Deepchild
Deepchild
Touring top billing dj sets along-side the likes of Richie Hawtin and Green Velvet (at the massive EXIT Festival, Serbia), Jeff Mills (Tribal Sessions in Leeds), Jesse Rose, Dixon and Sebo K (for Jesse’s “Made to Play” monthly at Berlin’s legendary Panorama Bar), M.A.N.D.Y (Watergate, Berlin), Ewan Pearson and Will Saul (SONAR, Barcelona) to remix work from New Order, to techno superstars Booka Shade (voted best act and best record label, Get Physical, in dance bible IDJ last year), there’s much that can be said for this genre-mashing producer. If the increasingly demanding international schedule of Deepchild weren’t enough (try playing Germany and then Kuala Lumpur in the space of 4 days), a continuing string of highly successful 12″s on labels and remixes have well and truly solidified Deepchild’s reputation as a serious ‘contender’ in the saturated international dance-music community.
London, Tokyo, Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle, California, Vancouver, Prague, Cologne, Manchester, Leeds, Serbia and more all feature in a yearly extensive dj/live touring schedule…
From original releases for labels like Trapez Resopal Schallware and of course Sub Continental Dub, remix work for legendary producers New Order and Booka Shade (Get Physical), deeper cuts for Freerange Records (UK) and Affin (German) and serious tech-weapons for BEEF, Dieb Audio and San Francisco’s Anabatic Records, a steady stream of bouncy, crunked-up tech-house sounds have insured Deepchild remaines one of Australia’s most in-demand producers. Butch, Hipp-e, Robert Babicz, Tigerstripes, Jimpster and Luomo have all leant their remix credits to Deepchild 12″s….
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Westernsynthetics
Westernsynthetics @ The Dubshack, Peats Ridge Festival 2009
Fusing his unique blend of acid, dub, punk, techno and psychedelia Westernsynthetics (aka Rhyece O’Neill) uses a vast pallet of sounds, instrumentation and imagery in the construction of his music. Together with Kristy Brown he has has developed the South-Pacific label Sub Continental Dub.
A regular performer at Sydney’s Void and Melbourne’s Bass High Dubstep nights he has supported heavyweights Distance, Scuba, Caspa, Skream, Benga, Bassnectar, Cotti, Harmonic 313, Gravious, Tes La Rok, 2562, Kito, Spherix, Emalkay, Deadbeat and others. His live show encompasses on the fly cut ups with fx and synths fused with his bass heavy productions.
Westernsynthetics has remixed for the Herd, Armen Firman and Deepchild. His track Engine no. 999 has been nominated in the in the best instrumental composition category in the Australian Songwriters Association awards for 2009.
Westernsynthetics has fourth-coming releases on Sub Continental Dub, The Frequency Lab & Foreign Dub.
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Gravious
Gravious
Gravious a.k.a. Ali Jackson is an up-and-coming Dubstep producer based in Glasgow, Scotland. With 4 releases under his belt through the HotFlush record label – on both the main label and the Scuba sub-label, a Deepchild remix 12″ out on Sub Continental Dub – and a warm reception from critics and punters alike, he is currently taking a live show out on the road.
Ali started making music in 2001 after being shown the basics of DIY production by a friend. After experimenting in a variety of styles, he was converted to the fresh sounds of Dubstep, Dark Garage and Broken Beat after hearing the selections of djs such as dj Da Flex and Femme Fatale in early 2004. From this starting point, he quickly discovered the bass-heavy productions of Kode9, Digital Mystikz, Horsepower, Skream, Groove Chronicles and Ghost – and was instantly hooked. Taking inspiration from these sounds, Gravious also brought in elements from his wider musical tastes in both electronic and traditional music to add new perspectives. Artists most inspirational to him include The Future Sound of London, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, LTJ Bukem, Kyuss, Aphex Twin, and Autechre.
In Early 2007 he played the first ‘live’ laptop set of his own material during the Triptych music festival in Edinburgh. 2008 and 2009 saw a him hit venues across the UK, as well as a handful of European cities. With a variety of releases in the pipeline and a series of live dates lined up in internationally, 2010 looks set to be another big year!
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Spherix
Spherix @ Index 2009
SPHERIX, a.k.a. Josh Lamaro is one of Australia’s rising stars on the Dubstep circuit. Hailing from Melbourne, Josh has a unique sound, influenced heavily by minimal and dub techno. He has had numerous releases on respected international labels including, Tube 10, Bare Dubs, On The Edge Records, Immerse, 3.5 Recordings and Sub Continental Dub. After his early experiments with the piano and sampling, Josh’s first foray into electronic music production was with Drum and Bass in the late 1990’s. Influenced by the stripped down aesthetic of the Tech-Step style, Josh drew influence from the early productions of Ed Rush and Optical and later began incorporating his early love of minimal techno, dub and hip hop into his production which informed where his sound is today. What resulted was a much slower and more inclusive sound than his early productions which eventually began being associated with what had become known as Dubstep.
His early collaborations with London Dubstep producer Luke Envoy, opened the way for a wealth of ideas being developed concurrently in the Dubstep scene in London. This experience and exposure to some of the biggest producers in Dubstep helped polish the ideas and attitudes Josh’s music was looking to address. Over the following few years the Spherix sound has developed as a distinctive one, clearly expressing all the early influences of Minimal and Dub Techno as well as Drum and Bass into the one unique sound.