ORGANIC !
In a first up installment of this new monthly club night we bring you none other than the United Kingdoms APPLEBLIM!
+ APPLEBLIM + (uk)
| skull disco | applepips | tempa | immerse |
http://www.myspace.com/appleblim
While currently and originally from Bristol, Appleblim spent some time in London in the mid 90's. It was to prove influential. Like many of dubstep’s pioneers, be it Loefah, Burial or Kode9, Appleblim had caught the jungle bug and through it, developed a love of dub, bass and dark spaces that would keep him in good stead later. He learned to mix on a mate’s set of decks but thought little more of it. In fact the world might not have known more of Appleblim were he have not discovered a club called Forward>> later to be recognised as the birthplace of dubstep, and a friend called Shackleton.
Together Appleblim and Shackleton formed the unique Skull Disco label which became best known for releasing Shackleton’s, uniquely dark, paranoid percussion jams. But while Shackleton was gaining recognition as a producer of uncompromising vision, Appleblim was quietly working on his direction as a DJ. “I’m not a creator in the same kind of way" he explains. “I’m more the person who carries tapes and records around to people’s houses, being the one sat next to the stereo going ‘oi, check out this!’ That’s what I feel like I’m still doing now.”
At the beginning of 2007, Appleblim, like many of the headz who have attended the club religiously only to turn into participants, got asked to play at the very space that had inspired him and Shackeleton, Forward>>.
While he plays down the role of sets in Bath where he first met fellow Bristolians Pinch, Peverelist and Blazey, and also the Skull Disco parties in Stoke Newington, Appleblim cites his opportunity to play at Forward>> as a turning point in his DJing. “Before that, I’d felt I’d either tried to fit too many or the wrong style into my sets. But I made a conscious decision to stick to my guns.”
Perhaps techno, like hardcore, will never die. Early dubsteppers were as influenced by it as the UK garage scene the genre grew out of, be it Horsepower and El-B’s love of Basic Channel, Artwork’s blatant Jeff Mills influence on “Basic G” or the warm tech of DJ Abstract’s “Touch.” But it’s certainly the case that Detroit and Euro techno’s influence on dubstep had at least moved to the background before Appleblim and friends began to gather momentum.
Fast Forward and an entire sub-movement now seems to be gathering pace underneath the dubstep umbrella. The boundaries between dubby techno and techy dubstep seem to have dissolved. The critical question is, however, will the upshot be more than or less than the sum of its parts? Are we headed for “dubstep” sets that are little more than rigid 140bpm techno? Will it become totally clean formless e-lead headspace, with the edge, the rude awakening of the urban bass injection lost? Appleblim is unconcerned.
“I think there’s a lot of genre blurring going on,” he explains “and there is a sort of a danger that it will become 140bpm techno, but the answer is that it needs to retain some funk and swing. Having said that I try to just view great music as great music, and always have, so that I might play a tune by a ‘dubstep’ producer that sounds essentially like a ‘techno’ tune… in the end, if it moves you it moves you…!
Don't miss APPLEBLIMS unique tech-dub sounds as he hits Perth for a one off show.
// FRIDAY DECEMBER 18th - UPSTAIRS SHAPE BAR
// TICKETS
PRESALE - $15 | ON THE DOOR - $20
Preset Tickets Online here >> http://www.shapebar.com.au
// SUPPORT
JAM BUCK | REKAB | BEN TAAFFE
+ LINKS +
RESIDENT ADVISOR podcast:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast- ... spx?id=110
RESIDENT ADVISOR feature:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=940
FACT interview:
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php ... &Itemid=27
Watch out for 2010 as ORGANIC brings out all the biggest and baddest players in the bizness covering every corner of the underground UK scene!!
