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Thu 10th Soundcrash Productions presents RED + FULL FAT + KIDS IN TRACKSUITS + MEMORY 9 [DJ set]
Doors 7.30 A belter of a quadruple headliner show. Tomorrow's cutting edge beats today... Red’s debut album, Fingerprints, is a masterpiece in instrumental hip hop production. Not only does the album advance the jazz styles of ATCQ, Gangstarr & Pete Rock, it solidifies Red as one of scratch music’s most recent innovative exponents. The album features a handful of tracks made entirely from scratching. From the drums to the melodies, each track is produced purely from turntable manipulation. These tracks, Samba Scratch, All’s Fair, Clock Watching, and Snow explore moods and techniques seldom heard in the scratch world, and demonstrate Red’s pioneering spirit. Red’s band Full Fat formed initially to recreate the tracks from another Red release, the Seen EP, using the turntable as the lead instrument, along with guitar, bass guitar, drums, and synths. The Seen EP is seen as the seed that flourished into one of the most exciting live acts rocking the UK at the moment. Hangin’ tough on their second release, Kids in Tracksuits cut up a range of hip-hop styles and beat Rolf Harris to a paste with heavy block-rocking rhythms and scratched-up down-tempo beats. KiT all started around ‘02 when a couple of Nottingham kids got too bored/lazy to go out on their skateboards anymore and decided to stay indoors with their Wu-tang records, making beats, dj-ing and eating toast. The two Kids in question are Andy (hip-hop gov’nor/DJ/turntablist) and Matt (drum surgeon/sample geek). Matt sent minidiscs of his beats to Andy for scratch over-dubs and Kids in Tracksuits was born. Although nowadays the two work more closely, producing everything together in the same room, the raw feel of those early minidiscs is still present, something like a vintage NY mix-tape thrown through a scratched-up electro blender. Kids in Tracksuits have been taking their lap-top/turntablist shizzle to live venues since ’03, playing gigs with a diverse set of artists including Peanut Butter Wolf, Coldcut, Jehst, 808 State, Treva Whateva, Bonobo, Cylob, Alice Russell, TM Juke, WHY?, Subtitle, Aquasky, Larrikin Love, Lethal Bizzle, Jap Sluts and more. |
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