[SF] 11.8 STARKEY / KASTLE / DEVONWHO / TONY GOODS

[ecpresents]

San Francisco's newest night of underground beats'n'bass:

SWAY
featuring:

STARKEY

http://starkey-music.com/
http://soundcloud.com/starkbot

Starkey has a gift for matching melodic complexity with forceful rhythms. His compositions are filtered through the heavy buzzes and oscillating warbles of the post-Joker sound. So you get these soaring, emotive melodies, with 2-step beats loosely translated into contemporary R&B or American club rap that unfold into ultra-dense counterpoints between sweetly toned harmonies and clobbering low-end. And the tracks get more compelling the further those roles are blurred: The fundamentals of great bass music rely on every component reacting to and building on the rhythm.

Yet for all its epic sweep, there's a certain lightheartedness and a sly sense of humor here-- a self-aware sense of playing with stylistic expectations.


KASTLE

http://www.kastledub.com/
http://soundcloud.com/kastle

Kastle has cultivated his own style of bass-heavy beats with a soulful twist.

After teaching himself guitar and piano at the age of 12, Barrett Richards pooled his efforts towards electronic instrumentation about two years later. He began taking production as seriously as he did DJing during that time, and involved himself deep into the Northeast rave scene. It was no surprise that in time, though, personal growth and 14 years of production experience paired with a degree in audio engineering would breed a new sound. Kastle came to life at a pivotal moment after a big move from Boston back to his hometown of Pittsburgh in March 2009. After nearly a year of conceptualizing, he knew he was working on something special.

The name itself implies a fortress, a personal space that is used to cultivate a long-time love of hip-hop and R&B and fuse it with the magnetizing effect that dubstep, garage and bass-heavy music has had on Barrett.

The studio and touring dichotomy of an artist’s life is a perfect yin & yang for Kastle in both his production and outlook. His professional experience as an engineer puts forth clean, crisp production, but his love for the party provides a playful bass that eats a room. Altogether, the wide varieties of vocals – both originals and sampled – are a key element to Kastle’s sound. “I grew up on hip hop and R&B, and sampling is considered an art form,” he says. “It’s becoming more and more fun to dig through old records and find obscure samples.” He cites another unexpected influence -legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who had once said that “it’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to.”


Devon Who

http://devonwho.com/
http://www.soundcloud.com/devonwho
http://facebook.devonwho.com/


Tony Goods (aka Dash EXP)

http://soundcloud.com/tonygoods
http://www.soundcloud.com/dashexp

Tony Goods 'The Bronx Born Bastard Lovechild' (of Dash EXP) recently learned from his mother that his estranged father had also been an active DJ through the 80's and 90's in New York City, giving him the goods for a life of musical escapades. Under this alias he finds a world where UK Bass, Southern Rap, and minimal techno share the dance together.
Tony's' chart-topping debut "Friends" EP on UK's Sounds of Sumo label, was reviewed as an amalgamation of ‘tropical, future garage and post-dubstep,’ with ‘glorious contrasts’ of ‘emotion-rich’ melodic music for the dance floor. His Second Solo effort, 'Make it Back / Get Caught’, on Stateside's Car Crash Set, depicts a moody pronunciation of low end with drifting synths.

Tony's tracks, both as Goods and Dash EXP, have received air play on BBC's Radio 1Xtra & Rinse.fm, plus support from Addison Groove, Doorly, 6blocc, Kastle, Starkey and Borgore – some key players in the world of cutting edge bass music.


Beatboxing provided by sYzYgY
http://soundcloud.com/christopher-judkins/


Thursday November 8th at 330 Ritch.


Very Limited $10 presale tickets available at:

www.MindFieldPresents.com
or
www.starkeyandkastle.eventbrite.com/