Tonight! BASSIC w/ Kastle & Ghislain Poirier vs. The Thickness w/ Evaredy!

Upstairs:

The Thickness with the one and only DJ Evaready spinning hiphop, party jams, and indie dance hits!

Downstairs:

BASSIC with special guests:

KASTLE (Symbols Recordings) San Francisco

In the city of San Francisco, CA DJ/producer 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 and, really, the various communities of underground electronic music.

Straight out of the gates Kastle has garnished strong media attention from the likes of XLR8R, URB and Fact Magazine along with plays on BBC Radio 1.His fresh and unique production work has also seen him working with big labels such as Ministry of Sound and Scion A/V and he has lent his production chops to rework artists such as Example, Blu Mar Ten and The Glitch Mob. With so much accomplished in such a short time, it is clear that not even the sky is the limit for the future of Kastle.

http://www.kastledub.com/

https://www.facebook.com/kastledub

http://soundcloud.com/kastle

https://twitter.com/kastledub

Ghislain Poirier (Ninjatune) Montreal, Canada

Drawing from a wide range of tropical riddims and urban electro, the power of Montreal-based DJ/producer Poirier’s bass blasts through any flimsy attempt to classify his music. Pinpointing the bits and pieces of dancehall beats, soca energy and electronic intensity is futile in the face of Poirier’s dance-driven creativity and air horn-worthy excitement. Signed to Ninja Tune, this is a man who just understands what works in the dance.

Poirier is constantly evolving. Landscapes of vibrant drums lead to pulsating, pitch-shifting, and infectious bass and synth patterns. He tears through new genres constantly, leaving a trail of packed, chaotic dancefloors in his wake. From his legendary Bounce Le Gros parties in Montreal, sell off events for two years running, to his new party, the bigger, better, bass-ier Karnival, Poirier has been unstoppable in his ability to mash styles, expand minds, and move asses. His running also the famous Sud-West events in the summer with his partner in crime Ghostbeard.

Although based in Montreal, Poirier is also always moving—in just the past few years he has been invited to virtually every continent. Poirier on the bill equals a sure fire jam. No surprise that he’s shared the stage with Modeselektor, Diplo, Kode9, Amon Tobin and Toddla T, as well as taken Fabric London, Australia’s Big Day Out, SXSW, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Barcelona’s Sonar Festival, London’s Notting Hill Carnival and Mexico’s Cervantino Festival by storm.

Poirier’s signature skill of effortlessly linking disparate genres has led to worldwide collaborations with MCs and DJs from global hip hop, soca, grime, dancehall, booty bass, and much more. Electro sensations Crookers, dancehall veteran Burro Banton, the ever-eclectic dj/rupture, London’s tough gyal Warrior Queen, and Trinidadian soca master Mr Slaughter have all connected with Poirier, as well as longtime collaborators Face-T, Boogat and MC Zulu. In 2012, Poirier released Soca Road on the label Mixpak and the dancehall/bashment riddim “Alert Riddim EP” with featuring by Natalie Storm, MC Zulu and Face-T on Man Recordings. There’s many more EPs planned for 2012-2013, stay tuned!

Giving the massive what it wants, yet providing a musical education in what it needs, Poirier is a producer and DJ who has no boundaries except, perhaps, the rule that it’s gotta have bass, and it’s got to bounce. With this philosophy, Poirier will keep the dance rammed.

http://poiriersound.com/music

https://www.facebook.com/PoirierSound

http://soundcloud.com/poiriersound

https://twitter.com/poiriersound

AXH (BASSIC, TUBA, SubFM) Boston

Boston dubstepper AxH has had a variety of aliases in his years in the game, but has now settled on a name and a direction. Representing the burgeoning Boston electronic music scene, he’s making a name for himself on radio, live and through his releases.

http://soundcloud.com/axhdubstep

http://www.mixcloud.com/AxH/

https://www.facebook.com/grizzlydubstep

http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/features/axh-interview.html

Pajaritos (Pico Picante) Boston

We organize a party in Boston called PICÓ PICANTE, which aims to encourage the intersection of cultures and to celebrate global influences in electronic dance music.

http://www.dancepajaritos.com/index.html

http://soundcloud.com/dancepajaritos

https://www.facebook.com/dancepajaritos

BASSIC Vs. The Thickness

Friday Oct. 5, 2012

GoodLife Bar

28 Kingston Street

Boston, MA

$5 B4 11pm, $10 after

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