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Prafix Aztech

hagop — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:43:44 +0000

Prafix Aztech aka Carlo Størup was born in January of 1983 in the Denmark countryside.

His interest in the arts and music emerged at a very young age, first painting, then making music. Prafix is drawn to dark, complex sounds. He has unique methods; finding a spot on the map, starting in harsh noize underground, and then IDM / braindance in the late 90’s, releasing on underground labels in Denmark and Europe.

Prafix Aztech is currently working a hybrid between minimal and IDM/Glitch with a healthy mix of ambience. He is open for new experiments, nothing is too wild or crazy to capture and create, like wild animals running around inside his head, just waiting for his lasso.

Besides creating music and sound art Prafix Aztech is a performance artist, installation artist, painter, and filmmaker. He has a clothing line called High-Quality Grandmother, currently on sale at www.artrebels.com

Prafix Aztech has a condition called synesthesia, which mixes sound and vision, so a part of sound becomes an image, or a whole scene of moving images, and the other way around. Thus the main inspiration for Prafix Aztech is the collapsing of patterns, the creation of spaces, small worlds in their own world, chaos, and offbeat comic.

Subiduda 2
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Subiduda 3
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Subiduda 5
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Subiduda 10
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Subiduda 15
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Ecut

hagop — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:46:01 +0000

This Berlin based composer operates in a broad creative playground. Beyond Defined Species – the free exposure in experimenting with sound and structure is nearly similar to the path he goes.

Like life is – it was simply a game console when Ecut started producing over ten years ago. Beside of percussion and turntable sets an autarkic working sound was grown. The using of analog and digital sources as well as deeper assimilated vibes are shading colours between black and white.

Just as diverse is the collaboration base he has attracted from all around the world – with names like Film Academy Vienna, Smovement Berlin, Apjiw (Can), Die Linde Berlin, Antonio de Bragga (Can), N-tje (Ger), Imago Meccano (It) and other in his portfolio.

If there is a background then its drawn from life – his music describes stories of different views and tight suggestions – even more a mirror of the phantasmagorium.

Khali
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Natshure
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Tingmisem feat. N-tje
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http://www.myspace.com/ecut42
http://www.myspace.com/ecut76

Sharps

hagop — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:42:07 +0000

Sharps began making music as a child by experimenting with cheap keyboards, casette tape and broken machines. Today his music has evolved into a hitech bass music for size large sound systems. His productions are driven by the need for massive tracks that rock dance floors and push the boundaries of genre and style.

Having cut his teeth early on listening to the adventurous music of Aphex Twin and Autechre, Sharps learned the value of doing things differently, yet recognizes the excitement and energy that comes when people gather together to wash their souls in bass. Sharps draws his influences from many facets, but counts the glitch sound, dubstep, miami bass, breakbeat and random dance music among his top sources of inspiration.

Although he is at the beginning of his journey through dance music, his productions have already caught the attention from top artists and DJs from both sides of the pond including Si Begg, Mat the Alien and Bassnectar. Other accolades include a national Canadian award for composition in 2002, and top reviews for his tracks on www.nuskoolbreaks.co.uk.

Sharps comes from Western Canada, a land of legendary sound systems and forest parties, and has been involved with the undergound music culture in the area since 1995. Co-owner and manager of Saedos Records, Sharps continues to develop the label, bringing outstanding tracks to the world.

New Grind
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Nightwork
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Last Winter
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Lick
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Underlying Fabric
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http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Saedos/

Barney Spigel

hagop — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:33:22 +0000

Barney Spigel – aka Spigelsound / Dubwise / Dr. Spigelfunk – has been producing music and DJing for over ten years. Barney got interested in the concept of music production after first hearing The Prodigy’s The Experience LP and a compilation called 100% Drum & Bass at the age of 13. He started putting ideas together using a cheap Roland GM sound module with Cubase on his PC. He later progressed onto the Macintosh platform using Logic, a hardware sampler and a rack of outboard gear and began compose breakbeat driven music influenced by the likes of The Prodigy, Underworld, DJ Shadow, Roni Size, Goldie and Massive Attack.

At his home studio, Barney has written and produced many tracks in a variety of different styles – including progressive and dubwise drum’n'bass, neo-soul, alternative hip-hop, future funk, dub and film soundtracks – some of which have been licensed for use in a range of TV programmes and one in particular was signed to drum’n'bass legend Marcus Intalex’s Soul:R label, arguably the best in the liquid d’n'b scene. This track – Smash VIP by Amaning & Dubwise – has been played out in clubs all over the planet by some of the world’s top DJs and also featured in the highly acclaimed FabricLive mix CD series on issue 35.

Barney is always working on new material, so expect to see more of his tracks released in the not too distant future. As well as being a music producer, Barney DJs in bars and clubs across London; he runs his own weekly session in Camden called Stir It Up! showcasing new and unsigned talent; he works as a sound & light technician at Soho Theatre and also works in post-production, editing and authoring DVDs.

Resolve
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Unrest
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Melt
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Rage
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Martello Rotativo

hagop — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:58:31 +0000

Martello is a 26 year old Estonian writer and music producer with 8 years experience. He is an electrical engineer by trade, music producing and music itself is his hobby and love.

He began by messing with tracker type programs like ModPlug tracker and similar. 2 years ago he discovered sequencer type programs and currently uses Cubase 4. His music is 100 % software and samples. He loves playing with soft-synths’ different features and feels like crazy scientist in another era!

He sums up his style with 3 simple words – electronic dance music. He most loves deep house, dubstep, old school jungle and also modern dance/club music sounds. All these styles influence his music. When he was 6 years old he found his father’s old broken tape-recorder, got it fixed, and found some old tapes by Whitney Houston. This was Martello gone – the music captured him.

Martello says signing with Mai Plues is his first official milestone. His music has also been broadcast several times on Estonian radio station Radio 2.

Bass O’ Mania
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Dub 4
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London Jump
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http://www.martellorotativo.com
http://www.myspace.com/mrotativo

Psonikadia

hagop — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:56:19 +0000

Psonikadia has been producing electronica for a number of years. Not one to be pigeonholed, Psonikadia mixes differing styles from pure beat-less enveloping soundscapes to breakbeat, dubstep and everything in between.
Having released on various underground netlabels worldwide, Psonikadia has created quite a buzz, even being tipped for greatness by Radio One’s Rob Da Bank.

After last summers’ signing to Vancouver based label Xynthetic Music, Psonikadia released ‘Minds Without Borders’, a collection of sonic environments from cascading atmospheres and deep ambient backroom breaks, currently Xynthetic’s top selling release.

Inspiration for the pieces comes from the peaceful coastal life in Brighton – the sea, the rolling green hills, the realization of living on an island and the sites and sound of the most special place.

Below is a selection of tracks. More are available on request.

21st Century Sky
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Eighteenplusone
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Delicate Herd
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Indivisible
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Without Borders
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http://www.myspace.com/psonikadian
http://www.last.fm/music/psonikadia
http://www.psonikadia.com

High Rankin

hagop — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:20:49 +0000

High Rankin has always been a man to set a scene with his music. Fond of cinematic intros, often recording himself for dramatic effect, not afraid to work against the grain.

His tracks are full of character; he aims to make records that stand out from the current crop of formulaic beat and bass rendering.

Based in Brighton, High Rankin started ‘Molten Vinyl Recordings’ in 2004 as a platform to release locally produced Drum’n’Bass. In 2006 he started ‘Suicide Watch’ to push a much harder Drum’n’Bass sound. 2008 saw the birth of ‘Suicide Dub’ as a sister label to Suicide Watch – a digital label for the biggest and baddest dubstepz around.

All labels are going strong and released tracks by artists from around the world.
Publishing for all labels is handled by Mai Plues.

DUBSTEP:

Bohemian Grove
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We’re All Dead
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Whats Your User
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You, Me and The Devil
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Control Room
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DRUM’N'BASS

The Detective
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Lost In A World of Ghosts
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Saxual Harassment
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www.myspace.com/highrankin
www.myspace.com/suicidedub
www.myspace.com/suicidewatchuk
www.myspace.com/moltenvinyl

Hungry Man

hagop — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:37:58 +0000

DJ, Producer & Writer of 10 years, Hungry Man embraces the open & minimal sound of Sub Bass heavy dubstep. His productions show versatility & creativity, ambient mood setting textures washing over the rhythms. Listen to the hooks mutating, the variety of sounds, the anti-formulaic production style. One to watch.