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' :
1 comment:
Nice work Bryce. Keep them coming.
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