MUD: CASPA & ROD ASLAN // Wobble Present ZED BIAS // Tribe

garthv

Undoubtedly Caspa's remix of TC - "Where's My Money" was the wonky dubstep anthem of 2008. Caspa followed with his woofer rinsing album "Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening" with appearances from MC heavy weights like Dynamite MC & Rod Aslan. Tonight he makes his Dublin club debut with Rod Aslan in tow and support from the London powerhouse that is Artless..

Downstairs in the basement it's garage & dub king Zed Bias in the Wobble Neighbourhood, while Tribe are back in the Mezz for a DnB & jungle rinseout.

CASPA

Caspa aka Gary McCann grew up in West London, and was brought up on a diet of Jungle & Hip Hop. At the time he wasn't old enough to go to the Jungle raves so had to be content with his tape packs of Brockie and Det. When garage emerged he naturally progressed into the sound and started attending garage raves.

After an injury which sadly ended his once promosing basketball career, he bought his first pair of decks and started DJ'ing. And after recieveing a free demo copy of Fruity Loops he started to experiment with the idea of building tracks in a computer program and got his first real taste of music production.

Under the name Quiet Storm he made a tune called 'Bass Bins' which was picked up by BBC 1xtra's J Da Flex who showcased on his Underground Knowledge Show in 2003. The next day he recieved a call from DJ Lombardo (the first resident of FWD) who had just started his label Fragile Beats and spoke with him about a possible release of the track he had heard the night before on radio.

Due to unforseen circumstances, the label never blossomed and the track never saw the light of day, but determened not to give up he pursued his ambitions by starting his own label Storming Productions in 2004 and started a weekly radio show on the prolific Rinse FM. With a successful year of working and releasing with artists such as Search & destroy, Dubchild, Toasty Boy, DJ Narrows and Oris Jay the label was well established as one of the dominating pushing the dark garage sound of the time.

After recieveing a demo from Swedish producers L-Wiz, he decided to start a sister label to Storming called Dub Police, this labels focus was to give platform to up and coming artists and push the newly developing dubstep sound - it was also this time he had his debut release under the alias of Caspa, after which he had a release on well known dubstep label Tempa (Rubber Chicken), which had been one of the largest tracks of the year and is still regarded by many as an anthem.

With a string of succesful releases from artists such as L-Wiz, N-Type, Rusko, The Others and of course his own produciton under the Caspa alias, the label began to grow in to one the dominating labels within the newly formed dubstep genre. Also around this time the anthem 'Rubber Chicken' was signed up by legendary imprint Tempa, and was highly successful and changed the sound forever and is still regarded by many today as a classic.

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Catch the dubstep legend this Friday 19th February @ The Twisted Pepper!

Tickets are €8 from the Bodytonic Store or €12 on the door. Don't forget you can get a bumper pack of tickets which gets you into Fake Blood AND Caspa for €12 from the Bodytonic Store!!

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http://bodytonicmusic.com/thetwistedpepper/

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garthv

Just a quick reminder about tonights gig.

Dont forget, theres a small warm up from Handsome Paddy and Zed Bias down at The Bernard Shaw beforehand!

zega

Just wanted to say i was at this and he absolutely spanked it,he signed my vinyl too,top bloke is caspa