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DEADBEAT is considered as one the best Live techno acts around and on Friday July 23rd he come back to the Phoenix Bar to show us why he is so highly regarded.
It was February 2009 when Berlin producer DEADBEAT was last in the country and on that night VOID witnessed over 600 punters attend a double international bill of epic proportion, that of DEADBEAT and RUSKO. Many say that DEADBEAT blew RUSKO out of the water that night and whilst both styles were distinctly different, one thing is for certain, the vibe DEABEAT set up during his performance has been matched perhaps only by SHACKLETON’S performance earlier this year. His set that night was one which hypnotised the audience with towering bass, emotive sound scapes, complex rhythmic patterns and a multitude of intriguing samples and synths.
DEADBEAT is a master craftsman of genre defying electronic dance music. With a unique sound alternating within the territory between dub, techno, dancehall and Dubstep, DEADBEAT is without doubt one of electronic music's premier low-end prophets. He has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000 which is considered by many as modern bass music of an entirely unique sort, crafted with the intention of moving asses as much as stimulating minds. Since his last visit in early 2009 DEADBEAT has released various EP’s and remixes as well as the critically acclaimed RADIO ROTHKO compilation.
To top this night off we launch the latest release by one of Sydney’s most unique producers – WESTERNSYNTHETCS. The latest release from WS, "The Machine" is out now on Sub Continental Dub and we expect look forward to his debut album to dropping in the coming months. All this is complimented by an amazing selection of local DJ’s taking it into all areas of Techno, Dubstep and Electronica, including VOID & INDEX resident MARK PRITCHARD, the mighty SUB BASS SNARL (who were absolutely amazing at their last gig with Shackleton), SOFIE LOIZOU and PRIZE bringing some space in the place and the hottest DJ on the Dubstep scene right now, SWINDLE.
DEADBEAT Biography
Deadbeat is one Scott Monteith, a long time Montrealer and recent Berlin ex-pat who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000, for labels such as Cynosure, Musique Risquée, Scape, and Spectral to name but a few. His work has been met with consistent critical acclaim from the industry's leading publications and websites, and drawn regular performance invitations for some of the world's most respected festivals, including Barcelona's Sonar, Berlin's Transmediale, and Montreal's own MUTEK.
From 1999 to late 2003, Scott worked, assuming various roles, for the Montreal based company Applied Acoustics Systems, makers of a range of critically acclaimed software synthesizers. Having now moved on to pursue his own musical efforts full time, the experience has left him with a passion for the development of new creative interfaces, and a strong grasp of some the most cutting edge technology in the industry. A certified music technology junkie, his knowledge in such matters has been occasionally called upon at various events, most notably the 2007 edition of the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne, Australia. Whether crafting kaleidoscopic house and techno, snap-clap digital dancehall, or impossibly heavy dub, Scott continues to search for his own unique voice between the ones and zeros.
Other projects:
Atlantic Waves – Collaboration with Monolake
Crackhaus – Collaboration with Stephen Beaupré
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Deadbeat
http://www.myspace.com/deadbeatcomputermusic
DEADBEAT – RADIO ROTHKO
First things first: What are we dealing with here? You could call this a dub techno mix, and you'd be right. Anyone who's read a blog in the last three years could tell you that. But I think that what Scott Monteith has set out to do here is something more: more particular, more ambitious, perhaps even more edifying. To discover what, we need to talk about particularity. About a particular time and place, and a particular sound: Berlin in the early '90s, and a cold, reverberant thrum. The pulse of dub reggae running through Japanese-built machinery, filters frothing; the room tone suggestive of nothing so much as the untold empty structures in the recently re-unified city, walls trembling with the sound of techno bubbling up through the pipes below. Every building a subwoofer connected via subterranean conduit. We're talking about Basic Channel, of course, without whom none of the music on this mix would have been possible. It's true that BC's Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald are directly responsible for only three tracks here (Basic Channel's "Quadrant Dub," Maurizio's"M6" and Rhythm & Sound's "Mango Walk"). But their influence stretches beyond those, beyond even their immediate circle (represented here by Basic Channel/Chain Reaction collaborators Various Artists, Monolake, and Substance & Vainqueur). Basic Channel's influence runs, like a blood transfusion, through virtually every sound on this recording. But this isn't a Basic Channel mix. It's also not a dub-techno survey. Twelve of the 19 tracks were recorded in just the past two years, tilting the selection too far towards the present to serve as a comprehensive retrospective. (It does, however, suggest something of the way the style has flourished recently.) No, there's nothing authoritative or didactic about the mix. Scott Monteith wasn't there at the beginning; almost no one was, aside from a small handful of individuals who pooled their creativity into a unique and, in some sense, short-lived project. But their music flowed into a conduit that reached him anyway, all the way in Kitchener, Ontario. It became an integral part of his own productions, albeit in different measures and different ways. A kind of Platonic ideal of dub techno has maintained in much of Deadbeat's music, just as it is maintained on every track included here. If I might venture a biographical observation, I suspect that much of this mix is about teasing out an idea that must have come to Monteith when he first heard this music over a decade ago, an ocean away from its source: the sense of a latent potentiality in the music, just waiting to be realized. Which brings us back to particularity. Not just a particular time and place, but also the idea of a sound dissolving into particles. Even, perhaps, dissolving time and place into particles as well, not just metaphorically but literally, via the black art of recording. A moment in time in Berlin-a kind of seed extracted from Jamaican soil and re-planted in a different technological and cultural context-granulizes, rolls downriver. Over and over again, with every recording, spreading, scattering, planting the seeds of new versions, each not just the model but in some sense the clone of the former. Imagine these particles silting up, like a river delta. From a single point emerges a cone, spreading out into the shape of a megaphone's bell. It's only fitting that Basic Channel's logo was based upon the symbol found on drain covers in Berlin; their music was always about conduits and flow, sedimentation and erosion, the idea of musical history as a kind of river delta. Deadbeat's mix is a contour map of that delta as it lies today, in slow flux. -- words by Philip Sherburne, Berlin 2009
http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/radio_rothko
INDEX feat DEADBEAT LIVE (Wagon Repair, Cynosure, Scape)
Line-up
DEADBEAT LIVE (Wagon Repair, Cynosure, Scape)
MARK PRITCHARD (Warp Records, Deep Medi UK)
WESTERNSYNTHETICS (Subcontinental Dub)
SUB BASS SNARL
SOFIE LOIZOU
VICTIM
PRIZE
Friday July 23rd , Phoenix Bar, 34 Oxford Street, East Sydney
$15+BF presale via QJUMP.com.au or $25+BF for INSTRA:MENTAL joint ticket
9pm – 4am