Saturday February 13
UNSOUND FESTIVAL NEW YORK AT
THE BUNKER
FRONT ROOM
2562 (Tectonic | Netherlands)
Untold (Hemlock, Hessle Audio | UK)
TRG (Hessle Audio, Tempa | Romania)
Dave Q (Dub War | NYC)
BACK ROOM
Pole (~Scape | Germany) live
FaltyDL (Planet Mu | NYC) live
Pavel Ambiont (Belarus) live
Konque (Konque | NYC) live
Sepalcure (Machine Drum & Praveen | NYC) live
Unsound Festival New York, Co-Presented by:
Unsound, Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Goethe-Institut New York
In Co-operation With:
Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Consulate General of Finland New York, Pro Helvetia, Fonds Pop Over Zee
$25 advance, $30 at the door
tickets on sale now. capacity is limited, and advance tickets are the only was to guarantee admission.
Stefan Betke aka Pole is one of the most important and well known
electronic music producers to emerge in the past decade. His
first three albums ("1", "2", & "3"), released from 1998 to 2000
and packaged in solid blue, red, and yellow sleeves, are absolute
stone-cold classics. Betke reissued these three sadly
out-of-print albums as a box set on his own ~scape imprint
(titled "1 2 3") in 2008, so they are once again available to the
unfortunate souls who missed his timeless music the first time
around. More recently, Pole released the "Steingarten" album on
2007, further developing his sound. He also did A&R for the
critically acclaimed "Round Black Ghosts" compilations on ~scape,
two collection of tracks that blur the line between dubstep and
techno. We've caught Pole's newest live set a few times in
Europe, and he's taken things in a much more dancefloor direction
while maintaining the Pole sound design and creativity we all
love.
Producer Dave Huismans is 2562, pioneering in the way that he has
merged dubstep and techno. The result is a full yet lean, fluid
hybrid that has found an audience not only among fans of dubstep,
but anyone drawn to fresh and innovative club music. His 2562
album “Aerial” was released in 2008 by Pinch’s Tectonic Label,
and regarded by many critics as one of the albums of the year. As
Boomkat wrote: “This album follows in the massively revered
tradition of dub experimentation and rhythm science laid down in
the lineage stretching from Lee Perry through King Tubby,
Scientist, Steve Gurley, Dillinja, Photek, Rhythm & Sound, Kode 9
and Burial.” Huismans also releases deep house and techno
influences tracks under the alias A Made Up Sound.
Untold is Jack Dunning, described by Fact Magazine as the
“dubstep producer of the year”, for a trademark sound fusing
garage, techno and UK funky with percussion and bass stabs.
Releasing a succession of left field 12"’s on Hessle Audio and
Scuba’s Hotflush, he also runs his own label, Hemlock. In 2009,
Untold’s reputation as an innovator has exploded, for creating
tracks that throw the rulebook out the window to create their own
sound. Pitchfork wrote in June that Untold is bringing a vitality
to dubstep in 2009, by using “the limits of his imagination”,
drawing from a sound palate that includes chirps, sub bass,
plastic sounds made on a Casio keyboard and even elephant snorts.
Boomkat called him “the most talked about underground producer in
the UK right now”.
TRG is causing a stir. Known in the bass-heavy music scene,
electronic music communities around the world who share a passion
for fresh new sounds will soon know the addictive grooves of
28-year-old Romanian producer Cosmin Nicolae. His first 12" on
Hessle Audio garnered the attention of BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne
Hobbs among others, and labels soon got on his case. TRG has been
active in nurturing the electronic music scene in Bucharest since
he relocated there in 2000. Influenced by classical, jazz and
disco as a child, and son of a single mother, Cosmin has a fire
inside that gave him the gumption for forward thinking electronic
music in an environment where there was none. With several
manuscripts under his belt by the age of 15, TRG was ready to
play mega raves within a year of beginning his first DJ night.
Bass Mutations is TRGÕs North American debut.
Before New Yorker Drew Lustman began releasing music on UK labels
Ramp and Planet Mu, he built up a small catalogue on US
independents Unfun, fizx-recordings and Napalm Enema Records.
Lustman's first record as Falty DL was the jungle inspired Beat
Lumber EP (Unfun 2007). Raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Drew
was influenced by Aphex Twin and Squarepusher and had an early
start with music as a child, He played upright and electric bass
in the jazz quartet, Luggage, straight out of high school. On
moving to Manhattan, Lustman started going to dubstep nights and
was inspired by jungle, disco, and New York garage and house.
After his jungle inspired releases on Berkley-based Unfun records
in 2007, Lustman sent countless "crazy jungle" demos to Mike
Paradinas, head of Planet Mu. He finally struck gold when
Paradinas picked up the first track of his debut album, Human
Meadow. The experimental-dubstep album "Love is a Liability" was
released in 2009.
Pavel Ambiont is a producer of dub techno living east of Poland
in Belarus. Long releasing his solo work on Internet labels, in
2008 he collaborated with Bristol producer Pinch during the
Unsound project “Connections”. This resulted in the track “Poison
/ Remedy”, included on the project compilation compiled by scape
Records and Unsound.
Dave Q is the founder and resident DJ of Dub War NYC, the US's
original dubstep party. He has played at London's seminal DMZ
night and many of the leading dubstep events around the US. Along
with fellow Dub War residents Joe Nice, Juakali, and Incyde, DQ
has been at the forefront of the fast-growing scene from day one.
His sets are uncompromising in exploring new directions for the
sound, and feature the most sought after dubplates from the
scene's top producers. His new label, The Index, is a
collaboration with NYC producer Badawi, and launches in early
2010.
Konque is a music project and record label helmed by Sasha Kaline
and David Last. Strange jacking tracks for dirty basements, or
sometimes, just pure sound. Konque embodies a more
electroacoustic side than Kaline's Alka_Rex project, and a
stranger palette than David's usual wobbly funk tracks. They
share interests in tape music, modern classical, asian percussion
music, as well as dub reggae and ska; these influences are
clearly present but not obvious. The textures they choose are
meant to evoke images, and they have started developing the
sounds simultaneously with animation. Separately, Sasha has
released with Musique Risquee, Thema and Mille Plateaux, and
David has released with Staubgold, The Agriculture, and
Foundsound. As Konque they release on their own label Konque.
Recently other artists such as Ezekiel Honig, Pheek and Morgan
Packard have joined them.
Sepalcure's combination of love for bass and 90s house acapellas
is the culmination of a cathartic two week collaboration between
Machinedrum and Praveen. Their mix of tribal dub, house and two
step beats works equally well for both late nights in the club
and rainy, introspective nights at home. Detroit techno chords
cut through wooden beats, neon synths and dubbed out
atmospherics. Future lovestep. Based in Brooklyn, NY, the two run
the Cassette NYC series of events as well as the curated and user
contributed mix archive, PercussionLab.Com. Integral to the
thriving bass music scene in NYC, the past 5 years have seen
Praveen and Machinedrum inviting artists such as Flying Lotus,
Daedelus, David Last and Ghislain Poirier to perform alongside
local favorites. Their own past releases featuring artists such
as Theophilus London and Beno”t Pioulard reveal an artistic
breadth unusual for the majority of genre-trapped electronic
musicians today.
WARNING: Public Assembly has strict security at the door. No matter
how old you are or how often you come to the Bunker, please bring
government ID with you from now on to avoid conflict at the door.
You must be 21 or older to attend this event.
door: Elijah
bar: Keith, David, Katie
hostess, photos: Seze
security: Pop
sound: Niksound
Last week's Bunker party photos posted here:
http://beyondbooking.com/thebunker/galleries.asp
the Bunker
Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
$25 advance, $30 at the door, 21+, 10pm - 6am
more info:
http://unsound.pl/en
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