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Toxic Dancehall, Musicalbear, Adaadat, Adverse Camber & Kraked present
www.roboorgy.com
 
 
Bare essentials
What? Mega Bass Robo Orgy
Where? Electrowerkz, London, EC1
When? Friday 3rd June 2005 / Electrowerkz, London, EC1 / 10pm-6am
How much? £7 before midnight, £8 after
 
 
Short Blurb
We're proud to present a veritable feast of the best new electronic music from Britain and around the world. 40 musicians and artists take over three rooms at London's Electrowerkz to showcase some of the freshest blood currently rocking the scene (along with the odd legend thrown in for good measure). Featuring Remarc, Mashit Records, Exile, Adaadat, Kovert, Adverse Camber, Kraked, The Dead Silence Syndicate Band and many more.
 
Please review the information below. For further information visit our website ­ www.roboorgy.com, call Tom on 07971 406331 or email us megabass@roboorgy.com
 
We also have a promo CD available for press featuring exclusive tracks by artists playing at the night. Please let us know if you would like to receive one.
 
 
Further information
Room one
Room one ­ hosted by Bristol's venerable Toxic Dancehall squad and London's Musicalbear collective ­ is set to unleash a riot of ragga-tinged jungle, mashed dancehall, live drum & bass and pummelling breakcore.
 
The man responsible for some of the most rinsing Amen break tracks ever to see the light of day, legendary junglist Remarc leads the charge with a very rare appearance behind the decks.
Kicking off their extensive European tour in London this evening, DJ C and Aaron Spectre (from Boston's Mashit Records) will mix it up (as their name suggests) with their DJ/live hybrid blend of Jamaican-infused ragga jungle and dancehall, packed with bass-line heaviness and oodles of fun.
 
From Brighton, ruff-rinsing breaks architect Kovert enters the fray, along with punk 'n' bass six-piece The Dead Silence Syndicate Band, and DJ Sundance from Oxford's infamous Code Red parties. Other highlights include Bristol's breakcore prodigy Parasite, who will be going up against Toxic Dancehall resident Uberdog on the turntables.
Room two
Slam-diving into the realms of bass-driven, extremely mashed-up electronica, we've brought together the three most exciting crews in the scene ­ Adaadat, Adverse Camber and Kraked ­ to give a new meaning to the word soundclash. Heading up this room Planet Mu's Exile, widely regarded as one of the most exciting new producers on the planet, brings his seriously heavy live performance along to the Orgy.
Contributing to the vast spaghetti-mess of on-stage cabling, Adaadat artists DJ Scott Egg, Atom Truck and Germlin all play live, with additional live sets from Kraked's ConBrio, Wrong Music's Mully and Adverse Camber's Boep.
And there's more: the debut London live set from awesome newcomer The Nailbomb Cults, exclusive collaborations between Adverse Camber's DJ Spazmo vs Vect and El Kano vs Magimix, plus further vinyl support from Kraked duo Tizz & Mola.
The party would not be complete without the 'Reggae-ish Bar'. Hosted by the Shaggy Bear Soundsystem and featuring Heatwave DJs, Sketchynurse & Dr Wilson, The Other Shaggy, Mr Dave, Dr_Ups, Randomoidz, and Harry Dreadknapp.
 
Visual duties are ably attended to by Pixel Juice and AC/VC from Adverse Camber, Anakissed (Toxic Dancehall / plugincinema.com), Kraked TV, Stefan & Tom Finnis, Pannekoek and James Tec (Bangface).
 
 
 
The line-up in full
Room 1: Toxic Dancehall & Musicalbear present
REMARC (Planet Mu/Suburban Base)
THE DEAD SILENCE SYNDICATE BAND (punk 'n' bass six-piece)
DJ C (Mashit ­ USA)
AARON SPECTRE (Mashit/Death$ucker)
KOVERT (Praxis/Critical Noise)
PARASITE vs UBERDOG (Death$ucker/Toxic Dancehall)
DJ SUNDANCE (Code Red)
MUSICALBEAR DJs
 
Room 2: Adverse Camber, Adaadat and Kraked present
EXILE live (Planet Mu/Beta Recordings)
DJ SCOTT EGG live (Adaadat)
ATOM TRUCK live (Adaadat)
CONBRIO live (Kraked/Erratica)
GERMLIN live (Adaadat)
MULLY live (Wrong Music)
BOEP live (Adverse Camber)
DJ SPAZMO vs VECT live (Addict/Adverse Camber)
THE NAILBOMB CULTS live (Kraked)
TIZZ & MOLA (Kraked)
EL KANO & MAGIMIX (Adverse Camber)
 
The Reggae-ish Bar, hosted by the Shaggy Bear Soundsystem
HEATWAVE DJs - www.scandalbag.com
SKETCHYNURSE & DR WILSON
THE OTHER SHAGGY
MR DAVE
DR_UPS
RANDOMOIDZ
HARRY DREADKNAPP
 
Visual stimulus from
PIXEL JUICE & AC/VC (Adverse Camber)
ANAKISSED (Toxic Dancehall)
KRAKED TV
STEFAN & TOM FINNIS
PANNEKOEK
JAMES TEC (Bangface)
 
 
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www.musicalbear.com
 
Toxic Dancehall
Attracting massive crowds at Bristol's Black Swan for the past two years, Toxic Dancehall's gritty, bass-heavy music policy and sprawling free party vibe has attracted luminaries such as DJ /Rupture, DJ Scud, The Bug, Soundmurderer, Bong Ra, Enduser and Exile.
www.toxicdancehall.com
Adaadat
With its seriously splattery electronic patois, the Adaadat label (and their Japanese stable-mates 19-t) are one of the most exciting new forces on the scene, as the late, great John Peel would have testified.
www.adaadat.com
 
Adverse Camber
With their sprawling roster of skilled DJs, producers and live acts, London's Adverse Camber crew have been responsible for some of the UK's filthiest and silliest raves ­ such as the incredible Night of Awesome Power and its recent follow-up, The Knights of Awesome Power.
www.adverse-camber.net
Kraked
Reading-based electronic label, home to ConBrio and responsible for releasing work by a fine array of artists including Kiki Ill and the most excellent The Nailbomb Cults.
www.kraked.co.uk
 
 
Additional artist information
Remarc (Planet Mu / Suburban Base)
One of most influential artists from jungle's first wave, Remarc has produced some of the most rinsing 'Amen' break tunes to ever see the light of day. It's no surprise that Planet Mu head-honcho Mike Paradinas took the step of re-issuing many classic Remarc cuts and unreleased dubs, with tracks such as 'R.I.P.' and 'Thunderclap' still sounding as fresh as they did a decade ago.
www.discogs.com/artist/remarc
 
The Dead Silence Syndicate Band
Detonating venues and parties around London and beyond, this six-piece punk 'n' bass outfit from the legendary Dead Silence Syndicate construct a brand new dance floor blueprint that fuses live instrumentation with envelope-pushing electronic manipulation. Percussion, synths, samples, cello and bass provide the urgent framework for frenetic lyrical licks, culminating in a rich rumble of influences that just must be experienced live. The band recently headlined Knowledge Magazine's live drum & bass night at London's Spitz.
www.deadsilence.co.uk
 
DJ C (Mashit Records)
DJ C has been dropping his mashed-up mix of jungle, reggae, hardcore, rock, hip-hop, folk, bhangra, techno, and just about everything else at parties, clubs, and events worldwide since the mid 90s. In 2003, he started the Mashit label, releasing hard-hitting ragga-junglistic material to worldwide acclaim. He has worked on remix projects with artists such as Hrvatski and DJ /rupture, released on Kid 606's Shockout imprint (a collaboration with reggae legend Gregory Isaacs is also in the pipeline for the label) and has had a hand in organising many boundary-breaking music events. We're very happy to have him back in London again after his superb set at Musicalbear's rave last summer.
www.mashit.com
 
Aaron Spectre (Mashit / Death$ucker)
Representing the newest batch of North American junglists, Aaron Spectre has been blazing a trail from NYC to Berlin over the past few years, performing with the likes of Daddy Freddy, Soundmurderer and DJ /rupture. Like his Mashit labelmate DJ C, Aaron rocks parties with next-level live/DJ hybrid performances, playing breakbeats using a host of hands-on MIDI controllers, layering acapellas atop riddims and triggered breaks, making on-the-fly remixes at light speed. His DJ C/Capleton remix 12" on Mashit sold out within weeks of its release and received continuing support from BBC Radio One legend, the late John Peel.
www.aaronspectre.com / www.mashit.com
 
 
Kovert (Critical Noise)
The Kovert project was conceived in 1994 as a pirate radio show on Chillin' FM. Broadcast weekly from the heights of East London, the show offered a varied diet of dark electronics. Numerous vinyl releases were spawned in its wake, surfacing on labels such as Praxis, Koolpop and SMB's Vinyl Weaponry. His DJ set at Toxic Dancehall in Bristol fluidly showcased his junglist rave leanings, dropping harsh breaks, shredding noise and dubwise dancehall sensibilities together in the mix to devastating effect.
www.criticalnoise.net
 
Parasite vs Uberdog (Death$ucker / Toxic Dancehall)
These two founder members of Bristol's notorious Toxic Dancehall parties will be stepping up to the turntables for another of their mentalist back-to-back battles. Parasite, owner of online music shop dSWAT and driving force behind Death$ucker Records, has been responsible for releasing deadly jungled-up cuts on Damage, Peace Off and Clash, among others. Uberdog, fresh from dropping two-step electro on Varial Records and destroyed sub-bass cuts on Werk Discs, will be countering the ragga-strewn breakcore onslaught with dirty electronics from across the board.
www.deathsucker.org / www.toxicdancehall.com
 
Exile (Planet Mu)
To notch up releases on a wide variety of labels such Moving Shadow, Beta, Renegade Hardware, Mosquito and Planet Mu is no mean feat. Since being initiated into the realms of the broken beat at the tender age of 12, Tim Exile has gone on to lead orchestras and choirs, compose title themes and scores for TV shows, and study an MA in electroacoustic composition. Along the way he has made quite a name for himself in drum & bass and electronica circles by rustling up twisted compositions and live shows that wipe the floor with punters and savvy journalists alike.
www.timexile.com / www.planet-mu.com
 
DJ Scotch Egg (Adaadat)
Brighton noise musician and promoter Shiez 2000 was kept busy for many years with circuit bending Casio keyboards and pouring drinks for his next door neighbour Shitmat. Not long ago he was contacted by a manufacturer of microwaveable delicacies (who shall remain nameless) needing some underground noise music credibility for their latest range. However, overindulgence in the heavily treated foreign foodstuff left Mr. 2000 with a bad attitude and much excess aggression. Concerned, Adaadat's resident music therapist encouraged him to channel this negativity into live performance. DJ Scotch Egg was born.
www.adaadat.com
 
Atom Truck
After unsuccessful stints as a novelist and lorry driver in the nuclear power industry, the man behind Atom Truck began making music when his mobile telephone ringtone accidentally syncopated with his electric typewriter (with the emergency alarm on the back of the lorry providing an interesting counterpoint). He debuted this brave new sound through a 10000k rig at a trance rave outside Aberdeen, also attended by Bjørn Hatleskog (aka Kema Keur). Thus was born the Adaadat label.
www.adaadat.com
 
ConBrio (Kraked)
ConBrio has been a regular member of the Kraked Sound System since it all began. He has been the backbone of many live shows and has matured to become the confident live act that will feature on the first Kraked & Associated Industries release (due in the coming months). ConBrio is pure electronica - a sound that glitches through heavenly glances of beauty then yanks you back to reality with cut-up beats dirty enough to make a hammer bleed. He is shortly to release an EP for London's esteemed Erratica stable.
www.con-brio.co.uk / www.kraked.co.uk
 
Germlin (Adaadat)
Some mothers play music to their unborn children in the womb, thereby to calm the infant and encourage future musical talent. Not so the mother of Joe Howe aka Germlin. Aged just minus eight months Joe was entertaining his mother with compositions from inside the womb. As his fingers developed the music became increasingly accomplished. He was born one of triplets, the other two siblings being a normal, healthy sampler and a bouncing 3.2 kg modular synthesiser.
www.adaadat.com
 
Mully (Wrong Music)
Fresh from touring Japan with Shitmat other members of Brighton's pioneering Wrong Music collective, mash-core laptopper Mully churns in another plunderground smasher, taking Gameboy gabber beyond its illogical conclusion and giving Thomas the Tank Engine a good hard ass-kicking along the way.
www.wrongmusic.co.uk
 
Boep (Adverse Camber)
Randomoidz (Rory Lemon) and Barry Von Weedhousen (Ashley Preston) form this thunderous two-man powerhouse of mashed-up electronics from the Adverse Camber camp. Drawing on influences more diverse than the Amazonian ecosystem, Boep live is a truly dance floor destroying experience. Mix the funk of breaks, the drive of techno, electro's robo groove and breakcore's spannered vibe, sprinkle some Derek and Clive on top and what do you get? Boep.
www.boep.net / www.adverse-camber.net
 
DJ Spazmo vs Vect (Adverse Camber)
Two members of Adverse Camber's intrepid sonic trio Kutchi take to the stage for an exclusive live collaboration. DJ Spazmo - the man responsible for gabbering-up The Knack's 'My Sharona' and rebuilding Faith No More's 'Epic' into a magnificent mashed opus - is joined in the control box by integral Ad Cam operative Vect for a one-off sonic sortie.
www.adverse-camber.net / www.kutchimusic.com
 
The Nailbomb Cults (Kraked)
The Nailbomb Cults has impressed people everywhere with his utterly spastic demo of Shitmat-styled broken gabba mash-up, rude-ass sampling and fierce-as-fuck breakcore ridiculousness. Mega Bass Robo Orgy will be his first ever London gig - and one that will surely go down in the annals of music history like an atomic bombardment. Steel pants at the ready.
www.nailbombcults.co.uk / www.kraked.co.uk
 
El Kano vs Magimix (Adverse Camber)
Two of Adverse Camber's trusty knights debut under new monikers this eve; with growing confusion arising from the recent superstar status of a certain grime MC, The Artist Formerly Known As Kano adopts a continental identity shift, while the one they once called The Sweez looks to a nearby kitchen appliance for a timely rebirth. Names aside, you can expect all kinds of grimey bass-line and magic blends from this accomplished pair of deck destroyers.
www.adverse-camber.net

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