more info here, and tickets from Shape.
