Samstag, 27.12.2008

U-Club & Version präsentieren:
DUBSTEP vs. DRUM & BASS NIGHT
SOUNDS OF LONDON

mainfloor: dubstep & Drum 'n' bass
STORM (Metalheadz, London)
DJ CHEF (Soul Jazz Records, Sub Freaq, London)
DJ ORSON (version, Düsseldorf)
DJ MERZO (u-club, Wuppertal)

2nd floor: dub & dubstep
WADADDA (Jahtari, P.A.H., Köln)
PENELOPE (royal beat club, Düsseldorf)

visual art:
DAS BEN (Berlin)
DIE HEIKE UND SEINE HENNE (u-club, Wuppertal)

U-Club Wuppertal
Start 23 Uhr - open end
Eintritt 10 Euro

Ticketservice: http://www.u-club.de/tickest

Im Rahmen der Eventreihe "Sounds of London" öffnet der Wuppertaler U-Club zum Jahreswechsel ein weiteres Kapitel seiner Clubgeschichte. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass durch die Vermischung von Dubstep mit Drum & Bass Sounds endlich wieder eine akzeptable Publikumsbereitschaft aufgebaut werden konnte. Die letzten Partys waren in dieser Hinsicht sogar so erfolgreich, dass auch für das kommende Jahr bereits zahlreiche Projekte in Planung sind.

Kommen wir nun aber zu Party...
Englands First Lady in Sachen Drum & Bass, Dj STORM, hat in Wuppertal Tradition. Seit fast 10 Jahren sieht man sie immer wieder hinter den Plattentellern im U-Club aufblitzen. Die Londoner Metalheadz-Djane begeistert mit ihrem immer neuen Sound selbst unerfahren Partygäste und garantiert damit 100% Partyspass.

Den Dubstep-part überlässt sie in dieser Nacht ihrem Heimatkumpanen DJ CHEF. Seit vielen Jahren verbreitet Chef den Dubstep Virus über den gesamten Globus. Seine besonderen Fähigkeiten als Dj und Produzent öffnen ihm hierbei Tür und Tor. Obwohl er hierzulande als Dj noch nahezu unbekannt ist, zählt er weltweit zu einem der einflussreichsten und vielseitigsten Künstler seines Genres.

Ausserdem erwarte euch ein aussergewöhnliches Set von WADADDA, ORSON, MERZO und PENELOPE, sowie visuals von DAS BEN aus Berlin und der HEIKE UND SEINER HENNE.

Begonnen wir um 23 Uhr, der Eintritt beträgt 10 Euro.

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Storm:

Chef:

Links:

CHEF: http://www.myspace.com/dj_chef

STORM: http://www.myspace.com/stormthe1stlady

WADADDA: http://www.myspace.com/wadadda

Dj Chef

One of the pioneering DJ's of Dubstep, 23 years young Chefal aka Chef, hailing from the home of Dubstep, Croydon, South London has been mixing for 13 years.

Chefal's upfront selection and skills on the decks have led to him djing to all corners off the globe from Vancouver in Canada to Christchurch in New Zealand. Over the last year Chef has been spreading the Dubstep virus from UK towns and cities such as Croydon, Brixton, Nottingham, Brighton, Exeter, Newport, Bristol, Leicester, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow in Scotland, Cardiff in Wales, Dublin in Ireland and Guernsey etc to major towns and cities all around the world such as Seattle, LA, Chicago, San Fransisco and New York in America to Amsterdam and Uterecht, Holland --- Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium --- Copenhagen, Denmark --- Helsiniki, Finland --- Vienna, Austria --- Tel Aviv, Israel, --- Prague, Czech Republic --- Munich and Frankfurt, Germany --- Paris, France --- Budapest, Hungary --- Basel, Switzerland, Croatia plus many more. he list is endless, for a Dubstep DJ without a single release in the shops or online this is a unique achievement and is a merit of Chefals DJ skills.

Chefal is a resident at the two pioneering Dubstep nights in London DMZ and FWD and one of Bristols top Nights Hench which has now moved to a monthly at The Tube Chefal is also a resident at club nights outside of the UK including Slam It! which is a bi-monthly event in Helsinki, Finland and also Voodoo People in Amsterdam, Holland.

Chefal has been hosting a weekly Radio Show on London's leading Rinse Fm (14 years on air) for nearly 5 years. When Chefal isn't playing the latest dubs at raves he's busy making them @ Transition Studios, while training to become a Mastering Engineer and managing the mighty Ringo Records, Sub Freq Records and pulling the strings with Osiris behind the London/Amsterdam run label Subbalicious Records!!

From the early secondary school days, Chefal was spending all his pocket and dinner money on the latest Jungle down at Big Apple on a Friday. He grew up listening to stations like Kool Fm, Weekend Rush, Rinse, Upfront, London Underground etc while playing Mario and Streetfighter in his bedroom.

Chefal Started listening to and buying House n Garage around 1997, when it got darker and more bassline influenced but still kept up to date with the Jungle and D'n'B until bout 2002. Chefal's sound that he's pushing FWD>> foremost is Dubstep and the best bassed out Grimey beats. ''For me it’s the bassline that makes me feel a tune'', .

Chefal hooked up with Benga and Skream many years back through Big Apple Records (Croydon) and has been the main DJ in the crew, Smooth Kriminals since so Benga and Skream could concentrate on the production side of things but watch out for some beats from Chefal soon. Chefal rinses out the freshet dubz first from everybody who’s sound he's feeling including... Benga and Skream, Digital Mystikz, Loefah, L.D, Plastician, Cyrus, Tubby, N-Type, Conquest and Silkie, Walsh, Martyn, Burial, Kode 9, Clue Kid and Cotti, Pinch, Jakes, Kutz, Joker, Distance, Hijak, Kromestar n Cessman etc to name a few.

The main ingredients of Chef's sets are energy and deep sub basslines whether it’s a half step roller or a 4x4 banger, anything goes. Chefal plays right across the board covering the full Dubstep spectrum, if Chefal likes it he’ll play it, simple. ''I play for the crowd and myself, if I’m not having a good time how can I expect the listeners and ravers to''? This year watch out for Chefal pushing some fresh talented producers including L.D, Mr P, Clue Kid n Cotti(4n4mat), Dcoy, Reptile, Point, 15's, Aggro, Pinch, Conquest and Zomby. Catch Chef djing @ DMZ and FWD on a regular (It's what Dubstep's about) and other events such as Subloaded, Skull Disco, SubDub, Dirty Canvas, Cor Blimey, D.O.T.S, Dubpressure, Renegade Hardware and Breakin Science pushing the Dubstep sound. Chef had been show surfing on a lot of the best and worst pirates, south of the river for over 7 years until he found his home @ Rinse Fm early 2004. It's all about Bass!!

DUBSTEP
A story by Martin Clark

Lately it would be easy to assume that dubstep = halfstep. Indeed lots of recent dubstep sets are dominated by this style, which uses one snare per bar and is designed to give a slower, skanked out feel. Mala Digital Mystikz's recent set, however, performed at Forward>>-- a vastly smaller venue than he's now used to playing-- was gloriously rhythmically diverse.

Premiering a ton of dubplate weight-line freshness, his FWD>> appearance was an excursion in polyrhythmic delight. From the off-4/4 of "Anti War Dub (version)" to the interrupted house rhythms of"Hunter", it worked a treat and played on the strength of having three producers all in rich form.

Mala's long since pioneered the "up" vibe in dubstep through "Neverland" and "Anti War Dub", in delicious contrast to Loefah's ultra dark "down." A keen house fan, he could have simply injected four kicks on the beat, and made house at 138bpm. Instead he took the interesting route.

One dub, with an unmistakeable "BURY THE BWOY!" sample in it, takes polyrhythm literally, with galloping kicks coming across like two tracks mixed out of phase. Try mixing a third track outta that?

One of the criticisms of halfstep is that it lacks energy, and last year steps were taken to respond to this. On some tracks, notably Coki DMZ and Skream's remix of DMZ's "Ancient Memories" (out soon on DMZ), the rapid fluctuation of the bass became a real vibe-driver, propelling ravers towards skankheaven. Tonight was no exception, with Mala showcasing a new Coki riddim that wobbled the b-line until the roof shook. With the drums almost inaudible, it was almost like a beatless Wiley Devil Mix, but with the synths driven from East London through the dark, choking Blackwall tunnel into Southside Croydon-style sub bass regions. When Wiley did it in early grime circa 2003 it was the MC's bark that drove the rave. In dubstep 2006, excessively mutating bass waves do the same.

But in this sea of dubstep Devil migrations and offkilter offbeats, one slab of halfstep minimalism stood out like a mile. The tune of the night-- the one that made jaws hit the floor-- was Loefah's remix of Vex'd"Third Choice". Minimalism is a tricky game. When you pick fewer elements you've got to get them right. Get them wrong, the crowd is waiting for the next tune from your intro. Get them right, and it's bliss. Loefah's "3rd Choice" remix is a dark, twisted kind of bliss, but amid his pain there's pleasure. Based around an old school bass stab, part bleep techno, part 96 Metalheadz, part grungy 2steppers-- take your pick-- Mala only played a few minutes of this seven minute remix that was finished just that day. Has Loefah topped
his own "Mud?"

Disclosure alert! The following copy is on a project I've been involved with and want to bring you world exclusive news of, right here. Since Skream's "Request Line", the success of the DMZ nights and Mary Anne Hobbs' Dubstep Warz show the explosion in interest in dubstep has been unprecedented in its six year history. Users on the Dubstep forum tripled to 1,500-- pretty amazing given most dubstep pressings couldn't shift more than 300 units as little as two years ago. You'd be forgiven amid the hyperbole for thinking a new scene had been born - when in fact Croydon's finest have been struggling away for six years or more. And while the scene's current stars and hot upand- comers are undoubtedly burning brightly, the sound also has a rich past.

Over the last four months I've been working on a project entitled "Ammunition and Blackdown
present...The Roots of Dubstep" for Tempa. The plan is to re-present the best of the now lost or obscure early dubstep 12"s. The selection will draw from proto-dubstepper Steve Gurley, go through the best of El-B's Ghost Camp, Zed Bias, Artwork, Horsepower, Skream and Benga, and end at the first Digital Mystikz anthem-- perhaps a beginning of a new phase, if ever a line can be drawn. We've spent months agonizing over which tracks have stood the test of time instead of those that merely sounded big back in the day at Forward>> over the Velvet Room sound-system. We've tracked down lost producers to prize mixed masters from their vaults. There will be an unmixed CD, so the productions can be heard in all their glory. There will also be a vinyl double-pack featuring two out-of-press classics and two still unreleased anthems dropping in early June.

Back in the Velvet Rooms days and before (circa 1999-2001), it is important to remember there wasn't a name for this sound. It evolved out of the dominant UK garage scene, where saccharine-sweet vocal 2step would sit next to Todd Edwards 4/4, DJ Zinc's breakbeat garage experiments mixed into Narrows' caustic Belgian rave or Timo Maas' remix of house anthem "Dooms Night". It was an exciting time for London's diversity of 138 bpm sounds.

As the Velvet Room sessions took garage in a more concerted, darker direction, its mix of dark 2step ("nu dark swing"), breakbeat garage, and proto-grime (also then known as "8bar" or "east beat") was for a while collectively referred to as "The Forward>> sound." At this time all parts of the dark garage spectrum influenced each other. Current dubstep purist Youngsta played mostly 8bar, and Wookie's"Storm" and majestic "Far East" were Forward>> anthems. Slaughter Mob played Ghost dubs. Oris Jay evolved from his 2step roots to produce breakier hits like "Confused" and "Said the Spider". And that doesn't even cover Lanslide, Jay Da Flex, and Zed Bias' broken beat/dubstep fusions.

It's recently come to light that it was Ammunition who first coined the term "dubstep", doing it in a press release supplied to XLR8R magazine, for a feature on Ghost and Horsepower Productions. It was subsequently used on the DJ Hatcha CD Dubstep Allstars, Vol 1. The Roots of Dubstep, therefore, documents strictly what the term dubstep refers to, and not the other shades of the Forward>> sound. For decent early breakbeat garage compilations, check the Bingo catalog. For proto-grime track down Slimzee's mix for Ministry, downloads of the N.A.S.T.Y. Crew's N.A.S.T.Y. Sessions, or early grime sets (there's an early N.A.S.T.Y. one here as part of my Dizzee Rascal interview).

The next Dubstep Allstars will be a double CD, with one disc each mixed by Youngsta and Hatcha. Legendary dubplate cutting house Transition is starting a dubstep label, which is perfectly sensible since most of the London 12"s are mastered there. The first release should be Skream v Distance "Wise Men". Distance is also working on an album for Planet Mu. Pinch's "Punisher" is also dropping on Mu.
Portugal's Numestro and 23Hz will be releasing a four-track vinyl EP late May, on 213 Underground. This will include the super subby "Galleon Dub". Scuba's crisp'n'clean electronica/dubstep excursions continue with the mournful "Dreams" dropping soon. Dub Police, Quiet Storm's label, is dropping the Caspa EP, including the lush "Cockney Flute". Burial's much anticipated debut album is out in May on Hyperdub. Finally, the BBC have done an excellent documentary and online hub on dubstep, check it here. Who likes me hat? Wed: 04-12-06