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[ June 21, 2013 9:00 pm to June 22, 2013 2:00 am. ]
BASSIC Boston 6th Anniversary w/
J:Kenzo (Tempa, Artikal Music) UK
AxH (Tuba, BASSIC) Boston
Spliffolian (SUBduction) Boston
@ Good Life Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston MA
$5 b4 11pm $10 after for flight & fees
21+
A short film giving an insight into the lives of people closely associated and dedicated to the vinyl record, the nostalgia it evokes in them, and what it is about this material that has led them into careers centered around it, despite the immense risks attached.
BASSIC Presents
DISTANCE (Chestplate, Get Darker, Tectonic) London UK
JACK SPARROW (Deep Medi, Tectonic) UK
Moldy (Embassy, TUBA, BASSIC) Boston
Dabu (Boston)
GoodLife Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston, MA
21+ | $5 B4 11 $10 after for flights & fees
Skream and dubstep: the two words are practically inextricable. Or at least they were. As a teenager, the Croydon-raised Oliver Jones was instrumental in taking a sparse, forbidding musical form and turning it into a world-beating behemoth. Tracks like “Midnight Request Line” showed that dubstep could do hummable melodies just as easily as urban paranoia. Jones’ career has since gone stratospheric. In 2010 and 2011 he had chart success as part of Magnetic Man, a trio with fellow Croydonites Benga and Artwork. Last year he produced tracks for Kelis and Miles Kane and landed a weekly Radio 1 slot.
As a figurehead of contemporary British dance music, then, it’s perhaps appropriate that Jones is about to leave dubstep behind. There’s no doubting that UK electronic music is experiencing a boom-time, but the poster boys of the new generation – Disclosure et al. – are increasingly of a house persuasion. It’s a development Jones has been following with keen interest, showcasing an increasing amount of house and techno in his sets over the past year.
With his contribution to Pete Tong’s mix series for Defected out this month, it seems the transformation is complete. The mix is a bold, colourful trip through sunny disco and more aggressive UK sounds, spanning from Dusky and Midland to Justin Martin and Duke Dumont. RBMA caught up with Skream shortly after a triumphant “classics set” at dubstep institution DMZ to find out why such sets will soon be a rarity and discuss the inspiration behind his new mix.
Full story at Red Bull Music Academy
There’s a vocal sample laid over the recent track “Too Slow” by Boston dubstep producer Moldy that essentially lays out his overarching musical thesis: “People like you, I think, are starting to realize there’s too much speed in the system,” a voice intones over the clipping percussion, languorous rhythm, and minimal sound architecture. “There’s too much busyness and it’s time to find, or get back to, that lost art of slower rhythms,” it says, just before the deep bass pulse comes in. It’s a much different style of dubstep than how the genre has come to be understood, and Moldy is trying to dial things back…
Full story at The Boston Globe
V.I.V.E.K. (Deep Medi, SYSTEM MUSIC) UK
Moldy (Heavy Pressure, Embassy, Tuba, BASSIC) Boston
Good Life Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston, MA
21+
$5 B4 11pm
Om Unit x Sam Binga – Small Victories EP (Exit Records) March 2013
Dexplicit – That Bass Life EP (Preview) // Out Feb 28th
Addison Groove – I Go Boom – Taal Mala rework
Roska – Asbestos
Hackman & Klic (aka Medlar) – Do Right (FREE 320 DL)
DJ Rashad – Rollin Preview Released 18.03.2013
Mike Paradinas isn’t quite a household name. But as far as his impact on the electronic music world goes he is the equal of almost any other DJ or producer you’d care to mention.
As a teenager in the early 90s, operating under the µ-Ziq alias, Paradinas joined the likes of Autechre and the Aphex Twin in pioneering the leftfield takes on techno, UK hardcore and jungle that would come to be called IDM. Across two LPs for the Rephlex label, Paradinas’ productions put a distinctive spin on the burgeoning form, their busy arrangements and bold, often warm melodics establishing a yin to the icy yang of Autechre’s Amber.
Later in the decade, after a brief dalliance with Virgin records (challenging electronic music was hot dollar back then), Paradinas launched his own imprint, Planet Mu. Initially serving as an outlet for the IDM scene and its offspring, the label has since undergone a series of radical overhauls, consistently wrong-footing its detractors and cementing its position at the forefront of all things electronic. In the mid-2000s the label served as an essential platform for dubstep’s launch into the mainstream; in recent years it has become renowned for championing Chicago footwork, helping to plant a previously obscure music firmly in the global musical consciousness.
Forthcoming on Techtonic, the seemingly unconventional team up of Roska and Pinch results in a slinky heavy roller with bounce!
Portland’s Undrig “weighs in” with a rundown of Moldy‘s latest forthcoming release.
Boston based Dubstep OG, Bassic resident & Heavy Pressure label boss Selector Moldy should be no stranger to anyone who has embraced the style since the early days of being happily confined to dark rooms on powerhouse sound systems. One of the early key figures responsible for ushering in the dubstep sound stateside; he’ll be kicking the door open on 2013 by putting forth a new 12″ on Brooklyn’s Tuba this Month. Originally receiving airplay by Mary Anne Hobbes back in 2009; the not so subtle title injects some real talk into the equation of surface noise currently being swallowed up by the general populace.
Full review and listen at High on Beats…
BASSIC Boston with:
PHOTEK
Incyde B2B Pandai’a
Kate!Rush
21+ // Damage $5 B4 11pm $10 After
GoodLife Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston, Ma
