Salt presents Shackleton @ MUD

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Hi folks - a large one for Mud on 22 July with the return of unique dub & beat king Shackleton to the basement with the Salt crew, while up in the Loft Dublin hip-hop stars The Infomatics will perform their first Dublin show in over a year, and 9 piece reggae-funk band Indica are on the Stage supported by local Ska band Present Arms. Full details below and here

MUD Present

22 July @ The Twisted Pepper

SHACKLETON (Skull Disco, UK)
KIKI
THE INFOMATICS
INDICA
PRESENT ARMS
JAMES BOON
KEN FLOOD (Radio Boom Boom)

Doors: 22.30
Adv Tickets e12/e10 Members


Shackleton is one of the most unique artists to date who went from playing in a semi-illegal venue because he “knew that no-one was going to come and book him so he decided to do it himself” - to playing all over
Europe as well as some of the biggest festivals such as Sonar and Outlook this year – the one and only Shackleton. Shackleton's maverick take on big basslines and complex beats doesn't fit into easy
categories and that's how it's going to stay. He has been carving out his own brand of eclecticism on Skull Disco releases so far with intricate, snaking percussion, hypnotic melodies, seriously deep bass
lines and dubwise sensibilities.

SHACKLETON
http://www.myspace.com/shackletonmusic
http://www.skulldisco.com

In 2004, prior to the founding of the label Skull Disco, Ian Hicks of Mordant Music liked and released an early Shackleton track entitled Stalker, which later appeared on Rough Trade's 'Best of 2004' compilation. Around this time Shackleton started thinking about forming a label to release "interesting bass music" and "interesting percussive stuff", while Laurie 'Appleblim' Osborne was making similar bass heavy music with abstract beats. Shackleton was impressed with a track, Mystikal Warrior, and it hence appeared on the first Skull Disco release; a double A-side with Shackleton's I Am Animal. Shortly after, Shackleton began the (now defunct) Skull Disco nights in London. Attendees at the first Skull Disco night included Loefah and Mala.

Shackleton's music seems to have tapped into a wide range of genres with support for his music coming from DJs as diverse as Kode 9, Ricardo Villalobos, Radio Slave and Mary Anne Hobbs while the Hardwax record shop and The Wire magazine are also very enthusiastic. Shackleton's releases have been record of the month in publications such as Mixmag and IDJ magazine on several occasions, whilst Mixmag also included Skull Disco and Shackleton in their Best Act of 2007 top ten list as well as being in the top five record labels and at number one in the remix chart. Shackleton has also been involved with remixing for Simian Mobile Disco and legendary dub techno pioneer, Pole. Shackleton's 'Soundboy's Suicide Note' mix was even made the official mix of the year on Mary Anne Hobbes' show on BBC radio. The Summer of 2007 saw Shackleton do two European tours whilst 2008 has already seen him play room one at the famous Fabric nightclub. Whilst Shackleton's music tends towards the idiosyncratic and intricate percussion in preference to the big, bass drop, his music is still geared towards the dancefloor and audiences respond in kind.

Skull Disco releases often tend to use unusual sounds, atypical of the dubstep genre; they often eschew the familiar drum tropes of dubstep for African percussion and samples of ethnic vocals, combined with massive, wobbling sub-bass and sometimes elements of four to the floor, Basic Channel-esque drum patterns. Typical artwork on releases (by Zeke Clough) is also of an idiosyncratic nature, the penand-ink covers referencing egyptological symbols as well as displaying a decidedly metal influence.

Hope to see you all there

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhGdyqMdHI

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Competition to win Tickets for Shackleton on Friday
Question: Who would win an arm wrestle between Shackleton & Shaquille O'Neal?
Answer here: http://tiny.cc/wpjto

Grid.

Prefer Ernest tbh....