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BASS CLEF + Robert Logan Trio + Dadahack (album launch) + P45

Sat 20th Mar 2010

The Luminaire presents dsh blp with
BASS CLEF
+ Robert Logan Trio
+ Dadahack (album launch)
+ P45



 
Doors 7.30
£10 at WeGotTickets and TicketWeb
£12 door 

* The first 40 people through the door will get a special Bass Clef mix CD, free *
 
"Ralf Cumbers (Bass Clef) has occupied a niche position as an experimentalist outsider within the wider dubstep community. With his sophomore LP 'May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way' he expands on his theme of elastic bass and beats with trombone, including extra percussion from Frank Byng and Brass from The Hackney Memorial Free Jazz Marching Band...a diverse yet tightly engineered work that should earn him respect far beyond dubstep circles. Recommended! " - Boomkat

Bass Clef is rooted in deepest London and has a very distinct sound and live stage show, criss-crossing boundaries and making friends whereever he goes. He is an analogue fetishist of the bottom-end kind, bypassing laptop/looping and fully embracing a heavy and warm sound that has been described as 'dubstep not dubstep'... a catchy title, since Bass Clef is not a neat and tidy genre artist, but a one-of-a-kind.

"He's a badass one-man band of bass. He shakes songs out of his arms and lungs that come in somewhere between dubstep and wonky carnival with his club sets sneaking in splashes of old school UK garage and blasts of full frontal techno. - Clash
His new album ''May the Bridges I Burn Light The Way' - his second long player - is a killer and lives up to his now-pivotal live show that has shocked dancefloors around the globe, with a heady combination of big bass, dirty high-end and lilting melodies floating through all of his tracks.

"The album's landscape is dominated during its first two thirds by frenetic, obsessive 2-step rhythms populated by Cumbers' cacophonous cavalcade of exotic percussion, bells, whistles and even a theremin. Here songs like Hackney Lionheart and You Do My Head In are boisterous dancefloor tracks revealing the years spent honing this experimental project around the world's clubs." BBC
 
Armed with his effects, trombone and percussive instruments of choice, the Bass Clef sound-system experience is a rough-and-ready mix of dance(hall) inspirations – 21st Century urban roots music, Caribbean rhythms, fucked-up glitch, hypnotic brass and classic 'hands in the air' rave dynamics, with ringing cow-bells, woozy trombone blasts and theremin effects spicing up his deep, deliciously rhythmic undertow.  

Main support is Robert Logan, playing live tonight as a trio. At just 21 years of age, Logan is a precocious talent. Championed by Mary-Anne Hobbs, Logan's recent CV includes opening for Grace Jones at Massive Attack's Meltdown, co-writing the score for the Oscar winning documentary feature, 'Taxi to The Darkside' and ongoing collaborations with the likes of Skye (Morcheeba), Snorkel and Brian Eno.  
 
"The essential last word in electronic soundscapes." - DJ

"Something of a prodigy, Robert Logan is a man that is already showing a maturity and a musical/textural understanding that many simply never find." - BBC
 
"There are few signs of innocence in his sophisticated debut, either, with Logan taking on the stylistic might of titans such as Massive Attack and Autechre. There seems to be little out of reach for such prodigious, sure-footed talent." - Flavorpil
 
dadahack are an electronic music group from London and Stockholm which contains musicians Pete Davis and James Banbury.
Banbury has in the past been involved with - in a role that might perhaps be called a member - Infantjoy (with Paul Morley) and The Auteurs (with guitarist). Davis has in the past been involved with - in a role that might perhaps be called an involver - Gwen Stefani, New Order, The Human League, Bjork and A-ha.

dadhack's debut album TAP3 is to be released late march, and therefore this show at The Luminaire could well be called an album launch party. dadahack will provide some kind of party atmosphere to go along with this general idea. This show will be one of the first events where you will be able to purchase the forthcoming TAP3 device. We're sure you will like this very much.
Download an exclusive free mp3 here at the discobelle blog.
 
Opening is P45, whose genre-transcending dexterity takes in the experimental dubstep trip of Vex'd, industrial techno of Surgeon, the future glitch of Flying Lotus and the scattered experimental drum and bass of Amon Tobin. His true strength, though, lies in the crescendos of layered texture, noise and re-sampled sampling. In a time where people like Mary Anne Hobbs are championing the similarities and crossover between anything electronic, dubstep, techno and the industrial avant-garde, P45 is your man.

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