UNUSUAL SUSPECTS present
SATURDAY OCTOBER 6th 2007, 21:00
KOLOZSVAR, "HORIA DEMIAN" SPORTS HALL
ED RUSH
[VIRUS, LONDON UK]
SKC
[RENEGADE HARDWARE, COMMERCIAL SUICIDE, HOSPITAL, TACTILE , BUDAPEST HU]
HAZEE
[SKUNK PREDATORZ]
DOWN
[UNUSUAL SUSPECTS]
DJ SNOW & MC AGENT
[ZOOM OUT/UNUSUAL SUSPECTS]
TICKET: 30 RON (9 EUROS)
[url=http://www.myspace.com/edrushvirus]ED RUSH
[Virus, London UK]
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BIOGRAPHY
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Ed Rush is one of the current leaders of the new school drum and bass. One of the originators to bring back the dark sounds of drum and bass and push it to new levels, Ed Rush continues to make waves with each new release.
Born in west London, Ed Rush originally started out into Hip Hop and electro but eventually found the growing underground rave scene. Fascinated by the breaks in the hardcore sounds at the time, Ed Rush convinced his neighbor, Nico Sykes, to let him produce tracks with him.
Eventually they released "Bludclot Artattack" in 1993 - a journey into the darkcore sounds. While most releases at the time had a certain momentum and feel, the track was like no other, and marked the shift of hardcore's split into drum and bass.
Ed Rush eventually released follow-ups nearly two years later, this time with DJ Trace, on "The Mutant" in 1995. "Guncheck" soon followed, another track developed in a recognizable Ed Rush style - gangsta attitude, and crunchy basslines.
Ed Rush soon found himself on the cusp of prominence, as his releases in 1996 on the Techsteppin' compilation, the Skylab EP on the Metalheadz label, and "Killimanjaro" on the Prototype label all helped to define the genres' direction towards techstep, a two-step style of drum and bass. He subsequently released more tracks on various labels, and his popularity as an artist grew, as did his sound as a producer.
The greatest collaboration was ahead of him though, when he teamed up with Optical. They created their own label, Virus, and their first release was "Medicine/Punchbag," Their eventual LP, Wormhole in 1998, was released to critical and underground success, and is regarded as a genre classic, as the sounds from that album again redefined the direction drum and bass was headed, and solidified their status as the forerunners of the new sound of drum and bass.
More recently, after a slew of other releases, Ed Rush and Optical have released another genre-defining LP, the Creeps. This was again met with critical and commercial success, as the album helped them to win Knowledge drum and bass award for producers of the year.
Look out for the eagerly anticipated forth coming album Chameleon.
AUDIO
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Ed Rush & Optical & MC Davox @ Urban Art Forms Festival 2007
VIDEO
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T7lUZ6AV20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQxv7CefSxo
OFFICIAL SITE
http://www.myspace.com/edrushvirus
[url=http://www.myspace.com/skcgambo]SKC
[RENEGADE HARDWARE, COMMERCIAL SUICIDE, HOSPITAL, DSCI4, FUNCTION, GOOD LOOKING, INNERACTIVE, SOUL:R, TIMELESS,TACTILE - BUDAPEST ,HU]
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BIO
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Few would argue that one of the producers who has put Hungary on the map of drum’n’bass is SKC.
After becoming a classical music fan and training himself to play the piano during his teenage years, skc was converted to electronic music by a live experience: a party in 1998 with Ed Rush in the main slot where SKC was sucked in by a mysterious Wormhole… …and when he appeared again he was ready to make his own beats.
He had his first notable releases on Trace’s DSCI4 imprint, some of which got rinsed by many of the elite players all over the globe.
Since then, having got in touch with some of the biggest names in the scene, his tunes have been enjoying support from the likes of Klute, Concord Dawn, Ed Rush, BSE, Pendulum, Flight, Calibre, Marcus Intalex, Digital, Spirit, Matrix, Marky, Dieselboy, Andy C and so on.
Representing his own and his fellow Hungarian producers’ sound all over Europe in the last few years, he’s played in the UK, Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, etc. With his long time coproducer Chris.su he also did a successful tour in Australia last year.
As his classical training suggests, skc tries to inject some musical elements into d’n’b both in the studio and behind the decks, but he doesn’t mind the odd dancefloor anthem either. Like a rollercoaster ride, his sets cover the whole spectrum of this varied genre from the dubby sounds and rollers through the big smashers and vocal crowdpleasers to the minimalistic techno vibes.
Apart from his collabs with Chris.su and his solo projects, he’s also involved in the Tactile collective [Chris.su, skc, Safair, Longman and Bratwa]. Tactile’s first full album called ‘Super System’ came out in March 2006 on Timeless Recordings.
In 2006 skc was working on his first solo album, a 2x2 double pack and a CD that was released on Commercial Suicide in November last year. Still in the pipeline is a bonus EP on Commercial Suicide, as a surprise follow-up to his album (3 tracks off the CD plus a new one that hasn’t been released before), an EP on NYC based Mathematics’ label Social Studies, a track called ‘Destroy’ on the next Renegade Hardware album entitled ‘Above The Game’, and a remix of a true classic, Absolute Zero & Subphonics’ The Code, also on Renegade Hardware.
AUDIO
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SKC Studio Mix 2006
LINKS
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http://www.myspace.com/skcgambo
http://www.commercialsuicide.org
http://www.critical-recordings.com
http://www.timelessmusic.org; http://www.tactile.hu
DISCOGRAPHY
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http://www.rolldabeats.com/artist/skc
ARTISTS MYSPACE:
www.myspace.com/edrushvirus
www.myspace.com/skcgambo
www.myspace.com/skunkpredatorz
www.myspace.com/dj_down
www.myspace.com/djsnowro
www.myspace.com/mcagent
www.myspace.com/unusualsuspectsro
OFFICIAL EVENT SITE:
http://suspects.allmassive.org/edrush
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