Featured Artists
Every month Amon will be highlighting a new featured artist - and we'll have a free MP3 download for you. Check back each month to see who's next!
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STARKEY
PJ Geissinger aka Starkey is blessed with musical arrangement skills that would leave most composers green-faced with envy. This combined with his high production ethic makes him a formidable force not only in the underground, but also a super producer of the future. Starkey is yet another example of what the streets of Philadelphia can create, his sound hits hard and is littered with bass and colourful audio frequencies. If you like grime, dubstep, hip hop and all things “street bass” then Starkey’s hard edged spaced out crunk is the sound for you. Starky not only creates incredible music, he is also considered a veritable tastemaker in the bass heavy underground. He is a member of storied Trouble & Bass crew, co-owns the Seclusiasis and Slit Jockey record labels, and hosts a heavy-clocked radio program on Sub FM. Starkey’s recent full-length release Eardrums and Black Holes on Planet Mu earned his critical accolades the world over, all to be expected considering the love over the course of strong releases since 2005 on Planet Mu, Rwina, Trouble & Bass, and his own Seclusiasis and Slit Jockey imprints. Recent remixes include Armand Van Helden, Gorilla Zoe, Uffie, Tempa T, Zomby, Inner Party System, The Constellations, Kano and The Foals, to name just a few. Rumors abound for production in the cards with Missy Elliot, MIA, Britney Spears, Fatima, Dizzee. Trust, the man will be giving Timbland, Dre and Swizz Beats a good run for the money. Fall 2010 will be busy with tour dates and upcoming releases, including two Civil Music singles, "Robot Hands" coming in October and "Moonbase Teleport” in December, both packaged with accompanying videos, bonus tracks and remixes. The future is bright with Starkey as one of its leading lights. |
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BROKEN NOTE Raised on a diet of pure filth, Broken Note have dragged their own unique sound kicking and screaming into the electronic music scene. Combining lean, considered production skills with an appreciation of diverse rough beats, Broken Note have quickly established themselves as a sonic force to be reckoned with. They have quickly racked up several critically-acclaimed releases over the past two years on such established and well-praised labels as Ad Noiseam, Ruff (Peace Off’s slow and nasty sister), Damage, Prspct & Sustained. Fall 2009 saw the release the retrospective Terminal Static on Ad Noiseam, with remixes by notable producers such as Hecq and I Am The Sun (Enduser and Casey Beagle). Their slower-tempo sound can loosely be described as Dubstep, but has little in common with much of the scene's output. Instead they draw from the Sino-Rastafarian sound and heavy bass, combined with more of the kind of dark and aggressive beats that can be found in Breakcore and Jungle. Their Drum'n'Bass output is similarly disturbingly brutal, with undulating beats and bass that are unashamed to draw from edgier fringes of Gabber and Techno. Dancefloors worldwide have been set alight by the astonishing heaviness, inducing hallucinations of a dark and tech-saturated future. Regularly featured in DJ sets and radio shows worldwide, counting tastemakers like Mary-Anne Hobbes and Rob Booth as supporters and fans, Broken Note were featured prominently at festival gigs throughout 2009, with a headline sets on the Overkill stage at world-leading Glade Electronic Music Festival, Maschinenfest Industrial Festival, and various tours throughout Europe, North America, Scandinavia & Japan.
You best believe Broken Note is that dark spreading tide set to further corrupt ears around the world. Get ready for it.
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EXCISION
Taking influence from Drum and Bass, Metal and Hip Hop, Excision is a Dubstep artist who must be heard to be fully believed. Combining the morphing basslines of D'n'B, the aggressive energy of Metal, and the laidback vibes of Hip Hop, Excision's style is incomparable. This young Canadian's passion for music has already driven him to become one of the biggest Dubstep acts in North America. Anyone who has heard a set by this bad boy has walked away feeling energized and refreshed. If you're lucky enough to catch a DJ set, expect a full-on assault of bass-heavy tracks mixed with the quickness, stitched together seamlessly to rattle your ribs just right. Excision has produced remixes for a wide range of folks like Pendulum, Noisia, Wu Tang, Freestylers, Ctrl Z, Apex and the mighty Lifted imprint. Through each rework and release, it has become apparent there's a large demand for the dark side of Dubstep. Look out for more noise from Excision with releases on his labels Rottun Recordings & EX7 Music, and collaborations with Bassnectar, Pendulum, Datsik, Downlink and many more. U.S. & Canada will get a taste of Exscion's patented arrhythmia inducing bass in Spring 2010, with the assault continuing in UK, Europe Australia, and New Zealand later this year.
http://www.myspace.com/excision http://www.facebook.com/excision
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NOISIA
NOISIA (who took their name from the word ‘VISION’ inverted on an upside down VHS tape) are Nik Roos, Thijs de Vlieger and Martijn van Sonderen, hailing from the Netherlands. Influenced by an eclectic range of artists, from The Prodigy to James Brown, Miles Davis to Konflict, Noisia make music for DJs and dance-floors that is interesting enough to cross over from the clubs to your MP3 player.
2005 saw Noisia establish their own label, Vision Recordings to put out their drum&bass productions and collaborations and retain creative control of their music. Nik designs almost all of the artwork for the releases on their labels, and the guys love the challenges and rewards that come with running a label. Vision Recording’s biggest releases to date have been ‘The Tide’, ‘Exodus’ Feat. KRS One and ‘Stigma’. In 2007 they established Division, a non-D&B label for electro, breaks and house.
Over the past few years, accolades for Noisia have included ‘Best Producers’ at the Dutch D&B Awards in 2006 and 2007, Knowledge Mag Top 20 Tunes of the Decade 2000 – 2009: No 4 with ‘The Tide’, ‘Best Tech DJ’ in the UK National D&B Awards in 2009 and ‘Best Drum&Bass Artist’ on Beatport.
The guys have worked with, and remixed a number of artists, with notable tracks including, ‘Alice’ by Moby, ‘Omen’ by The Prodigy and more recently, Foreign Beggars, Amon Tobin with whom they have collaborated on their forthcoming debut album and Hadouken whose entire new record ‘For The Masses’ they produced.
Their DJ schedule is tiring even to look at, they have played in major cities all over the world, from Sydney to Moscow, Tokyo to Berlin and have DJ’d in some of the world’s biggest clubs. Their track ‘Groundhog’ is featured twice on DJ Hero, a game which has been an international success, ‘Stigma’ was used on the game Gran Turismo and ‘Machine Gun’, the first single off the new album, features in the game WipeOut.
2010 is an exciting year for Noisia, they start a new imprint called Invisible which will cater for deeper and more experimental drum&bass releases, produced by themselves and other artists and sees the release of their debut album ‘Split The Atom’ which features a wide variety of styles and genres from electro to drum&bass. 2010 will also be the year Noisia explore the LIVE direction of their music, challenge themselves and push their musical style whilst continuing to make the ‘bangers’ they are known and loved for!
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ESKMO
Brendan Angelides, aka "Eskmo", is a San Francisco based producer & live performer. Brendan Angelides is a San Francisco based electronic music producer who records and performs live as Eskmo. In the past five years he’s released over a dozen singles and EPs while touring throughout North America and Europe. Angelides also runs the Ancestor label, which issued his "Hypercolor" and "Angus Dei" singles in 2009 to positive reviews from numerous magazines, blogs and tastemakers. All info and audio for these releases can be found on his site |