[east anglia] Jim Masters - grassroots festival
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A stage of many at the grassroots festival (Just outside Peterborough)
http://www.thegrassrootsfestival.co.uk
THE CIRCUIT TREE
Arising like a phoenix from the ashes of change, a new concept for the future of sound will be unleashed in the form of the electronic stage named the CIRCUIT TREE.
Emerging from the depths of creativity, a stunning 28 hours of the worlds most educating and influential styles of dance, ambient and experimental music styles will be played throughout the weekend. This will take place within a glimmering structure; a 12x12m geo-dome, with a dedicated outside chillout area with small tables, giant pillows, and soft lights and domes to help relax when needed but close enough to be entertained by the sounds within the CIRCUIT TREE.
We have gathered some of the finest established artists and DJ's and live artists. From such record labels as PLANET-MU, LOVELOVE RECORDS, RETOX RECORDS, HORSE PLAY, CACTUS ISLAND and DRIP DRY, “just to name a few“.
GRASSROOTS 2008, LINE UP FOR THE CIRCUIT TREE STAGE
JIM MASTERS
He's been immersed in the UK dance scene since the early 80s. As DJ and promoter Jim has been responsible for some of the most popular nights in the UK. Probably most famous for BASE, one of the strongest and longest running techno nights in the UK, which Jim ran with Carl Cox for 7 years, it has proved ever more popular with regular nights in London at Velvet, The End & Europe plus events around the world. He was Dj'ing & promoting these warehouse events and a trip to Ibiza did nothing but encourage him. There he discovered clubs offering an alternative to the tabloid rave scene in the UK. - The Balearic sound where the beats came slower and the crowd vibe much more relaxed. Around this time Jim was at Touch magazine, part of Kiss FM & from there he joined the soon to open Ministry of Sound running press & promotion, then becoming a director. Responsible for the club & record label, he took them to world famous status. with a 27 date tour across the US jim also runs the vapor stage at glade festival - http://www.myspace.com/jimmasters A very special guest at grassroots festival and the circuit tree
ITAL TEK (planet mu)
Going from strength to strength and signed to the amazing record label PLANET-MU and SQUARE RECORDS, playing alongside the likes of CLARK (warp records) mu-ziq, shitmatt and many other fine artists, that aside it is in no means a reason to judge as ital tek stands as high as the artists he plays alongside, Grassroots is pleased to have ital booked to play as he is playing many venues and festivals this year including a favorite of the circuit tree, Glade festival… If you are new to this artist you will not be let down from playing sets across the Uk and worldwide the first installment to the are was contact events and showing his early talent we are very excited to hear how much he has grown in his musically diversity..
Http://www.myspace.com/italtekmusic
KEY (KI) - (live techno + visuals)
Key is a live techno project with a fully integrated av show. We've been DJ'ing and playing live under various different names for years... We've traveled to Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa, France, Holland, Spain, Italy... and closer to home we've got a good relationship with local party organizers that give us the freedom to play what we want. Over the last 2 or 3 years we've developed a combined live setup using outboard samplers, sequencers and fx... giving us endless knobs to twiddle and the freedom to improvise... at any moment we can take it all the way up or strip right back down again... every set is completely unique. Http://www.myspace.com/kitechno - http://www.musiciam.co.uk/keyhole.htm
Soundhacker (cactus island)
Crunchy, deep and atmospheric Electronica of the highest order. Complex rhythmic structures and exceptional programming guide you through the shimmering tracks that weave and flow with dark beauty. Musically strong, the cuts specifically designed to play with your senses, with releases on many labels and producing new music but always challenging there own style, sound hacker are a due not to take lightly with there approach to electronica being warm and very cleverly structured but always laying a strong deep moving sound to there live sets and always allowing a crowd to move and pushing at there own pace with a flick of a switch or a twist of there effects units..
Http://www.myspace.com/soundhackeraudio
Sys-ex (retox records)
Lee Ashton has been producing and DJ’ing techno music for over ten years. His first release was the Double Life EP, with techno trio Amphibian, on Inform Records in 2002. He studied for two years as a sound engineer in Nottingham and has fond memories of performing live PA’s at The Bomb and Double Bubble.
His Emitter Prime EP was released in 2004 on the highly acclaimed 65D Maverick label Inceptive Records. Whilst part of the roster at Inceptive, his music caught the ears of Ben Simms, Claude Young, and Mark Williams and his favourite track from Emitter Prime, Footsteps, received Radio One play. Now assigned to retox record and always challenging any crowd with his influential sound and extensive record collection, educating is a strong sense in sys-ex and his vision of dance music to the people.
Lee is now a resident DJ at Contact, Peterborough’s premiere techno night. http://www.myspace.com/exsys
Le JOCKEY (horseplay records)
Johnny Davies. Classically trained, choir boy turned minimal house producer. Started playing the violin at the tender age of three, and later took on the piano and percussion, both kit and tuned/ orchestral. Was a chorister at Jesus college choir in Cambridge and was head boy for a year. Played violin in and lead the school orchestra. Started producing music on an atari at the age of 13, and started listening to house around the age of 18. Has played gigs in Madrid, San Sebastien and Budapest, as well as regular dates in Cambridge, London, and all across the uk. Has shared the booth with Derrick May, Mr C, Jim Masters, Chicken Lips, Paul Woolford, Pure Science and Jon Carter.He also runs horseplay records a very respected record label.
http://www.myspace.com/lejockey
Micromattic (horseplay records)
With the incredible technology wizard, electronica artist, beatboxer, improviser, martial artist, veganist, spiritual leader and I think quite possibly a human being Matt Venn http://www.mattvenn.net/ Together we developed Micromattic - a truly groundbreaking concept for stage presentation of electronic music which is great fun to watch and is fully integrated with the audience, which we think is something the electronic music world often lacks.
How we do it? Easy! We manipulate sound through movement with Nintendo Wii controllers, we beatbox and use our voices to generate sounds which we then loop, warp and twist in abstract textures! Now imagine all this served on a base of classic Microwave monochrome deep hypnotic techno grooves :) This is what you can expect to hear and see from us. Http://www.myspace.com/microwavesounds
Mindtours
Originally from the North East of England, but now residing in Wales, Steevio has a long history of creating electronic music. He co-managed the UK's first electro / breakdance club 'The Sidewalk' in Newcastle in the early 1980's, and was the driving force behind 'Acid' an early experimental electro outfit. He later went on to form the influencial acid label Roost Records, recording under the name 3000003. In 1997, he co-founded the techno-funk label Torque Recordings, and then began releasing tracks under the names Mindtours and Free Radicals with co-writer Charlie Henderson.
Steevio helped to form the Mindtours label in 2000, and began making deeper, more experimental music, with flavours of techno, house, broken beat, dub and jazz. He has always remained true to the live approach to electronic music production, and favours analogue synthesis
http://www.mindtours.co.uk/about.htm
Other acts to play the circuit tree,
- Day Glow Joe http://www.myspace.com/josephdevine
- 3dm http://www.myspace.com/threedm
- Droids http://www.myspace.com/mrmijagi
- The Fez http://www.myspace.com/fezcore
- Abid http://www.myspace.com/bidbod
- The Emo Hunter http://www.myspace.com/hadoukenareshit
- Broca http://www.myspace.com/cactusisland
- OSKM http://www.myspace.com/doyouknowoskm
- Sam Greenwood http://www.myspace.com/samgreenwoodmusic
- Arthur Barr http://www.myspace.com/djarthurbarr
- Soundhacker http://www.myspace.com/soundhackeraudio
- Screenager http://www.myspace.com/dascreen
- Sleepwalker http://www.iamthesleepwalker.com
- Peddlebreaker http://www.myspace.com/peddlebreaker
- Tim diagram http://www.myspace.com/cactusisland
- Static Noise http://www.myspace.com/contactstatic
- Asthetix (Dub breakfast)
- Lukus (Deep roots)
- Loki23 (Summer techno)
- Stuart Lowman (Techno/Electro)
- Hazel (Techno)
- local (playskool)
the playpen stage at grassroots festival......
TRON *LIVE* (Liquid Records - Mexico)
http://www.myspace.com/tronmexico
Hailing from Mexico, Tron is an established part of the global psy-trance scene with one full length album released (Existence - Liquid Records) as well as tracks on compilations released through labels such as Bom Shanka, Free-Spirit, YSE, Psytropic, Sonic Dragon, AP records, Groove Control, Magma and Maia records.
FAR TOO LOUD (Funkatech records)
http://www.myspace.com/fartooloud
Far Too Loud have made a huge impression on the breaks scene since their first release in 2005. They scooped the "Best Single" award at Breakspoll 2007 and have been nominated for "Best Single" and "Best Breakbeat Artist" in the Beatport 2008 wards. This summer sees them playing at such legendary festivals as Boom (Portugal), Glade (UK), Sunrise Celebration (UK), Zoom (Hungary), Sunshine (Spain), Konometsa (Finland), Connect Festival (Canada), Lifeline Dreamland (Germany) and of course Grassroots.
ERB n DUB (Urban Takeover/Finn People/Urbanism/Back to Basics)
http://www.myspace.com/erbndub
Young drum & bass producer "Erb n Dub" has had his productions supported by top DJs such as Micky Finn, JB and Spice, Grooverider, Crisy Criss (Radio One), Aphrodite, L Double (1Xtra), Ras Kwamae (Radio One), Ruff Stuff, Twisted Individual, Jayvon, Ash Attack, Congo Natty, Kenny Ken, Brockie, Evol and many more.
CAI *LIVE* (Primitive Records)
Cai's hard trance live PA has been tearing up dancefloors all over since 1999 - with performances at such legendary promotions as Escape From Samsara, Undertow, Lunacy, The Country Club, Pendragon and Antiworld.
HEDFLUX (Sinister Recordings/Breakin' Even/Psy-Breakdown)
http://www.myspace.com/hedflux
2008 has already been a busy year for Hedflux. The release of his first single (Music Is My Weapon - on Sinister) has taken him to Rocket Festival (Spain), onto Annie Nightingale's Radio 1 breaks show and gained him a reputation as a top up-and-coming producer of deep, techy and psychedelic breakbeat. With more tunes coming soon through Sinister and Breakin' Even records the future is bright.
ORGANISMIC *LIVE* (Liquid Records)
http://www.myspace.com/organismic
Organismic's is anything but regular - with influences from dub, breaks, d&b, blues, trance..... it's always hard to know where they are going to go next (and we're told they have a whole new sound on the way). What can be relied on is that their music is without fail interesting, superbly produced, truly psychedelic and normally with a cheeky grin beaming from the centre of the beat! They have performed at many of the UK's top psychedelic parties and festivals and we can't wait to have them with us.
WOEF (Indigo Children/Newfoundland Festival)
One of the mind's responsible for the amazing psychedelic paintings that will be decorating the Playpen, Woef is also a very accomplished DJ who guarantees a stompathon with full-on psy-trance.
DJ URB
http://www.myspace.com/urb100
Carrying the distinction of breaking the world record for longest DJ mix (he mixed for 100 hours continuously!) Urb brings an interesting blend of urban music focused on drum & bass but often taking in elements of dubstep, reggae and breakcore.
other acts:
- Phono Brothers (Raindance/Dig Deep) tech-house/techno
- Han (Teethout) tech/tribal-house
http://www.myspace.com/tekhan
- Revolution-Arry (AJ's/Anxiety) techno
http://www.myspace.com/original_arry
- Enwyn (Kill Electro Kill) electro/electro-techno
http://www.myspace.com/dj_enwyn
- TDM (Dreadnought recs/Hertz) drum & bass
http://www.myspace.com/tdmbreakcore
- Selecta (Dreadnought recs/Audio Breakdown) drum & bass
http://www.myspace.com/selectab
- Komplex (Foundation/Hertz/Hijack) drum & bass
http://www.myspace.com/komplexjunglism
- Bidbod (Sin-Thesis/Playskool) psy-trance
http://www.myspace.com/bidbod
- Luvlea (Tripycyty) psy-trance
http://www.myspace.com/luvleadj
- Instinct (Psy-Breakdown/Playskool) psy-trance
http://www.myspace.com/psy_instinct
- Danz Music Terraizt LIVE (BOP Productions) psychedelic
- Magic Lamp *LIVE* (Playskool/Glo-bug) psychedelic techno
http://www.myspace.com/magiclamp2012
- Kendo (Sin-Thesis/Playskool) progressive trance
http://www.myspace.com/olrac668
- Shaggy (Psy-Breakdown/Playskool) breaks
http://www.myspace.com/andrewgates23
- Local (Playskool) deep house
- Surj (Bish Bash Bosh) hardcore
- Manga - hard dance
- DJ Skyway (Club Bad) deep house - http://www.myspace.com/robskyway
- Yeti (Mug the Goat) deep house
- Aesthetix (Contact) - breaks
Tickets available from The GrassRoots website at http://www.thegrassrootsfestival.co.uk
Also available from The Glass Onion, 2 Burghley Road, Peterborough, PE1 2QB.
