COOLY G (HYPERDUB, UK)
Saturday 19th February @ 2230-0330
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Artist Profile: Cooly G (Merrisa Campbell) comes from Brixton. She’s often placed within the growing UK Funky movement, and her tracks almost always include a dancefloor-ready bassline. Yet she wouldn’t describe herself as part of the scene, even though she used to rap for funky producer Fingaprint. Her dad had his own studio which she used to play about with, so she’d learned to DJ at the age of seven and was teaching music technology to men three times her age two months after she left school.
‘I’m more minimal tech, bit of dubstep, bit of this and that. Funky to me sounds fruity; it’s quick little beats and a little bit of vocal. I go deeper, I spend a lot of time on the production’.
Comfortably the UK’s only semi-pro footballer and professional DJ/producer (I may be wrong), Cooly G is bringing a deeper flavour to Funky that I for one am welcoming with open ears.
Funky - for any of you unaware - takes the broken rhythms of soca and the 4/4 undercurrent of house and plants them both on the solid bassline attitude of dubstep. Artists such as Roska, Apple, Lil Silva and Hard House Banton have provided the high points thus far and there’s even been a bumrushing of the charts via K.I.G’s faintly ridiculous Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes.
All of these have had a strong jump-up or dirty grime feel to them, but Cooly G takes it to a darker place without compromising the infectious dancefloor potential of Funky.
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SUPPORTING:
SIXTEEN (DAFKAF INC)
24/7 Crew:
Sanjion (UK)
General G (UK)
Milspex (AUS)
Malt (Next to Gedung Antara)
Jl. Agus Salim No.2
Menteng
Jakarta Pusat
FDC: rp.100,000
Supported by: Free! Magz, PREMIO, Hammer & Mace.
http://www.myspace.com/coolyg
http://247dubstep.podomatic.com
@247dubstep
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