DATE/VENUE CHANGE > Get Busy #1 - Galway feat FRACTURE (Astrophonica/Exit/Me

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-- Get Busy #1 --
- 7/12 feat -

>> FRACTURE (Astrophonica/Exit/Metalheadz)
>> WELFARE b2b NOID THE DROID (Get Busy)
>> LAMBO (Get Busy)
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Basswax and Bap To The Future are proud to present Get Busy, a new series of gigs representing the cutting edge of uptempo electronic music

Over the past few years something's been bubbling up from the underground. A new generation of producers within the drum n bass scene have taken the torch that was kept alight by a few hardy perennials and twisted the genre into exciting new forms.

While most of these producers self-identify as d'n'b artists, the music they're making is a cross pollination of many different sounds. Taking the dread halfstep lurch of dubstep, the dizzying kinetic rhythms of footwork and combining them with everything from the cadences of hip hop to the sophisticated sound design of techno and IDM, these producers are making some of the most exciting music on the planet right now: artists like Stray, Om Unit, FIS, Clarity, Sam Binga, Kiyoko, Ruffhouse, Skeptikal, Dub Phizix, Chimpo and Amit are absolutely slaying it, and we'll be brining some of them over in the coming months.

A real jumping-off point for this music was the Autonomic sound pioneered by Instra:mental and dBridge (whom Bap to The Future had play for them recently) a few years back, which helped join the dots between the melodic, emotive music they made and an array of other genres. Autonomic definitely had a tendency to be restrained however, and the new producers are injecting this experimentation and innovation with a healthy dose of dancefloor wallop, and with foundational dnb labels like Metalheadz and 31 lending support to these new voices, the scene is in rude health

Too often with genres of music that go through a purple patch, audiences can often come to experience this music in a live environment after the particular rush of creativity has abated somewhat. That's why Bap and Basswax decided to get together and strike while the iron's hot, bringing these visionary producers to Galway while they are riding the crest of a wave for a special limited series of four gigs in four months, in order to fully showcase the breadth and talent that is currently operating within this scene.
Sound at the gigs will be powered by the mighty Subversion soundsystem and, in terms of intensity, the nights will flow in a smooth upward trajectory, with Bap To the Future resident Lambo easing revellers into the night with tunes from the equally fertile beat scene, which has also been resurgent in recent years, and from which the new breed of dnb producers definitely take inspirsation. After this Noid The Droid and Welfare will take to the decks to provide a back-to-back overview of the myriad styles that are on offer currently, before our international guest finishes up the night with a presentation of their singular sound.

And for our first guest we've picked a real doozey: Fracture, an artist who straddles the last ten years of drum n bass and whose scene-defining anthem provides Get Busy with its name.
Charlie Fieber has been running the Astrophonica label since 2009 alongside production partner Neptune, and in recent years has fitted nicely into the new 170bpm landscape. The series of 10" Astrophonica VIPs released last year with remixes by the likes of Machinedrum and Om Unit were some of the highpoints of this creative resurgence.
Fieber also knows how to turn in a remix, with his recent destruction of House of Black Lanterns on Fabric's Houndstooth coming in for widespread praise.
He also recently turned in a devastating refix of Digital and Spirit's anthem Phantom Force, turning the well-known tune into a gut rumbling halfstep monster. On top of all this he makes trap-inflected bass rumblers while dressed like a spooky zombi under the name Dawn day Night (who sometimes collaborates with Fracture, confusingly enough. and as if that's not enough he recently made his debut on dnb institution Metalheadz

He's a sick DJ and we couldn't think of anyone better to get our night underway