4th Annual Pure Filth X-mas Holiday Bassface Bash
The annual Bassface Holiday Bass Bash returns for the 4th year on Friday December 23rd with a lineup that’s sure to please every discerning basshead in the L.A area and beyond. The Fire-Alarm starter Mr. Jakes (aka Papa ‘Ench) returns to Bassface alongside Subsonic acrobat’s Teebs, Ras G, Sweatson Klank, Mono-poly, Def Sound, Kone, Mothership Collective, Relapss, Homage and Kemst!
On top of that we have PureFilthSound performing tracks from their forthcoming L.P and a Super-secret Special guest t.b.a that will blow your “brain, brain, brain, brain, brain!”
FRIDAY DECEMBER 23RD
PURE FILTH
presents
BASSFACE L.A
featuring
SUPER SPECIAL GUEST T.B.A
An old friend join’s us for what promises to be one of the most epic BASSFACE’S yet! All I can say right now is get your ticket quick and come thru cos this it’s gonna be BANANA’S! All will be revealed…and you will not be disappointed!
JAKES (Hench, Bristol U.K)
The party Anthem maker, Bassbin crusher and “Fire-alarm starter” as he’s known in these here parts! Jake’s has forged an incredible career over many years across the globe working alongside such acts as EZ-Rollers, Roni Size, Pendulum and TC before departing on the solo mission and forming Hench Recordings. Papa ‘Ench, as mans call him back home, is a sonic wizard and that ain’t no lie. Responsible for building the toon “Jewel” amongst countless others (that has become the Pure Filth Soundsystems mandatory Soundcheck record) Jakes don’t mess about when it comes to Bass. Just how serious is he? Get on that dancefloor and find out…DEEP ain’t the word, man sinks ship’s like the TITANIC with his B-lines, you don’t believe me?! You better ask somebody!
TEEBS (Brainfeeder, L.A)
Quickly rising up the rank’s in the Brainfeeder camp, the soft spoken Teebs is an artistic force to be reckoned with in the world of electronica (or whatever they’re calling it these days…oh yeah MUSIC). His latest on Brainfeeder stays on rotation in the whip, in the ipod, on the lappy and now finally we get to hear him on the Filth Rig Proper. Excited.
PUREFILTHSOUND (Pure Filth LA)
Sam & Dave linked up about a year ago while both working at the Ninja tunes 20 year anniversary party in L.A. After bunning down a couple of hoons, the two Brit’s started chatting and it became apparent that they shared alot of similar music history. Next thing you know they’re in the studio and “crash, bang, whallop” they’ve knocked out an album! After first hearing it Lemon D @ Valve Sound U.K classified it as “Footwork Bass” and then his son called it “Basswork.” We’re not really sure what to call it, but we do know one thing, it definitely has lots of Bass and seems to work well at moving feet! You make your own mind up tho! Please join us as we welcome the brand new PUREFILTHSOUND.
RAS G (Poobah Recs, Brainfeeder L.A)
Mr. Airhorn is in the building! Ras is a personal favorite of the Pure Filth crew as he always tests the system. Most soundboy’s probably tremble when he takes the stage but not here @ Filth H.Q, we ain’t skurred! Droppin’ some of the most deep and deadly subs this side of the Atlantic (and Pacific) Ras is sure to get the building shaking…and we’re not exaggerating! When you hear the airhorn’s you know it’s on and crackin’, so buckle up and get yourself locked in, Ras is pon deck and the party is fittin’ to begin! Alllllllllll Raaaaaaaas!!!
SWEATSON KLANK aka TAKE (Poobah Recs, L.A)
Taking a break from the lab Tom joins us in the midst of penning his new album on his own brand new imprint “TONE & MANOR.” Expect to hear nothing but the freshest sounds from Take’s latest endeavor and alter ego SWEATSON KLANK. A veteran of the scene Tom has traveled the globe peddling his heavy hip-hop swagger and Low end subsonics at many of the world’s top festivals. Receiving support from radio luminaries like Mary Anne Hobbs and Gilles Peterson on diverse labels such as Warp, Eat Concrete and Poobah, Sweatson Klank (Take) has a solid following and musical foundation and has ripped it pon the Pure Filth rig several times. Make sure to keep an eye and ear out for the one like SWEATSON KLANK!
MONO-POLY (Brainfeeder, L.A)
The socio-economic-political and psychedelic Bakersfield beat commander MONO/POLY makes his debut @ BASSFACE and we’re super hyped. Showing that “it’s not where you’re from but where you’re at” Charles toons are super dope, super deep, hella clean and heavy as an SUV. As a kid he grew up hanging around his Dad’s studio set-up toying around with old Korg’s (thus the name MONOPOLY) and Roland keyboard’s. He really liked the Juno 106 and it sounds to me from listening to his tunes that the Sine Wave switch particularly caught his attention! Obviously the Korg won out on the cooler name although Juno is dope too, either way, please join us as we welcome Charles Dickerson aka MONO/POLY!
DEF SOUND (L.A)
I was first introduced to Def Sound while checking out an interview of Flying Lotus on the Gilles Peterson show. On the show Gilles had a quick chat with Emmanual “Def Sound” who made mention of a free download of one of his tracks. I downloaded the track and was blown away. The song was called (A)Gain and while listening I was suddenly transformed back into the golden age of hip-hop…of a Tribe called Quest and the Brand Nubians, of Dela Soul and the Jungle Brothers. A time when things weren’t so serious and it wasn’t all about the slackness bravado of “bitches, drugs and guns.” Who was this guy and how the hell was he from L.A but I’d never heard of him? After further investigation I am so happy he can join us @ BASSFACE. He’s been on my regular rotation for a minute now and I hope you get him on yours too…Def Sound a Big Sound!
KONE (Alphapup, L.A)
KONEY DANZA aka KONAN THE UPSTARIAN is fresh off his recent release of his long player “Tractatus” on Alpha Pup. He is a mainstay of the blooming underground L.A beat scene having spent the last several years putting on parties, releasing his own music, and steadily remixing a vast array of artists. Easy going and relaxed by nature his infectious beats and melodies are sure to draw you in and get you moving. You can catch KONE at his monthly residency every 4th Thursday at the Verdugo Bar in Glassell Park, along with legendary Detroit DJ and producer House Shoes and long-time collaborator Fat Albert Einstein. We can’t wait to have KONE firing through our Pure Filth Bass Cone’s and boomin’ through the system!
MOTHERSHIP COLLECTIVE (L.A)
The Los Angeles underground Funk collective keep the mixes coming fast and furious. If you have been keeping up on the boldly decorated yellow envelopes getting passed out at Low End Theory over the years then you already know, if you haven’t then you need to step through and get to know…These cats don’t play! Pure Filth is very excited to have these fella’s step through and bless the system. The MOTHERSHIP lands in downtown Friday Dec 23rd, be there to experience it!
RELAPSS and HOMAGE (Pure Filth, L.A)
Coming with the heavy dubstep roots vibration, these two selectah’s are really starting to step into there own both as Dj’s and producers. Making their Bassface debut, show the Pure Filth soundboy’s some love pleeeeeeeeeeeez!
Hosted by KEMST
Visuals by OICHO
21 & Up w/ ID
$25 presale and VIP available @ http://fla.vor.us/BassFaceLA
$30 at the door
9:30PM – 2:00AM
Secured Parking is available all night @ 660 Mateo St and 619 Imperial St
LOT613
613 Imperial St.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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What people are saying about the ISAM live tour so far…
“ISAM live has raised the bar, and with the kind of attention it’s gained, what remains to be seen now is how other artists will follow in its footsteps.” -Resident Advisor 5/5
“ISAM’s live show looks like a mindf*&k of the highest order.” -Wired
“The ISAM show was truly breathtaking… Amon Tobin has now tested the limits of audio/visual performance and set a new benchmark.” -Quietus
“Tobin has set a new benchmark for live electronic music with this deafening, dazzling and exhilarating assault on the sense.” -Times 4/5
“This is how to put on a show. Mind-melting.” -Line Of Best Fit
“One of the most ambitious showcases for an album ever.” -The Morning Star
“Amon Tobin raised the bar for electronic musicians everywhere, sucking the audience into a world like no other.” -Music Fix
“The concert of the future, today.” -Gizudo
“Amon Tobin’s massively ambitious live setup seems to have to be seen to be believed.” -The Daily Swarm
“…an incredibly ambitious visual performance that went off without a hitch and proved to be one hell of a way to launch MUTEK 2011.” -Exclaim!
Mary Anne Hobbs give’s Pure Filth and their Coachella stage a nice boost in a recent Rolling Stone article…check it!
Iconic British DJ, journalist, and radio broadcaster Mary Anne Hobbs treats every day like a new crusade. A heroine of and for the underground, she’s arguably been more instrumental in cluing in musical thrill seekers to vital, groundbreaking talents than any one entity since John Peel. She fondly compares her mission to that of a religious vocation, calling herself an “evangelist” for “future sound.” For 14 years, her pulpit was a popular late night BBC Radio 1 show called Breezeblock; within any program, listeners might experience a careening mix of electronica, metal, and left-field hip-hop. If it was new, assertive, and felt thrillingly unfamiliar, Hobbs was its populist champion, translating the work of underdog visionaries into a palatable context.
As her clout as the vanguard of the avant-garde only grows, Hobbs’ quest broadens. She now also tours as a DJ, and just completed her vastly successful “Road Warriors” US Tour, where she won over thousands at Coachella and marveled at Americans’ (belated but enthusiastic) awakening to the genre she most famously helped nurture: dubstep. Saturday, she presents a stage at Poland’s Tauron Nowa Muzyk festival. As evidence of her mounting influence beyond radio and live experience, she helped composer Clint Mansell curate the riveting score for last year’s Black Swan. Most significantly, she announced yesterday that she’ll be stepping up her role(s) at UK alternative station XFM, balancing her current role as their outré ambassador with a Monday through Thursday slot as a primetime broadcaster for Music:Response.
Today, Hobbs talks exclusively to Rolling Stone about her exciting new endeavors, her hopes for unifying a new generation of creators, and how she accidentally became a style icon for the electronic elite.
Congratulations, you’re about to become the busiest woman on radio. You’re going to be playing two integral roles to XFM — to those unfamiliar, can you explain what makes it such a unique station?
In the days before the Internet existed, it was the first alternative station in the UK, other than the pirate stations. I worked there for 5 years for free when it was first born, before it even had a license. We really believed we could change the way that people listened to the music they loved. I still feel that way about XFM now. Over the years, they’ve signed presenters like Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand. Now Mixmaster Mike! They’re risk takers – they believe in the power of strong characters, people with real belief in what they’re doing.
Even more than BBC, they’ve given you the freedom to fill primetime terrain with artists that wouldn’t usually receive radio play. Can you maintain that liberalism with your new weekly slot?
It’s going to be a major challenge for me. This is a chance to paint much broader brush strokes. I’ve never had an opportunity to present a show like this before! The nightly show, Music: Response, will be made up of XFM Playlist tracks, classic tracks, and also Open Play tracks. The remit is multi-genre; there will be guitar music alongside MC-driven music, hip-hop and grime and electronic music. I was weaned on rock and metal. Once a rock chick, always a rock chick! So, it will give me a chance to explore that on radio. You can work dual platforms; there’s nothing to stop you being involved at both levels. If anything, that can be doubly effective.
So, you’ll be still be subtly subverting the mainstream?
Well, I’ll also be keeping my [more exploratory] Saturday show in place. Saturdays are pure blue. The idea is that the two shows can have a relationship. I can feed artists that I feel have real crossover appeal from Saturdays into the weekday shows, which is pivotal. I want to connect with people, but also show them something they don’t know yet. The main reason people switch off, or stop reading, is because they are bored. I don’t believe in dumbing down, but I believe in presenting creative frameworks that can work on different levels. It’s going to be an evolutionary process, a two-year mission. I’m so determined to make it burn!
Your shows feature music from everywhere from London to New York to Tokyo. When you DJ in the US, you fill the club. Are you surprised at your sudden upsurgence in global appeal?
The global reaction has been astounding. The Saturday show on XFM has been such a wild ride. I feel like we’ve really raised the game in the past two months. We have the XFM Mix Archive live now; the Blawan mix has 9,000 streams already from all over the world. I am trying to elevate the platform based on creative significance, and I feel so lucky, as people are listening everywhere from Antarctica to Istanbul. People say to me, “I’ve never really heard anything like this before, but I’m down. I’m now listening every week.” It’s such a victory!
Do you see an appreciation for electronica making a comeback in the US?
Yes, definitely at Coachella, where I DJed. They had Sam XL for Pure Filth in LA curate 3 days at The Dome stage; he brought in every conceivable form of electronic music, from Odd Future to Kode9. That stage was absolutely mobbed! Thousands turned up. The year before it was only a little party.
What do you say to people who want to keep underground music “underground?”
Listen, if the artists wanted to keep the work a secret, they wouldn’t be putting it out there. It’s up to them to decide upon their own destiny. I think it’s every artist’s dream to be in a position where they can give up a soul-destroying day job and earn enough money to survive spending the hours they have in this life doing what they truly love. I think truly, very few people make music that they want nobody to hear. I always like to believe that the human race is hungry; they want inspirational aspirational content in their media. I represent the artists I play carefully – I frame it properly, with attention to detail.
You’ve mentioned being inspired by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s work; how they transcended fashion and generated new dialogue among other creators of all varieties. Do you see any other fashion or design figures doing something similarly unifying now?
I would like to see much more communion between creative forces and kindred spirits. I am a total Mac junkie, but I am aware that I work in isolation for the greater part of my life. I know that energy and ideas are exchanged on a totally different level when you bring people together in the same physical space. My friend Raz Mezinai (a.k.a. Badawi) has recently brought together a cast of characters, musicians, actors, writers and narrators to work on a graphic novel, with an App in development, that will also hopefully become a film calledHeretic Of Ether. It’s been an incredible experience watching this project take shape and meeting his cast of contributors out in the ether.
People have come to identify you with a strong visual style, which really comes through with your photos. When you enter a shoot, how do you define the look you’re going for?
We do put a lot of thought into the location and the costume. But for me it’s very much about the narrative, and the message I want to project with an image. Photographer Shaun Bloodworth’s colors are extraordinary. There’s a “Bloodworth Blue” hue he uses that really is profoundly beautiful.
Do you draw inspiration from fashion editorials or other types of visual/art installations?
Mad Max 2. There’s a Vogue shoot I kept from a couple of years ago, too. But I was born a biker and I’ll die a biker!
Can you talk about your collaboration with L.A. designer Adam Saaks? I read he custom-made some of your Road Warrior looks.
Adam created all the shirts I wore in the Road Warrior tour. He stands you up on a podium in the center of his shop on Melrose in Hollywood, in a plain t-shirt, and then begins to slash and twist and knot, working completely freeform, creating amazingly complex patterns that flow with the shape of your body. It’s such a unique experience being “cut” by Adam.
Have you collaborated with other designers on looks?
Evan Sugerman gave me a leather jacket in 2009, and I treasure it. I love his whole aesthetic: astoundingly beautiful neo-gothic road warrior.
Do you have certain linchpin wardrobe items you always bring with you on your DJ tours?
My All Saints boots have been coast-to-coat across America with me. I’ll wear them until I wear holes in the soles. Essentially, you need a tin of Vaseline lip balm and industrial black eyeliner. That’s it!
Coachella 2011: Pure Filth Bass Oasis Set Times
The Coachella 2011 Pure Filth Bass Oasis set times are:
FRIDAY:
12:00-1:30 – Metaphase
1:30-3:00 – Gabe Real
3:00-4:00 – Emicida
4:00-5:00 – Kyle Hall
5:00-6:30 – Mount Kimbie
6:30-8:00 – The Professionals
8:00-9:00 – Breakage
9:00-10:00 – Beardyman
10:00- 11:30 – Jakes
SATURDAY:
1:00-2:00 – Ras G
2:00-3:00 – Alf Alpha
3:00-4:00 – Don Letts
4:00-4:45 – Take
4:45-5:45 – Goth Trad
5:45-6:40 – SBTRKT
6:40-7:30 – Lil’ B
7:30-8:30 – Mary Anne Hobbs
8:30-9:45 – DJ Hype
9:45-10:30 – DJ Kentaro
10:30-11:45 – Andy C. & GQ
11:45-1:00 – DJ Marky
SUNDAY:
12:00-1:00 – Sam XL
1:00-2:00 - Lorn
2:00-3:00 - Tokimonsta
3:00-4:00 - Thunderball
4:00-5:00 - DJ Zinc
5:00-6:00 – High Contrast
6:00-7:00 – Joy Orbison
7:00-8:00 – Kode9
8:00-9:00 – Roska
9:00-10:00 – Ramadanman
10:00-11:00 – Zed Bias
11:00-12:00 – Terror Danjah
***Odd Future has been moved to the Sahara tent due to concerns over crowd size
Pure Filth Bass Oasis – Coachella Artist Spotlight: High Contrast
[BIO]
The name High Contrast needs no introduction anymore; though when a young Lincoln Barrett signed on the dotted line back in 2000 he was a complete unknown. Signed on the strength of his mini-disc demos, the Welsh wonder has smashed his way through the drum and bass scene in no time at all.
His debut longplayer True Colours was released on Hospital to massive critical acclaim, paving the way for a move onto the international DJ circuit and helping him become remixer of choice for so many labels inside and outside of the drum and bass community. It was the club sessions and mixing skills that dominated the year since True Colours – with Lincoln making a name for himself as one of the hottest D&B DJs around.
More recently after reaching Drum and Bass superstardom he has releaed mix albums for Fabric and Mixmag and seen his White Stripes remix all over Radio 1. Missy Elliot and Blaze have also come knocking for a Contrast remix and the Worlds dance floors have been blown apart by that Gold Digger booty.
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HIGH CONTRAST PLAYS THE PURE FILTH BASS OASIS AT COACHELLA 2011 ON SUNDAY, APRIL 17 FROM 5PM-6PM