SUB:STANCE @ BERGHAIN 11-07-08
2008-07-03 by sasha pereraFinally we are starting to profit from the mini exodus of Dubstep producers from LDN to BLN (eg. Vex’D, Scuba and Shackleton) ___
Paul Rose aka Scuba is initiating a night called SUB:STANCE which will see the UK bass driven sound penetrate the 18 m walls of Berghain (usually the shirts-off-techno-love-catherdral floor)..............
i saw Scuba play at the Freak Camp tent at Fusion Festival last week…........... his set was ultra tight. His multifaceted sound as well as that of Tes la Roc and Shackleton who also played at Fusion went down with a bang…........ shroomed out barefoot new-age hippies dancing side-by-side with crusty bass heads… bass-driven unity!!! ... it was great. big ups to fusion for giving UK Bass a platform at what really is a truly unique festival of alternative culture.
SUB:STANCE
Berghain, Ostbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
11 July 2008
Midnight – 8am
SUB:STANCE is the collision of two worlds – the vitality of UK bass music intertwined with Berlin with all it’s clubbing exhilaration and cutting edge soundscapes. The most extensive array of dubstep innovators ever seen in Germany is hosted this summer at Berlin’s most infamous venue. Berghain has never before been open on Friday night (the Panorama Bar will also be open), and its colossal Funktion 1 system, due to be expanded even further before the night, has never been exposed to the extreme bass weight of the world’s most exciting sound. July 11 is the date; make sure you are in attendance.
Mala
Mala is one half of Digital Mystikz, true pioneers of dubstep who have pushed the sound of sub bass into genuinely uncharted territory. Responsible for many of the records that shaped dubstep music on it’s route to global appreciation, Mala is also the man behind the legendary label, DMZ
and London’s largest and most infamous dubstep night of the same name. SUB:STANCE will be Mala’s first appearance in Berlin since 2006.
Shackleton
Shackleton and his label, Skull Disco, stand to the left of dubstep. Instead of following the inexorable rise of the genre, Shackleton has created a path all of his own, making waves far and wide with support for his music coming from djs as diverse as Kode 9, Ricardo Villalobos, and Radio Slave. Mixmag included Skull Disco and Shackleton in their Best Act of 2007 and his ‘Soundboy’s Suicide Note’ mix was made the official mix of the year on Mary Anne Hobbes’ show
on BBC Radio 1.
Appleblim
The other half of Skull Disco, Appleblim has carved a niche of his own over the past two years, emerging as an innovative and original DJ and producing some of most arresting tracks to hit record shops. At the forefront of the submerged sound of Bristol dubstep, his recent double A-side collaboration with Peverelist on Skull Disco has been one of the hits of 2008. He recently released the 6th installement of Tempa Records’ Dubstep Allstars mix series.
Distance
Part of the small nucleus of South London based dubstep innovators, Distance has been a name on everyone’s lips since day one. Fostering a unqiue sound, Distance as producer, DJ and label owner (releases on his Chestplate label have been in hot demand since it’s launch in 2007), has
been pushing things in a direction all of his own. A stalwart of the all the biggest dubstep nights:
DMZ, FWD and Exodus and with DJ bookings notched up around the world, he is very much at the forefront of the scene.
Scuba
Scuba is the production and DJ alias of Paul Rose, owner of Hotflush, one of the original dubstep labels which released some of the most important tracks of the genre’s formative period and continues to be a source of constant originality to date. Originally from London, Scuba moved to Berlin in 2007, which, according to some, influenced his acclaimed debut album, A Mutual Antipathy. The stylistic synthesis of the album, with influences ranging from early electronica to
dub techno while keeping in the dubstep framework, cemented his position as one of the most forward-thinking dubstep producers. His DJ schedule has taken him to Australia, New Zealand, the USA and across Europe in recent months.
T++
Torsten Pröfrock started to release techno records as Various Artist, Erosion or Resilent on Berlin’s well known Chain Reaction label in the mid 1990s. The following Dynamo project focused on a special take of breakbeat techno, which continued to build his reputation as a producer with
rare vision. Sometime after 2000 Pröfrock officially joined the project of his friend Robert Henke and played various shows as part of Monolake. In the last three years he has turned to a new project, releasing experimental tracks under the T++ name which have resonated across various genres, but have found the most clear relevance in the dubstep-affiliated scene of the UK.
