----- 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' :

Ghislain Poirier's Bastard Bass Mutations

No longer an underground secret to Montreal, Ghislain Poirier is on the global production map. Not only does he know how to drop some of the illest beats dub / glitch hop / crunk / soca / grime beats, he is a production force to be taken seriously.
Prior production includes work for labels; Institubes, Intr_version, 12k, Scape and Resofantom.
His 2003 and 2005 albums, 'Beats and Politics' and ‘Breakupdown’ on Chocolate Industries helped break the mold and his latest outing, No Ground Under(ZEN138CD), was snatched up by none other than Ninja Tune and is setting a new standard for wompy, bassline bounce driven tracks.

The popularity of midtempo and also what many breakbeat fans would call half-time (ala dubstep tempo) tracks is booming and somehow I feel we have barely scratched the surface. Albums like No Ground Under, the forthcoming Freq Nasty album, 'The Missing Channel' and the work that Switch and Freq Nasty have done with Santogold, are taking this interpretation of dance music to a level not yet defined.
This 'new' use of bassline driven urban beats without rigid genre boundaries is only about to bloom.

Add to all that the rapid growth of the US west coast "Glitch Hop" phenomenon with artists like 'Kraddy' and large electronic labels like BPitch Control (Berlin based) with producers 'Modeselektor' and 'Apparat' and some labels like 'Colony' in the UK and of course Ninja Tune, who've quietly been plugging away for years at fusing Hip Hop beats with IDM and the electronic music scene's dance-floor vibes, all embracing more sound design elements in dubstep, midtempo breaks, soca and bassline house.

The future looks very bright for those who like basslines to bounce to.
For a sampling of what the future holds, check out the mix that Ghislain Poirier very generously put on his website featuring samplings of his latest album, No Ground Under:
MP3:> Ghislain Poirier : “Bastard Bass”

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6265785991fc7e/

1. “No More Blood” [ft. Face-T]
2. “Road Ride Riddim”
3. “East Montreal Riddim”
4. “Propaganda Riddim”
5. “Exils” [ft. Abdelhak Rahal]
6. “Dizzee Rascal: “Fix Up, Look Sharp (G. Poirier Remix)”
7. “City Walking” [ft. Abdominal]
8. “Hit & Red”
9. “La Ronde”
10. “One Hand Can’t Clap”
11. “Bounce-moi”
12. “Robe Riddim”
13. “Ladies & Gentleman” [ft. Ambitieux, DJ Netik]
14. “DJ C / Zulu: “Darling (G. Poirier Remix)”
15. “Go Ballistic” [ft. Zulu]
16. “Outkast Riddim (G. Poirier Refix)”
17. “Blazin (DJ C Remix)” [ft. Face-T]
18. “Blazin” [ft. Face-T]
19. “Pampa Pimp”
20. “Mangnen l’boulé” [ft. Nik Myo]
21. “ESG Riddim (Ghislain Poirier Refix)”
22. “Diaspora”
23. “Bunji Garlin & JMC Triveni: “Doi Festival (G. Poirier Remix)”
24. “Jusqu’en haut” [ft. Omnikrom]
25. “Lil Wayne: “Dopeman [ft. Birdman] (G. Poirier Remix)”
26. “Pour te réchauffer” [ft. TTC, Omnikrom]
27. “Close The News”

Clipping Paths Compilation

Clipping Paths is a compilation showcase of the sounds that are moving the west coast at the moment as well as many other areas around USA, including small pockets in Colorado, Texas, Oregon and New York.

The CD ranges from deep urban vibes from Suff-x, Undecided and Vibesquad, to ethereal bass-driven tribal midtempo and Trip Hop from an-ten-nae, Nanda, KiloWatts, Timonkey and Dov, to a crunky mixed genre mid-tempo track from Ooah, that is sure to rock most dancefloors, but deep enough at the same time to prove the perfect segway heading into the deeper territories of IDM, Leftfield and Nugaze inspired tracks from Audiovoid, Kraddy and Slidecamp ending the CD in a very warm and luscious space.

Many of the styles featured have been growing in popularity and seeing large exposure with the emergence of a similar musical tastes in scenes growing in Berlin, San Francisco, London and even Cape Town. This 'newer' sound has partially been an homage by producers to the Hip Hop and Big Beat along with early experimental electronica that they loved in the nineties and bootlegging the hyphe and crunk of the new millennium with the new digital tools and a new production based prowess.

Muti Music is known for finding new and unique talent, this compilation features most of Muti's regular roster and then a group of closely related artists that we are feeling, who are also emerging on labels like Alpha Pup, Interchill Records, Dirtybird and Native State.
This compilation is as fun for a come-down session, a groove and a mingle, a fire warmed cabin or even a hang on the beach, so go and get it for someone for the holidays.

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