Monday, February 25, 2008

----- Suff-x -----



Suff-x AKA Bryce Elder has sought to push the boundaries of breakbeats in the Pacific Northwest for over ten years and also been featured at gigs alongside Uberzone, Terry 'Atomic' Hooligan, KiloWatts, Tipper, Radioactive Man, Ben Milstein, Kraddy, Dov & Bil Bless and many more luminaries of the breakbeat / electro scenes.
His connection to Muti Music began with a 'Virus Crew' gig that Muti owner 'Dov' played at in 2002, there meeting the very unique and standout talent in the form of Suff-x.
This chance meeting resulted in a few years of back and forth with Suff-x coming down to San Francisco to be featured alongside Radioctive Man AKA Keith Tenniswood, Dov & Kraddy venturing up to Portland and Seattle to play with Suff-x and Terry Hooligan and then sharing the stage that Suff-x put together at the Phoenix Festival that also featured Ben Milstein and Dave Tipper.

In the picture Kraddy, Terry 'Atomic' Hooligan, Dov and Suff-x 'post-gig' in Seattle

Suff-x shows up at gigs with what looks like a regular DJ coffin and when he opens it up reveals one of the most unique live setups most people have seen, setting him well apart form most 'laptop' live sets and DJs alike.
His armada of gear includes two samplers, X/Y controller pads, DJ mixer and a multitude of little gadgets that blink, glow and glitter in nightclub settings.
He juggles tracks, effects, broken tidbits, squiggly snippits, and boogie-down basslines off of his dual samplers set up in battle-style fashion, giving a nod to his turntablist counterparts--the majority of which wouldn't keep up versus a "scratch mode" session on his korg kaoss mixer!

Suff-x Live @ Someday Lounge Portland, Oregon, scratching to his track ' CyberFreq' out on Muti Music.

After Drum & Bass white labels and digital releases on So Broken records, 2006 saw the release of his CybersetFreq & Electro Medicine EP on Muti Music and has gone on to receive huge support on dancefloors domestically and abroad. His track 'Phantasm' was featured on the widely acclaimed compilation CD Clipping Paths. Hear 'Phantasm' featured on the Youtube video of Suff-x playing Live below:


2008 sees Suff-x delving into even more diverse genres, while always keeping it bass-driven and urban.
His new EP, 'Suff-x - Six Pack EP' (Muti012), kicks off with a Dubstep outing,'Belmont Break' and then rolls into the bass and percussion driven Drum & Bass track 'Trunk Nuggets' and from their into deep breakbeat, electro and back into two drum & bass tracks to close things out, this EP is a good taste of even more to come from this diverse producer.
The EP comes with awesome cover art from Phidelity

Suff-x Myspace
Suff-x Affiliations: Virus! Crew (PDX), Muti Music (SF) File Under: Breaks, Drum N Bass, Dubstep, Glitchy Electrobreaks
Free Download (limited period link): Suff-x - CyberFreq (Muti007_a1) 320 MP3

Check out more Suff-x Live performance and 'scratching' in the videos below:


More Suff-x 'scratching' :

Monday, February 11, 2008

an-ten-nae 'Dark Side Of The Dub'


Dust storms and bio-diesel generators vibrating amongst a haze of awe, exaltation, celebration and emotion, bass blasts out of a mutant vehicle set up at 'no-where in particular', roughly lining up between 3.15 and 'The Man' and near the snake sculpture, a crowd moshes and bounces to bass-driven, crunk mutations of something that must be dance music, by the fact that people are clearly dancing to it.
Justice - Nazereth tears the sound system a new portal and the systems grinds down to a shreak, radio waves pulsate through the air and a PA announcement,"You are listening to an-ten-nae radio 91.1FM." This is 'an-ten-nae' AKA Adam Ohana, bringing it amongst the likes of Freq Nasty, Adam Freeland, Lee Coombs, Glitch Mob and many more dance music luminaries at Burning Man.

We have featured his remix of 'Elixir' in our blog last year but feel that it is time for a more extensive look at the man who is as likely to be rocking designer fashion line launches in Tokyo as he is festivals around the globe and freaky scenes across USA.
Adam has more than 10 years of recording history and releases on a plethora of labels including; Functional Breaks, Superstition, Ceiba, Edgecore, Sessions, Return To The Source, Positiva, Pyramid Records (UK), Moonshine, Transient, Big Booty and of course Muti Music amongst even more and a few white labels too. He has as many aliases and styles to match the output and has proved a production maestro to be taken note of.
Adam currently produces as 'an-ten-nae' and is also one part of 'Orgasmotron', 'Ruined' and 'D'n A'. His remixes and mashups make his sound and his sets as unique in sound as they are in flavor, he's been known to classify past sets as 'Punk-Rock-Country-Hop' and the sound he's dropping now could loosely be classified as 'Dubstep' and 'Glitch Hop' fused into a bass-driven twisted dancefloor crunk that leaves little option but to get down a groove to.
An-ten-nae has used his musical vision to influence the San Francisco nightlife scene for more than a decade and resulting in him revitalizing super-club 1015 over the past 3 years and more recently launching a broader production company that produces some of the most dynamic nightlife events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
So after all this verbose praise we feel we have to share his latest mixset outing called 'Dark Side Of The Dub'. Keep your ear to the ground in 2008 (or just watch this space) for his new series of releases on Muti Music including remixes from the likes of Lawgiverz and Dov.

AN-TEN-NAE - DARK SIDE OF THE DUB
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1. Pink Floyd - Breathe/On the run (an-ten-nae remix)
2. Puppetmastaz - an-ten-nae remix
3. Bob Marley - Exodus - (an-ten-nae remix)
4. Damian Marley Vs Scuba - Culture United - (an-ten-nae refix)
5. Noble Society - The Swarm
6. Skream - (an-ten-nae mashup)
7. loefah vs sizzla - Obstacles (an-ten-nae refix)
8. an-ten-nae ft samba - Griot
9. Modeselektor - let your love grow
10. Mad world - an-ten-nae remix